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A42 - Phaeton (imitator of the Sun), A724.I.I.
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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 character comes to the Sun, tries to fulfil its role, but deliberately or through incompetence breaks the rules, usually causing disasters on earth.Berezkin category: The Sun and Moon
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 1, Sun and Moon
A42 has 1 other sub-motifsA42. The character comes to the Sun, tries to fulfil its role, but deliberately or through incompetence breaks the rules, usually causing disasters on earth. A42a. Having risen into the sky, the character unsuccessfully performs the role of the sun and as a result falls or is thrown down to earth. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of A42's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F83 | 96.18% | The character does something forbidden and indecent in a place hidden from prying eyes, and then asks people what's new. They reply that there is no news – except that so-and-so (the character) did such-and-such. |
| B42P | 94.08% | The Big Dipper is identified with a bear. |
| B91A | 93.98% | A blind character asks another to lend him his eyes or to swap eyes, keeping his own eyes. |
| K93B5 | 93.91% | The character infiltrates the enemy camp disguised as a kitten or puppy. Usually, one of the enemies suspects deception, but the others believe that the cute animal is harmless. |
| H36J | 92.38% | The lark is to blame for the fact that man is mortal. |
| F63 | 91.97% | A male trickster transforms into a woman and gets married. In the end, he is exposed or runs away from his husband. |
| M81 | 91.40% | Wandering, the hero finds himself in a place where blind or blind (two or more) live. |
| C16 | 91.05% | Contrary to human desire, processed skins, tools, and (meat) food (again) turn into (those) animals (from whose body parts they were made). Cf. motif M84. |
| K23A | 90.37% | Birds use their feathers as arrows, or falling feathers cover the mouths of their victims. |
| M84 | 90.26% | A person, animal, fish, or (rarely) a large fruit is killed and eaten. After a meal, what is eaten revives, usually after the bones (seeds) are put together. Cf. motive C16. |
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This motif has been recorded in 24 traditions: Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia, Ancient Greece, Western Sami, Eastern Sami (including Skolts), Western Ukrainians, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Ingush, Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz, Gagauz, Mansi, Heiltsuk (Bellabella), Oowekeeno, Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Menominee, Mandan, Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam, Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem, Chumash, Western Keres (Acoma, Laguna), Eastern Keres (Cochiti, Sia, San Felipe, Santo Domingo, Santa Ana, Paguate, Seama), Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambe; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez), Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians