μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • TahitiHenry 337.
  • general Nauru (Pleasant Island): Dixon 249
Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it
Creation of universe from clay pot set afloat on primeval watersCreation of universe from calabash
Filed beside 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 wivesUniverse created by various activities of creator

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