Origin of fire

Motif

Origin of fire.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of livable environment. · view the constellation · filed as A1414

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

PersianCarnoy 284. – Micronesian: Dixon 254f.
AztecAlexander Lat. Am. 93
general **Frazer Fire. – Irish myth: Cross
general N. Am. Indian (Kaska): *Teit JAFL XXX 443, (Tahltan): Teit JAFL XXXII 219, (Sinkyone): Kroeber JAFL XXXII 347, (Shasta): Frachtenberg JAFL XXVIII 210, (Calif. Indian): Gayton and Newman 63
general S. Am. Indian (Jibaro, Peru): Karsten (rev. JAFL XXXII 446), (Tropical Forest): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (3) 55, (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 158, 171.

Within the index

Filed under Acquisition of livable environment.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Origin of fire – rubbing sticks Origin of fire – found in person's own body Origin of fire – children strike rocks together, accidentally produce fire Origin of fire – gift from god (supernatural person)Origin of flint and tinder Bird as guardian of primordial fire Repository of fire

Filed beside it

Theft of light. Light originally absent is stolen by culture hero Origin of light – miscellaneous Theft of fire. Mankind is without fire. A culture hero steals it from the owner Country ridded of ogres and made peaceful Theft of tablets of fate. From heaven by bird Zu

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