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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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Filed across the traditions
  • Hebrew Genesis 4:22
  • Greek Fox 171
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
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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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