Vain attempts to circumvent theft of fire.
Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of livable environment. · view the constellation · filed as A1415.4
Motif
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.
- general *Dh III 109ff. Polynesian: Dixon 47
- general Massim (British New Guinea): ibid. 115 n. 48.
Within the index
Filed under Theft of fire. Mankind is without fire. A culture hero steals it from the owner.
Filed beside it