Origin of war among men

Motif

Origin of war among men.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Beginnings of trouble for man. · view the constellation · filed as A1341

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Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Kaska Teit JAFL XXX 469
Africa (Konnoh) Willans 136.

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Filed under Beginnings of trouble for man.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Origin of battle-shouting Origin of duelling Origin of thefts and quarrels

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 blindness 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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