Origin of cooking

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Origin of cooking.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of crafts. · view the constellation · filed as A1455

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

GreekGrote I 163
India*Thompson-Balys
MarquesasHandy 104, 128
S. Am. Indian (Toba)Métraux MAFLS XL 108f.
Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 373 (water for cooking.)

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Filed under Acquisition of crafts.

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Origin of the domestic hearth

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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 pottery Origin of charcoal making Origin of cloth-making Origin of shoemaking Origin of distilling. Learned from devil. (Cf. A1427.2.)Origin of fishing

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