Central Australia: Kaitish, Warramunga, Arunta (Aranda), Loritja (Kukatja), Pijandjara (Pitjantjara), Adnjamatana (Andjamathana, Wailpi), Aluridja, Walpiri (Walbiri), Aluridja, Matuntara (Maduntara), Nambutji, Wamma (=Wommana?)

Tradition title rus:

Центральная Австралия: кайтиш (близ Алис-Спрингс), варрамунга (там же), лоритья (лориджа; центральная Австралия); вальбири (валпари, валпири, варлпири; 20/133), питджанджара (биджанжара; СЗ Южной Австралии, 130/26); аранда (арунта); аньяматана (анджаматана, ваилпи, 139/25, пустыня Симпсон); алуриджа (к ЗЮЗ от арунта); северо-восток Южной Австралии; матунтара (тжиндже-вара, 132,5/25,5); намбутжи (так у Roheim, вероятно, нгалиа, 2215/31); вамма (если =воммана, то 129/21)

Areal ID:

8.1.5.1

Areal:

Language:

Australian

Tradition analysis result motif count all:

47.00

Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo:

37.00

Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a12	Eclipses: monster’s attack	Some creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, summer and winter, lunar phases) or irregularly (solar and lunar eclipses, eschatological events) attack the luminaries or shade their light
a12a	Eclipses: a predator animal	During an eclipse or at other circumstances the Sun or the Moon are attacked by a predator animal (a bear, a feline, a canine, a racoon)
a12d	Eclipses: birds	A bird or birds attack or shade the Sun or the Moon during an eclipse or at the sunrise and sunset
a21	Luminaries are objects fixed in the sky	The sun and/or the moon are inanimate objects thrown up to the sky or fixed in the sky
a30	The Moon eats the dead	Moon descends to earth to eat children, corpses or bones of the dead
a36	The immortal Moon	The Moon, unlike people, revives or rejuvenates every month; or those who live in the Moon are immortal; or the Moon makes decision if people should die forever or regularly revive
a39	The new sun every day	Suns are born and die every day
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
b12	Rivers and snakes	The river bed follows the way of a snake, fish, dragon or crab; pieces of the snake’s body turn into rivers; a river is a snake
b42n	Orion is one person	Constellation of Orion or the Belt of Orion is identified with only one male person, usually with a warrior or hunter
b47	The Pleiades bring cold	In former times or regularly the Pleiades or other group of stars produced or produce till now severe cold. (The heliacal set of the Pleiades is in May-June while in the Northern Hemisphere they are seen best of all in the winter time)
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
b7b	Waters from broken pot	Sea, river, waters of flood flow out of a small receptacle
e35	Webbed fingers	First people or people made by Creator's rival were imperfect, not completely anthropomorphic (often: had webbed fingers)
e5a	Mankind ascends from the underworld	The first people (or only the first men or the first women) are not created but come to earth from the underworld (from a cave) or from a small enclosure under the earth or on its surface (tree trunk, rock, gourd, etc.). Many people of both sexes and of different ages or people and different species of animals come out together
e5c	People from the sky	The first people or first anthropomorphic divine beings descend to earth from the sky.
f11	Biting penis	Penis is biting, stinging, eats food
f18a	The long penis	Penis is so long that he can turn it round his waist or send into a woman who is at a long distance from him. (Only texts considered to describe real events and beings and not anecdotes are included)
f18b	Long penis after prohibited sex	After contact with a non-human or prohibited partner (close kin, animal, spirit) man's penis becomes so long that he had to carry it in a basket, etc.
f2	Pregnant limb	Child is born from a tumor or swelling on person's body (on thigh, knee, finger, etc.) or is temporarily placed there or child grows from blood that flew out from a cut
f38	Women and sacred knowledge	Women were possessors of the sacred knowledge, sanctuaries or ritual objects which are now taboo for them or they made attempts to acquire such a knowledge or objects
f39	The time of women	The women dominated over the men in the past or in a far away land, were the active part in marriage relations, practiced activities which now are reserved of the men only. Or the women could obtained supremacy but failed to do it for some reason
f40c	Patriarch kills the boys	A powerful man kills every baby boy born by his wives or by his sister
f80a	Genitals apart from the body	Genitals exist by themselves as separate beings, they can be stuck to the human body, remove, etc.
h1c	Stamped down grave	People do not come back to life after somebody buries the dead in the grave or stamps down the earth on the grave
h7g1	Death is more fair and rich than God	Person (who is usually in search of the godgather for the newborn child) rejects God (saints) and devil but accepts Death who is more fair (or rich)
i100	The Pleiades are girls	The Pleiades are a group of girls or women (with children)
i100b	The Pleiades are a group of people	The Pleiades are any people (of any ages and sex, combined data of i99-i100a)
i115a	Orion and the Pleiades as a man and women	Orion and the Pleiades are opposed as a man or men and a woman or women. Orion is usually male
i134	Long neck on the Milky Way	Figure of a long-necked creature (llama or nandu) is seen along the axes of the Milkt Way
i35a2	Thunder is rolling stones or vessels	Thunder is heard when stones or big vessels are rolled, dragged, overthrown in the sky
i41	Rainbow serpent	Rainbow is a reptile (usually a snake) or (more rare) a fish, or it is related to snake, to its tongue, breath, or to scorpion's tail
i42	Rainbow is a pair of creatures	Rainbow is two creatures or persons, usually a male and a female
i45b	Not to point at the rainbow	It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
i62	Milky Way is a river	Milky Way is a sky river, water body, chain of beings that swim
i67	Emu and rhea in the Milky Way	A giant figure of an emu (in Australia) or rhea (in South America) is seen in the Milky Way
i82b	Venus is female	Morning and/or Evening Star is a female personage
j12	Travelling girl walks across suitors	A girl (or two sisters) travel, usually in search of a proper marriage partner who lives far away or who has gone away. On her way or after reaching the place of destination the girl gets to some unpleasant suitors
j13	Two sisters	Two sisters (if more, only two play a significant role in the plot) travel and meet an unpleasant suitor or get to an ogre
j22a	Two men from one	Two men or a man and a woman appear from two halves of the cut in two anthropomorphic body or embryo; or another man appears from part of the body of the first one or from his body discharge
j47	Pursuer falls from height	Person ascends to the sky (rare: descends from the sky; ascends the cliff) by a rope, a ladder, etc. Another person tries to follow him or her but the rope (the ladder) is broken or severed
j58b	The sky door	Chain of arrows is used to pull or push the sky or the Sun lower or higher or to break a hole in the sky
k10	Fight with the monstrous bird	Monstrous bird (giant bat) predates on humans. Heroes fight with it
k177	The travelling heroine	A girl or young woman sets off to find or return her fience or her husband or she escapes from a fanger and ultimately marries happily
k28	Father or uncle is rival and enemy	Maternal uncle or father (or grandfather if he replaces father who is not mentioned) of the young man is his rival or enemy and tries to kill him
l110	The devourer	A demonic being swallows a multitude of people and animals. When it is killed and cut open, the swallowed ones come out alive or are revived
m50	Man follows stars	A man tries to join a group of persons who are or become stars (usually the Pleiades) but suffers a reverse; or he pursues the stars to have sexual contact or to be reintegrated with members of his family