μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animals from various transformed objects.

Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of animal life – general. · Creation of animals through transformation. · view the constellation · filed as A1714

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Hawaii Beckwith 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 cloth Animals from bark thrown on ground Animals created from earth
Filed beside it
Animals from transformations after deluge or world calamity Creator sent for water: Meantime animals assume present forms Animals from transformed man. (Cf. A2005, A2011.2.) Animals from transformed ogre or giant Animals from transformed parts of the body (animal or human) Animals from parts of body of deity or saint Primordial animal mutilated to produce present form

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