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Deluge – miscellaneous.

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

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Filed under Deluge. Inundation of whole world or section.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Subsidence of earth beneath flood Serpent king causes flood by damming rivers Flood because earth has become too thickly populated Flood puts out world-fire. (Cf. A1030.)
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Sun and moon do not shine during deluge Great flood lasts eight months Local deluges Flood from fluids of the body Flood from belly. It flows from pierced belly of monster Flood caused by gods or other superior beings. (Cf. A1018.) Pseudo-scientific explanations of the flood Flood caused to satisfy emotional need Flood as punishment

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