μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • Icel.*De la Saussaye 341.
Within the index

Filed under Other means of creating the universe.

1 finer motif beneath it
Primeval woman cut in pieces: houses, etc., made from her body
Filed beside it
Cosmic egg. The universe brought forth from an eggUniverse from pre-existing rocks. Originally rocks are assumed and everything is made from themCreation of universe: genealogical type. A begets B, who begets C, etc. Finally the universe is brought forth in its present formUniverse from cosmic fowl
Travels with
Creation from vapor-produced primeval giant. Vapors from half-frozen primeval river origin of giant Ymir, from whom universe is createdGiants as sons of Ymir or Aurgelmir. (Cf. A642, A831.2.)

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