μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Creation of the universe.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Creation of the universe. · view the constellation · filed as A600

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Persian Carnoy 275
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Werner 406. – Cherokee: Mooney Am. Urquell II 85ff. → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter XVI
  • Quiché Alexander Lat. Am. 160f.
  • Maya ibid. 152ff.
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 43ff.
  • Tahiti Henry 336ff.
  • general See: *Encyc. Rel. Ethics s. v. "Creation"
  • general *Lang Myth. 163ff.
  • general Henne am-Rhyn Das Jenseits: Kulturgeschichtliche Darstellung über Schöpfung, etc. (1881)
  • general Schlieper Die kosmogonischen Mythen der Urvölker (Bonn 1932, diss.)
  • general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 274–284
  • general Feilberg Skabelses og Syndflodssagn (1915). – Norse: Boberg, MacCulloch Eddic 327ff.
Within the index
2 finer motifs beneath it
Universe created in specified time and order Primeval chaos
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
City-gods Wild man as king of animals Unusual animal as riding-horse Marriage to person in dog form. (Cf. B635.4, D141.) Marriage to dog in human form Jointed snake can join its segments when it is broken into pieces Tabu: looking under certain bell too soon Journey to Land of Women. Island of women, land of maidens, country of the Amazons, etc Spirits and demons (general) Remarkable persons. Extraordinary size, form, appearance, or habits Headless person with eyes (eye) and mouth on breast Headless persons cannot smell or hear

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