Bird scouts sent out from ark — Mythoi

Motif

Bird scouts sent out from ark.

Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · Escape from deluge. · view the constellation · filed as A1021.2

Filed across the traditions

Hebrew Genesis 8:7ff., Neuman
Babylonian Spence 176.
general *Dh I 283. 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 Pairs of animals in ark. Seed of all beings put into ark to escape destruction

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Vulture sent out as scout to see whether earth has cooled from world-fire. (Cf. A1021.2.)

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