Father and son as culture heroes

Motif

Father and son as culture heroes.

Mythological motifs. · Demigods and culture heroes. · Origin of the culture hero (demigod). · view the constellation · filed as A515.2

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Attested across traditions

HawaiianLegends of Maui and Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes, V receipt
“The story of fire finding in Polynesia sifts itself to Maui under one of his widely-accepted names, or to his father or to his ancestress — with but very few exceptions.” uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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.

Irish mythCross. Amazon tribes: Alexander Lat. Am. 311.

Within the index

Filed under Pair of culture heroes.

Filed beside it

Culture heroes brothers Culture hero has blood brother Culture hero has faithful attendant Culture hero fights with (encounters) son without recognizing him

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