Motif
Species origin from dismembered giant body
species_origin_from_dismembered_giant_body
A motif of the Primordial Sacrifice and Dismemberment family, within the sub-family Beings and Species from a Primordial Body. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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zuni
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Zuni Folk Tales HOW THE CORN-PESTS WERE ENSNARED / JACK-RABBIT AND COTTONTAIL / THE RABBIT HUNTRESS AND HER ADVENTURES / THE UGLY WILD BOY WHO DROVE THE BEAR AWAY FROM SOUTHEASTERN MESA; lines 10411-10517 confidence: high
The people heap dry firewood, drill fire from a stick, throw Old Tarantula into the flames, and he swells, bursts, and has his carcass fragments cast to the uttermost parts of the earth, where the parts take shape as beings like him.
Old Tarantula bursts in the fire; fragments of his carcass are scattered to the ends of the earth, take shape as tarantula-like beings, and explain the present small tarantulas found throughout the world.
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