Origin of lightning

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Origin of lightning.

Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Establishment of present order: weather phenomena. · view the constellation · filed as A1141

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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. Bushman: Bleek and Lloyd 113
Eskimo (Cape York)Rasmussen III 61, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 175, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 600.
general Liberia: Bundy JAFL XXXII 422f.
general Nootka: Sapir JAFL XXXII 354

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Filed under Establishment of present order: weather phenomena.

8 finer motifs beneath it

Lightning as fiery snake Lightning from flashing sword Lightning from heavenly horses striking hoofs against stars Lightning as god's whip Lightning as God's messenger Lightning produced by deity Lightning from fire Origin of lightning – other motifs

Filed beside it

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

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