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F42 - Men leave.

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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.

Summary of Motif

Feeling wronged, men leave their wives or sisters.

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

F42 has 1 other sub-motifs F42.  Feeling wronged, men leave their wives or sisters. F42a.  In the community of the first ancestors, young men or boys turn into birds or bats and fly away.  Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of F42's motifs?

Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns

Motif	Similarity	Motif Summary
F44	99.23%	In the community of the first ancestors, women and men quarrel, leave, kill, maim each other, etc.
B13A	98.59%	A stream of water (with a predator in it) rushes after a character who is trying to escape from it.
H24F	98.00%	The character has the ability to put a large amount of meat or fish into a bag or container that is easy to carry.
E13A	97.76%	Sacred knowledge, objects and rituals were first obtained by humans from the inhabitants of the underwater world.
J36	97.51%	The turtle drags the hero's parents under water.
F43	97.42%	The women of the community of the first ancestors kill or abandon the men.
C9A	97.34%	During the flood or when crossing a river, those who drowned or were saved turn into aquatic or amphibious animals.
D13C	97.17%	Two companions or brothers live together. The older one has a wife, whom he hides. To discover her, the younger one, left alone in the house, makes her laugh.
I28A	97.17%	Large animals that are hunted go underground and cause earthquakes.
J60	97.15%	A woman conceives twins from two different fathers.

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Map of Motif Dispersal

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Terrain Minimal Countries

This motif has been recorded in 16 traditions: Hadza, 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, Sepik-Ramu stock: Abelam, Yatmul, Aibom, Ayom (incl Tembregak, Asai-river pygmies), Tangu, Porapora (Ambakich), Rao and other groups of Middle Ramu and Upper Keram River tribes; Kwanga, Watam, Kaian, Gamei, Awar; Kire (Lower Ramu), Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Sah-nameh, Marzban-nameh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees, Zoroastrianism, 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), Tanana, Navajo, Jicarilla, Hopi, Seri, Tariana, Kamayura, Trumai, Kayabi, Bororo, Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay)

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