μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it
Universe coughed into beingUniverse created by spitting
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 wivesCreation of universe from clam-shell on primeval water by creator

wander