Khamnigans



Tradition title rus: 
Хамниганы
Areal ID: 
9.1.4.3
Language: 
Tradition analysis result motif count all: 
10.00
Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo: 
5.00
Motifs: 

Motif

a2a


Name_eng: 
The sun is a source of distructive heat
Description: 

The world was or will be (almost) burned when several suns had (will) appear(ed) simultaneously; or the only sun was too hot (or bright)




Motif

b46


Name_eng: 
Big Dipper is seven men
Description: 

Every one of the seven main stars of the Ursa mayor is a an adult man




Motif

b46c


Name_eng: 
Big Dipper is seven persons or animals
Description: 

Every main star of the Big Dipper is interpreted as a particular person or animal




Motif

i85


Name_eng: 
Polaris is a pole, a nail
Description: 

Polaris is a (tethering) pole or a nail




Motif

k56e


Name_eng: 
Two humpbacks
Description: 

Two men have a similar defect (a hump, a lump). One spends a night in a place where spirits free him from his defect. Another comes to the same place but spirits double his defect giving him what they had taken off from the first man




Motif

k116a


Name_eng: 
King is killed after putting on a strange attire
Description: 

A powerful person abducts or is going to abduct a poor man’s wife. She tricks him to put on a strange attire (often her husband’s clothes). After this his men or dogs kill him taking for the poor man (fool, devil)




Motif

n5


Name_eng: 
They recognize winter by rime, summer by rain
Description: 

Long trips, campaigns, flights or battles are described using cliché which contain expressions like “they get to know that it is winter seeing rime, that it is summer, seeing rain” and the like




Motif

n6


Name_eng: 
Horse tells to whip him strongly
Description: 

A horse tells his rider to whip him with such force that his blood would splash out, skin would come off, flesh would be gashed to the very bone, etc. The rider follows these instructions




Motif

f70f


Name_eng: 
Sex is changed accidentally
Description: 

Getting into a far away place, person discovers that his or her sex is changed




Motif

a2


Name_eng: 
Several suns
Description: 

In a certain time in the past three or more suns were on the sky simultaneously





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