Creation of earth by creator

Motif

Creation of earth by creator.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · –A839. Creation of the earth. · Creation of earth by creator. Genesis ch. I. · view the constellation · filed as A830

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 12, Section CCXXIV
Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter IX: Plutarch: Concerning the Mysteries of Isis and Osiris
Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter VI: An Egyptian Prototype of the Main Features of the Poemandres' Cosmogony
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 1, Section CLXLIX
Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
Tahiti Henry 341
Marquesas Handy 122
Pawnee Alexander N. Am. 109.
general Genesis ch. I. – Irish myth: Cross

Within the index

6 finer motifs beneath it

Earth from body of person (animal) Creation because of creator's lonesomeness. Dissatisfied at being alone in center of primeval water, God creates the earth Earth from creator's cuticle. (Cf. A1211.5.) Earth from nut in devil's mouth. God throws a nut over his left shoulder. The devil catches it in his mouth. The nut grows rapidly and the devil spits it out Creator prepared earth's nucleus as one would a rice cake Creator creates earth piecemeal

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