Gods create the earth from their dead victim's blood and bones

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Gods create the earth from their dead victim's blood and bones.

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 A831.8

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, Tract 15: The New Chemical Light, Part II, Concerning Sulphur (Michael Sendivogius)
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 3, Section CLXXXVII

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Earth from body of person (animal).

Filed beside it

Earth from body of son of deity Earth from giant's body (Ymir). (Cf. A614.1.)Earth by sacrifice of son and daughter of first couple Earth by murder of first brother and sister Earth from the body of murdered child Earth from body of slain animal Earth from body of divine suicide Earth created from Adam's body

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