Earth recreated after world-fire — Mythoi

Motif

Earth recreated after world-fire.

Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · World-fire. · view the constellation · filed as A1036

Filed across the traditions

S. Am. Indian (Munderucú) Horton BBAE CXLIII (3) 282.

Within the index

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.

Filed beside it

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

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