Flood as punishment.
Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · Deluge. · view the constellation · filed as A1018
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
- Spanish Exempla Keller. – Jewish: Neuman
- Greek Fox 158
- Babylonian Spence 45f.
- India Thompson-Balys
- Buddhist myth Malalasekera 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
Filed beside it
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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