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G9 - The felled forest is reborn, D1602.1+.
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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 forest cut down during clearing is reborn by morning.Berezkin category: Fertility and Agriculture
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
G9 has 2 other sub-motifsG9. The forest cut down during clearing is reborn by morning. G9a. The field that was cultivated the day before turns back into virgin soil by morning. G9B. A man clears a plot of land of vegetation, but by morning it has grown back. At night, a certain character orders the trees and grass to rise up, turning the cultivated field back into virgin soil. He explains that there will be a flood, that there is no point in working, and advises people to prepare a means of transportation. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of G9's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L32 | 93.73% | The stone swallows, bites, beats or transforms people. |
| L17B | 86.13% | A character or creature has a second face or a second mouth on the back of its head. |
| I80 | 82.74% | A character who finds himself in the locus of a deity responsible for atmospheric phenomena violates certain prohibitions or instructions, thereby causing excessively strong thunderstorms, rain, snowfall or wind. |
| M57B | 82.12% | Beads or metals are the bodily secretions of a deity. |
| A14 | 81.57% | The meeting of the sun and the moon is the cause of eclipses or lunar phases. |
| I42 | 81.22% | The rainbow is a pair of creatures, usually a man and a woman, male and female. |
| H24C | 80.45% | People open a vessel (a bundle, a basket, etc.) containing death (or old age, illness), and therefore they are mortal. |
| A3 | 80.23% | The Moon is female or hermaphroditic, the Sun is male or, possibly, male. |
| A11B | 79.91% | The sun or moon has one eye (usually the second eye is knocked out or sucked out, but sometimes the reason is not explained; among the Munduruku, the sun of the rainy season has lost both eyes, while the sun of the dry season has retained both). See motif 11A. |
| F49A | 79.79% | A small animal (mouse, rat, rabbit, two-wombed animal, bird) explains how to give birth. See motif F49. |
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This motif has been recorded in 20 traditions: Malawi (incl Nyanja, Banyanja, Manganja), Tumbuka (incl Henga), Nsenga, Matengo, (Ba)Wenda, Nyatutu, Kiniramba, Isanzu, Ganda, (Ba)Nyoro, Nyankole, Masaba (Gisu), Luia (=Luyia, Haya, Luhya, Bantu Kawirondo; incl. Vugusu, Maragoli), Mbundu (Umbundu, Kimbundu, Chimbundu, Ovimbundu), Kwanyama, Owambo (=Ambo), Zulu, Swazi, Tswana (Chwana), Suto (Soto; incl Pedi, Mbire), Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku, Southern Gur (Oti-Volta): Grusi, Kabiye, Kasena, Lyela (Lyele), Wala, Dyan, Rawang, Dulong; Anong, Drung, Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam, Early Chinese written sources, Western Sami, Huichol, Tepecano, Western Mexico Nahuatl, Pame, Jonaz (Chichimeca-Jonaz), Mazahua, Otomi, Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam, Tzotzil, Lenca, Kogi (Cagaba), Sanha, Creols of Aritama Valley