b87


Motif

Motif code: 
b87
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 analysis result tradition count all: 
99
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Sumer
Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia
Saudi Arabia
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Iraq
Korku
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Bengali, Maithili
Kashmiri
Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area)
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Bhils (incl Barela-Bhilala), Pardhi, Kokna, Parwa
Bhils (incl Barela-Bhilala), Pardhi, Kokna, Parwa
Early Chinese written sources
Basques
Sicily
Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
Bretagne
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
Poles
Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Czech
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Ancient Greece
Livonians
Estonians
Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Ossetians
Kumyk, Terekemen
Kalmyk
Anatolia Turks
Kazakh
Kirghiz
Mari (Cheremis)
Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
Tundra Nenets
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Mongols (Khalkha)
Khakas
Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Southern Selkups
Northern Selkups
Kets
Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
Sym Tungus/Evenki
Evens (Lamuts)
Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
Udeghe
Oroch
Uilta (Orok)
Nanai
Chukchi
Tutchone
Tagish
Koyukon
Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
Netsilik
Iglulik
Baffin Land Inuit
Lenape (Delaware)
Micmac
Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
Naskapi
Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Blackfoot
Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
Cheyenne
Santee
Osage
Quapaw
Pawnee
Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography
Crow
Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
Lillooet
Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit)
Cherokee
Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
Prussians
Yellowknife
Wallons, Picardie
Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
Southern Altai: Teleut
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Rusyns, Hutsuls
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki
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

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n28e Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
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l94d Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
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l85e Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
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l102a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
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f100a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
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a29a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
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b87d Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 8 Weight: 1000
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b87a Shared traditions: 19 All traditions: 20 Weight: 950
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b42m Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 12 Weight: 917
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b42m2 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
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b87c Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 15 Weight: 867
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b42a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
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b42l Shared traditions: 19 All traditions: 23 Weight: 826
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b42h2 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
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b87b Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800
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b46a1 Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 14 Weight: 786
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b42m1 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
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i114 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778