h46a | MapsOfMyths

Name_eng:

The dog and the spike

Description:

Properties of the cereals (usually the size of the spike) are defined by what the dog did in time of creation

Name_rus:

Собака и колос

Description_rus:

Особенности вегетации злаков (обычно размер хлебного колоса) определены поведением собаки в эпоху творения

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.

4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.2.5	Lele, Tobanga
10.2.2.10	Guangdong, Guanxi and Yunnan Chinese
10.2.2.3	Sichuan Chinese
10.2.2.6	Henan and Hubei Chinese
10.2.3.5	Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam
10.2.3.5	Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern 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
4.1.3.6	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)
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.2.3	Dungan of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
6.3.1.2	Karen, Pa-O, Padaung, Kayah
6.4.4.3	Dusun, Murut, Kelabit, Tombonuwo, Bajau, Tidong, Rungus
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.1.4	Siberian Tatars
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)