Nicobarese



Tradition title rus: 
Никобарцы
Areal ID: 
6.4.1.2
Tradition analysis result motif count all: 
17.00
Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo: 
16.00
Motifs: 

Motif

a12


Name_eng: 
Eclipses: monster’s attack
Description: 

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




Motif

a12c


Name_eng: 
Eclipses: reptiles and fish
Description: 

During an eclipse or at the sunset the Sun or the Moon are attacked by a reptile (a snake, a lizard, a dragon, a crocodile) or a fish




Motif

b75a


Name_eng: 
Sounds of the time of creation: voice of a person
Description: 

Voice of a person who lived in the bygone times is still heard (most often it is an echo)




Motif

b79a


Name_eng: 
A bird laid an egg
Description: 

In the beginning of time a bird flies, lays an egg or eggs, different objects and creatures emerge from them or a bird drops some solid substance on the waters and the dry land or an island appear




Motif

b98


Name_eng: 
The bat between birds and animals
Description: 

Bat (rare: ostrich) makes attempts to join sometimes animals and sometime birds or is excluded from both categories




Motif

c8


Name_eng: 
The couple of close relations originates the mankind
Description: 

In the beginning of time or after the natural disaster brother and sister, mother and son, or father and daughters are the only human beings. They marry and the present day people are their descendents




Motif

c12b


Name_eng: 
People descend from a dog
Description: 

In the beginning of time or after the flood man marries a bitch. Present people descend from them.




Motif

f7


Name_eng: 
The water-maiden
Description: 

Man takes or attempts to take a wife who is connected with the underwater world (fish, crab, snake, water animal and the like)




Motif

g6


Name_eng: 
Primeval tree
Description: 

One of the trees is the principal, original one (emerged before all the other; ancestor of wild or cultivated plants; ocean or rivers inside it; world axis; higher than all the others; overshadows sky)




Motif

g21


Name_eng: 
Coconut palm from a human head
Description: 

Coconut palm grows out of the human head




Motif

i20


Name_eng: 
The undeground dwarfs
Description: 

Race of dwarfs lives under the ground (deep under the earth or in hills and rocks) or at the horizon where the earth and the sky meet




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

c8c


Name_eng: 
Mother and son produce people
Description: 

After the world cataclysm, in the beginning of time or coming to a new land a woman marries her son and produce people




Motif

b79a1


Name_eng: 
A bird dropped hard substance on water
Description: 

In the beginning of time, a bird flies and drops some solid substance on the waters and the dry land or an island appear. Sometimes the precise nature of the substratum on which the solid piece falls is not defined




Motif

b98a


Name_eng: 
Bat becomes an outcast
Description: 

The bat becomes an outcast among other creatures (usually after it makes attempts to join first animals and then birds or vice versa)




Motif

i20c


Name_eng: 
Dwarfs live in the underworld
Description: 

Dwarfs live in the underworld that somewhat reminds the world of humans. If the dwarfs and the humans meet, it is deep under the earther




Motif

k25


Name_eng: 
Magic wife
Description: 

A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world





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