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Origin of light and dark skin color.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Distribution and differentiation of peoples. · Origin of various tribes. · view the constellation · filed as A1614.6

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  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Origin of white and colored races.

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Negroes as curse on Ham for laughing at Noah's nakedness Races dark-skinned from bathing after white men. All peoples bathe in the river, the white man first, then in turn, the Spaniard, the Indian, and the negro – each becoming darker because of the condition of the water Light and dark-skinned peoples made from light and dark coconuts Origin of tribes from choices made Negroes made from left-over scraps at creation Indians and whites from different legs of first man Black tribe because woman is put on fire Origin of white man

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