Origin of clouds

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Origin of clouds.

Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Establishment of present order: weather phenomena. · view the constellation · filed as A1133

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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
MaoriClark 19
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 97
Eskimo (Labrador)Hawkes GSCan XIV 79
S. Am. Indian (Chamacoco)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 366.

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Filed under Establishment of present order: weather phenomena.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Origin of clouds from Ymir's brain Origin of clouds: creator ornaments the sky with clouds so that the mountains are sometimes shaded Clouds as smoke rising to sky Clouds as God's shield

Filed beside it

Angels set over clouds, winds, and rains Origin of storms in sixth heaven Origin of rain Origin of dew Origin of mist (fog)Origin of wintry weather Causes of hot weather: God bores hole in hell Origin of lightning Origin of thunder Cause of earthquakes Origin of stormy sky Origin of tornado sunsets; i.e., peculiar sunsets foreboding tornadoes

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