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d4aa
Motif
Motif code:
d4aa
Name_eng:
Moth tries to steal fire from people
Description:
Moths try to steal fire which the people posess
Name_rus:
Бабочка пытается похитить огонь
Description_rus:
Ночные бабочки пытаются похитить огонь, которым владеют люди
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:
12
Linked traditions:
Algeria Arabs
Greeks (modern)
Armenians
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Kazakh
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Mongols (Khalkha)
Darkhad
Tuvinians of Tuva
Tofa (Karagas)
Mongols of Inner Mongolia
Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
a37c
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif:
m39a2e
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
l42d
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif:
m99a1
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif:
k37e
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif:
n13
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 10 Weight: 600
Motif:
m109a
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif:
a37b
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif:
l95a
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 13 Weight: 538
Motif:
b68a
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
n37
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif:
n28h
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
b47a
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif:
k27n3a1
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif:
k38b1
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
i46c
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif:
k52c1
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif:
a37a
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417
Motif:
b42h2
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400