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Name_eng:

Waters split apart

Description:

When person comes to the water body, waters are split apart so the person reaches the other bank walking on the dry ground

Name_rus:

Расступившиеся воды

Description_rus:

Персонаж по своему желанию осушает дно водоема, ступает по дну, выходит назад, после чего водоем вновь наполняется

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

10 Adventures

Motif analysis result:

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America

4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

110

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.1.1.2	Khoekhoe (=Hottentot; incl Nama, Korana); Damara
1.2.1.1	Kosa (Xosa, Xhosa)
1.2.1.2	Zulu, Swazi
1.2.1.4	Ndebele, Pedi, Thonga (incl Ronga), Hlengwe, Matabele (Tebele)
1.2.2.4	Ila (Baila)
1.2.3.2	Lozi (Losi, Rotse, Barotse), Lui, Subiya (Subia)
1.2.3.3	Mbundu (Umbundu, Kimbundu, Chimbundu, Ovimbundu), Kwanyama, Owambo (=Ambo)
1.2.3.4	Luchasi (Ngangela), Chokwe (Konwe); Mbukushu
1.2.4.11	Boa, Komo, (Ba)Nyanga, Mbole
1.2.5.1	Ganda, (Ba)Nyoro, Nyankole, Masaba (Gisu), Luia (=Luyia, Haya, Luhya, Bantu Kawirondo; incl. Vugusu, Maragoli)
1.2.5.4	Kerewe, Sukuma, Kwaya, Kumbi, Busiba, Gusii, Suba
1.2.5.5	Fipa (Bafipa), Iramba, Bende
1.2.5.8	Chagga (Jagga; incl Wasu), Pare, Digo
1.3.1.2	Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)
1.3.1.5	Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku
1.3.2.1	Hausa
1.3.2.2	Biu-Mandara: Margi, Kilba, Bura, Kera, Karekare (Kerri-Kerri), Bachama, Zulgo, Giziga, Hdi, Kapsiki, Mandara (incl Mukulehe, Matakam), Mofu (Mofu-Gudur), Somrai (Sibine, Shibha)
1.3.3.2	Akan, Ashanti, Akwapim; Ga (Accra), Kra, Twi (Chwi, Chi)
1.3.3.3	Krache (Kraci); Ga; Adele
1.3.3.5	Ewe
1.3.4.2	Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
1.3.4.6	Songhai
1.3.5.10	Mende, Loma, Gbunde (Gbandi, Bandi)
1.3.5.11	Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
1.3.5.16	Dan (=Gio), Guro (=Kweni, incl Gagu, Neio), Toura, Mano, Ngere, Beng, Guro
1.3.5.3	Tenda (incl Bedik, Basari), Biafada, Nalu, Pajadinka, Badyara (Badiaranke)
1.3.5.9	Kpelle (incl Kono)
1.4.3.4	Dholuo (=Luo, Nilotic Kawirondo)
1.4.3.5	Masai
1.4.4.1	Mangbetu (Ngbetu), Mangbutu, Moru, Madi, Lugbara, Lendu (=Bale)
1.4.4.4	Zande (Azande, incl Nzakara)
10.1.1.3	Southern Taiwan: Rukai, Paiwan, Puyuma, Saaroa, Ketangalan
12.3.2.2	Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.4.2.10	Miami, Illini
12.6.1.2	Wiyot
12.7.1.1	Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
12.7.1.7	Western Shoshone, Gosiute
13.1.3.4	Arikara
13.1.5.2	Cheyenne
13.2.1.2	Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography
13.3.3.2	Alabama, Koasati
15.2.2.1	Warao
3.1.1.1	Ancient Egypt
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.2.1.3	Bilin (Blin, Bilen)
3.2.1.4	Somali
3.2.2.1	Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
3.2.2.4	Oromo (Galla), Konso, Sidamo, Darasa, Bussa (Bassa), Kambata, Guji
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.2.2	Urums, Rumei
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.3.1.1	Old and New Testament
5.4.1.1	Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.4.3.3	Yazgulami
5.4.3.5	Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji
5.4.4.1	Kafir, or Nuristani: Prasun; Kati (incl. Paruni), Ashkun (Ashunu), Waigali
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.6	Hui of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai (rare Hui texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones)
5.6.2.10	Sindhi
5.6.2.11	Gujarati
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
5.6.2.19	Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
5.6.3.4	Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
6.1.2.5	Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
6.2.1.3	Eastern Tibetans (Kham; Sichuan, NW Yunnan)
6.2.2.2	Kirati (Kiranti): Rai (incl Thulung), Limbu, Newar
6.2.2.3	Mustang
6.2.3.3	Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
7.1.6.5	Central Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo, Araki, Aore, Maewo, Malekula, Vao, Efate (Vate), Shepherd Islands, Nguna, Mae, Ambrim, Pentecost, Oba (=Aoba, East Ambae, Lepers'), Omba
7.1.6.6	Southern Vanuatu: Tanna, Aneiteum (Polynesian component not included), Eromanga
7.2.5.6	Marshall Islands, incl Ailinglapalap, Arno, Jaluit, Kili, Lae, Maloelap, Majuro, Ratak, Wotho, Ujae, Jaluit (=Jalooj), Namdrik
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.4	Daur (Daghur)
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)