Sun, moon, and stars bring forth first parents. Sun and moon beget son; morning and evening star beget daughter; these, the first parents, are at first without understanding, but it is awakened later by demigods

Motif

Sun, moon, and stars bring forth first parents. Sun and moon beget son; morning and evening star beget daughter; these, the first parents, are at first without understanding, but it is awakened later by demigods.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Primeval human pair. · view the constellation · filed as A1271.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Finnish The Kalevala , Rune XI
Chinese Myths & Legends of China , Chapter V

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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.

Pawnee Alexander N. Am. 110.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of first parents.

Filed beside it

Sun and moon beget stones and birds: these transformed to first parents First parents children of god First parents originate from gold which is from body of first man. Born fifteen years old

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