μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Origin of eyes.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Arrangement of man's bodily attributes. · view the constellation · filed as A1316.3

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Origin of facial features.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Distribution of eyes Why there are one-eyed women Men originally blind: eyes opened by accident
Filed beside it
Man at first with two faces, separated at birth of first woman Distribution of noses. The earlier comers receive big noses, the later small Why men blink Origin of ears Origin of tongue Origin of teeth

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