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Motif

Name_eng:

Travelling transformer

Description:

The transformer walks along coming across different persons and creatures, transforming them into birds, animals, stones, shrines, etc. (or transforming monstrous animals into present day ones) and introducing cultural norms, landscape features, etc.

Name_rus:

Путешествующий преобразователь

Description_rus:

Странствуя, персонаж последовательно превращает людей в птиц и животных, в камни, святилища, превращает чудовищных животных в обычных, устанавливает культурные нормы, определяет биологические особенности существ, особенности ландшафта и пр.

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

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:

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
14.4.3.3	Aimara
12.3.7.4	Alcea; Siuslaw
15.5.1.1	Amuesha
15.5.1.2	Ashaninca (Campa)
15.7.1.1	Caraja
15.5.2.4	Cashibo
12.7.1.11	Chemehuevi
10.2.2.1	Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
12.3.3.2	Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane)
15.3.2.1	Cofan (Cofán)
12.3.4.1	Comox, Pentlatch
15.3.4.6	Cubeo
15.5.4.3	Ese’ejja
14.1.3.2	Gulf Nahuatl
12.1.1.6	Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
12.3.7.5	Kalapuya
15.6.3.2	Kayabi
14.4.3.2	Kechua-speaking communities of Apurimac, Cuzco, Arequipa, Puno departments; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries; Callawaya (Kechua with Pukina substratum)
12.3.7.8	Klamath, Modoc
12.2.2.2	Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
12.3.2.3	Lillooet
14.4.2.3	Lima dep: Costa and adjacent Sierra (Spanish, Kechua, and Jacaru-speaking communities, mostly in Pachacamac, Cajatambo, Canta, Huarochirí; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries)
12.3.4.3	Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
12.3.4.6	Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
12.3.7.1	Lower Chinook (Chinook proper)
12.3.4.4	Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit)
15.5.1.3	Machiguenga
15.3.1.2	Mai Huna (Coto, Orejon)
15.5.4.5	Mojo, Baure, Itonama, Kanichana, Chiquito, Manasi
15.5.3.2	Moseten, Chimane
12.2.2.4	Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah
11.2.2.2	North Alaskan Inupiat
12.7.1.1	Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
14.4.2.2	Northern Peru: Sierra (Kechua-speaking communities, Cajamarca, Ancash, Huanuco and San Martin departments; Chavin pre-Columbian iconography; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries)
12.7.1.6	Northern Shoshone
12.3.7.7	Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa
14.3.4.6	Paez, Guambia, Pijao; Ilama culture
12.7.1.8	Panamint
15.6.3.5	Paresi
15.2.3.1	Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
12.3.5.2	Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh)
12.3.5.1	Quinault
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
12.3.4.2	Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem
12.6.1.4	Shasta; Chimariko
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
14.3.4.7	Sibundoy: Kamsa, Ingano (Inga)
15.1.1.2	Sicuani
15.3.1.1	Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje
15.5.4.4	Siriono
12.7.1.10	Southern Paiute
12.3.7.6	Takelma
15.7.1.2	Tapirape
12.3.2.2	Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.3.7.2	Tillamook
12.1.2.1	Tutchone
12.3.4.5	Twana (Skokomish)
12.1.1.2	Upper Kuskokwim (Kolchan)
12.7.1.9	Ute
12.7.1.7	Western Shoshone, Gosiute
13.2.1.2	Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography
15.4.3.2	Xipaya (Shipaya)
14.3.4.2	Yupa (Yukpa)