μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Why the wild boar is hunted by man for food: once a faithless wife killed by her husband.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of food supply for human race. · view the constellation · filed as A1422.3

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Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Assignment of edible animals. Certain animals may be eaten by man.

Filed beside it
Animals sources of food because they were once unfaithful, disobedient wives of a visitor from god-country What animals are to be eaten by man Why men may eat hares Why Birhors eat flesh of monkeys and baboons

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