Origin of sweet potato.
Mythological motifs. · Origin of trees and plants. · Origin of various plants and trees. · Origin of other plant forms. · view the constellation · filed as A2686.4.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter IIIIII. Sympathetic Magic
- MāoriPolynesian Mythology, and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race, Chapter 1
- MāoriPolynesian Mythology, and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race, Chapter 18
- Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter IX
- ChineseMyths & Legends of China, Chapter I
Scholars’ trail — 2references
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.
- HawaiiBeckwith Myth 242
- S. Am. Indian (Brazil)Oberg 109.