Origin of metal-working

Motif

Origin of metal-working.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of crafts. · view the constellation · filed as A1447

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter II
Depth CommentaryThemis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, CHAPTER I.
Literary CrystallizationFaust: A Tragedy, Second Part, Act 2
Japanese / ShintoKojiki: Records of Ancient Matters, Preface
Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, Tract 14: The New Chemical Light, Part I (Michael Sendivogius)

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.

HebrewGenesis 4:22
GreekFox 171
JewishNeuman
India*Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Acquisition of crafts.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Origin of the bellows Origin of blacksmith work Origin of goldsmith work Origin of smelting

Filed beside it

Assignment of crafts and professions: creator opens shop and from it distributes plough, pen, bottle, pair of scales, fishing-net and loom to various groups Origin of distribution of work Patriarchs because of long life made inventions Acquisition of agriculture Origin of milling. (Cf. A1446.5.3.)Origin of domestication of animals Acquisition of building crafts Acquisition of tools Origin of mining Origin of pottery Origin of charcoal making Origin of cloth-making Origin of shoemaking Origin of cooking Origin of distilling. Learned from devil. (Cf. A1427.2.)Origin of fishing

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