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A17 - Midday rest of the sun.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Having travelled halfway across the sky or the underworld, the Sun stops to rest.Berezkin category: The Sun and Moon
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 1, Sun and Moon
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| I9 | 93.86% | Each (or at least three) of the four cardinal directions (as well as the zenith and nadir) and/or the objects located there have their own colour. Abbreviations: E: east, S: south, W: west, N: north. (Cf. Podosinov 2000: 143-147). |
| I65 | 92.15% | The Milky Way is a path to another world, followed by the souls of the dead and/or shamans, or it is the path of a funeral procession. |
| H12 | 91.86% | The living visit the afterlife to bring back the dead (except for texts about a shaman bringing back the soul of a sick person), or, without a specific goal, go there accompanied by or following in the footsteps of the recently deceased. |
| I75 | 91.06% | Before the emergence of the present world or present humans, there were others (at least two worlds or races). |
| I28 | 90.81% | Wild or domestic animals live inside a mountain, in a cave or in the underground world, or once came out of there into our world; often animals take on human form underground and have an owner. See motif H18. |
| G2 | 90.70% | A character embodying fertility and life, who first disappears and then (periodically) returns. |
| K22 | 90.33% | The inhabitants of a distant land, who differ from (ordinary) people, occasionally fight off enemies of a non-human nature who attack them. |
| E23 | 89.67% | A handful of fleas or lice must be thrown at the character; only this will make him or her move, which is necessary for revival or for the existence of people. |
| I13A | 89.37% | A huge aquatic or celestial serpent, dragon, or snake-like creature with horns on its head. |
| C10 | 89.36% | During the flood, some birds or animals escape to a mountain, a tree, a boat, or by clinging to the sky; their tails or other parts of their bodies remain in the water and as a result acquire their current colour or shape. Cf. A2211.7 ("During the flood, birds cling to the sky; their tails acquire their current colour"). |
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This motif has been recorded in 35 traditions: Chagga (Jagga; incl Wasu), Pare, Digo, Arnhem Land: Enindhilyagwa (Groote Eilandt), KuTiwi, Yulengor, Mara, Oenpelli, Murngin, Roper River, Maung, Murinbata, Murngin (Duwal), Millingimbi, Goulburn Island, Ngulugwongga, Yirrkalla, Voctoria River Downs, Alawa, Anu, Kunwinjku, Gilbert Islands, Nauru, Banaba (Ocean island), Batak (Toba, Dairi), Early Chinese written sources, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Western Ukrainians, Ingush, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Tsimshian, Ottawa, Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Tuscarora, Mandan, Klamath, Modoc, Cherokee, Yuki (Yuki proper, Coastal Yuki, Huchnob), Chumash, Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambe; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez), Huichol, Pame, Jonaz (Chichimeca-Jonaz), Mazahua, Otomi, Tzotzil, Lacandon, Kogi (Cagaba), Sanha, Creols of Aritama Valley, Letuama, Tanimuca, Ufaina, Yahuna, Witoto, Ocaina, Juruna, Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo, Chechens, Kayapa