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i98a
Motif
Motif code:
i98a
Name_eng:
The Pleiades are a hen with its chickens
Description:
The Pleiades are a brooding hen, hen with its chickens, chickens
Name_rus:
Плеяды – курица с цыплятами
Description_rus:
Плеяды – курица, наседка с цыплятами, цыплята
Motif type:
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group:
02 Moon spots, stars, constellations
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:
59
ATU ID:
Stith Thompson ID:
Linked traditions:
Shilluk, Anuak
Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)
Cross-River: Efik, Ibibio, Anaang (Anang), Ikom, Abua
Hausa
Igbo (Ibo); Isoko, Urhobo
Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku
Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
Dan (=Gio), Guro (=Kweni, incl Gagu, Neio), Toura, Mano, Ngere, Beng, Guro
Ewe
Tuareg
Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
Dogon
Akan, Ashanti, Akwapim; Ga (Accra), Kra, Twi (Chwi, Chi)
Bia: Anyi, Agni, Baule, Nsema
Fula (=Fulbe, Fulani, Pular)
Mandjak, Mankanya, Pepel, Balant, Felupe, Diola (Jola)
Temne (Timne)
Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kédang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor)
Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
Bidayuh (incl. Maloh), Iban (Sea Dayak), Sakarram; Brunei
Thai of Vietnam, Tai Lue, Khao (Kho, Tai Don, White Tai), Tai Dam (Black Tai), Nung; Buyi; Shui
Thai of Thailand
Bahnar, Bana, Sedang, Por
Khmer
Khasi
Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori
England
Basques
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
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
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Czech
Slovakians
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Danes
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
Highland Tajik
Gagauz
Mende, Loma, Gbunde (Gbandi, Bandi)
Tonga (Tsonga; incl, Soli, Sala, Lenje)
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
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)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
b33d1
Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 13 Weight: 846
Motif:
l33g
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif:
m62d
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif:
m39g2
Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 15 Weight: 800
Motif:
b2g
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif:
k38b3c
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
k80a5
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif:
i7b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
n19
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
m56c
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
i132b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
i82f
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 11 Weight: 727
Motif:
b124
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif:
k107e
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif:
l121a
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif:
m56d
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif:
b87b
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 10 Weight: 700
Motif:
h24d
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 13 Weight: 692
Motif:
i82g
Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 18 Weight: 667