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k9

Motif

Name_eng:

God’s wife thrown down from the sky

Description:

The sky chief discovers or thinks that his wife, sister or lover is untrue or incestuous. He throws her down from the sky. She becomes the mistress of the lower or middle world or a part of it or one of her sons gets power over the lower world

Name_rus:

Жена божества сброшена с неба

Description_rus:

Небесный вождь, божество обвинив или подозревая женщину в неверности, связи с животным, инцесте или желании им командовать, сбрасывает ее вниз. Она становится хозяйкой нижнего или среднего мира или его части либо матерью хозяина нижнего мира

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects

Motif analysis result:

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.5.1.4	Lenape (Delaware)
12.5.2.1	Huron (incl Wyandot)
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
14.3.2.1	Kogi (Cagaba), Sanha, Creols of Aritama Valley
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.2.1.3	Svans
6.4.6.2	Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
7.2.3.6	Marquesas
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.1.3	Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.2.1	Kets
9.2.2.4	Northern Selkups