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i107
Motif
Motif code:
i107
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:
Tribal groups and castes that speak Aryan languages: Dhoba (Dhobi), Halba (Halbi, Pentia), Bhunjia, Lohar (Luhar, Luhara), Kahar, Kamar (Paharia)
Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
Koreans; Goguryeo
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
Ancient Greece
Estonians
Vepsians
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)
Kumyk, Terekemen
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
m152f
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
b32a
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif:
i4d1
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:
k73b2
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
e9i5
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif:
d4b
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif:
l15g1
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
k9a
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
b122
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif:
n25
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
b119
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
f100b
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
c32
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
a8
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif:
m39a2a
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 10 Weight: 300
Motif:
m179b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 11 Weight: 273
Motif:
n26
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250