Motif
Survivor Pair
survivor_pair
A motif of the Flood, Fire, and Cosmic Renewal family, within the sub-family Survivor Pairs, Lineages, Repeopling, and Refounding. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
254 occurrences
51 traditions
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native american northwest coast
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Chinook Texts Chinook Texts; lines 572-656 confidence: high
Blue-Jay urges the people to leave; the siblings return from hunting to find no people or houses, and the sister says she does not know who caused her pregnancy except that she swallowed water in mist.
A brother and sister are deserted by their people, find hidden fire, build shelter, and continue living together.
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Ethnology of the Kwakiutl, Part 2 F.UULY HISTORIKS / SOXGS / AIIDF.TCDA 1339 / ADDKNI.A 1363; lines 14643-14750 confidence: medium
The wounded woman and Hankwaso^gwi^lak"'s wife sing sacred songs; Hankwaso^gwi^lak" escapes through the corner of the house into the woods; he and his wife are missed by the shooters, and NEngEmahs's son ^nEmolass is not shot.
Hankwaso^gwi^lak" and his wife are missed by the shooters and survive; the boy is also not shot.
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Ethnology of the Kwakiutl, Part 2 FAMILY HISTORIES / FAMILY HISTORIES / FAMILY HISTORIES / KWKXAOII.A; lines 10767-10879 confidence: high
During famine in Ilada many people die; a young virgin survivor sets out with her clothes to visit her married sister in a distant village, hoping for food.
Two sisters survive famine-stricken villages, meet while seeking or lacking food, and share the younger sister's last small supply of salmon-spawn with berries.
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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect BIG-TAIL. / CLOUD-WATCHER / STORY OF THE HOUSE-POINT FAMILIES / STORIES OF THE PITCH-PEOPLE; lines 14703-14811 confidence: low
Town children play with a woody excrescence and say “Haskwä′”; the chief's niece is first menstruant and sits behind screens.
The menstruant chief's niece is the only person left after the town is emptied, though she is a single survivor rather than a pair.
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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect RAVEN TRAVELING / A-SLENDER-ONE-WHO-WAS-GIVEN-AWAY / THE ONE ABANDONED FOR EATING THE FLIPPER OF A HAIR SEAL / SACRED-ONE-STANDING-AND-MOVING, STONE-RIBS, AND UPWARD; lines 9067-9174 confidence: medium
The Qꜝā′g̣awa-i skin lies in the canoe; Stone-ribs swells to fill it, is speared without harm, captures the skin, opens his mouth for the fishers, lets two go home, releases the rest near shore without skins and with fins, and returns to his mother.
After swallowing the fishing people, Stone-ribs lets two persons go home while carrying off the rest before releasing them near shore.
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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect STORY OF THE HOUSE-POINT FAMILIES / STORIES OF THE PITCH-PEOPLE / HOW ONE WAS HELPED BY A LITTLE WOLF / STORY OF THE TWO TOWNS THAT STOOD ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF NASS RIVER; lines 15248-15364 confidence: high
After the head is reported, people run there, fighting begins, the town associated with the unfaithful wife is destroyed, and the town is burned.
After the fight and burning, the passage states that only the woman and her mother were saved.
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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect SUPERNATURAL-BEING-WHO-WENT-NAKED / HE-WHO-GOT-SUPERNATURAL-POWER-FROM-HIS-LITTLE-FINGER / THE STORY OF HIM WHOSE SISTER BROUGHT HIM FOOD FROM THE LAND OTTERS / HOW SOMETHING PULLED A ROW OF EAGLES INTO THE WATER; lines 12498-12532 confidence: medium
The young man puts on the tʼᴇn bird skin and flies back to the deserted village; only his two younger sisters remain, and they catch him with a noose made from their hair while he permits it.
Only two younger sisters remain after the village has been killed; they make a hair noose and catch the returned bird, who is their brother.
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The Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians BOAS, THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE BELLA COOLA INDIANS. 105 / BOAS, THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE BELLA COOLA INDIANS. 107 / THE GLACIER. / I12 BOAS, THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE BELLA COOLA INDIANS.; lines 6858-6938 confidence: medium
Before dawn she cleans the bear-skin, asks for bone needles, breaks one after another, is told there are no more, growls like a bear, puts on the bear-skin, assumes bear form, kills her mother, and kills all village people except her little sister.
After the village is killed except the little sister, the hunter brother and little sister flee together and use a canyon log to defeat the pursuing bear woman.
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The Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians BOAS, THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE BELLA COOLA INDIANS. 67 / TRADITION OF SATSQ. / TRADITION OF ANOTHER VILLAGE. / BOAS, THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE BELLA COOLA INDIANS. 69; lines 4625-4747 confidence: high
The Sun sends Téqo’mno, his brothers, and sister K-imitga’n; after the Tsimshian desire Nusqa’pts and fight, the brothers are killed except Téqo’mno and K-imitga’n, who go upriver toward the Sun; Bear asks to marry K-imitga’n and is refused.
After the Tsimshian conflict, only Téqo’mno and his sister K-imitga’n are saved from among the siblings.
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The Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians FARRAND, BASKETRY DESIGNS OF THE SALISH INDIANS. 397 / FARRAND, BASKETRY DESIGNS OF THE SALISH INDIANS. 399 / PLATES XXIV-XXVI., / SMITH, ARCHAOLOGY OF THE THOMPSON RIVER REGION, 405; lines 23689-23727 confidence: medium
War-cries followed; about two hundred young warriors attacked, killed the fishing party and underground-house inhabitants, took some young women as slaves, and two Thompsons escaped by swimming across the lake.
Two Thompsons, specifically one man and one woman, escape the massacre by swimming across Nicola Lake.
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / ABSTRACTS OF MYTHS / MYTHS RECORDED IN ENGLISH AT SITKA / FOOTNOTES:; lines 24662-24784 confidence: high
In 'Root-stump,' villagers are carried into the sky by something that drops down, canoe makers disappear, only a woman and daughter remain, the daughter swallows root sap and bears Root-stump, who defeats the abducting thing and the destroyer of the canoe makers.
Only a woman and her daughter remain after the village people are carried off and canoe makers disappear.
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 10547-10649 confidence: medium
In Tāˊsna, smallpox kills everyone except a woman and her son; the mother weeps, and the boy goes hunting to get away from her grief.
The village dies of smallpox except for one woman and her son.
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 14189-14318 confidence: high
In a single year no one remains in the town except a woman and her daughter; the woman takes her daughter away and asks who will marry her.
After a year of disappearances, only two people remain in the town: a woman and her daughter.
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 21701-21821 confidence: medium
The embedded narrative begins with people killing one another at Gîtǃîḱc until only one chief is saved with his sister and niece; the chief seeks someone who can tell him what to do and eventually chooses Old-man-who-knows-all-troubles.
The Gîtǃîḱc people destroy one another, first leaving a chief with his sister and niece, and later the woman and daughter alone save themselves.
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 21823-21956 confidence: high
A woman goes into the woods with her daughter; the two save themselves. The sun’s son marries the daughter, and their children become eight, one of them female.
The woman and her daughter go to the woods, and the passage says that just the two of them saved themselves.
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 2889-2949 confidence: low
In the origin of Iceberg House, a man and wife live at a fort; disease destroys his uncles, fathers, and friends; he decides to give a feast to his dead friends and gathers berries.
A man and his wife remain in the story after disease destroys the man's uncles, fathers, and friends.
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 8843-8926 confidence: medium
The sick woman, with a little child beside her, stays awake and uses her walking stick to strike the child away whenever it approaches her face; the child disappears at daylight.
The sick woman and her baby survive when the rest of the village is found dead, and she departs carrying the baby.
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / MYTHS RECORDED IN ENGLISH AT WRANGELL / FOOTNOTES:; lines 7792-7884 confidence: high
Afterward the husband raised a flood; one man heard of it, made a big canoe, others attached their canoes, and all went up together; he took two animals of each species, a detail called evidently a Christian addition; some say the jealous husband was Loon.
The man takes two animals of each species into his canoe.
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Tsimshian Mythology BOAS J / TSIMSHIAN MYTHS / TSIMSHIAN MYTHS / JJJ J; lines 15778-15894 confidence: high
A young male relative of the chief's wife loves the chief's only daughter; before the Tlingit attack, the chief tells him to take the daughter and flee, and he takes her above K-t!ad Creek.
The chief sends two young people away before Beaver Fort is attacked; after the Tlingit victory, the passage states that no one escaped except these two, who later marry and have ten sons.
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Tsimshian Mythology Tsimshian Mythology / TSIMSHIAN MYTHS / BOAS J; lines 10339-10437 confidence: medium
Only the princess hidden in the hole is saved, and the old woman also hides herself in the ground.
Only Princess Omen in the hole and the old woman hidden in the ground are saved when the village burns.
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Tsimshian Mythology Tsimshian Mythology / TSIMSHIAN MYTHS / BOAS J; lines 8537-8640 confidence: medium
The father orders the great slave to announce the move to Nass River; the tribe leaves the chief's son behind, while the youngest uncle's wife leaves him food, his little slave, arrows, fire, and grease.
The prince and little slave are left after the community departs and continue together by building shelter and obtaining food.
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Tsimshian Mythology Tsimshian Mythology / TSIMSHIAN MYTHS / BOAS J; lines 9654-9751 confidence: high
The prince's wife gives birth while it snows every day; the whole tribe dies, leaving only the prince and his wife, who eat very little dried salmon and soup.
The whole tribe dies during the snowbound famine except the prince and his wife.
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Tsimshian Mythology Tsimshian Mythology / TSIMSHIAN MYTHS / BOAS J; lines 9753-9854 confidence: medium
The next tale begins with a war at G'itslEmga'lon between the GispawadwE'da and the Eagle Clan; the Eagle people are defeated and many are killed.
After the Eagle Clan is nearly destroyed, the chief flees with his young niece across mountains to relatives, where he becomes chief.
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Tsimshian Mythology Tsimshian Mythology / TSIMSHIAN MYTHS; lines 4926-5030 confidence: high
The prince finds his friend, father, and people in the houses dead or eyeless; he finds his sister alive with her child, tells her to leave, meets the lake child dragging the line of eyes, takes the child, and throws away the line.
After the village people and their parents are dead, the prince finds his sister still alive and they leave together.
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Tsimshian Texts Tsimshian Texts; lines 1000-1097 confidence: medium
At Pht'i't', children play noisily. Heaven is annoyed and sends feathers. A strong boy wears them and begins to rise; others cling to him and are lifted until the whole town goes to heaven, leaving only howling dogs.
The young menstruating girl and her little grandmother are apart from the village and remain after the whole town has disappeared.
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Tsimshian Texts Tsimshian Texts; lines 2421-2510 confidence: high
Wa'g'ixs prepares hiding holes for herself and Sqawo; the G'itg'inio'x kill the G'ispawaduwE'da and burn the town; the two emerge after the ashes cool and find no one else alive.
Wa'g'ixs and Sqawo hide during the attack and burning of the town and emerge to find no one else alive.
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Tsimshian Texts Tsimshian Texts; lines 2959-3050 confidence: medium
Noisy children annoy Heaven, who sends feathers that lift them up; only a menstruating girl and grandmother remain, and the girl gives birth to object-person children from items placed in her blanket.
A menstruating girl and her grandmother are the only ones left, and the girl gives birth to children who personify objects placed in her blanket.
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Corpus Poeticum Boreale, Volume 1 FRAGMENTS OF A SPELL SONG. / LAY OF THEODRICK THE GOTH. / BOOK II. / EARLIEST WESTERN POEMS.; lines 7993-8116 confidence: high
After Monster-winter, Lif and Lifthrasi will be hidden in Hoardmimi’s holt, feed on morning dews, and from them a new generation will spring.
Lif and Lifthrasi survive Monster-winter in Hoardmimi’s holt, feed on morning dew, and from them a new generation springs.
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA / CHAPTER IV: THOR; lines 2611-2730 confidence: medium
Thor's first wife is Iarnsaxa, mother of Magni and Modi, who will survive Thor and the twilight of the gods and rule the new world; Sif is his second wife and mother of Lorride and Thrud.
Magni and Modi, sons of Thor and Iarnsaxa, are destined to survive Thor and the twilight of the gods and govern the new world rising after the first.
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CHAPTER XIII: HEIMDALL / CHAPTER XIV: HERMOD / CHAPTER XV: VIDAR / CHAPTER XVI: VALI; lines 6022-6149 confidence: medium
Vali is counted among the twelve deities of Glads-heim, shares Valaskialf with Odin, and is destined to survive the last battle and reign with Vidar over the regenerated earth.
Vali is destined to survive the last battle and twilight of the gods and to reign with Vidar over the regenerated earth.
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS; lines 12224-12362 confidence: high
Lif and Lifthrasir emerge from Hodmimir's forest, where they fled from Surtr's fire, slept safely, were nourished by morning dew, and later possess the regenerated earth for their descendants.
Lif and Lifthrasir survive in Hodmimir's forest and their descendants are to people the regenerated earth.
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS; lines 12224-12362 confidence: high
Lif and Lifthrasir emerge from Hodmimir's forest, where they fled from Surtr's fire, slept through the destruction, were nourished by morning dew, and later take possession of the renewed earth for their descendants.
Lif and Lifthrasir survive in Hodmimir's forest and their descendants are to people the regenerated earth.
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12980-13082 confidence: high
Another interpretation presents Ragnarok and world-submersion as a Northern version of the Deluge; Lif and Lifthrasir survive to repeople the world like Deucalion and Pyrrha, and Gimli receives surviving gods.
Ragnarok is interpreted as a deluge-like submersion, and Lif and Lifthrasir survive to repeople the world like Deucalion and Pyrrha.
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CONTENTS / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING; lines 456-592 confidence: high
Odin, Vili, and Ve join Börr against the frost-giants, slay Ymir, and Ymir's blood creates a deluge; Bergelmir escapes in a boat with his wife.
Ymir's blood produces a deluge that drowns his race except Bergelmir, who escapes in a boat with his wife and becomes progenitor of a new frost-giant race.
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CONTENTS / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING; lines 456-592 confidence: high
Giants wage war against Buri and Börr; Börr marries Bestla; Odin, Vili, and Ve slay Ymir; Ymir's blood causes a deluge in which only Bergelmir escapes by boat with his wife.
Ymir's blood makes a deluge that destroys his race, while Bergelmir escapes by boat with his wife and fathers a new race of frost-giants.
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER / CHAPTER XXII: LOKI / CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS; lines 8535-8655 confidence: high
Ymir is slain by the gods; his progeny drown in his blood; Bergelmir and his wife escape to Jötun-heim and become parents of the giant race; giant names are explained.
Only Bergelmir and his wife escape when Ymir's progeny drown in his blood, and they become parents of the giant race.
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER / CHAPTER XXII: LOKI / CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS; lines 8535-8655 confidence: high
Ymir is slain by the gods; his progeny drown in his blood; Bergelmir and his wife escape to Jötun-heim and become ancestors of the giants.
Ymir's blood drowns his progeny, but Bergelmir and his wife alone escape and become parents of the giant race.
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The Poetic Edda INTRODUCTORY NOTE / NOTES / PRONOUNCING INDEX OF PROPER NAMES / PRONOUNCING INDEX; lines 22382-22698 confidence: medium
"Lf, mother of the new race" and "Lf-thras-ir, father of the new race."
The index identifies one figure as mother and another as father of the new race.
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The Poetic Edda NOTES / VAFTHRUTHNISMOL / THE BALLAD OF VAFTHRUTHNIR / INTRODUCTORY NOTE; lines 3168-3429 confidence: high
Asked what of mankind shall live when the mighty winter comes, Vafthruthnir says Lif and Lifthrasir hide in Hoddmimir's wood and have morning dews for meat.
Lif and Lifthrasir are named as the humans who hide in Hoddmimir's wood and live on morning dews when the mighty winter comes.
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The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda H. HALLIDAY SPARLING. / TRANSLATORS' PREFACE. / THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS. / CHAPTER V. Of the Slaying of King Volsung.; lines 1140-1247 confidence: medium
Signy privately tells her father and brothers that Siggeir has drawn together an army no man may meet and urges them to return home, gather power, and later avenge themselves.
After the defeat and killing of the Volsungs, Signy and Sigmund remain active as sister and brother: she saves him from the wolf and later hides and supplies him in the wild wood.
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The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS. / CHAPTER V. Of the Slaying of King Volsung. / CHAPTER VII. Of the Birth of Sinfjotli the Son of Sigmund. / CHAPTER VIII. The Death of King Siggeir and of Signy.; lines 1441-1551 confidence: medium
Sinfjotli drives the sword into the stone, Sigmund grips it from the other side, and together they saw the stone apart, cut through stone and iron, and escape the barrow.
Sigmund and Sinfjotli survive the barrow and hall episode; Sigmund returns to his father's land, expels the occupying king, and becomes ruler.
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The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS. / CHAPTER V. Of the Slaying of King Volsung. / CHAPTER VII. Of the Birth of Sinfjotli the Son of Sigmund. / CHAPTER VIII. The Death of King Siggeir and of Signy.; lines 1799-1912 confidence: high
Lyngi and his brethren gather an army against Sigmund. Sigmund assembles his forces, while Hjordis is taken into the wood with a bondmaid and great wealth.
Hjordis and the bondmaid survive in the wood with wealth while Lyngi believes all Volsung kin are slain.
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The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda CHAPTER III. / OF THE HIGHEST GOD. / CHAPTER IV. / THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.; lines 1147-1280 confidence: high
The sons of Bor slay Ymer; his blood drowns the frost-giants except Bergelmer and his household; Bergelmer and his wife board an ark and later frost-giant races descend from them, with a cited Vafthrudner's Lay stanza.
Ymer's blood drowns the frost-giants except Bergelmer and his household; Bergelmer and his wife survive in an ark and later frost-giant races descend from them.
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The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda CHAPTER XVI. / RAGNAROK. / CHAPTER XVII. / REGENERATION.; lines 3255-3351 confidence: high
Lif and Lifthraser are concealed in Hodmimer’s-holt during Surt’s fire, feed on morning dew, and become ancestors of races that fill the world; the passage notes Holt = grove and cites Elder Edda: Vafthrudner’s Lay, 45.
Lif and Lifthraser are hidden during Surt’s fire, feed on morning dew, and become the source of races that fill the whole world.
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native american plains
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Blackfoot Lodge Tales THE BAD WIFE 49 / THE LOST CHILDREN / THE LOST CHILDREN 5 1 / THE LOST CHILDREN 53; lines 2607-2705 confidence: high
The girl asks for pity, promises quick work and plenty of wood, and the old woman permits her to live and sleep safely for the night.
The girl and her little brother remain together after abandonment, escape the hostile old woman, and later face another order to be left behind.
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Blackfoot Lodge Tales THE LOST CHILDREN 5 1 / THE LOST CHILDREN 53 / THE LOST CHILDREN 57 / THE LOST CHILDREN 59; lines 2856-2968 confidence: high
The sister recounts her suffering, the conduct of the chief and parents, and the kindness of the old woman; the brother feels anger toward the parents and chief and kindness toward the old woman and dog, and decides the bad people should suffer and die.
The boy and his sister are presented as survivors of earlier harm, recall their mistreatment, and act together at the camp before the brother explains how they survived.
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Gros Ventre Myths and Tales CONTENTS. / INTRODUCTION. / MYTHS AND TALES. / ABSTRACTS.; lines 4133-4229 confidence: high
A camp abandons little children; an old woman kills all but a girl and little brother, and the girl survives by bringing the requested wood and water.
A girl and little brother survive after a camp abandons children and an old woman kills the others.
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Gros Ventre Myths and Tales GROS VENTRE MYTHS AND TALES. / CONTENTS. / INTRODUCTION. / MYTHS AND TALES.; lines 2609-2652 confidence: high
The old woman checks that all are asleep, heats her foot in the fire until it is red-hot, and kills children by burning through their throats.
A little girl and her little brother are spared after other children are killed, and the girl later flees with her brother.
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Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians INTRODUCTION. / I. TALES OF THE OLD MAN. / II. STAR MYTHS. / III. RITUALISTIC ORIGINS.; lines 7028-7105 confidence: medium
A girl tells her little brother, who has shown power, to watch the old woman; at night the old woman takes a large knife and begins cutting off children's heads, the brother bites his sister's ear, and the sister begs for their lives and promises to be a slave.
The sister and little brother are spared after the night attack, flee together to the river, cross on the Water-Bull, and reach the vicinity of their people's camp.
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The Assiniboine I. ETHNOLOGY. / II. MYTHOLOGY. / O 7 O / ABSTRACTS OF MYTHS.; lines 13932-14025 confidence: medium
A bead-defecating young man wrongfully accuses girls, children are abandoned, and a cannibal witch kills nearly all; one girl is warned by her little brother, offers service, and is spared.
A girl and little brother survive abandonment and a cannibal witch through warning, service, deception by a skull, and flight.
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The Assiniboine INTRODUCTION. / I. ETHNOLOGY. / II. MYTHOLOGY. / O 7 O; lines 11053-11150 confidence: high
At the beginning of “Snake and Bear-Woman,” the country has burned; only a big Snake is left at first, and he meets a woman who is a bear and says she is the only person left.
The tale states that the whole country was burned and presents Snake and Bear-Woman as the remaining beings who meet and camp together.
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The Assiniboine INTRODUCTION. / I. ETHNOLOGY. / II. MYTHOLOGY. / O 7 O; lines 8198-8255 confidence: high
A hostile tribe attacks about four hundred Stoney lodges at night and kills all except a young girl and her little brother, who hide in a dog-house and then set out to find another Stoney band.
A young girl and her little brother alone survive the destruction of their camp by hiding and then departing together.
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Traditions of the Arapaho CONTENTS. / TRADITIONS OF THE ARAPAHO. / I 12 / ABSTRACTS.; lines 21879-21989 confidence: high
Nih’anqan lures beavers from their dens, kills many with a club, leaves a male and female to return to the dam for increase, roasts the dead beavers, is trapped by cottonwood limbs, loses the meat to Coyote, then burns Coyote’s leg hair and says he will have yellow fur around his legs.
After killing most of the beavers, Nih’anqan leaves only two, male and female, and tells them to return to the dam so their seed may increase.
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Traditions of the Arapaho CONTENTS. / TRADITIONS OF THE ARAPAHO. / I 12 / ABSTRACTS.; lines 23458-23504 confidence: high
In “The Girl who became a Bear,” a girl becomes a bear, attacks the camp, and kills many; two children are left tied to a tree, freed by a dog, pursued by the bear, rise to the sky by means of a ball, and become stars.
Two children left behind are freed by a dog, pursued by the bear, rise to the sky by means of a ball, and turn into stars.
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Traditions of the Arapaho CONTENTS. / TRADITIONS OF THE ARAPAHO. / I 12 / ABSTRACTS.; lines 23949-24014 confidence: high
A blind man kills buffalo while his wife aims, is denied meat, has sight restored by an owl, kills his wife, abandons his children, and the old wolf frees them and sends wolves and coyotes for food.
The opening abstract and “The Deserted Children” both describe children abandoned by people and freed or aided by animal figures.
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After the children use up the meat and follow their father's trail to camp, he calls them unmerciful and orders the camp abandoned and the children tied to poles leaned against trees; the people leave them there.
Two children are tied to poles and left hungry and thirsty; an old wolf, wolves, and coyotes free them, feed them, and take them to shelter.
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Two little children, a brother and sister, insult a chief; he tells the camp to move, carry the tent poles, and take even the dogs so the children will be unable to follow.
A brother and sister are deliberately abandoned, later bound and left to starve, but are freed and survive.
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Nih’ancan kills beavers as they flee toward the dam until only a male and a female remain; he sends them back to their den so their seed may increase.
After killing many beavers, Nih’ancan sends one male and one female back to their den so their seed may increase.
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The people have been gone nearly three years, find only limited buffalo bulls and no cows, become starving, and start home; the children’s father is among them and finds that deer, antelope, elk, and buffalo have disappeared.
The children who were left behind are found alive with stored meat and crops, and their food is sent to the starving returning people.
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Amulius, who had seized his brother’s goods, orders the twins submerged in the river; the water refuses the crime, and the boys are left on dry ground.
Amulius orders the twin boys drowned; the water refuses the crime and the boys are left alive on dry ground.
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Notes mention a fourth reason for the custom, Fabius over Remus' comrades and Quinctilius over Romulus' comrades, and the inquiry into the origins of the names Lupercal and Lupercalia through the early history of Rome's founders.
The notes connect Rome's founders with an infant episode in which the babes are taken from the Palatine and laid in the swollen Tiber's water, with the fate of Rome also mentioned.
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The explanation says Ovid follows a prevailing tradition closely resembling Scripture concerning divine determination to punish the earth by a deluge because human wickedness was great.
The explanatory note discusses a deluge sent for universal corruption and a just figure, Deucalion, whose role is compared to Noah.
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The fable heading says Neptune appeases the waves, commands Triton to sound his shell so sea and rivers retire, and that Deucalion and Pyrrha alone are saved from the deluge.
Deucalion and Pyrrha are said to be the only persons saved; Deucalion says that the mortal race exists in the two of them alone.
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The fable summary says Neptune commands Triton to sound his shell so the waters retire, and that Deucalion and Pyrrha are the only persons saved from the deluge.
The fable says only one man and one woman remain, and Deucalion states that he and Pyrrha are the whole people of the earth and that the mortal race exists in them alone.
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Fable heading: Deucalion and Pyrrha re-people the earth by casting stones behind them according to Themis' prescription.
The heading says Deucalion and Pyrrha re-people the earth, and the prayer asks how the loss of the race may be repaired; the pair's stones become men and women.
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The fable introduction states that Deucalion and Pyrrha re-people the earth by casting stones behind them as prescribed by Themis; they resolve to pray to the deities and go to the waters of Cephisus.
A man and a woman act together after the loss of the race, and humanity is renewed through stones thrown separately by the man and the woman.
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A race noted for impiety appears; Jupiter transforms Lycaon into a wolf and destroys men and animals by a Deluge, except Deucalion and Pyrrha.
A race noted for impiety is destroyed with men and animals by a Deluge, except Deucalion and Pyrrha.
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The blood-born race becomes impious; Jupiter transforms Lycaon into a wolf and destroys humans and animals by deluge, except for Deucalion and Pyrrha, who renew humanity by throwing stones after the waters abate.
Deucalion and Pyrrha survive the deluge and renew the human race by throwing stones behind them.
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Hercules marches into Messenia, makes himself master of Pylos, and Neleus and his children are killed except Nestor, later ruler of Pylos.
Neleus and all his children are said to be killed by Hercules except Nestor, who later reigns in Pylos.
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Lemnos is called Hypsipyle's country; she saved her father Thoas when the other Lemnian women slew the males.
Hypsipyle saves her father Thoas while the other Lemnian women slay the males.
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The immortals say they are divinities, announce deserved punishment for the impious neighborhood, and command the couple to leave for the mountain summit.
The gods announce punishment for the impious neighborhood, instruct the couple to ascend the mountain, and the couple sees the surrounding area sink in a morass while their abode remains.
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The couple tries to kill their single cottage goose for the divine guests; the goose flees toward the gods, who forbid its death and announce punishment for the impious neighborhood while telling the couple to go to the mountain summit.
The couple is told to leave their home and go to the mountain summit; after they climb, the surrounding area sinks into a morass while their own abode remains.
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During the king’s absence the Queen bears a boy with a bright red star; the childless sisters throw him into the water, and a little bird flies up singing of death, God’s word, and a white lily bloom.
The first two boys are thrown into water but are fished out alive and raised by a fisherman and his childless wife.
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As supplies dwindle and no deliverer arrives, Maid Maleen and the waiting-woman use a bread-knife to loosen stones; after three days light enters and the opening permits escape.
Two imprisoned women emerge after seven years and find the kingdom ruined, depopulated, and ravaged by an enemy.
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Old Sanna fetches much water and tells Lina that she intends to boil Fundevogel the next morning while the forester is out hunting.
Lina and Fundevogel pledge not to leave each other, and both flee when Lina reveals the cook’s plan to boil Fundevogel.
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Teutonic Mythology, Volume 2 CEEATION. 573 / CEEATION. 675 / DELUGE, SINFLUT. 577 / DELUGE. 579; lines 6913-7000 confidence: high
One saved pair remains and is made ancestral to Lithuanians; God sends the rainbow as a comforter, it instructs them to leap over the earth's bones, and after nine leaps nine couples arise as founders of the nine tribes. The passage compares this with Deucalion and Pyrrha, the Biblical rainbow, and Hermes, while treating a nutshell/nut-tree connection as speculative.
One saved pair remains in the Lithuanian country and Lithuanians are said to descend from them; Philemon and Baucis are another rescued pair in a partial flood example.
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In the British Triads, the lake of Llion overflows and submerges Britain; all drown except F'wijvan and Dwyvach, who escape in a naked or sailless ship and afterwards repopulate the land.
The Llion lake flood destroys the population except for a surviving pair who escape by ship and afterwards repopulate the land.
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The same ship is named as that of Nevydd nav neivion and carries a male and female of every creature; the oxen of Hu Gadarn drag the a vane or beaver ashore from Llion lake, which has not broken out since.
The ship of Nevydd nav neivion is said to carry a male and female of every creature.
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The author notes accounts in the Eastern Archipelago, Tonga, New Zealand, among Mexicans and Caribs, described as similar and different accounts of creation, the first human pair, a flood and deliverance, and the murder of a brother.
The author notes similar but different accounts in several regions involving creation, the first human pair, a flood and deliverance, and the murder of a brother.
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Apamea coins show an ark on water, a man and woman in it, birds including one with a twig, the pair on firm land with raised hands, and the letters for Noah.
The Apamea coin shows a man and woman in an ark and on land, and Deucalion and Pyrrha are the married pair who survive and generate a new population.
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Odin, Vili, and Ve slay Ymir; his blood drowns all giants except Bergelmir, who escapes with his wife in a luðr, and from them descends the younger race of giants.
Ymir’s blood drowns the giants, except Bergelmir and his wife, who escape in a luðr and found the younger giant race.
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After the deluge Hermes tells Deucalion to throw stones; Deucalion's stones become men and Pyrrha's become women. The passage compares this with Eddic post-flood new creation and cites Matthew 3:9 on children raised from stones.
After the deluge, Deucalion and Pyrrha produce men and women from stones; the passage also says the Edda has new creation after the great flood and discusses a saved remnant after a destructive flood.
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Giselher mortally wounds Wolfhart; Wolfhart throws aside his shield, raises a weapon, and kills Giselher; the passage says each has killed the other and no men of Dietrich remain.
After the deaths of many warriors, the passage states that only Gunther and Hagen remain alive of the goodly train.
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Dietrich wonders how worthy heroes could be slain by the battle-weary strangers and asks whether any strangers live; Hildebrand answers that only Hagen and King Gunther remain.
Hildebrand says that only Hagen and King Gunther remain alive among the strangers.
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Notes on the Eastern Cree and Northern Saulteaux DOCTORS AND MEDICINES. / WAR CUSTOMS. / MORTUARY CUSTOMS. / SOME NOTES ON FOLKLORE.; lines 4213-4321 confidence: medium
Wisagatcak breaks the dam with a pointed juniper stick; the water rises, he makes a log raft, and "took aboard a pair of every kind of animal" while the Big Beaver conjure revenge.
After the dam is broken, water rises, Wisagatcak makes a log raft, takes a pair of every kind of animal aboard, and drifts for two weeks.
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In the Wemishus tale, a Cannibal/Witigo kills a family except for two boys, intends to fatten and eat them, and the older boy sends the younger to find their mother's awl.
Two small brothers alone survive the killing of their family by the Cannibal/Witigo and flee together.
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In 'The Burning of the World,' only a man, his mother, and his sister are saved; the young man hears the earth will burn and marks a large square patch by shooting arrows to the west, east, south, and north.
After the fire only three humans remain: a man, his mother, and his sister.
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A new tale begins: a grandfather and grandson live together as the only people of their tribe left after sorcerers killed all the others.
The new tale begins by stating that a grandfather and grandson are the only people of their tribe left after sorcerers killed the others.
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Bloody feathers reveal the father's death to the boy; the brothers travel west, find the cubs and breasts on a tree, reach the Crow lodge, are denied by their mother, and are hidden by the Crows when the chief orders them killed.
Two brothers are denied by their mother and threatened by the chief, but the Crow household hides them, raises them, and prospers with them.
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The snake eats larger game, encircles the village with its heads near the palisade gate, eats people who come out, leaves only one man and his sister, then goes to the top of a mountain.
After the snake has eaten the people who come out of the palisade gate, only one man and his sister remain.
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The uncle explains that powerful sorcerers far to the west captured all their tribe except the uncle and nephew.
The uncle says powerful western sorcerers captured the tribe, leaving only himself and the nephew.
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The legend of Hodadenon begins with an infant brother and elder sister living alone in a very long lodge, with the only remaining fire at one end.
An infant brother and elder sister live alone after sorcerers caused their numerous relations to perish.
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The two speakers affirm friendship; one says he has come from far away, has no relations, is called Hodadenon and the last one, and says his kin were destroyed on the way to the place of women of evil minds; they agree to go together to obtain tobacco.
Hodadenon is described as the last one with no relations left, and the invocation describes his friend as also having no relations left.
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The grandmother says he must hunt southward and never northward because dangers there may cut them off; she says they are “the only persons of our family who are left from destruction by sorcery.”
The grandmother says she and the boy are the only persons of their family left after destruction by sorcery.
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A face appears through the smoke-hole; the man makes a hole in the bark wall and urges his wife to escape with the baby. A dog later tells her that her husband is killed and urges her to save herself.
The woman escapes with her baby after a dog reports her husband has been killed, hides with the child, and survives to return home.
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A grandfather and grandson live in a forest lodge far from any village because the rest of their tribe was carried away by enemies' sorcery; the grandfather guards the boy from witches and wizards.
Only the grandfather and grandson remain in the passage after the rest of their tribe is carried away through sorcery, and the elder protects the boy from witches and wizards.
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Myths of the Modocs CHARACTERS / MYTHS OF THE MODOCS 97 / MYTHS OF THE MODOCS 99 / MYTHS OF THE MODOCS 101; lines 5401-5511 confidence: high
The next day he takes pounded seeds to the little brother, feeds and pets him, talks with him until night, wraps him in a wildcat skin blanket, and returns home with his old blanket.
The elder boy repeatedly feeds, clothes, equips, and conceals his little brother, who is later hidden with him from Tekewas.
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Wus returns to his body, sprinkles his skin with water, puts it on, goes to the one-legged woman's house, sits across the fire from her, and is fed roots and seeds; they are the only people left in that village.
The passage states that Wus and Natcaktcokaskat are the only people left in that village after Wekompmas' attacks.
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An orphan boy hears the lament over three days and tells his grandmother; she says the man is her brother, tells Goshgoise about the Yaukuls, and knows the boy would try to kill them.
Goshgoise is an orphan living with his grandmother among rocks; the hunter tells him the Yaukuls killed his father and all his people.
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Five Lok brothers and their sister live in a house on a mountain near Klamath Lake; old woman Wus lives not far away with her two nephews, the Kekina brothers.
The two Kekina brothers are orphaned after the Lok brothers killed their parents, and the elder brother fears that answering Lok may cause the Lok brothers to come and kill them.
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A woman and her little grandson live not far from Knekuks; the boy is described as the last one left of her kin.
The passage presents a grandmother and little grandson living together after the boy's father and mother have been killed, and calls the boy the last one left of her kin.
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“Old Limalimaas was a man-eater. He lived among big rocks at one end of a long, swampy flat.”
The old woman and her little grandson remain after Limalimaas has killed the old woman’s kin except the boy.
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The old woman scolds and drives the woman away, then takes the boys out of a hole and warns them not to run around or a bad woman will catch them.
Two brothers are hidden by their grandmother, and the speaking duck says their aunt killed their parents and intends to kill the nephews.
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Traditions of the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia HIS MYTH THE MOON AND HIS YOUNGER SISTER. / ABSTRACTS, / ABSTRACTS. / I. THE COYOTE.; lines 7798-7897 confidence: medium
Men flee a deluge in canoes and are turned into stone; Coyote alone is saved, marries trees, and the flood's recession leaves lakes and streams.
A deluge destroys or transforms people, Coyote alone survives, and the receding water leaves lakes and streams.
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A country fire burns the inhabitants; an old blind woman and a boy escape by taking refuge on a well-beaten trail the fire cannot reach.
In the Wolf Boy story, the old blind woman and boy alone escape the great fire and travel together afterward.
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The country is on fire; the people are burned except for an old blind woman and a boy who take refuge, and the boy intends revenge on those who burned the country.
In the Wolf Boy summary, the old blind woman and the boy are the only people excepted from the burning.
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His wife escaped carrying a little son and traveled on grass-blade tops so he could not track her for a long time; later he found the tracks and she knew it.
The wife escapes carrying her little son and travels on grass-blade tops so that the skeleton cannot track her.
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Prometheus and Pronoia produce Deucalion and Pyrrha, only survivors of the deluge; they have Hellen, ancestor of the Hellenic race, with further descent into Magnesians, Macedonians, Dorians, Ionians, and Aeolians.
Deucalion and Pyrrha are described as the only survivors of the deluge and as parents of Hellen, ancestor of the Hellenic race.
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A fancied connection between words for stone and people refers to stones that Deucalion and Pyrrha transformed into men and women after the Flood.
After the Flood, Deucalion and Pyrrha transform stones into men and women.
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Heracles slays eleven sons of Neleus; Nestor alone escapes because he is staying in Gerenon.
Nestor alone escapes after Heracles slays eleven sons of Neleus.
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Lynceus, the only one of fifty brothers to escape death, came to Lyrcea and raised a beacon as the agreed signal to Hypermnestra that he had escaped Danaus and reached safety; Hypermnestra lit a beacon on Larisa, and the Argives hold an annual beacon festival.
Lynceus, sole survivor of fifty brothers, and Hypermnestra each light beacons as signs of being out of danger, and the Argives hold an annual beacon festival for this reason.
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The host fulfills doom and is driven back; “Thee only and thy spouse shall Ares keep, / And save alive to the Islands of the Blest.”
Ares is said to save only the addressee and his spouse alive to the Islands of the Blest.
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By decree of Zeus, Pyrrha and Deukalion come down from Parnassos, first fix their home, and without marriage-bed make from stones a race to be one folk.
Pyrrha and Deukalion act as a pair after descending from Parnassos and make a race to be one folk from stones.
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Achilles invokes Apollo, Pallas, and Jove and wishes that only he and Patroclus might survive while all Trojans and Greeks perish, so that they alone destroy Troy.
Achilles wishes that all Trojans and Greeks might die except himself and Patroclus, who alone would destroy Troy.
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Deucalion, advised by Prometheus, constructs a provisioned chest and embarks in it with Pyrrha before the flood.
Deucalion and Pyrrha enter a provisioned chest and survive the flood voyage.
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Book I, chapters 7-9 include Prometheus creating men, stealing fire and being nailed to the Caucasus, and Deucalion and Pyrrha being saved from the flood, followed by Deucalion's descendants.
Deucalion and Pyrrha are explicitly said to be saved from the flood.
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After the brides were obtained by lot, Danaus made a feast and gave his daughters daggers; they killed the bridegrooms as they slept except Hypermnestra, who saved Lynceus because he respected her virginity, after which Danaus kept her under guard.
Hypermnestra alone saves Lynceus from the general killing, and Danaus later unites them.
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER I. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 8935-9023 confidence: medium
Tradition says Adam fell on Ceylon and Eve near Joddah; after 200 years Gabriel led Adam to a mountain near Mecca where he found his wife, and they later retired to Ceylon to propagate their species.
Adam and Eve are cast down from paradise, separated for 200 years, reunited with Gabriel's guidance, and then propagate their species.
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19573-19653 confidence: medium
The sentence is executed; the oven pours forth water; Noah is commanded to carry animal pairs, his family except one already condemned, and believers into the ark; few believe with him.
Noah is instructed to carry pairs of every animal species into the ark; notes discuss whether this means one or two pairs.
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19573-19653 confidence: high
“the oven poured forth water” and God tells Noah to carry into the ark animal pairs, family except one under sentence, and believers; few believed with him.
Noah is commanded to carry pairs of every animal species, and the notes discuss one-pair and two-pair interpretations.
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIII. / ENTITLED, THE TRUE BELIEVERS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25890-26000 confidence: high
Noah is commanded to make the ark; when the oven pours forth water, he must take one pair of every animal species and his family except those sentenced to destruction; the unjust will be drowned.
Noah is commanded to carry one pair of every species of animals into the ark.
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIII. / ENTITLED, THE TRUE BELIEVERS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25890-26000 confidence: medium
God orders Noah to make the ark; when the oven boils and pours water, he is to carry one pair of every animal species and his family except those under destruction, while the unjust are to be drowned.
Water pours forth, the unjust are to be drowned, and animal pairs plus permitted family members are preserved in the ark before a blessed descent.
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When the sentence comes and the earth’s surface boils up, Noah is told to carry into the Ark one pair of every kind, his family with an exception, and the few who believed.
Noah is commanded to carry one pair of every kind into the Ark at the onset of the flood.
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When the sentence comes, the earth’s surface boils up; Noah is told to carry into the Ark one pair of every kind, his family except the sentenced one, and the believers; only a few believe with him.
Only a few believe with Noah, and the Ark is to carry one pair of every kind together with Noah’s family and believers.
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The believers are brought forth from the city, but only one family of Muslims is found there, and signs are left for those who dread chastisement.
Believers are brought forth from the city, and only one family of Muslims is found before signs of chastisement are left.
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Noah is told to carry into the ark a pair of every kind and his family except one already sentenced, and not to plead for the wicked because they will be drowned.
Noah is instructed to carry into the ark a pair of every kind.
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When doom comes and the earth’s surface boils up, Noah must carry a pair of every kind and his family into the ark, except one already sentenced; he is not to plead for the wicked, who shall be drowned.
Noah is told to carry into the ark a pair of every kind along with his family except one already sentenced.
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Oceanic Mythology CULTURE HERO TALES 125 / CULTURE HERO TALES 127 / CULTURE HERO TALES 129 / MISCELLANEOUS TALES 131; lines 6774-6853 confidence: medium
A New Hebrides story is introduced: Taso the cannibal kills Qatu's pregnant sister and abandons her body; twin boys are born after her death and survive on rain-water in dead leaves and edible shoots.
Twin boys are born after their pregnant mother has been killed and abandoned; they survive alone using rain-water and plant shoots until they are found.
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The narrator introduces a tale embodying an Indonesian-area incident in which an animal, insect, or inanimate object answers for an escaping fugitive; the tale begins with two sisters whose parents were killed and eaten by a tiger and garuda bird, who hide in a drum and are found by a hunter who takes the older sister, Sunrise, as wife.
Two sisters survive their parents' death by hiding in a drum.
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A New Zealand tale says a great bird dropped an egg into the primeval sea; it burst after floating, and an old man, old woman, canoe, boy, girl, dog, and pig emerged or entered the canoe, which drifted to land in New Zealand.
In the New Zealand tale, an old man, old woman, boy, girl, dog, and pig enter a canoe that drifts to land after emerging from the burst egg.
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Oceanic Mythology MYTHS OF ORIGINS AND THE DELUGE 163 / MYTHS OF ORIGINS AND THE DELUGE 165 / MYTHS OF ORIGINS AND THE DELUGE 167 / MYTHS OF ORIGINS AND THE DELUGE 169; lines 8332-8509 confidence: medium
The passage states that direct origin of humanity from brother-sister or mother-son marriages is especially characteristic of the Philippine area, where it follows a flood episode.
The passage states that human origin from brother-sister or mother-son marriages is especially characteristic of Philippine flood-episode traditions, and then begins an Ifugao example with surviving siblings Wigan and Bugan.
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Oceanic Mythology MYTHS OF ORIGINS AND THE DELUGE 167 / MYTHS OF ORIGINS AND THE DELUGE 169 / PLATE XVII / MYTHS OF ORIGINS AND THE DELUGE 171; lines 8512-8602 confidence: high
Wigan is on Mt. Amuyao and Bugan on Mt. Kalauitan; Bugan's fire lights the peak at night, showing Wigan that someone else is alive.
Wigan and Bugan survive on separate mountains, and Wigan seeks Bugan once the earth is dry.
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Wigan searches for other people for three days and concludes that only he and Bugan remain, so the world must be repopulated through them.
Wigan concludes repopulation must come through himself and Bugan; Maknongan blesses and sanctions their marriage and says the world must be repeopled through them.
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Oceanic Mythology MYTHS OF ORIGINS AND THE DELUGE 171 / MYTHS OF ORIGINS AND THE DELUGE 173 / MYTHS OF ORIGINS AND THE DELUGE 175 / MYTHS OF ORIGINS AND THE DELUGE 179; lines 8853-8935 confidence: high
During a feast, darkness, rain, and a rising river come; people cannot stop the spring, the old men say the river gods are angry, and all but the siblings Wigan and Bugan drown while the two are on Mt. Amuyao and Kalauitan.
The central Ifugao version names Wigan and Bugan as brother and sister and the only two who escape the flood, each on a mountain peak.
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Igorot account: after the flood, only a brother and sister survive by taking refuge on Mt. Pokis; Lumawig descends and hears that they are freezing.
The Igorot account has only two flood survivors, a brother and sister, who take refuge on Mt. Pokis.
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On the seventh day, rain and wind come, the sea covers Yap, Kitimil and his wife ascend the storeys as waters rise, and Magigi lays oil on a leaf on the water, after which the flood abates and the storm ceases.
Kitimil and Magigi survive together and Magigi bears seven children who scatter over the land.
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Raiatea story: a fisherman hooks the hair of Rua-haku, a sleeping sea-god; after mercy is granted, the god tells him to take refuge with a friend and animals on an islet, then the sea rises over the world and later retires.
Raiatea has a fisherman and friend on an islet; Mangaia has Rangi on a remaining dry fragment; Samoa has Pili and his wife on a rock and Seve with Pouniu rescued after swimming.
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Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo A SONG FROM ARSUT. / TRADITIONAL TALES, SCIENCE, AND ARTS. 69 / ANOTHER SONG FROM ARSUT. / PROBABLE ORIGIN AND HISTORY. J I; lines 3383-3461 confidence: medium
Listed tale subject: an onslaught on the coast people leaves only a couple of children saved; they roam far and wide and perform great deeds.
A listed tale subject states that only a couple of children survive an onslaught, then roam far and wide and perform great deeds.
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Kagsuk learns of his son’s treatment, grows enraged, insists on revenge that night, and with his son kills the people of Satok, sparing only a boy and a girl.
When Kagsuk and his son kill the people of Satok, only a boy and a girl are spared.
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The children remain stunned and feign death in the tents; the cousins kill them by piercing their ears, leaving only one boy and one girl alive.
After the children are killed, the passage says only one boy and one girl are left alive.
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After seeing armed men a third time, the brothers hide their little sister under a heap of chips near the window and climb into the rafters beneath the roof of the house-passage.
Kunuk and his younger brother hide in the rafters and survive while the household is killed, then flee together.
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An old couple’s son and younger daughter become orphans; foster-parents do not love them, scold them, and leave them to seek food on the beach at low water.
The brother and younger sister are orphaned, neglected, enclosed in an empty house, and escape together.
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The father tosses up the amulet saying, “Whomsoever!” and the men are overturned one after another, until all are drowned except himself and his son.
All the men surrounding the son's kayak are drowned except the father and son, who return home together.
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The widow consoles the child, proposes finding a house, and chooses a windowless deserted hut with skins still on the walls, partitioning a room in the southern corner.
The widow and child form a two-person survival unit after abandonment, finding shelter and living on scraps until food runs out.
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The Central Eskimo KIVIUNG. / ORIGIN OF THE NARWHAL. / THE VISITOR. / THE FUGITIVE WOMEN.; lines 9180-9206 confidence: medium
The women arrive at Igdluqdjuaq in summer, find sod, turf, and large whale ribs on the beach, and build a sturdy house of bones filled with sod and turf.
The fathers report that two women lived by themselves without male company and were never in want, after the passage details their independent housing and subsistence.
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Creation Myths of Primitive America PERSONAGES / NORWAN / NORWAN / PERSONAGES; lines 5457-5611 confidence: high
Sehinom turns over the bark and finds two little boys in each other's arms and crying; one calls the other brother and says they hid there and escaped. They are Tsudi boys.
Two little boys are found together under yellow pine bark after the massacre; one calls the other brother and says they hid and escaped.
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The elder Tsudi brother reports that the sisters and others will come; the younger brother reports that Hokohas people will bring elk-skins, Tidok people feather headdresses, and the Tede Wiu brothers agree to help Sehinom Chabatu.
Sehinom Chabatu says all his people were killed except two little boys, while messengers summon allies and a large force gathers around him.
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After the fourth day the Hakas stop going, but the Tennas kill them whenever found hunting, fishing, gathering, playing, or fetching water, until only Tsuwalkai Marimi and her grandson Tsawandi Kamshu remain.
After ongoing killings, only Tsuwalkai Marimi and her grandson Tsawandi Kamshu remain of all the Hakas.
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Tsawandi says the Tennas killed all his people except his old grandmother and plans to kill a lone woman first before going farther down.
Tsawandi says the Tennas killed all his people except his old grandmother, leaving him and her as survivors in the passage.
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The strangers are named Anakurita and Biahori; they are the only two left after Sas killed the rest. They say their last relatives were killed at the spring, and Tulchuherris warns them to use the good water instead.
Anakurita and Biahori are identified as the only two left after Sas killed the rest of the people in those parts.
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Yana Texts THE CREATION OF THE YANA.111 / VI. ORIGIN OF SEX, HANDS, AND DEATH. / ORIGIN OF SEX, HANDS, AND DEATH.ISI / THE ROLLING SKULL.191; lines 2411-2510 confidence: medium
The passage note says all were burned to death except one; an old gray-haired woman, Bo"miyaup!a, alone survived.
Bo"miyaup!a alone survives, obtains the necklace containing the dead people's hearts, strikes the hearts, and the people return to life.
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Grizzly Bear kills the Deer people, fails to find Deer's two children, and kills or eats deer and elk in several directions before saying she has killed them all.
Grizzly Bear kills the Deer people and many deer and elk, but Deer's two children are not found and later act together as surviving fawns.
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Grizzly Bears kill the Flint people; Rock Woman is inside the sweat-house, and the Flint people are described as her children.
Rock Woman is left alone after the Flint people are killed, and the returned boy becomes the only other Flint figure active in the passage.
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The Eskimo about Bering Strait ANIMAL FETICHES MYTHIC ANIMALS / MYTHIC ANIMALS / THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT / THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT; lines 27079-27147 confidence: high
At Norton Sound the tin-mi-uk'-puk is said to catch whales or reindeer; on the lower Yukon it is reported to prey on people and reindeer; a tale describes the last pair, and a mountain below Ikogmut is pointed out as their nest.
A lower Yukon tale is described as concerning the last pair of these birds, and a mountain is identified as their nesting place.
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The sealskin opens out with a float at each corner, holds the woman safely, and carries her away; a storm and night hide her from her husband.
The woman and her child survive the sea crossing together, with the child kept safely on her back.
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The next tale, “The Last of the Thunderbirds,” opens with many former giant eagles or thunderbirds in the mountains, now reduced to one pair nesting in a basin on a mountain summit overlooking the Yukon near Sabotnisky.
The thunderbird tale states that many giant eagles or thunderbirds once lived in the mountains but all disappeared except a single pair.
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All perish except two kind women, whom Qaudjaqdjuq spares and marries as instructed by the Moon Man; he twists his hair around walrus-tusks and beats one wife for delayed responses.
All the people perish except the two women who had been kind to Qaudjaqdjuq; he spares and marries them.
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In 'The Old Woman and her Grandchild,' starving people leave an old woman and granddaughter behind; the old woman works a spell to bring foxes, while caribou, musk-oxen, wolves, bears, wolverines, and rabbits arrive and are sent away.
During starvation, the people leave an old woman and her granddaughter behind, and the pair later obtain food.
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The Eskimo kill Tornit men and women, take children captive, and kill children unable to keep up by drilling holes in their foreheads with fire-drills.
After the Eskimo kill Tornit adults and many captive children, only two Tornit children, a boy and a girl, reach the Eskimo village safely.
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Two men attack an Iglumiut village, kill everyone except two unseen boys, pursue them, and are killed by people whom the boys have warned.
Two boys alone survive the attack, escape, and carry warning to a neighboring camp.
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The Traditions of the Hopi DOWNWARD. / UPWARD. / Q4. THE RED EAGLE SONG. 1 / W. WHY THE ANTS ARE SO THIN. 1; lines 13223-13305 confidence: high
Chiefs make bahos and two balls from crushed beads and turquoise, send the village chief's son and his sister into the waters, and the young man presses the large Balolookong into the water; the serpent and the siblings disappear. Only old men-turkeys and two sleeping boys survive the flood.
Two little boys survive the flood; in the Katcina revenge story, one man and one woman survive the hail catastrophe.
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The Traditions of the Hopi STARS.' / HIS WIFE. 1 / FOR THEIR LIFE. 1 / NIGHT. 1; lines 8019-8110 confidence: high
At Oraibi, lack of rain, frost, and drought cause crop failures for several years; stored corn is exhausted and the people leave to seek food.
After famine drives the people away, only a little boy and his sister remain in Oraibi with little to eat.
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The boy asks his sister how she caused the bird to fly; she takes it by the wings, throws it upward, and it is alive again and flies away.
The narrative says all have left except two poor little children, a boy and his sister, who survive through the bird's aid.
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The water begins to fall and disappear; the passage says the mana's bead and turquoise powder offering causes the ground to dry and become hard quickly. The water-serpents and siblings are gone; the village is muddy and destroyed, and the turkey-transformed old men survive.
Two little brothers survive the flood in a high house while much of the village is destroyed.
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Two surviving children are left in the village; they become hungry and lonely, the older brother carries the younger, and turkeys that had been Hopi pity them and cry over them.
Two children survived but are left behind; the older brother carries the younger and both struggle for food and company.
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The brothers eat, set out, arrive at Homolovi, find their people in two little villages, locate their mother in the northern smaller village, and the older brother carries the tired younger one.
The brothers survive being left behind, follow their people, find their mother, and are recognized after she had thought they had perished.
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All crops are destroyed, and people who leave their houses and flee to the kivas are killed.
After the storm destroys crops and kills the people, only one man and one woman remain alive.
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First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas, Vol. II NINTH BOOK OF THE ROYAL / CHAPTER XXXVII. / COMMENTARIES OF THE YNCAS. / NINTH BOOK OF THE ROYAL; lines 23252-23292 confidence: medium
“they killed many people: men, women, and children, and even the women who were pregnant.”
Mama Yarcay escapes with Guascar’s daughter Coya Cuxi Yarcay after the capture of Guascar and killings in Cuzco.
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The Canaris say that during the deluge two brothers escaped to Huaca-ynan; as the waters rose, the hill increased in height and the waters never reached them.
During the deluge, two brothers survive on Huaca-ynan, whose height increases as the waters rise.
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Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas THE FABLES AND KITES OF THE YNCAS, / CHRISTOVAL DE MOLINA, / FABLES AND RITES OF THE YNCAS. O / FABLES AND EITE8 OP THE YNCAS. 7; lines 708-830 confidence: high
The Cañaris say that during the deluge two brothers escaped to Huaca-ynan, a very high mountain that rose as the waters rose; after the flood, their provisions ended.
Two brothers survive the deluge on Huaca-ynan, and the mountain rises as the flood waters rise.
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Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas THE FABLES AND RITES OF / THE YNCAS. / THE FABLES AND KITES OF THE YNCAS, / CHRISTOVAL DE MOLINA,; lines 534-623 confidence: high
The fable says all people and created things perished, the water rose above the highest mountains, and 'No living things survived except a man and a woman who remained in a box.'
Only a man and a woman survive the deluge by remaining in a box.
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Other nations say a deluge destroyed people except a few who escaped on hills, in caves, or in trees; these survivors multiplied, and stone huacas were made in their memory.
A deluge destroys people except for a few who escape on hills, in caves, or trees and then multiply.
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Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas XX INTRODUCTION. / AN ACCOUNT / THE FABLES AND RITES OF THE YNCAS, / CHRISTOVAL DE MOLINA,; lines 746-837 confidence: high
“No living things survived except a man and a woman who remained in a box”; after the waters subsided, the wind carried them to Huanaco/Tiahuanaco.
Only a man and a woman are named as surviving the deluge.
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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN. / THIRD DYNASTY--OLYMPIAN DIVINITIES.; lines 1173-1257 confidence: medium
Zeus and Hermes travel through Phrygia seeking hospitality; Philemon and Baucis welcome them, see the wine bowl replenished, learn their wicked native place is doomed, climb a hill, and see a watery plain with only their cottage remaining and changing into a temple.
Philemon and Baucis climb a hill with the gods and see a watery plain replacing their village, while their cottage alone remains and becomes a temple.
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The gods announce the wicked village's doom, lead the couple to a hill, show them a watery plain where the village stood, and transform their cottage into a temple; the couple asks to serve there and die together.
Philemon and Baucis are spared while the village becomes a watery plain and their cottage alone remains, becoming a temple.
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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome SATURN. / RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN.; lines 746-830 confidence: high
Humanity degenerates; the gods resolve to destroy mankind by flood, while Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha are saved because of piety.
Deucalion and Pyrrha are the only mortals saved from the flood because of their piety.
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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome SATURN. / RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN.; lines 746-830 confidence: high
Because humanity became degenerate, the gods resolved to destroy mankind by flood; Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha alone are saved because of piety.
Deucalion and Pyrrha are the only mortals saved, take refuge in a ship during a nine-day deluge, and survive to restore humanity.
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Aeneas, son of Aphrodite, escapes with his son and old father Anchises, carries Anchises from the city, reaches Mount Ida, flees to Italy, and becomes ancestral hero of the Roman people.
Aeneas alone escapes the carnage with his son and his old father Anchises, whom he carries on his shoulders.
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Genesis Chapter 19 / Footnotes / Chapter 20 / Chapter 21; lines 1208-1276 confidence: medium
Abraham gives Hagar bread and a container of water and sends her away with the child; she wanders in the wilderness of Beersheba; when water is spent, she places the child under a shrub, sits about a bow shot away, and weeps because she does not want to see the child die.
Hagar and the child are sent away with limited provisions, wander in the wilderness, run out of water, face the child’s possible death, and are aided when God hears the boy, the angel speaks, and Hagar sees a well.
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Genesis Footnotes / Chapter 5 / Footnotes / Chapter 6; lines 385-433 confidence: high
Noah is to bring two of every sort of living thing into the ship, male and female, including birds, livestock, and creeping things, to keep them alive.
Noah is commanded to bring two of every sort of living thing, male and female, into the ship to keep them alive.
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Genesis Footnotes / Chapter 6 / Footnotes / Chapter 7; lines 435-488 confidence: medium
Yahweh tells Noah to enter the ship with his household, gives instructions for clean and unclean animals and birds, and announces rain for forty days and nights that will destroy every living thing from the ground.
Animals enter in male-female pairs or sevens, and birds are taken to keep seed alive on the earth.
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The flood was forty days on the earth... God remembered Noah... and the waters subsided.
Candidate motif from literal passage evidence.
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Numbers Chapter 23 / Chapter 24 / Chapter 25 / Chapter 26; lines 2060-2094 confidence: medium
None of the men counted earlier by Moses and Aaron in Sinai remain, because Yahweh had said they would die in the wilderness; Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun are the exceptions.
Yahweh is quoted as saying the former counted men would die in the wilderness; none remain except Caleb and Joshua.
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malay
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Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, Volume 1 CHAPTER X. / VOL. I 2 K / THE SOCIAL ORDER / VOL. I 2 L; lines 28582-28691 confidence: medium
After Logan wished them safe voyage to Malacca and planned to visit Gunong Berembun with Pawang, confirmed news arrived that their trading boat had wrecked and three had drowned.
After three people drown, Tala and Pawang's wife are found alive in the still-intact boat.
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Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, Volume 2 CHAP. VI MALAYAN SEA-GYPSIES 367 / MALA VAN SEA-GYPSIES 369 / CHAP. VI MALAYAN SEA-GYPSIES 371 / CHAP. VI MALAYAN SEA-GYPSIES 373; lines 19849-19932 confidence: high
Dato' Klambu's daughter refuses to return and becomes spouse of a Jakun chief; Dato' Klambu hides resentment, invites the Jakun to a nuptial feast, fires the palace, and all except a man and a woman die in the flames.
A man and a woman alone survive the burning of the Jakun and are said to become ancestors of the Rayat Laut.
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Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, Volume 2 CHAP. VI NEGRITOS OF KEDAH 229 / CHAP. VI NEGRITOS OF KEDAH 231 / CHAP. VI NEGRITOS OF KEDAH 233 / SAKAI OF PERAK 235; lines 13301-13415 confidence: high
Only two people escaped: Ba-lut, the youngest son, and Wa-lut, the youngest daughter.
Only Ba-lut and Wa-lut survive K'lang B'lok's destruction, marry, and become ancestors of all living people.
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Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, Volume 2 CHAP. VI SAVAGE MALAYS OF JO HO R 349 / SAVAGE MALAY'S OF JO HO R / CHAP. VI SAVAGE MALAYS OF JOHOR 353 / CHAP. VI SAVAGE MALAYS OF JOHOR 355; lines 18950-19065 confidence: medium
When Lulumut had emerged, a completely covered pulai-wood prahu without openings floated on the waters; Pirman had enclosed in it a created man and woman.
A covered, openingless prahu floats on the waters containing a man and woman created and enclosed by Pirman; they later emerge onto dry ground.
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Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, Volume 2 VOL. II N / CHAP. VI GENERAL REMARKS 179 / GENERAL REMARKS / CHAP. VI GENERAL REMARKS 185; lines 10849-10937 confidence: high
The Benua account includes a kind of vessel in which the first parents of the race escaped drowning.
The Benua account refers to a vessel by which the first parents of the race escaped drowning.
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celtic
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Cuchulain of Muirthemne CONCHUBAR'S VISION 163 / DEATHOFGERG 165 / THE FIGHT AT RATH INI 167 / DEATHOFMAINE 169; lines 7122-7162 confidence: medium
After killing Maine, Conchubar attacks the crowd so that people fall throughout the house; none of Maine's people are left living, and only Conchubar and Brod survive from Conchubar's three times fifty men, both not whole.
After the fighting, only Conchubar and Brod remain alive from the three times fifty men who came with Conchubar, and they are not whole.
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The people make a chamber all of iron, gather smiths and tools, pile coals around it, give the man, woman, and children abundant meat and drink, and heat the chamber red hot after they are drunk.
Llassar and Kymideu are enclosed with others in an iron chamber heated red hot; Llassar breaks through the white-hot iron and Kymideu follows, while no one else escapes.
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The Mythology of the British Islands CHAPTER XVII / THE ADVENTURES OF THE GODS OF HADES / CHAPTER XVIII / CHAPTER XIX; lines 9113-9234 confidence: medium
Manawyddan is left with Kicva, calms her fears, promises protection, and because the dogs are lost they go to Lloegyr before later returning to Dyfed.
After Pryderi and Rhiannon vanish, Manawyddan is left alone with Kicva and must continue survival efforts with her.
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The Mythology of the British Islands THE IRISH ILIAD / CHAPTER XIII / SOME GAELIC LOVE-STORIES / CHAPTER XIV; lines 6777-6883 confidence: medium
Caoilte is one of the two surviving greater Fenian figures; his swiftness saves him, he is represented as speaking with St. Patrick, he joins the Tuatha Dé Danann, kills Lêr with his own hand, takes Sídh Fionnechaidh, and is remembered as a ruler among the Sídhe.
The passage explicitly states that only Caoilte and Ossian survive among the greater Fenian figures, and both are then placed in post-heroic contexts.
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celtic irish
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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge HERE NOW FOLLOWETH THE DISGUISING OF TAMON / HERE NOW COMETH THE HEAD-PLACE OF FERCHU / XXIII / HERE FOLLOWETH THE TOOTH-FIGHT OF FINTAN; lines 12392-12454 confidence: medium
Only Fintan and his son Crimthann escape; Crimthann is saved under a canopy of shields by Ailill and Medb, and Ailill preserves him out of fear of Fintan.
The passage states that none of Fintan’s people escape except Fintan himself and his son Crimthann.
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The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living PHCENIX / CHAPTER XI / CLASSIC ACCOUNTS OF THE HAPPY OTHERWORLD / CHAPTER XII; lines 9877-9977 confidence: high
The passage says a human pair, Lif and Leifthraser, is secluded before corruption in a land where death cannot enter and later issues forth to repeople the Universe.
Lif and Leifthraser are secluded in a land where death cannot enter and later issue forth to repeople the Universe after the final catastrophe.
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Mortals who penetrate the place, try to carry off objects needed in the final conflict, or awaken sleepers before the destined time are punished by death or dire disease.
Sleepers must not be awakened before the destined time; after Asgard disappears, hope of a rejuvenated world rests on them.
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Mimer is called "lord of the grove where dwell Lif and Leifthraser nourished upon morning dew."
Lif and Leifthraser dwell in Mimer's grove and are nourished upon morning dew.
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mesopotamian
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Assyrian and Babylonian Literature: Selected Translations THE GILGAMESH NARRATIVE 351 / THE GILGAMESH NARRATIVE / THE GILGAMESH NARRATIVE 355 / THE GILGAMESH NARRATIVE 357; lines 22209-22341 confidence: high
Ishtar lifts precious ornaments made by Anu, vows by her necklace not to forget the days, invites the gods to the offering, and excludes Bel because he caused the flood-storm and destruction of her people.
Bel sees the ship after the flood-storm and complains that no man should have survived; Per-napishtim and his wife are led out and blessed.
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Assyrian and Babylonian Literature: Selected Translations THE GILGAMESH NARRATIVE 351 / THE GILGAMESH NARRATIVE / THE GILGAMESH NARRATIVE 355 / THE GILGAMESH NARRATIVE 357; lines 22209-22341 confidence: high
Bel enters the ship, takes Per-napishtim by the hand, leads him and his wife out, blesses them, declares them now lofty like the gods, and assigns them a distant dwelling at the mouth of the rivers.
Bel says Per-napishtim was formerly human but that he and his wife will now be lofty like the gods and live far away at the mouth of the rivers.
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Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament EIGHTH TABLET / NINTH TABLET / TENTH TABLET / ELEVENTH TABLET; lines 6923-7164 confidence: high
Ea goes up into the ship, takes the speaker's hand, brings him forth, brings forth his wife, makes her kneel at his side, turns them toward each other, stands between them, and blesses them.
Ea brings out the speaker and his wife, blesses both, and declares that Ut-napishtim and his wife shall be like the gods.
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The Epic of Gilgamish THE ARRIVAL AT THE GATE OF THE FOREST. / THE SIXTH TABLET. / OF THE GODDESS ISHTAR, WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE HERO AFTER HIS / EXPLOIT AGAINST HUMBABA.; lines 3122-3288 confidence: high
Enlil comes to the Ark, grasps the narrator's hand, raises him and his wife, touches their foreheads, blesses them, declares Uta-Napishtim and his wife like the gods, and settles them at the mouth of the rivers.
Enlil declares that Uta-Napishtim and his wife, formerly mortal, shall now be equal or like the gods and dwell far away at the mouth of the rivers.
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fijian
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Tales from Old Fiji CAME TO ONEATA 91 / CAME TO ONEATA 93 / CAME TO ONEATA 95 / CAME TO ONEATA 97; lines 5606-5643 confidence: medium
Women crouch in dread; Talingo, the Forgotten one and daughter of Takape, is singled out and told that the chief is calling her.
Talingo is selected to be struck, but leaps into the sea while holding her baby and remains hidden alive beneath the canoe.
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At dark, Talingo floats away, taking the idle steer-oar from the stern, laying her child on its broad blade, and steadying it by the handle while the crew feast.
Talingo and her child escape into the water on the broad blade of a steer-oar and drift for four days before reaching land.
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He grows into a tall, strong, useful, gentle, and kind youth who loves his old foster-parents; their tribe had long before perished in a fight with the people of Doi, leaving them alone.
The foster-parents are described as alone because the rest of their tribe perished in a great fight; the youth is the remaining caretaker of the household.
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finnic
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Finno-Ugric, Siberian Mythology DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD 363 / DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD 365 / DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD / DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD; lines 16390-16461 confidence: high
In East India, God sends a flood or water of fire as mankind sinks into sin; only a brother and sister survive by hiding.
The East Indian example says only two people, brother and sister, are saved by hiding.
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Finno-Ugric, Siberian Mythology DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD / DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD 363 / DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD 365 / DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD; lines 16308-16387 confidence: high
A Samoyed tale says seven persons were saved in a boat; drought and hunger followed; all but a young man and maid died; these two survived by eating mice and became ancestors of the present human race.
The Samoyed account leaves one young man and one maid as ancestors of the present human race; the Tungus account leaves a boy and girl after the fire.
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Finno-Ugric, Siberian Mythology THE REALM OF THE DEAD / PLATE LVIII / THE REALM OF THE DEAD / CHAPTER XXI; lines 21864-21954 confidence: medium
Mongol origin myths include a dog ancestor, birth from a tree and nourishment by a dog, a last woman bearing two children by a bull after destructive war, and a bull-son who walks on all fours until his forefeet are cut off.
One Mongol variant says war leaves only one woman, who meets a bull and bears two children from whom the Mongol race is born.
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guiana amerindian
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An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES / ILLUSTRATIONS / WOEKS OF REFERENCE / BOTH) WORKS OF BEFEBENCE 115; lines 2126-2202 confidence: high
The Maipure and similarly Tamanac notice says the whole earth was submerged in water; a man and woman saved themselves on Mount Tamanaku, heard a voice, and threw Mauritia fruits behind them so that the man's fruits became men and the woman's became women.
A man and woman alone survive the submerged earth on a high mountain and, following a voice's instruction, produce men and women by throwing Mauritia fruits.
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An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians THE MEDICINE-MAN / Chapter XIX / MISCELLANEOUS INDIAX BELIEFS COXCERNING MAN / BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 7; lines 14200-14268 confidence: high
The Arawaks all make crab whistles, surround the drinking Caribs, blow the whistles, surprise and slay them, sparing one man and one woman who beg for their lives; only their legs are speared.
The final surviving Carib man and woman are spared and identified as the ancestors of all present-day Caribs.
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The Central Caribs GEOGRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT / THE MACUSIS1 / MATERIAL CULTURE / ANTHROPOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS, VOL. X; lines 2894-3014 confidence: high
The tree contains water; when cut, the water covers the world. The brothers climb two miritci palms that grow with the flood, eat palm fruit, throw seeds into the water to build land, and the flood covers mountains for twenty days before receding.
The two brothers save themselves from the flood by climbing two palm trees that grow with the rising water.
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The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions, Volume 3 CHAPTER II. / UE-NUKU. / UE-NUKU AND EUA-TAPU. / UE-NUKU AND HIS COMB. 51; lines 2833-2917 confidence: medium
All perish except Paikea and Rua-tapu; Paikea saves himself by incantations to his god, and Rua-tapu tells him to go to Hiku-rangi so a remnant may escape destruction.
The first account states that all perish except Paikea and Rua-tapu.
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The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions, Volume 3 EUA-WHAEO, TU-PAI, AND TUMU-WHAKAIRIHIA. 43 / CHAPTER II. / UE-NUKU. / UE-NUKU AND EUA-TAPU.; lines 2752-2830 confidence: medium
On later moons the father puts his power on the ocean; rain, winds, and rising sea overwhelm many pa, but Hiku-rangi stands beyond the flood and a remnant is saved.
The sea rises over the land, overwhelms many pa, and later recedes; Hiku-rangi remains above or beyond the flood, saving a remnant and Paikea with his father.
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The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions, Volume 3 TA-WHETA VISITS UE-NUKU. 17 / UE-NUKU PEEP-UIES TO ATTACK TA-WIIETA. 19 / THE BATTLE : TAI-MAHUTAXGA TAKEN TRISONEK. 21 / UE-NUKU AND HOE-ORA. 23; lines 1999-2030 confidence: medium
Paikea enters a canoe, voyages south, pulls out the bottom plug far out at sea, swamps the canoe, and drowns Pipi, Te-ra-tu-ma-howa, and Ta-hao; Paikea and Rua-tapu escape.
Paikea pulls the canoe plug, the canoe is swamped, three named persons drown, and Paikea and Rua-tapu escape.
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nahua maya inca
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The Myths of Mexico & Peru BIBLIOGRAPHY / INDEX AND GLOSSARY / NOTE ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE MEXICAN, MAYAN, AND PERUVIAN LANGUAGES / INDEX AND GLOSSARY; lines 11715-11907 confidence: medium
Nata is indexed as the Mexican Noah, and Nena is indexed as the wife of Nata.
The index identifies Nata as the Mexican Noah and identifies Nena as Nata's wife.
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The Myths of Mexico & Peru CHAPTER IV: THE MAYA RACE AND MYTHOLOGY / CHAPTER V: MYTHS OF THE MAYA / CHAPTER VI: THE CIVILISATION OF OLD PERU / CHAPTER VII: THE MYTHOLOGY OF PERU; lines 9939-10017 confidence: high
A Canaris origin myth says that during the deluge two brothers fled to the high mountain Huacaquan, which rose as the waters rose, so they escaped drowning; after the flood they built a tiny house and lived on herbs and roots.
Two brothers survive a deluge because the high mountain Huacaquan rises as the waters rise.
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Titlacahuan warns Nata and Nena to hollow out a large cypress and enter it when water approaches the sky, with one ear of maize each; he closes the door.
Nata and Nena are warned, enter a hollowed cypress as waters approach the sky, and later emerge when the water becomes tranquil.
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native american southwest
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The Pima Indians COYOTE AND THE QUAILS / THE WOMAN AND COYOTE / THE PIMA BOY AND THE APACHES / THE BIRDS AND THE FLOOD; lines 12305-12325 confidence: medium
Waters cover all the earth; two birds hang onto the sky with their beaks. The larger bird cries, and the smaller bird encourages it not to cry and to trust in God.
Two birds survive the flood episode by hanging onto the sky with their beaks, with one encouraging the other.
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The Zuñi Indians: Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities, and Ceremonies ORIGIN OF THE CLANS / TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PL. VI / TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PL. VII / A'SHIWI RESUME TIIKIK JOURNEYING; lines 1722-1822 confidence: high
Two Kia'nakwe, a brother and sister, escape death from A'shiwi conquerors by hiding in a cave and live for a long time on meal and rats.
A brother and sister survive the destruction of their people by concealing themselves in a cave and living there together.
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The Zuñi Indians: Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities, and Ceremonies WITCHES GIVE SEEDS TO THE CORN MAIUKNS / OKIGIN OF THE ANCESTRAL GODS / ORIGIN OF THE DIMINUTIVE GODS OF WAR / DESTRUCTION OF THE KIA'NAKWE, AND SONGS OF THANKSGIVING; lines 1333-1409 confidence: high
The Kia'nakwe jump into the waters of the black rocks in fear; Kow'wituma covers the waters with stone slabs to keep them from returning to earth, their ghost selves go to Ko'thluwala'wa, and only a brother and sister survive by hiding in a cave below the village.
Only a youth and maiden, brother and sister, escape the Kia'nakwe destruction by hiding in a cave below the village.
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Chukchee Mythology BOGORAS, CHI / I2. 2 / I3- 1 / IV. TALES OF RUSSIANIZED NATIVES.; lines 6753-6819 confidence: medium
At the start of the next tale, a man in a Maritime settlement has seven grown sons who travel by boat to hunt whales and walruses; near a large overhanging cliff like a house, the boat capsizes and they drown.
After the seven grown sons drown and the mother and youngest boy are left destitute, the boy says he will go find the lost father and brothers.
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"All the people have died out, all the people have become extinct... Only we two shall live there."
A short song says all people have become extinct and only two will live there.
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Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia I. TALES OF THE TUNDRA YUKAGHIR.1 / II. TALES OF THE LAMUT.1 / III. KOLYMA TALES. / F. B.; lines 3109-3203 confidence: high
The sisters say they slew one village's people and, in another, left "only one boy and one girl."
The sisters report that in one village they left only one boy and one girl alive after killing others.
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xhosa
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Kaffir Folk-Lore: A Selection from the Traditional Tales Current among the People Living on the Eastern Border of the Cape Colony STORY OF THE BIRD THAT MADE MILK. 31 / STORY OF THE BIRD THAT MADE MILK. 33 / STORY OF THE BIRD THAT MADE MILK, 35 / STORY OF THE BIRD THAT MADE MILK, 37; lines 1869-1954 confidence: medium
The crocodile tells the boy that he must send his sister to be married to the crocodile.
The passage presents a boy and sister who prosper with cattle and millet; later their parents fail to recognize them, and the young man refers to the father hanging them in a tree so that they would die.
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Kaffir Folk-Lore: A Selection from the Traditional Tales Current among the People Living on the Eastern Border of the Cape Colony THE CANNIBALS WONDERFUL BIRD. 135 / THE STORY OF THE CANNIBAL MOTHER. 139 / I40 KAFFIR FOLK TALES. / THE STORY OF THE CANNIBAL MOTHER, 141; lines 6028-6111 confidence: high
The bird opens its wings, tears open the woman’s stomach, and many people come forth, most alive and some dead; she swallows some again, the two children run away alive, and the woman dies.
The two children are alive when the stomach is opened, run away, and later return to their grandfather.
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The cannibals eat the eland, search under ashes and eat the old woman, search in the tree and eat Kenkebe and the eland breast, then find Kenkebe's wife in the bush and take her home; they do not look for the boy.
Kenkebe is eaten, the boy is not found, and the wife escapes and later lives happily with her son.
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ainu
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Aino Folk-Tales HONORARY SECRETARIES. / INTRODUCTION. / AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA.; lines 610-713 confidence: high
A populous village rich in fish and venison suffers famine until only the chief’s older daughter and younger son remain; the sister gives the brother a cloth bag and urges him to buy food, live, and inherit.
After famine kills the village population, the chief’s two children remain alive, and the older sister urges the younger brother to survive and take up the father’s inheritance.
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The opening of 'The Man who Married the Bear-Goddess' describes a once-abundant village struck by famine; only the chief's older daughter and younger son survive, and the sister gives the boy a cloth bag so he may buy food and live.
After famine kills the people of the village, only the chief's two children, an older sister and younger brother, remain alive.
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buddhist
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The Mahavamsa, or The Great Chronicle of Ceylon CHAPTER VI / THE COMING OF VIJAYA / CHAPTER VII / THE CONSECRATING OF VIJAYA; lines 7109-7251 confidence: high
The yakkhim's maternal uncle finds the children, learns they are Kuvanna's, says their mother has been slain and they too will be killed if seen, and tells them to flee; they go to Sumanakuta.
The son and daughter of Vijaya and the yakkhim are warned that their mother has been slain and that they too will be killed if seen, so they flee to Sumanakuta.
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A family dies of pestilence, leaving only father and son; they receive pabbajja and go together for alms, where the boy asks his father for food.
Two episodes involve people left after pestilence; in the second, Ananda seeks a way to prevent two boys from perishing, leading to an exception for crow-keeper boys under fifteen.
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Philippine Folk Tales PREFACE / CONTENTS / TINGUIAN / IGOROT; lines 2564-2699 confidence: high
Lumawig looks down from the sky, sees his sons have flooded the earth, and sees that all people have drowned except a brother and sister at Pokis on the only uncovered spot.
All people are said to drown except one brother and sister who live in Pokis on the only uncovered spot.
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Lumawig reaches Pokis, builds a large fire, warms the brother and sister, the water evaporates, mountains remain, and the brother and sister marry and have children, producing many people on earth.
The passage opening describes waters evaporating after Lumawig's fire, the world restored with mountains, and a brother and sister marrying and having children who populate the earth.
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Hausa Superstitions and Customs: An Introduction to the Folk-Lore and the Folk HAUSA SUPERSTITIONS / THE FRIENDLY LION / THE FRIENDLY LION 201 / THE BOY, THE GIRL, AND DODO 203; lines 9603-9683 confidence: medium
Dodo seizes the Boy and Girl during the crossing; they are dragged underwater, the Boy struggles with the Dodos for about twenty days, their parents search, and on the twenty-first day the Boy conquers the Dodos and emerges with the Girl.
After being seized and kept underwater, the Boy and Girl both emerge alive and return home.
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Hausa Superstitions and Customs: An Introduction to the Folk-Lore and the Folk THE WRESTLERS AND THE DEVIL 415 / THE TWO GIRLS AND THE DEMONS 417 / THE THREE DEMONS 419 / THE UNGRATEFUL MEN.; lines 18609-18636 confidence: medium
The whole town is depopulated; everyone runs away except a Blind-man and a Lame-man.
The whole town is depopulated and everyone runs away except a Blind-man and a Lame-man.
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mongol
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The Mongols - A History CHAPTER XII / HTJLAGU DESTROYS THE ASSASSIN COMMONWEALTH / CHAPTER Xin / DESTRUCTION OF THE EA.LIFAT; lines 11665-11727 confidence: low
Hulagu, angry that his word had been questioned, kills Fakhr ud din, slaughters the whole population including infants, and spares only a skilled Armenian jeweller.
After the population of Harem is slaughtered, one Armenian jeweller is spared because Hulagu needs his skill.
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The Mongols - A History The Mongols - A History / CHAPTER I / CLASSIFICATION, MYTH AND REALITY; lines 341-431 confidence: medium
Katchi Kyuluk's descendants are dead except a youngest son living apart and Kaidu, a small boy saved by his nurse, who hides with him under firewood.
After the family slaughter, Kaidu survives as a small boy because his nurse hides with him under firewood.
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tongan
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Tongan Myths and Tales KOE EAKAMATALA / THE EXPLANATION / KOE LAVE O MUNIMATAMAHAE / THE ADVENTURES OF LONGOPOA AND KAE 104; lines 7406-7461 confidence: high
In Vao’s version, Loau’s vessel reaches a reef with a pandanus and a great rock; Longopoa leaps into the tree, Kae onto the rock, the vessel sinks, and Kae escapes the huge bird kanivatu by clinging to feathers under one wing.
Longopoa and Kae survive the vessel-loss scene by leaping to a pandanus tree and a rock, although their exact placements differ by version.
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Tongan Myths and Tales THE SON OF THE SUN STORIES / SISIMATAILAA, THE SON OF THE SUN92 / SISIMATAILAA, THE SON OF THE SUN AT FELEMEA98 / TOKEFAUMOETONGA, THE SON OF THE SUN AT KELEFESIA97; lines 6208-6264 confidence: high
A small boat arrives with Tokelaumoetonga, described as son of two Samoan women whose boat sank; they swam to Kelefesia and Tonumea and lived there as the only humans.
Two Samoan women survive a sunken boat by swimming to Kelefesia and Tonumea and live there as the only humans.
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zoroastrian
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The Zend-Avesta, Part I: The Vendidad FARGARD II. I 3 / FARGARD II. I 5 / FARGARD II. I J / FARGARD II. 1 9; lines 5825-5915 confidence: medium
Yima brings seeds of men, women, cattle, trees, and fruits, of the best kinds; all are brought two of every kind and kept inexhaustible in the Vara.
The passage states that seeds are brought two of every kind and that each couple produces a male and female every fortieth year.
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The Zend-Avesta, Part I: The Vendidad FARGARD II. I I / FARGARD II. I 3 / FARGARD II. I 5 / FARGARD II. I J; lines 5735-5822 confidence: medium
Seeds of men, women, cattle, trees, and fruits are to be brought; “two of every kind” are to be kept inexhaustible while people remain in the Vara.
The text says all seeds are to be brought two of every kind and kept inexhaustible in the Vara.
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zulu
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Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus, in Their Own Words THE GIRL AND THE CANNIBALS. / ADDITION TO THE FOREGOING TALE BY ANOTHER NATIVE. / THE GIRL AND THE CANNIBALS. / THE GIRL AND THE CANNIBALS.; lines 8462-8533 confidence: medium
The sister proposes descending to seek a married sister their mother had mentioned, since their parents are dead and only the two siblings remain; the brother fears cannibals, and they agree to set out.
The siblings state that their parents are dead and that only the two of them remain; they leave refuge to seek a married sister and find her.
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Uzembeni is a great woman with two daughters; she devours the men of her country, eats men and game, and boils human and deer flesh together.
After the men are consumed, Uzembeni and her two daughters remain, and the daughters are famous for beauty.
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african bantu
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The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia, Vol. I A SCENE AT KASENGA. / HISTORY / VOL. I 17 C / GROOVES IN ROCK IN BATOKA HILLS, 20 MILES SOUTH OF KAUNGA.; lines 1530-1638 confidence: medium
A Banankalamo man married to a Banampongo woman cannot persuade her not to die; when they are last on the rope and near drowning, he cuts it, frees them, and brings her to land despite her resistance.
The Banankalamo husband cuts the rope at the point of drowning and saves himself and his Banampongo wife; the Banankalamo later claim to have saved the Banampongo from extinction.
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andamanese
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On the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands VIII. / PLATE VI. / GREAT ANDAMAN TYPES AT PORT BLAIR HOME. / PLATE VII.; lines 7293-7447 confidence: high
The bereaved mother commits acts against which .td'mo- had been warned by Puluga and urges others to burn wax, grind chd'kan seed, destroy bd'rata-, dig up gd'no- and chd-ti-, and destroy everything.
Puluga becomes angry after the mother’s forbidden destructive acts and sends a flood that destroys all living things except two men and two women.
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australian aboriginal
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The Native Tribes of Central Australia IX INITIATION CEREMONIES / CHAPTER X / C C 2 / TRADITIONS AS TO ALCHERIXGA ANCESTORS 389; lines 16595-16681 confidence: medium
The Oruncha kill and eat many lizard men and women and also eat Alexandra parakeet, grass seed, and small rat people; only two lizard men survive, and they are brothers.
Only two lizard men survive the slaughter, and they are described as brothers.
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celtic welsh
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The Mabinogion PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 7019-7112 confidence: medium
At the Gorsedd of Narberth, thunder and dense mist occur; afterward the land appears empty of cattle, dwellings, smoke, fire, people, and inhabited houses, and all companions are lost except the four.
Only four named companions remain after the mist, living in a depopulated land by hunting and wild honey.
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chaco amerindian
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An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: An Account of the Life and Customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco CHAPTER II / DANGERS OF ENTRANCE / DANGERS OF ENTRANCE / DANGERS OF ENTRANCE; lines 934-979 confidence: high
Two men alone escape from Ibareta’s expedition on the River Pilcomayo, travel for weeks avoiding beaten tracks, and are helped by an Indian who guides them toward English people to the north.
The passage states that two men alone escaped from Ibareta’s expedition, and the caption says only two of the party escaped annihilation.
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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 17416-17614 confidence: high
Untamoinen's warriors kill Kalervo's people and kindred, burn dwellings, and leave only Kalervo's daughter and her unborn child; the daughter serves the hostile army in her father's halls.
Only Kalervo's daughter and her unborn child survive the killing of Kalervo's people.
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georgian
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Georgian Folk Tales PART I / GEORGIAN FOLK TALES / MASTER AND PUPIL / THE THREE SISTERS AND THEIR STEPMOTHER; lines 438-532 confidence: high
The wife bears a golden-haired boy. Her sisters replace him with a puppy, put him in a box in the river, and hang a pestle over the door. The box lodges in a mill-race, and a childless miller finds and raises the child.
Each stolen newborn is placed in a box in a river, and both are found in the mill-race by the childless miller, who raises them.
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hawaiian
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Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends I.--SNARING THE SUN / II.--THE ORIGIN OF FIRE / PELE AND THE DELUGE / PELE AND KAHAWALI; lines 883-959 confidence: medium
Kahawali takes up his broad spear and flees with his friend; the musicians, dancers, and spectators are overwhelmed by the fiery torrent bearing Pele.
Kahawali and his companion escape while the gathered crowd is overwhelmed by the fiery torrent.
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jewish pseudepigrapha
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The Book of Jubilees, or, The Little Genesis CHAPTERS XV. 32-XVI. 3 113 / CHAPTER XVI. 4-18 11S / CHAPTER XVI. 19-26 117 / CHAPTERS XVI. 27-XVII. 8 110; lines 14198-14316 confidence: high
Abraham gives Hagar bread and a bottle of water and sends her away with the child; in the wilderness of Beersheba the water is spent, the child collapses, and Hagar places him under an olive tree and weeps at a bow-shot’s distance.
Hagar and the child face thirst and possible death in the wilderness, but an angelic message and a revealed well allow the child to drink and live.
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malagasy
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The Great African Island: Chapters on Madagascar ISLAND OF MADAGASCAR, / MADAGASCAR, / DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND. 9 / SIR JOHN SUCKLING. 13; lines 1038-1127 confidence: high
Robert Drury, an English lad on the Indiaman Degrave, is shipwrecked on Madagascar's south-west coast; after imprudence and collisions with natives, all the ship's company and passengers are killed except Drury and another lad, whose lives are spared.
After the Degrave wreck and subsequent violence, Drury and another lad are the only lives spared.
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melanesian
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The Melanesians: Studies in Their Anthropology and Folk-Lore CHAPTER XIX. / STORIES. / I. ANIMAL STORIES. / III. WONDER TALES.; lines 16680-16784 confidence: high
Taso is described as a man-eater who finds Qatu's pregnant sister in a garden thicket, kills her with a club, does not eat her because she is near childbirth, and leaves her unburied to rot.
The two infants remain alive after their mother is killed and left to rot, then become free and survive outside the household.
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micronesian
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The Caroline Islands: Travel in the Sea of the Little Lands VISIT TO ONOTH AND GOROR / CHAPTER XVIII / TO TOMIL, LAI, ELIK, BY BOAT TO NORTH YAP / CHAPTER XIX; lines 11047-11165 confidence: high
Loth’s daughter warns her husband that in seven days Loth’s vengeance will bring a high flood-tide; she tells him to build on the highest hill and bring magic herbs for rites and incantations.
Igereng and his wife are warned seven days ahead, prepare on the highest hill, and survive when nearly all others perish.
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samoan
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Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before CHAPTER XIX. / THE ORIGIN OF FIRE, AND OTHER STORIES. / CHAPTER XX. / NAMES OF THE ISLANDS.; lines 5618-5726 confidence: medium
Those fleeing to the bush are killed, while those fleeing to sea escape; Tutu and Ila reach Tutuila, U and Polu reach Upolu, and Sa and Vaila reach Savaii, with each island name explained by combining names.
Pairs fleeing to sea survive the destruction of Papatea and reach islands whose names are formed from their names.
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slavic
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Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars MIRKO, THE KING'S SON. / THE REED MAIDEN. / KISS MIKLOS, AND THE GREEN DAUGHTER OF THE GREEN KING. / THE HEDGEHOG, THE MERCHANT, THE KING, AND THE POOR MAN.; lines 14963-15060 confidence: medium
The princess bears two children; the old woman puts them in a basket under a tree in the woods and tells the princess they were two untimely hairy monsters thrown into the river.
The boy and girl are abandoned together in a basket, carried away by a white deer, and raised for seven years by the Forest Maiden.
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