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

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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Irish mythCross
GreekFox 158
JewishNeuman
India*Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Beginnings of trouble for man.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Man must work as punishment for theft of fire Man must labor for a living: at first everything too easy. Full crops produce themselves, trees drop sugar etc

Filed beside it

Paradise lost. Original happy state forfeited because of one sin Confusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languages Origin of death Origin of murder Origin of disease Origin of physical defects. Wicked people entering heaven on rope fall to earth and are injured. St. Peter misunderstands what God says and lets them fall Origin of blindness Origin of war among men Origin of quarrelling Origin of lying Origin of tears and sighs Origin of hunger Mankind's escape from trouble

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Paradise lost because of forbidden fruit (drink). (Cf. A1346)

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