First people have everything they wish (life without work)

Motif

First people have everything they wish (life without work).

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Beginnings of trouble for man. · view the constellation · filed as A1346.2.2

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 8, Section 40
Depth CommentaryTotem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics, Chapter II

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
Africa (Fang)Trilles 144.

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

Cotton at first already spun into threads Men are too happy: pain and sickness created Canoes at one time self-propelling

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