f97a5


Motif

Motif code: 
f97a5
Name_eng: 
Snake is deprived of its limbs
Description: 

Being responsible for breaking food tabou by humans, snake lost its limbs as a punishment

Name_rus: 
Змея лишается ног
Description_rus: 
Змея виновата в том, что другие съели запрещенную божеством пищу. За это она лишина конечностей, которые у нее прежде были.
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
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: 
5

Linked traditions:
Old and New Testament
Cross-River: Efik, Ibibio, Anaang (Anang), Ikom, Abua
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
Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
Chinese of Qinghai and Gansu provinces and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: c8c1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: b119 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i140 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: n39 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: l94c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: b88 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: d1a3 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: c8a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: i8h Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: m138a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: k2a2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: m11d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: e9i5 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: m155 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: g12a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: c35b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: i4e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: b111 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: i116 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 12 Weight: 167