μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • Spanish ExemplaKeller. – Jewish: Neuman
  • GreekFox 158
  • BabylonianSpence 45f.
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 1056. – Society Is.: Dixon 39 n. 120
  • N. Am. Indian (Calif.)Gayton and Newman 59, (Pomo): Angelo JAFL XLVI 241, (Wishosk): Kroeber JAFL XVIII 96, (Apache): Goddard PaAM XXIV 8, (Hopi): Voth FM VIII 53, (Zuñi): Benedict Zuñi Mythology I 10ff.
  • S. Am. Indian (Chaco)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 369, (Cubeo): Goldman JAFL LIII 244, (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 29, (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 315. – See also references to "Sintflut" in A1010 and A1015, where in nearly all cases the gods produce the flood as punishment.
  • general *Frazer Old Testament I 144–360
  • general Hawaiian, Maori, Marquesas: ibid. 40
  • general Caribbean (Cuan): Stewart BBAE CXLIII (4) 267
Within the index

Filed under Deluge. Inundation of whole world or section.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Flood as punishment for breaking tabuFlood as punishment for incestFlood brought as revenge for injury
Filed beside it
Sun and moon do not shine during delugeGreat flood lasts eight monthsLocal delugesFlood 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 needDeluge – miscellaneous
Travels with
Flood caused by gods or other superior beings. (Cf. A1018.)

wander