Why women have marks on the belly

Motif

Why women have marks on the belly.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Arrangement of man's bodily attributes. · view the constellation · filed as A1310.4

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Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 12

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

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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.) Assembling the body Why men are clothed in skin 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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