b56


Motif

Motif code: 
b56
Name_eng: 
Fire tongue of the crocodile
Description: 

After the crocodile or caiman swallows or loses fire (that he possessed before), he remains without his tongue; or the crocodile's tongue is cut off to make something related to celestial fire (thunderbolt, sun beams, etc.

Name_rus: 
Огненные язык крокодила
Description_rus: 
Крокодил/кайман остается без языка, проглотив или потеряв огонь (которым он владел раньше); из отрезанного языка крокодила возникает нечто связанное с небесным огнем (молнии, солнечные лучи, и т.п.)
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
Motif analysis result: 
2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)
3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
13

Linked traditions:
Zoque; Izapa iconography (I millennium BC)
Tepehua, Totonac
Chorti
Bribri, Cabecar, Térraba; Chiriqui (AD 800-1500) iconography
Piaroa
Sanema
Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami
Wapishana (incl Ataroi); Mapidian; Taruma
Akawai
Baniwa (incl. Wakuenai), Bare, Piapoco, Curripaco, Siusi, Guarikena
Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor)
Mundurucu, Curuaia
Xinka

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: a26 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: a1a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: i5a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: i129 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: g12 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: d6a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 17 Weight: 412
Motif: b36b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: i28a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: d6b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: i15a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: b25 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k47c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: b32 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: j12b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: d13c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: l1e Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: j24 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 11 Weight: 273
Motif: g3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 15 Weight: 267
Motif: e28 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250