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B36B - Birds acquire voices.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Birds find their voices by pecking at a large reptile and smearing themselves with the fluids that flow out of its body.Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 7, Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
B36 has 3 other sub-motifsB36. Birds, fish, and four-legged animals deliberately or accidentally smear themselves with colouring substances or divide parts of another's body among themselves, thereby acquiring their current appearance. B36a. Two zoomorphic characters adorn each other, after which one is satisfied with the result and the other is not. B36b. Birds find their voices by pecking at a large reptile and smearing themselves with the fluids that flow out of its body. B36c. Animals receive meat and fat rendered from a certain creature or obtained in some other way. Some received a lot, others remained thin. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of B36's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A22D | 100.00% | The burned character turns into a constellation or a dark spot on the Milky Way. |
| B114 | 100.00% | A woman or a man (usually old people) turn into anteaters (the origin of anteaters). |
| B24A | 100.00% | After a character surrounds a group of people with a circle of feathers or throws feathers into their dwellings, the people turn into wild pigs or peccaries. |
| C17 | 100.00% | The men of the community of the first ancestors destroy most of the people and/or themselves on a pyre or in a fire pit. |
| C2A | 100.00% | Two characters meet a woodpecker and receive an object from it, which causes the ground to catch fire upon contact. The stronger and smarter of the two characters escapes, while the weaker and stupider one is burned or burned to death. |
| C2B | 100.00% | The Sun and the Moon are caught in a fire. The strong and intelligent Sun escapes, while the weak and foolish Moon is burned or consumed, but the Sun revives it. |
| E28 | 100.00% | People shoot at the Moon, its blood spills onto the earth. |
| F43B | 100.00% | Leaving the men, the women of the community of the first ancestors hide in a hole underground. |
| F46A | 100.00% | Men (human-animals) discover a woman at the top of a tree and copulate with her there. |
| F54B | 100.00% | A young man or boy copulates with his mother or sister. This becomes known from the remains of paint or feathers with which he was covered during sexual intercourse. |
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This motif has been recorded in 5 traditions: Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Mundurucu, Curuaia, Kamayura, Vilela