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J58 - Chain of arrows, F53.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Characters shoot arrows (darts) that stick into each other and form a chain. They usually climb up the chain to the upper world.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
J58 has 3 other sub-motifsJ58. Characters shoot arrows (darts) that stick into each other and form a chain. They usually climb up the chain to the upper world. J58a. To cross the river, each of the three men uses his own magical method. J58b. With the help of a chain of arrows, the sky or the sun is pulled down or pushed up, or a hole is made in the sky. J58c. A chain of arrows forms a bridge across a water barrier. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of J58's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| J59 | 98.00% | To reach the sky, one must shoot an arrow that will pierce the vault of heaven. See motif J58; see motif J59A: a man flies after or on an arrow (without the motif of an arrow piercing the vault of heaven). |
| F96 | 97.02% | A girl or wife rejects an unattractive man. He becomes handsome (usually after encountering a supernatural being), and those who treated him badly are punished. |
| K4 | 96.87% | The character climbs a tree or rock to get a bird, bird eggs, or chicks, climbs into a bird's nest, comes into conflict with another character, and/or cannot climb down. See motifs K1, K2A. Traditions in which the nest destroyer is a woman are highlighted in italics; bold italics indicate those in which the character falls into the trap not through the fault of another person, but by accident, or, having climbed up to destroy the nest, does not fall into the trap at all, although he quarrels with his companion; an asterisk* marks those in which the character remains in the trap (undergoes a metamorphosis). |
| L46 | 96.77% | The character walks, climbs or descends upside down, or sees the world turned upside down. |
| L63 | 96.68% | The character eats food with the womb or anus. See motif F9A. |
| M12 | 96.66% | Unable, unwilling or unable to obtain game (fish), the hunter (fisherman) cuts flesh from his own body, removes his own entrails and collects his blood. He usually offers this to others under the guise of animal meat or fish. Alternatively, a woman cuts flesh from her own leg to feed her husband. |
| M18 | 96.06% | The character turns into an object of fishing or hunting and presents himself as a target. The fisherman or hunter does not harm them, but they take away what they use: arrows, darts, harpoons, hooks, bait; or they catch fish, having turned themselves into hooks; or they are caught but escape death by taking on human form again. |
| I66 | 96.03% | The Milky Way is ash or smouldering embers. |
| F53 | 95.80% | An unattractive man marries, but hides his face. When he is seen, the marriage is dissolved. |
| E3 | 95.75% | After the destruction of the previous world, new people (rarely: new earth) are made from the remains of the dead. |
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This motif has been recorded in 52 traditions: Hausa, Southeast Australia: Kamilaroi, Yualarai (Ualarai, Euahlayi), Milpulo (Mailpurgu), Wuradjeri (Wiradjurim, Wiradjeri, Wurundjeri, Yarra, Yarra Yarra), Wongaibon (Wonghibon), Noongahburrah (Narran, Narran River), Kurnai, and many others (see file 0.doc), Northern Vanuatu: Banks Islands (incl Mota, Mota Lava, Gaua, Santa Maria), Torres Islands, Central Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo, Araki, Aore, Maewo, Malekula, Vao, Efate (Vate), Nguna, Mae, Ambrim, Pentecost, Oba (=Aoba, East Ambae, Lepers'), Omba, Palawan (incl Agutaynen), Lepcha, Udeghe, Oroch, Nanai, Nivkh, Upper Tanana (Nebesna), Tanacross, Tagish, Inland Tlingit, Koyukon, Tsimshian, Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Comox, Pentlatch, Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla), Quinault, Tillamook, Kalapuya, Okanagon, Sanpoil, Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane), Sicuani, Makiritare (Yecuana), Waiwai, Trio, Hixkariyana, Palikur, Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Letuama, Tanimuca, Ufaina, Yahuna, Witoto, Ocaina, Yagua, Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor), Tenetehara, Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo, Amahuaca, Cashinahua, Sharanahua, Yaminahua, Yawanahua, Capanahua), Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete, Siriono, Yabuti, Amniapä, Kumana, Wari (Aikana), More (Itene), Kamayura, Kayabi, Paresi, Botocudo, Mataco, Chorote, Guarani of Paraguay and Brazil: Caygua, Mbia, Apapocuva, Nyandewa, Chiripa, Manao, Katawishi (Teffe lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda, Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet