Washo



Tradition title rus: 
Вашо
Areal ID: 
12.7.1.4
Language: 
Tradition analysis result motif count all: 
28.00
Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo: 
13.00
Motifs: 

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

a32


Name_eng: 
Figure on lunar disc
Description: 

A figure or an imprint of some being or object are seen in the Moon. (For statistical analysis motifs A32A – A32J are also included into A32)




Motif

a32h


Name_eng: 
The Moon plant
Description: 

A tree or bush is seen in the moon




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

h24


Name_eng: 
Container opened too early
Description: 

Container with valuables or with dangerous creatures is opened (before time). Its content goes out of control or disappear




Motif

h24b


Name_eng: 
Souls disappear from the opened container
Description: 

Person receives a container with the soul of a dead person and has to open it not before he gets to particular place or after particular time interval. He opens it too early, the soul fly away




Motif

h24e


Name_eng: 
To choose life or death
Description: 

People are suggested to choose one of two objects, associated with life and death. They choose the object with death




Motif

h34a


Name_eng: 
Controversy over conditions of life
Description: 

Person has a series of suggestions how to make the world easy for living and free of hard work and death. His companion successively rejects them. Their dialogue forever defines conditions of human life




Motif

h36gg


Name_eng: 
Death and the coyote
Description: 

Coyote is responsible for introduction of permanent death




Motif

i39


Name_eng: 
Rainbow road or bridge
Description: 

Rainbow is a road, a bridge or a ladder




Motif

i45b


Name_eng: 
Not to point at the rainbow
Description: 

It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked




Motif

i72


Name_eng: 
Stars are people
Description: 

Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)




Motif

j12k


Name_eng: 
A valuable partner and an imposter live in one house
Description: 

A valuable partner whom a girl (two sisters) should marry and an imposter live together in one and the same house




Motif

j12m


Name_eng: 
Woman turns into duck
Description: 

A girl or two sisters marry a valuable partner. His rival kills or attempts to kill him or his wives. As a consequence, the women turn into water birds




Motif

j13


Name_eng: 
Two sisters
Description: 

Two sisters (if more, only two play a significant role in the plot) travel and meet an unpleasant suitor or get to an ogre




Motif

k10d


Name_eng: 
Bird carries man to an island
Description: 

A flying monster carries a man to a far away island. There he gets to kill the monster. To return, he uses a boat, a bridge or a rope made of parts of the monster's body




Motif

k19b


Name_eng: 
Star-husband
Description: 

A woman maries a star-man




Motif

k19g


Name_eng: 
Two stars of different color and brightness
Description: 

Two stars are men, an old and a young ones. They look different as about their color or brightness but these characteristics do not correlate (the bright star can prove to be an old man and vice versa. Usually two girls wish these stars for husbands and express different preferences (one prefers bright blue star, another wants small and red one, etc.)




Motif

k20


Name_eng: 
Wish for star-husband or wife realized
Description: 

A human person admires a star or (rare) the Moon in the sky, expresses desire to marry it or (rare) to get a star-object. Star descends to him or to her or takes him or her to the sky




Motif

k21a


Name_eng: 
Woman returns from the sky
Description: 

A sky-dweller marries a woman. Being eager to return home, she secretly descends to the earth




Motif

k25d


Name_eng: 
Prohibited bulb in the sky
Description: 

Person gets to the sky, makes hole through the firmament digging out a root. Usually woman's husband or his kinsmen warn her against digging out a special bulb or tuber; breaking taboo, she gets to see the earth, decides to descend




Motif

k26


Name_eng: 
A hole in the firmament
Description: 

Finding a hole in the ground or making it, person gets to see below another world. Usually the earth is seen from the sky




Motif

k27e


Name_eng: 
Eating or drinking contest
Description: 

Person or animal must eat (drink) enormous quantity of food (beverage) or eat or drink poisonous beverage or food




Motif

m42c


Name_eng: 
Animal person eats his own marrow
Description: 

Breaking or cutting his leg, animal person becomes to eat his own bone marrow




Motif

c38


Name_eng: 
People are coming soon
Description: 

Those who inhabited the world in the time of creation were saying that real people were to come and so they had to do this and that




Motif

k21


Name_eng: 
Woman gets to the sky and marries a sky-dweller
Description: 

Woman gets to the sky and marries a sky-dweller




Motif

k10


Name_eng: 
Fight with the monstrous bird
Description: 

Monstrous bird (giant bat) predates on humans. Heroes fight with it




Motif

m11


Name_eng: 
The unclean food
Description: 

Person feeds others a food that is extracted from his, hers or somebody else’ body or is polluted by body extractions not informing about the source of the food





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