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Motif

Mountain from accident to primeval lizard. Lizard passing through a mountain is broken; his fore and hinder parts become mountains.

Mythological motifs. · Topographical features of the earth. · Land features. · Creation of mountains (hills). · view the constellation · filed as A961.3

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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.

  • BushmanBleek and Lloyd 215.
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Filed under Mountains from primeval animal.

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Hills from flapping of primeval bird. Hills and valleys are formed from the flapping of a giant turkey-buzzard when the earth is still plasticMountains from hacked-up fish drawn from bottom of primeval water. Earth originates from a fish drawn from the water. It is hacked up and thus made to form mountainsMountains spring from scattered parts of slain giant serpent's bodyMountains (cliffs) from bones of killed giant

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