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Motif

Name_eng:

Sky touched with a broom

Description:

The sky rose to its present height and/or the direct relations of the sky deity with the people were broken off when the sky or the deity was pushed up, touched or struck with a broom

Name_rus:

Небо задели метлой

Description_rus:

Небо отодвинулось и/или связь людей с божеством прекратилась после того, как небо или небесное божество задели, ударили метлой

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

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.6.2.15	Assamese
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
6.1.1.7	Bondo, Didayi (Gata')
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)