h34d


Motif

Name_eng: 
Piece of sky bitten off
Description: 

Animal person climbs (or attempts to climb) to the sky or to the Moon to bite off a piece of it

Name_rus: 
Откушенный от неба кусок
Description_rus: 
Зооморфный персонаж забирается (пытается забраться) на небо или на луну, чтобы откусить от них кусок
Motif type: 
Adventures and tricks
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
04 Origin of death, diseases and hard life
11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
Motif analysis result: 
1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.
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: 
19

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
1.1.1.2Khoekhoe (=Hottentot; incl Nama, Korana); Damara
1.2.2.2Bemba (Wemba, Babemba; incl Ambo, Lala, Lamba, Bisa), Holoholo, Kaonde
1.2.5.13Comoros Islands
1.2.5.7Kikuyu, Chuka, Embu, Emberre, Mwimbe
1.3.1.5Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku
1.3.2.1Hausa
1.3.2.1Hausa
1.3.2.2Biu-Mandara: Margi, Kilba, Bura, Kera, Karekare (Kerri-Kerri), Bachama, Zulgo, Giziga, Hdi, Kapsiki, Mandara (incl Mukulehe, Matakam), Mofu (Mofu-Gudur), Somrai (Sibine, Shibha)
1.3.4.2Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
1.3.4.3Southern Gur (Oti-Volta): Grusi, Kabiye, Kasena, Lyela (Lyele), Wala, Dyan
1.4.1.1Nubians
1.4.2.1Dinka, Atuot, Nuer
1.4.3.5Masai
3.1.3.1Berbers of southern Tunisia and adjacent part of Lybia (Matmata, Ghadames, Yefren)
3.5.2.2Serbs, Monte Negro,
4.3.2.3Chuvash
6.4.3.6Simeulue, Nias
6.4.4.1Ot Danum, Ngaju, Maanyan (Ma'anyan)
7.1.1.1Trans-New Guinea and unclassified Papuan groups of Irian Jaya: Mejprat, Arandai-Bintuni, Inanwatan-Berau, Papua of Gelvink (Cenderawasih) Bay, Kamoró, Marind Anim, Sawi, Mafore; Korowai; Kwerba; Momina, Eipo, Yale, Awyu, Muyu

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: h34d1 Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 15 Weight: 800
Motif: m173 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: m132a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: j6a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: k170 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: m62d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k184 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m132 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k108a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i50a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: h36d Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i41c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: c30b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m172 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 19 Weight: 316
Motif: k8aa Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: h6c2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: e31b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: k37c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286