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G12 - Tree – human.
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Summary of Motif
A huge tree bearing various fruits and/or containing water in its trunk grows out of a human body or is a transformed human being.Berezkin category: Fertility and Agriculture
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 3, Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature
G12 has 3 other sub-motifsG12. A huge tree bearing various fruits and/or containing water in its trunk grows out of a human body or is a transformed human being. G12a. Cultivated plants arise from drops of blood or flow like blood from cuts on the body of a human or animal. G12b. Cultivated plants – a gift from a male star or female star. G12c. The fox or coyote ascends to the sky and, upon returning, spreads plants across the earth that previously only existed in the sky. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of G12's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A10 | 100.00% | The sun gets its sparkling eyes (eye) from an animal. |
| A11C | 100.00% | The Sun and Moon kill a monster whose eyes shine differently. At first, the Moon takes the brighter eye, but then swaps with the Sun. |
| B23 | 100.00% | The deity forbids the use of fire for cooking and punishes those who violate the prohibition. |
| B39 | 100.00% | An insect or character, which later turns into an insect, knows where food (cultivated plants) or water is located, but refuses to share this knowledge. To find the valuables (usually to force the insect to reveal its secret), the first ancestors pull on a rope tied around the character's waist (the origin of the bridge between the abdominal and thoracic sections of insects). |
| G27 | 100.00% | Cultivated plants appear together with urine or in the place where the hero urinated. |
| J12A | 100.00% | A girl or two sisters come to an old woman who invites them to marry her son. In reality, he is a worm, a snake or a penis, which his mother hides in a vessel during the day. The girl (sisters) do not allow him to approach them and run away. See motif J12. |
| J33A | 100.00% | A boy, a young man, or two children live in an old woman's house. They kill her husband—a man or a large animal—and make a scarecrow out of him. Angry that her husband is not responding to her, the old woman beats the scarecrow and then discovers that her husband has been killed. See motif J33. |
| J51B | 100.00% | The moon has been eaten or has died and its body has decomposed. It is revived, but a small part (the bone) is missing. This determines the characteristics of the moon or the characteristics of human anatomy. |
| G3 | 99.75% | Cultivated plants or fertile soil for their cultivation are hidden inside the rock. Birds or thunder gods pierce a hole in the rock. |
| G16 | 99.41% | Ants are the first to find cultivated plants that are unknown to others and concentrated in one place. |
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This motif has been recorded in 5 traditions: Bribri, Cabecar, Terraba; Chiriqui (AD 800-1500) iconography, Guayabero, Chayahuita , Baniwa (incl. Wakuenai), Bare, Piapoco, Curripaco, Siusi, Guarikena , Witoto, Ocaina