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Motif
Name_eng:
Eclipses: birds
Description:
A bird or birds attack or shade the Sun or the Moon during an eclipse or at the sunrise and sunset
Name_rus:
Птицы затмевают светила
Description_rus:
Птицы нападают на солнце или луну во время затмения (закрывают их крыльями) или (*) закрывают солнце во время восхода или захода
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
4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Motif analysis result tradition count all:
29
ATU ID:
Stith Thompson ID:
Linked traditions:
Areal ID
Tradition
5.1.3.1
Abkhaz
12.3.7.4
Alcea; Siuslaw
5.2.2.1
Armenians
15.6.2.2
Bakairi
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?)
1.2.5.8
Chagga (Jagga; incl Wasu), Pare, Digo
14.1.4.1
Chinantec, Mazatec
12.6.5.7
Chumash
12.3.7.3
Coos
3.5.3.1
Hungarians
5.4.1.1
Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
15.6.3.3
Iranxe
12.5.1.2
Malecite, Passamaquoddy
1.3.5.11
Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
16.1.3.4
Mataco
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
14.1.2.3
Nahuan groups of Puebla and Huasteca after AD1900
9.10.1.1
Nanai
9.2.2.4
Northern Selkups
14.1.2.4
Popoloca; Tlapanec
6.4.1.3
Semang, Senoi
9.2.2.3
Southern Selkups
6.4.6.3
To Loinang, To Wana, Balantak (Mian Balantak), Banggai Islands
6.4.6.2
Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
9.1.3.2
Tuvinians of Southern Altai
12.5.1.3
Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot
12.6.5.1
Yokuts
12.6.1.1
Yurok
Motifs correlation (top 20):
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d12a
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
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k9a
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
n19
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
k11
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
k19d
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
l17a2
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
a29a
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif:
d13e
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif:
i132
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif:
k47c
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
c33b
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
m168b
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
f54b
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
b42e
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif:
h55a
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif:
h54c
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
m60b1
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
j12b
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif:
e40
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333