Origin of streams

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Origin of streams.

Mythological motifs. · Topographical features of the earth. · Water features. · Origin of streams. · view the constellation · filed as A930

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Irish mythCross
IndiaThompson-Balys.

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7 finer motifs beneath it

Creator of rivers Meander-pursuit. (Cf. A901.) – A fugitive's doublings cause a river's windings River from urine of goddess (giantess)Various origins of rivers Origin of falls (cataracts)Why there is no mist on a certain river: fanned away with a pair of eagle's wings Rivers and streams offspring of marriage of Ocean and his sister

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