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Motif
Name_eng:
Sweat of the Sun and tears of the Moon
Description:
Beads or metals are discharged by bodies of deities
Name_rus:
Пот Солнца и слезы Луны
Description_rus:
Бусы или металлы – телесные выделения божества
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:
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:
16
ATU ID:
Stith Thompson ID:
Linked traditions:
Areal ID
Tradition
1.2.4.3
Bushoong: (Ba)kuba, Dengese, Ngongo; Yansi
10.2.3.4
Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
12.1.2.2
Tagish
14.1.2.1
Tarascan
14.1.2.2
Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography
14.1.2.3
Nahuan groups of Puebla and Huasteca after AD1900
14.1.4.7
Chontal
14.1.6.1
Yucatec, Itza; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography of Yucatan
14.3.4.7
Sibundoy: Kamsa, Ingano (Inga)
14.4.3.2
Kechua-speaking communities of Apurimac, Cuzco, Arequipa, Puno departments; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries; Callawaya (Kechua with Pukina substratum)
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
4.2.1.1
Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
5.1.4.1
Karachays, Balkar
6.1.2.2
Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
6.3.2.6
Khmu (Kammu), Puoc
7.1.6.2
Southern Solomons: southern part of Santa Ysabel (Bughotu), Guadalcanal, San Cristobal, Malaita (Kwaio people), Ulawa
Motifs correlation (top 20):
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e38c
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
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k38f3
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
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i82e
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
k184
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
c32
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
m199g2
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
c6g
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
n9
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
b68a
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
b6a
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
a22b
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif:
m83c
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif:
c6i
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif:
c30d
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
b63
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif:
b80
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 13 Weight: 231
Motif:
i77
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 9 Weight: 222
Motif:
a47
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 14 Weight: 214
Motif:
k101c
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200