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• Invisibility of creator learned from the impossibility of staring at the sun, his servant. A11.1
• Creator from above. A21
• Woman who fell from the sky. – Daughter of the sky-chief falls from the sky, is caught by birds, and lowered to the surface of the water. She becomes the creator. A21.1
• Old man from sky as creator. – Old man with his wife comes from the sky. Are the first couple on earth. Have seven sons and seven daughters. Each son marries a daughter. A21.2
• Creator from below. God rises from beneath (the center of the spiritual world) and creates the world. A25
• Creator emerges from lake. A25.1
• Creator comes from certain direction. A26
• Creator comes from east. A26.1
• Creator born from egg. A27
• Creator beats his wife while intoxicated from beverage he invents. A32.3.2
• Angels created from three elements. A52.0.5
• Angels created from words uttered by God. A52.0.6
• God drops water from his finger and the drops become angels. Lucifer imitated God and created devils. A52.0.7
• Angel Michael created from fire. A52.1.2
• Angel Gabriel created from snow. A52.1.3
• Angel Raphael created from water. A52.1.4
• Angel of destruction created from hail and fire. A52.1.5
• Creator drunk from beverage he invents. A87
• Satan's fall from heaven. A106.2.2
• God from incestuous union. A112.1
• God from father-daughter incest. Adonis. A112.1.1
• Gods born from various parts of creator's body. A112.3
• God born from peculiar part of parent's body. A112.7
• God born from mother's ear. A112.7.1
• God born from mother's armpit. A112.7.2
• Goddess born from mother's eyes. A112.7.3
• God from adulterous union. A112.8
• Child born from union of God with hen. A112.11
• Gods born from object. A114
• Deity born from sea-foam. Aphrodite. A114.1
• Goddess born from sweat of rock washed by sea. A114.1.1
• Origin of lesser gods from spittle of great god. A114.1.1.2
• God born from egg. A114.2
• Deity born from skull. A114.3
• Deity born from tree. A114.4
• God issues from earth. A115.2
• Deity arises from mist. A115.3
• Deity emerges from darkness of underworld. A115.4
• Emergence of gods from above and below. A115.5
• Deity arises from shell of darkness where he has been for million ages. A115.6
• Gods emerge from hole in tree. A115.7
• Maggots squirm from mouth of man-eating god. A123.2.2.1
• Lotus plants grow from navel of Vishnu. A123.9
• Moon steals food from banquet of the gods. (Cf. A153.1.) A153.3.1
• Thunderweapon. Stone weapons (axes) brought down by thunderbolt (from Thunder God). A157.1
• God descends from heaven. A171.0.3
• God hides from sun in shadow of a cloud. A179.8
• God speaks to Moses from bush. A182.3.0.1
• Angel speaks to Patrick from bush that merely seems to burn. A182.3.0.1.1
• God speaks from mountain. A182.3.0.5
• God rescues sleeping man from attack. A185.2.1
• God makes sword drop from assailant's hands. A185.2.3
• God witholds mortal from sinning. A185.14.2
• Goddess protects animals from hunters. A189.12
• God has magic vision only from his throne. A199.2
• Culture hero snatched from mother's side. A511.1.1
• River flows from corpse of mythical mother of culture hero. A511.1.1.1
• Culture hero incarnated through birth from virgin. A511.1.3
• Origin of culture hero from bursting stone. A511.1.4.1
• Birth of culture heroes from human bones swallowed by jaguar's human wife. A511.1.4.3
• Culture hero creates a companion from a toenail. A511.1.4.4
• Culture hero born from egg. A511.1.9
• Demigods descend from heaven. A513.1
• Lightning flashes from armpits of hero. A526.9
• Culture hero swallowed and recovered from animal. A535
• Culture hero's (divinity's) expected return. Divinity or hero is expected to return at the proper time and rescue his people from their misfortunes. Often joined with A571. A580
• Creation from creator's tears. A613
• Universe from parts of creator's body. Ymir makes the world from his members – mountains from bones, cliffs from teeth, heavens from skull, etc. A614
• Universe from parts of man's body. (Cf. A831.2) A614.1
• Universe from creator's masturbation with water, with stone, and with earth. (Cf. A1216.1). A615.1
• Universe from copulation of various objects to produce others. A615.2
• Creation of universe from clam-shell on primeval water by creator. A617
• Creation of universe from clay pot set afloat on primeval waters. A617.1
• Creation of universe from calabash. A617.2
• Spontaneous creation – evolutionary type. From primeval chaos gradually arise worlds and life. A620.1
• Universe from congealed vapor. A621
• Creation from vapor-produced primeval giant. Vapors from half-frozen primeval river origin of giant Ymir, from whom universe is created. A621.1
• Deity clothes his father the sky after he has separated him from earth. A625.2.4
• Succession of creations and cataclysms. From the ruins of each earlier creation a new one is raised. A632
• Cosmic egg. The universe brought forth from an egg. A641
• Heaven and earth from egg. They are the two halves of an egg shell. Eros escapes as they are separated. A641.1
• Creation from duck's eggs. Upper vault from half shell, lower vault from half shell, moonbeams from whites, sunshine from yellows, starlight from motley parts, clouds from dark parts. A641.2
• Universe from body of slain giant. Ymir. (Cf. A621.1.) A642
• Primeval woman cut in pieces: houses, etc., made from her body. A642.1
• Universe from pre-existing rocks. Originally rocks are assumed and everything is made from them. A644
• Universe from cosmic fowl. A647
• World-tree. Tree extending from lowest to highest world. (Cf. A878.) A652
• Tree to heaven from goddess' necklace which she hangs on branch. A652.1.1
• Tree hanging from sky. A tree hangs upside down in the sky. By its branches men pass back and forth to the upper world. A652.2
• Nine days' fall from heaven to earth; the same from earth to hell. A658.1
• Nine nights' riding from heaven (or earth) to hell. A658.1.1
• Fire in hell. Christ created fire in hell from his blood; formerly hell was cold. A671.0.2.1
• Heavenly bodies from objects thrown into sky. The Christ Child throws mud pies into the sky and creates sun, moon, and stars. A700.1
• Origin of sky from egg brought from primeval water. A701.1
• Origin of sky from Ymir's skull. A701.2
• Creator makes clouds from own vitals. A705.1.1
• Moon from light, sun from fire. A712.1
• Sun and moon from cave. A713
• Sun and moon from belly of a fish. A713.1
• Sun from object thrown into sky. A714