Birth of culture heroes from human bones swallowed by jaguar's human wife

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Birth of culture heroes from human bones swallowed by jaguar's human wife.

Mythological motifs. · Demigods and culture heroes. · Origin of the culture hero (demigod). · view the constellation · filed as A511.1.4.3

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S. Am. Indian (Bacairi)Levi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 347.

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