Origin of childbirth.
Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Origin of sex functions. · view the constellation · filed as A1351
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK II, ch. IV
- Irish Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster , Ch. 1 BIRTH OF CUCHULAIN
- Irish Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster , Ch. 11 THE WAR FOR THE BULL OF CUAILGNE
- Irish Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland , Ch. 9 CHAPTER I. BODB DEARG
Filed across the traditions
- Irish myth Cross
- Jewish Neuman
- India *Thompson-Balys. Maori: Dixon 78
- Hawaii ibid. 284, Marquesas: Handy 58, 122, 128
- N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 288 n. 59a, (Tahltan): *Teit JAFL XXXII 207 n. 2.
- general Polynesian, Melanesian, Micronesian: ibid. 79 n. 79–82
- general Maori, Hawaii, Cook Is., Fijis: Beckwith Myth 502–504
Within the index
Filed under Origin of sex functions. (Cf. A1556.)
2 finer motifs beneath it
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