The Fire Theft Theme

The hero, the fire theft theme with a usually with a relay race after it. Often it's blue jay or woodpecker or something like this that steals the fire and then passes it on to another animal. That accounts for the different colorings of animals and so forth. It's a worldwide myth, the fire stole. Do these stories of the hero vary from culture to culture? Well it's the degree of the illumination that our action that they seem different.