μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 22, 465
  • Eskimo (Kodiak)Golder JAFL 20 171, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 167, 169, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI, 588, (East Greenland): Rasmussen I, 82, 96, (Ungava): Turner RBAE XI 261, (Labrador): Hawks GSCan XIV 155, (Cape York): Rasmussen III 79
  • S. Am. Indian (Caingang)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 473, (Araucanian): Cooper ibid. (2) 753, (Inca): Rowe ibid. 315, (Cashinawa): Métraux ibid. (3) 684.
Within the index

Filed under Creation of animals through transformation. (Cf. A1811.1, A1833.2, A1861.1, A1861.2, A1863, A1887).

3 finer motifs beneath it
Animals from transformed clothAnimals from bark thrown on groundAnimals created from earth
Filed beside it
Animals from transformations after deluge or world calamityCreator sent for water: Meantime animals assume present formsAnimals from transformed man. (Cf. A2005, A2011.2.)Animals from transformed ogre or giantAnimals from transformed parts of the body (animal or human)Animals from parts of body of deity or saintPrimordial animal mutilated to produce present form

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