μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

World parents: sky-father and earth-mother as parents of the universe. The sky-father descends upon the earth-mother and begets the world.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Spontaneous creation of universe. · view the constellation · filed as A625

Attested across traditions
Filed across the traditions
  • Greek *Frazer Apollodorus I 2 n. 1, Fox 5, 272 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. I
  • Icel. MacCulloch Eddic 194, 328
  • Hindu Keith 16
  • India Thompson-Balys. – Eastern Indonesia: Dixon 166
  • Maori ibid. 7 n. 3, 8 n. 7, 9 n. 10, 31
  • Tahiti Henry 337f.
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 280 n. 37
  • African Werner African 124.
  • general Chatham Is.: ibid. 10 n. 12
  • general Cook and Hervey Is.: ibid. 14 n. 21
  • general S. Am. Indian (Cora): Alexander Lat. Am. 121, (Antilles): ibid. 24
Within the index

Filed under Spontaneous creation of universe.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Heaven-mother – earth-father Raising of the sky. Originally the sky is near the earth (usually because of the conjunction of the sky-father and earth-mother). It is raised to its present place
Filed beside it
Spontaneous creation – evolutionary type. From primeval chaos gradually arise worlds and life 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
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
The Furies. Goddesses of vengeance Nine days' fall from heaven to earth; the same from earth to hell Earth born of Chaos Person with one eye in center of forehead. (Cf. F441.4.1, F531.1.1.1.) Hundred-handed giants Birth from blood Birth from contact of severed male genitals with ground

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