Motif
stone-born or stone-named descendants
stone_born_or_stone_named_descendants
A motif of the Miraculous Child and Sacred Birth family, within the sub-family Earthborn, Stoneborn, and Dragon-Tooth Warriors. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1712-1812 confidence: medium
The note says the Peneus was stopped, rain overflowed Thessaly, and Deucalion with some subjects fled to Mount Parnassus until the waters abated; it also explains the poet’s stones as children of the preserved and cites possible word meanings for stone, child, or people.
The explanation identifies the poet’s stones with children of those preserved and discusses words meaning stone, child, or people.
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