Acquisition of daylight by culture hero

Motif

Acquisition of daylight by culture hero.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of livable environment. · view the constellation · filed as A1412.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

S. Am. Indian (Tucuna)Nimuendajú BBAE CXLIII (3) 724.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of light – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Light originated from shield of old cobra supporting the earth Origin of light: souls of dead in heaven

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