μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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
  • JewishNeuman.
Within the index

Filed under Changes in the earth.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Why earth becomes warm and wet: two huge copper vessels steaming over fire are underneath earthCreator's giant servant puts a valley where earth's crust is heavy and a mountain where it is light so as to stabilize itCreator's giant servant puts trees to hold earth together where it slipped
Filed beside it
How the earth became oblong. God the Father situated on one side of the earth, the Son on the otherMaking the earth smaller. Earth made too large. God learns from devil by trickery how to make it smallerMaking the earth larger. Gradually extended during creation. See references to A812 in which this idea is always involvedOpposite of present. Everything on the earth – courses of rivers, height of mountains, human reproduction, etc. – are at first the reverse of the present conditionHardening of the earth. At first it is soft, but is hardened by sun's rays

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