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I10B - Coloured tiers of the earth.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Individual layers or categories of earth differ in colour (and other characteristics).Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
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
I10 has 1 other sub-motifsI10a. Individual layers or categories of the sky or clouds differ in colour. I10b. Individual layers or categories of earth differ in colour (and other characteristics). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I10's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F53A | 94.87% | The husband hides his face from his wife because she does not know that he is a bat or an owl. |
| I82A | 92.80% | The Morning and/or Evening Star – a male character. |
| M63 | 92.48% | Before reaching the part of the body that is most suitable for certain purposes, others are named or tried. (Cf. Motive F22: The enumeration is related to finding the partner's genitals). |
| F9A | 91.24% | There are teeth, blades or sharp stones in a woman's vagina or on the inside of her thighs; the vagina is a toothy mouth. (Only texts with a focus on authenticity are taken into account, not anecdotes). |
| F22 | 91.23% | The character asks a person of the opposite sex about the purpose of the part of the body used for sexual intercourse (usually after asking questions about other parts). Alternatively, the character tries out different parts of the body for sexual intercourse or for placing the genitals. Cf. motif M63. |
| E3 | 91.13% | After the destruction of the previous world, new people (rarely: new earth) are made from the remains of the dead. |
| F9 | 91.02% | For various reasons, sexual intercourse with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man, or so it seems to him: Teeth, blades or sharp stones in the vagina or on the inside of the thighs; the vagina is a toothy mouth. See motif F9A. |
| A19B | 90.46% | Moving across the sky, the sun changes its mounts depending on the season – in summer it rides on a slow animal, in winter – on a fast one. Or in winter the sun is carried by a young man, and in summer – by an old man. |
| A1 | 90.28% | Another sun — less powerful or less favourable to humans — existed before the appearance of the current one. |
| J4 | 90.17% | The heroes avenge the death (enslavement) of their father, uncle, grandfather, or mother and father, or in general their descendants, with the loss of men being the most painful. |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 10 traditions: Konds (Khonds; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo, Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi), Nenets, Navajo, Western Keres (Acoma, Laguna), Eastern Keres (Cochiti, Sia, San Felipe, Santo Domingo, Santa Ana, Paguate, Seama), Kogi (Cagaba), Sanha, Creols of Aritama Valley, Tunebo, Mura (Pirahã), Cashibo