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I7C - Rain or dew – urine.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
When a character in the upper world urinates, it rains (dew falls) on earth.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
I7 has 3 other sub-motifsI7. The reptile produces rain and thunderstorms. I7a. Lightning is associated with a snake. I7b. Lightning – a crack in the sky through which the heavens are visible for a moment. I7c. When a character in the upper world urinates, it rains (dew falls) on earth. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I7's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F95 | 91.08% | Two companions or brothers live together. One has a wife, whom he hides. The other suspects her existence, destroys her, or tries to get a wife for himself. |
| F80 | 90.37% | The first men and/or women have no genitals, then they acquire them. |
| D8 | 90.36% | The first fire (or summer) is stolen from a large predator – a lion or leopard in Africa, a tiger in Asia, a bear in northern Asia and North America, and a jaguar in South America. |
| F42 | 89.71% | Feeling wronged, men leave their wives or sisters. |
| B36 | 89.69% | Birds, fish, and four-legged animals deliberately or accidentally smear themselves with colouring substances or divide parts of another's body among themselves, thereby acquiring their current appearance. |
| I30 | 89.44% | In the world of the dead, its master or mistress copulates with all new arrivals. |
| F43A | 89.09% | In the community of the first ancestors, women kill, attempt to kill, or transform men. |
| B37 | 89.04% | The character decorates various birds (less often fish) and distributes fat to animals. Since then, the corresponding species have possessed their current characteristics. |
| F42A | 88.53% | In the community of the first ancestors, young men or boys turn into birds or bats and fly away. |
| B15 | 88.41% | The river flows from the organs of a woman's body. |
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This motif has been recorded in 8 traditions: Lunda (Alunda), Papua-NewGuinea Highland Papuans:Trans New Guinea & unclassified:Chimbu,Gimi,KaugelHuli,Gadsup,Kuman,Kutubu,Foi (Foe),Kyaka,Kamano (Kafe),Mawatta,Kukukuku (=Anga,=Sambia;Manki,Nauti,Ejuti),Baruya,Kewa,Tembregak,Menya,Melpa,Wiru,Pondoma, Chukchi, Tahltan, Polar Inuit, Lower Chinook (Chinook proper), Cherokee, Mam, Ixil, Aguatec, Avakatec