Pairs of animals in ark. Seed of all beings put into ark to escape destruction — Mythoi

Motif

Pairs of animals in ark. Seed of all beings put into ark to escape destruction.

Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · Escape from deluge. · view the constellation · filed as A1021.1

Filed across the traditions

Hebrew Genesis 6:19
Babylonian Spence 175
Hindu Keith 147. – Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 85f.
general See references to "Sintflutsage" in A1010
general also Dh I 267ff. – Irish myth: Cross

Within the index

Filed under Deluge: escape in boat (ark).

Filed beside it

Persons excluded from Noah's ark build another ark and sail to Ireland Escape from deluge in wooden cask (drum) Deluge: escape in gourd Deluge: escape on floating tree Deluge: escape in hollow tree trunk Deluge: escape on floating building Bird scouts sent out from ark

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