g19

Motif

Motif code:

g19

Name_eng:

Burned men bring plants

Description:

After a conflict in primeval community, a group of men or youths (Paresi: a boy and a girl) burned themselves in a bonfire (or leap over it, etc.). As a result, people acquire cultivated plants, especially corn

Name_rus:

Сожженные мужчины приносят растения

Description_rus:

После конфликта в общине первопредков группа мужчин или юношей (пареси: мальчик и девочка) сгорают в костре (прыгают через него и пр.). В результате люди обретают культурные растения, преимущественно кукурузу

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

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