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Motif

Name_eng:

Ursa major is an ungulate

Description:

Ursa major (seven stars or only four stars of a dipper) is identified with an ungulate (elk, deer, mountain sheep, etc.)

Name_rus:

Большая Медведица – копытное животное

Description_rus:

Большая Медведица (целиком или только ковш) отождествляется с крупным копытным животным (лосем, оленем, горным бараном)

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

02 Moon spots, stars, constellations

Motif analysis result:

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including 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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.4.5.5	Teda (Tedaga)
11.1.2.1	Chukchi
11.1.3.1	Reindeer Koryak
11.1.3.2	Maritime Koryak (Alyutor)
11.1.3.4	Kamchadal
11.1.4.2	Chuvans, Russian-speaking Creols of Markovo
11.2.1.1	Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
11.2.1.2	St. Lawrence Island Yupik
11.2.1.3	Aleuts
11.2.1.4	Central Yupik
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
11.2.3.2	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)
11.2.3.9	West Greenland
12.1.1.1	Ingalik (Der Hit’an)
12.3.4.2	Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem
12.3.4.3	Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
12.3.4.4	Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit)
12.7.1.1	Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
3.1.3.8	Tuareg
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)
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
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)
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
9.1.2.3	Chulym Turks
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.10.1.4	Oroch
9.10.1.6	Negidal
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
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
9.2.2.4	Northern Selkups
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.2.3.2	Forest Nenets
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
9.3.2.5	Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki
9.3.3.1	Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)