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k27o1
Motif
Motif code:
k27o1
Name_eng:
Head used as ball
Description:
Severed human heads are compared with balls or used as balls
Name_rus:
Мяч – человеческая голова
Description_rus:
Отрубленные человеческие головы сравниваются с мячами. Либо персонаж играет отрезанной человеческой головой как мячом
Motif type:
Adventures and tricks
Motif group:
10 Adventures
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:
25
Linked traditions:
Sumer
Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia
Ugarit
Arabs of Egypt
Malay; Temuan (incl Mantra or Mentra), Jakun (Moken)
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Telugu (incl. Yanadi, Chenchu)
Ireland
French (northern France)
Ancient Greece
Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
Georgians
Anatolia Turks
Kara Kalpak
Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East
North Alaskan Inupiat
Iglulik
Polar Inuit
Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Winnebago
Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambé; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez)
Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
Tundra (Lower Kolyma) Yukaghir (Waduls)
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
f98
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif:
j25a1
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
n39
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
l94c
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
i4d1
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif:
l85e
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif:
j62b1
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
b32a
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif:
m75b3
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif:
g8g
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif:
m138a
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif:
m7a1
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif:
c36
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif:
l59a
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif:
i4c
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif:
i140
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
k25a3
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif:
i55b
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
j59c
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333