Saibai, Dauan, Boigu, Badu, Waraber, Wet, Warei, Dauar, Badu, Moa

Tradition title rus:

Северные острова Торресова пролива (Сайбай, Дауан, Бойгу, Баду), южные (Варабер), восточные (Wet, Warei, Dauar, все вместе называются Murray), западные (Баду, Мабулаг, Моа)

Areal ID:

7.1.4.1

Areal:

Language:

Australian

Tradition analysis result motif count all:

32.00

Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo:

24.00

Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a32	Figure on lunar disc	A figure or an imprint of some being or object are seen in the Moon. (For statistical analysis motifs A32A – A32J are also included into A32)
a32d	Man in the Moon	Human being or imprint of human being is seen in the moon
a32e	Person with an object in hands	Person who holds some object in his or her hands is seen in the moon (rare: in the sun)
a32h	The Moon plant	A tree or bush is seen in the moon
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b10	Drunk out water	Person drinks a lake or all the water in the world or all the water is originally inside person's belly. When a hole is made in it, the water pours out
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d5	Woman as the owner of the fire	Female person is the owner or inventor (but not the personification) of the fire
f1	First woman is a transformed man	Woman, female supernatural or animal females are created by changing the sex of a man (or male animals)
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)
f18c	Girls at the opposite bank	Seeing a girl on the opposite bank of a river, person uses tricks to have sex with her: sends his long penis, transforms his penis into a bridge or a dam, dives and copulates with a girl from under the water
f40b	A man in a village of women	A man gets into the village of women. Usually he has to satisfy every woman against his will or every woman claims him for herself
f42	The men abandon the women	The men feel themselves offended by the women and abandon them
f42a	Men turn into birds	Young men and boys turn into birds or bats, fly away
f43a	The women kill the men	The women of the ancestral community kill, try to kill or transform the men
f43c	Bat-husbands	Marriage partners of the primeval women, the amazons or a solitary woman are small animals (usually flying foxes)
f44	Women and men separate	The women and the men of the primeval community quarrel and abandon each other
f45	The Amazons	There are (or were) women who live apart from men in their own village or villages
f58	Trickster and women	A man cohabits with a group of women (or with several women in succession) concealing his identity and/or intentions. He is either eventually exposed and punished by women or escapes to continue his tricks
f64	The lecherous parent	Person changes his or (rare) her guise to marry his or her close relative in descending or (rare) ascending line
f65	The false burial	To realize his or her secret desire (illicit sex, refusal to share food with relations), person pretends to die and is abandoned at a burial place
h4	The shed skin	Those who change their skin become young again
h4a	Process of rejuvenation is broken	People do not become young (usually do not shed their skin) anymore because certain person was bothered during rejuvenation or was not recognized by his family in his new guise
i15	No-mouth people	Anthropomorphic beings have no mouths
i19	People inhale the odor of food	Anthropomorphic beings satisfy their hunger cooking food and inhaling the odor
i82b	Venus is female	Morning and/or Evening Star is a female personage
i82c	Venus is the Moon’s wife	Venus or some other bright star seen near the eastern or western horizon is female and wife of the Moon
k32	The false wife	An ugly, old, lazy, etc. woman or (in Chaco) a male trickster comes to man under disguise of his wife or bride who is driven out, confined to the underworld, killed, etc.
k32f	Bird-son rescues his adopted mother	An evil spirit abandons a girl or a young woman in a tree or islet. She takes care for a nestling of bird of prey, he grows big, rescues her
k8a	Jonah: swallowed by monster	Person gets into the belly of water being or into the belly of giant creature which appearance and living place remain vague. He kills the monster from the inside and/or returns to earth by himself (i.e. not extracted by other people)
l107	The ear-sleepers	Anthropomorphic beings have huge ears (use them for blankets, umbrellas, etc.)
l21	Cannibal’s attention diverted	A cannibal under a tree plans to eat up a man who has climbed the tree. The man throws down and afar his pray or some object and escapes while the cannibal rushes to this object or is eating the pray