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a6

Motif

Name_eng:

The Sun and the Moon are females

Description:

Both the Sun and the Moon are considered to be females (incl. cases when the gender is not directly specified but both emerge from parts of the body of a female person)

Name_rus:

Солнце и луна - женщины

Description_rus:

Солнце и луна считаются персонажами женского пола (включая случаи, когда пол светил не указан, но оба возникают из тела женского персонажа)

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

01 Sun and Moon

Motif analysis result:

3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.3.1.1	Ainu
1.2.6.5	Aka, Baka (Badjue) and other Western (Bantu speaking) Pygmies
3.2.2.1	Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
6.4.1.1	Andamanese
3.3.1.5	Basques
6.4.3.2	Batak (Toba, Dairi)
6.4.4.4	Bidayuh (incl. Maloh), Iban (Sea Dayak), Sakarram; Brunei
6.1.1.7	Bondo, Didayi (Gata')
6.3.1.1	Burmese, Intha
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
15.5.4.2	Chacobo
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
9.1.5.1	Darkhad
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
6.4.8.3	Flores, incl Mangarai (Western Flores), Nage, Keo, Riung, Ngada or Nad'a (Central Flores), Sika (Eastern Flores)
11.1.1.1	Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
3.2.2.2	Geez, Tigrai, Tigre
5.2.1.1	Georgians
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
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
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
10.2.3.7	Hani, Akha
6.2.4.1	Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
10.2.3.6	Li
1.2.4.7	Luba (Baluba, Luba-Katanga, Shaba), (Ba)Holoholo, Tumbwe, Bena-Piana, Tabwa, Benabena-Mitumba, Zela, Bene-Marungu
6.4.2.1	Malay; Temuan (incl Mantra or Mentra), Jakun (Moken)
1.3.5.11	Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
9.2.1.1	Mansi
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
5.3.3.2	Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Hobyot
6.4.3.7	Mentawai
6.4.6.1	Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
9.10.1.1	Nanai
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
9.2.3.4	Nganasans
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
5.5.2.5	Salars
6.1.1.1	Santali, Turi, Mahli
5.4.3.4	Sarikoli
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)
6.4.1.3	Semang, Senoi
10.2.2.7	Shaanxi Chinese
10.2.2.11	Shandong Chinese
10.2.2.9	Shanxi and Hebei Chinese
5.3.3.3	Soqotri
6.1.1.8	Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
6.4.7.2	Southern Luzon: Pampango, Pangacian, Sambal, Tagal, Tayabas; Calamian
6.2.3.2	SW Arunachal Pradesh: Sherdukpen, Tawang (Monpas), Aka (Hrusso), Miji
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
6.3.1.4	Thai of Thailand
13.3.2.1	Tunica
12.5.2.3	Tuscarora
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
12.3.7.9	Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
6.3.2.10	Viet, Muong
9.3.2.1	Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena