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Motif

Name_eng:

Women turn into water mammal

Description:

A woman (usually after a conflict with a man or remaining alone) or a man and a woman (married couple, lovers, brother and sister) turn into water mammals

Name_rus:

Женщины превращаются в водных млекопитающих

Description_rus:

Женщина (обычно вступив в конфликт с мужчиной или оставшись одна), либо мужчина и женщина (любовники, брат и сестра) превращаются в водных млекопитающих

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:

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
10.3.1.1	Ainu
11.1.2.1	Chukchi
11.2.1.1	Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
11.2.1.3	Aleuts
11.2.1.4	Central Yupik
11.2.2.1	Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island)
11.2.2.2	North Alaskan Inupiat
11.2.3.3	Netsilik
11.2.3.5	Iglulik
11.2.3.6	Baffin Land Inuit
11.2.3.7	Labrador Inuit (Koksoagmiut)
11.2.3.8	Polar Inuit
11.2.3.9	West Greenland
12.1.1.5	Denaina
12.3.7.1	Lower Chinook (Chinook proper)
12.3.7.2	Tillamook
15.2.2.1	Warao
15.2.3.3	Locono
15.2.3.6	Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
15.2.4.6	Wayana, Aparai
15.3.2.2	Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
15.3.4.1	Karijona
15.3.4.6	Cubeo
15.4.3.1	Juruna
15.4.3.2	Xipaya (Shipaya)
15.5.4.1	Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete
15.5.5.4	Suruí, Gaviâo, Zoro, Arua, Cinta Larga
15.7.1.1	Caraja
15.7.1.2	Tapirape
16.2.1.2	Puelche
16.2.1.3	Northern and Southern Tehuelche
16.2.2.1	Selknam
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.2.1.6	Faroe Islands
6.3.2.1	Khmer
6.3.2.10	Viet, Muong
7.1.3.1	Torricelli family: Valman, Samap, Arapesh (Upper, Coastal), Monumbo, Lilau, Ngaimbom; Moando (Banara); Menya, Olo, Buna
7.1.6.2	Southern Solomons: southern part of Santa Ysabel (Bughotu), Guadalcanal, San Cristobal, Malaita (Kwaio people), Ulawa
7.2.4.2	Palau (Western Carolines)