μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Primeval chaos.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Creation of the universe. · view the constellation · filed as A605

Filed across the traditions
  • Icel. De la Saussaye 340f.
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Egyptian Müller 47
  • Babylonian Spence 71
  • Japanese Anesaki 222. – Pima: Alexander N. Am. 177
  • Maori ibid. 6ff.
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 42
  • Tahiti Henry 336, 340.
  • general *Sayce Encyc. Religion and Ethics III 363 s. v. "Chaos". Greek: Roscher I 871 s. v. "Chaos"
  • general Mixtec: Alexander Lat. Am. 86
  • general Marquesas Is.: Dixon 10 n. 13
  • general Nias Is.: ibid. 167
Within the index

Filed under Creation of the universe.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Primeval darkness Primeval cold
Filed beside it
Universe created in specified time and order

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