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Motif

Name_eng:

Council on seasons, chipmunk participates

Description:

Chipmunk or an animal of similar size (weasel, pika) is engaged into argument with another animal person (bear, elk, puma, snake) if it should be warm and light or cold and dark

Name_rus:

Спор о времени, бурундук участник

Description_rus:

Бурундук или сходный с ним по размеру зверек (ласка, пищуха) спорит с другим персонажем-животным (медведь, лось, пума, змея), должны ли быть свет и тепло либо тьма и холод

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)

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
12.3.2.2	Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.3.3.2	Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane)
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
13.3.1.2	Yuchi
13.3.3.1	Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva