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E27 - People from drops of blood.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
People arise from drops of blood from a wounded anthropomorphic creature.Berezkin category: The origins of people and culture
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 5, Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M7 | 96.07% | The character goes to the lower world, to the sky, to the country on the horizon, etc. and waits for someone to give him a ride to his goal. Usually, some animals/birds or celestial bodies follow by, and the last (often the Sun or Month) delivers. |
| I133A | 95.83% | There is a constellation that represents a bird and corresponds to several large constellations in European traditions (mainly equatorial, rather than circumpolar). |
| G23A | 95.55% | Parts of the body and organs of living beings are transformed into various plants (teeth into corn, testicles into yams, etc.). |
| G20 | 94.45% | Edible (cultivated or wild) plants emerge from the body of an old woman, a young woman or a girl. |
| I96 | 92.82% | A rainbow consisting of blood either heralds war and death. |
| H9B | 92.21% | People have become like plants, which, although mortal, live on in their descendants (shoots). |
| J64 | 91.26% | Without touching the fire or burning, the character rises into the sky or crosses the river on clouds of smoke. |
| M1B | 91.08% | A caiman/crocodile carries a monkey across a river. She manages to jump ashore and runs away from the caiman. |
| M115 | 89.88% | The character kills an animal that is dangerous to him by cunning. Relatives or friends of the killed animal find out about this and come to take revenge. The character escapes. |
| A12E | 89.64% | The spider attacks the sun or moon (usually causing lunar eclipses). |
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This motif has been recorded in 8 traditions: Sepik-Ramu stock: Abelam, Yatmul, Aibom, Ayom (incl Tembregak, Asai-river pygmies), Tangu, Porapora (Ambakich), Rao and other groups of Middle Ramu and Upper Keram River tribes; Kwanga, Watam, Kaian, Gamei, Awar; Kire (Lower Ramu), Melanesians of Admiralty Islands (incl Manus); Seimat (Western Islands), Nanai, Yuchi, Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami, Andoque, Lima dep: Costa and adjacent Sierra (Spanish, Kechua, and Jacaru-speaking communities, mostly in Pachacamac, Cajatambo, Canta, Huarochirí; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries), Papua-New Guinea Northern Lowland Papuan groups (Trans New Guinea and unclassified): Komba, Gimi, Susure, Orokaiva, Bogadjim, Ngain, Sentani, Bargam, Imonda, Nankina, Yupta Valley, Urawa Valley, Warupu (Barupu), Pondoma (Anam)