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Name_eng:

Rabbit as deer’s proxy

Description:

Hare or rabbit is a false deer or it was deer in the past or a close kin of the deer or had horns or antlers or missed opportunity to get them, its ears are the false horns

Name_rus:

Кролик как заместитель оленя

Description_rus:

Заяц/кролик - ложный олень, бывший олень, брат оленя, бывший или несостоявшийся владелец рогов, его уши – ложные рога

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar

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:

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.2.2	Bemba (Wemba, Babemba; incl Ambo, Lala, Lamba, Bisa), Holoholo, Kaonde
1.2.4.7	Luba (Baluba, Luba-Katanga, Shaba), (Ba)Holoholo, Tumbwe, Bena-Piana, Tabwa, Benabena-Mitumba, Zela, Bene-Marungu
1.3.4.2	Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
1.3.5.11	Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
1.4.1.1	Nubians
1.4.3.1	Murle, Me'en (Bodi), Didinga
10.3.1.1	Ainu
11.1.1.1	Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
11.1.4.2	Chuvans, Russian-speaking Creols of Markovo
12.1.2.1	Tutchone
12.1.2.2	Tagish
12.1.2.3	Inland Tlingit
12.1.2.6	Kaska
12.1.2.9	Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné)
12.3.6.1	Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
12.3.7.4	Alcea; Siuslaw
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.6.1.1	Yurok
12.6.3.1	Pomo
12.6.3.4	Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov
12.6.4.3	Coastal Miwok
13.3.4.1	Cherokee
14.1.1.1	Warihio (Guarijío), Tarahumara
14.1.1.4	Huichol
14.1.2.2	Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography
14.1.3.1	Tepehua, Totonac
14.1.3.3	Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque
14.1.5.1	Tzotzil
14.1.7.2	Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
14.1.7.3	Tojolabal, Chuj, Jacalteca, Kanjobal, Mocho (incl Tuzantec), Acatec
3.3.4.1	Ireland
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
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)
6.1.2.2	Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.2.1.1	Mansi