g15


Motif

Motif code: 
g15
Name_eng: 
Plant maidens
Description: 

In the other world or in the time of the ancestors food products or materials used by people looked as persons

Name_rus: 
Кукурузные девушки
Description_rus: 
В ином мире или в прошлом используемые человеком продукты или материалы выглядят или выглядели людьми
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
06 Origin and interpretation of culture elements, in particular related to agriculture, inadequate forms of subsistence and economic activity before the establishment of the present norms
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: 
29
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Sepik-Ramu stock: Abelam, Yatmul, Aibom, Ayom (incl Tembregak, Asai-river pygmies), Tangu, Porapora (Ambakich), Rao and other groups of Middle Ramu and Upper Keram River tribes; Kwanga, Watam, Kaian, Gamei, Awar; Kire (Lower Ramu)
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
Juang
Bondo, Didayi (Gata')
Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
Mandan
Karok
Navajo
Zuni
Cora
Zoque; Izapa iconography (I millennium BC)
Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
Tepehua, Totonac
Chinantec, Mazatec
Zapotec, Chatino
Yucatec, Itza; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography of Yucatan
Paya (Pech), Sumu, Misquito
Kogi (Cagaba), Sanha, Creols of Aritama Valley
Guajiro
Aguaruna, Huambiza
Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna)
Bora
Aimara
Ashaninca (Campa)
Machiguenga
Suruí, Gaviâo, Zoro, Arua, Cinta Larga
Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
Gutob (Gadaba)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: g14 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: b28a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: d2a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: k15c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: a1a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: c6g Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k11 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: a10 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: a11c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: d2 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 10 Weight: 400
Motif: b7d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: g12c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: i8h Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: k16a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: d4d Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 10 Weight: 400
Motif: b80 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 13 Weight: 385
Motif: e9k Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: f43c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: l1d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333