μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Rain invoked to destroy world-fireCreator puts out world-fire with his staff
Filed beside it
Causes of world-fireEarth recreated after world-fireMen hide from world-fire and renew race. (Cf. A1006.1., A1045.)World-fire – miscellaneous

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