l90b


Motif

Motif code: 
l90b
Name_eng: 
Teeth reaching the sky and the earth
Description: 

One tooth (tusk) of a supernatural creature touches the sky, and the other touches the ground or reaches the underworld

Name_rus: 
Клыки до неба и земли
Description_rus: 
Один зуб (клык) существа касается неба, другой достигает земли или преисподней
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: 
6

Linked traditions:
Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
Nepali; Tharu
Lepcha
Ossetians
Georgians
Kalmyk

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k136d Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: i132 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: l40c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: f100b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: l122a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: f100a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: j59c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: i27d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: f9f2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: h55a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: j25a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k73b2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m39a5 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: m39a6b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: c8d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: n9 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: k35a2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: m177a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 9 Weight: 222
Motif: i87ad Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 9 Weight: 222