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I93 - The Milky Way – the backbone of the sky.
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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 Milky Way – the backbone, support, pillar of the sky or world.Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations
I93 has 1 other sub-motifsI93. The Milky Way – the backbone, support, pillar of the sky or world. I93A. The Milky Way is the tail of a creature that is being pulled by its tail. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I93's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K8C4 | 98.72% | A small animal (bird, mouse, porcupine, fox) or (rarely) a tiny human being allows itself to be swallowed by a large ungulate (elk, deer, bison, tapir) in order to rip open its belly (and eat it). |
| L97 | 97.65% | Seeing a character who is unable to move (nailed to the ground, his lower body rooted to the ground, petrified, completely absent), the hero himself manages to avoid a similar fate. |
| K8C3 | 97.45% | One (zoomorphic) character refuses to use any part of another's body except the one he uses to kill him. |
| J5 | 97.15% | The role of the victim is played by two or more brothers (friends). See motif J4. |
| J40B | 97.15% | After the hero comes back after a long absence and finds his parents enslaved, he tells them to demonstrate openly a lack of respect to their masters and punishes those who were cruel with them |
| F65C | 97.13% | A man pretends to be dead (in order to marry his daughter or to be able to eat the meat of hunted animals alone). One of his younger children recognises their (adoptive) father or notices that the supposed dead man is alive (he runs away from the funeral pyre, laughs, etc.). |
| M42C | 97.03% | Falling off a cliff and breaking his leg, the character eats his bone marrow. |
| A32B1 | 97.00% | A woman sits (jumps) on the face (back) of the Moon Man and is now visible in the silhouette of the moon spots. |
| D4M | 96.90% | The thief comes to the owners of fire or light. They feast or dance. He joins them and steals their valuables when the moment is right. See motif D4A. |
| J53C | 96.69% | Two women live together, both have children. One of them leaves the house with the other, kills her and (later) eats her. The children of the murdered woman escape. See motif J52. |
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This motif has been recorded in 14 traditions: Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia, Tuareg, Bushmen (all groups), Forest Nenets, Nganasans, Potawatomi, Kiowa, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Chumash, Kawaiisu, Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Chemehuevi, Luiseño, Juaneño