Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
G9 — The felled forest is reborn, D1602.1+.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe forest cut down during clearing is reborn by morning.
Berezkin category: Fertility and Agriculture
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.
G9 has 2 other sub-motifs
RelatedG9. The forest cut down during clearing is reborn by morning.
G9a. The field that was cultivated the day before turns back into virgin soil by morning.
G9B. A man clears a plot of land of vegetation, but by morning it has grown back. At night, a certain character orders the trees and grass to rise up, turning the cultivated field back into virgin soil. He explains that there will be a flood, that there is no point in working, and advises people to prepare a means of transportation.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| L32 | 93.73% | The stone swallows, bites, beats or transforms people. |
| L17B | 86.13% | A character or creature has a second face or a second mouth on the back of its head. |
| I80 | 82.74% | 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. |
| M57B | 82.12% | Beads or metals are the bodily secretions of a deity. |
| A14 | 81.57% | The meeting of the sun and the moon is the cause of eclipses or lunar phases. |
| I42 | 81.22% | The rainbow is a pair of creatures, usually a man and a woman, male and female. |
| H24C | 80.45% | People open a vessel (a bundle, a basket, etc.) containing death (or old age, illness), and therefore they are mortal. |
| A3 | 80.23% | The Moon is female or hermaphroditic, the Sun is male or, possibly, male. |
| A11B | 79.91% | The sun or moon has one eye (usually the second eye is knocked out or sucked out, but sometimes the reason is not explained; among the Munduruku, the sun of the rainy season has lost both eyes, while the sun of the dry season has retained both). See motif 11A. |
| F49A | 79.79% | A small animal (mouse, rat, rabbit, two-wombed animal, bird) explains how to give birth. See motif F49. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
27 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 27 traditions: Nyungwe (Tete), Aka, Baka (Badjue) and other Western (Bantu speaking) Pygmies, Bidayuh (incl. Maloh), Iban (Sea Dayak), Sakarram; Brunei, Mon, SW Arunachal Pradesh: Sherdukpen, Tawang (Monpas), Aka (Hrusso), Miji, Rawang, Dulong; Anong, Drung, Western Sami, Eastern Sami (including Skolts), Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam, Huichol, Tepecano, Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography, Popoloca; Tlapanec, Pame, Jonaz (Chichimeca-Jonaz), Mazahua, Otomi, Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam, Tepehua, Totonac, Huastec (Teenek), Gulf Nahuatl, Mixtec, Trique, Cuicatec; Amuzgo, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Lenca, Kogi (Cagaba), Sanha, Creols of Aritama Valley, Locono, Mehinaku, Waura, Yaulapiti, China
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