Creation of man from earth (Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before, 1884)

Type: a quote
Sub-type: mythology (c. 1884)
Relevance: Genesis - the Beginning
Text: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Genesis 2:7

[...] [According to the islanders of Nui or Netherland islandThe god Aulialia made earth models of a man and a woman, and on raising them up they became alive. He called the man Tepapa and the woman Tetata. [...]
Turner, George, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before, London: Macmillan and Co., 1884, pp. 300-301.


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