μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The various children of Eve. Eve has so many children that she is ashamed when God pays her a visit. She hides some of them and they fail to receive the blessing that God gives those in sight. Thus arises the differences in classes and peoples.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Distribution and differentiation of peoples. · Origin of different classes – social and professional. · view the constellation · filed as A1650.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 87 No. 758.
  • general *BP III 308ff. (Gr. No. 180)
  • general *Dh I 247, II 98f. – Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 85 No. 41
Within the index

Filed under Origin of different classes – social and professional.

Filed beside it
Custom of differentiating social classes by color of dress introducedOrigin of different tradesOrigin of castesOrigin of royaltyOrigin of priesthood (shamanism, etc.)Origin of peasantryOrigin of noblemenOrigin of slavesOrigin of professional warriorsOrigin of different classes – miscellaneous
Travels with
Monkeys from children hidden by Eve when God visited her. (Cf. A1650.1, A1710.)
Carried in tale types

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