The Cataclysm-Bringers
17 creatures confidence: medium community #10
Some monsters menace a village. These menace the calendar, eclipse-swallowers and world-flooders operating at the scale of sky and sea whose stories are less warnings than cosmology with teeth, where the moon goes dark because something is eating it and the flood arrives because something rolled over in the deep and the clamor you raise from the ground, the drums and the shouting and the beaten pots, is not superstition but participation, part of the machinery that gets the light back.
eclipse-eaters and world-flooders (bakunawa, jörmungandr, anzû, afanc), carried since v1 [carried from v13, overlap 0.60] [carried from v14, overlap 0.83] [carried from v15, overlap 0.94]
What binds them
The shared documented vocabulary this family coheres around — each link lists every carrier of that motif or power.
- causes natural disasters (power, shared ×17)
- causes storms or tsunamis (motif, shared ×15)
- storm summoning (power, shared ×5)
- precognition (power, shared ×4)
- vibration sensing (power, shared ×4)
- vibration sense detects distant prey (motif, shared ×3)
- causes lunar or solar eclipse (motif, shared ×1)
- coats body in mud as armor (motif, shared ×1)
Spans 9 tradition families: european ×4 · southeast-asian ×3 · oceanian ×2 · celtic ×2 · middle-eastern ×2 · none ×1 · african ×1 · norse-germanic ×1 · north-american-indigenous ×1
Members
- Abaia
- Adar Llwch Gwin
- Afanc
- Anzû
- Bakunawa
- Burrunjor
- Con Rit
- Delgeth
- Hieracosphinx
- Hydrus
- Ichneumon
- Jörmungandr
- Leviathan
- Lou Carcolh
- Minokawa
- Rahab
- Tarasque
Affinity families assert documented resemblance — shared motifs and powers that beat a null model — never genealogy. Descent is a different claim, made only by the gold curated-kinship edges on the constellation. Discovered by deterministic community detection; see all affinity families.