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I35 - Thunder - animal skin.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Thunder is produced by a (tanned) animal skin or (rarely) a person being dragged, or clothing being dragged behind or shaken out.Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
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
I35 has 7 other sub-motifsI35. Thunder is produced by a (tanned) animal skin or (rarely) a person being dragged, or clothing being dragged behind or shaken out. I35a. Thunder is produced by an old woman in the sky. I35a1. The character claims the role of the thunder god and imitates him. I35a1a. The character considers himself equal to the deity, imitating him, mocking him or trying to kill him. I35a2. Thunder is heard when stones or large vessels are rolled, dragged or overturned in the sky. I35b. The sky is considered to be metallic. The process of its creation resembles metal forging. I35b1. The sky is made of ice. I35c. One of the mythological characters who, using his craft skills, first makes (usually forges) tools and natural objects; he is the patron of craftsmen (usually blacksmiths). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I35's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B50 | 88.51% | A dangerous character wants to find out from a blood-sucking insect where it drank blood or whose blood (flesh) tastes better. Usually, the insect deliberately lies, or another character prevents it from telling the truth (by pulling out its tongue). As a result, the dangerous character chooses animals or plants as the object of its aggression, rather than people. (The motif is related to the story of Noah's flood (see motif C3); †: There are versions in which the motif is presented separately, as well as those in which it is included in the story of Noah's flood.) |
| A43A | 88.23% | The moon or character currently visible on the moon hastily ascends to the sky. He is missing one trouser leg or shoe on one foot. Cf. motifs A43 and K13A. |
| M83 | 87.17% | Each character claims that he is older and appeared before this world or (Ingush) that his father was cosmic in size. |
| F70 | 86.26% | A woman falsely accuses a man of assaulting her. |
| M77 | 85.98% | The character stains another's clothes or bed with sewage or something that looks like sewage, threatens to ruin the air and accuse the other, etc.; taking advantage of the victim's confusion, achieves the goal. |
| F70A | 85.49% | Accusing a man or young man of assaulting her (usually sexually), a woman presents fabricated material evidence (tearing her clothes, scratching her body, etc.). See motif F70. |
| L92 | 84.39% | A demon, a cannibal, chops down a tree or rock on top of which the hero has climbed. Another character offers the cannibal a rest and takes over the chopping, but only spoils his work or (among the Athapaskans) kills him as soon as the cannibal hands him his axe. (African variants are clearly borrowed from Eurasia). |
| I22C | 83.56% | The character safely slips, sails or flies through the opening, which then slams shut, but the edge of the stern of the boat, the tail of an animal or bird, the body of a riding animal, the hero's companion or his own heel is crushed, torn off, etc. |
| I6 | 83.39% | A person encounters a huge bird carrying clouds, rain, snow, thunderstorms, etc. |
| K27N | 82.98% | A young man must complete difficult tasks or win a competition in order to obtain permission to marry. The person giving the tasks is indicated in square brackets. See motif K27. |
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This motif has been recorded in 25 traditions: Sanye (Aweer), 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), Juang, Ancient Greece, Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji, Yagnobi, Tajik, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Nogai, Armenians, Uyghur, 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), Turkmen, Chukchi, Nunivak Island, North Alaskan Inupiat, Netsilik, Caribou, Polar Inuit, Pomo, Sierra Miwok, Siriono, Botocudo, Kodiak, Greenland