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