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Motif

Name_eng:

Big Dipper is seven persons or animals

Description:

Every main star of the Big Dipper is interpreted as a particular person or animal

Name_rus:

Большая Медведица - семь персонажей

Description_rus:

Каждая из звезд Большой Медведицы – отдельный персонаж (люди или животные)

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

02 Moon spots, stars, constellations

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:

102

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.4.5.5	Teda (Tedaga)
10.2.2.7	Shaanxi Chinese
10.2.3.4	Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
11.1.2.1	Chukchi
12.3.4.4	Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit)
12.3.7.9	Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
12.4.1.1	Winnebago
12.5.1.3	Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot
12.6.1.7	Yuki (Yuki proper, Coastal Yuki, Huchnob)
12.6.5.4	Mono (Monache)
12.6.5.7	Chumash
12.7.1.1	Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
13.1.1.1	Blackfoot
13.1.1.2	Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
13.1.1.3	Gros Ventre
13.1.2.1	Assiniboine
13.1.3.1	Crow
13.1.4.1	Teton (incl Oglala)
13.1.5.1	Arapaho
13.1.5.2	Cheyenne
13.2.1.2	Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography
13.2.1.3	Caddo
13.2.2.2	Kiowa
13.2.2.3	Comanche
3.1.1.1	Ancient Egypt
3.2.2.2	Geez, Tigrai, Tigre
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.5	Maltese
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
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
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)
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.6.2	Chechens
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.4.3.1	Yagnobi
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.4.3.5	Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji
5.4.4.1	Kafir, or Nuristani: Prasun; Kati (incl. Paruni), Ashkun (Ashunu), Waigali
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.4.4.3	Burusho (Hunza)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.5.2.2	Yugur (Sarïg Yogïr, Yellow Uyghur)
5.5.2.4	Pre-Uyghur people of Xinjiang (Khotan Saka, Tocharians, Wu Sun)
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.2	Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.1.4	Siberian Tatars
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.2.3	Chulym Turks
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.3.3	Tofa (Karagas)
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.4.3	Khamnigans
9.1.5.1	Darkhad
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.4	Daur (Daghur)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
9.3.2.4	Ilimpii Tungus/Evenki
9.3.3.2	Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir)