Causes of world-fire — Mythoi

Motif

Causes of world-fire.

Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · World-fire. · view the constellation · filed as A1031

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section CCXXXV
Japanese / ShintoKojiki: Records of Ancient Matters, Introduction
Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages), The Seventh Dictum
Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, Tract 15: The New Chemical Light, Part II, Concerning Sulphur (Michael Sendivogius)
Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter XI

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Filed under 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.

6 finer motifs beneath it

A "flame of fire swifter than a blast of wind" as punishment for the sin of the Irish World-fire after theft of fire Evil demons set world on fire Fall of sun causes world-fire World-fire because of man's arrogance Miscellaneous reasons for world-fire

Filed beside it

Quenching the world-fire Earth recreated after world-fire Men hide from world-fire and renew race. (Cf. A1006.1., A1045.)World-fire – miscellaneous