Acquisition of vegetables and cereals

Motif

Acquisition of vegetables and cereals.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of food supply for human race. · view the constellation · filed as A1423

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Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

JewishNeuman
IndiaThompson-Balys
SamoaBeckwith Myth 439
Hawaiiibid. 61, 63
TongaGifford 194
Easter IslandMétraux Ethnology 364
general Isabel Island: ibid. 504
general African (Angola): Chatelain 249, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 179 No. 35, (Ekoi): Talbot 240, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale 348 No. 3
general S. Am. Indian (Guarayu): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 147.

Within the index

Filed under Acquisition of food supply for human race.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Hoarded plants released Origin of yams (sweet potatoes, taro)Acquisition of rice. (Cf. A2685.)Origin of coconut Acquisition of manioc

Filed beside it

Origin of food from body of slain food-goddess. (Cf. A2611.1)Gods teach how to seek and prepare food Creator of food items Food originally obtained without effort After Fall first parents fed and clothed from one palm-tree At beginning people start to eat the earth Hoarded game released. Animals are kept imprisoned by malevolent creature. Released by culture hero Assignment of edible animals. Certain animals may be eaten by man Origin of seed Acquisition of food supply – miscellaneous Acquisition of spiritous liquors Acquisition of wine Acquisition of food supply – miscellaneous

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