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Motif

Name_eng:

Siblings change their looks and marry

Description:

In the beginning of time or after the world catastrophe brother and sister or mother and son are the only humans. They reject marriage or only the man does not want to marry his sister or mother. After their looks are changed (or only the sister or mother changes her face) they take each other for strangers, marry and beget the new race

Name_rus:

Брат и сестра не узнали друг друга

Description_rus:

Брат и сестра (либо мать и сын) оказываются одни, без брачных партнеров. Оба они (или только брат, сын) отказываются вступить в брак, но вступают после того, как принимают друг друга (или брат принимает сестру, сын – мать) за незнакомого человека. Они порождают новых людей

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

05 Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms

Motif analysis result:

1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.1.1.1	Northern Taiwan: Atayal (Tayal; Taruko (Toda, Taokas, Torok, Taroko), Pazeh, Sedeq (Sediq, Seedeq, Sazek), Saisiyat (Saixia); Kawalan
10.1.1.3	Southern Taiwan: Rukai, Paiwan, Puyuma, Saaroa, Ketangalan
10.1.1.4	Ami
10.2.2.6	Henan and Hubei Chinese
10.2.3.6	Li
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
11.1.2.1	Chukchi
6.1.1.10	Tribal groups and castes that speak Aryan languages: Dhoba (Dhobi), Halba (Halbi, Pentia), Bhunjia, Lohar (Luhar, Luhara), Kahar, Kamar (Paharia)
6.1.1.11	Gutob (Gadaba)
6.1.1.4	Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
6.1.1.7	Bondo, Didayi (Gata')
6.1.2.1	Oraon (Kurukh)
6.1.2.2	Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
6.1.2.5	Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
6.3.2.4	Katu (Ködu); Bru (incl. Van Kieu, Khua)
6.4.6.1	Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik