Acquisition of water. (Cf. A1111.)

Motif

Acquisition of water. (Cf. A1111.)

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of food supply for human race. · view the constellation · filed as A1429.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Irish MythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Acquisition of food supply – miscellaneous.

2 finer motifs beneath it

First wells dug Gods provide drinkable water. (Cf. A941.)

Filed beside it

Discovery of oil (edible)Origin of yeast: wasp stole it from the old woman underneath the earth Acquisition of salt

Travels with

Impounded water. Water is kept by monster so that mankind cannot use it. A hero defeats the monster and releases the water. (The monster is sometimes a giant frog.)

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