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Motif

Name_eng: 
Ursa major is a carriage
Description: 

Ursa major is identified with a carriage, a cart

Name_rus: 
Большая Медведица – повозка
Description_rus: 
Большая Медведица – колесница, повозка
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
02 Moon spots, stars, constellations
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: 
63
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
1.4.3.9Don Cossaks
10.2.1.1Early Chinese written sources
3.3.1.1Spain
3.3.1.2Portuguese
3.3.1.3Catalan
3.3.2.1Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.6Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.1Bretagne
3.3.3.2French (northern France)
3.3.3.3Wallons, Picardie
3.3.3.5Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
3.3.4.1Ireland
3.3.4.4England
3.3.5.1Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2Frisians
3.3.5.3Germans: 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
3.3.5.4Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.5Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.6Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.4.1.1Ancient Greece
3.4.1.2Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
3.5.1.1Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2Bulgarians
3.5.1.3Macedonians
3.5.2.1Albanians
3.5.2.2Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.4Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.2.5Slovenians
3.5.3.1Hungarians
3.5.3.2Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.4.1Gagauz
4.1.1.1Poles
4.1.1.2Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.1.1.3Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.4Czech
4.1.1.5Slovakians
4.1.2.1Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.5Byelarusians
4.1.3.1Russians: 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)
4.1.3.4Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.6Russians: 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)
4.2.1.1Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.2.1.2Norwegians
4.2.1.3Danes
4.2.1.4Swedes
4.2.1.5Icelanders
4.2.4.2Estonians
4.2.4.4Livonians
4.2.5.1Latvians
4.2.5.2Lithuanians
4.2.5.3Prussians
5.1.2.2Urums, Rumei
5.1.8.1Terek Cossacks
5.2.2.1Armenians
5.2.3.1Hittite, Hurrit
5.3.1.1Old and New Testament
5.3.1.3Sumer
5.3.1.4Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia
9.1.5.3Mongols (Khalkha)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k56ac Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: n39 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: b104a Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif: i22g1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: m203a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: k38b3c Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif: i4d1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif: a32m Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif: f101 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: i25b1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif: l9g Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
Motif: i82f Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 11 Weight: 1000
Motif: i7b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: f57 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
Motif: b125a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif: b87c Shared traditions: 15 All traditions: 15 Weight: 1000
Motif: k76d Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 13 Weight: 923