Hardening of the earth. At first it is soft, but is hardened by sun's rays

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Hardening of the earth. At first it is soft, but is hardened by sun's rays.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · Changes in the earth. · view the constellation · filed as A856

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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. – Carib: Alexander Lat. Am. 39.

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Filed under Changes in the earth.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Primeval earth hardened by wind Ground, previously all wet, dries up when first woman cuts her little finger and blood drips on ground

Filed beside it

How the earth became oblong. God the Father situated on one side of the earth, the Son on the other Making the earth smaller. Earth made too large. God learns from devil by trickery how to make it smaller Making the earth larger. Gradually extended during creation. See references to A812 in which this idea is always involved Opposite of present. Everything on the earth – courses of rivers, height of mountains, human reproduction, etc. – are at first the reverse of the present condition Steadying the earth

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