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Motif

Name_eng:

The immortal raven

Description:

Raven is associated with death or contrasted with people as an immortal with mortals (is sent to the medicine of immortality; drinks itself water of immortality; gives instructions concerning funeral rites; etc.)

Name_rus:

Бессмертный ворон

Description_rus:

Ворон (ворона) ассоциируется со смертью или противопоставлен человеку как бессмертный смертным (послан принести эликсир бессмертия или оживляющую мертвых воду; сам выпивает эту воду; учит людей похоронным обрядам; и т.п.)

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

04 Origin of death, diseases and hard life

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.5.2	Mandjak, Mankanya, Pepel, Balant, Felupe, Diola (Jola)
11.1.1.2	Tundra (Lower Kolyma) Yukaghir (Waduls)
3.2.1.4	Somali
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.5.3	Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
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)
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.2.2.4	Talysh
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
6.3.2.7	Palaung (De Ang, Deang)
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.10.1.3	Udeghe
9.2.1.3	Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
9.3.3.1	Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East