Mankind from salty stone (ice block) licked by cow. (Audhumla)

Motif

Mankind from salty stone (ice block) licked by cow. (Audhumla).

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Man made from mineral substance. · view the constellation · filed as A1245.4

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Icel.MacCulloch Eddic 63, 324, Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Man created from stones.

Filed beside it

New race from stones thrown over head after deluge. (Cf. A1254.1.)Mankind from vivified stone image. (Cf. A1241.3, A1252.1.)Mankind from cleft rock Man born from mountains

Travels with

The cow Audhumla sprang from the dripping rime of the creation of the universe. (Cf. A1245.4. and B19.2.1.)

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