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I64 - Animal tracks on the Milky Way.
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Summary of Motif
The Milky Way – traces of animals that walked or ran.Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations
I64 has 1 other sub-motifsI64. The Milky Way – traces of animals that walked or ran. I64a. Two different hoofed animals race across the sky. Usually, the Milky Way is the dusty trail they leave behind. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I64's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| H6A | 89.57% | Mortal humans are contrasted with plants, which regularly shed their bark, bloom in spring after winter dormancy, or reproduce vegetatively. See motif H4. |
| H34F | 85.67% | Baskets or clay vessels carried heavy loads themselves. |
| E16 | 85.12% | When rowing, the character first tries to push off with the edge rather than the flat side of the oar. |
| I24 | 85.10% | A snake (or fish) forms a bridge across a river. |
| L39 | 85.07% | By force or deception, the character forces another to climb down from the tree in order to harm him. |
| L9D | 84.67% | The character has sharp nails or knife-like hands, which he uses to kill people. |
| A12 | 83.10% | A creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, winter and summer, night and day, phases of the moon) or occasionally (eclipses, eschatological catastrophes) attack the luminaries or block their light. |
| G8D | 81.80% | A tree (pillar, mountain) is cut down (gnawed, ground down) or prevented from being cut down in order to save the world (or the gods, the king, etc.) from danger. |
| D13D | 81.60% | One character tries to make another character, who is hiding somewhere in the house, laugh in order to find them. |
| H47 | 81.57% | The sky (celestial deity) or Earth is offended by people's behaviour towards them and reacts accordingly. |
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This motif has been recorded in 20 traditions: Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori, Bengali, Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Karachays, Balkar, Ossetians, Georgians, Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Turkmen, Nanai, Blackfoot, Oto, Pawnee, Kiowa, Yokuts, Cahuilla, Cupeño, Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa, Sherente, Kolam