Origin of the land

Motif

Origin of the land.

Mythological motifs. · Topographical features of the earth. · Land features. · Origin of the land. · view the constellation · filed as A950

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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.

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Eskimo (Cape York)Rasmussen III 47.

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8 finer motifs beneath it

Contours of land caused by plowing of goddess. (Cf. A901.)Land rises out of sea Land thrown down from heaven [First Edition: A953. Why mud is soft.]Land born from goddess Origin of islands Origin of peninsulas Origin of desert

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