Origin of facial features

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Origin of facial features.

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

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Depth CommentaryPsychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido, Part II — CHAPTER VIII

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Arrangement of man's bodily attributes.

7 finer motifs beneath 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 eyes Origin of ears Origin of tongue Origin of teeth

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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 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 urine and excreta Origin of other bodily attributes

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