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A1185. Wings cut from flying mountains. In beginning mountains have wings. They are cut off by thunderbolt. — Hindu: Penzer VI 3 n. 1; India: Thompson-Balys.
A969.1. Mountains fight each other: cause of their present shape. F750. Extraordinary mountains and valleys.
A1186. Measuring the world. India: Thompson-Balys.
A1187. Creator appoints a chief for each class of created things: Lucifer for demons, Sion for mountains, etc. — Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
A1191. All things receive names. Chinese: Graham; Jewish: Neuman.
A1195. Origin of echo. Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 172.
A1196. Why salt disappeared from forests. S. Am. Indian (Yuracare): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 503.
A1200—A1699. CREATION AND ORDERING OF HUMAN LIFE
A1200—A1299. Creation of man.
A1200. Creation of man. *Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 460 s.v. "Anthropogonie"; *DeCock Volkssage, 146ff.; *Basset RTP XVIII 542 and references to earlier volumes. — Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 34 No. 6; Jewish: *Neuman; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 371ff. — N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 283 n. 49, (Calif.): Gayton and Newman 94; Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XI 338, (N. Alaska and Mackenzie River): Jenness 80, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 152, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 167; Quiché: Alexander Lat. Am. 163.
A1614.3. Dark and light-skinned peoples made from dark and light coconuts. D2178.6. People created by magic.
A1201. Man created to rule the earth. Africa (Fang): Trilles 131.
A1205. Unacceptable gods as first inhabitants of earth. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 60.
A1210. Creation of man by creator. *Dh I 89. — Irish myth: Cross; Greek: *Grote I 71; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3030; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 81. — Maori: Dixon 23, 26; Easter Is.: Metraux Ethnology 312; Hawaiian, Tahitan: Dixon 26; Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 92; S. Am. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 684, (Tucuna): Nimuendajú ibid. 724; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 105, (Ibo of Nigeria): Basden 282, (Ekoi): Talbot 373.
A0. Creator. A141.1. God makes automata and vivifies them. A1614.5. Negroes made from left-over scraps at creation. G312.5. Fierce flesh-eating creatures made by creator in fit of anger.
A1211. Man made from creator's body. India: Thompson-Balys.
A614. Universe from parts of creator's body.
A1211.0.1. Man springs into existence from deity's body by his mere thinking. India: Thompson-Balys.
A1211.1. Man from dirt mixed with creator's blood. Eitrem Opferritus und Voropfer der Griechen und Römer (Skrifter Akad. Oslo 1914 No. I 426). — Gaster Oldest Stories 69; Babylonian: Spence 81. — New Britain: Dixon 107 (figures drawn on ground and sprinkled with creator's blood).
