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Motif

Name_eng:

Why the sky is blue

Description:

In the beginning the sky has no particular colour. When certain person covers it with a blue cloth or makes something else, the sky acquires its present colour

Name_rus:

Почему небо синее

Description_rus:

Сперва небо не имеет определенного цвета. После того, как персонаж вешает на него ткань или совершает иные действия, небо приобретает свойственный ему цвет

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

03 Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.2.2	Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang Chinese; Manchuria Chinese (data not specified on particular provinces)
10.2.2.3	Sichuan Chinese
10.2.2.6	Henan and Hubei Chinese
10.2.2.9	Shanxi and Hebei Chinese
6.1.1.4	Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)