μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • Navahoibid. 159
  • general Creek: Alexander N. Am. 62
  • general Choctaw: ibid. 63
  • general Mandan, Kiowa: ibid. 105
  • general Arikara: ibid. 107
  • general Pima: ibid. 177
  • general Sia: ibid. 203
  • general Hopi: ibid. 205
  • general Warrau (Carib): Alexander Lat. Am. 273
  • general Amazon tribes: ibid. 309.
Within the index

Filed under Wandering of tribes.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Emergence of tribe from lower world stopped by fat woman or pregnant woman who becomes lodged in the hole of egressTribe climbs down from sky to earth
Travels with
Mankind ascends from under the earth. (Cf. A1631.)

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