μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • New GuineaKer 25
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 43.
Within the index

Filed under Establishment of present order: waters.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Why the sea is salt: because of wrecked salt shipWhy the sea is salt: magic salt mill. Stolen by sea-captain, who takes it aboard and orders it to grind. It will stop only for its master; ship sinks and mill keeps grinding saltWhy the sea is salt: heavy rain showers on ashes of wood burnt by primeval fire
Filed beside it
Impounded water. Water is kept by monster so that mankind cannot use it. A hero defeats the monster and releases the water. (The monster is sometimes a giant frog.)God promises never again to destroy world by waterOrigin of sea-wavesOrigin of foam on watersOrigin of swirling motion of water. Animals and birds scratch in itEstablishment of present order: waters – miscellaneous

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