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B69A - Dispute about time, Chipmunk participant.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A chipmunk or a similar small animal (weasel, shrew) argues with another animal character (bear, moose, puma, snake) about whether there should be light and warmth or darkness and cold.Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
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
B69 has 2 other sub-motifsB69. Wishing to reward or punish a small rodent (chipmunk, marmot, squirrel), the character makes it striped, usually by running a paw or hand down its back. B69a. A chipmunk or a similar small animal (weasel, shrew) argues with another animal character (bear, moose, puma, snake) about whether there should be light and warmth or darkness and cold. B69b. Wanting to reward or punish the frog, the character runs his hand or paw along its back, and since then, stripes have been visible on the frog's back. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of B69's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F93 | 93.08% | After a person performs a certain action, his penis begins to speak (often repeating what the person has said). |
| K27M | 91.17% | Task: to kill and bring an animal of a certain (often unusual) colour or shape. See motif K27. |
| J18 | 88.35% | A pregnant woman or a woman with a child falls from the sky. She or her newborn daughter dies or undergoes a metamorphosis. Her son or her daughter's son survives and grows up. Cf. motif K9. |
| L72J | 87.31% | Fleeing for his life, the character throws behind him an awl or needle, which turns into many awls or needles. |
| K25B | 87.31% | A woman climbs a tree trying to catch a porcupine and ends up in the sky. |
| M79 | 87.31% | A person joins the dancers; it turns out that the dancers are reeds or trees in the wind. |
| K68 | 87.24% | A strong man takes food from a weak man and forces him to work for him (usually a son-in-law mistreats his father-in-law). A boy appears in the house of the wronged man from a clot of animal blood that has been collected. He kills the offender. |
| J19 | 86.82% | While her husband or brother is hunting, an evil spirit comes to his wife or sister; he kills her or takes her away. Her sons, who were torn from her womb or born at that time, are saved. |
| M48 | 86.81% | Trickster asks another zoomorphic character to turn him into a creature of his kind, but if he breaks the condition for transformation, he becomes himself again. Usually, a trickster asks a bison or elk to turn it into a bison or elk. The bison (elk) rushes to the trickster, which bounces off in fear. The next time the trickster stays in place, metamorphoses, but regains its former appearance after trying to turn another trickster into a bison, etc. |
| F93A | 86.77% | A man's penis begins to talk incessantly, falling silent only after his mother-in-law takes it in her hand. |
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This motif has been recorded in 13 traditions: Mansi, Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Khakas, Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar, Altaians, Eastern Cree, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Yuchi, Plains Cree, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Tillamook, Cherokee