Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
I60 — The Milky Way – the heavenly seam.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe Milky Way - a seam, a crack between the two halves of the sky.
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.
I60 has 1 other sub-motifs
RelatedI60. The Milky Way - a seam, a crack between the two halves of the sky.
I60a. The Milky Way – a stripe associated with a longitudinal stripe on an animal's body.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| N13 | 98.02% | A girl, a girl is associated with scissors (and a boy, a boy with a knife or an ax). |
| J52B | 97.93% | A girl, young woman or children associated with hares (rabbits) are heroes-victors or successful tricksters. |
| L37B2 | 97.42% | From the conversation of snakes or crows, a person learns the cause of another's illness: a snake has crawled inside him. The person expels the snake and the sick person recovers. |
| E9E | 97.04% | An animal or object received by a young man from supernatural beings as a reward for his kindness, upon the young man's return home (to earth), turns into a girl. |
| B1E | 96.68% | The protagonist of the narrative is one of many (seven or more) brothers with whom he is in conflict, but who are not his irreconcilable enemies. |
| I82H | 94.92% | The name of Venus sounds like Cholpan, Cholbon, Tsolmon, etc. (čol- 'to sparkle, to shine' [Vámbéri 1879: 155]). |
| C6I | 94.73% | A zoomorphic character returns from the underworld covered in mud. He shakes himself off, or the mud is scraped off him, and earth emerges from it. |
| B1C | 94.67% | Two creators agree that the older of them (the main creator) will be the one whose object is in a certain state (usually: whose tree or flower grows or blooms earlier). While one was asleep or absent, the other switched the objects and deceitfully achieved primacy. |
| M78A | 94.25% | A tiny little man emerges from the severed tail of a goat or sheep. |
| L95 | 94.00% | A person (usually a child or teenager) returns to a previous location for a forgotten item (often a toy) and finds a demon there, from which they struggle to escape. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
13 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 13 traditions: Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani), Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China, Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia, Nogai, Kalmyk, Anatolia Turks, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots), Mongols (Khalkha), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori, China
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