b116 | MapsOfMyths

Name_eng:

The first book eaten up

Description:

An animal or a person eats up the first book (writing, important document). (In some of European traditions the eating up of the book is not directly described but follows from the context)

Name_rus:

Съеденная книга

Description_rus:

Первую книгу (письменность, важный документ) съедает животное или человек. (В части европейских традиций само поедание книги не описывается, но подразумевается из контекста)

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

06 Origin and interpretation of culture elements, in particular related to agriculture, inadequate forms of subsistence and economic activity before the establishment of the present norms

Motif analysis result:

1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
3.5.2.1	Albanians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
6.3.2.2	Bahnar, Bana, Sedang, Por
6.4.4.4	Bidayuh (incl. Maloh), Iban (Sea Dayak), Sakarram; Brunei
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
5.1.6.2	Chechens
6.2.3.3	Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.1.1.4	Czech
6.2.3.1	Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
6.2.3.5	Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.3	Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
10.2.3.7	Hani, Akha
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
6.2.4.1	Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
6.3.1.2	Karen, Pa-O, Padaung, Kayah
6.3.2.4	Katu (Ködu); Bru (incl. Van Kieu, Khua)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
9.1.2.2	Khakas
6.3.2.6	Khmu (Kammu), Puoc
6.2.2.2	Kirati (Kiranti): Rai (incl Thulung), Limbu, Newar
6.2.3.6	Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru
10.2.3.1	Lahu, Kucong, Yi, Nosu (Nuosu, Northern Yi), Nisu, Nusu, Sani, Jino, Lolo (incl. Bai), Axi, Nasu
6.2.1.4	Lavrung, Jiarong; Qiang (incl rGyalrong)
9.2.1.1	Mansi
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
10.2.3.5	Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam
10.2.3.4	Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
10.2.3.3	Namuci (Namuyi), Naxi; Pumi (Primi)
9.1.1.3	Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
6.3.2.7	Palaung (De Ang, Deang)
5.4.2.1	Persians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.1.2	Southern Altai: Teleut
6.3.1.4	Thai of Thailand
6.3.2.9	Tjam, Ede, Jörai (Jarai)
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
6.3.2.10	Viet, Muong
6.3.2.8	Wa (incl Kawa), Bulang