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

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • NorseMacCulloch Eddic 327ff.
  • GreekFox 3f.
  • HawaiianDixon 15 n. 25, 26, Beckwith Myth 3
  • Maoriibid. 6, 7, nn. 2, 3, 4, 5
  • general Marquesas Is.: ibid. 11 n. 14.
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Filed under Spontaneous creation of universe.

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Spontaneous encroachment of heavens and earth checked by creatorUniverse from congealed vaporUniverse created out of fire worldUniverse created out of ice and mistWorld 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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