A. Mythological Motifs
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A111. Parents of the gods. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 171.
A111.1. Mother of the gods (cf. A116.2). **Showerman; Smith Dragon viii; *Holmberg Baum 84ff. — Babylonian: Spence 123ff.; Hindu: Penzer I 270ff., 276, VII 231; India: Thompson-Balys; Hittite: Garstang The Hittite Empire 305ff.; Gaster Thespis 179. — Oceanic: Beckwith Myth 294; So. Am. Indian (Apapocuvú-Guarani): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 122.
A485.1. Goddess of war.
A111.2. Father of the gods. Icel.: Boberg.
A111.3. Ancestor of the gods. Tahiti: Henry 336.
A111.3.0.1. God of double sex carries within him seed of gods. Greek: Grote I 16.
A12. Hermaphroditic creator.
A111.3.1. God dwells with his grandfathers. Marquesas: Handy 106.
A31. Creator's grandmother.
A111.3.2. Sea creatures as ancestors of goddess. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/600).
A111.3.3. Great bird as ancestor of gods. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 92.
A112. Birth of gods. India: Thompson-Balys.
T541.4. Birth from head.
A112.1. God from incestuous union. Krappe The Review of Religion (1941); India: Thompson-Balys.
T410. Incest.
A112.1.1. God from father-daughter incest. Adonis. Greek: Spence 132. — Icel.: Boberg.
A112.1.1.1. Goddess of music and dance born of incestuous union (Brahma and daughter). India: Thompson-Balys.
A112.2. Male and female creators beget gods. Japanese: Anesaki 223.
A112.3. Gods born from various parts of creator's body. Japanese: Anesaki 224.
A112.4. God as son of giant. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 139 (Loki), 324 (Odin, Vili, and Ve), Boberg.
A112.4.1. God as son of giantess. Icel.: Boberg.
A112.4.2. Goddess as daughter of giant. Icel.: Boberg.
A112.5. God as son of nine giantesses. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 153 (Heimdall).
T541.12. Birth from nine mothers.
A112.6. Gods as sons of supreme god. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 61. — Tahiti: Henry 147.
A112.7. God born from peculiar part of parent's body.
A161.5. Eldest god born in front, younger at back.
A112.7.1. God born from mother's ear. Marquesas: Handy 107.
A112.7.2. God born from mother's armpit. Marquesas: Handy 107.
A112.7.3. Goddess born from mother's eyes. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 186.
