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Motif

Name_eng:

The diamond kingdom

Description:

In a series of three (rare: four) loci or objects that have high but different value the highest value is related to the precious stone (usually a diamond; crystal, glass)

Name_rus:

Алмазное царство

Description_rus:

В ряду трех (четырех) локусов или предметов, ассоциируемых с материалами, имеющими высокую, но разную степень ценности, наивысшая принадлежит драгоценному камню (обычно алмазу; или хрусталю, стеклу)

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.5.3	Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.2	Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai