Creols of Eastern and Central Cuba



Tradition title rus: 
Креолы восточной и центральной Кубы
Areal ID: 
15.2.1.2
Language: 
Tradition analysis result motif count all: 
13.00
Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo: 
12.00

Linked Motifs

MotifNameDescription
a25Getting accustomed to the lightWhen people see light of day for the first time, they are prohibited to look at it immediately. Those who break this taboo are ruined
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
e5aMankind ascends from the underworldThe first people (or only the first men or the first women) are not created but come to earth from the underworld (from a cave) or from a small enclosure under the earth or on its surface (tree trunk, rock, gourd, etc.). Many people of both sexes and of different ages or people and different species of animals come out together
f2Pregnant limbChild is born from a tumor or swelling on person's body (on thigh, knee, finger, etc.) or is temporarily placed there or child grows from blood that flew out from a cut
f40aHusband of the first womenAn anthropomorphic male or an androgyne is the only possessor or leader of women
f43The women disappearThe women of the ancestral community kill or abandon the men
f44Women and men separateThe women and the men of the primeval community quarrel and abandon each other
f45The AmazonsThere are (or were) women who live apart from men in their own village or villages
f6Gouged our vaginaWoman has no vagina and it is later made by bird or animal
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
i72Stars are peopleStars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
l65b3The escape on the treePersons climbs a tree and thanks to this escapes from a demon (who usually tries to fell the tree)


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Torricelli family: Valman, Samap, Arapesh (Upper, Coastal), Monumbo, Lilau, Ngaimbom; Moando (Banara); Menya, Olo, Buna

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