μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Icel.De la Saussaye 352, Boberg
  • Jewish*Neuman. S. Am. Indian (Bakairi): Lévi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 347, (Namicuara): Lévi-Strauss ibid. 369.
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.

9 finer motifs beneath it
New race from single pair (or several) after world calamity. (Cf. A1038, A1045.)New race from incest after world calamityNew race made of red earth after world calamityNew race from union of girl and ratIreland repopulated by persons who escape floodIreland, waste for centuries after flood, is repopulated by immigrantsWhole tribe descended from lone woman-survivor of doomed cityOne bear-child escapes death, is ancestor of all bearsAfter world-fire life recreated from tree
Filed beside it
Series of world catastrophesDoomsday. Catastrophes precede the Day of JudgmentCalamity as punishment for sinPreservation of life during world calamity. (Cf. A1020, A1038, A1045.)World calamity will begin in PalestineWorld catastrophes – miscellaneous
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New race from seeds thrown over head after deluge. (Cf. A1245.1., A1006.)

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