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I47 - The rainbow as a stream of secretions.
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Summary of Motif
The rainbow smells disgusting, is associated with foul-smelling animals, is a stream of excretions, is associated with the lower body, causes inflammation or skin diseases, and is associated with death.Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 3, Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature
I47 has 1 other sub-motifsI47. The rainbow smells disgusting, is associated with foul-smelling animals, is a stream of excretions, is associated with the lower body, causes inflammation or skin diseases, and is associated with death. I47a. The rainbow is associated with the wedding of a fox or jackal. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I47's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L70 | 92.70% | The character is killed or maimed by an object dropped from above, the fall of which he expects, but has a false idea of its nature or weight (fruit, piece of bark, turtle, log, etc.). |
| D11 | 91.92% | Before fire was known, food was prepared by warming it with the body (usually under the armpit); fire is kept under the character's armpit. |
| J50 | 91.30% | The father or mother of twin heroes dies or is killed. An attempt to revive the deceased fails. |
| B7B | 91.00% | The sea (flood, river) flows out of a small container. |
| J29 | 90.76% | Murdered parents themselves inform their children about the circumstances of their death. |
| I17 | 90.60% | Creatures without mouths, anuses, or genitals, unable to give birth, live underground, in the sky, across the sea, or in certain areas. (Traditions describing women unable to give birth are marked with an asterisk*). |
| I17A | 90.42% | Creatures without an anal opening or mouth - dwarves. |
| G15 | 90.30% | In another world or in the past, products or materials used by humans look or looked like people. |
| J4 | 90.18% | The heroes avenge the death (enslavement) of their father, uncle, grandfather, or mother and father, or in general their descendants, with the loss of men being the most painful. |
| M8 | 90.06% | Some characters (not humans) are struggling to break a strong barrier that prevents access to the desired location or to a high-value object. See also M8A - M8D motifs; they are included in the M8 motif in the correlation tables. |
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This motif has been recorded in 14 traditions: Bia: Anyi, Agni, Baule, Nsema, Melanesians and Papuans of Northern Solomons: Buka, Bougainville (Siuai, Buin), Truk, Eastern Fayu, Losap, Pulap, Puluwat, Mortlock (incl. Satawan), Flores, incl Mangarai (Western Flores), Nage, Keo, Riung, Ngada or Nad'a (Central Flores), Sika (Eastern Flores), Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Twana (Skokomish), Shasta; Chimariko, Yurok, Pame, Jonaz (Chichimeca-Jonaz), Mazahua, Otomi, Cañari, Cashibo