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Motif

Name_eng:

To choose life or death

Description:

People are suggested to choose one of two objects, associated with life and death. They choose the object with death

Name_rus:

Рассыпанные зародыши

Description_rus:

Принеся зародыши людей в наш мир, персонаж роняет или раньше времени открывает принесенное. (Иногда этим объясняется неравенство людей, беспорядок в обществе)

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar

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:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
12.3.7.8	Klamath, Modoc
12.7.1.1	Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
12.7.1.10	Southern Paiute
12.7.1.11	Chemehuevi
12.7.1.4	Washo
12.7.1.7	Western Shoshone, Gosiute
12.7.1.9	Ute
14.1.2.2	Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography