Origin of murder

Motif

Origin of murder.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Beginnings of trouble for man. · view the constellation · filed as A1336

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Hebrew Genesis 4:8ff.
Jewish Neuman
Greek Grote I 7. Congo: Weeks 207 No. 4
general Ila of Rhodesia: Smith and Dale 350 No. 5.

Within the index

Filed under Beginnings of trouble for man.

Filed beside it

Paradise lost. Original happy state forfeited because of one sin Confusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languages Origin of death 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.)

Cain slays Abel with bone of a camel. (Cf. A1336.)

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