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Motif

Name_eng:

Alcor

Description:

Alcor (a weak star near the second star of the handle of the Big Dipper) is selected as a particular sky object

Name_rus:

Алькор

Description_rus:

Алькор (слабая звездочка рядом со второй звездой ручки ковша Большой Медведицы) выделяется как отдельный небесный объект

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

02 Moon spots, stars, constellations

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:

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
11.1.2.1	Chukchi
11.2.3.3	Netsilik
11.2.3.5	Iglulik
11.2.3.6	Baffin Land Inuit
12.1.1.3	Koyukon
12.1.1.6	Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
12.1.2.1	Tutchone
12.1.2.11	Yellowknife
12.1.2.2	Tagish
12.3.2.2	Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.3.2.3	Lillooet
12.3.4.3	Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
12.3.4.4	Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit)
12.3.7.9	Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
12.4.2.5	Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
12.4.2.8	Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
12.4.3.3	Naskapi
12.5.1.1	Micmac
12.5.1.4	Lenape (Delaware)
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
13.1.1.1	Blackfoot
13.1.1.2	Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
13.1.3.1	Crow
13.1.4.3	Santee
13.1.4.4	Osage
13.1.4.5	Quapaw
13.1.5.2	Cheyenne
13.2.1.1	Pawnee
13.2.1.2	Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography
13.3.4.1	Cherokee
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
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
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.4.1.2	Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.2	Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.5.3	Prussians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.1.3	Sumer
5.3.1.4	Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.3.2.6	Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.12	Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area)
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.5	Bhils (incl Barela-Bhilala), Pardhi, Kokna, Parwa
5.6.2.5	Bhils (incl Barela-Bhilala), Pardhi, Kokna, Parwa
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
6.1.1.2	Korku
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.1.2	Southern Altai: Teleut
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.10.1.3	Udeghe
9.10.1.4	Oroch
9.10.1.5	Uilta (Orok)
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.2.1	Kets
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
9.2.2.4	Northern Selkups
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.3.2.1	Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
9.3.2.2	Sym Tungus/Evenki
9.3.2.5	Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)