a30


Motif

Motif code: 
a30
Name_eng: 
The Moon eats the dead
Description: 

Moon descends to earth to eat children, corpses or bones of the dead

Name_rus: 
Месяц-трупоед
Description_rus: 
Месяц спускается на землю есть детей, трупы или кости мертвых
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
01 Sun and Moon
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
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
9
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Central Australia: Kaitish, Warramunga, Arunta (Aranda), Loritja (Kukatja), Pijandjara (Pitjantjara), Adnjamatana (Andjamathana, Wailpi), Aluridja, Walpiri (Walbiri), Aluridja, Matuntara (Maduntara), Nambutji, Wamma (=Wommana?)
Queensland: Mungkan (Wikmunkan), Wiknatara, Bloomfield River, Cape Bedford, Cape Grafton, Kokowara (Koko-Warra), Koko-yalunyu (Kokokulunggur), Bunya Bunya, Waka-Waka (Wakawaka), Kabikabi, Chepara
Melanesians and Papuans of Northern Solomons: Buka, Bougainville (Siuai, Buin)
Sanema
Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca
Cubeo
Ashaninca (Campa)
Machiguenga

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: a1a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: j51b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: f26 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: d2a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: b28a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k30a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 10 Weight: 300
Motif: l26 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: a26 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: j12c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: i129 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: e34 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: f84 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: m107 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 13 Weight: 231
Motif: f93 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 9 Weight: 222
Motif: e22 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 9 Weight: 222
Motif: l25 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 14 Weight: 214
Motif: k19f Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: e19 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: g31 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200