Gods teach people all they know.
Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of human culture. · view the constellation · filed as A1404
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 30
- Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, Tract 4: A Demonstration of Nature (John A. Mehung)
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 2, Canto 39
- North American IndigenousZuni Folk Tales, Tale 29
Scholars’ trail — 2references
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.
- MarquesasHandy 123
- general S. Am. Indian (Cariri): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (1) 559.