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

Motif

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

Filed across the traditions

Greek Grote I 61
Jewish Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys
Seneca Curtin-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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