Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
I60A — Milky Way – a stripe on the belly.
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe Milky Way – a stripe associated with a longitudinal stripe on an animal's body.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| M30A | 97.42% | The character flying over the village falls, is tied up, and defecated on him. |
| B27A | 96.61% | The characters ponder what they should transform into and decide to become thunder and/or lightning. |
| L33B | 96.39% | The character challenges someone who, at first glance, is unable to move (a stump, a boulder, fire) to race or roll over it. The challenged party sets off, crushes or burns the character, or runs away with their property. |
| E15B | 94.87% | Bird women sew the birch bark covering of the hero's boat. See motif E15. |
| E9AA | 94.87% | A man searches for a missing woman, who is a fox by nature, and comes to the burrow where she has hidden. Various bird or animal women come out of the burrow and offer themselves in place of the fox. Then they let him inside. |
| F51C | 94.87% | Upon learning that her unknown lover is her own brother, the girl shows him her genitals or bare breasts, offering him what he so desired. After that, she runs away, and he rushes after her. |
| H37A | 94.87% | A character gives another the ability to easily light a fire. The latter uses it unnecessarily and loses it. |
| K25A3 | 94.87% | The magical bird-wife flies away when she makes herself new feather clothing from feathers collected on the ground. |
| K8B | 94.87% | A raven finds itself in the belly of a whale; the woman inside asks it not to touch a certain organ of the whale (usually the heart) or a burning lamp. The raven breaks the prohibition, the woman disappears, and the whale dies. |
| M123A | 94.87% | A raven marries or tries to marry, pretending to be a chief and a handsome man. One day, someone notices that he is eating carrion. Usually, everyone is forced to take off their moccasins, and they see that the raven has a three-toed paw. The raven is banished in disgrace or hastens to leave on his own. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
3 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 3 traditions: Aleuts, Labrador Inuit (Koksoagmiut), Greenland
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