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Motif

Name_eng:

By snail in summer, by bird in winter

Description:

For its sky voyage, the Sun chooses draught animals according to the season, riding a slow one in the summer time and a quick one in the winter time. Or a young man carries the Sun in the winter time and the old man in the summer time

Name_rus:

Летом на улитке, зимой на птице

Description_rus:

Двигаясь по небосводу, солнце меняет ездовых животных в зависимости от сезона – летом едет на тихоходном, зимой – на движущемся быстро. Либо зимой солнце несет молодой человек, а летом – старик

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

01 Sun and Moon

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

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
12.7.1.1	Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
14.1.7.2	Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
15.5.3.1	Tacana
15.6.2.2	Bakairi
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
6.3.2.10	Viet, Muong