The Mythology and Folklore Database
F99 - An infant copulates with its mother.
Please log on to view the narratives.
Motif Summary - Motifs with Simlar Dispersals - Map of Myth Distribution - List of Traditions - Myths |
Source Data from Berezkin's Analytics Catalogue, if using this data please acknowledge and link to it here:
Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
An infant turns into an adult man, copulates with his mother, then returns to his former appearance.Berezkin category: Gender and sex
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 |
|---|---|---|
| F86A | 80.81% | The character cares for a fish, crab or other creature. Others watch the character, kill and eat his pet, or try to do so. |
| K29B | 78.95% | The hero is asked to climb (or is thrown) into a pit, which is immediately filled with earth or into which a pole or stones are lowered, K959,6 (Posthole murder). The hero proves his magical abilities by climbing out of the pit alive. |
| M3 | 78.62% | The character crosses a water or air barrier on the backs of chained animals, birds, or fish. |
| E5B | 78.36% | The first human (a group of brothers) or the first human couple emerge from underground (from a cave) or from a small object on the surface (a mound, a reed, a tree, a stone, a pumpkin). Cf. motif E5A: people from the underworld. |
| I119 | 77.89% | Earthquakes are caused by inhabitants of the underworld; during earthquakes, they try to get to the surface of the earth to check whether people are still alive. |
| A41 | 77.83% | Two characters have children (brothers and sisters, mothers). One suggests killing these children (mothers), giving reasons in favour of such a decision. In fact, he hides his own children, while his interlocutor actually kills his children. One of the characters and/or the surviving child is the sun. |
| G8F | 77.15% | Characters cut down a tree, but the trunk grows back. They manage to finish the job after the splinters are carried away or burned. |
| E40 | 76.98% | The first humans had nostrils facing upwards, into which rain poured. |
| F40B | 76.24% | A single man finds himself in a village of women. Usually, he is forced to satisfy a woman against his will, or each woman demands to have sex with him. |
| C8C | 76.19% | After a global catastrophe, at the beginning of time or when settling a new land, a woman and her son give birth to humans. |
See more...
Please log on to view the narratives.
Map of Motif Dispersal
Click here for a clustered map
Drag the map around by clicking and using the mouse, use the wheel to zoom
This motif has been recorded in 4 traditions: Torricelli family: Valman, Samap, Arapesh (Upper, Coastal), Monumbo, Lilau, Ngaimbom; Moando (Banara); Menya, Olo, Gilbert Islands, Nauru, Banaba (Ocean island), Ifaluk, Woleai, Lamutrek, Faraulip Satawal, Elato, Western Fayu, Tzotzil