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h7f1
Motif
Name_eng:
Death eats the dead
Description:
Death eats the dead and thus assuages his hunger
Name_rus:
Смерть-пожирательница
Description_rus:
Смерть пожирает умерших и тем утоляет свой голод
Motif type:
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group:
04 Origin of death, diseases and hard life
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:
5
Linked traditions:
Areal ID
Tradition
5.3.1.2
Ugarit
6.1.1.4
Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
6.1.2.3
Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
9.1.2.2
Khakas
9.3.2.1
Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
c6h1
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif:
i55b
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
l94d
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
f28a1
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif:
h7f
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif:
k155c
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
h40a
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
b77b2
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
l110a
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
h43ab
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
c8d
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
m140b
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
m81e2
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif:
c41
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif:
b112
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif:
f28a2
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif:
i20b
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 10 Weight: 200
Motif:
c6h
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif:
h24g
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167