Creator sends two deities to tatoo all creatures: origin of animal markings

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Creator sends two deities to tatoo all creatures: origin of animal markings.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: color and smell. · view the constellation · filed as A2412.0.1

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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.

Marshall Is.Davenport 222.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of animal markings. (Cf. A2211.12, A2221.3, A2221.7.)

Filed beside it

Markings of mammals Markings on birds. (Cf. A2211.7.)Markings on insects Markings on fish. (Cf. A2217.3, A2213.2.)Markings on other animals

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