μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • HebrewLeviticus ch 11
  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 78, 149, (Hottentot): Bleek 73 No. 34.
Within the index

Filed under Acquisition of food supply for human race.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Animals sources of food because they were once unfaithful, disobedient wives of a visitor from god-countryWhat animals are to be eaten by manWhy men may eat haresWhy Birhors eat flesh of monkeys and baboonsWhy the wild boar is hunted by man for food: once a faithless wife killed by her husband
Filed beside it
Origin of food from body of slain food-goddess. (Cf. A2611.1)Gods teach how to seek and prepare foodCreator of food itemsFood originally obtained without effortAfter Fall first parents fed and clothed from one palm-treeAt beginning people start to eat the earthHoarded game released. Animals are kept imprisoned by malevolent creature. Released by culture heroAcquisition of vegetables and cerealsOrigin of seedAcquisition of food supply – miscellaneousAcquisition of spiritous liquorsAcquisition of wineAcquisition of food supply – miscellaneous

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