a19c


Motif

Motif code: 
a19c
Name_eng: 
The sun horse
Description: 

The Sun is associated with a horseman or rides in a cart driven by horses (equids)

Name_rus: 
Солнечный конь
Description_rus: 
Солнце ассоциируется со всадником или едет в запряженной конями (эквидами) повозке
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
01 Sun and Moon
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: 
24

Linked traditions:
Sumer
Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia
Old and New Testament
Ugarit
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Kafir, or Nuristani: Prasun; Kati (incl. Paruni), Ashkun (Ashunu), Waigali
Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
Slovakians
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Ancient Greece
Hittite, Hurrit
Lithuanians
Latvians
Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
Armenians
Kazakh
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
Transylvanian Saksons

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: n39 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: i4d1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif: b33g Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: f101 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: a19c1 Shared traditions: 14 All traditions: 20 Weight: 700
Motif: k184 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: a2c1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif: k9a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: f98 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif: c36 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: m138a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: g25 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: b124 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: f57 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: h6c2 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: j62b1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k22aa Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: a19a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: c35b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500