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Motif

Name_eng:

One hunter chases the sky elk

Description:

In the cosmic hunt tale only one hunter (not many) pursues an animal (elk or bear) associated with a circumpolar constellation but not with Orion or the Pleiades. (In Kalevalaic tradition the association with particular sideral objects is absent

Name_rus:

Один охотник гонит Большую Медведицу

Description_rus:

Только один персонаж (а не несколько) гонит по небу зверя (лося или медведя), ассоциируемого с одним из циркумполярных созвездий, но не с Плеядами или Орионом (в калевальской традиции идентификации со звездами нет)

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)

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
12.3.1.2	Chilkotin
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.5.1.3	Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
9.10.1.4	Oroch
9.10.1.6	Negidal
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.1.3	Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.1.4	Southern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.2.3.2	Forest Nenets
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
9.3.1.3	Western Yakuts (Sakha): Olekma and Vilyuy Basins
9.3.2.1	Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
9.3.2.2	Sym Tungus/Evenki
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
9.3.2.5	Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki
9.3.3.1	Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East