Lightning from fire.
Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Establishment of present order: weather phenomena. · view the constellation · filed as A1141.7
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXIILXII. The Fire-Festivals of Europe
- HawaiianLegends of Maui and Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes, 30HIIAKA'S BATTLE WITH DEMONS
- HawaiianLegends of Maui and Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes, 33HIIAKA AND THE SEACOAST KUPUAS
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section XXV
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CCXL
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.
- general S. Am. Indian (Chorotí, Lengua, Ashluslay): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 366, (Tupinamba): Métraux ibid. (3) 132.