Origin of color of bird

Motif

Origin of color of bird.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: color and smell. · view the constellation · filed as A2411.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hawaiian Legends of Maui and Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes , IX IX.
Mesoamerican (Maya / Nahua) Popol Vuh, or Book of the Holy Assembly (Guthrie translation, serialized, truncated) , Part 1, Chapter 9
North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 43 XLII. THE ATTACK ON THE GIANT ELK ™
North American Indigenous Myths of the Cherokee , Bird Myths — Myth 35 35. the bird tribes
Literary Crystallization Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books , Book 5

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index Nos. 3158, 3165, Legends No. 261f.
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 127
Japanese Ikeda
S. Am. Indian (Toba) Métraux MAFLS XL 39f.
general N. Am. Indian (Canadian Dakota): Wallis JAFL XXXVI 66
general (Southern Ute): Lowie JAFL XXXVII 32 No. 18, 69 No. 38, (Tahltan): Teit JAFL XXXII 208f.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of color of animal.

6 finer motifs beneath it

Origin of color of passeriformes Origin of color of falconiformes Origin of color of charidriiformes Origin of color of caraciiformes Origin of color of ciconiiformes Origin of color of other birds

Filed beside it

Origin of color of mammals Origin of color of insect Origin of color of fish Color of reptiles and other animal forms

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