Han



Tradition title rus: 
Хан
Areal ID: 
12.1.1.7
Tradition analysis result motif count all: 
66.00
Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo: 
35.00
Motifs: 

Motif

a32


Name_eng: 
Figure on lunar disc
Description: 

A figure or an imprint of some being or object are seen in the Moon. (For statistical analysis motifs A32A – A32J are also included into A32)




Motif

a32d


Name_eng: 
Man in the Moon
Description: 

Human being or imprint of human being is seen in the moon




Motif

a43a


Name_eng: 
The Moon in one moccasin
Description: 

The Moon-person runs out of the lodge and flies up. He forgets to put his footwear on one foot, or somebody attempts to seize him grasping his foot or cuts the foot off. Now the Moon-person lacks one foot or footwear on one of his (or her) feet




Motif

a43


Name_eng: 
Person with a shoe on one foot
Description: 

While being transformed into a bird or ascending to the sky a person was in a hurry and put a footwear only on one foot, or somebody attempted to seize him grasping his foot. Now the corresponding bird or a sky-person is believed to have different feet




Motif

b3a


Name_eng: 
Primeval waters
Description: 

Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later




Motif

b3b


Name_eng: 
Earth grows big
Description: 

Original earth was small and later increased in size or the fertile soil grew from a small amount of original substance




Motif

b8


Name_eng: 
Frog hides the water
Description: 

Frog hides all the water but other person makes it available for everybody




Motif

b10


Name_eng: 
Drunk out water
Description: 

Person drinks a lake or all the water in the world or all the water is originally inside person's belly. When a hole is made in it, the water pours out




Motif

b38


Name_eng: 
The ruined painting
Description: 

Person paints birds or animals or they paint each other. Some of them are not satisfied with the result




Motif

b82


Name_eng: 
The white raven
Description: 

Raven or other carrion-eating bird of dark color and a similar size was originally white




Motif

b85b


Name_eng: 
Bag of winds
Description: 

Wind was or is in a particular enclosure (bag, cave, etc.). It was released from it or comes out from time to time




Motif

c6


Name_eng: 
Valuables brought from the lower world
Description: 

Persons or animals dive or otherwise decend to the lower world to get a desired object and to bring it to earth (besides episodes in the fairytales, cf. motif k27x9)




Motif

c6b


Name_eng: 
The diver is muskrat (otter, beaver)
Description: 

A muskrat (more rare beaver or otter) brings the desired object from under the water




Motif

c6d


Name_eng: 
The aquisition of the earth from the lower world
Description: 

The dry land (the earth) grows from a small amount of solid substance (sand, clay, dirt and the like) brought from the lower world (usually from the bottom of the ocean)




Motif

c16


Name_eng: 
Processed objects turn into animals
Description: 

Against person's will, butchered, dried or cooked meat, tanned hides, etc. turn back into animals or fish and escape.




Motif

c19


Name_eng: 
Acquisition of the sun
Description: 

The Sun (the day light) that was absent, stolen or hidden appears (again)




Motif

d9


Name_eng: 
Fire and vulture
Description: 

Raven or other big dark-feathered bird scavenger is the owner, personification, spouse, obtainer or stealer of fire, daylight, or the Sun




Motif

f9


Name_eng: 
A dangerous woman
Description: 

For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man




Motif

f9e


Name_eng: 
Mice in vagina
Description: 

There are small mammals with sharp teeth in woman's genitals.




Motif

f10


Name_eng: 
Vaginal teeth knocked out
Description: 

Woman has another toothed mouth (usually in vagina) or biting animals in vagina. Man inserts there a stone, bone, stick, etc. breaking or knocking out the teeth or extracting from there dangerous animals




Motif

h24


Name_eng: 
Container opened too early
Description: 

Container with valuables or with dangerous creatures is opened (before time). Its content goes out of control or disappear




Motif

i6


Name_eng: 
Weather birds
Description: 

A man meets a giant bird that brings with it clouds, rain, hail, thunderstorm, etc.




Motif

i6a


Name_eng: 
Male and female birds: different kinds of precipitation
Description: 

The male and the female birds bring with them different kinds of precipitations (e.g. the male comes with a hail, the female with a rain). Or (Buryats of Mongolia) one and the same bird brings different kinds of precipitations depending on is it angry or not.




Motif

k8c


Name_eng: 
Jonah: swallowed by terrestrial animal
Description: 

Person gets into the belly of ground animal or bird. He kills it from the inside and/or returns to earth by himself (i.e. not extracted by other people)




Motif

k27n


Name_eng: 
Difficult tasks of the in-laws
Description: 

A man must fulfill difficult tasks (to win competition) to receive the permission for a marriage




Motif

k27p


Name_eng: 
Antagonist mourns loss of his helpers
Description: 

The antagonist sends the hero to the place where he is attacked by dangerous creatures. The hero kills them and brings to the antagonist. The creatures are the antagonist's relatives, pets, or helpers, therefore he or she mourns their death or revives them




Motif

k27p1


Name_eng: 
Antagonistic father-in-law acquires guise of an animal
Description: 

When father-in-law (rare: mother-in-law) asks the hero to killl or to tame a dangerous animal or not to kill certain animal during a hunt, he (she) turns into this animal himself or transforms into it his daughter(s) or wife (husband)




Motif

k27y


Name_eng: 
To get material for making bow and arrows
Description: 

Hero is sent or sets off by his own will to get two or more different materials needed for making bow and arrows (wood or reed for shafts, feathers, tendons for string, flint for points, paint to paint the shafts, gum to stick points to the shafts)




Motif

k67


Name_eng: 
Burned moccasins
Description: 

Two men spend a night in a forest, take their moccasins or clothes off usually to dry them near the fire. One plans to burn the moccasins or the clothes of another at night. The latter imperceptible interchange their things and the first man burns his own property




Motif

l4


Name_eng: 
The unmasked murderer (The Blue Beard)
Description: 

Person kills girls (rare: his nephews or younger brothers of his wife) in succession (usually the male person kills his wives). The last of potential victims escapes, usually after finding remains of those who had been killed or imprisoned earlier




Motif

l10


Name_eng: 
Sharp tail
Description: 

A monster kills victims with his or her sharp or stinging tail or protrusion on his or her back




Motif

l42


Name_eng: 
Hero carried to ogre’s home
Description: 

An ogre or ogress catches a person and brings him to his or her home where he or she plans to cook and eat him. The hero escapes




Motif

l66


Name_eng: 
Tunnel under the monster
Description: 

A small animal digs an underground hole to the place where the monstrous stag, elk, antelope, or buffalo lies. Hero climbs along the tunnel and kills the monster




Motif

l67


Name_eng: 
Monster’s hair gnawed off
Description: 

After digging a tunnel under a lying monstrous animal, a small animal (usually a mouse) bites off the monster's hair at a certain place. Hero kills the monster thrusting his spear or arrow through the hairless place into the monster's heart




Motif

m18b


Name_eng: 
Getting fishing hook or harpoon
Description: 

Person turns into a fish to steal fishing hook or harpoon or he turns into fishing hook to catch a fish




Motif

m29a


Name_eng: 
Trickster-raven
Description: 

In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is raven




Motif

m30


Name_eng: 
Trickster falls down
Description: 

Person or creature who has no wings or is unable to fly on a long distance attempts to ascend to the sky or to fly far away but falls down or, deprived of his wings, remains in a place from which he is unable to return




Motif

m94


Name_eng: 
Sliding downhill
Description: 

One person or animal suggests another to slide downhill to kill or harm him or her




Motif

m100


Name_eng: 
Sleep at the edge of a cliff
Description: 

Animal persons lie to sleep at the edge of a bluff or cliff. At night one of them tells another (others) to move a little, the companion (companions) falls down and dies




Motif

m123


Name_eng: 
Raven marries goose
Description: 

A bird of prey or a carrion-eater (raven, owl, hawk; coyote) marries or tries to marry goose-person or other water bird. This marriage is not realized or is a short one




Motif

m123c


Name_eng: 
Unlucky flight with migratory birds
Description: 

A bird-person who usually does not fly away in the autumn makes attempt to fly with migratory birds but is unable to reach destination




Motif

k27 (motif is not in the correlation table)


Name_eng: 
Competitions and difficult tasks
Description: 

Person is suggested to fulfill tasks that are mortally dangerous or cannot be fulfilled without supernatural helpers or capacities. The person fulfills the tasks and remains alive. A contest between persons has form of a competition or game in which the loser is deprived of his status or life




Motif

k27n3c


Name_eng: 
Task-giver is a zoomorphic being
Description: 

Person who gives difficult tasks to the hero is associated with an animal, a bird or a fish




Motif

i133


Name_eng: 
Whole-sky constellation
Description: 

Sideral objects in different parts of the sky are identified with one and the same humanoid figure (parts of its body, decoratioons, etc.).




Motif

k27y1


Name_eng: 
Arrow points made of coal
Description: 

Person believes or pretends that the arrow points should be of coal, bark, grass and the like.




Motif

m29f


Name_eng: 
Wolverine is a failure
Description: 

Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the wolverine suffers a reverse, is injured or dies




Motif

m29b2


Name_eng: 
The bear is a failure/enemy
Description: 

Because of its stupidity or unsocial behavior, the bear suffers a reverse, is injured or dies




Motif

m94a


Name_eng: 
Sliding downhill: victims of antagonist
Description: 

A demonic person provokes his victims to slide downhill and kills them




Motif

k8c4


Name_eng: 
Elk dies after swallowing mouse
Description: 

A mouse, a small bird, a porcupine or other animal (rare: person) of a small size gets inside a big ungulate (elk, deer, buffalo, tapir) to kill (and then usually to eat) him




Motif

j54


Name_eng: 
The last female survives
Description: 

Animals of particular species that were enemies of the heroes are exterminated besides the only pregnant female (rare a female and a male). Thanks to this, these animals still exist




Motif

k27yy1


Name_eng: 
To get feathers of a dangerous bird
Description: 

Hero brings a feather (feathers) of a dangerous bird




Motif

l9


Name_eng: 
Sharp body members
Description: 

Body members of a person has the form of cutting or piercing weapon




Motif

e9m


Name_eng: 
Bear-wife
Description: 

Man marries a polar bear or grizzly who becomes a woman or a woman who becomes a bear




Motif

k25


Name_eng: 
Magic wife
Description: 

A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world




Motif

K27n3c2


Name_eng: 
The antagonist is father-in-law in guise of a bear
Description: 

The task-giver is the bear who is the hero’s father-in-law




Motif

f9e1


Name_eng: 
Dangerous animal in vagina
Description: 

Woman is dangerous because biting or stinging animal or animals is (are) inside her genitals (and not only the head of such an animal)




Motif

m29a1


Name_eng: 
Raven (crow) is the main trickster
Description: 

In three or more different episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is raven (crow)




Motif

h54b


Name_eng: 
The glance of death
Description: 

Person’s glance brings death (and destruction)




Motif

k27p2


Name_eng: 
Antagonistic father-in-law acquires guise of a bear
Description: 

When father-in-law (rare: mother-in-law) asks the hero to kill a bear, he (she) turns into the bear himsel or tranfforms into the bear his daughter or wife (husband)




Motif

b44f1


Name_eng: 
Bear stands for night
Description: 

In a dispute about should it be cold (dark) or warm (light), the bear stands for the cold; or the world is dark because the bear hides the sun in his house




Motif

l57


Name_eng: 
Person gets his body part back
Description: 

Person loses his organ or body part, it is carried away. He finds its new owner, gets his property back




Motif

m123b


Name_eng: 
Trickster tied to a boat
Description: 

A man gets a woman thanks to a trick, carries her away in his canoe. She asks permission to go to shore to relieve herself, runs away




Motif

m20


Name_eng: 
Trickster’s jaw injured
Description: 

Person commits something that is socially unacceptable. They catch him and injure (cut off) his bill or jaw. Usually he gets his ripped off jaw (bill) back




Motif

a32e


Name_eng: 
Person with an object in hands
Description: 

Person who holds some object in his or her hands is seen in the moon (rare: in the sun)




Motif

m53d


Name_eng: 
Would believe enemies
Description: 

Person creates figures that look like enemies or pretends that enemies come. People run away, person gets all valuables for himself




Motif

b37


Name_eng: 
Creatures are made appear as they are now
Description: 

Person decorates different birds (rare: fish), share fat between anomals. Since then, the corresponding species acquire present characteristics





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Koyukon
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Yellowknife

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition:
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition:
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Athna
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition:
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