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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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

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.

JewishNeuman
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.

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 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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