Origin of falls (cataracts)

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Origin of falls (cataracts).

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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

FinnishThe Kalevala, Rune XXVI
North American IndigenousMyths of the Cherokee, Miscellaneous Myths and Legends — Myth 126126. PLANT LORE
FinnishThe Kalevala, Rune IV

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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. – 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.

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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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