μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • JewishNeuman
  • SiberianHolmberg Siberian 315f. – Borneo: Dixon 170
  • Melanesian*Codrington JAI X 293
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 45. – S. Am. Indian (Toba, Mataco): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 368f. – India: *Thompson-Balys.
Within the index
3 finer motifs beneath it
Coyote as marplot at creationDevil as marplot at creationGod makes things and tosses them into the air; what he catches is good for mankind, what opponent catches is bad
Travels with
Bull carries off devil after he has tried to deceive God. (Cf. A60.)

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