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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
10.2.2.1	Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
11.2.2.2	North Alaskan Inupiat
12.1.1.2	Upper Kuskokwim (Kolchan)
12.1.1.6	Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
12.1.2.1	Tutchone
12.2.2.2	Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
12.2.2.4	Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.3.2.2	Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.3.2.3	Lillooet
12.3.3.2	Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane)
12.3.4.1	Comox, Pentlatch
12.3.4.2	Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem
12.3.4.3	Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
12.3.4.4	Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit)
12.3.4.5	Twana (Skokomish)
12.3.4.6	Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
12.3.5.1	Quinault
12.3.5.2	Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh)
12.3.7.1	Lower Chinook (Chinook proper)
12.3.7.2	Tillamook
12.3.7.4	Alcea; Siuslaw
12.3.7.5	Kalapuya
12.3.7.6	Takelma
12.3.7.7	Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa
12.3.7.8	Klamath, Modoc
12.6.1.4	Shasta; Chimariko
12.7.1.1	Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
12.7.1.10	Southern Paiute
12.7.1.11	Chemehuevi
12.7.1.6	Northern Shoshone
12.7.1.7	Western Shoshone, Gosiute
12.7.1.8	Panamint
12.7.1.9	Ute
13.2.1.2	Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography
14.1.3.2	Gulf Nahuatl
14.3.4.2	Yupa (Yukpa)
14.3.4.6	Paez, Guambia, Pijao; Ilama culture
14.3.4.7	Sibundoy: Kamsa, Ingano (Inga)
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)
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)
14.4.3.2	Kechua-speaking communities of Apurimac, Cuzco, Arequipa, Puno departments; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries; Callawaya (Kechua with Pukina substratum)
14.4.3.3	Aimara
15.1.1.2	Sicuani
15.2.3.1	Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
15.3.1.1	Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje
15.3.1.2	Mai Huna (Coto, Orejon)
15.3.2.1	Cofan (Cofán)
15.3.4.6	Cubeo
15.4.3.2	Xipaya (Shipaya)
15.5.1.1	Amuesha
15.5.1.2	Ashaninca (Campa)
15.5.1.3	Machiguenga
15.5.2.4	Cashibo
15.5.3.2	Moseten, Chimane
15.5.4.3	Ese’ejja
15.5.4.4	Siriono
15.5.4.5	Mojo, Baure, Itonama, Kanichana, Chiquito, Manasi
15.6.3.2	Kayabi
15.6.3.5	Paresi
15.7.1.1	Caraja
15.7.1.2	Tapirape
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)