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
Language: 
Tradition analysis result motif count all: 
32.00
Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo: 
24.00
Motifs: 

Motif

a5


Name_eng: 
The Sun and the Moon are males
Description: 

The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual




Motif

a32


Name_eng: 
Figure on lunar disc
Description: 

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)




Motif

a32d


Name_eng: 
Man in the Moon
Description: 

Human being or imprint of human being is seen in the moon




Motif

a32e


Name_eng: 
Person with an object in hands
Description: 

Person who holds some object in his or her hands is seen in the moon (rare: in the sun)




Motif

a32h


Name_eng: 
The Moon plant
Description: 

A tree or bush is seen in the moon




Motif

b10


Name_eng: 
Drunk out water
Description: 

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




Motif

d4a


Name_eng: 
Theft of fire
Description: 

Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before




Motif

d5


Name_eng: 
Woman as the owner of the fire
Description: 

Female person is the owner or inventor (but not the personification) of the fire




Motif

f1


Name_eng: 
First woman is a transformed man
Description: 

Woman, female supernatural or animal females are created by changing the sex of a man (or male animals)




Motif

f18a


Name_eng: 
The long penis
Description: 

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)




Motif

f18c


Name_eng: 
Girls at the opposite bank
Description: 

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




Motif

f40b


Name_eng: 
A man in a village of women
Description: 

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




Motif

f42


Name_eng: 
The men abandon the women
Description: 

The men feel themselves offended by the women and abandon them




Motif

f42a


Name_eng: 
Men turn into birds
Description: 

Young men and boys turn into birds or bats, fly away




Motif

f43a


Name_eng: 
The women kill the men
Description: 

The women of the ancestral community kill, try to kill or transform the men




Motif

f43c


Name_eng: 
Bat-husbands
Description: 

Marriage partners of the primeval women, the amazons or a solitary woman are small animals (usually flying foxes)




Motif

f44


Name_eng: 
Women and men separate
Description: 

The women and the men of the primeval community quarrel and abandon each other




Motif

f45


Name_eng: 
The Amazons
Description: 

There are (or were) women who live apart from men in their own village or villages




Motif

f58


Name_eng: 
Trickster and women
Description: 

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




Motif

f64


Name_eng: 
The lecherous parent
Description: 

Person changes his or (rare) her guise to marry his or her close relative in descending or (rare) ascending line




Motif

f65


Name_eng: 
The false burial
Description: 

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




Motif

h4


Name_eng: 
The shed skin
Description: 

Those who change their skin become young again




Motif

h4a


Name_eng: 
Process of rejuvenation is broken
Description: 

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




Motif

i15


Name_eng: 
No-mouth people
Description: 

Anthropomorphic beings have no mouths




Motif

i19


Name_eng: 
People inhale the odor of food
Description: 

Anthropomorphic beings satisfy their hunger cooking food and inhaling the odor




Motif

i82b


Name_eng: 
Venus is female
Description: 

Morning and/or Evening Star is a female personage




Motif

i82c


Name_eng: 
Venus is the Moon’s wife
Description: 

Venus or some other bright star seen near the eastern or western horizon is female and wife of the Moon




Motif

k8a


Name_eng: 
Jonah: swallowed by monster
Description: 

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)




Motif

k32


Name_eng: 
The false wife
Description: 

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.




Motif

k32f


Name_eng: 
Bird-son rescues his adopted mother
Description: 

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




Motif

l21


Name_eng: 
Cannibal’s attention diverted
Description: 

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




Motif

l107


Name_eng: 
The ear-sleepers
Description: 

Anthropomorphic beings have huge ears (use them for blankets, umbrellas, etc.)





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