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K26 - The earth seen from the sky.
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Summary of Motif
Approaching an opening or making one, the character sees the world below (usually seeing the earth from the sky). See motif K25.Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
K26 has 1 other sub-motifsK26. Approaching an opening or making one, the character sees the world below (usually seeing the earth from the sky). See motif K25. K26a. The hole in the sky is covered by a flat stone. Moving it aside, the character sees the earth. See motif K26. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K26's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| I15 | 94.96% | Creatures without mouths. Usually, their mouths are cut open later. |
| K27K | 93.07% | Test: to dive underwater for a long time or deeply. See motif K27. |
| K31 | 91.79% | The character makes a marine mammal or fish out of wood. It kills his enemies or drags them out to the open sea. |
| M60A | 91.79% | The creature/character runs away or swims away with a hook, harpoon, arrow, or other object thrown by the hero in his body. Local shamans can't heal an existence/character. The hero or his friend comes to the wounded man's village, takes out the object that caused the injury, or drives him even deeper into the body. The patient recovers or dies accordingly. See L105 and M60 motifs. |
| K34 | 91.66% | The character puts others on the swing and, after swinging them, throws them (or threatens to throw them) into the water, onto rocks, etc. |
| B44C | 91.31% | The characters argue about whether there should be darkness or light, cold or warmth on earth. See motif B44. |
| K27X | 90.54% | A man marries a woman from another world; the wife leaves for her world, the man follows her; there, the woman has another fiancé(e) or husband, or the woman's brothers want to destroy the man; he undergoes trials and brings his wife back. See motif K27. |
| K111 | 90.47% | The girl's mother consistently rejects birds and animals that propose to her daughter, but accepts the proposal of a heavenly anthropomorphic character. |
| M46 | 90.21% | Some creatures steal or own valuables. To return (get) them, the character turns into a small object, from contact with which a woman becomes pregnant, or into a baby. A picked up or born baby takes on its true appearance and steals valuables (including making the girl who picked it up pregnant, if that was his goal). |
| M81C | 89.30% | A person goes to heaven or (rarely) to the lower world, where he meets blind people (one or two), usually makes them sighted, and returns to earth himself. |
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This motif has been recorded in 60 traditions: Arnhem Land: Enindhilyagwa (Groote Eilandt), KuTiwi, Yulengor, Mara, Oenpelli, Murngin, Roper River, Maung, Murinbata, Murngin (Duwal), Millingimbi, Goulburn Island, Ngulugwongga, Yirrkalla, Voctoria River Downs, Alawa, Anu, Kunwinjku, Papua-NewGuinea Highland Papuans:Trans New Guinea & unclassified:Chimbu,Gimi,KaugelHuli,Gadsup,Kuman,Kutubu,Foi (Foe),Kyaka,Kamano (Kafe),Mawatta,Kukukuku (=Anga,=Sambia;Manki,Nauti,Ejuti),Baruya,Kewa,Tembregak,Menya,Melpa,Wiru,Pondoma, Melanesians of the islands of Massim District ( =Milke Bay Province) to the east of New Guinea: Dobu, Rossel, Fergusson, Goodenough, Murua (Woodlark), Trobrian Islands, d'Entrecasteau Islands, Melanesians and Papuans of Northern Solomons: Buka, Bougainville (Siuai, Buin), Southern Vanuatu: Tanna, Aneiteum (Polynesian component not included), Eromanga, Rotuma, Yap, Alor, Solor, Wetar, Atauru, Bidayuh (incl. Maloh), Iban (Sea Dayak), Sakarram; Brunei, Northern Luzon: Apayao, Bontoc, Nabaloi (Ibaloi), Ifugao, Igorot (highland people, not specified), Ilocan, Ilongot, Isneg, Kalinga, Kankanay, Tingian (Tinggian, Bilongan Itneg); Ibanag, Kasiguran Agta, Keley-i Kallahan, Mindanao and Sulu: Blaan (Bilaan), Bagobo, Bukidnon, Cotabato, Hiligáynon, Binukid, Magindaan (=Magindanao: main Muslim population), Mandaya, Mansaka, Manobo (Agusan, Ata, Dibabawon, Sarangani, Ilianen), Maranao, Samal, Subanon (=Subanun), Subanen, Tboli, Shan, Ahom, Khampti, Mordvins, Mansi, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Forest Nenets, Southern Selkups, Chukchi, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Aleuts, Chugach, Upper Tanana (Nebesna), Tanacross, Inland Tlingit, Tahltan, Tsetsaut, Athna, Koyukon, Tanana, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), North Alaskan Inupiat, Polar Inuit, Tsimshian, Malecite, Passamaquoddy, Micmac, Blackfoot, Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Arapaho, Mandan, Arikara, Pawnee, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Kiowa Apache, Gros Ventre, Plains Cree, Assiniboine, Crow, Hidatsa, Chilkotin, Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam, Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Twana (Skokomish), Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz, Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla), Alabama, Koasati, Washo, Kekchi; Mopan, Caraja, Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet, Mustang, Greenland