Serpent king causes flood by damming rivers — Mythoi

Motif

Serpent king causes flood by damming rivers.

Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · Deluge. · view the constellation · filed as A1019.2

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Deluge – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Subsidence of earth beneath flood Flood because earth has become too thickly populated Flood puts out world-fire. (Cf. A1030.)

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