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

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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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

FinnishThe Kalevala, Rune XI
ChineseMyths & Legends of China, Chapter V

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.

PawneeAlexander N. Am. 110.

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Filed under Origin of first parents.

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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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