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Motif

Name_eng:

The duck is successful diver

Description:

The duck (or an aquatic bird similar to the duck) dives and brings a piece of earth that is transformed into the dry land (it is the only or the only successful diver)

Name_rus:

Утка – успешный ныряльщик

Description_rus:

Утка или похожая на нее водоплавающая птица ныряет и приносит (обычно из-под воды) кусочек земли, который превращается в сушу (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
11.1.4.2	Chuvans, Russian-speaking Creols of Markovo
12.1.2.11	Yellowknife
12.1.2.6	Kaska
12.1.2.9	Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné)
12.2.2.2	Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
12.6.3.1	Pomo
12.6.4.1	Sierra Miwok
12.6.5.1	Yokuts
12.6.5.2	Northern Foothills Yokuts (Chukchansi, Dumna, Kechayi)
12.6.5.3	Salinan
12.6.5.4	Mono (Monache)
12.6.5.5	Tubatulabal
12.6.5.6	Kawaiisu
13.1.1.1	Blackfoot
13.1.1.3	Gros Ventre
13.1.3.1	Crow
13.1.3.2	Hidatsa
13.1.3.3	Mandan
13.1.3.4	Arikara
13.1.5.1	Arapaho
13.1.5.2	Cheyenne
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.1.1	Poles
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)
4.1.3.6	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)
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.5.2	Nogai
9.1.1.4	Siberian Tatars
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.2.2.1	Kets
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
9.2.2.4	Northern Selkups
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.2.3.4	Nganasans
9.3.1.3	Western Yakuts (Sakha): Olekma and Vilyuy Basins
9.3.2.1	Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
9.3.2.2	Sym Tungus/Evenki
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki