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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
A70. Creator: miscellaneous motifs.
A71. Creator tries to devour his son, the culture hero. Greek: cf. Roscher II 1540. — Tehuelche (Patagonia): Alexander Lat. Am. 335.
A72. Original creator followed by transformers. These demigods change the original creation into the present forms. — See A900ff. for work of the transformers, with references. — Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 85; So. Am. Indian: *Métraux RMLP XXXIII 122, BBAE CXLIII (3) 437.
A73. Lonely creator. The creator is tired of solitude and therefore inaugurates the creation. — Finnish: Kalevala rune 2. — So. Am. Indian (Yuracare): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 503.
A5. Reason for creation.
A74. Reluctant creator.
A74.1. Creation on condition that Israel accept Tora. Jewish: Neuman.
A74.2. Creator repents of creating certain things. Jewish: Neuman.
A75. Creator as ancestor of heaven and earth. Chinese: Werner 76.
A76. Creator's death. (Cf. A192.) Chinese: Werner 77.
A77. Creator's works survive him. Chinese: Werner 77.
A78. Creator goes to make afterworld. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 59.
A81. Creator goes to sky. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 57.
A84. Creator of animals.
A84.1. Creator of buffaloes. India: Thompson-Balys.
A85. Creation match between goddess-wife, god-husband. India: Thompson-Balys.
A87. Creator drunk from beverage he invents. So. Am. Indian (Guarayú): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 147.
A100—A499. GODS
A100—A199. The gods in general.
A100. Deity.
A0. Creator. A2434.2.2. Why foxes do not live on a certain island: driven out by a god. D42. God in guise of mortal. D42.1. God transformed to giant with three heads and six arms. D1380.3. Head of divinity as protection of land. D1981.1. Magic invisibility of gods. E155.2. Annual resuscitation of a god. F63. Person carried to upper world by god. F251.1. Fairies as descendants of early race of gods. V30.1. The eaten god.
A101. Supreme god. One god chief of all other gods. (Often not worshipped as other gods are.) — Durkheim 274, 409ff.; Leroy La raison primitive 125ff.; Holmberg Gudstron 61ff.; C. Koch Der römische Juppiter. — Semitic: Smith Semites³ 529; Jewish: Neuman; Greek: Fox 153, *Grote I 57f.; Assyrian: Spence 206ff.; Babylonian: ibid. 199ff.; Hindu: Keith 21f.; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 148, 309; Siberian: Karjalainen FFC XLIV 259, 268ff.; Armenian: Ananikian 11, 14, 37; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 61; Chi-
