A. Mythological Motifs
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A1689.13. Why Jews keep aloof from other peoples. Jewish: Neuman.
A1690. Distribution and differentiation of people — miscellaneous.
A1691. Differentiation between "free" (saer) and "unfree" (daer). Irish myth: Cross.
A1611.9. Origin of the Maic Milid (Milesians, Gaels).
A1700—A2199. CREATION OF ANIMAL LIFE
A1700—A1799. Creation of animal life — general.
A1700. Creation of animals. (Cf. Chapter B, Animals.) Quiché: Alexander Lat. Am. 162; Ekoi: Talbot 149.
D2178.4. Animals created by magic.
A1701. Creation of animals by God. India: Thompson-Balys.
A1702. Creation of animals by creator. (Cf. A0.) — Jewish: Neuman.
A1703. Culture hero creates useful animals. S. Am. Indian (Caingang): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 473.
A1704. All animals created in couples. Jewish: Neuman.
A1705. Animals created to serve man. Jewish: Neuman.
A1710. Creation of animals through transformation. (Cf. A1811.1, A1833.2, A1861.1, A1861.2, A1863, A1887). — India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 79, 96, 122f. No. 82; Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 98.
D100. Transformation: man to animal.
A1711. Animals from transformations after deluge or world calamity. S. Am. Indian (Amazon Tribes): Alexander Lat. Am. 311f., Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 367.
A1713. Creator sent for water: Meantime animals assume present forms. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 59.
A60. Marplot at creation. A2286.1.1. Creation of hog incomplete since God has to go to a fire: cause of hog's round snout.
A1714. Animals from various transformed objects. India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 22, 465; Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL 20 171, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 167, 169, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI, 588, (East Greenland): Rasmussen I, 82, 96, (Ungava): Turner RBAE XI 261, (Labrador): Hawks GSCan XIV 155, (Cape York): Rasmussen III 79; S. Am. Indian (Caingang): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 473, (Araucanian): Cooper ibid. (2) 753, (Inca): Rowe ibid. 315, (Cashinawa): Métraux ibid. (3) 684.
A1714.1. Animals from transformed cloth. India: Thompson-Balys.
A1714.2. Animals from bark thrown on ground. Borneo: Dixon 176.
A1252. Creation of man from wood.
A1714.3. Animals created from earth. India: Thompson-Balys.
A1241. Man made from clay (earth).
A1714.3.1. Buffaloes emerge from earth, the first man holding the tail of last one. India: Thompson-Balys.
