Why jackal's tail is short

Motif

Why jackal's tail is short.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2378.4.5

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Mesoamerican (Maya / Nahua)Popol Vuh, or Book of the Holy Assembly (Guthrie translation, serialized, truncated), Part 2, Chapter 6

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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