Tradition analysis result motif count all:
Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo:
Motif Name Description a12 Eclipses: monster’s attack Some creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, summer and winter, lunar phases) or irregularly (solar and lunar eclipses, eschatological events) attack the luminaries or shade their light a12b Eclipses: a frog or toad During an eclipse or at the sunset the Sun or the Moon are attacked by a frog or toad a12f Eclipses: the creditor A creditor comes from time to time to the Sun or the Moon to claim back his money producing eclipses b42m1 Yurak, Selkup and Tungus Three main stars of the Big Dipper’s handle are associated with three men of different ethnic afiliation b42u Big Dipper’s handle are three persons Three stars of Big Dipper’s handle are three persons. Four stars of the Dipper itself are objects of animals (one or several) i110 Night sky agriculturalists Constellation are interpreted as agricultural tools or people occupied with agricultural works (mostly ploughing and haymaking) i110a The star plough Orion (rare: other constellation) is a plough i127 Ursa major is a bed Ursa major is a bed, a cot, a bedstead i127 Ursa major is a bed Ursa major is a bed, a cot, a bedstead i59a Thief in the sky Astral objects or lunar spots are associated with a story of a stealing and the value of the stolen objects is low (straw, firewoods, cabbage, etc.) i64 Milky Way is a trace of animals Milky Way is a trace of big animals who were walking or running along it i85c1 The rain stored in the sky In the sky there is a special container (vessel, skin, box, etc.) for storing the rain i98c The Pleiades is a flock of birds The Pleiades is a flock of birds (in flight)