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D10 - The fire drill is a pair of people.
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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 couple of people serve as the embodiment of a tool for obtaining fire.Berezkin category: Fire and Laughter
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 6, Origin and interpretation of culture elements, in particular related to agriculture, inadequate forms of subsistence and economic activity before the establishment of the present norms
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F64B | 93.59% | A woman pretends to be someone else in order to seduce her son, brother, daughter or grandson. See motif F64. |
| L105 | 91.65% | A wounded animal, fish or anthropomorphic character runs or swims away – usually with a hook, harpoon, arrow or other hunting or fishing implement stuck in its body; local healers cannot cure the wounded creature (usually because they cannot see the object that caused the wound); a person comes to the wounded person's village and successfully treats them (usually by removing the object that caused the wound). Cf. motif M60A. |
| K47A | 90.08% | A woman mates with a dog. Her children grow up to be humans and usually become the ancestors of certain ethnic groups. |
| G23B | 89.59% | People from different ethnic groups arise from parts of the creature's body, or people from different groups receive their names (and characteristics) depending on which parts of the creature's body they have received. |
| B1B | 89.44% | Two female progenitors participate in the process of creation. The actions of one bring good, the other evil. |
| B79A1 | 88.54% | At the beginning of time, a bird flies and drops pieces of solid ground onto the water, from which land or an island emerges. Sometimes the substrate onto which the piece of solid ground falls is not precisely defined. |
| A21 | 88.26% | The sun and/or moon were objects that were thrown or placed into the sky. |
| H12A | 87.65% | The wife dies, the husband comes for her, or he kills her himself for adultery; she turns into a monster and haunts him. |
| E30A | 86.65% | 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. |
| K34 | 86.31% | The character puts others on the swing and, after swinging them, throws them (or threatens to throw them) into the water, onto rocks, etc. |
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This motif has been recorded in 11 traditions: Trans-New Guinea and unclassified Papuan groups of Irian Jaya: Mejprat, Arandai-Bintuni, Inanwatan-Berau, Papua of Gelvink (Cenderawasih) Bay, Kamoró, Marind Anim, Sawi, Mafore; Korowai; Kwerba; Momina, Eipo, Yale, Awyu, Kachin (Singpho), Chak, Nganasans, Ainu, Chukchi, Yurok, Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki, Chumash, Cahuilla, Cupeño, Tupari, Makurap, Sakirap, Ajuru (Wayoro), Ayoreo