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

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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

Scholars’ trail — 10references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish myth*Cross
Jewish*Neuman
EgyptianSmith Dragon 111
HinduKeith 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.

Within the index

7 finer motifs beneath it

Series of world catastrophes Doomsday. Catastrophes precede the Day of Judgment Calamity as punishment for sin Preservation of life during world calamity. (Cf. A1020, A1038, A1045.)Renewal of world after world calamity World calamity will begin in Palestine World catastrophes – miscellaneous

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