Origin of burial

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Origin of burial.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Origin of customs. · Origin of other customs. · view the constellation · filed as A1591

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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.

Irish mythCross
Icel.Boberg
FinnishAarne FFC VII 9 No. 41, XXXIII 53 No. 41. India: Thompson-Balys
Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 226
general Maidu: Dixon BAM XVII 44 No. 1.

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Filed under Origin of other customs.

1 finer motif beneath it

Burial learned from watching raven bury its dead

Filed beside it

Origin of cremation Why men no longer know time of death. Custom changed when men began to repair fences with stalks when they knew they were to die the next day Origin of physicians Origin of tattooing Origin of army Origin of custom of wearing a beard Origin of customs of hospitality Origin of additional customs

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