Emergence of tribe from lower world

Motif

Emergence of tribe from lower world.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Distribution and differentiation of peoples. · Wandering of tribes. · view the constellation · filed as A1631

Filed across the traditions

Navaho ibid. 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 egress Tribe climbs down from sky to earth

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Mankind ascends from under the earth. (Cf. A1631.)

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