μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • JewishNeuman. Spanish Exempla: Keller
  • LithuanianBalys Legends Nos. 34, 36ff., 52, 65
  • SiberianHolmberg Siberian 379
  • HawaiianDixon 24
  • general *Dh I 115ff.
  • general *Frazer Old Testament I 9f.
  • general cf. Central Caroline Is.: ibid. 251, Beckwith Myth 43, 46.
Within the index

Filed under Creation of first man's (woman's) mate.

1 finer motif beneath it
Deity creates princess from prince's body and gives her to him
Filed beside it
First man split in two to form mate. (Cf. A1225.1.)Of ten original men one magically changes sexCreator makes woman and then begets man by herMan creates a woman from melted butter, sour milk, sour cream and curds offered on the watersFirst woman's mate made from transformed treeFirst man created from nothing wanders until he finds mateWhy Eve was not made at first along with AdamFirst man descends on earth, falls in love with and marries a fairyFirst created man catches woman in his snare

wander