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I55B - The Sun Deer.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
The hero chases a deer or elk carrying the sun.Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 1, Sun and Moon
I55 has 2 other sub-motifsI55. Stars – holes in the sky; or holes in the canopy, in the roof of a dwelling, appear to be stars. I55a. Stars – lakes on one of the heavenly tiers. I55b. The hero chases a deer or elk carrying the sun. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I55's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L42C | 99.55% | The character hides from someone stronger, sometimes inside the house, sometimes outside, and the stronger character cannot catch him. |
| N5 | 99.47% | Long trips, hikes, flights, or battles are described using a formula that indicates that characters learn about winter through snow or frost, and summer through warmth, rain, dew or other similar signs. |
| M171B | 99.00% | The character pretends to have brought meat on a shoulder blade and gives it to the hosts to cook. Taking a bare bone without meat out of the pot, he accuses the hosts of stealing the meat. |
| B74 | 98.45% | The eyes of the capercaillie or black grouse turned red from tears. |
| J27B | 97.37% | An infant is thrown into a lake or river and occasionally comes ashore. In addition to his earthly parents, he has a father (and mother) in the underwater world. He does not want to part with them, nor do they want to let him go. |
| M108A | 97.01% | A lonely elderly couple adopts a trickster. He steals from them (and runs away). |
| A32G | 96.95% | On the lunar disc, a character can be seen holding onto a tree or bush and ending up on the moon with them. See motif A32D. |
| M91D | 96.76% | The character deceives others by passing off the dead as alive, directing suspicions of murder to innocent people, etc. When a shaman (less often a shaman) is ready to discover the truth, he succeeds in it kill and avoid being charged with murder. |
| M38D1 | 96.55% | bubble-head, the straw leg, the hair-neck are successively dying, trying to act like ordinary people. |
| B81 | 96.45% | The creator and his opponent consider whether to give the dog the ability to shoot (with a bow or a gun). |
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This motif has been recorded in 2 traditions: Bashkirs, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks