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The Greek witness makes the local deluge a god's tantrum with surveying attached. Beaten in the arbitration for Attica — "the country was adjudged to Athena" — "Poseidon in hot anger flooded the Thriasian plain and laid Attica under the sea" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIV]. Frazer's notes multiply the pattern on the same page: losing Argos to Hera, the god "took his revenge, as in Attica, by flooding the country" [ibid., editor's note]; and the geography is pinned down — "The Thriasian plain is the plain in which Kleusis stands", OCR wart and all [ibid., editor's note]. Even the world-flood turns local here: the Attic king-list uses it as a date — in Cranaus's reign "the flood in the age of Deucalion is said to have taken place" [ibid.] — and Frazer's note has the Parian Chronicle confine that flood to Parnassus country, Deucalion fleeing "for safety to king Cranaus at Athens" [ibid., editor's note]. The world-scale telling itself is served two books earlier, where Zeus "flooded the greater part of Greece" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. VII]. Scale is the whole difference between the two addresses: A1010's flood erases a race; A1011's punishes a district and enters the annals as a date.

Witnesses: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIV · The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. VII

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Filed under Deluge. Inundation of whole world or section.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Flood partially caused by breaking forth of springsFlood caused by rising of riverGod's promise never to destroy world by water does not apply to local floods
Filed beside it
Sun and moon do not shine during delugeGreat flood lasts eight monthsFlood from fluids of the bodyFlood from belly. It flows from pierced belly of monsterFlood caused by gods or other superior beings. (Cf. A1018.)Pseudo-scientific explanations of the floodFlood caused to satisfy emotional needFlood as punishmentDeluge – miscellaneous
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Determination of seasonsPlant characteristics from tears. (Cf. A2755.3.1, A2755.3.2.)Origin of amber in poplar trees. (Cf. A2731.2.)Origin of gum in myrrh tree. (Cf. A2731.2.)Transformation: man to nightingaleSea produced by magicCecrops. Body compounded of man and serpentMan marries his aunt (mother's sister)Birth from semen thrown on ground

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