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G4 - Mountain of abundance.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Cultivated plants found on or inside a mountain.Berezkin category: Fertility and Agriculture
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 |
|---|---|---|
| G16 | 99.71% | Ants are the first to find cultivated plants that are unknown to others and concentrated in one place. |
| A22B | 99.71% | The sun and its companion burn up. The companion burns in a less intense fire (is thrown into the ashes, etc.); therefore, the moon (or star) is cold. See motif A22. |
| K30A | 99.67% | The wife of the first ancestor flies away with the vultures (usually voluntarily, after she has already cheated on her husband), and the chief (Uito: her brother) brings her back. See motif K30. |
| A13B | 99.29% | During an eclipse or at the first appearance of night, ants eclipse the sun. |
| A9 | 99.29% | The moon-woman does not allow her son or husband, the Sun, to destroy people. |
| L3A | 99.29% | Left alone, a woman carelessly calls for someone to help her with the housework; a demon comes and kills the woman or her child. |
| A22A | 99.28% | Two characters burn; one turns into the present sun, and the other into a less significant celestial object. See motif A22. |
| I27B | 98.96% | A dog carries a person across a river to another world. See motif I27. |
| M47 | 98.96% | When punishing a person or animal or restoring a dismembered body, a character intentionally or accidentally puts his head to his ass. |
| A10 | 98.55% | The sun gets its sparkling eyes (eye) from an animal. |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 9 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, Western Mexico Nahuatl, Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography, Pipil, Tequistlatec, Tzeltal, Kekchi; Mopan, Hixkariyana, Wayana, Aparai