Re: Some Ideas for Nostratic Mythology... 2) Earth was created by B

From: John Croft
Message: 3825
Date: 2000-09-18

João wrote:
> This legends have not necessarily to be fitted in Nostratic
mythology. I use
> Nostratic because it's usually considered to be the ancestor of
PIE.
It can
> be any other people older than PIE. Personally, I think a legend of
birds
> picking mud from sea bottom, is more likely to be from islanders.

Yes, it is widely found amongst Polynesian and Austronesian myth.

John