Twin culture heroes – one foolish, one clever. (Cf. A525.)

Motif

Twin culture heroes – one foolish, one clever. (Cf. A525.)

Mythological motifs. · Demigods and culture heroes. · Origin of the culture hero (demigod). · view the constellation · filed as A515.1.1.2

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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.

S. Am. Indian (Bacairi)Lévi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 347, (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 135, (Chiriguano): ibid 163.

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Filed under Twin culture heroes. (Cf. A511.1.2.1.)

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Twin culture heroes sired by two fathers Twin culture heroes conceived of as sun and moon

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Good and bad culture heroes

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