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a4

Motif

Name_eng:

Female sun

Description:

The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female

Name_rus:

Солнце-женщина

Description_rus:

Солнце – женщина, луна мужчина или (реже) также женщина

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

01 Sun and Moon

Motif analysis result:

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

3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America

4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

254

Stith Thompson ID:

A736.2.

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.2.1	Shone (Shona, =Mashona, =Karanga), Makoni (Shoni dialect), Remba (=Hungwe, Wahungwe); Zezuru, Rozwi, Ndau (Vandau)
1.2.4.1	Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
1.2.4.11	Boa, Komo, (Ba)Nyanga, Mbole
1.2.4.2	Sakata
1.2.4.4	Lingala, (Ba)Ngala, Ntomba, Kioque, (Ki)Bangi, Bolia, Balolo, Boloki, (Ba)Akwa, (U)Poto
1.2.4.7	Luba (Baluba, Luba-Katanga, Shaba), (Ba)Holoholo, Tumbwe, Bena-Piana, Tabwa, Benabena-Mitumba, Zela, Bene-Marungu
1.2.5.12	Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
1.2.5.2	Nyamwesi, Sumbwa
1.2.5.8	Chagga (Jagga; incl Wasu), Pare, Digo
1.2.6.5	Aka, Baka (Badjue) and other Western (Bantu speaking) Pygmies
1.3.2.1	Hausa
1.3.5.10	Mende, Loma, Gbunde (Gbandi, Bandi)
1.3.5.11	Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
1.4.3.6	Kalenjin; including Sabaot, Nandi (Nande), Arusha, Kipsigis, Pokot (Suk), Keiyo (Elgeiyo), Marakwet, Sebeei
1.4.3.7	Iraku (Irakw)
1.4.6.1	Hadza
10.1.1.2	Central Taiwan: Bunun (Vonum), La'arua, Tsou, Kanabu, Kanakanabu
10.1.1.3	Southern Taiwan: Rukai, Paiwan, Puyuma, Saaroa, Ketangalan
10.1.1.4	Ami
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
10.2.2.1	Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
10.2.2.10	Guangdong, Guanxi and Yunnan Chinese
10.2.2.11	Shandong Chinese
10.2.2.12	Hunan and Guixhou Chinese
10.2.2.3	Sichuan Chinese
10.2.2.5	Jiangsu and Zhejang Chinese
10.2.2.6	Henan and Hubei Chinese
10.2.2.7	Shaanxi Chinese
10.2.2.9	Shanxi and Hebei Chinese
10.2.3.2	Lisu, Achang, Taunyo
10.2.3.4	Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
10.2.3.5	Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam
10.2.3.6	Li
10.2.3.7	Hani, Akha
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
10.3.1.1	Ainu
10.3.2.4	Japan AD 700-1700
11.1.1.1	Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
11.1.2.1	Chukchi
11.1.3.1	Reindeer Koryak
11.2.1.4	Central Yupik
11.2.1.5	Nunivak Island
11.2.1.6	Kodiak
11.2.2.1	Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island)
11.2.2.2	North Alaskan Inupiat
11.2.3.1	Mackenzie Delta
11.2.3.10	East Greenland (Angmassalik, Kulusuk)
11.2.3.2	Copper
11.2.3.3	Netsilik
11.2.3.4	Caribou
11.2.3.5	Iglulik
11.2.3.6	Baffin Land Inuit
11.2.3.7	Labrador Inuit (Koksoagmiut)
11.2.3.8	Polar Inuit
11.2.3.9	West Greenland
12.1.1.1	Ingalik (Der Hit’an)
12.1.1.3	Koyukon
12.1.1.5	Denaina
12.1.2.8	Hare (incl. Sahtu, or North Slavey, and Bearlake)
12.2.1.2	Tlingit
12.3.2.2	Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.3.6.1	Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
12.3.7.3	Coos
12.3.7.9	Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
12.4.3.2	Montagnais
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
12.5.2.3	Tuscarora
12.6.1.6	Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto
12.6.2.2	Achomavi
12.6.2.3	Atsugewi
12.6.3.4	Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov
12.6.4.2	Lake Miwok, Plains Miwok
12.6.4.3	Coastal Miwok
12.7.1.10	Southern Paiute
12.7.1.9	Ute
12.8.5.1	Pima
13.1.4.3	Santee
13.2.2.1	Kiowa Apache
13.3.1.2	Yuchi
13.3.2.1	Tunica
13.3.2.3	Chitimacha
13.3.2.4	Biloxi
13.3.3.1	Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
13.3.4.1	Cherokee
14.1.5.3	Chol; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography
14.3.4.1	Chimila (Ette)
15.1.1.3	Cuiva
15.2.3.5	Domenica Caribs, Carifuna
15.2.3.6	Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
15.3.6.2	Bora
15.5.2.4	Cashibo
15.5.2.6	Amahuaca, Cashinahua, Sharanahua, Yaminahua, Yawanahua, Capanahua)
15.5.2.8	Harákmbet (=Mashco)
15.5.4.2	Chacobo
15.5.5.2	Tupari, Makurap, Sakirap, Ajuru (Wayoro)
16.1.4.2	Sanapana, Lengua (incl Angaite)
16.1.4.3	Toba (incl Pilaga)
16.1.4.4	Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.2.2	Arabs of Libya
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.2.2.1	Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
3.2.2.2	Geez, Tigrai, Tigre
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.4.4	England
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.3	Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.2.1.1	Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.1.7.6	Rutul, Tsakhur
5.1.7.7	Tabasaran, Aghul
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.1.3	Svans
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.4	Talysh
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.2.3.1	Hittite, Hurrit
5.3.1.1	Old and New Testament
5.3.1.2	Ugarit
5.3.1.6	Phoenicia
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.3.2.6	Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.3.3.1	Yemen
5.3.3.2	Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Hobyot
5.3.3.3	Soqotri
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.3.4	Sarikoli
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.5	Salars
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
6.1.1.1	Santali, Turi, Mahli
6.1.1.7	Bondo, Didayi (Gata')
6.1.1.8	Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
6.1.2.1	Oraon (Kurukh)
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
6.2.2.4	Khasi
6.2.3.1	Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi
6.2.3.2	SW Arunachal Pradesh: Sherdukpen, Tawang (Monpas), Aka (Hrusso), Miji
6.2.3.3	Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
6.2.3.6	Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru
6.2.4.1	Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
6.2.4.2	Rawang, Dulong; Anong, Drung
6.3.1.1	Burmese, Intha
6.3.1.4	Thai of Thailand
6.3.1.6	Thai of Vietnam, Tai Lue, Khao (Kho, Tai Don, White Tai), Tai Dam (Black Tai), Nung; Buyi; Shui
6.3.2.10	Viet, Muong
6.3.2.3	Stieng, Chrau, Sre (Koho), Maa, Mnong
6.3.2.8	Wa (incl Kawa), Bulang
6.3.2.9	Tjam, Ede, Jörai (Jarai)
6.4.1.1	Andamanese
6.4.1.3	Semang, Senoi
6.4.2.1	Malay; Temuan (incl Mantra or Mentra), Jakun (Moken)
6.4.3.2	Batak (Toba, Dairi)
6.4.3.7	Mentawai
6.4.4.4	Bidayuh (incl. Maloh), Iban (Sea Dayak), Sakarram; Brunei
6.4.6.1	Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik
6.4.6.2	Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
6.4.7.2	Southern Luzon: Pampango, Pangacian, Sambal, Tagal, Tayabas; Calamian
6.4.8.3	Flores, incl Mangarai (Western Flores), Nage, Keo, Riung, Ngada or Nad'a (Central Flores), Sika (Eastern Flores)
6.4.8.6	Bunak
7.1.1.1	Trans-New Guinea and unclassified Papuan groups of Irian Jaya: Mejprat, Arandai-Bintuni, Inanwatan-Berau, Papua of Gelvink (Cenderawasih) Bay, Kamoró, Marind Anim, Sawi, Mafore; Korowai; Kwerba; Momina, Eipo, Yale, Awyu, Muyu
7.1.2.1	Papua–NewGuinea Highland Papuans:Trans New Guinea & unclassified:Chimbu,Gimi,KaugelHuli,Gadsup,Kuman,Kutubu,Foi (Foe),Kyaka,Kamano (Kafe),Mawatta,Kukukuku (=Anga,=Sambia;Manki,Nauti,Ejuti),Baruya,Kewa,Tembregak,Menya,Melpa,Wiru,Pondoma
7.1.2.3	Papua–New Guinea Southern Lowland Papuan groups (Trans New Guinea and unclassified): Gimi, Kiwai, Bina, Mawabula, Mawatta, Keraki, Gambadi (incl. Kwavaru), Purari River delta, Masingara, Wiram (=Suki), Ngain, Daga, Elema
7.1.5.5	Melanesians of Admiralty Islands (incl Manus); Seimat (Western Islands)
7.1.6.7	Kanaka (New Caledonia)
7.2.5.7	Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Nauru, Banaba (Ocean island)
8.1.1.1	Tasmania
8.1.2.1	SE Australia: Kamilaroi, Yualarai (Ualarai, Euahlayi), Milpulo (Mailpurgu), Wuradjeri (Wiradjurim, Wiradjeri, Wurundjeri, Yarra, Yarra Yarra), Wongaibon (Wonghibon), Noongahburrah (Narran, Narran River), Kurnai, and many others (see file 0.doc)
8.1.3.1	Arnhem Land: Enindhilyagwa (Groote Eilandt), KuTiwi, Yulengor, Mara, Oenpelli, Murngin, Roper River, Maung, Murinbata, Murngin (Duwal), Millingimbi, Goulburn Island, Ngulugwongga, Yirrkalla, Voctoria River Downs, Alawa, Anu, Kunwinjku
8.1.4.1	Queensland: Mungkan (Wikmunkan), Wiknatara, Bloomfield River, Cape Bedford, Cape Grafton, Kokowara (Koko-Warra), Koko-yalunyu (Kokokulunggur), Bunya Bunya, Waka-Waka (Wakawaka), Kabikabi, Chepara
8.1.5.1	Central Australia: Kaitish, Warramunga, Arunta (Aranda), Loritja (Kukatja), Pijandjara (Pitjantjara), Adnjamatana (Andjamathana, Wailpi), Aluridja, Walpiri (Walbiri), Aluridja, Matuntara (Maduntara), Nambutji, Wamma (=Wommana?)
8.1.5.2	Southern Australia: Dieri, Urabunna (Arabana), Flinderce Mountains, Kujani, Andyamatana (Andjamatana, Wailpi)
8.1.5.3	Western Australia: Walmanjeri, Njolnjol (Njulnjul, Nyul-Nyul), Worora, Kariara (Karierra), Karadjari (Karadjeri, Garadjari), Djaberdjaber (Djaberadjabera), Ngarluma, Wiilman (Wheelman), Bibbulmum (Pebelman), Burong (Panaka)
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.1.2	Southern Altai: Teleut
9.1.1.3	Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.4.2	Buryats: Eastern (Trans-Baikal, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia)
9.1.5.1	Darkhad
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.10.1.3	Udeghe
9.10.1.4	Oroch
9.10.2.1	Nivkh
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.1.3	Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.1.4	Southern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.2.1	Kets
9.2.2.2	Yughs
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
9.2.2.4	Northern Selkups
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.2.3.2	Forest Nenets
9.2.3.3	Enets
9.2.3.4	Nganasans
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
9.3.1.2	Dolgans
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
9.3.2.4	Ilimpii Tungus/Evenki
9.3.3.1	Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)