Mankind emerges from tree. (Cf. A1251.)

Motif

Mankind emerges from tree. (Cf. A1251.)

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Emergence or descent of first man to earth. · view the constellation · filed as A1236

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndonesianDixon 168f.
Sumatraibid 160. – S. Am. Indian (Warrau): Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880, (Chamacoco): Métraux ibid. (1) 367
AfricanWerner African 145f.
general Papuan (British New Guinea): ibid. 110

Within the index

Filed under Emergence or descent of first man to earth.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Mankind emerges from buds on trees Tribes emerge from melon

Filed beside it

First man descends from sky Mankind ascends from under the earth. (Cf. A1631.)Mankind emerges from ground

Travels with

Creation of man from tree. (Cf. A1236, A1275.6.)

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