Cotton at first already spun into threads

Motif

Cotton at first already spun into threads.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Beginnings of trouble for man. · view the constellation · filed as A1346.2.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Man must labor for a living: at first everything too easy. Full crops produce themselves, trees drop sugar etc.

Filed beside it

First people have everything they wish (life without work) Men are too happy: pain and sickness created Canoes at one time self-propelling

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “already” · wander