Making mountains out of flat earth causes flood — Mythoi

Motif

Making mountains out of flat earth causes flood.

Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · Deluge. · view the constellation · filed as A1016.5

Cited in the index

general N. Am. Indian (Apache): Goddard PaAM XXIV 28f.

Within the index

Filed under Pseudo-scientific explanations of the flood.

Filed beside it

Flood from animals' boring into ground (turtles, crawfishes, etc.) Deluge produced by hot liquid which burns as it floods Flood caused by melting of ice after great spell of cold Flood from broken calabashes of water Moon falls into sea and causes flood by overflowing Flood whenever shard at earth's core moves

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