Rain from tears.
Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Establishment of present order: weather phenomena. · view the constellation · filed as A1131.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XXIXXI. Tabooed Things
- GreekThe Iliad, Book 16
- IrishGods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, Ch. 23CHAPTER XV. LAEGAIRE IN THE HAPPY PLAIN
- Greco-RomanThe Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book 14
- Vedic (Indian / Sanskrit)The Hymns of the Rigveda, 1.39
Scholars’ trail — 4references
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.
- JewishNeuman
- EkoiTalbot 344
- KaskaTeit JAFL XXX 448
- MaoriClark 19.