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Motif

Name_eng:

Mouth from the earth to the sky

Description:

Monster's upper lip (fang, horn, etc.) touches the sky, lower touches the ground

Name_rus:

Пасть до неба

Description_rus:

Одна губа (один клык, рог и т.п.) существа достигает неба, другая волочится по земле

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:

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.3.1.1	Ainu
11.1.1.2	Tundra (Lower Kolyma) Yukaghir (Waduls)
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
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)
4.2.1.1	Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.1.1	Old and New Testament
5.3.1.2	Ugarit
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.14	Farsiwans
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.4.2.5	Baluch
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.4	Balahi; Lambadi (Banjara)
5.6.2.7	Nepali; Tharu
6.1.1.1	Santali, Turi, Mahli
6.1.1.4	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)
6.1.1.8	Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
6.2.2.1	Lepcha
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
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
9.10.2.1	Nivkh