a24


Motif

Motif code: 
a24
Name_eng: 
The first sunrise
Description: 

In the beginning it is dark. When the Sun first appears on the sky, primeval beings or part of them perish or turn into animals, spirits, stones

Name_rus: 
Первый восход
Description_rus: 
Первопредки живут в сумерках. Впервые оказавшись под лучами солнца, они гибнут, превращаются в животных, в духов, в камни
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
01 Sun and Moon
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
11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
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
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
50

Linked traditions:
Tenda (incl Bedik, Basari), Biafada, Nalu, Pajadinka, Badyara (Badiaranke)
Melanesians of the islands of Massim District ( =Milke Bay Province) to the east of New Guinea: Dobu, Rossel, Fergusson, Goodenough, Murua (Woodlark), Trobrian Islands, d'Entrecasteau Islands
Maori, Moriori (Chatam Islands)
Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
Tagish
Inland Tlingit
Tlingit
Haida
Tsimshian
Heiltsuk (Bellabella), Oowekeeno
Sierra Miwok
Luiseño, Juaneño
Luiseño, Juaneño
Jicarilla
Chiricahua
Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
Pima
Mayo, Yaqui, Sinaloa
Huichol
Western Mexico Nahuatl
Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography
Nahuan groups of Puebla and Huasteca after AD1900
Tojolabal, Chuj, Jacalteca, Kanjobal, Mocho (incl Tuzantec), Acatec
Zoque; Izapa iconography (I millennium BC)
Mam, Ixil, Aguatec, Avakatec
Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
Pipil
Tepehua, Totonac
Huastec (Teenek)
Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque
Chinantec, Mazatec
Mixtec, Trique, Cuicatec; Amuzgo
Zapotec, Chatino
Tzotzil
Tzeltal
Kekchi; Mopan
Lenca
Ijka (Ika)
Paez, Guambia, Pijao; Ilama culture
Yupa (Yukpa)
Northern Peru: Costa (Spanish speaking communities from Ecuadorian border till Ancash and Huanuco departments included; Moche pre-Columbian iconography; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries)
Northern Peru: Sierra (Kechua-speaking communities, Cajamarca, Ancash, Huanuco and San Martin departments; Chavin pre-Columbian iconography; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries)
Pasco, Junin, Huancavelica departments: Central Peru, Sierra (Kechua-speaking communities in Spanish sources XVI-XVII centuries)
Kechua-speaking communities of Apurimac, Cuzco, Arequipa, Puno departments; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries; Callawaya (Kechua with Pukina substratum)
Aimara
Chipaya
Mehinaku, Waura, Yaulapiti
Toba (incl Pilaga)
Xinka
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: a24a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: g3 Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 15 Weight: 800
Motif: b39 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800
Motif: b63 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k11 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: a11c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: g4 Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 16 Weight: 688
Motif: g16 Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 15 Weight: 667
Motif: m35 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: b62 Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 21 Weight: 619
Motif: m139 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: j65 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: d4d Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 10 Weight: 600
Motif: k1d Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: k111 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: e23 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: j48 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545
Motif: i27b Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 16 Weight: 500
Motif: m61a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500