Islands from transformed object or person

Motif

Islands from transformed object or person.

Mythological motifs. · Topographical features of the earth. · Land features. · Origin of the land. · view the constellation · filed as A955.10

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanThe Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book 10

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

HawaiiBeckwith Myth 347
TahitiHenry 129, 346
Marshall Is.Davenport 222
TongaGifford 24, 68, 179
MarquesasHandy 44.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of islands.

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Islands created by order of deity Islands as deity's stepping-stones. (Cf. A901.)Island created by shooting arrow. (Cf. D936, D1092.)Origin of island's shape and position Island plowed out by goddess. (Cf. A951.)Islands from cow and calf transformed by evil eye of one-eyed god Islands from stones cast by giantess. (Cf. A901, A963.5.)Islands from webs woven by primeval spiders Island fished-up by demigod (hero)Goddess gives birth to islands Islands originally form continent, later separated Old woman as guardian of floating islands of the gods

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