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B36A - Two adorn each other.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Two zoomorphic characters adorn each other, after which one is satisfied with the result and the other is not.Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 7, Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
B36 has 3 other sub-motifsB36. Birds, fish, and four-legged animals deliberately or accidentally smear themselves with colouring substances or divide parts of another's body among themselves, thereby acquiring their current appearance. B36a. Two zoomorphic characters adorn each other, after which one is satisfied with the result and the other is not. B36b. Birds find their voices by pecking at a large reptile and smearing themselves with the fluids that flow out of its body. B36c. Animals receive meat and fat rendered from a certain creature or obtained in some other way. Some received a lot, others remained thin. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of B36's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B36 | 99.14% | Birds, fish, and four-legged animals deliberately or accidentally smear themselves with colouring substances or divide parts of another's body among themselves, thereby acquiring their current appearance. |
| F47B | 99.11% | In order to create new people (new women) to replace those who have been destroyed, the character leaves something (feathers or pieces of flesh) in each empty hut (in the hearth, in the hammock, in the village), from which new people (new women) appear. |
| L36 | 98.86% | At the moment when the husband climbs or descends from a tree, his wife (or her brother) kills or maims him or turns into a demon that pursues him. |
| M14A | 98.78% | To take revenge on his wife or her relatives for (allegedly) causing him offence, the husband roasts his wife alive. See motif M14. |
| A22D | 98.71% | The burned character turns into a constellation or a dark spot on the Milky Way. |
| B114 | 98.71% | A woman or a man (usually old people) turn into anteaters (the origin of anteaters). |
| B24A | 98.71% | 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 | 98.71% | Birds find their voices by pecking at a large reptile and smearing themselves with the fluids that flow out of its body. |
| C17 | 98.71% | 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 | 98.71% | 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. |
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This motif has been recorded in 42 traditions: Southern Vanuatu: Tanna, Aneiteum (Polynesian component not included), Eromanga, Niue, Tikopia, Bellona, Rennell, partly Aneytium, Futuna (=Erronan, not to be mixed with Futuna in Western Polynesia), Vaeaka-Taumato, incl Matema, Nifeloli, Nukapu, Nupani, Pileni, Ontong Java, Nukumanu, Takuu, Nukuria, Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi, Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf, Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Sah-nameh, Marzban-nameh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees, Zoroastrianism, Plains Ojibwa, Shuswap, Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh), Quinault, Shasta; Chimariko, Yana, Guajiro, Sanema, Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami, Waiwai, Trio, Hixkariyana, Akawai, Maue (Mawe), Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor), Amuesha, Machiguenga, Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo, Cashibo, Chacobo, Ese’ejja, Parintintin; Villa Bella (tribal affiliation unknown), Mundurucu, Curuaia, Kamayura, Rikbaktsa, Kayabi, Paresi, Vilela, Mataco, Chorote, Caduveo, Mbaya, Manao, Katawishi (Teffe lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda, Biloxi, Tokelau, Matses (Mayoruna)