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Motif

Name_eng:

The flood: the wet tails

Description:

During the flood birds or animals escape to some place (mountain, tree, boat, sky). Tips of their tails or other body parts get covered with water or foam and acquire their present color and form

Name_rus:

Потоп: мокрые хвосты

Description_rus:

Во время потопа некоторые птицы или животные спасаются на горе, на дереве, в лодке или цепляясь за небо; их хвосты или другие части тела остаются в воде и в результате приобретают нынешние окраску или форму

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar

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

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

*A2211.1

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.6.2	Maka (Makaa), Baya, Kaka
12.2.1.2	Tlingit
12.3.4.6	Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
12.8.1.1	Hopi
12.8.2.2	Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambé; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez)
12.8.3.1	Navajo
12.8.3.3	Chiricahua
12.8.3.5	Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
12.8.4.1	Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai
12.8.4.4	Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa
12.8.5.1	Pima
12.8.5.2	Papago
13.3.2.1	Tunica
13.3.2.3	Chitimacha
13.3.2.4	Biloxi
13.3.3.1	Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
13.3.3.2	Alabama, Koasati
13.3.3.4	Choctaw, Chicasaw
14.1.1.1	Warihio (Guarijío), Tarahumara
14.1.6.2	Lacandon
14.3.4.1	Chimila (Ette)
14.4.2.3	Lima dep: Costa and adjacent Sierra (Spanish, Kechua, and Jacaru-speaking communities, mostly in Pachacamac, Cajatambo, Canta, Huarochirí; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries)
15.3.4.2	Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
15.3.4.5	Letuama, Tanimuca, Ufaina, Yahuna
15.3.7.4	Chayahuita
15.5.2.6	Amahuaca, Cashinahua, Sharanahua, Yaminahua, Yawanahua, Capanahua)