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Motif

Name_eng:

The Sun, the Moon and the star: released by the hero

Description:

Name_rus:

Освобождение солнца, луны и звезд

Description_rus:

Солнце, луна и звезда (звезды) фигурируют как три последовательных и сопоставимых объекта/персонажа в повествованиях о похищении и последующем освобождении небесных светил

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

01 Sun and Moon

Motif analysis result:

1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

ATU ID:

328A*

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.2.3	Chuvash