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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
A400—A499. Gods of the earth.
A400. God of earth. Greek: *Grote I 3; Irish myth: Cross; Egyptian: Müller 42; Persian: Carnoy 260; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 42, 120.
A400.0.1. Gods of earth. Irish myth: Cross.
A1611.10. Origin of the Tuatha Dé Danann. A1659.1. Origin of the Fomorians. F251.1. Fairies as descendants of early race of gods. F251.1.2. Fairies as gods. V1.16.1. Fairies seek to induce mortal to worship them.
A400.1. Goddess of earth. Gaster Thespis 128 n., 51; Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 243ff., 413ff.; Livonian: Loortis Liivi rahva usund I 256; Lithuanian, Chuvashan: Wolter "Die Erdgöttin der Tschuwaschen und Litauer" Archiv f. Religionswiss. II 358ff.; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 194; Hindu: Penzer II 241, IV 177 n. 1; India: Thompson-Balys. — Haitian: Alexander Lat. Am. 34; Aztec: ibid. 74f.; Chibcha: ibid. 204.
A111. Mother of the gods.
A400.2. Angel of earth. Jewish: Neuman.
A401. Mother Earth. The earth is conceived of as the mother of all things (cf. A431.1). — **Dieterich Mutter Erde; A. Mayer Erdmutter und Hexe (München 1936); *Lang Myth. 299ff.; Fb. "jord" II 44b IV 247a; Noldeke "Mutter-Erde bei den Semiten" Archiv f. Religionswiss. VIII 161. — Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 194, 328; Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 239; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 459; Hindu: Keith 230; India: *Thompson-Balys. — African: Werner African 125. — N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 280 n. 37a, Alexander N. Am. 91f., 289 n. 34.
A111. Mother of the gods. A625. World parents: sky-father and earth-mother. A1234.1. Earth as virgin mother of Adam.
A401.1. Mother Earth pregnant with Adam. Jewish: Neuman.
A405. Nature gods. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 2, chap. I passim.
A410. Local gods. Chinese: Graham; Irish myth: Cross.
A411. Household gods. Irish myth: Cross; Istrian: Machal 229; Slavic (general): ibid. 240ff.; Germanic: Meyer Germanen 213ff.; Roman: (Lares and Penates) *Frazer Ovid II 470 n. 1, IV 12ff., Roscher II 1868 s. v. "Lares"; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 454; Finno-Ugric: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 113ff.; Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 543—570; Chinese: Ferguson 75.
B593. Animal as house spirit. F480. House-spirits.
A411.1. Door-gods. Chinese: Werner 172.
A411.2. Kitchen-gods. Chinese: Werner 166; India: Thompson-Balys.
A411.3. Dairy-god. India: Thompson-Balys.
A411.4. Hearth-god. Greek: Grote I 55 (Hestia, Vesta).
A412. City-gods. Chinese: Werner 403, Eberhard FFC CXX 42, 67.
D1380.0.1. Magic object protects a city.
A413. God of roads (streets). *Frazer Pausanias II 417. — Irish myth: Cross.
A413.1. God of cross-roads. Frazer Ovid II 453ff. — Irish myth: Cross.
A414. God of boundaries. *Frazer Ovid I 95ff., II 481ff. — India: Thompson-Balys.
