Men are too happy: pain and sickness created

Motif

Men are too happy: pain and sickness created.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Beginnings of trouble for man. · view the constellation · filed as A1346.2.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

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

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Cotton at first already spun into threads First people have everything they wish (life without work)Canoes at one time self-propelling

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