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F49 - Caesarean section, T584.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Women had their stomachs cut open to remove the baby. Someone explains how to give birth or makes childbirth possible.Berezkin category: Gender and sex
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 5, Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms
F49 has 3 other sub-motifsF49. Women had their stomachs cut open to remove the baby. Someone explains how to give birth or makes childbirth possible. F49a. A small animal (mouse, rat, rabbit, two-wombed animal, bird) explains how to give birth. See motif F49. F49B. The hero comes to a people whose women do not know how to give birth. See motif F49. F49C. In the beginning of time, women do not know how to give birth. See motif F49. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F49's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F40C | 87.69% | An authoritative man systematically kills the boys born to his wives or his sister. |
| B4A | 87.55% | Fish beat against the ground, breaking off islands from the mainland. |
| B4 | 86.25% | Islands or mainland pulled out of the ocean, pulled by a rope. |
| K26 | 85.34% | Approaching an opening or making one, the character sees the world below (usually seeing the earth from the sky). See motif K25. |
| K1C | 84.59% | A man is abandoned on an island but survives. After some time, the person who abandoned him comes to look at his bones. The abandoned man sails away in his boat, leaving him to die. |
| D13E | 84.16% | Hunters perish because they laughed at the killed (and revived) animal. |
| L105 | 83.76% | A wounded animal, fish or anthropomorphic character runs or swims away – usually with a hook, harpoon, arrow or other hunting or fishing implement stuck in its body; local healers cannot cure the wounded creature (usually because they cannot see the object that caused the wound); a person comes to the wounded person's village and successfully treats them (usually by removing the object that caused the wound). Cf. motif M60A. |
| M60A | 83.71% | The creature/character runs away or swims away with a hook, harpoon, arrow, or other object thrown by the hero in his body. Local shamans can't heal an existence/character. The hero or his friend comes to the wounded man's village, takes out the object that caused the injury, or drives him even deeper into the body. The patient recovers or dies accordingly. See L105 and M60 motifs. |
| A12E | 82.02% | The spider attacks the sun or moon (usually causing lunar eclipses). |
| H9 | 81.33% | People are mortal (they get sick and grow old) because they are compared to something weak, fragile, easily subject to destruction or decay (upper Tanana: people have not died out because they are made of durable material rather than ephemeral material). |
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This motif has been recorded in 55 traditions: Sepik-Ramu stock: Abelam, Yatmul, Aibom, Ayom (incl Tembregak, Asai-river pygmies), Tangu, Porapora (Ambakich), Rao and other groups of Middle Ramu and Upper Keram River tribes; Kwanga, Watam, Kaian, Gamei, Awar; Kire (Lower Ramu), Melanesians of southeastern New Guinea: Mekeo, Motu, Sinagoro, Koita (Koitapu), Mukawa (Are), Wagawaga, Taupota, Awaiama, Gelaria, Goodenough Bay, Bartle Bay, Wedau (Wamira village), Santa Cruz Islands (incl Nguna, Reef Islands), Rotuma, Niue, Tikopia, Bellona, Rennell, partly Aneytium, Futuna (=Erronan, not to be mixed with Futuna in Western Polynesia), Vaeaka-Taumato, incl Matema, Nifeloli, Nukapu, Nupani, Pileni, Maori, Moriori (Chatam Islands), Tuamotu, incl Pukapuka (different from Pukapuka in Cook Islands), Vahitahi, Anaa, Hao, Fangatau, Mangareva, Hawaii, Gilbert Islands, Nauru, Banaba (Ocean island), Ontong Java, Nukumanu, Takuu, Nukuria, Tuvalu (Ellice), Yap, Ifaluk, Woleai, Lamutrek, Faraulip Satawal, Elato, Western Fayu, Truk, Eastern Fayu, Losap, Pulap, Puluwat, Mortlock (incl. Satawan), Marshall Islands, incl Ailinglapalap, Arno, Jaluit, Kili, Lae, Maloelap, Majuro, Ratak, Wotho, Ujae, Jaluit (=Jalooj), Namdrik, Sumbawa (incl Dongo), Flores, incl Mangarai (Western Flores), Nage, Keo, Riung, Ngada or Nad'a (Central Flores), Sika (Eastern Flores), Malay; Temuan (incl Mantra or Mentra), Jakun (Moken), Kayan, Bahau, Kenja, Aoheng, Punan (Bukat, Basap, Oloh Ot, etc); "Klemantan", Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples, Upper Tanana (Nebesna), Tanacross, Tagish, Tahltan, Koyukon, Tanana, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), North Alaskan Inupiat, Copper, Netsilik, Iglulik, Polar Inuit, Tlingit, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Karok, Klamath, Modoc, Yurok, Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography, Guajiro, Sicuani, Cuiva, Locono, Waorani, Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Huambiza, Urarina, Amahuaca, Cashinahua, Sharanahua, Yaminahua, Yawanahua, Capanahua), Kodiak, Lele, Tobanga, Matses (Mayoruna), Palau