Doomsday. Catastrophes precede the Day of Judgment

Motif

Doomsday. Catastrophes precede the Day of Judgment.

Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · World catastrophe. · view the constellation · filed as A1002

Scholars’ trail — 7references

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 mythCross
EstonianLoorits Grundzüge I 461ff.
JewishMoreno Esdras , *Neuman
HinduKeith 105
IndiaThompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 279. – pawnee: Alexander N. Am. 116ff. – Cf. Revelations passim.
general *Olrik Ragnarök. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 336ff.

Within the index

Filed under 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.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Widespread calamity when feast of John the Baptist shall fall on certain day Signs before the Day of Judgment

Filed beside it

Series of world catastrophes 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

Travels with

Moon shining by day as sign of Doomsday. (Cf. A1002.)

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