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Origin of thunder.

Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Establishment of present order: weather phenomena. · view the constellation · filed as A1142

Filed across the traditions
  • Flemish DeMeyer FFC XXXVII 82 No. 9a.
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Jewish Neuman. 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 thunderbolt Creator's (deity's) voice makes thunder Thunder from flying dragon Persons escape to sky and become thunder Origin of thunder clouds: from wings of mountains Thunder is sound of God's gun Cause of thunder: sounds of the horses' hoofs as gods play ball Thunder from deity separating the winds which try to unite Thunder is noise of waterskin which rain-god drags along sky floor Thunder made by giants in sky
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 lightning Cause of earthquakes Origin of stormy sky Origin of tornado sunsets; i.e., peculiar sunsets foreboding tornadoes

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