Man creates a woman from melted butter, sour milk, sour cream and curds offered on the waters

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Man creates a woman from melted butter, sour milk, sour cream and curds offered on the waters.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Primeval human pair. · view the constellation · filed as A1275.5

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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

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Creation of first woman from man's rib First man split in two to form mate. (Cf. A1225.1.)Of ten original men one magically changes sex Creator makes woman and then begets man by her First woman's mate made from transformed tree First man created from nothing wanders until he finds mate Why Eve was not made at first along with Adam First man descends on earth, falls in love with and marries a fairy First created man catches woman in his snare

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