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F77A - Penis bridge.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A huge penis serves as a bridge.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
F77 has 2 other sub-motifsF77a. A huge penis serves as a bridge. F77B. A man cannot free himself for a long time after copulating with his partner, as a result of which his penis ends up high above the ground. See motif F19, motif F21. F77C. The character climbs a tree or descends a huge penis, which turns into a rope or vine. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F77's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
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| I119A | 96.40% | Creatures shake the earth, either upon learning that there are no longer any inhabitants on it, or to check whether they are still alive, or to show that they themselves are still there. |
| A2 | 96.39% | There was a time when several, i.e. more than two, suns shone in the sky at the same time. |
| A2A | 96.38% | The world was or will be (almost) burned when several suns lit up or will light up simultaneously; or destructive heat (or light) once emanated from one sun. |
| B116B | 96.33% | A book containing sacred knowledge falls into the water at a crossing or gets wet in some other way. After that, the book disappears or the text becomes unreadable. Either the book is ruined (damaged) when it is dried. Or it is ruined while left unattended on the shore while the people who kept it are swimming; or it burns, although traces remain. |
| M167 | 96.20% | In the dark, a person mistakes a tiger (lion, demon) for another person or a domestic animal (bull, ox). |
| C8 | 96.03% | At the beginning of time or as a result of a catastrophe, the only human couple is a brother and sister (less often a mother and son, father and daughters). They marry and give birth to people. |
| K116A | 95.77% | The king takes or is about to take the poor man's wife. She suggests that the king put on clothes that are not his own (usually those that belonged to her husband). After that, the king is killed by his own soldiers (dogs), who believe him to be a poor man (jester, devil). |
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This motif has been recorded in 8 traditions: Northern Taiwan: Atayal (Tayal; Taruko (Toda, Taokas, Torok, Taroko), Pazeh, Sedeq (Sediq, Seedeq, Sazek), Saisiyat (Saixia), Viet, Muong, Santali, Turi, Mahli, Mongols (Khalkha), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Nanai, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Wolof