Korku



Tradition title rus: 
Корку
Areal ID: 
6.1.1.2
Language: 
Tradition analysis result motif count all: 
26.00
Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo: 
26.00
Motifs: 

Motif

a3


Name_eng: 
Male sun and female moon
Description: 

The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male




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

e4


Name_eng: 
Creation from cuticle
Description: 

Supernatural person rubs his or her skin, creates the entire earth, human or other beings of dirt (from under his or her nails) and cuticle




Motif

f9


Name_eng: 
A dangerous woman
Description: 

For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man




Motif

f9a


Name_eng: 
Vagina dentata
Description: 

There are teeth, blades or sharp stones in woman’s genitals, vagina is the biting mouth. (Only texts that are believed to correspond to reality are considered but not anecdotes and jokes)




Motif

f97


Name_eng: 
The prohibited fruit: origin of sex
Description: 

After eating certain fruit, berry, tuber, etc. people become sexually aware




Motif

h40


Name_eng: 
Dog is the guard of man
Description: 

Dog guards (successfully or unsuccessfully) the (still unfinished) physical body of man or the entrance to paradise




Motif

h42


Name_eng: 
Creator goes away for a while
Description: 

After creating the bodies of the first people or after getting a conception how to do it the Creator goes away for a while. During his absence another person, because of his or her ignorance or intentionally, spoils the creation or makes himself or herself what the Creator would make in a better way. Usually because of this people are mortal and subject to diseases




Motif

h43a


Name_eng: 
Broken figure of the first man
Description: 

After making human body, creator goes away for a time. In his absence another person makes attempt to break human figure that was not yet alive




Motif

h51


Name_eng: 
The demonic horse
Description: 

A horse eats people or is associated with antagonist of the God




Motif

h2


Name_eng: 
The selfish animal
Description: 

Animals ask God to make people mortal because people would be too numerous and step on the animals, deprive them of their food and habitat, or because the animals want to feast on the human corpses




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

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

b3b


Name_eng: 
Earth grows big
Description: 

Original earth was small and later increased in size or the fertile soil grew from a small amount of original substance




Motif

b3e


Name_eng: 
Earth falls on waters
Description: 

In the beginning there are only air and water. 1) Person descends from the sky, creates the dry land or a hard support created for her or him grows into the earth. 2) The earth is sent or dropped from the sky, put on the surface of the water. 3) The earth is brought from somewhere (not from the underworld) and put on the water




Motif

b42m


Name_eng: 
Second hunter’s cooking pot
Description: 

Three stars of the Dipper’s handle of Ursa Mayor are three men (hunters, thieves) who are eager to get an animal (an elk or a bear) or an object (a cot). Alkor (a weak star near Mizar) is a receptacle in possession of the second man




Motif

b87


Name_eng: 
Alcor
Description: 

Alcor (a weak star near the second star of the handle of the Big Dipper) is selected as a particular sky object




Motif

i41a


Name_eng: 
Rainbow from anthill or termite nest
Description: 

Rainbow rises from an anthill




Motif

i59a


Name_eng: 
Thief in the sky
Description: 

Astral objects or lunar spots are associated with a story of a stealing and the value of the stolen objects is low (straw, firewoods, cabbage, etc.)




Motif

i69


Name_eng: 
Star dung
Description: 

Shining sky objects or atmospheric phenomena are excrements of sky dwellers




Motif

i110


Name_eng: 
Night sky agriculturalists
Description: 

Constellation are interpreted as agricultural tools or people occupied with agricultural works (mostly ploughing and haymaking)




Motif

i110a


Name_eng: 
The star plough
Description: 

Orion (rare: other constellation) is a plough




Motif

i127


Name_eng: 
Ursa major is a bed
Description: 

Ursa major is a bed, a cot, a bedstead




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

b42u


Name_eng: 
Big Dipper’s handle are three persons
Description: 

Three stars of Big Dipper’s handle are three persons. Four stars of the Dipper itself are objects of animals (one or several)




Motif

c8aa


Name_eng: 
Brother and sister beget the people
Description: 

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





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