Origin of hands and feet

Motif

Origin of hands and feet.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Arrangement of man's bodily attributes. · view the constellation · filed as A1311

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Maya The Annals of the Cakchiquels , Paragraphs 2
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 20
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 5
Literary Crystallization The Prophetic Books of William Blake (Sampson's Oxford Blake) , The Book of Los
Ancient Egyptian The Egyptian Book of the Dead , Chapter LXIX

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Arrangement of man's bodily attributes.

3 finer motifs beneath it

The lizard hand. Man's hand is modeled on that of the lizard Why God changed right hand into left. Man loses hand with which he gives devil a box on ears Origin of fingernails

Filed beside it

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 Why women have marks on the belly 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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