Origin of pottery

Motif

Origin of pottery.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of crafts. · view the constellation · filed as A1451

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 30
Ancient Egyptian The Egyptian Book of the Dead , Chapter CX
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LII LII. Killing the Divine Animal
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XXXIX XXXIX. The Ritual of Osiris

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys
S. Am. Indian (Paressi) Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 359, (Yagua): Steward-Métraux ibid. (3) 736, (Jivaro): ibid. (3) 627, (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 86.
general African (Basuto): Jacottet 50 No. 7

Within the index

Filed under Acquisition of crafts.

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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 metal-working Origin of mining 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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