Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
I100B — Pleiades - people.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe Pleiades - a group of people of any gender and age. See motifs i99 - i100A, aggregate data.
Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part of group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations.
I10 has 1 other sub-motifs
RelatedI10a. Individual layers or categories of the sky or clouds differ in colour.
I10b. Individual layers or categories of earth differ in colour (and other characteristics).
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| F9 | 94.20% | 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. |
| I82A | 93.23% | The Morning and/or Evening Star â a male character. |
| D4A | 92.88% | Fire is stolen from its original owner, returned to people by the thief, or (the motif of theft is not expressed) brought with difficulty from a distant place. |
| L40 | 92.67% | The character discovers (rarely: cannot discover) another person on a tree or rock, noticing their reflection or shadow. See motif L39. |
| I100 | 92.67% | Pleiades â a group of girls or women (with children). |
| I72 | 92.42% | Stars â anthropomorphic beings. See motif K19 (marriage to a star). Cases where the Star is a unique object, e.g. Venus, rather than one of many Star-people, are not included. |
| L53 | 91.88% | The terrifying creature is killed or neutralised by throwing (red-hot) stones, pieces of iron, etc. into its mouth or anus, or the creature retreats when threatened with a stone being thrown into its mouth. |
| A5 | 91.54% | The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (rarely) has no gender. |
| J46 | 91.50% | Antagonists perish by falling into water or attempting to cross a water barrier. See motifs J42, J44. |
| B3A | 91.26% | The waters are primary. The earth is lowered onto the water, appears above the water, grows from a piece of solid substance placed on the surface of the water or liquid mud, from an island in the ocean, is exposed when the waters recede, etc. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
1 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 1 traditions: Athna
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