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Motif

Deluge: escape in boat (ark).

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icel. MacCulloch Eddic 324, Boberg
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Greek Fox 19, Grote I 93
  • Hebrew Genesis, ch. 6, 7, 8
  • Jewish Moreno Esdras
  • Babylonian Spence 173f.
  • Hindu Keith 99
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 1056
  • Chinese Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 84
  • Siberian Holmberg Siberian 364. – Pelew Is. (Micronesia): Dixon 257
  • Maori Beckwith Myth 316. – American Indian: *Thompson CColl II 452, (Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 637f., (Carrier): Jenness JAFL XLVII 141ff., (Chipewyan): Lowie PaAM X 195, (Coos): Frachtenberg CU I 45–49, (Kathlamet): Boas BBAE XXVI 23, (Nootka): Sapir JAFL XXXII 353ff., (Chimariko): Dixon UCal. V 304, (Salishan): Teit MAFLS XI 13, 132
  • general *Dh I 258ff. – Irish myth: Cross
  • general (Crow): Lowie paAM XXV 16, (Cochiti): Benedict BBAE XCVIII 2ff., (White Mountain Apache): Goodwin MAFLS XXXIII 50ff., (Ojibwa): Radin JAFL XLI 70ff., (Choctaw): Bushnell AA n. s. XII 528f., (Shawnee): Spencer JAFL XXII 319, (Natchez): Swanton BBAE LXXXVIII 121, 214, (Aztec): Alexander Lat. Am. 85f., (Arawak): ibid 273, (Carib): ibid. 39, (Mbaya): Muller Anthropos XXIX, (Mura): Nimuendajú BBAE CXLIII (3) 265, (Taulipang): Camara Cascudo Antologia de Folclore Brasileira 124ff. (These are only a selection of the American Indian references).
Within the index

Filed under Escape from deluge.

8 finer motifs beneath 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 Bird scouts sent out from ark
Filed beside it
Escape from deluge on mountain Escape from deluge on tree Escape from deluge in cave Escape from deluge on island Escape from deluge on foot Rescue from deluge by fish Bringing deluge to end Escape from deluge – miscellaneous
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