Rain from container in sky

Motif

Rain from container in sky.

Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Establishment of present order: weather phenomena. · view the constellation · filed as A1131.4

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Eskimo (Ungava)Turner RBAE XI 266, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 153, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 600, (East Greenland): Holm 95
general Gaster Thespis 192
general S. Am. Indian (Chamacoco, Ashluslay): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 366.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of rain.

1 finer motif beneath it

Rain kept in waterskin dragged along sky floor

Filed beside it

Regulation of rains Why it rains most in the hills Rain from tears Rainy weather sent by saint as punishment Rain from sea in upper world Rain from rain-god (rain spirit)Rain shed by stars

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