a4a


Motif

Motif code: 
a4a
Name_eng: 
The Sun dazzles eyes
Description: 

Modest Sun-woman dazzles (usually pricks with needles, i.e. the sun rays) eyes of those who look at her

Name_rus: 
Солнце колет глаза
Description_rus: 
Чтобы на него не смотрели, Солнце слепит нескромные глаза людей (обычно колет иголками, это ее лучи)
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.
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: 
20
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Masai
Lahu, Kucong, Yi, Nosu (Nuosu, Northern Yi), Nisu, Nusu, Sani, Jino, Lolo (incl. Bai), Axi, Nasu
Early Chinese written sources
Koreans; Goguryeo
Portuguese
Greeks (modern)
Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
Armenians
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Talysh
Mongols (Khalkha)
Hani, Akha
Sichuan Chinese
Henan and Hubei Chinese
Shaanxi Chinese
Chinese of Qinghai and Gansu provinces and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Shanxi and Hebei Chinese
Guangdong, Guanxi and Yunnan Chinese
Shandong Chinese

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: m168b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: c8a2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: c41 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: b121 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: c39a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: b93a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: c39 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif: g8e Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: c8a1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: e1a1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: j32b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 10 Weight: 500
Motif: m39a4d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k56b3 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: e9i5 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: c8a Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 19 Weight: 474
Motif: a4b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 11 Weight: 455
Motif: l27a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 17 Weight: 412
Motif: j25b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: k143 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375