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D1B - Man-fire.
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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 man is the master or embodiment of fire (alone or alongside the woman-fire).Berezkin category: Fire and Laughter
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
D1 has 6 other sub-motifsD1. A woman (usually elderly) is the embodiment of fire – alone or together with her husband, the master of fire. Cf. motif D5 (woman possesses fire). D1a. A girl marries a man whose mother is fire. D1a1. Because a woman offended the fire, its mistress takes her child away. D1a2. The house of the person who insulted the fire burns down, but the property inside it or the child of another person (or that person himself) who treated the fire with respect is not harmed. D1a3. A man marries a woman who is fire. She is mistreated, or her husband does not like her, and the marriage breaks down. D1a4. Two fires from different dwellings meet and converse. D1b. The man is the master or embodiment of fire (alone or alongside the woman-fire). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of D1's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| I62 | 93.91% | The Milky Way is a heavenly river, a body of water, a chain of creatures floating in the water. |
| I78 | 91.42% | The earth is thought of as rectangular (usually square). |
| I81 | 91.30% | Earthly waters fall into the abyss. |
| H28 | 90.68% | A creature that has been killed and destroyed (often burned) (usually a cannibal, a ferocious animal, or a powerful shaman) turns into stinging insects or other harmful, unpleasant, or dangerous creatures. |
| H1E | 90.27% | A certain character is the first to enter the world of the dead, after which all people follow the same path; he paves the way to the world of the dead; the first to die becomes the master or guardian of the afterlife. |
| C2 | 90.00% | The inhabitants of the middle world (in part) are destroyed (or will be destroyed) once by fire or drought, another time by a flood, or the world is flooded with a stream of fire and boiling water. |
| B2E | 89.96% | The Earth or the world as a whole is a male character (alone or alongside a female character). |
| A12 | 89.78% | A creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, winter and summer, night and day, phases of the moon) or occasionally (eclipses, eschatological catastrophes) attack the luminaries or block their light. |
| E9 | 89.74% | The character notices that someone is running the house in his absence and catches the person doing so by surprise. |
| L18 | 89.52% | A bird with two or more heads in descriptions or images. |
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This motif has been recorded in 57 traditions: Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia, Bushmen (all groups), Mangareva, Ontong Java, Nukumanu, Takuu, Nukuria, Tuvalu (Ellice), Juang, Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori, Early Chinese written sources, Lavrung, Jiarong; Qiang (incl rGyalrong), Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Finns, Vepsians, Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia), Karachays, Balkar, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Mari (Cheremis), Chuvash, Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Mongols (Khalkha), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Khakas, Nganasans, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Dolgans, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Evens (Lamuts), Udeghe, Oroch, Nivkh, Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Inland Tlingit, Koyukon, Caddo, Tunica, Alabama, Koasati, Hitchiti, Pomo, Navajo, Huichol, Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography, Lacandon, Bribri, Cabecar, Terraba; Chiriqui (AD 800-1500) iconography, Kogi (Cagaba), Sanha, Creols of Aritama Valley, Guajiro, Cuiva, Saliva, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Maue (Mawe), Kamayura, Caraja, Mataco, Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay), Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet, Chechens, China