Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
M90B — The sun is rising from the west
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe character was wrong when he claimed that the sun would never rise in the west or go down after midnight.
Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.
M90 has 9 other sub-motifs
RelatedM90. Someone asks a riddle about the material from which a particular item is made or originated. It is almost impossible to guess, but the character learns the secret, forcing the hero or heroine to fulfill the conditions set. (Usually requires a girl to marry him).
M90a. The girl will marry the person who guessed her name, or someone who will fit the ring, or someone who says what material a particular object is made of or originated, etc. The deceiver fulfills the condition.
M90a1. It is required to sew clothes from the skin of lice (fleas) or guess the origin of a large animal, a large skin, the contents of the box; the animal (skin) arose from lice (fleas), in the box - louse.
M90a2. It should be guessed that the plant grew from a part of the body of a man or a snake or from dirt scraped off from the body
M90a3. plant grows from a killed snake or part of a snake's body.
M90a4. A tree is described on which jewelry or ornaments hang instead of fruits; individual parts of the tree are made of different metals or (semi) precious stones.
M90a5. The story mentions the golden fruits (rarely leaves) of a tree, usually golden apples.
M90a6. Owning some apples ensures eternal youth.
M90b. The character was wrong when he claimed that the sun would never rise in the west or go down after midnight.
M90c. man agreed with another that he could take the first thing he touched from his house. The visitor is going to take his wife, but when he takes up the stepladder to go up to the woman, he is told to pick up the stepladder and leave.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| L4A | 98.91% | To test the loyalty of the heroine (hero), the demon demands that she eat food that humans should not eat. Usually, when the heroine reports that the food has been eaten, the demon asks where the food is, and the food answers him. |
| M114J | 97.55% | A woman does not refuse those who harass her, but calmly explains that there is no point in trying to possess many, since they are all the same (they differ no more than eggs painted in different colours). |
| M90A3 | 97.42% | plant grows from a killed snake or part of a snake's body. |
| K56AB | 97.31% | A girl marries a monster. On their wedding night, he orders her to take off her shirt, and she orders him to take off his skin. The girl survives, and the monster becomes handsome â usually because she has more shirts (or skins worn in advance) than he does. |
| M147A | 97.06% | When the foxes (wolves) meet and one of them (one of the wolves) asks when they will see each other again, the other replies that it will be at the fur market (at the furrier's, etc.). |
| I100C | 96.61% | God turned the husband into a cuckoo, and the wife and children into the Pleiades. |
| A19C | 96.26% | The sun is associated with a horseman or rides in a carriage drawn by horses (equidae). |
| B106 | 95.34% | First, the heavenly rooster crows (or the underground roosters crow), and only then do the earthly roosters crow. |
| K35A6 | 95.34% | The character illuminates the room with a light-emitting object (usually a feather) that he has found. |
| K22AA | 94.87% | There is a country whose inhabitants are migratory birds that live with us in the summer and turn into people when they fly away to their own country. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
10 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 10 traditions: Soqotri, Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai, Sicily, Sicilians, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Albanians, Balkarians, Nogai, Georgians, Armenians, Kurds
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