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H10 - The sunken stone.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
People are mortal, as they are likened to a stone thrown into water; they usually miss the opportunity to resemble organic matter that floats in water.Berezkin category: Paradise Lost
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 4, Origin of death, diseases and hard life
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M29I | 95.06% | See the motives in square brackets. |
| K8E | 92.49% | The character penetrates inside the creature through the anus. |
| I117 | 92.22% | A spider or spider woman lifts a hero or heroine up to the sky, helps them descend to earth, or otherwise helps them cross the path leading to another world. |
| E10 | 91.76% | Characters who have shed their animal (plant, object) forms become the children of women or spouses who catch them off guard. |
| F65 | 90.34% | To satisfy their secret desire, which involves breaking social norms (forbidden sex, refusing to share food with relatives), the character pretends to be dying, abandoned at the burial site. |
| M42 | 90.15% | The character takes his eyes out of his orbits and loses them. He usually regains his eyes later, makes new ones, takes away from another character, etc. See the M41 motif. |
| I1 | 89.91% | Creatures that cause or embody rain and/or thunderstorms are birds or winged anthropomorphic characters. {Traditions in which birds are associated with thunderstorms and rain, but Thunder itself is not a bird, are marked with an asterisk (*). |
| M89 | 89.77% | A character is humiliated after an object or creature made of wax, resin, or excrement that he made himself or that he thought was strong melts warmly, the present. |
| M87 | 89.71% | The character comes to a place that is abandoned or seems to have been abandoned by the inhabitants. He tries to take or touch things, but invisible owners prevent him from doing so, or the things themselves hurt him. |
| K27YY | 88.49% | The hero is sent to a tree that is supposed to fall on him. |
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This motif has been recorded in 18 traditions: Dinka, Atuot, Nuer, Shilluk, Anuak, Tsamai (Tsamako), Omotic: Ari (incl Baka, Male, Schangama, Ubamer), Kafa, Dime, Banna, Basketo, Nao, Central Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo, Araki, Aore, Maewo, Malekula, Vao, Efate (Vate), Nguna, Mae, Ambrim, Pentecost, Oba (=Aoba, East Ambae, Lepers'), Omba, Shan, Ahom, Khampti, Tutchone, Tagish, Inland Tlingit, Blackfoot, Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Arapaho, Comanche, Gros Ventre, Flathead, Navajo, Jicarilla, Chiricahua