h16b

Motif

Name_eng:

The basin of milk

Description:

A river (wave, lake, basin) of milk that exists on earth (and not among the stars) is mentioned in narratives (in different context)

Name_rus:

Молочный водоем

Description_rus:

В повествованиях (в разных контекстах) упоминается молочный водоем (река, озеро, волна в море), существующий на земле (но не среди звезд)

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
1.4.3.5	Masai
15.3.4.2	Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
3.1.3.4	Western Sahara and Mauritania Arabs; Berbers of Mauritania (Zénaga)
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.1.1	Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.3.1.1	Old and New Testament
5.3.2.6	Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.3.3.2	Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Hobyot
5.4.1.1	Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
5.4.3.3	Yazgulami
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.4.4.3	Burusho (Hunza)
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
6.1.2.2	Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.2.1	Lepcha
6.2.2.3	Mustang
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.4.2	Buryats: Eastern (Trans-Baikal, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia)
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
9.3.1.5	Northeastern Yakuts (Sakha): Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma Basins