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N1 - Origins: when Altai was the size of a bump
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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 fabulous and epic texts start from the beginning, which states that today's huge objects were tiny at the time.Berezkin category: Fabulous and epic formulas
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 13, Formulae
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K12A | 99.66% | An unrecognised hero arrives at a place where his bride or wife is to be given to another man or turned into a servant. Contrary to expectations, he manages to draw a tight bow (raise a spear), with which he kills his rivals. |
| F100B | 99.38% | Thanks to her virtue, a woman is capable of doing what others cannot, but she succeeds only after she remembers a minor transgression she committed in her youth. |
| I27D | 99.38% | There is a certain black or red dog that (is associated with objects in the night sky and) negatively affects people's lives. |
| K138 | 99.38% | A person gains the ability to revive the dead by incarnating in their body. While they remain in it, their own body is dead. Another person takes the body of the first, leaving them with the body of an animal. |
| K155C | 99.38% | The father regularly weighs his daughter and learns of her pregnancy when she becomes heavier. |
| M91B | 99.25% | A person manages to fraudulently sell or exchange ash for gold and money. Others are unsuccessfully offering ash for sale. |
| M38D3 | 99.21% | The character, who is a lump of earth (oatmeal, salt), blurred in the rain or after going to get water. |
| M188A | 99.09% | The character demands to be addressed as a ruler (usually sits on a pile of rubbish and demands to be recognised as king). One of the animals exposes him. |
| K109 | 99.04% | The hero is advised to ask supernatural characters for something insignificant (a puppy, a cup) in return for his service. What he receives turns out to be the daughter of a deity. Another character unsuccessfully tries to take the hero's wife away from him. |
| M83A | 99.01% | The characters are arguing which one is older. After some people tell us how long they were born, the latter says that this and that happened in his memory at that time. |
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This motif has been recorded in 10 traditions: Ossetians, Kalmyk, Bashkirs, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots), Mongols (Khalkha), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Shor, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Khamnigans