Motif
Prayer for weather to overcome fire
prayer_for_weather_to_overcome_fire
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Rescue and Protection. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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finnish karelian
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Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 15089-15274 confidence: high
After continuing, the charger again stops; Lemminkainen sees a vast fire-gulf across the path, extending east and west and filled with burning stones, pebbles, and streams of burning matter.
At the fire-gulf, Lemminkainen invokes Ukko to assemble storm-clouds and send a great snowfall onto the flames.
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