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J25 - Infants hide and return.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Heroes (one, two or one of two), while still infants or embryos, disappear or are thrown away (often into water). To bring them back to the world of humans, they are lured, persuaded or (with difficulty) caught.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
J25 has 4 other sub-motifsJ25. Heroes (one, two or one of two), while still infants or embryos, disappear or are thrown away (often into water). To bring them back to the world of humans, they are lured, persuaded or (with difficulty) caught. J25a. The mother dies or is killed. The child in her womb or the newborn baby is buried with her. He comes out of the grave, meets people, returns to the grave, or is found in the entrails of his dead mother. In the end, the child stays with the people. See motif J25. J25a1. A woman dies, but remains incorrupt and gives birth to a child in the grave. He is found and brings his mother back to life. J25b. A pregnant woman dies and is buried. Her spirit leaves the grave to bring food to the child. The child is found and grows up. j25c. A she-wolf nurses an abandoned infant. He becomes an outstanding leader. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of J25's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| H34B | 91.62% | Somewhere there is or was a river that flowed or, according to the plan, was supposed to flow in two directions at once. |
| L68 | 90.28% | Left alone (usually at night in a deserted place) with his companion, a man undergoes a monstrous metamorphosis. |
| L5C | 89.95% | The monster head pursues celestial bodies, people, or attaches itself to someone else's body. See motif L5. |
| K27O | 89.22% | The confrontation between heroes and antagonists unfolds in the form of a ball game. |
| C34 | 88.87% | The flood begins after people kill (harm, maim) some kind of creature (usually aquatic). |
| I13A | 88.07% | A huge aquatic or celestial serpent, dragon, or snake-like creature with horns on its head. |
| L28 | 87.60% | A person who eats unusual or forbidden meat or fish, or touches something forbidden, turns into a reptile or a fish. |
| A17 | 87.25% | Having travelled halfway across the sky or the underworld, the Sun stops to rest. |
| L29 | 87.11% | A person catches fish where it should not be, usually in a small forest pond isolated from running water; those who eat this fish die, undergo metamorphosis and/or are attacked by monsters. See motif L28. |
| H18 | 87.10% | Hunted animals were concentrated in one place. A certain character creates them there or allows them to scatter. |
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This motif has been recorded in 63 traditions: Melanesians of Admiralty Islands (incl Manus); Seimat (Western Islands), Rotuma, Tuvalu (Ellice), Nicobarese, Ossetians, Uyghur, Turkmen, Bashkirs, Mansi, Forest Nenets, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Mongols (Khalkha), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Nenets, Nganasans, Southern Selkups, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Oroch, Nanai, Tsimshian, Micmac, Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Winnebago, Blackfoot, Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Arapaho, Omaha, Ponca, Iowa, Arikara, Pawnee, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Gros Ventre, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Crow, Hidatsa, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Klamath, Modoc, Caddo, Natchez (incl Avoyel), Alabama, Koasati, Cherokee, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Jicarilla, Western Mexico Nahuatl, Makiritare (Yecuana), Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Huambiza, Barasana, Taibano, Macuna, Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca, Wanana, Tucano proper, Pira-Tapuya, Arapaso, Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna), Tariana, Yagua, Maue (Mawe), Amuesha, Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete, Kamayura, Manao, Katawishi (Teffe lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda