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B45 - The Wedding of Winter and Summer, A1153.
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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 arrival of warm (bright, abundant) or cold (hungry, dark) times is associated with the marriage of a certain character who brings cold, warmth, abundance, etc.Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 7, Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
B45 has 2 other sub-motifsB45. The arrival of warm (bright, abundant) or cold (hungry, dark) times is associated with the marriage of a certain character who brings cold, warmth, abundance, etc. B45A. The alternation of seasons and/or differences between the climates of different localities are explained by the struggle between characters associated with warmth and those associated with cold. See motif B45. B45b. The bull or cow is the embodiment of cold, the reason why winter is cold. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of B45's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| C38 | 96.97% | Characters from the time of creation say that real people will appear soon, so we must do this and that. |
| I118 | 96.27% | A female spider (less commonly, an old spider) protects the hero or heroine, who live with her, and the hero marries her daughter. (Texts in which the spider only lifts the hero up to the sky or lowers him to the ground are not included; see motif I117). |
| F65C | 95.87% | 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.). |
| K44 | 94.18% | The character kidnaps the boy or hides him from his mother or father, pretending to be his mother or father. The kidnapped boy learns the truth and leaves the kidnapper. |
| B42G | 91.37% | The Big Dipper (as a whole or only the dipper) is identified with an animal (animals) pursued by hunters / attacked by other characters. |
| B42L | 89.35% | The stars of the handle of the Big Dipper are hunters, the dipper itself is a bear, an elk or a meat storehouse where the bear climbs. |
| J66 | 89.35% | The character cuts or bites through bowstrings and other straps in advance, punctures boats, preventing opponents from fighting or pursuing him. |
| J38 | 89.26% | A mighty bird sinks its claws into a huge aquatic creature. The claws get stuck in its body. The bird is dragged underwater or struggles to free itself. |
| I93 | 89.22% | The Milky Way – the backbone, support, pillar of the sky or world. |
| J53C | 89.19% | 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 18 traditions: Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Forest Nenets, Nenets, Nganasans, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Kerek, Inland Tlingit, Tsimshian, Lenape (Delaware), Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Teton (incl Oglala), Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Klamath, Modoc, Cherokee, Hopi, Selknam, Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet