Origin of blindness — Mythoi

Motif

Origin of blindness.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Beginnings of trouble for man. · view the constellation · filed as A1339.1

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman
S. Am. Indian (Toba) Métraux MAFLS XL 145.

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 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 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

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