Origin of falls (cataracts) — Mythoi

Motif

Origin of falls (cataracts).

Mythological motifs. · Topographical features of the earth. · Water features. · Origin of streams. · view the constellation · filed as A935

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross. – Malecite: Speck JAFL XXX 480
S. Am. Indian (Chibcha) Kroeber BBAE CXLIII (2) 908
general African (Upoto): Einstein 135.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of streams.

Filed beside 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 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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