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I105 - Hand in the sky.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
One of the constellations is associated with the hand (with five marked fingers).Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations
I10 has 1 other sub-motifsI10a. Individual layers or categories of the sky or clouds differ in colour. I10b. Individual layers or categories of earth differ in colour (and other characteristics). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I10's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| J39 | 99.95% | The antagonist makes the woman his slave. Other characters secretly come to her and kill a small animal or bird for her. The antagonist suspects that the woman could not have caught the game herself, but she insists that she did. |
| B44D | 99.76% | Night and day alternate because the slain beast was black and white, spotted. |
| I37E | 99.76% | Tree mushrooms cry out like people. |
| K27V | 99.76% | The character must hit the bird with an arrow or a stone. (Cf. motif K27M, where it is not the accuracy of the archer that is important, but the unusual appearance of the creature that needs to be caught). |
| L1C | 99.76% | Those fleeing from the monstrous bear ascend to the sky and turn into stars. |
| M29D | 99.76% | See the motives in square brackets. |
| F28C | 99.18% | A woman masturbates with the penis of a large animal that one of the men killed while hunting. |
| L33F | 99.14% | A rock or boulder pursues a character. The character calls for help, and the nightjar splits the rock into pieces. |
| L1B | 98.86% | A young woman turns into a monstrous bear and kills most people except her younger sister (Ojibwa: the younger sister of her former husband). Their brothers (or one brother) return from hunting and kill the bear, or she dies while chasing them. Cf. motif L65D. |
| K1H | 98.38% | The character finds himself inside a tree trunk or inside a rock; someone frees him by making a hole from the outside. |
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This motif has been recorded in 21 traditions: Southern Selkups, Northern Selkups, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Teton (incl Oglala), Osage, Arikara, Crow, Hidatsa, Cherokee, Chumash, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Luiseño, Juaneño, Hopi, Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambe; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez), Diegueño: Ipai, Tipai, Kamia (Kumeai), Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa, Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam, Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi, Scythians, Scythe