ingerminated by a wonderful light which was seen to shine on the tree before it began to swell.[1]
6. S. is born of F. M. No apparent likeness between parents and offspring. Its epithets explain its nature.
A swelling on the neck, with the epithets 'horror of the earth' and 'Lempo's whore', is the offspring of Mist both on the father's and mother's side (36). A stone, the son of Kimmo Kammo and his wife, is termed 'the heart's-core of an ogress', 'a slice of Mammotar's liver', 'the spleen of a ploughed field', 'the liver of dry land' (50a). Another version (50b) is too obscure to classify, but appears to refer to a reddish stone of supposed meteoric origin, like the 'Herrgottsteine' of the Swabians.
8. S. or L. S. originated, generated, made from O. Some sort of likeness, often very slight, is found between them. (No appropriate narrative.)
For instance, the likeness between a wasp's sting and a hair suggested the origin of the wasp from a woman's hair (19). The viper, when thought of with regard to length, general shape, and flexibility, originates from a stony thread spun by the Maiden of Night (23a) ; but when pictured as coiled up it is generated from a ring (12b). The resemblance between flakes of rusty iron and scab suggested the idea of deriving the former from the scab formed on a man that had been badly burnt (25d). It is a common incident in folk-tales in many parts of the world that a comb thrown down under certain circumstances becomes an impenetrable forest. So it is not surprising that an oak should spring up from the tooth of a comb that broke off while a dark girl with smooth head was combing her hair (22d). Other examples are Man (1), Toothworm (37a), Cowhouse-snake (41a, b).
Other origin-myths may be brought under this formula, such as the creation of the earth and sky from the lower and upper parts of a broken egg, as described in the old
- ↑ ' Radloff, Das Kudatku Bilik, i, p. 1.
