Origin of grave-digging.
Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Origin of customs. · Origin of religious ceremonials. · view the constellation · filed as A1541.1.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Irish Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster , Ch. 7 FATE OF THE SONS OF USNACH
- Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 4, Story 2
- Mesoamerican (Maya / Nahua) Popol Vuh, or Book of the Holy Assembly (Guthrie translation, serialized, truncated) , Part 1, Chapter 7
- Slavic Russian Folk-Tales , Chapter I
- Irish Old Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic , Tale 5 THE VOYAGE OF MAILDUN.
Filed across the traditions
- Irish myth Cross.
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