Creation of ant — Mythoi

Motif

Creation of ant.

Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of insects. · Creation of hymenoptera. · view the constellation · filed as A2011

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Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , The Tempest Act 2

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.
general *Fb "myre"

Within the index

Filed under Creation of hymenoptera.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Creation of ant by devil Creation of ant: avaricious man transformed. (Cf. A1715, A1730.)

Filed beside it

Creation of bee Creation of hornet

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Insects from body of slain monster. Usually the monster is burnt; sometimes the insects come from his head, sometimes from his body as it burns. (Cf. A1716.1.)

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