μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Misplaced genitalia. Originally genitals are misplaced. They are properly arranged by the culture hero.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Arrangement of man's bodily attributes. · view the constellation · filed as A1313.3

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“He wanted our hands to be like his, but a lizard said to him: ‘“‘No, they must have my hand.” He had five fingers and Coyote had only a fist. So now we have an open hand with five fingers. But then Coyote said: ‘“‘Well, then they will have to die.”’”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 10 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • LithuanianBalys Legends Nos. 56f.
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham. – N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 288 n. 59a.
  • general Hatt Asiatic Influences 84f.
Within the index

Filed under Origin of sex-organs.

1 finer motif beneath it
Vaginal teeth broken. Women originally had toothed vaginas. Culture hero breaks teeth so that women will be harmless to men
Filed beside it
Origin of eunuchsOrigin of sex differentiationsOrigin of male sex-organsOrigin of female sex-organsOrigin of women's breastsOrigin of placenta
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
The lizard hand. Man's hand is modeled on that of the lizard

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