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A11A - Eyes of the luminaries: coolness and night.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
The visible sun or moon are their eyes; if the eyes of the luminaries were not damaged, it would be much brighter and hotter.Berezkin category: The Sun and Moon
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 1, Sun and Moon
A11 has 3 other sub-motifsA11a. The visible sun or moon are their eyes; if the eyes of the luminaries were not damaged, it would be much brighter and hotter. A11b. The sun or moon has one eye (usually the second eye is knocked out or sucked out, but sometimes the reason is not explained; among the Munduruku, the sun of the rainy season has lost both eyes, while the sun of the dry season has retained both). See motif 11A. A11c. 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. A11D. The moon opens and closes its eyes (phases of the moon). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of A11's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A11B | 94.39% | The sun or moon has one eye (usually the second eye is knocked out or sucked out, but sometimes the reason is not explained; among the Munduruku, the sun of the rainy season has lost both eyes, while the sun of the dry season has retained both). See motif 11A. |
| G15 | 94.07% | In another world or in the past, products or materials used by humans look or looked like people. |
| C12B | 93.12% | All people or individual ethnic groups, lineages, families are considered descendants of dogs (with which a man mated). |
| I16 | 92.96% | Early humans have no mouth, anus, or genitals, and their women are unable to give birth. |
| I19 | 91.27% | Anthropomorphic creatures satisfy their hunger with the vapours of food being prepared. See motifs I14 (people without anuses), I15 (people without mouths). |
| C7 | 91.13% | Initially or after the flood, an earthen or stone barrier, the body of a character or creature prevents the flow of water. Later, this barrier is removed or destroyed. |
| D1A3 | 90.92% | A man marries a woman who is fire. She is mistreated, or her husband does not like her, and the marriage breaks down. |
| G9A | 90.92% | The field that was cultivated the day before turns back into virgin soil by morning. |
| D11 | 90.85% | Before fire was known, food was prepared by warming it with the body (usually under the armpit); fire is kept under the character's armpit. |
| I8E1 | 89.90% | The sky or earth is supported by four objects or beings located at the four cardinal points (either four groups of beings, or four at the corners and a fifth in the centre). Th A841. See motifs 8A, 8D. |
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This motif has been recorded in 22 traditions: Masai, Northern Luzon: Apayao, Bontoc, Nabaloi (Ibaloi), Ifugao, Igorot (highland people, not specified), Ilocan, Ilongot, Isneg, Kalinga, Kankanay, Tingian (Tinggian, Bilongan Itneg); Ibanag, Kasiguran Agta, Keley-i Kallahan, Southern Luzon: Pampango, Pangacian, Sambal, Tagal, Tayabas; Calamian, Central Taiwan: Bunun (Vonum), La'arua, Tsou, Kanabu, Kanakanabu, Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups), Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga, Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi, Koreans, Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Twana (Skokomish), Nez Perce, Huichol, Pame, Jonaz (Chichimeca-Jonaz), Mazahua, Otomi, Pipil, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Kekchi; Mopan, Choco: Embera, Nonama (Waunana), XVI century Dabaiba, pre-Columbian iconography of Sinu, Colorado (Tsachila), Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Mundurucu, Curuaia, Kayapa