Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
I59B4 — The Milky Way – snow, hoarfrost.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe Milky Way is associated with snow, hoarfrost, and cold.
Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part of group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations.
I59 has 5 other sub-motifs
RelatedI59. The Milky Way is associated with agriculture and scattered objects – straw, chaff, less commonly flour, hay, peas.
I59a. Astral objects or lunar spots are associated with stories about the theft of various items, the value of which is insignificant (straw, firewood, cabbage, etc.).
I59b1. The Milky Way – the road to a distant city, usually with religious significance (Rome, Jerusalem, etc.).
I59b2. The Milky Way – St. James' Way.
I59b3. The Milky Way – the road of salt traders, "Chumak Way".
I59b4. The Milky Way is associated with snow, hoarfrost, and cold.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
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| I20A | 90.95% | Anthropomorphic inhabitants of the upper world – giants. |
| I10A | 87.52% | Individual layers or categories of the sky or clouds differ in colour. |
| B47A | 87.45% | A cow steps on the Pleiades stars lying on the ground, which were demonic creatures. Some of the stars slipped through her split hoof. |
| K27V1 | 87.40% | The character must hit the eye of a needle with an arrow (the eye of a needle). |
| M188A | 87.35% | The character demands to be addressed as a ruler (usually sits on a pile of rubbish and demands to be recognised as king). One of the animals exposes him. |
| M83C | 87.31% | Animals argue who of them gets drunk easier. The last one falls down because he becomes drunk as soon as somebody talks about alcohol |
| M114B2 | 87.12% | A man (an authoritative character) asks a girl (a subordinate) a question about the number of routine actions she has performed (or small items she has), which no one counts. She asks a counter-question about the number of similar actions performed by the questioner. |
| K27Z2D | 86.95% | A conflict arises between a pair of birds (sparrows, pigeons, etc.), in which the male is more likely (and more often clearly) to be at fault. This episode serves as the starting point for a story about the relationships between people of noble origin. |
| M91B | 86.92% | A person manages to fraudulently sell or exchange ash for gold and money. Others are unsuccessfully offering ash for sale. |
| F100B | 86.77% | Thanks to her virtue, a woman is capable of doing what others cannot, but she succeeds only after she remembers a minor transgression she committed in her youth. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
9 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 9 traditions: Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots), Khakas, Shor, Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar, Altaians, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Southern Altai: Teleut, China
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