Paradise lost. Original happy state forfeited because of one sin

Motif

Paradise lost. Original happy state forfeited because of one sin.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Beginnings of trouble for man. · view the constellation · filed as A1331

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Jewish Neuman
Persian Carnoy 296, 309
Burmese Scott Indo-Chin. 265, 269f.
Hawaii Beckwith Myth 43ff., 61.
general *H. Schmidt Die Erzählungen von Paradies und Sündenfall (Tübingen 1931)
general J. Feidmann Paradies und Sündenfall (1913)
general *Frazer Old Testament I 45–76

Within the index

Filed under Beginnings of trouble for man.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Paradise lost because of forbidden fruit (drink). (Cf. A1346) Paradise lost because of brother-sister incest

Filed beside it

Confusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languages Origin of death Origin of murder Origin of disease Origin of physical defects. Wicked people entering heaven on rope fall to earth and are injured. St. Peter misunderstands what God says and lets them fall Origin of blindness Origin of war among men Origin of quarrelling Origin of lying Origin of tears and sighs Origin of hunger Man to earn bread by sweat of his brow. (Cf. A1331.1.) Mankind's escape from trouble

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Standing in (Jordan and Tigris) rivers as penance (by Adam and Eve). (Cf. A1331.)

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