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Motif

Name_eng: 
Spider ferries from one world to another
Description: 

Spider person raises the hero to the sky, helps him or her to return back to earth or otherwise helps to overcome the borderlines between worlds

Name_rus: 
Паук переносит из мира в мир
Description_rus: 
Паук или паучиха поднимает героя или героиню на небо, помогает спуститься на землю, либо иначе помогает преодолеть дорогу, ведущую в иной мир
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
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: 
56
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
1.2.2.7Yao, Makua
1.2.3.2Lozi (Losi, Rotse, Barotse), Lui, Subiya (Subia)
1.2.4.1Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
1.2.4.12Mongo (Mongo-Nkundu), Nkundu, Ngelima, Ngombe, (Ba)Tetela), Pende, Wu(Kusu), (Ba)Mbala (incl Saie, Kwilu)
1.2.4.3Bushoong: (Ba)kuba, Dengese, Ngongo; Yansi
1.2.4.7Luba (Baluba, Luba-Katanga, Shaba), (Ba)Holoholo, Tumbwe, Bena-Piana, Tabwa, Benabena-Mitumba, Zela, Bene-Marungu
1.2.5.4Kerewe, Sukuma, Kwaya, Kumbi, Busiba, Gusii, Suba
10.1.1.3Southern Taiwan: Rukai, Paiwan, Puyuma, Saaroa, Ketangalan
11.1.2.1Chukchi
11.1.3.2Maritime Koryak (Alyutor)
11.2.1.1Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
11.2.2.2North Alaskan Inupiat
12.1.1.4Tanana
12.1.1.6Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
12.1.1.8Athna
12.1.1.9Upper Tanana (Nebesna)
12.2.1.2Tlingit
12.2.2.1Heiltsuk (Bellabella), Oowekeeno
12.3.1.2Chilkotin
12.3.2.1Shuswap
12.3.2.2Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.3.3.2Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane)
12.3.4.3Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
12.3.4.6Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
12.3.5.1Quinault
12.3.5.2Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh)
12.3.6.1Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
12.3.6.2Nez Perce
12.3.7.2Tillamook
12.3.7.7Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa
12.3.7.9Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
12.4.3.4Eastern Swamy Cree
12.6.1.6Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto
12.6.1.7Yuki (Yuki proper, Coastal Yuki, Huchnob)
12.6.2.1Yana
12.6.2.2Achomavi
12.6.3.1Pomo
12.8.1.3Western Keres (Acoma, Laguna)
12.8.2.1Eastern Keres (Cochiti, Sia, San Felipe, Santo Domingo, Santa Ana, Paguate, Seama)
12.8.2.2Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambé; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez)
12.8.3.1Navajo
12.8.3.5Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
12.8.4.4Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa
13.1.3.2Hidatsa
13.1.3.4Arikara
13.2.1.1Pawnee
13.2.2.1Kiowa Apache
13.2.2.2Kiowa
14.3.3.1Guajiro
14.4.2.1Northern Peru: Costa (Spanish speaking communities from Ecuadorian border till Ancash and Huanuco departments included; Moche pre-Columbian iconography; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries)
15.2.3.6Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
15.2.3.8Macuxi
15.2.3.9Wapishana (incl Ataroi); Mapidian; Taruma
7.1.6.4Northern Vanuatu: Banks Islands (incl Mota, Mota Lava, Gaua, Santa Maria), Torres Islands
9.3.2.3Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
9.3.3.1Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: d1a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: k5 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif: i118 Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 17 Weight: 706
Motif: l26a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: b91 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: a5a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: d4i Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 10 Weight: 600
Motif: m61a2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: k32k Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: j59d Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: j12k Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif: l33d Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: e15b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: k27t Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 14 Weight: 571
Motif: m29y Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: l1f Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545
Motif: a32b1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 12 Weight: 500
Motif: b107 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: l119 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500