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i65
Motif
Motif code:
i65
Name_eng:
Milky Way of the dead
Description:
Milky Way is the path over which souls travel to the beyond or a path of the funeral procession
Name_rus:
Души мертвых на Млечном Пути
Description_rus:
Млечный Путь есть тропа в иной мир, по которой следуют души мертвых и/или шаманы либо это путь погребальной процессии
Motif type:
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group:
02 Moon spots, stars, constellations
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:
95
ATU ID:
Stith Thompson ID:
Linked traditions:
Luba (Baluba, Luba-Katanga, Shaba), (Ba)Holoholo, Tumbwe, Bena-Piana, Tabwa, Benabena-Mitumba, Zela, Bene-Marungu
Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
Akan, Ashanti, Akwapim; Ga (Accra), Kra, Twi (Chwi, Chi)
SE Australia: Kamilaroi, Yualarai (Ualarai, Euahlayi), Milpulo (Mailpurgu), Wuradjeri (Wiradjurim, Wiradjeri, Wurundjeri, Yarra, Yarra Yarra), Wongaibon (Wonghibon), Noongahburrah (Narran, Narran River), Kurnai, and many others (see file 0.doc)
Queensland: Mungkan (Wikmunkan), Wiknatara, Bloomfield River, Cape Bedford, Cape Grafton, Kokowara (Koko-Warra), Koko-yalunyu (Kokokulunggur), Bunya Bunya, Waka-Waka (Wakawaka), Kabikabi, Chepara
Southern Australia: Dieri, Urabunna (Arabana), Flinderce Mountains, Kujani, Andyamatana (Andjamatana, Wailpi)
Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Balahi; Lambadi (Banjara)
Bhils (incl Barela-Bhilala), Pardhi, Kokna, Parwa
Wales
Portuguese
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
Sicily
Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
French (northern France)
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
Poles
Hungarians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Ancient Greece
Finns
Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
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)
Highland Tajik
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Central Yupik
Tahltan
Lenape (Delaware)
Malecite, Passamaquoddy
Micmac
Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot
Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
Ottawa
Naskapi
Menominee
Huron (incl Wyandot)
Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Winnebago
Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
Cheyenne
Teton (incl Oglala)
Osage
Omaha, Ponca
Pawnee
Gros Ventre
Shuswap
Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
Shasta; Chimariko
Karok
Hupa, Chilula
Yurok
Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
Catawba, Tutelo
Cherokee
Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto
Wappo
Pomo
Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov
Atsugewi
Achomavi
Chumash
Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
Northern Shoshone
Western Shoshone, Gosiute
Ute
Cahuilla, Cupeño
Hopi
Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
Yucatec, Itza; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography of Yucatan
Lacandon
Paya (Pech), Sumu, Misquito
Bari
Yupa (Yukpa)
Guajiro
Panare (Eñape)
Wapishana (incl Ataroi); Mapidian; Taruma
Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje
Chayahuita
Yagua
Trumai
Caraja
Tapirape
Sanapana, Lengua (incl Angaite)
Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon
Galicians
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
Upper Brittany
Upper Brittany
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f45a1
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
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k38f3
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
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b42a
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif:
l75
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif:
g30
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif:
k104
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif:
f101
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
b42o1
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
m61a3
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
f57
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif:
h52a
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 10 Weight: 700
Motif:
c32
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
h52b
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif:
l15g1
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
m29q
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif:
h37b
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif:
k48a
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 11 Weight: 636
Motif:
m66a
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif:
l123
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600