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F80A - Removable genitals.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Genitals exist independently of people; they can be left behind, attached to the body, etc.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
F80 has 4 other sub-motifsF80. The first men and/or women have no genitals, then they acquire them. F80a. Genitals exist independently of people; they can be left behind, attached to the body, etc. F80B. The vaginas were left unattended and became damaged. See motif F80. F80C. In the afterlife, women carry the penises of their lovers, and men carry the vulvas of their lovers. See motif F80. F80D. Female genitals flew like geese. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F80's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| H9 | 92.88% | 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). |
| F80 | 91.71% | The first men and/or women have no genitals, then they acquire them. |
| B37 | 89.76% | The character decorates various birds (less often fish) and distributes fat to animals. Since then, the corresponding species have possessed their current characteristics. |
| L46 | 88.72% | The character walks, climbs or descends upside down, or sees the world turned upside down. |
| L21 | 88.12% | A cannibal or demon under a tree intends to grab a person who has climbed a tree; the person throws his prey or some object far away, and while the cannibal is looking for, picking up or eating what has been thrown, he runs away. |
| I72 | 87.56% | Stars – 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. |
| I7C | 87.09% | When a character in the upper world urinates, it rains (dew falls) on earth. |
| L47 | 86.84% | The hero's enemy approaches him upside down or backwards, giving the hero the opportunity to kill him or escape. See motif L46. |
| J58 | 86.46% | Characters shoot arrows (darts) that stick into each other and form a chain. They usually climb up the chain to the upper world. |
| J54 | 86.33% | The heroes of the narrative exterminate animals or demons of a certain species. This species could have disappeared altogether if one or more individuals (often a pregnant female) had not been saved. {This motif does not include aetiological endings, according to which the current creatures of a certain species originate from a dismembered original creature}. |
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This motif has been recorded in 34 traditions: Ngbakka, Mbum (incl Mbai), Mundang, Fali, Tupuri, Maya (=Bali), Nyong, Bemba (Wemba, Babemba; incl Ambo, Lala, Lamba, Bisa), Holoholo, Kaonde, Soninke, Ifaluk, Woleai, Lamutrek, Faraulip Satawal, Elato, Western Fayu, Truk, Eastern Fayu, Losap, Pulap, Puluwat, Mortlock (incl. Satawan), Ponape, Ngaik, Mwoakil (Mokil), Kusaie (Kosrae), Marshall Islands, incl Ailinglapalap, Arno, Jaluit, Kili, Lae, Maloelap, Majuro, Ratak, Wotho, Ujae, Jaluit (=Jalooj), Namdrik, Bondo, Didayi (Gata'), Gutob (=Gadaba; cf Dravidian-speaking Gadaba), Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga, Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Bacop, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Kets, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Upper Tanana (Nebesna), Tanacross, Tutchone, Inland Tlingit, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), Tlingit, Haida, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Comox, Pentlatch, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Jicarilla, Hopi, Huichol, Waiwai, Hixkariyana, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje, Chipaya, Kuikuro, Kalapalo, Calapalo, Kamayura, Trumai, Wolof