μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Men from long nuts, women from short ones.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Man made from vegetable substance. · view the constellation · filed as A1253.2.2

Filed across the traditions
  • S. Am. Indian (Brazil) Oberg 108.
Within the index

Filed under Creation of man from nut.

Filed beside it
Creation of woman from coconut. The first man throws a coconut on the ground and thus creates the first woman

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