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Motif

Name_eng:

Big Dipper is seven men

Description:

Every one of the seven main stars of the Ursa mayor is a an adult man

Name_rus:

Семеро звездных братьев

Description_rus:

Каждая из семи главных звезд Большой Медведицы – взрослый мужчина

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)

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.2.7	Shaanxi Chinese
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
12.4.1.1	Winnebago
12.5.1.3	Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot
13.1.1.1	Blackfoot
13.1.1.2	Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
13.1.1.3	Gros Ventre
13.1.2.1	Assiniboine
13.1.3.1	Crow
13.1.4.1	Teton (incl Oglala)
13.1.5.1	Arapaho
13.1.5.2	Cheyenne
13.2.1.2	Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography
13.2.1.3	Caddo
13.2.2.2	Kiowa
13.2.2.3	Comanche
3.2.2.2	Geez, Tigrai, Tigre
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
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)
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.6.2	Chechens
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.4.3.1	Yagnobi
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.4.3.5	Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.4.4.3	Burusho (Hunza)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.5.2.2	Yugur (Sarïg Yogïr, Yellow Uyghur)
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.2	Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.1.4	Siberian Tatars
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.2.3	Chulym Turks
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.3.3	Tofa (Karagas)
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.4.3	Khamnigans
9.1.5.1	Darkhad
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.4	Daur (Daghur)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
9.3.2.4	Ilimpii Tungus/Evenki
9.3.3.2	Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir)