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Motif

Name_eng:

Souls of the dead walk upon the rainbow

Description:

Souls of the dead walk upon the rainbow to the other world; the rainbow bridge is across the river that separates the world of the dead from the world of the living

Name_rus:

Души мертвых идут по радуге

Description_rus:

Души мертвых идут по радуге; через реку, отделяющую мир мертвых от мира живых, перекинут мост-радуга

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

03 Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature

Motif analysis result:

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.1.1.1	Northern Taiwan: Atayal (Tayal; Taruko (Toda, Taokas, Torok, Taroko), Pazeh, Sedeq (Sediq, Seedeq, Sazek), Saisiyat (Saixia); Kawalan
10.1.1.2	Central Taiwan: Bunun (Vonum), La'arua, Tsou, Kanabu, Kanakanabu
10.1.1.3	Southern Taiwan: Rukai, Paiwan, Puyuma, Saaroa, Ketangalan
10.1.1.4	Ami
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
11.2.3.6	Baffin Land Inuit
12.2.1.2	Tlingit
12.6.1.7	Yuki (Yuki proper, Coastal Yuki, Huchnob)
13.3.1.2	Yuchi
15.2.2.1	Warao
15.5.5.2	Tupari, Makurap, Sakirap, Ajuru (Wayoro)
3.3.5.3	Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.4.1	Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
6.4.1.1	Andamanese
6.4.6.2	Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
6.4.8.3	Flores, incl Mangarai (Western Flores), Nage, Keo, Riung, Ngada or Nad'a (Central Flores), Sika (Eastern Flores)