μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Greek*Grote I 4. Maori: Dixon 6ff.
  • TahitiHenry 343.
  • general Marquesas Is.: ibid. 10 n. 13
Within the index
6 finer motifs beneath it
Spontaneous creation – evolutionary type. From primeval chaos gradually arise worlds and lifeSpontaneous 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

wander