Pair of culture heroes

Motif

Pair of culture heroes.

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

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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.

general Amazon tribes: Alexander Lat. Am. 311.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of the culture hero (demigod).

5 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Culture hero as god Culture hero reborn Birth and rearing of culture hero (demigod)Parentage of culture hero. (Cf. A511.1.8.)Coming of culture hero (demigod)Expulsion and return of culture hero

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