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Motif

Name_eng:

Purusha

Description:

Parts of the body of the primeval person or creature are transformed into different elements of the landscape and parts of the universe

Name_rus:

Пуруша

Description_rus:

Элементы ландшафта или части мироздания созданы из тела первоначального существа

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

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:

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

D287.5

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
10.2.2.11	Shandong Chinese
10.2.2.3	Sichuan Chinese
10.2.2.6	Henan and Hubei Chinese
10.2.2.7	Shaanxi Chinese
10.2.2.8	Chinese of Qinghai and Gansu provinces and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
10.2.3.1	Lahu, Kucong, Yi, Nosu (Nuosu, Northern Yi), Nisu, Nusu, Sani, Jino, Lolo (incl. Bai), Axi, Nasu
10.2.3.4	Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
10.2.3.6	Li
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
14.1.2.2	Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography
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)
15.5.3.1	Tacana
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.1.1	Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.3.1.4	Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia
5.4.1.1	Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.7	Nepali; Tharu
6.1.1.4	Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
6.1.1.6	Juang
6.1.1.7	Bondo, Didayi (Gata')
6.1.2.1	Oraon (Kurukh)
6.1.2.2	Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
6.1.2.5	Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.3.1	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
6.2.4.1	Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
6.3.2.9	Tjam, Ede, Jörai (Jarai)
6.4.7.4	Central islands and Bikol: Visaya, Mansaká, Bikol, Mangyan, Panayan, Sulod, Cebuano (Cebu), Capiz, Romblomanon, Manuyu
6.4.7.5	Mindanao: Blaan (Bilaan), Bagobo, Bukidnon, Cotabato, Hiligáynon, Binukid, Magindaan (=Magindanao: main Muslim population), Mandaya, Mansaka, Manobo (Agusan, Ata, Dibabawon, Sarangani, Ilianen), Maranao, Subanon (=Subanun), Subanen, Tboli
7.2.4.1	Chamorro (Guam and other Marianas)
7.2.5.7	Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Nauru, Banaba (Ocean island)
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.3.2.6	Tungus/Evenki of Nercha - Chita area
9.3.3.1	Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)