μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Origin of tribes from kinds of meat they choose.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Distribution and differentiation of peoples. · Origin of various tribes. · view the constellation · filed as A1614.4.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Origin of tribes from choices made.

1 finer motif beneath it
Origin of race colors from eating of ox. Those who eat livers are black; those who eat lungs and blood are red
Filed beside it
Origin of different peoples according to choice of chairs Origin of different peoples according to choice of bows and arrows or else guns, horses and cattle. Indians choose the former, whites the latter

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