b121


Motif

Name_eng: 
A bird is eager to fill up the sea
Description: 

There are creatures who hibernate having frozen snot under their noses

Name_rus: 
Птичка хочет засыпать море
Description_rus: 
Небольшая птица носит камешки и палочки, пытаясь засыпать море
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
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: 
3

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
10.2.1.1Early Chinese written sources
10.2.2.9Shanxi and Hebei Chinese
5.6.1.1Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: c39a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: m75b3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: i27d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i50c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m23a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: c6g Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: c8a2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: g8e Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 9 Weight: 222
Motif: c41 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: a12g Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: b93a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: c39 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 12 Weight: 167
Motif: f100 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: i81a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: i4e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: h6d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 12 Weight: 167
Motif: m195b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: e1a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: a39 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167