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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
A18. Pictorial representations of creator.
A137. Pictorial representations of gods.
A18.1. Creator with dragon's head. Chinese: Werner 77.
A18.2. Creator with two horns on head. Chinese: Werner 76.
A131.6. Horned god. F545.2.2. Horns on forehead.
A18.3. Dwarfish creator. Chinese: Werner 76.
A18.4. Creator clothed in bear-skin (or in leaves). Chinese: Werner 76.
A18.5. Creator with hammer and chisel in hands. Chinese: Werner 76.
A137.1. God with hammer.
A18.6. Creator with sun and moon in hands. Chinese: Werner 76.
A19. Nature of creator — miscellaneous.
A19.1. Sun and moon (man and wife) as creators. So. Am. Indian: (Cashibo) Steward-Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 594.
A19.2. Creator with appearance of Negro. Africa (Luba): Danohugh V 180.
A20. Origin of the creator.
A21. Creator from above.
A21.1. 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. — *Iroquois: Thompson Tales n. 27. — Cf. Finnish: Kalovala rune 1.
A21.2. 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. — Ekoi: Talbot 366.
A22. Creator comes out of chaos. Chinese: Werner 76, Ferguson 57.
A23. Creator offspring of dual powers of nature. (Male and female principles.) — Chinese: Werner 76.
A25. Creator from below. God rises from beneath (the center of the spiritual world) and creates the world. — Hottentot: Bleek 74 No. 35.
A25.1. Creator emerges from lake. So. Am. Indian (Chibcha): Kroeber BBAE CXLIII (2) 908, (Aymara): Tschopik BBAE CXLIII (2) 570.
A26. Creator comes from certain direction.
A26.1. Creator comes from east. Africa (Luba): Donahugh V 80.
A27. Creator born from egg. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 98f.
A114.2. God born from egg.
A30. Creator's companions. Inca: Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 315; Tahiti: Henry 342; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 45.
A31. Creator's grandmother. Casually mentioned in the course of the creation myth. — American Indian: *Thompson Tales 275 n. 13.
A32. Creator's family. (Cf. A7.)
A32.1. Creator's son. India: Thompson-Balys. — So. Am. Indian: (Chibcha): Kroeber BBAE CXLIII (2) 908.
