To Loinang, To Wana, Balantak (Mian Balantak), Banggai Islands

Tradition title rus:

Лоинанг (то лойнанг; восток Сулавеси), вана (то вана, восток Сулавеси), балантак (восточная оконечность восточного ответвления Сулавеси), о-ва Банггай (у восточной ветви Сулавеси)

Areal ID:

6.4.6.3

Areal:

Language:

Tradition analysis result motif count all:

21.00

Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo:

18.00

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
a12d	Eclipses: birds	A bird or birds attack or shade the Sun or the Moon during an eclipse or at the sunrise and sunset
a14	Eclipses: relations between the Sun and the Moon	Coming together of the Sun and the Moon is the reason of their eclipses
a2a	The sun is a source of distructive heat	The world was or will be (almost) burned when several suns had (will) appear(ed) simultaneously; or the only sun was too hot (or bright)
a35	Spots on the lunar disc	Dark spots on the lunar disc are dirt, blood, paint, traces of beating, burning, scratching, etc. on the Moon person's body or face (Kiliwa: spots on the Sun) and do not form any particular figure
a37	The Sun is attacked with weapons	Person intentionally and with special equipment (usually shooting arrows) attacks the Sun (or several suns if they were many)
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
e5c	People from the sky	The first people or first anthropomorphic divine beings descend to earth from the sky.
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
h5	People and snakes	Reptiles or invertebrates possess the medicine of immortality; are contrasted with men as immortal with mortals and/or are responsible for originating of death; or a snake's bite inflicts the first death
h9	Strong and weak	People are mortal because they have been likened to something subject to decay and easy destruction (e.g. to the soft wood and not to the stone)
i100b	The Pleiades are a group of people	The Pleiades are any people (of any ages and sex, combined data of i99-i100a)
i104	Stars are fragments	Stars are fragments of a bigger luminary (usually the Moon); or stars, the sun and the moon are formed from one and the same primeval person or creature
i32a	Tree of human life	When a leave or a fruit of a certain tree drops, one of the people on the earth dies
i45b	Not to point at the rainbow	It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
i99	The Pleiades are boys or men	The Pleiades are a group of boys or men, or a group of different people but predominantly males
k176	A man in search of the woman	A (young) man sets off to find or to return his bride or his wife
k24	Stolen clothes of supernatural woman	Women (rare: men) who possess supernatural power and usually come from a non-human world (from sky, from under the water, they are winged beings, bird- or animal-persons; rare: a girl of higher social status than the hero) take off their clothes (feather skins and the like) or part of it. Because a person hides the clothes (of one of them), their owner(s) have (has) to marry him or help him (rare: her)
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
k25a1	Magic wife finds her clothes	Magic wife abandons her mortal husband when she finds her clothes (often, her feathers if she is a bird-woman), makes herself the new clothes, receives them from her kin or her husband gives her her clothing believing that she will not abandon him. (Versions with magic wife abandoning her husband because she feels herself offended is not alternative to the “found clothes but in most of the texts these motifs are not combined)