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Motif

Name_eng:

Difficult funerals

Description:

(While the earth is still absent or liquid), a bird buries its relative in its own head that usually explains its appearance (a swell on its beak, a crest of feathers) or unpleasant smell

Name_rus:

Похороненный в голове

Description_rus:

(Пока земли еще нет или она не затвердела), птица хоронит умерших в своем теле – обычно в клюве или голове, что объясняет неприятный запах или происхождения хохолка, вздутия на клюве и т.п.

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

03 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

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

07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.1.4	Igbo (Ibo); Isoko, Urhobo
1.3.1.5	Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku
1.3.3.1	Bia: Anyi, Agni, Baule, Nsema
1.3.3.2	Akan, Ashanti, Akwapim; Ga (Accra), Kra, Twi (Chwi, Chi)
1.3.5.14	Bozo, Sorko
1.3.5.16	Dan (=Gio), Guro (=Kweni, incl Gagu, Neio), Toura, Mano, Ngere, Beng, Guro
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
6.2.2.5	Almora (Rangkas); Ancient Greek sources on India
6.2.2.8	Bhutan