Taino of Haiti



Tradition title rus: 
Таино Гаити
Areal ID: 
15.2.1.1
Language: 
Tradition analysis result motif count all: 
7.00
Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo: 
7.00

Linked Motifs

MotifNameDescription
a3Male sun and female moonThe Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
b12Rivers and snakesThe river bed follows the way of a snake, fish, dragon or crab; pieces of the snake’s body turn into rivers; a river is a snake
b30aMurdered person turns into fishFish emerges from remains of a killed person or creature
b7bWaters from broken potSea, river, waters of flood flow out of a small receptacle
g5Food treeFruits and shoots of different cultivated plants grow on the branches of one tree (on one vine) or certain plant has a tree form that is alien to it in nature
g6Primeval treeOne 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)
h20Fish disperse in the worldAll the fish or (rare) shellfish) was concentrated in one place. Certain person lets it lose or puts it into the rivers or sea


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