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d4d
Motif
Motif code:
d4d
Name_eng:
Opossum steals fire
Description:
Opossum steals fire for people
Name_rus:
Опоссум добывает огонь
Description_rus:
Опоссум добывает огонь для людей
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
09 Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities
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:
10
ATU ID:
Stith Thompson ID:
Linked traditions:
Choctaw, Chicasaw
Salinan
Huichol
Cora
Nahuan groups of Puebla and Huasteca after AD1900
Tepehua, Totonac
Gulf Nahuatl
Chinantec, Mazatec
Mixtec, Trique, Cuicatec; Amuzgo
Zapotec, Chatino
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
a11c
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k11
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
a10
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif:
j33a
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif:
a22b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif:
m11d
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif:
c22
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
g9b
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 12 Weight: 333
Motif:
a22c
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 17 Weight: 294
Motif:
a47
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 14 Weight: 286
Motif:
a22a
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 14 Weight: 286
Motif:
j33
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 15 Weight: 267
Motif:
g14
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
j51b
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
b80
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 13 Weight: 231
Motif:
b2b
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 22 Weight: 227
Motif:
k10b
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 9 Weight: 222
Motif:
e23
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 9 Weight: 222
Motif:
g9
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 29 Weight: 207