Man made of earth brought from four different places

Motif

Man made of earth brought from four different places.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Man made from mineral substance. · view the constellation · filed as A1241.5

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Australian AboriginalAustralian Legendary Tales and More Australian Legendary Tales, 27The Borah of Byamee
IrishGods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, Ch. 25CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF FINN
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 5, Section L

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Irish mythCross
JewishNeuman.

Within the index

Filed under Man made from clay (earth).

Filed beside it

Man made from piece of clay thrown on ground Man made from sand sprinkled with water Man made from clay image and vivified. (Cf. A1241.2, A1252.1.)Man made from earth reddened with blood of human sacrifice

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