Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
B75A — Sounds of the Age of Creation: The Human Voice.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe voice of a character who once lived can still be heard (most often it is an echo; A1195, The origin of Echo).
Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part of group 7, Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar.
B75 has 4 other sub-motifs
RelatedB75a. The voice of a character who once lived can still be heard (most often it is an echo; A1195, The origin of Echo).
B75b. The creaking or crackling of trees is the voice of a transformed character.
B75b1. The character pushes his mother-in-law or wife into a hollow, and she turns into the creaking of trees or an echo.
B75c. The sound of the surf or water on the rapids has been heard since the time of creation.
B75d. The sound of leaves or grass rustling in the wind has been heard since the time of creation.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| K30 | 92.43% | A flying creature carries a woman away. The kidnapper is killed and/or the woman escapes from him. See also motif L102A (Escape from a seagull husband). |
| F9 | 91.74% | For various reasons, sexual intercourse with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man, or so it seems to him: Teeth, blades or sharp stones in the vagina or on the inside of the thighs; the vagina is a toothy mouth. See motif F9A. |
| M63 | 91.07% | Before reaching the part of the body that is most suitable for certain purposes, others are named or tried. (Cf. Motive F22: The enumeration is related to finding the partner's genitals). |
| L65 | 90.81% | An infant or small child turns out to be a demon and kills people. |
| F22 | 90.65% | The character asks a person of the opposite sex about the purpose of the part of the body used for sexual intercourse (usually after asking questions about other parts). Alternatively, the character tries out different parts of the body for sexual intercourse or for placing the genitals. Cf. motif M63. |
| F9A | 90.33% | There are teeth, blades or sharp stones in a woman's vagina or on the inside of her thighs; the vagina is a toothy mouth. (Only texts with a focus on authenticity are taken into account, not anecdotes). |
| A32 | 90.30% | A figure or imprint of some creature or object is visible on the lunar disc. Statistical calculations also include motifs A32A – A32J (a rabbit, frog, predatory animal, human, tree, etc. are visible on the moon). |
| F17 | 90.13% | Human genitals were initially located, should have been located, or could have been located under certain circumstances not where they are now; either there were no genitals initially, or people did not know their purpose and copulated using other parts of the body. |
| F11 | 90.05% | The penis burns, bites, eats food. |
| B3B | 89.80% | Initially, the earth or the world as a whole was small in size, then it grew; fertile soil grew from a small amount of initial substance. See motif B3A (the earth grows from a piece of solid substance thrown onto the surface of the water). |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
42 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 42 traditions: Loyalty Islands (Uvea, Lifu, Mare), Maori, Moriori (Chatam Islands), Northern Luzon: Apayao, Bontoc, Nabaloi (Ibaloi), Ifugao, Igorot (highland people, not specified), Ilocan, Ilongot, Isneg, Kalinga, Kankanay, Tingian (Tinggian, Bilongan Itneg); Ibanag, Kasiguran Agta, Keley-i Kallahan, Nicobarese, Khasi, Kachin (Singpho), Chak, Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China, Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Poles, Slovakians, Slovaks, Ancient Greece, Armenians, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir), Evenks, Tungus (Evenki): Russian Far East, Evenks, Western Tungus (Evenki), Western Siberia Tungus (Evenki): Sym River, Ket River, Southern and Central; Ryukyu Islands: Yaeyama, Miyako, Okinawa, Chukchi, Inland Tlingit, Baffin Land Inuit, Tlingit, Haida, Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Takelma, Chumash, Northern Foothills Yokuts (Chukchansi, Dumna, Kechayi), Owens Valley Paiute, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Northern Shoshone, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Southern Paiute, Chemehuevi, Colorado (Tsachila), Cañari, Aguaruna, Huambiza, Ilimpii Tungus/Evenki, Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki, Tungus/Evenki of Nercha - Chita area, China, Japan
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