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Name_eng:

Eclipses: a predator animal

Description:

During an eclipse or at other circumstances the Sun or the Moon are attacked by a predator animal (a bear, a feline, a canine, a racoon)

Name_rus:

Хищный зверь затмевает светила

Description_rus:

Во время затмения или при других обстоятельствах на светила нападают хищники: медведь, ягуар, пума, пес, лисица, енот

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

01 Sun and Moon

03 Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature

09 Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities

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:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
10.2.2.1	Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
10.2.2.11	Shandong Chinese
10.2.2.3	Sichuan Chinese
10.2.2.9	Shanxi and Hebei Chinese
10.2.3.1	Lahu, Kucong, Yi, Nosu (Nuosu, Northern Yi), Nisu, Nusu, Sani, Jino, Lolo (incl. Bai), Axi, Nasu
10.2.3.2	Lisu, Achang, Taunyo
10.2.3.4	Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
10.3.1.1	Ainu
12.3.7.7	Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa
12.3.7.8	Klamath, Modoc
12.4.2.9	Potawatomi
12.6.1.1	Yurok
12.6.1.2	Wiyot
12.6.1.4	Shasta; Chimariko
12.6.1.5	Hupa, Chilula
12.6.1.6	Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto
12.6.2.2	Achomavi
12.6.3.1	Pomo
12.6.3.3	Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
12.6.4.4	Ohlone (Costanoan)
12.7.1.7	Western Shoshone, Gosiute
13.3.3.1	Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
13.3.3.2	Alabama, Koasati
14.1.1.7	Western Mexico Nahuatl
14.1.4.5	Tequistlatec
14.1.5.3	Chol; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography
14.1.6.1	Yucatec, Itza; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography of Yucatan
14.1.6.2	Lacandon
14.2.1.3	Paya (Pech), Sumu, Misquito
14.2.3.1	Kuna; XVI century data on Eastern Panama
14.4.1.2	Colorado (Tsachila)
14.4.3.2	Kechua-speaking communities of Apurimac, Cuzco, Arequipa, Puno departments; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries; Callawaya (Kechua with Pukina substratum)
15.2.4.5	Kaxuyana (Warikyana, Arikena)
15.3.1.1	Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje
15.3.7.1	Ticuna (Tucuna)
15.3.7.3	Cocama, Omagua
15.4.1.1	Manao, Katawishi (Teffé lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda
15.4.4.2	Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor)
15.4.4.3	Tupinamba
15.5.4.1	Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete
15.5.4.5	Mojo, Baure, Itonama, Kanichana, Chiquito, Manasi
15.7.3.1	Ofaie
15.7.3.2	Guarani: different groups of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina including Apapocuva, Kaiowá, Mbyá, Chiripá (=Ñandeva)
15.7.3.3	Ache (Guayaki)
15.7.3.7	Kamakan; Kutasho
15.7.3.8	Maxacali
16.1.3.4	Mataco
16.1.4.2	Sanapana, Lengua (incl Angaite)
16.1.4.3	Toba (incl Pilaga)
16.1.4.4	Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon
3.3.1.6	Galicians
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (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
3.3.5.3	Germans: 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
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.1.1	Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.4.2	Estonians
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.3.2	Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Hobyot
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
6.1.1.7	Bondo, Didayi (Gata')
6.1.1.8	Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.3.1	Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi
6.2.3.3	Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
6.2.3.4	Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
6.2.3.6	Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru
6.2.4.1	Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
6.3.1.1	Burmese, Intha
6.3.1.2	Karen, Pa-O, Padaung, Kayah
6.3.2.10	Viet, Muong
6.3.2.8	Wa (incl Kawa), Bulang
6.4.2.1	Malay; Temuan (incl Mantra or Mentra), Jakun (Moken)
6.4.3.5	Kubu
6.4.6.2	Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
6.4.7.5	Mindanao: Blaan (Bilaan), Bagobo, Bukidnon, Cotabato, Hiligáynon, Binukid, Magindaan (=Magindanao: main Muslim population), Mandaya, Mansaka, Manobo (Agusan, Ata, Dibabawon, Sarangani, Ilianen), Maranao, Subanon (=Subanun), Subanen, Tboli
6.4.8.4	Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kédang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor)
8.1.5.1	Central Australia: Kaitish, Warramunga, Arunta (Aranda), Loritja (Kukatja), Pijandjara (Pitjantjara), Adnjamatana (Andjamathana, Wailpi), Aluridja, Walpiri (Walbiri), Aluridja, Matuntara (Maduntara), Nambutji, Wamma (=Wommana?)
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.10.1.3	Udeghe
9.10.2.1	Nivkh
9.10.3.1	Manchu
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
9.3.1.5	Northeastern Yakuts (Sakha): Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma Basins
9.3.3.2	Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir)