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Anthropos, 29.1934

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Titel:: Anthropos

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Erscheinungsjahr:: 1906

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Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Titel:: Anthropos, 29.1934

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1933

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Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 29, H. 5./6., Sep. - Dec., 1934

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The Frog in Indian Mythology and Imaginative World. 613 The Frog in Indian Mythology and Imaginative World. By Henry Wassén, Gothenburg. In a previous work (“Anthropos”, XXIX [1934], pp. 319—370) I have treated the appearance of the frog-motive among the South-American Indians mainly from the point of view of its significance in ornamental art. In this I have stressed the surprisingly intensive treatment of this animal motive in earthen ware, &c., within certain territories in South America, such as Colombia and the Santarem, and Diaguita-Calchaqui territories. The present treatise should be considered as a continuation of this study although I have not in this case as severely confined myself to South America but have also, whenever it seemed possible, treated statements from the Indians in Central- and North America. If we examine the roll of the frog in Indian tales and myths, in certain customs and habits, or the Indian imaginative world as a whole we find that the material may be divided into definite groups according to the part which the frog plays in the respective cases. Thus the frog is associated with rain- and fertility concepts; it appears in Indian firemyths, and in their astral mythology; it plays a roll in Indian magic, &c. It is therefore natural to collect the varying motives in groups, wherebye, however, a certain diffi culty may arise in deciding to which group a certain tale or motive had better be assigned, since several features characteristic for the frog-portrayal may be combined in the same tradition. The material here treated may, however, conveniently be divided into the following seven groups, of which the first through the “material” character to a certain degree stands apart as compared with the others: 1. Positive and negative statements about the frogs as a source of food. 2. Use of the poisonous exudate of the frog, and the conception of the animal as venomous, for instance in magic. 3. Conceptions based on the frog’s croaking. 4. The frog in rain- and fertility concepts. 5. The frog-motive in Indian astral mythology. 6. The frog in Indian firemyths. 7. The frog as a totem animal. In conclusion I have attempted to point out that association between the appearance of this motive in art and in mythology which it seems possible to me to prove. Anthropos XXIX. 1934. I

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