b87b


Motif

Motif code: 
b87b
Name_eng: 
A harnessed wolf
Description: 

Big Dipper is a cart with a harnessed wolf or bear. Usually it is explained that the handle of the Big Dipper is not straight because a wolf or a bear (identified with Alcor or with the last star of the handle, η) attacked an ox that was dragging a cart and was harnessed instead of it

Name_rus: 
Впряженный волк
Description_rus: 
Большая Медведица – повозка, в которую впряжен волк или медведь. Обычно форма ручки ковша объясняется тем, что волк или медведь напал на впряженного в повозку вола и оказался на его месте. В этом случае с ним ассоциируется Алькор либо последняя звезда ручки ковша – η
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
02 Moon spots, stars, constellations
Motif analysis result: 
1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
10

Linked traditions:
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Livonians
Estonians
Byelarusians
Chuvash

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: i132b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: n19 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: n28f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: b49b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: a8a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: f87b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: h6c2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: b123 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k107e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k73a9 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: i61a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417
Motif: j47a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: m201 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: d7a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: k56a5c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: l23a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: k67h Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: k182a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364