a12d


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 IDTradition
1.2.5.8Chagga (Jagga; incl Wasu), Pare, Digo
1.3.5.11Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
12.3.7.3Coos
12.3.7.4Alcea; Siuslaw
12.5.1.2Malecite, Passamaquoddy
12.5.1.3Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot
12.6.1.1Yurok
12.6.5.1Yokuts
12.6.5.7Chumash
14.1.2.3Nahuan groups of Puebla and Huasteca after AD1900
14.1.2.4Popoloca; Tlapanec
14.1.4.1Chinantec, Mazatec
15.6.2.2Bakairi
15.6.3.3Iranxe
16.1.3.4Mataco
16.1.4.4Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon
3.5.3.1Hungarians
5.1.3.1Abkhaz
5.2.2.1Armenians
5.4.1.1Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
6.4.1.3Semang, Senoi
6.4.6.2Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
6.4.6.3To Loinang, To Wana, Balantak (Mian Balantak), Banggai Islands
6.4.7.5Mindanao: 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
8.1.5.1Central Australia: Kaitish, Warramunga, Arunta (Aranda), Loritja (Kukatja), Pijandjara (Pitjantjara), Adnjamatana (Andjamathana, Wailpi), Aluridja, Walpiri (Walbiri), Aluridja, Matuntara (Maduntara), Nambutji, Wamma (=Wommana?)
9.1.3.2Tuvinians of Southern Altai
9.10.1.1Nanai
9.2.2.3Southern Selkups
9.2.2.4Northern Selkups

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k9a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: d12a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: l17a2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k19d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: n19 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k11 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: h54c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: c6c2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: m60b1 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: e40 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m168b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k73b2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k47c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: h55a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: j12b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333