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Motif

Name_eng:

Abandon your work, flood is coming

Description:

A man fells trees to clear ground for a garden or breaks ground. Certain person or animal revives vegetation, makes the soil virgin again. He or she explains that the flood is coming, there is no sense to work and advices to prepare a floating device

Name_rus:

Бросьте работу – будет потоп

Description_rus:

Человек расчищает участок от растительности, но к утру она возрождается. По ночам некий персонаж велит деревьям и травам подняться, обработанное поле вновь делает целиной. Он объясняет, целину, что будет потоп, работать не смысла, советует подготовить плавательное средство

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

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

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.3.1	Lahu, Kucong, Yi, Nosu (Nuosu, Northern Yi), Nisu, Nusu, Sani, Jino, Lolo (incl. Bai), Axi, Nasu
10.2.3.2	Lisu, Achang, Taunyo
10.2.3.5	Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam
14.1.1.5	Cora
14.1.1.6	Tepecano; Tepehuan
14.1.1.7	Western Mexico Nahuatl
14.1.2.3	Nahuan groups of Puebla and Huasteca after AD1900
14.1.2.4	Popoloca; Tlapanec
14.1.2.6	Huastec (Teenek)
14.1.3.1	Tepehua, Totonac
14.1.3.2	Gulf Nahuatl
14.1.3.3	Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque