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Motif

Name_eng:

Shooter hides underground

Description:

Small animal (marmot, rabbit, mole, toad, frog) or person who turns into this animal tried to hit the Sun with arrows and since then has been hiding from the Sun in underground holes or in the water

Name_rus:

Спрятавшийся стрелок

Description_rus:

Небольшое животное (сурок, кролик, крот, жаба, лягушка) или человек, превращающийся в результате в такое животное, старается поразить стрелами небесное светило. С тех пор это животное прячется в норах, в воде

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

01 Sun and Moon

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:

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
10.2.2.6	Henan and Hubei Chinese
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
12.7.1.9	Ute
6.2.2.1	Lepcha
6.2.3.1	Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.4.2	Buryats: Eastern (Trans-Baikal, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia)
9.1.5.1	Darkhad
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia