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