Assembling the body

Motif

Assembling the body.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Arrangement of man's bodily attributes. · view the constellation · filed as A1310.2

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Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 19

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.

Within the index

Filed under Arrangement of man's bodily attributes.

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Change in bodily form at fall of man. Adam's body was formerly horn-like. (Cf. A1281.1.)Why men are clothed in skin Why women have marks on the belly Origin of hands and feet Origin of human skeleton Origin of sex-organs Origin of hair and beard Origin of facial features Origin of urine and excreta Origin of other bodily attributes

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