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J57 - Son of the Sun.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Conceived by the Sun, a woman gives birth to sons or a son; when they come of age, they visit their father. See motif J56.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F45B | 98.69% | A woman gives birth to a son conceived by (the rays or light of) the sun. |
| F64A | 98.55% | Leaving or pretending to be dying, the character gives instructions to a relative regarding what he or she should do to get married, indicating a partner with certain characteristics, or the character indicates the place of a future meeting with this partner; or (Philippines) describes a person who should be accepted as a guest; comes himself under the guise of the person mentioned. See motif F64. |
| M81D | 97.67% | A person meets (most often in the sky) one or two blind people and restores their sight. |
| F56 | 97.34% | Upon seeing the vagina of his mother, daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, niece, or mother-in-law, a man or boy thinks about incest or commits it. |
| E30A | 96.93% | A man without a wife or a woman without a husband uses a substitute spouse made of wood or other material until a real spouse appears. |
| F15 | 96.91% | The character sticks his plant-like penis out of the ground (provoking a woman to sit on it). |
| J53B | 96.72% | Two women live together, both have children. One of them leaves the house with the other, kills her, brings her meat home and starts cooking it. The children of the deceased notice their mother's breasts (in California – eyes or liver), or the mother's breasts themselves turn to her children. |
| L40A | 96.36% | An unattractive woman sees the reflection of a young man sitting in a tree in the water and thinks that she has become beautiful. |
| J22A | 96.19% | Two men or a brother and sister emerge from a single body or embryo cut in half, or the second emerges from a part of the body or from the secretions of the first. Cf. motif M37. |
| H12A | 95.43% | The wife dies, the husband comes for her, or he kills her himself for adultery; she turns into a monster and haunts him. |
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This motif has been recorded in 19 traditions: Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Gilbert Islands, Nauru, Banaba (Ocean island), Ontong Java, Nukumanu, Takuu, Nukuria, Tuvalu (Ellice), Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar, Tamils, Chukchi, Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Winnebago, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Navajo, Jicarilla, Hopi, Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambe; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez), Guajiro, Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo, Tokelau