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C12B - People – descendants of dogs.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
All people or individual ethnic groups, lineages, families are considered descendants of dogs (with which a man mated).Berezkin category: Disasters
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
C12 has 1 other sub-motifsC12a. The dog warns of an impending global flood or fire and advises what to do. C12b. All people or individual ethnic groups, lineages, families are considered descendants of dogs (with which a man mated). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of C12's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A11B | 95.91% | The sun or moon has one eye (usually the second eye is knocked out or sucked out, but sometimes the reason is not explained; among the Munduruku, the sun of the rainy season has lost both eyes, while the sun of the dry season has retained both). See motif 11A. |
| I69 | 95.77% | Luminous celestial objects or atmospheric phenomena are bodily secretions of celestial beings. |
| D1A3 | 95.59% | A man marries a woman who is fire. She is mistreated, or her husband does not like her, and the marriage breaks down. |
| G9A | 95.59% | The field that was cultivated the day before turns back into virgin soil by morning. |
| A11A | 93.12% | The visible sun or moon are their eyes; if the eyes of the luminaries were not damaged, it would be much brighter and hotter. |
| I7A | 93.07% | Lightning is associated with a snake. |
| G15 | 91.49% | In another world or in the past, products or materials used by humans look or looked like people. |
| I19 | 91.47% | Anthropomorphic creatures satisfy their hunger with the vapours of food being prepared. See motifs I14 (people without anuses), I15 (people without mouths). |
| I8E1 | 91.24% | The sky or earth is supported by four objects or beings located at the four cardinal points (either four groups of beings, or four at the corners and a fifth in the centre). Th A841. See motifs 8A, 8D. |
| C7 | 91.15% | Initially or after the flood, an earthen or stone barrier, the body of a character or creature prevents the flow of water. Later, this barrier is removed or destroyed. |
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This motif has been recorded in 19 traditions: Efe Pygmies, Kango (Mbuti) Pygmies, Nicobarese, Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area), Lepcha, Koreans, Norwegians, Uyghur, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Aleuts, Karok, Yurok, Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa, Huichol, Tepecano, Tzotzil, Lacandon, Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi, Kodiak