Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
G12A — Plants from drops of blood.
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Summary of motif
OverviewCultivated plants arise from drops of blood or flow like blood from cuts on the body of a human or animal.
Berezkin category: Fertility and Agriculture
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part of group 6, Origin and interpretation of culture elements, in particular related to agriculture, inadequate forms of subsistence and economic activity before the establishment of the present norms.
G12 has 3 other sub-motifs
RelatedG12. A huge tree bearing various fruits and/or containing water in its trunk grows out of a human body or is a transformed human being.
G12a. Cultivated plants arise from drops of blood or flow like blood from cuts on the body of a human or animal.
G12b. Cultivated plants – a gift from a male star or female star.
G12c. The fox or coyote ascends to the sky and, upon returning, spreads plants across the earth that previously only existed in the sky.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| L77 | 96.36% | The character devours people because he sees them as a delicacy. |
| J21 | 95.09% | Gods, ancestors of humans, and founders of dynasties are born from eggs. |
| C7 | 94.84% | Initially or after the flood, an earthen or stone barrier, the body of a character or creature prevents the flow of water. Later, this barrier is removed or destroyed. |
| I80 | 93.69% | A character who finds himself in the locus of a deity responsible for atmospheric phenomena violates certain prohibitions or instructions, thereby causing excessively strong thunderstorms, rain, snowfall or wind. |
| I20C | 93.23% | Dwarves live in an underground world that partly resembles the earthly world. If dwarves and humans meet, it happens underground. |
| I48 | 93.04% | The character is deprived of the ability to move, after which he acquires cosmic dimensions: he supports the earth (sky) or his movements cause earthquakes (less often - storms). |
| B80 | 92.67% | The process of creation includes measuring the dimensions of the earth or the world as a whole. |
| E1A | 92.58% | The first humans are made of fragile materials (clay, wax, fire, honey, etc.) and prove to be unviable. |
| F23 | 92.39% | Blood spilled during sexual intercourse or artificial defloration at the time of creation is the reason why menstruation occurs to this day. |
| M57B | 90.92% | Beads or metals are the bodily secretions of a deity. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
9 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 9 traditions: Stieng, Chrau, Sre (Koho), Maa, Mnong, Konds (Khonds; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo, Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Bacop, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan, Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography, Tepehua, Totonac, Lacandon, Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami, Yabuti, Amniapä, Kumana, Wari (Aikana), More (Itene), Sherente
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