μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

  • FlemishDeMeyer FFC XXXVII 82 No. 9a.
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • JewishNeuman. Cook Group: Dixon 88
  • Eskimo (Cumberland Sound)Boas BAM XV 175, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 153, (Cape York): Rasmussen III 62
  • S. Am. Indian (Cashinawa)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 683f.
  • Africa (Angola)Chatelain 97, (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 113, Liberian: Bundy JAFL XXXII 422f.
  • general *Blinkenberg The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore (Cambridge 1911)
  • general *Saintyves Pierres magiques (Paris 1936)
  • general Nootka: Sapir JAFL XXXII 354
Within the index

Filed under Establishment of present order: weather phenomena.

10 finer motifs beneath it
Origin of thunderboltCreator's (deity's) voice makes thunderThunder from flying dragonPersons escape to sky and become thunderOrigin of thunder clouds: from wings of mountainsThunder is sound of God's gunCause of thunder: sounds of the horses' hoofs as gods play ballThunder from deity separating the winds which try to uniteThunder is noise of waterskin which rain-god drags along sky floorThunder made by giants in sky
Filed beside it
Angels set over clouds, winds, and rainsOrigin of storms in sixth heavenOrigin of rainOrigin of dewOrigin of cloudsOrigin of mist (fog)Origin of wintry weatherCauses of hot weather: God bores hole in hellOrigin of lightningCause of earthquakesOrigin of stormy skyOrigin of tornado sunsets; i.e., peculiar sunsets foreboding tornadoes

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