Sherente



Tradition title rus: 
Шеренте
Areal ID: 
15.7.2.8
Language: 
Tradition analysis result motif count all: 
40.00
Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo: 
28.00
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

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

a35


Name_eng: 
Spots on the lunar disc
Description: 

Dark spots on the lunar disc are dirt, blood, paint, traces of beating, burning, scratching, etc. on the Moon person's body or face (Kiliwa: spots on the Sun) and do not form any particular figure




Motif

b29


Name_eng: 
Eschatological feast
Description: 

People turn into animals, birds or stones at a feast, after the feast, after performing a ritual or after a victory over dangerous enemy




Motif

b58


Name_eng: 
Wild turkey’s red neck
Description: 

After the original fire is stolen by the ancestors, a partridge size forest bird (Penelope sp.; Anhima cornuta; etc.; jacu, paujil) swallows burning coal and (besides the Andoque) its neck becomes red




Motif

c2


Name_eng: 
Deluge and conflagration combined
Description: 

Inhabitans of the Middle World are (partly) destroyed (or will be destoyed) once by fire or draught, another time by a flood or the world is destroyed with a flood of fire or boiling water




Motif

d4a


Name_eng: 
Theft of fire
Description: 

Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before




Motif

d8


Name_eng: 
Fire and a predator animal
Description: 

Fire or summer is stolen from a big predator: a lion (in Africa), a tiger (in Asia), a bear (in Siberia and North America) or a jaguar (in South America)




Motif

d12


Name_eng: 
Food baked in the sun
Description: 

First people or inhabitants of a distant country cook food in the sun; or fire owner lies that he or she cooks food in the sun




Motif

e15


Name_eng: 
Ducks and canoes
Description: 

People learn from aquatic birds how to make canoes or how to paddle; or the first canoe is a transformed bird or is made of bird bones




Motif

f46


Name_eng: 
One for all
Description: 

In the beginning of time two or more men (animal people) have only one woman




Motif

f46a


Name_eng: 
Woman in a tree
Description: 

Men (animal people) discover a woman in a tree and copulate with her there




Motif

f47


Name_eng: 
Pieces of flesh turn to people
Description: 

A living creature or a lump of alive flesh is cut into pieces which are diepersed around. After some time every piece turns into human being




Motif

f47a


Name_eng: 
Men use pieces of woman’s flesh
Description: 

Every man uses for copulation certain part of an only woman or takes a part of her body after it was cut into pieces




Motif

f48


Name_eng: 
Why women are different
Description: 

Different women are not similar physically because pieces of the first woman's flesh distributed between men were of unequal quality or because males who copulated with her had different nature




Motif

i27


Name_eng: 
Chthonic canine
Description: 

A dog is the lord, guard or guide of/to the land of the dead; or dogs live on the way to the land of the dead




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

i82a


Name_eng: 
Venus is male
Description: 

Morning and/or Evening Star is a male personage




Motif

i99


Name_eng: 
The Pleiades are boys or men
Description: 

The Pleiades are a group of boys or men, or a group of different people but predominantly males




Motif

j4


Name_eng: 
Revenge for the death of the male relatives
Description: 

Heroes avenge the murder or captivity of the male relatives: (grand)father, uncles, or the elder relatives in general, the loss of the males being the most traumatic




Motif

k2


Name_eng: 
The destroyed ladder
Description: 

Hero climbs up (e.g. to a tree) or down (e.g. into a deep cave) by ladder, rope, from branch to branch, etc. The rope etc. breaks or is intentionally destroyed and the hero cannot return to the ground. (All cases of motif K2A, besides the Koreans, also contain motif K2)




Motif

k4


Name_eng: 
The bird nester
Description: 

Person climbs up a tree or rock or descends to a cave to get eggs or nestlings from the bird's nest. Another person remains on the ground. They get into conflict and/or the first person is unable to get back to the ground




Motif

k19a


Name_eng: 
Star-wife
Description: 

A man maries a star-woman




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

k25


Name_eng: 
Magic wife
Description: 

A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world




Motif

l40


Name_eng: 
Reflection and shadow
Description: 

Person discovers (rare:still fails to discover) another getting to see his or her shadow or reflection in water




Motif

m1a


Name_eng: 
Caiman ferries the Pleiades-brothers
Description: 

Caiman ferries a person or a group of brothers who later turn the Pleiades




Motif

m18


Name_eng: 
Stolen arrows and hooks
Description: 

Person transforms himself into an object of hunting or fishing, provokes hunters of fishermen to catch or shoot him and carries way the tools that they use (arrows, darts, harpoons, hooks, baits). Or he fishes by turning himself into a hook. Or he is caught but escapes turning back into a person




Motif

m18a


Name_eng: 
Getting arrows
Description: 

Person turns into a fish or game and exposes himself as a target. A lot of arrows, darts or harpoons stick in his body making him no harm, he carries them away




Motif

h7g1


Name_eng: 
Death is more fair and rich than God
Description: 

Person (who is usually in search of the godgather for the newborn child) rejects God (saints) and devil but accepts Death who is more fair (or rich)




Motif

i100b


Name_eng: 
The Pleiades are a group of people
Description: 

The Pleiades are any people (of any ages and sex, combined data of i99-i100a)




Motif

b114


Name_eng: 
Old person turns into anteater
Description: 

Old man or old woman turns into anteater (origin of anteaters)




Motif

f47b


Name_eng: 
New people on the old place
Description: 

To create the new people (new women) instead of those who were destructed, person puts down in every empty hut (hearth, hammock) something (feathers, pieces of flesh) from which new people (new women) emerge




Motif

k19c


Name_eng: 
Non-human lover in man’s bed or bag
Description: 

A man brings home a small being with whom he makes love at night. His mother, sister or wife discovers his non-human lover in his bed or bag




Motif

k10


Name_eng: 
Fight with the monstrous bird
Description: 

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




Motif

b1f


Name_eng: 
Two brothers: a winner and a failure
Description: 

Two brothers (companions) live In the epoch of the creation. One of them is smart and selfconfident, another is weak and makes mistakes. They are not enemies and demonstrate their qualities in two or more episodes




Motif

a28


Name_eng: 
The smart Sun and the unwise Moon
Description: 

The Sun and the Moon are men. The unwise Moon tries to repeat dangerous tricks of the Sun but fails to do it successfully




Motif

f3a


Name_eng: 
The pregnant man
Description: 

A man carries a child like a woman




Motif

j1


Name_eng: 
The vengeful heroes
Description: 

Persons avenge the death of their father, mother or other relatives who are one (rare two) generations older than they




Motif

c9


Name_eng: 
Warning about the coming flood
Description: 

God, animal, some person warns one of the people about the catastrophy (usuallly the flood) that will become soon and in which most of the people must perish





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