Animal characteristics because creator had not enough time to finish what he began

Motif

Animal characteristics because creator had not enough time to finish what he began.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics from miscellaneous causes. · view the constellation · filed as A2286.1.0.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

S. Am. Indian (Caingang)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 474.

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Filed under Creation interrupted since God must go to a fire.

Filed beside it

Creation of hog incomplete since God has to go to a fire: cause of hog's round snout. (Cf. A2335.4.2.)

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