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Motif

Name_eng:

The horned serpent

Description:

Giant water-chthonic or sky serpent or dragon has horns or antlers on its head

Name_rus:

Рогатый змей

Description_rus:

Огромный водно-хтонический или небесный змей, дракон, змееобразное существо имеет на голове рога

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects

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

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:

140

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

B91.3

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.4.11	Boa, Komo, (Ba)Nyanga, Mbole
1.3.3.4	Fon
10.1.1.3	Southern Taiwan: Rukai, Paiwan, Puyuma, Saaroa, Ketangalan
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
10.2.2.1	Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
10.2.2.5	Jiangsu and Zhejang Chinese
10.2.2.9	Shanxi and Hebei Chinese
10.2.3.2	Lisu, Achang, Taunyo
10.2.3.4	Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
10.2.3.5	Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
11.2.1.4	Central Yupik
12.2.2.2	Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
12.3.3.2	Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane)
12.3.3.3	Chelan, Wenatchi
12.3.4.3	Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
12.3.6.1	Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
12.3.7.3	Coos
12.3.7.7	Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa
12.4.2.1	Menominee
12.4.2.3	Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.2.5	Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
12.4.2.8	Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
12.4.3.2	Montagnais
12.4.3.3	Naskapi
12.4.3.4	Eastern Swamy Cree
12.4.3.5	Western Swampy Cree (incl. Rock Cree)
12.4.3.6	Eastern Cree
12.4.4.1	Plains Cree
12.4.4.2	Plains Ojibwa
12.5.1.1	Micmac
12.5.1.4	Lenape (Delaware)
12.5.2.1	Huron (incl Wyandot)
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
12.6.1.1	Yurok
12.6.1.6	Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto
12.6.1.7	Yuki (Yuki proper, Coastal Yuki, Huchnob)
12.6.2.1	Yana
12.6.3.1	Pomo
12.6.3.3	Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
12.7.1.9	Ute
12.8.1.1	Hopi
12.8.1.2	Zuni
12.8.1.3	Western Keres (Acoma, Laguna)
12.8.2.2	Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambé; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez)
12.8.3.1	Navajo
12.8.3.3	Chiricahua
12.8.3.5	Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
12.8.3.6	Lipan
12.8.4.4	Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa
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)
13.1.4.3	Santee
13.1.4.6	Omaha, Ponca
13.1.4.8	Iowa
13.1.5.1	Arapaho
13.1.5.2	Cheyenne
13.2.1.3	Caddo
13.2.2.1	Kiowa Apache
13.2.2.2	Kiowa
13.3.1.1	Shawnee
13.3.1.2	Yuchi
13.3.2.2	Natchez (incl Avoyel)
13.3.3.1	Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
13.3.3.2	Alabama, Koasati
13.3.3.4	Choctaw, Chicasaw
13.3.4.1	Cherokee
14.1.1.1	Warihio (Guarijío), Tarahumara
14.1.1.3	Mayo, Yaqui, Sinaloa
14.1.2.1	Tarascan
14.1.2.2	Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography
14.1.3.2	Gulf Nahuatl
14.1.3.3	Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque
14.1.4.3	Zapotec, Chatino
14.1.4.4	Oaxaca Mixe
14.1.5.1	Tzotzil
14.1.5.4	Chorti
14.1.6.3	Kekchi; Mopan
14.1.7.6	Xinka
14.2.1.1	Lenca
14.2.1.2	Jicaque
14.2.2.1	Bribri, Cabecar, Térraba; Chiriqui (AD 800-1500) iconography
14.2.2.3	Guaymi, Bocota, Dorasque; XVI century data on Western Panama
14.3.1.1	Choco: Embera, Nonama (Waunana), XVI century Dabaiba, pre-Columbian iconography of Sinu
14.3.3.1	Guajiro
14.4.2.1	Northern Peru: Costa (Spanish speaking communities from Ecuadorian border till Ancash and Huanuco departments included; Moche pre-Columbian iconography; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries)
14.4.2.4	Pasco, Junin, Huancavelica departments: Central Peru, Sierra (Kechua-speaking communities in Spanish sources XVI-XVII centuries)
15.2.2.1	Warao
15.6.3.3	Iranxe
15.6.3.5	Paresi
16.2.1.1	Mapuche
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.5	Byzantine literature
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.3.1.4	Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia
5.3.3.2	Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Hobyot
5.4.1.1	Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.6	Hui of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai (rare Hui texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones)
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.3.5	Nilgiri Hills: Toda, Kota, Kurumba (Kuruba), Badaga, Maravar, Pulaya, Adiya, Kadar, Irula
6.1.1.8	Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
6.2.4.1	Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
6.3.1.6	Thai of Vietnam, Tai Lue, Khao (Kho, Tai Don, White Tai), Tai Dam (Black Tai), Nung; Buyi; Shui
6.3.2.10	Viet, Muong
6.4.1.3	Semang, Senoi
6.4.3.2	Batak (Toba, Dairi)
6.4.5.1	Yavanese, Kalang, Madura
6.4.5.3	Bali, Lombok
6.4.8.3	Flores, incl Mangarai (Western Flores), Nage, Keo, Riung, Ngada or Nad'a (Central Flores), Sika (Eastern Flores)
8.1.3.1	Arnhem Land: Enindhilyagwa (Groote Eilandt), KuTiwi, Yulengor, Mara, Oenpelli, Murngin, Roper River, Maung, Murinbata, Murngin (Duwal), Millingimbi, Goulburn Island, Ngulugwongga, Yirrkalla, Voctoria River Downs, Alawa, Anu, Kunwinjku
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.10.1.3	Udeghe
9.10.1.4	Oroch
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
9.2.2.4	Northern Selkups
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
9.3.2.1	Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
9.3.3.1	Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East
9.3.3.2	Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir)