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Motif

Name_eng:

Animal-scouts

Description:

During the creation of the world or after the world cataclysm animals run around making the earth big, reporting about its condition or they are sent to report the size of the growing earth

Name_rus:

Животные-разведчики

Description_rus:

После мировой катастрофы или при создании земли животные бегают, делая землю большой, сообщают о ее состоянии, либо посланы узнать, велика ли земля

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

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

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:

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:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.1.5	Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku
11.1.3.2	Maritime Koryak (Alyutor)
12.1.1.2	Upper Kuskokwim (Kolchan)
12.1.1.5	Denaina
12.1.1.6	Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
12.1.2.6	Kaska
12.1.2.7	Beaver
12.1.2.8	Hare (incl. Sahtu, or North Slavey, and Bearlake)
12.4.2.3	Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.2.5	Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
12.4.3.5	Western Swampy Cree (incl. Rock Cree)
12.4.4.1	Plains Cree
12.4.4.2	Plains Ojibwa
12.5.1.4	Lenape (Delaware)
12.6.4.4	Ohlone (Costanoan)
12.6.5.1	Yokuts
12.7.1.11	Chemehuevi
12.7.1.9	Ute
12.8.3.1	Navajo
12.8.3.2	Jicarilla
12.8.3.5	Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
12.8.5.1	Pima
12.8.5.2	Papago
13.1.1.1	Blackfoot
13.1.1.2	Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
13.1.4.8	Iowa
14.2.2.1	Bribri, Cabecar, Térraba; Chiriqui (AD 800-1500) iconography
14.3.1.1	Choco: Embera, Nonama (Waunana), XVI century Dabaiba, pre-Columbian iconography of Sinu
14.3.3.1	Guajiro
14.4.2.3	Lima dep: Costa and adjacent Sierra (Spanish, Kechua, and Jacaru-speaking communities, mostly in Pachacamac, Cajatambo, Canta, Huarochirí; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries)
15.2.3.3	Locono
15.4.3.4	Anambé