μῦθοι Mythoi
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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 61, 227, 308
  • TongaBeckwith Myth 369, Gifford 15, 20
  • MaoriClark 48ff.
  • MarquesasHandy 103
  • TuamotuStimson MS (x-G. 13/52).
Within the index

Filed under Origin of islands.

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Islands created by order of deityIslands as deity's stepping-stones. (Cf. A901.)Island created by shooting arrow. (Cf. D936, D1092.)Origin of island's shape and positionIsland plowed out by goddess. (Cf. A951.)Islands from cow and calf transformed by evil eye of one-eyed godIslands from stones cast by giantess. (Cf. A901, A963.5.)Islands from webs woven by primeval spidersGoddess gives birth to islandsIslands from transformed object or personIslands originally form continent, later separatedOld woman as guardian of floating islands of the gods

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