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Motif

Name_eng:

The Sun abandons his marriage plans

Description:

The Sun plans to have children. One of the animals sais that if the Sun (marries and) has children, the earth will burn. The Sun has to abandon his plans.

Name_rus:

Солнце отказывается от брака

Description_rus:

Солнце собирается иметь детей. Одно из животных предупреждает, что если у Солнца появятся дети, мир сгорит. Солнцу приходится (отказаться от брака и) остаться бездетным

Motif type:

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.2.2	Biu-Mandara: Margi, Kilba, Bura, Kera, Karekare (Kerri-Kerri), Bachama, Zulgo, Giziga, Hdi, Kapsiki, Mandara (incl Mukulehe, Matakam), Mofu (Mofu-Gudur), Somrai (Sibine, Shibha)
10.2.2.7	Shaanxi Chinese
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.4.1.2	Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians