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L90D - Lips nailed to the sky and the earth.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
The hero attaches the upper lip (jaw) of the monster to the sky, and the lower lip to the earth.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 8, Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
L90 has 5 other sub-motifsL90. One lip (one fang, horn, etc.) of the creature reaches the sky, while the other drags along the ground. L90a. Describes a house that stands on the legs or a single leg of a bird or small animal and/or rotates (is capable of turning). L90b. One tooth (fang) of the creature touches the sky, the other reaches the earth or the underworld. L90c. One horn of an animal (deer, ram, bull, goat, wolverine) touches the ground, while the other is raised to the sky or reaches the sky. L90d. The hero attaches the upper lip (jaw) of the monster to the sky, and the lower lip to the earth. L90E. Human heads are impaled on stakes outside the house of a dangerous character, and one head is missing (or there is a wall of heads, with one missing). It is assumed that the head of the hero of the story should be there. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L90's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A37B | 100.00% | A small animal (marmot, rabbit, mole, frog) or a person who turns into such an animal tries to hit a target in the sky (a celestial body or a bird) with arrows and as a result loses their thumbs. |
| K56A8B | 100.00% | A virtuous girl (usually the daughter of a dog) wants to kill herself and puts her hand in a snake's hole. The snake does not bite her, but rewards her. |
| I132 | 99.23% | A deer props its antlers against the sky, and a person climbs them to reach the upper world. Alternatively, a person finds themselves in the sky when they touch the deer's antlers. |
| K101C | 99.23% | The bride stipulates that she will only be with her husband during the day. The husband discovers that at night she meets with heavenly maidens (and usually flies away to dance in the sky). He follows her and in the end she stays with him on earth. |
| K27Z2 | 99.00% | A noble woman is forced to leave her home, gives birth to a son, and is separated from him. The young man grows up and almost marries his mother, but at the last moment everything is explained. {The Sudanese text, attributed to this plot in el-Shamy 2004 and subsequently in Uther 2004, does not fit the definition; it is quite possible that the Latvians, Romanians and Ukrainians are also mentioned incorrectly in Uther 2004}. |
| K37E | 99.00% | The clairvoyant cannot identify the person who revealed the secret, because that person does so while hiding among objects that are never found together in everyday life. |
| E31A2 | 98.98% | The girl must be given to one of several men. She herself or someone else explains that one of the suitors can be called her father, another her brother (etc.), and only one can be her husband. |
| M130A | 98.89% | A trickster lures an animal into a hunter's trap. Another animal advises the victim to pretend to be dead and helps it escape. |
| B116C | 98.77% | In the past, the people possessed writing and knowledge, but these were lost, or the people missed the opportunity to acquire them. |
| H43A | 98.52% | Having created the human body, the creator leaves. At this time, another character tries to break the figure, which has not yet come to life. |
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This motif has been recorded in 4 traditions: Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots), Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar, Altaians, Salars