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Motif

Name_eng:

Council on seasons: units of time

Description:

Animals (Melanesia: persons) discuss the number of discrete units of time that should be in a certain calendar period or in the night

Name_rus:

Спор о времени: дискретные единицы

Description_rus:

Персонажи спорят о количестве дискретных единиц времени, которыми определяется продолжительность определенного периода времени (чаще всего зимы или ночи)

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

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Stith Thompson ID:

*A1150, *A1172

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
11.2.3.2	Copper
11.2.3.3	Netsilik
11.2.3.9	West Greenland
12.1.2.3	Inland Tlingit
12.1.2.4	Tahltan
12.1.2.9	Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné)
12.2.1.2	Tlingit
12.2.1.3	Haida
12.2.1.4	Tsimshian
12.3.1.1	Carrier
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.3.4.3	Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
12.3.4.6	Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
12.3.6.1	Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
12.3.6.2	Nez Perce
12.3.7.2	Tillamook
12.3.7.8	Klamath, Modoc
12.3.7.9	Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
12.4.2.1	Menominee
12.4.2.3	Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.2.8	Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
12.4.3.2	Montagnais
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
12.6.2.1	Yana
12.6.2.3	Atsugewi
12.6.5.6	Kawaiisu
12.6.6.4	Luiseño, Juaneño
12.7.1.1	Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
12.7.1.11	Chemehuevi
12.7.1.6	Northern Shoshone
12.7.1.7	Western Shoshone, Gosiute
12.7.1.9	Ute
12.8.1.3	Western Keres (Acoma, Laguna)
13.1.2.1	Assiniboine
13.1.3.1	Crow
13.2.2.3	Comanche
16.2.1.1	Mapuche
16.2.1.2	Puelche
16.2.1.3	Northern and Southern Tehuelche
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
6.2.3.3	Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
6.4.8.2	Sumba, Savu Islands
6.4.8.3	Flores, incl Mangarai (Western Flores), Nage, Keo, Riung, Ngada or Nad'a (Central Flores), Sika (Eastern Flores)
6.4.8.4	Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kédang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor)
7.1.6.5	Central Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo, Araki, Aore, Maewo, Malekula, Vao, Efate (Vate), Shepherd Islands, Nguna, Mae, Ambrim, Pentecost, Oba (=Aoba, East Ambae, Lepers'), Omba
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.2.1	Shor
9.1.2.2	Khakas