Adam's body made of eight (four) things. Body, earth; bones, stones; veins, roots; blood, water; hair, grass; thoughts, wind; spirit, clouds, or warmth, fire; cold, air; dryness, earth; instability, water

Motif

Adam's body made of eight (four) things. Body, earth; bones, stones; veins, roots; blood, water; hair, grass; thoughts, wind; spirit, clouds, or warmth, fire; cold, air; dryness, earth; instability, water.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Mankind made from miscellaneous materials. · view the constellation · filed as A1260.1.3

Filed across the traditions

Siberian *Holmberg Siberian 376.
general *Dh I 111ff.
general Köhler-Bolte II 1ff. – Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 326f.

Within the index

Filed under Man made from combination of different objects.

Filed beside it

Man made of four elements Man made of substances from eight different sources Seven substances employed in composition of human body Man made of clay with bones of stone, with blood of water and with vines for veins

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