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Motif
Name_eng:
Stars are nails
Description:
Stars are nails in the firmament or pegs, or stars are nailed to the sky
Name_rus:
Звезды – гвозди
Description_rus:
Звезды есть вбитые в небо гвозди, колья, либо звезды прибиты гвоздями
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.
Motif analysis result tradition count all:
11
ATU ID:
Stith Thompson ID:
Linked traditions:
Areal ID
Tradition
10.2.3.4
Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
10.2.4.1
Koreans; Goguryeo
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
3.3.5.6
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.4.1.1
Ancient Greece
4.1.3.1
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)
4.2.3.3
Vepsians
4.2.4.2
Estonians
4.3.3.1
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.1.5.3
Kumyk, Terekemen
6.1.1.10
Tribal groups and castes that speak Aryan languages: Dhoba (Dhobi), Halba (Halbi, Pentia), Bhunjia, Lohar (Luhar, Luhara), Kahar, Kamar (Paharia)
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
m152f
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
i4d1
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif:
b32a
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif:
b125a
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif:
m39a3b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif:
b119
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
c32
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
d4b
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif:
k9a
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
f100b
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
k73b2
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
a8
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
b122
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif:
l15g1
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
n25
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
e9i5
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif:
m39a2a
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 10 Weight: 300
Motif:
m179b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 11 Weight: 273
Motif:
e38c
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250