Motif
dangerous play with storm powers causing flood and death
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A motif of the Flood, Fire, and Cosmic Renewal family, within the sub-family Floodwaters, Deluge, and Flood Damage. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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zuni
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Zuni Folk Tales THE MAIDEN OF THE YELLOW ROCKS / THE FOSTER-CHILD OF THE DEER / THE BOY HUNTER WHO NEVER SACRIFICED TO THE DEER HE HAD SLAIN: / OR THE ORIGIN OF THE SOCIETY OF RATTLESNAKES; lines 5380-5481 confidence: high
The brothers barricade themselves; the younger lets go the lightning-shaft and the elder rolls the thunder-stone, producing lightning and rumbling that shakes the mountain.
Repeated use of the lightning-shaft and thunder-stone leads to wind, rain, rising floodwater, extinguished fire, and the grandmother’s drowning.
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