Origin of lyre. Hermes makes it from a tortoise

Motif

Origin of lyre. Hermes makes it from a tortoise.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of arts. · view the constellation · filed as A1461.2

Filed across the traditions

Greek Fox 192, Frazer Apollodorus II 9 n. 2. – Finnish: Kalevala rune 40 (from bones of a pike) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. X
general cf. rune 44.

Within the index

Filed under Acquisition of music.

1 finer motif beneath it

Origin of harp

Filed beside it

Origin of violin Origin of organ Origin of the use of the rattle Origin of whistle Origin of shepherd's pipe Origin of nose-flute

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

God as thief God serves as menial on earth Origin of shepherd's pipe Color of raven. (Cf. A2237.1, A2234.1, A2231.1, A2218.1) Magic power of seeing things underground Resuscitation by blood Suitor contest: race Escape by reversing horse's (ox's) shoes Birth of human being from an egg. (Cf. F611.1.11.) Precocious infant

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