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J4 - Revenge for the death of male relatives.
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Summary of Motif
The heroes avenge the death (enslavement) of their father, uncle, grandfather, or mother and father, or in general their descendants, with the loss of men being the most painful.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
J4 has 3 other sub-motifsJ4. The heroes avenge the death (enslavement) of their father, uncle, grandfather, or mother and father, or in general their descendants, with the loss of men being the most painful. J4a. A woman is killed. Her son or sons (rarely: grandsons, nephews) avenge her. j4b. The children (son, sons, son and daughter) of the murdered person take revenge on characters who are related to the victim by marriage or close kinship. j4c. An egg remains from the deceased water character. The young hero who emerges from it avenges his father. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of J4's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L70 | 94.39% | The character is killed or maimed by an object dropped from above, the fall of which he expects, but has a false idea of its nature or weight (fruit, piece of bark, turtle, log, etc.). |
| L34 | 93.17% | The character kills or maims the enemy by setting fire to their clothes, mask, headdress, hair, or an object behind their back. |
| M11 | 92.39% | The character gives others food extracted from his or someone else's body or contaminated with bodily secretions, without revealing the source of the food. |
| F9 | 92.29% | For various reasons, sexual intercourse with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man, or so it seems to him: Teeth, blades or sharp stones in the vagina or on the inside of the thighs; the vagina is a toothy mouth. See motif F9A. |
| D4A | 92.15% | Fire is stolen from its original owner, returned to people by the thief, or (the motif of theft is not expressed) brought with difficulty from a distant place. |
| I82A | 92.12% | The Morning and/or Evening Star – a male character. |
| A5 | 92.02% | The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (rarely) has no gender. |
| H34B | 91.79% | Somewhere there is or was a river that flowed or, according to the plan, was supposed to flow in two directions at once. |
| H18 | 91.34% | Hunted animals were concentrated in one place. A certain character creates them there or allows them to scatter. |
| M8A | 90.72% | Animals, and more often birds, find it difficult to break through a rock from the outside or inside, make a hole in the tree, in the body of an absorber creature, tear fetters, etc., to help a character or get out of the confined space by yourself. The list <b><i>includes</i></b> groups whose texts deal with the exit of the first ancestors to earth from a confined space. |
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This motif has been recorded in 100 traditions: Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Arabs of Iraq, Iraqi, Mongo (Mongo-Nkundu), Nkundu, Ngelima, Ngombe, (Ba)Tetela), Pende, Wu(Kusu), (Ba)Mbala (incl Saie, Kwilu), Maori, Moriori (Chatam Islands), Society Islands: Tahiti, Borabora, Raiatea, Tuamotu, incl Pukapuka (different from Pukapuka in Cook Islands), Vahitahi, Anaa, Hao, Fangatau, Ulithi, Ngulu, 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, Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India, Koreans, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia), Karachays, Balkar, Ossetians, Ingush, Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Mansi, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Mongols (Khalkha), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Khakas, Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Nganasans, Southern Selkups, Kets, Dolgans, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Udeghe, Nanai, Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Tanana, Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island), Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Menominee, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Tuscarora, Winnebago, Iowa, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Kiowa Apache, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Comox, Pentlatch, Quinault, Tillamook, Kalapuya, Takelma, Alcea, Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane), Flathead, Lower Chinook (Chinook proper), Shasta; Chimariko, Wappo, Sierra Miwok, Achomavi, Northern Foothills Yokuts (Chukchansi, Dumna, Kechayi), Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Chemehuevi, Serrano, Diegueño: Ipai, Tipai, Kamia (Kumeai), Kiliwa, Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa, Pima, Papago, Western Mexico Nahuatl, tarasques, Pame, Jonaz (Chichimeca-Jonaz), Mazahua, Otomi, Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam, Chontal, Chorti, Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami, Waorani, Aguaruna, Huambiza, Karijona, Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca, Letuama, Tanimuca, Ufaina, Yahuna, Cubeo, Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna), Tariana, Andoque, Witoto, Ocaina, Yagua, Maue (Mawe), Cashibo, Moseten, Chimane, Kamayura, Trumai, Rikbaktsa, Nambikwara, Paresi, Sherente, Chamacoco (Ishir), Mataco, Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Manao, Katawishi (Teffe lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda, Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet, Mustang, Salars, Egypt