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c1

Motif

Motif code:

Name_eng:

The collapse of the sky

Description:

Catastropic displacement of layers of the univers in the past or in the future is mentioned. Among variants (sometimes combined):
the sky fell on the earth; the earth (the underworld) and the sky interchanged their positions; the earth turned upside down; the layers of the universe collapsed in one after another; they will change their place during the future cataclysm

Name_rus:

Падение неба

Description_rus:

В прошлом произошло либо произойдет в будущем катастрофическое смещение ярусов мироздания. Среди вариантов (иногда совмещенных): небо упало на землю; нынешние земля или подземный мир поменялись местами с небом; земля перевернулась; провалилась в нижний мир; ярусы мироздания последовательно обрушивались на землю либо поменяются местами в будущем

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

03 Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature

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

4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

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