μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Spontaneous creation – evolutionary type. From primeval chaos gradually arise worlds and life.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Spontaneous creation of universe. · view the constellation · filed as A620.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Norse MacCulloch Eddic 327ff.
  • Greek Fox 3f.
  • Hawaiian Dixon 15 n. 25, 26, Beckwith Myth 3
  • Maori ibid. 6, 7, nn. 2, 3, 4, 5
  • general Marquesas Is.: ibid. 11 n. 14.
Within the index

Filed under Spontaneous creation of universe.

Filed beside it
Spontaneous encroachment of heavens and earth checked by creator Universe from congealed vapor Universe created out of fire world Universe created out of ice and mist World parents: sky-father and earth-mother as parents of the universe. The sky-father descends upon the earth-mother and begets the world

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