μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Creation of universe by creator. The creator is existing before all things.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Creation of universe by creator. · view the constellation · filed as A610

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“Other pictures show him attended in his labours by the four supernatural creatures--the unicorn, phoenix, tortoise, and dragon; others again with the sun in one hand and the moon in the other, some of the firstfruits of his stupendous labours. (The reason for these being there will be apparent presently.) His task occupied eighteen thousand years, during which he formed the sun, moon, and stars, the heavens and the earth, himself…”

— Myths & Legends of China, Chapter III · served from our shelf

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • JewishNeuman
  • HinduOldenberg Religion des Veda 278
  • ChineseWerner 76, 90. – Mexican: Alexander Lat. Am. 85 → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter III
  • Maoriibid. 11 n. 16, 17, 13 n. 20
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 42
  • AustralianGoldenweiser Early Civilization 105. – Uganda: ibid. 97.
  • general Guiana: ibid. 256ff. – Society Is.: Dixon 11 n. 18, 12 n. 19
  • general Marquesas Is.: ibid. 11 n. 14
Within the index
9 finer motifs beneath it
All things created in pairs (heaven and earth, etc.)Creation of heaven, earth, and hellFiat creation. Universe is created at command of creatorCreation: materialization of creator's thinking. Creator "thinks outward in space" and thus produces the universeCreation from creator's tearsUniverse from parts of creator's body. Ymir makes the world from his members – mountains from bones, cliffs from teeth, heavens from skull, etcUniverse as offspring of creator. The Sky Father begets various parts of the universe by his various wivesCreation of universe from clam-shell on primeval water by creatorUniverse created by various activities of creator
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Creator with dragon's headCreator with two horns on headDwarfish creatorCreator clothed in bear-skin (or in leaves)Creator with hammer and chisel in handsCreator with sun and moon in handsCreator comes out of chaosCreator offspring of dual powers of nature. (Male and female principles.)Creator's companions: unicorn, phoenix, tortoise, and dragonCreator as ancestor of heaven and earthCreator's death. (Cf. A192.)Creator's works survive him

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