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c6b
Motif
Motif code:
c6b
Name_eng:
The diver is muskrat (otter, beaver)
Description:
A muskrat (more rare beaver or otter) brings the desired object from under the water
Name_rus:
Ныряльщик – ондатра (бобр, выдра)
Description_rus:
Желанный объект приносит со дна ондатра (редко бобр или выдра)
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
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)
Motif analysis result tradition count all:
43
Linked traditions:
Dogrib, Slavey
Hare (incl. Sahtu, or North Slavey, and Bearlake)
Han
Athna
Upper Kuskokwim (Kolchan)
Koyukon
Tanana
Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
Beaver
Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
Lenape (Delaware)
Malecite, Passamaquoddy
Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
Ottawa
Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
Western Swampy Cree (incl. Rock Cree)
Eastern Swamy Cree
Eastern Cree
Naskapi
Montagnais
Menominee
Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
Potawatomi
Huron (incl Wyandot)
Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Tuscarora
Blackfoot
Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
Santee
Quapaw
Iowa
Plains Cree
Plains Ojibwa
Assiniboine
Carrier
Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
Tillamook
Lower Chinook (Chinook proper)
Bannock
Western Shoshone, Gosiute
Choco: Embera, Nonama (Waunana), XVI century Dabaiba, pre-Columbian iconography of Sinu
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
m61a3
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
b42o1
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
f45a1
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
l5e
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k18c
Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 11 Weight: 909
Motif:
m13a
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 10 Weight: 900
Motif:
j41a
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif:
k1j
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif:
l75
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif:
b125c
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif:
h37a
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif:
j41b
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800
Motif:
l99
Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 14 Weight: 786
Motif:
a38b
Shared traditions: 18 All traditions: 23 Weight: 783
Motif:
m30a
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif:
m32a
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif:
m29j
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 12 Weight: 750
Motif:
b96
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif:
b95a
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750