h7f


Motif

Motif code: 
h7f
Name_eng: 
Death asks God whom he should eat
Description: 

God gives instructions according to which particular categories of people must die or suffer. Person who receives these instructions distors them out of sympathy for the people

Name_rus: 
Смерть спрашивает, кого есть
Description_rus: 
Бог дает указания, согласно которым умирать и страдать должны определенные категории людей. Получивший указания персонаж, заботясь о людях, передает исполнителям другие распоряжения
Motif type: 
Adventures and tricks
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
04 Origin of death, diseases and hard life
11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
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: 
7

Linked traditions:
Latvians
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)
Chuvash
Khakas
Southern Selkups
Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
Lutsi (Ludza)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: h7f1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: m201 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: m81e2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: b48d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i55b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i50a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m199m Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: l94d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: c6c2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: m162a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k100i Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: m45b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: d4h Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: k27x8 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 11 Weight: 273
Motif: m39a3b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: m140b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250