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B6 - Walking towards each other, they get married.
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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 first or only remaining man and woman move towards each other, going around a mountain, a pole or otherwise following a circle from opposite sides, and when they meet, they get married.Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 5, Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms
B6 has 1 other sub-motifsB6. The first or only remaining man and woman move towards each other, going around a mountain, a pole or otherwise following a circle from opposite sides, and when they meet, they get married. B6a. The first woman gives birth to several eggs. One or two of them remain unchanged for a long time and are thrown into the river, believing them to be spoiled. However, it is precisely from these eggs that characters of high status emerge (or should have emerged). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of B6's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A2C2 | 96.41% | The catastrophe threatening the earth is associated with the appearance of not only several suns, but also several moons. |
| A37 | 95.94% | The character deliberately and by resorting to special means (usually shooting with a bow) strikes the sun or several suns or attempts to do so. |
| A37A | 95.94% | A small animal (marmot, rabbit, mole, toad, frog, earthworm) or a person who turns into such an animal tries to hit the heavenly body with arrows or helps the archer. Since then, this animal has been hiding in burrows and in water. |
| A2A | 95.63% | The world was or will be (almost) burned when several suns lit up or will light up simultaneously; or destructive heat (or light) once emanated from one sun. |
| A4B | 95.62% | The sun decided to walk across the sky during the day because it is afraid of the night. |
| A2B | 95.57% | In addition to the current sun and/or moon, other suns and moons shone in the sky, which were then destroyed. See motif A2A. |
| A12B | 95.37% | During an eclipse or at sunset (marked *), the luminaries are swallowed by a toad or frog. |
| C8 | 95.15% | At the beginning of time or as a result of a catastrophe, the only human couple is a brother and sister (less often a mother and son, father and daughters). They marry and give birth to people. |
| C8B | 95.00% | A brother and sister (or mother and son) find themselves alone, without marriage partners. Both of them (or only the brother, son) refuse to marry, but do so after accepting each other (or the brother accepts the sister, the son accepts the mother) as strangers. They give birth to new people. |
| B3D | 94.90% | The earth is obtained by a worm; it arises from worm excrement, extracted from the worm. |
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This motif has been recorded in 11 traditions: Yao, Makua, Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik, Mon, Palaung (De Ang, Deang), Khmu (Kammu), Puoc, Early Chinese written sources, Western Sami, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Khakas, Chilkotin, Kodiak