Ceram: Alune and Wemale (West Ceram), Patasiwa (Ceram), Honitetu (West Ceram Highlands); Nusawele, Hatuolu, Huaolu, Patasiwa; Ambon; Buru

Tradition title rus:

Серам: алуне и вемале (западный Серам), нусавеле {видимо, наименование локуса, а не языка} (центральный или восточный Серам), хатуолу (подгруппа манусела, центральный Серам), хуаулу (восточный Серам), патасива (Серам), хонитету (западный Серам, горы); Серам (без уточнения этноса), Амбон (=Амбойна, остров у ЮЗ побережья Серама); остров Буру (к западу от Серама)

Areal ID:

6.4.8.11

Areal:

Language:

Tradition analysis result motif count all:

37.00

Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo:

26.00

Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a14	Eclipses: relations between the Sun and the Moon	Coming together of the Sun and the Moon is the reason of their eclipses
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
a7	The sun pursues the moon	The Sun and the Moon are two persons one of which is pursuing another in the sky or pursued him or her when they were rising to the sky from the earth
b29	Eschatological feast	People turn into animals, birds or stones at a feast, after the feast, after performing a ritual or after a victory over dangerous enemy
b2a	The female earth	The earth is a female person (alone or together with a male person); she is female being or associated with a woman
b2d	Marriage of the sky and the earth	The male Sky (the Sun, the Thunder, the creator of the sky) marries the female Earth (or its female creator) or the female Sky marries the male Earth
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
d13i1	Showing his teeth, person betrays himself	Person’s (demonic) nature becomes clear when he or she laughs and shows his or her teeth
e32	People born from trees	First people are born by trees or come out of a tree, flower, reed
e5b	First couple from the underworld	First man (a group of brothers) or first human couple come out from the underworld (a cave) or from a small enclosure on its surface (tussock, reed, tree, rock, gourd)
e5c	People from the sky	The first people or first anthropomorphic divine beings descend to earth from the sky.
g20	Woman turns into plants	Food crops emerge from remains of a woman or girl
g23a	Alive being turns into plants	Person or creature is transformed. Separate parts of its (his, her) body give origin to different plants, mostly edible or cultivated
g24	Food from the sky	First seeds (sprouts, tubors) of cultivated plants or of important edible wild plants are brought from the sky (received from the sky-dwellers)
g24a	Seeds of plants hidden on the body	Person steals cultivated plants for the people hiding the seeds on/in his body
h9b	Children as shoots of plants	People are likened to plants which are mortal but revive in their offsets
i16	Body anomalies of the first people	First human beings have no mouth, anus or genitals, their women do not know how to give birth
i17	Body anomalies of inhabitants of a distant land	Beings without mouth, anus, genitals, whose women do not know how to give birth live in the underworld, in the sky, or in a far-away land
i32	Tree of the babies	There is (or was) a tree on which souls of still unborn babies grow, which leaves transform into people, or which trunk is covered with female breasts or flowers that innumerable babies are sucking
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
i72a	Stars are children of the Sun and the Moon	Stars are children of the Moon and/or the Sun
i82a	Venus is male	Morning and/or Evening Star is a male personage
i82b	Venus is female	Morning and/or Evening Star is a female personage
i82d	Morning and Evening stars are a man and a woman	Morning and Evening stars are opposed as a man and a woman or vice versa
k37d	Recognized by traces of teeth	One person gets to know about the presence of another seeing traces of his teeth or nails on a fruit or leaf
l105	Invisible missile	Animal, fish or person wounded by hero runs or swims away, usually with the man's projectile in his or her body. Local doctors are not able to cure the wound (usually because they do not see the projectile). The hero or his companion comes to the place where the wounded one lives and cures him or her (usually extracting his projectile from the wound)
l106	Lost object claimed back	An antagonist makes a demand to the hero which is correct in form but really is unjustified. The hero fulfills the claims or is punished. Now antagonist takes an object or animal possessed by the hero, is unable to give it back and is punished
l112	Complete body obtained	A boy is born having only half of a body or only a head. Ultimately he obtains normal body
l85	One-sided people	One-sided people have one leg and/or also one arm, one half of a head, etc. The second leg is not cut or burned off, preserved as a stump but is absent completely
l85a	One-sided child	Person is born as half of a child or loses his or her half in an accident. The person does not belong to any category of supernatural beings and usually turns into normal girl or young man
l85b	Woman gives birth to disfigured child	A woman gives birth to disfigured child because she offended a powerful supernatural being (Rain, Sun, etc.). Her child is provided with magic power and eventually obtains normal body
l85b1	After coming to the sky, the lad gets a normal body	A lad with incomplete or grotesque body becomes normal after coming to the sky (coming to God, getting back to the earth)
m124	A bull’s tail	Person buries a tail or head of a bull or other domestic animal with a tail or horns outside. He explains that the animal sank into the ground and usually asks the others to pull the tail (horns). When they are “torn off”, he tells that people are guilty of the animal being lost
m44b	Thieves of food: the women	Person discovers that somebody steals game or fish from his trap or devastates his garden. He or his guards catch the thieves who prove to be (the first) women or the thief is the water being whom the hero lets go after receiving a woman for ransom
m57a	Beads discharged from the body	Instead of common body discharges a man or a woman urinates, spits, etc. beads, flowers, gold and other valuables; valuables are produced by the very presence of particular person
m57a3	Female person is the producer of valuables	Instead of common body discharges a a woman urinates, spits, etc. beads, flowers, gold and other valuables; valuables are produced by the very presence of particular female person. See motif m57a
m91c2	Put into the bag	Person is put into a bag (a cage, tied up, etc.) to be drowned, burned, etc. He pretends to be in this situation by his own will or because he refuses to marry a princess, to become a chief and the like. Another person is willing to take his place and is killed