f45


Motif

Name_eng: 
The Amazons
Description: 

There are (or were) women who live apart from men in their own village or villages

Name_rus: 
Амазонки
Description_rus: 
Есть или были селения, где жили или живут одни женщины
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
08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
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: 
160

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
1.1.1.1Bushmen (all groups)
1.2.1.3Tswana (Chwana), Suto (Soto; incl Pedi, Mbire)
1.2.2.1Shone (Shona, =Mashona, =Karanga), Makoni (Shoni dialect), Remba (=Hungwe, Wahungwe); Zezuru, Rozwi, Ndau (Vandau)
1.2.2.2Bemba (Wemba, Babemba; incl Ambo, Lala, Lamba, Bisa), Holoholo, Kaonde
1.2.4.1Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
1.2.4.12Mongo (Mongo-Nkundu), Nkundu, Ngelima, Ngombe, (Ba)Tetela), Pende, Wu(Kusu), (Ba)Mbala (incl Saie, Kwilu)
1.2.4.2Sakata
1.2.4.7Luba (Baluba, Luba-Katanga, Shaba), (Ba)Holoholo, Tumbwe, Bena-Piana, Tabwa, Benabena-Mitumba, Zela, Bene-Marungu
1.2.4.9Songe (Kisonge), Bena-Matembo
1.2.5.9Gogo, Kaguru, Luguru, Zigula, Taveta, Shambala (Šambala), Bondei, Taeta, Dabida; Zaramo
1.2.6.4Enenga, Mpongwe, Kuta (Koto), Nkomi, Masango, Mindumu, Mbede, Mitsogo, Bawunga, Ndumu (Ndumbo), Duma, Teke, (B)wende
1.2.6.5Aka, Baka (Badjue) and other Western (Bantu speaking) Pygmies
1.3.1.3Cross-River: Efik, Ibibio, Anaang (Anang), Ikom, Abua
1.3.1.5Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku
1.3.2.1Hausa
1.3.3.1Bia: Anyi, Agni, Baule, Nsema
1.3.4.2Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
1.3.4.3Southern Gur (Oti-Volta): Grusi, Kabiye, Kasena, Lyela (Lyele), Wala, Dyan
1.3.4.3Southern Gur (Oti-Volta): Grusi, Kabiye, Kasena, Lyela (Lyele), Wala, Dyan
1.3.5.16Dan (=Gio), Guro (=Kweni, incl Gagu, Neio), Toura, Mano, Ngere, Beng, Guro
1.3.5.7Kru: Kru proper, Sapo (Sapã), Grebo, Kran (Krahn, Guere-Krahn; incl. Putu, Tchien), Bete, Neyo, Wobe, Devoin (Dey), Belle (Kuwaa), Bassa, Sikon
1.4.2.1Dinka, Atuot, Nuer
1.4.2.2Shilluk, Anuak
10.1.1.1Northern Taiwan: Atayal (Tayal; Taruko (Toda, Taokas, Torok, Taroko), Pazeh, Sedeq (Sediq, Seedeq, Sazek), Saisiyat (Saixia); Kawalan
10.1.1.2Central Taiwan: Bunun (Vonum), La'arua, Tsou, Kanabu, Kanakanabu
10.1.1.3Southern Taiwan: Rukai, Paiwan, Puyuma, Saaroa, Ketangalan
10.1.1.4Ami
10.2.1.1Early Chinese written sources
10.2.4.1Koreans; Goguryeo
10.3.1.1Ainu
10.3.2.1Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
11.1.1.2Tundra (Lower Kolyma) Yukaghir (Waduls)
11.1.3.4Kamchadal
11.2.1.3Aleuts
11.2.1.4Central Yupik
11.2.3.2Copper
11.2.3.3Netsilik
11.2.3.5Iglulik
11.2.3.6Baffin Land Inuit
12.1.1.3Koyukon
12.1.1.6Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
12.2.1.2Tlingit
12.2.1.3Haida
12.2.2.4Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah
12.4.2.3Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
12.6.5.7Chumash
12.8.1.1Hopi
12.8.2.2Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambé; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez)
12.8.3.1Navajo
12.8.3.6Lipan
13.1.1.1Blackfoot
13.3.3.2Alabama, Koasati
14.1.3.3Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque
14.2.1.3Paya (Pech), Sumu, Misquito
14.3.1.1Choco: Embera, Nonama (Waunana), XVI century Dabaiba, pre-Columbian iconography of Sinu
14.3.2.1Kogi (Cagaba), Sanha, Creols of Aritama Valley
14.4.1.2Colorado (Tsachila)
15.1.1.1Yaruro
15.1.1.2Sicuani
15.1.3.2Sanema
15.2.1.2Creols of Eastern and Central Cuba
15.2.2.1Warao
15.2.3.1Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
15.2.3.2Akawai
15.2.3.3Locono
15.2.3.6Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
15.2.3.8Macuxi
15.2.3.9Wapishana (incl Ataroi); Mapidian; Taruma
15.2.4.1Trio
15.2.4.6Wayana, Aparai
15.3.3.1Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar)
15.3.3.2Aguaruna, Huambiza
15.3.4.1Karijona
15.3.4.5Letuama, Tanimuca, Ufaina, Yahuna
15.3.5.2Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna)
15.4.1.1Manao, Katawishi (Teffé lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda
15.4.4.2Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor)
15.5.1.3Machiguenga
15.5.3.1Tacana
15.5.3.2Moseten, Chimane
15.5.4.5Mojo, Baure, Itonama, Kanichana, Chiquito, Manasi
15.5.5.2Tupari, Makurap, Sakirap, Ajuru (Wayoro)
15.6.2.1Kamayura
15.6.2.4Mehinaku, Waura, Yaulapiti
15.6.4.1Bororo
15.6.4.2Umotina (Umutina)
15.7.2.1Cayapo (incl. Kubenkranken, Pau d’Arco, Shikrin or Xikrin)
15.7.2.2Suya, Txukarramae
15.7.2.3Canela (Eastern Timbira): Ramkokamekra, Apaniekra
15.7.2.6Apinaye (Apinage, Apinaje)
15.7.3.2Guarani: different groups of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina including Apapocuva, Kaiowá, Mbyá, Chiripá (=Ñandeva)
16.1.3.3Chorote
2.1.1.1Malagasy
3.3.4.1Ireland
3.3.4.3Scotland
3.3.5.5Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.4.1.1Ancient Greece
3.5.1.2Bulgarians
3.5.2.2Serbs, Monte Negro,
4.1.1.4Czech
4.1.3.1Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.2.2.1Western Sami
4.2.3.1Finns
4.3.2.1Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.3.1Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.1.4.1Karachays, Balkar
5.1.5.3Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.7.5Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.2.1.1Georgians
5.4.1.1Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
5.4.2.5Baluch
5.4.2.8Uzbek
5.5.1.2Kara Kalpak
5.6.1.1Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.7Nepali; Tharu
6.1.1.1Santali, Turi, Mahli
6.1.1.3Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
6.1.1.4Bhuiya (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)
6.1.1.8Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
6.1.2.3Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
6.1.2.5Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
6.2.1.1Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.1.3Eastern Tibetans (Kham; Sichuan, NW Yunnan)
6.2.3.1Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi
6.2.3.2SW Arunachal Pradesh: Sherdukpen, Tawang (Monpas), Aka (Hrusso), Miji
6.2.3.3Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
6.2.3.4Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
6.2.3.5Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori
6.2.4.1Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
6.3.1.1Burmese, Intha
6.3.1.3Shan
6.3.1.8Zhuang, Dong, Dai
6.3.2.1Khmer
6.4.1.3Semang, Senoi
6.4.3.7Mentawai
6.4.5.1Yavanese, Kalang, Madura
6.4.6.2Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
6.4.8.13Numfoor, Warope, Wamesa (Wandamen, Windesi)
6.4.8.8Alor, Solor, Wetar, Atauru
7.1.2.1Papua–NewGuinea Highland Papuans:Trans New Guinea & unclassified:Chimbu,Gimi,KaugelHuli,Gadsup,Kuman,Kutubu,Foi (Foe),Kyaka,Kamano (Kafe),Mawatta,Kukukuku (=Anga,=Sambia;Manki,Nauti,Ejuti),Baruya,Kewa,Tembregak,Menya,Melpa,Wiru,Pondoma
7.1.2.3Papua–New Guinea Southern Lowland Papuan groups (Trans New Guinea and unclassified): Gimi, Kiwai, Bina, Mawabula, Mawatta, Keraki, Gambadi (incl. Kwavaru), Purari River delta, Masingara, Wiram (=Suki), Ngain, Daga, Elema
7.1.3.1Torricelli family: Valman, Samap, Arapesh (Upper, Coastal), Monumbo, Lilau, Ngaimbom; Moando (Banara); Menya, Olo, Buna
7.1.4.1Saibai, Dauan, Boigu, Badu, Waraber, Wet, Warei, Dauar, Badu, Moa
7.1.5.1Melanesians of the northern coast New Guinea, nearest off-shore islands and Huon Gulf (Morobe district): Watut, Bilbil (Bilibili), Jabim (incl Kai), Tami, Bukawac, Wogeo, Tumleo, Yakamul, Manam, Sissano, Sio
7.1.5.3Melanesians 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
7.1.5.4Melanesians and Papuans of Bismark Archipelago: New Britain (Tolai, Lakalai, Kuni, Sulka, Baining, Gazelle peninsula), New Ireland (Patpatar =Pala), St Matthias Group, Mioko (Melanesians between New Britain and New Ireland)
7.1.5.5Melanesians of Admiralty Islands (incl Manus); Seimat (Western Islands)
7.1.7.1Fiji
7.2.1.3Tuvalu (Ellice)
7.2.1.5Tonga
7.2.1.9Tikopia, Bellona, Rennell, partly Aneytium, Futuna (=Erronan, not to be mixed with Futuna in Western Polynesia), Vaeaka-Taumato, incl Matema, Nifeloli, Nukapu, Nupani, Pileni
7.2.3.2Northern Cook Islands: Rakahanga, Manihiki, Tongareva
7.2.3.3Southern Cook Islands: Mangaia, Rarotonga, Atiu, Iatutakim Pukapuka, Tubuai (=Austral Islands, incl Rapa)
7.2.3.4Tuamotu, incl Pukapuka (different from Pukapuka in Cook Islands), Vahitahi, Anaa, Hao, Fangatau
8.1.2.1SE Australia: Kamilaroi, Yualarai (Ualarai, Euahlayi), Milpulo (Mailpurgu), Wuradjeri (Wiradjurim, Wiradjeri, Wurundjeri, Yarra, Yarra Yarra), Wongaibon (Wonghibon), Noongahburrah (Narran, Narran River), Kurnai, and many others (see file 0.doc)
9.1.1.4Siberian Tatars
9.1.4.1Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.5.3Mongols (Khalkha)
9.10.2.1Nivkh
9.2.2.3Southern Selkups

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: a8 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: f40b Shared traditions: 52 All traditions: 55 Weight: 945
Motif: f43b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: h12a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: f45a Shared traditions: 16 All traditions: 21 Weight: 762
Motif: k27h Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: k13c Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: f43c Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: l110a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: b77c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: b6a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: e9aa Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: f12 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: i41b2 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: m113a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: l37b2 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: k27g3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: m194 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif: k184 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667