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B7B - Water from a vessel.
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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 sea (flood, river) flows out of a small container.Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
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
B7 has 3 other sub-motifsB7a. Someone possesses water or a drink. Another character swallows what is hidden, runs away and spits out what is hidden, making the water or drink available to everyone. B7b. The sea (flood, river) flows out of a small container. B7c. Fresh water, which its sole owner hides in a vessel or pond, is scattered throughout the world. B7d. Water pours from a broken bone, flooding the earth. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of B7's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B17 | 95.99% | Darkness is a special object that can be carried and transferred (usually brought from the original owner in a vessel or bag). |
| L70 | 95.48% | The character is killed or maimed by an object dropped from above, the fall of which he expects, but has a false idea of its nature or weight (fruit, piece of bark, turtle, log, etc.). |
| D4A | 94.01% | Fire is stolen from its original owner, returned to people by the thief, or (the motif of theft is not expressed) brought with difficulty from a distant place. |
| M76 | 93.94% | A woman cuts off a man's leg when he climbs a tree; a man cuts off a woman's leg when she climbs a tree. See K13A motif. |
| F28B | 93.67% | A woman uses a penis made of wax, wood, fruit or root. Usually her husband or male relative smears it with pepper, and the woman is maimed or killed. |
| L63 | 93.49% | The character eats food with the womb or anus. See motif F9A. |
| K13C | 93.39% | The cannibal's daughter takes revenge on her husband for her mother's death and manages to cut off his leg. See motif K13A. |
| E8 | 93.29% | The first humans or the wife of the first ancestor were made of wood. |
| M8A | 93.17% | Animals, and more often birds, find it difficult to break through a rock from the outside or inside, make a hole in the tree, in the body of an absorber creature, tear fetters, etc., to help a character or get out of the confined space by yourself. The list <b><i>includes</i></b> groups whose texts deal with the exit of the first ancestors to earth from a confined space. |
| F33 | 93.00% | A woman or group of women take a water animal or water monster as their lover. The husband(s), brother(s) or (adopted) children of the woman(s) kill or maim the lover and (in some cases) the woman(s). |
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This motif has been recorded in 31 traditions: Banda, Gbaya (Baya), Manja, Ngbandi, Mbum (incl Mbaye), Fali; Mündü, Kposso, "Togo-Restvölker" (Adele, Akebu, Akposso, Bowiri/Bowili, Santrokofi, Lelemi, Borada Akrade, Teteman, Baakwa, Bowiri), Central Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo, Araki, Aore, Maewo, Malekula, Vao, Efate (Vate), Nguna, Mae, Ambrim, Pentecost, Oba (=Aoba, East Ambae, Lepers'), Omba, Early Chinese written sources, Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Tsetsaut, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Tillamook, Yurok, Caddo, Chemehuevi, Luiseño, Juaneño, Cocopa, Creols of Eastern and Central Cuba, Taino of Haiti, Guajiro, Cuiva, Locono, Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje, Zaparo, Karijona, Juruna, Moseten, Chimane, Yuracare, Bakairi, Kuikuro, Kalapalo, Calapalo, Kamayura, Trumai, Caraja, Suya, Txukarramae, Peru