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C33 - Prometheus (the chained strongman).
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A strongman-god-fighter is chained to a rock or a pillar for centuries.Berezkin category: Disasters
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 8, Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
C33 has 3 other sub-motifsC33. A strongman-god-fighter is chained to a rock or a pillar for centuries. C33a. Throughout the year, someone tries to saw through or break the chain or rope that holds him or another character. On a certain day of the year, when the chain has become completely thin, it is restored to its former state, or the pole to which the chain is attached is reinserted into the ground. Cf. motif G8d. C33a1. A bird of prey flies to the chained character every day and pecks at his internal organs. The character recovers overnight, and the cycle repeats itself. C33b. The demise of the first race is associated with the appearance of wind. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of C33's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M29Z | 99.76% | hero of the story is a character named “Beardless” or Aldar-Kose (Aldar is a “deceiver”, a braid is “beardless”). |
| H7F2 | 99.60% | The character embodying death had a body visible to humans. Then death became invisible. |
| K27ZZ3 | 99.60% | The father or stepmother (werewolf) pushes/locks the sisters (the girl and her servants) into a pit. The heroine manages to escape and triumphs over her antagonists. |
| L108F | 99.60% | A character (girl, boy) finds themselves in water, and the antagonist lures them to shore by imitating the voice of their father, brother or sister. |
| N26 | 99.60% | said that the action took place when cultivated plants (wheat, cotton) grew on ice or salt. |
| N9 | 99.60% | Two characters discuss the rider's approach. A person with a higher social status explains that what seems like crows are actually clods of earth flying from under the horse's hooves, and what seems like snow, cloud or fog is falling from his foam or his breath. |
| I87AB | 99.59% | Strong men or a crowd of people cannot move the body of a dead animal or the leg of a motionless person, but a child or a woman can do it easily. Cf. motif B83. |
| L15A2 | 99.59% | The human body is tempered (in a furnace, etc.) to make it invulnerable, but one place remains unprotected. |
| M141A | 99.59% | In a gathering of various animals, one of the participants refers to the weakest as insignificant to the others and bearing an ugly name. That one is eaten. This is repeated several times, each time the weakest of the remaining animals is eaten. |
| M198A4 | 99.43% | Those who listened to the story must answer who they liked more: the husband who let his wife go to another man after the wedding, the robber who did not harm her, or the man who immediately sent her back to her husband. |
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This motif has been recorded in 16 traditions: Ancient Greece, Setu, Western Ukrainians, Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Ingush, Laks, Avar, Andi, Akhvakh, Nogai, Svans, Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz, Georgians, Armenians, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians