Earth recreated after world-fire

Motif

Earth recreated after world-fire.

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

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

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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