b44f1


Motif

Motif code: 
b44f1
Name_eng: 
Bear stands for night
Description: 

In a dispute about should it be cold (dark) or warm (light), the bear stands for the cold; or the world is dark because the bear hides the sun in his house

Name_rus: 
Медведь хочет ночь
Description_rus: 
на стороне тьмы (и холода); либо мир погружен во тьму, потому что медведь прячет солнце у себя в доме
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
09 Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities
Motif analysis result: 
1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.
2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
17

Linked traditions:
Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné)
Han
Tutchone
Koyukon
Tanana
Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
Copper
Labrador Inuit (Koksoagmiut)
Menominee
Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit)
Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
Jicarilla
Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: b44f Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: m123b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: a43a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: m123a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: l85e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: b95a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: f45a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: l33d Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: e15a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: K27n3c2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: e15b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: j59d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: b125c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: f9e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: b69a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: m123d Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: b42s Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: a43 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 17 Weight: 353
Motif: i15a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333