μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Origin of different peoples according to choice of bows and arrows or else guns, horses and cattle. Indians choose the former, whites the latter.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Distribution and differentiation of peoples. · Origin of various tribes. · view the constellation · filed as A1614.4.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • S. Am. Indian (Paressi)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 360.
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Filed under Origin of tribes from choices made.

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Origin of tribes from kinds of meat they chooseOrigin of different peoples according to choice of chairs

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