μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • GreekGrote I 7
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • LiberianBundy JAFL XXXII 421f.
  • TahltanTeit JAFL XXXII 216, 221.
Within the index

Filed under Beginnings of trouble for man.

1 finer motif beneath it
Origin of thirst
Filed beside it
Paradise lost. Original happy state forfeited because of one sinConfusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languagesOrigin of deathOrigin of murderOrigin of diseaseOrigin of physical defects. Wicked people entering heaven on rope fall to earth and are injured. St. Peter misunderstands what God says and lets them fallOrigin of blindnessOrigin of war among menOrigin of quarrellingOrigin of lyingOrigin of tears and sighsMan to earn bread by sweat of his brow. (Cf. A1331.1.)Mankind's escape from trouble

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