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Motif
Name_eng:
Milky Way of the dead
Description:
Milky Way is the path over which souls travel to the beyond or a path of the funeral procession
Name_rus:
Души мертвых на Млечном Пути
Description_rus:
Млечный Путь есть тропа в иной мир, по которой следуют души мертвых и/или шаманы либо это путь погребальной процессии
Motif type:
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group:
02 Moon spots, stars, constellations
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:
95
ATU ID:
Stith Thompson ID:
Linked traditions:
Areal ID
Tradition
1.2.4.1
Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
1.2.4.7
Luba (Baluba, Luba-Katanga, Shaba), (Ba)Holoholo, Tumbwe, Bena-Piana, Tabwa, Benabena-Mitumba, Zela, Bene-Marungu
1.3.3.2
Akan, Ashanti, Akwapim; Ga (Accra), Kra, Twi (Chwi, Chi)
11.2.1.4
Central Yupik
12.1.2.4
Tahltan
12.3.2.1
Shuswap
12.3.2.2
Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.4.1.1
Winnebago
12.4.2.1
Menominee
12.4.2.4
Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.2.5
Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
12.4.2.6
Ottawa
12.4.3.3
Naskapi
12.5.1.1
Micmac
12.5.1.2
Malecite, Passamaquoddy
12.5.1.3
Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot
12.5.1.4
Lenape (Delaware)
12.5.2.1
Huron (incl Wyandot)
12.5.2.2
Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
12.6.1.1
Yurok
12.6.1.3
Karok
12.6.1.4
Shasta; Chimariko
12.6.1.5
Hupa, Chilula
12.6.1.6
Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto
12.6.2.2
Achomavi
12.6.2.3
Atsugewi
12.6.3.1
Pomo
12.6.3.2
Wappo
12.6.3.3
Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
12.6.3.4
Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov
12.6.5.7
Chumash
12.6.6.3
Cahuilla, Cupeño
12.7.1.1
Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
12.7.1.6
Northern Shoshone
12.7.1.7
Western Shoshone, Gosiute
12.7.1.9
Ute
12.8.1.1
Hopi
13.1.1.2
Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
13.1.1.3
Gros Ventre
13.1.4.1
Teton (incl Oglala)
13.1.4.4
Osage
13.1.4.6
Omaha, Ponca
13.1.5.2
Cheyenne
13.2.1.1
Pawnee
13.3.3.1
Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
13.3.4.1
Cherokee
13.3.4.2
Catawba, Tutelo
14.1.6.1
Yucatec, Itza; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography of Yucatan
14.1.6.2
Lacandon
14.1.7.2
Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
14.2.1.3
Paya (Pech), Sumu, Misquito
14.3.3.1
Guajiro
14.3.4.2
Yupa (Yukpa)
14.3.4.3
Bari
15.1.2.4
Panare (Eñape)
15.2.3.1
Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
15.2.3.9
Wapishana (incl Ataroi); Mapidian; Taruma
15.3.1.1
Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje
15.3.7.2
Yagua
15.3.7.4
Chayahuita
15.6.2.5
Trumai
15.7.1.1
Caraja
15.7.1.2
Tapirape
16.1.4.2
Sanapana, Lengua (incl Angaite)
16.1.4.4
Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon
3.3.1.2
Portuguese
3.3.1.6
Galicians
3.3.2.1
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
3.3.2.2
Sicily
3.3.2.6
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.3.2
French (northern France)
3.3.3.4
Upper Brittany
3.3.3.4
Upper Brittany
3.3.4.2
Wales
3.3.5.3
Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.4.1.1
Ancient Greece
3.4.1.2
Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
3.5.3.1
Hungarians
3.5.3.2
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1
Poles
4.1.2.1
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.3.1
Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.2.1.1
Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.2.3.1
Finns
5.1.3.3
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.4.2.4
Highland Tajik
5.6.2.1
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.4
Balahi; Lambadi (Banjara)
5.6.2.5
Bhils (incl Barela-Bhilala), Pardhi, Kokna, Parwa
5.6.2.9
Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
6.2.3.3
Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
8.1.2.1
SE Australia: Kamilaroi, Yualarai (Ualarai, Euahlayi), Milpulo (Mailpurgu), Wuradjeri (Wiradjurim, Wiradjeri, Wurundjeri, Yarra, Yarra Yarra), Wongaibon (Wonghibon), Noongahburrah (Narran, Narran River), Kurnai, and many others (see file 0.doc)
8.1.4.1
Queensland: Mungkan (Wikmunkan), Wiknatara, Bloomfield River, Cape Bedford, Cape Grafton, Kokowara (Koko-Warra), Koko-yalunyu (Kokokulunggur), Bunya Bunya, Waka-Waka (Wakawaka), Kabikabi, Chepara
8.1.5.2
Southern Australia: Dieri, Urabunna (Arabana), Flinderce Mountains, Kujani, Andyamatana (Andjamatana, Wailpi)
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
k38f3
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif:
f45a1
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
b42a
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif:
l75
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif:
k104
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif:
g30
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif:
f101
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
m61a3
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
b42o1
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
f57
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif:
h52a
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 10 Weight: 700
Motif:
h37b
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif:
m29q
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif:
c32
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
l15g1
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
h52b
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif:
k48a
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 11 Weight: 636
Motif:
m66a
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif:
l72f
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600