Origin of narwhal

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Origin of narwhal.

Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of fish and other animals. · Creation of fish. · Creation of particular fishes. · view the constellation · filed as A2135.1

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Eskimo (Cumberland Sound)Boas BAM XV 169, (Cape York): Rasmussen III 79.

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Filed under Origin of whale. [Note: In folk thought, a fish.]

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Creation of leviathan

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