μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Adam at first nameless.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Primeval human pair. · view the constellation · filed as A1281.6

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Jewish Neuman.
Within the index

Filed under Condition of first man (woman).

1 finer motif beneath it
Adam's name composed of initial letters of four stars from the four quarters of the heavens
Filed beside it
First man covered with horny substance. (Cf. A1310.1.) Man at first covered with hair Man at first naked Men originally self-luminous First man created circumcised

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