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I85B - The North Star – Man.
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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 North Star – one person.Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations
I85 has 5 other sub-motifsI85. Polar Star – stake, nail, hitching post, etc. I85a. Animals walk around the North Star, or the movement of the stars is compared to the movement of animals around a pole. See motif I85. I85a1. The North Star – a hole leading to the upper world. I85b. The North Star – one person. I85c. The character goes up to the sky and finds vessels containing various (two or more) types of precipitation, weather phenomena, seasons and/or celestial bodies. I85c1. In the sky there is a vessel, a box or an indescribable container for storing rain (rain clouds). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I85's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K27Z | 94.26% | A character gains power over another by winning a game of chance or an intellectual game (not a sporting competition). The motif includes all texts with motif K27z4. |
| K27M | 89.48% | Task: to kill and bring an animal of a certain (often unusual) colour or shape. See motif K27. |
| I48A | 87.21% | The hero's adversary descends into the underworld. |
| B42P | 87.05% | The Big Dipper is identified with a bear. |
| I64A | 86.93% | Two different hoofed animals race across the sky. Usually, the Milky Way is the dusty trail they leave behind. |
| K23 | 86.65% | Birds attack inhabitants of another world or a person who has entered another world. See motif K22. |
| B42H | 86.57% | Orion's Belt – game, another star or group of stars within or outside Orion – hunter. |
| K27S | 86.53% | Competition: running, racing. See motif K27. |
| M49 | 85.66% | The hero meets a character from the enemy camp and, taking on his form, penetrates enemies. Usually, the hero kills the person he meets and puts on his skin. |
| J17 | 85.53% | Instead of lice in the character's hair, there are other creatures, or he pretends that such creatures live in his hair. |
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This motif has been recorded in 23 traditions: Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai, Geez, Tigrai, Tigre, Tuareg, Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples, Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari), Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces), Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji, Ossetians, Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Mongols (Khalkha), Khakas, Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Ainu, Manchu, Winnebago, Blackfoot, Teton (incl Oglala), Osage, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla), Caddo, Luiseño, Juaneño, Yagua