Flood puts out world-fire. (Cf. A1030.)

Motif

Flood puts out world-fire. (Cf. A1030.)

Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · Deluge. · view the constellation · filed as A1019.4

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

S. Am. Indian (Tupinamba)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 133, (Tucuna): Nimuendajá ibid. 724, (Cubeo): Goldman JAFL LIII 244.

Within the index

Filed under Deluge – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Subsidence of earth beneath flood Serpent king causes flood by damming rivers Flood because earth has become too thickly populated

Travels with

World-fire. A conflagration destroys the earth. Sometimes (as with the flood legends) the tradition is somewhat local and does not refer to an actual destruction of the whole earth; sometimes the fire marks the end of the world

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