World catastrophe. The world is destroyed. The incidents are usually the same whether a final destruction is thought of or a destruction which may be overcome by a renewal of the earth

Motif

World catastrophe. The world is destroyed. The incidents are usually the same whether a final destruction is thought of or a destruction which may be overcome by a renewal of the earth.

Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · World catastrophe. · view the constellation · filed as A1000

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Jewish *Neuman
Egyptian Smith Dragon 111
Hindu Keith 105. – S. Am. Indian (Guarani): *Métraux RMLP XXXIII 124.
general **Olrik Ragnarök
general Fb "verden" III 1039ab
general *G. Neckel Studien zu den germanischen Dichtungen vom Weltuntergang (Stzb. d. Heidelberger Akad. d. Wissenschaften 1918)
general **H. Fischer Weltwenden (1928)
general **Henne-am Rhyn Das Jenseits: kulturgeschichtliche Darstellung der Ansichten über .... Weltuntergang (1881)
general **Reitzenstein Weltuntergangsvorstellungen (Kyrkohistoriska Årsskrift [Uppsala 1924]). – Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 336ff.

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7 finer motifs beneath it