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h2

Motif

Name_eng:

The selfish animal

Description:

Animals ask God to make people mortal because people would be too numerous and step on the animals, deprive them of their food and habitat, or because the animals want to feast on the human corpses

Name_rus:

Эгоистичное животное

Description_rus:

Животные просят Бога сделать людей (тигре: домашних животных) смертными или иным образом сократить их число, так как боятся, что люди затопчут их, лишат пищи или мест обитания, заставят работать и т.п.

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

04 Origin of death, diseases and hard life

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:

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.5.7	Kikuyu, Chuka, Embu, Emberre, Mwimbe
1.2.5.9	Gogo, Kaguru, Luguru, Zigula, Taveta, Shambala (Šambala), Bondei, Taeta, Dabida; Zaramo
12.2.1.3	Haida
12.3.7.3	Coos
12.3.7.8	Klamath, Modoc
12.3.8.1	Kutenai
12.7.1.4	Washo
12.8.4.4	Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa
12.8.5.2	Papago
12.8.6.1	Seri
13.3.3.1	Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
13.3.3.4	Choctaw, Chicasaw
13.3.4.1	Cherokee
14.1.1.1	Warihio (Guarijío), Tarahumara
14.1.3.1	Tepehua, Totonac
16.2.1.3	Northern and Southern Tehuelche
3.2.2.2	Geez, Tigrai, Tigre
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
6.1.1.2	Korku
6.1.1.3	Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
6.2.3.3	Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
6.2.3.4	Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
6.3.2.2	Bahnar, Bana, Sedang, Por
6.4.6.2	Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.3.2.1	Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena