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Motif
Name_eng:
The dog star
Description:
Sirius is associated with a dog or a wolf
Name_rus:
Собачья звезда
Description_rus:
Сириус ассоциируется с собакой или волком
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)
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:
32
ATU ID:
Stith Thompson ID:
Linked traditions:
Areal ID
Tradition
1.3.5.11
Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
10.2.1.1
Early Chinese written sources
11.2.1.4
Central Yupik
12.1.1.4
Tanana
12.8.4.4
Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa
12.8.6.1
Seri
13.2.1.1
Pawnee
13.3.4.1
Cherokee
15.2.4.1
Trio
3.1.3.3
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.3.1.3
Catalan
3.3.3.2
French (northern France)
3.3.5.3
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
3.4.1.1
Ancient Greece
3.4.1.2
Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
3.5.1.3
Macedonians
3.5.2.5
Slovenians
4.1.1.1
Poles
4.1.1.2
Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.1.1.3
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.2.1.1
Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.2.1.2
Norwegians
4.2.1.4
Swedes
4.2.3.1
Finns
4.2.5.2
Lithuanians
4.3.1.1
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
5.1.5.2
Nogai
5.2.2.1
Armenians
5.4.2.1
Persians
5.6.1.1
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
6.2.1.1
Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
9.3.2.1
Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
c36
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif:
m75b3
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif:
b121
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
c32
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
k9a
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
g25
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif:
k22aa
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif:
k35a2
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
b32a
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif:
m39a4d
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
b104b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif:
b49b
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
i4d1
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif:
c35b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif:
f101
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
j62b1
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
k38f3
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif:
m38c2
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 13 Weight: 462
Motif:
i82f
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 11 Weight: 455