b71


Motif

Motif code: 
b71
Name_eng: 
Aurora borealis
Description: 

Aurora borealis is spirits (of the dead) who run holding burning torches, play or fight with each other

Name_rus: 
Пляшущие сполохи
Description_rus: 
Северное сияние есть люди, которые играют, танцуют, сидят у огня, сражаются или бегают с факелами
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
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
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: 
38

Linked traditions:
Scotland
French (northern France)
Latvians
Estonians
Setu
Finns
Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
Norwegians
Swedes
Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
Udmurt
Forest Nenets
Chukchi
Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
Nunivak Island
Tutchone
Tagish
Inland Tlingit
Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island)
North Alaskan Inupiat
Netsilik
Baffin Land Inuit
West Greenland
East Greenland (Angmassalik, Kulusuk)
Labrador Inuit (Koksoagmiut)
Eyak
Tlingit
Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
Malecite, Passamaquoddy
Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot
Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
Naskapi
Montagnais
Menominee
Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
Mandan
Plains Cree

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: m61a3 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: b42o1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: i50b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: i123 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: k25a3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: c32 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m74c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k8b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: b125a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: b125c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: f91 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 10 Weight: 600
Motif: k32k Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: k45 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif: m17a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif: k45a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: k149 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: a31a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: k45b Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545