Primordial animal mutilated to produce present form

Motif

Primordial animal mutilated to produce present form.

Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of animal life – general. · Creation of animals through transformation. · view the constellation · filed as A1727

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

MaoriClark 50
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 135, 436, 500.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Animals from transformations after deluge or world calamity Creator sent for water: Meantime animals assume present forms Animals from various transformed objects 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

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