μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Doomsday. Catastrophes precede the Day of Judgment.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Estonian Loorits Grundzüge I 461ff.
  • Jewish Moreno Esdras , *Neuman
  • Hindu Keith 105
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Moon shining by day as sign of Doomsday. (Cf. A1002.)

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