progenitorship

Updated: June 16, 2025

Here we may leave the subject of the taboo. Something, however, must be said on the Swan-maiden as divine ancestress. But first of all, let me advert to one or two cases where divinity is ascribed without progenitorship. The Maori heroine and her husband are worshipped.

Edwin Sidney Hartland - The Science of Fairy Tales: An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology