Great flood lasts eight months — Mythoi

Motif

Great flood lasts eight months.

Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · Deluge. · view the constellation · filed as A1010.2

Filed across the traditions

Maori Beckwith Myth 316.

Within the index

Filed under Deluge. Inundation of whole world or section.

Filed beside it

Sun and moon do not shine during deluge Local deluges Flood from fluids of the body Flood from belly. It flows from pierced belly of monster Flood caused by gods or other superior beings. (Cf. A1018.) Pseudo-scientific explanations of the flood Flood caused to satisfy emotional need Flood as punishment Deluge – miscellaneous

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