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Motif

Name_eng:

Who will give birth the first

Description:

One woman is associated with stone, another with a plant. The plant-woman gives birth the first or the stone-woman do not have children at all. That's because people have their present characteristics (are mortal, capable to speak, etc.), or offsprings of the two women are different (skillful and not, etc.)

Name_rus:

Кто родит раньше

Description_rus:

Из двух женщин, одна из которых ассоциируется с камнем, а другая с растением, потомство оставляет только женщина-растение, поэтому люди таковы, каковы они есть (смертны, способны говорить и пр.). Либо дети, рожденные двумя женщинами, обладают противоположными свойствами (умелый и неумелый 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)

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.3.2.4	Japan AD 700-1700
12.1.2.4	Tahltan
12.2.1.4	Tsimshian
6.4.7.1	Northern Luzon: Apayao, Bontoc, Nabaloi (Ibaloi), Ifugao, Igorot (highland people, not specified), Ilocan, Ilongot, Isneg, Kalinga, Kankanay, Tingian (Tinggian, Bilongan Itneg); Ibanag, Kasiguran Agta, Keley-i Kallahan
6.4.7.7	Yami
7.1.2.2	New Guinea Northern Lowland Papuan groups (Trans New Guinea and unclassified): Komba, Gimi, Susure, Orokaiva, Bogadjim, Ngain, Bargam, Nankina, Yupta Valley, Urawa Valley, Pondoma (Anam)