μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Change in bodily form at fall of man. Adam's body was formerly horn-like. (Cf. A1281.1.)

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Arrangement of man's bodily attributes. · view the constellation · filed as A1310.1

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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.

  • general Dh I 225. – Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3035, Balys Legends Nos. 34, 45–49.
Within the index

Filed under Arrangement of man's bodily attributes.

Filed beside it
Assembling the bodyWhy men are clothed in skinWhy women have marks on the bellyOrigin of hands and feetOrigin of human skeletonOrigin of sex-organsOrigin of hair and beardOrigin of facial featuresOrigin of urine and excretaOrigin of other bodily attributes
Travels with
First man covered with horny substance. (Cf. A1310.1.)

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