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Motif

Name_eng:

The loon is successful diver

Description:

The loon dives and brings a piece of earth (a blade of grass etc.) that is transformed into the dry land or it brings other object which everybody is eager to get (the loon is the only or the only successful diver)

Name_rus:

Гагара – успешный ныряльщик

Description_rus:

Гагара ныряет и приносит кусочек земли, который превращается в сушу, либо иной желанный для всех объект (она – единственный или единственный успешный ныряльщик)

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

03 Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature

Motif analysis result:

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
11.1.1.1	Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
11.1.3.1	Reindeer Koryak
11.1.4.2	Chuvans, Russian-speaking Creols of Markovo
12.2.2.3	Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.3.2.2	Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.5.1.4	Lenape (Delaware)
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
9.1.2.3	Chulym Turks
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.2.1	Kets
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.2.3.3	Enets
9.2.3.4	Nganasans
9.3.1.4	Northwestern Yakuts (Sakha): Yessey, Anabar, Olenyok and Lower Lena Basins
9.3.3.1	Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)