Culture hero returns to upper world

Motif

Culture hero returns to upper world.

Mythological motifs. · Demigods and culture heroes. · Culture hero's (demigod's) departure. · view the constellation · filed as A566

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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 S. Am. Indian (Apapocuvá-Guaraní): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 136ff., (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 148f., 157.

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Filed under Culture hero's (demigod's) departure.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Return of mortal reincarnation of celestial being to the country of the gods after his mission has been accomplished on earth Culture hero ascends to heaven guided by blind ancestress

Filed beside it

Divinity's departure for west Divinity's departure for east Remarkable longevity of culture heroes Dying culture hero. The culture hero teaches people how to die by dying himself Divinity retires to the end of the world

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