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I95A - Orion – scales.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Orion (probably always Orion's Belt) is Libra.Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations
I95 has 3 other sub-motifsI95. The Pleiades are a sieve or riddle for sifting agricultural products. See motif I95. I95a. Orion (probably always Orion's Belt) is Libra. I95b. Orion is a yoke. I95c. Orion's belt – staff, stick, three sticks, rod, crutch, etc. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I95's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L37B3 | 99.59% | From the birds' conversation, humans learn that their bodies or secretions have miraculous properties. |
| K90A | 99.31% | Seeing two snakes of contrasting colours fighting, a man tries to strike one, but accidentally hits the other. The relatives of this snake gather to punish him, but upon learning what happened, they reward him. |
| K133 | 99.23% | A man notices that his horse (donkey) looks tired and learns that an animal or demonic creature is riding it. Cf. motif M182a. |
| N7 | 99.06% | fairy-tale text ends with a formula that says that three apples fell from the sky or tree, at least one of which went to the narrator. Or it is said that someone give/should give the narrator one or three apples. |
| K27X4 | 98.61% | The character is told to climb a tree (pole, mountain, etc.) while holding a full open vessel in his hand and not spilling a drop from it. |
| K95A | 98.50% | The lovers are buried in the same grave or nearby. Two plants grow in this place, reaching towards each other, and between them is a thorny bush, embodying the character who separated the lovers. |
| C33A1 | 98.02% | A bird of prey flies to the chained character every day and pecks at his internal organs. The character recovers overnight, and the cycle repeats itself. |
| M100B | 97.91% | One of the characters persuades another to jump from a high cliff or tree, because, allegedly, the other's ancestor did so. The other jumps, crashes or falls into the clutches of the first. |
| M39A5 | 97.91% | fool led the goats to the fruit tree and killed them because they ate the fruit he had thrown. |
| K99A3 | 97.85% | A person sees the sun, moon and stars (all together or some of them) in a dream. At the end of the story, the meaning of the dream becomes clear: these are people who love or worship him (often two wives and a child). |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 9 traditions: Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Georgians, Armenians, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Azeris (Azerbaijanis), 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, Udmurt