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F40A - The common husband of the first women.
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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 male character, androgynous, with a monstrous penis, single-handedly possesses all women, rules over them or leads away the first women.Berezkin category: Gender and sex
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
F40 has 2 other sub-motifsF40a. A male character, androgynous, with a monstrous penis, single-handedly possesses all women, rules over them or leads away the first women. F40b. A single man finds himself in a village of women. Usually, he is forced to satisfy a woman against his will, or each woman demands to have sex with him. F40c. An authoritative man systematically kills the boys born to his wives or his sister. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F40's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| G13 | 99.32% | Before the advent of cultivated plants, people ate rotten or soft wood (ceiba – Ceiba L., balsa – Ochroma (Bombax) Sw.); some people eat rotten wood. |
| D7 | 98.73% | The frog or toad possesses the first fire, steals it from its original owner, and tries to extinguish it or save it from dying out. See motif D4. |
| H37 | 98.48% | A magical item that makes hunting or fishing easy and reliable falls into the hands of a character who is unable to control it or abuses it. |
| A27 | 98.46% | The light and/or heat of the sun and/or moon is contained in their crowns, necklaces or clothing (made of feathers or animal teeth). |
| F13 | 98.36% | The genitals of humans or monkeys acquire their current shape and colour as a result of copulation with a girl who had a toothy womb or no vagina. |
| L24 | 98.32% | Demons (or one of them) attack people and then hide. People destroy the demons' lair and kill all or most of them by spreading a smoky fire around the demons' refuge. |
| I83 | 98.16% | Birds (especially vultures and eagles) lived or live in the sky, usually on one of several tiers of the upper world. |
| K13A | 98.02% | The character's leg (rarely: both legs) is cut off, bitten off, torn off, or damaged. The character ascends to the sky: to the moon; becomes the moon; turns into a star or constellation; becomes the sun; blood flowing from the leg colours the sky. |
| G13C | 97.97% | Before the advent of cultivated or edible wild plants, people ate what is now considered unfit for consumption: (rotten) wood, bark, earth, stones, mushrooms. |
| M75 | 97.85% | The character attracts and catches corpse eaters (usually birds) and as a result obtains valuables or returns something valuable (fire, woman, animals, etc.). |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 29 traditions: Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.), Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula, Torricelli family: Valman, Samap, Arapesh (Upper, Coastal), Monumbo, Lilau, Ngaimbom; Moando (Banara); Menya, Olo, Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups), Aleuts, Naskapi, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Plains Ojibwa, Tillamook, Lower Chinook (Chinook proper), Yana, Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambe; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez), Taino of Haiti, Sicuani, Sanema, Wayana, Aparai, Urarina, Karijona, Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna), Puinave, Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor), Tenetehara, Tupari, Makurap, Sakirap, Ajuru (Wayoro), Mundurucu, Curuaia, Rikbaktsa, Paresi, Apinaye (Apinage, Apinaje), Manao, Katawishi (Teffe lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda, Greenland