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J56A - Transformation into frying pans.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Heroic brothers are transformed into pots or frying pans, but only the elder is able to sit in the fire long enough.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
J56 has 1 other sub-motifsJ56. A son or sons come to their father. He subjects them to trials in order to find out whether they are really his children. J56a. Heroic brothers are transformed into pots or frying pans, but only the elder is able to sit in the fire long enough. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of J56's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F4 | 95.88% | In the days of the first ancestors, children were conceived not through sexual intercourse, but in vessels, piles of earth, lumps of clay, etc. |
| K27I | 95.62% | Task: to drain a large body of water. |
| A22D | 94.87% | The burned character turns into a constellation or a dark spot on the Milky Way. |
| B114 | 94.87% | A woman or a man (usually old people) turn into anteaters (the origin of anteaters). |
| B24A | 94.87% | After a character surrounds a group of people with a circle of feathers or throws feathers into their dwellings, the people turn into wild pigs or peccaries. |
| B36B | 94.87% | Birds find their voices by pecking at a large reptile and smearing themselves with the fluids that flow out of its body. |
| C17 | 94.87% | The men of the community of the first ancestors destroy most of the people and/or themselves on a pyre or in a fire pit. |
| C2A | 94.87% | Two characters meet a woodpecker and receive an object from it, which causes the ground to catch fire upon contact. The stronger and smarter of the two characters escapes, while the weaker and stupider one is burned or burned to death. |
| C2B | 94.87% | The Sun and the Moon are caught in a fire. The strong and intelligent Sun escapes, while the weak and foolish Moon is burned or consumed, but the Sun revives it. |
| E28 | 94.87% | People shoot at the Moon, its blood spills onto the earth. |
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This motif has been recorded in 3 traditions: Juruna, Xipaya, Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo