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

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

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Beginnings of trouble for man. · view the constellation · filed as A1346.2

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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 61
JewishNeuman
India*Thompson-Balys
SenecaCurtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 462
S. Am. Indian (Mataco)Métraux MAFLS XL 59f.

Within the index

Filed under Man to earn bread by sweat of his brow. (Cf. A1331.1.)

4 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Man must work as punishment for theft of fire

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