Eskimos. Kujanguak and his life-lock (hair).
Universal. Belief in birth-trees.
FIRE MYTHS. In which the world is destroyed by fire.
Romans. Seneca (see Natur. Questiones, iii, cap. 27).
Hebrews. Bible belief.
Teutons (Scandinavia). The "Völuspá": "The sun shall grow dark, the land sink in the waters, the bright stars be quenched, and high flames climb Heaven itself."
Algonquins. Michabo will stamp his foot, flames will devour the earth and only a chosen few (probably one pair) be left to re-people the new earth.
Arawaks (Guiana and N. Brazil). Aimon Kondi.
Aztecs. Extinguished every fire on last night of each cycle of fifty-two years. Then priests made new fire by friction. If this failed the end of the world had come.
Maya. World to be destroyed by ravening fire and the gods with it.