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Motif

Name_eng:

Snakes stops up a hole in the Noah’s arch

Description:

When a hole is opened in the arch (rare: in the ground) from which a torrent of water flows, a snake (eel, frog) stops it up with its own body

Name_rus:

Змея заткнула дыру в ковчеге

Description_rus:

Змея (угорь, лягушка) спасла корабль (либо весь мир), заткнув своим телом отверстие, из которого лилась вода

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar

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:

ATU ID:

(825)

Stith Thompson ID:

A1853.1

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.4.3.9	Don Cossaks
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
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
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
4.3.3.3	Astrakhan Tatars, Karagash Nogai
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.6.2	Chechens
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.4.1.2	Khorezmian Turkic literary tradition
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.5.2.3	Dungan of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
5.5.2.6	Hui of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai (rare Hui texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones)
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.1.4	Siberian Tatars
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.2.2.4	Northern Selkups