Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

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Ethnicities and habitats

A32C. A dog and a man.

.16.22.-.24. (.26.) .29/35.37.38.40.41.43.45.46.

Human and dog figures are visible (or should have been seen) on the lunar disk.

Welsh [man with brushwood on his back and dog], British [man, tree, dog], Germans (Bavaria), Tyams [man with tree and dog], Muslim Bengalis [woman with dog], tetum [man, dog, deer, banyan, bamboo], (fox [dog, owner fell]), Nenets [man, dog], Nganasans [half man (barusi) and dog], Nanai [girl and dog], Udege [girl and dog], nivhi [woman with dog], Ainu (Sakhalin) [girl with dog], copper [man with dog], West Greenland [man with dog], chipewayan [man with dog], quileut [boy with dog], seneca [old woman with dog], mohawks [old woman with cat], wichita [woman with dog].

Western Europe. The Welsh [a man went for firewood on Sunday; in punishment, God placed him on the moon with a bunch of brushwood behind his back; some say a dog is visible at his feet]: Trevelyan 1909:39; British [All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog ("All I have to say is this Just explain to you that the lantern is the moon and I am the man on the moon; this thorn bush is my thorns and this dog is my dog"; trans. T.L. Shchepkina-Kupernik, 1934)]: William Sheakspeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1595), Act 5, Scene 1; Germans (Bavaria: Upper Palatinate) [an old woman weaves a basket on the moon and the dog is waiting nearby; seeing that the work is nearing its end, the dog tears up the basket; if the old woman finishes it, the world will end]: Schönwerth 1858, No. 6:70.

Burma - Indochina. Tyams [working in the forest, people leave the shepherd to guard the buffaloes; he kills the snake; sees the mother of the snake revive her son with the bark of a tree; the young man takes a supply of the same bark; revives the dead girl gets her as a wife; plants that tree, warns his wife not to relieve himself, otherwise the tree will fly to heaven; she broke the ban; the husband managed to grab the roots, flew to the moon with a tree and a black one dog]: Landes 1887, No. 15:105-107.

South Asia. Muslim Bengalis (Sylhet) [a woman peels corn on the moon, a dog next to her]: Bhattacharya 1930:118.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Tetum (Lidak) [man, dog, deer, banyan tree, bamboo seen on the moon]: Vroklage 1962:137

(Wed. China - Korea. Lisa [Asu's husband is ill, almost paralyzed; to prevent him from being killed by tax collectors, Asu takes him to the mountains, leaving him food; he has run out of food; he sees a snake reaching for him, killed it; another snake revived the first one with leaf juice; the man rubbed himself with this juice, recovered; found his wife sick, cured her too; becomes a famous healer; forbids his wife to open the chest with leaves; she opened, rays the suns fell on the leaves, ate half, so the sun is immortal; the moon stole the other half in the evening; the husband made a ladder out of hemp, climbed to the moon; told Asa to wet the end of the stairs with water; almost climbed, his dog had already jumped on the moon; Asu forgot to pour cold water on the stairs at noon, poured cold water in the evening, not warm water; she broke off, her husband fell and crashed; the dog remained on the moon when it gnawed at it, there are eclipses]: Bystrov et al. 1962:226-231).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays [there are two dogs and a boy on the moon; the boy keeps them apart, otherwise they will fight]: Pröhle 1909, No. 7a: 266 (retelling in Dzhurtubayev 1991:79; 2007:372).

Western Siberia. The Nenets [sometimes you can see a man on the moon, sometimes a dog; Num lowered them to the ground together; the dog forgot its name and N. told it to be a dog]: Golovnev 1995:399; 2004:100; nganasans: Gracheva 1983:44 [half a man and a dog are on the moon], 59 [a pendant for a shaman's costume (Figure 10, a pendant from the back of a shaman's park); to a metal disk depicting the moon, metal images of a man and a dog are attached; according to information received, they are half and depict a barusi and his dog].

Amur - Sakhalin. The Nanais [Soldigá widows, his daughter Elgá, married Pýning; the tiger killed S., E. killed the tiger; her stepmother tells her 1) to sew a robe (the herbs themselves formed a pattern); 2) a robe sewn reindeer hair (the toy deer became real, did the job); 3) bring Grandma P.'s needle from a distant camp and return by morning; the toy dogs brought the sledge with E. to her grandmother, she gave a needle, giving it away, holding it to her; the needle sewed P.'s fingers; she threw E.'s toys into the fire; the dog jumped out, told her to run; they went up along the lunar path to the moon, the path fell under P., E. finished it off with a spear , she turned into an owl; E. with a dog is visible on the moon]: Nagishkin 1975:129-138; the Udege people [the lunar eclipse is associated with the dog Anduli; at the full moon, the girl and her dog are visible on the sun's disc , which devours the moon; if you make a noise, the dog, frightened, will let go of the moon (Archive of the Society for the Study of the Amur Territory. V.K. Arseniev Foundation. F. 14. Op. 1. D. 27. L. 233)]: Samar 2008:273; Nivhi: Kreinovich 1930 [on the moon, you can see a woman carrying water in buckets on a rocker arm; with her a dog eating the moon, causing eclipses]: 53; Isis 1998 (southern Sakhalin) [the woman carried buckets on her rocker arm, traveled to the moon with her dog]: 24; Pevnov 2010, No. 9 [she was pushed around as an orphan girl; on the night of December, the hostess poured water and sent the orphan to fetch water with her the puppy went down; the moon came down, the girl jumped at her with a rocker arm and buckets and a dog, now they can be seen there]: 134-136.

Japan. Ainu (Sakhalin) [the girl went to get water; laments that the Moon is doing nothing, but she has to work; she ascended to the moon with her dog following her; they can be seen there]: Isis 1998:24 .

The Arctic. Copper [a man with a dog is visible on the moon disk]: Rasmussen 1932:23; West Greenland [Sun and Month are sister and brother; the story of a brother running after his sister and both have risen to heaven; now the spot at the top right of the lunar disk is identified with the Month itself, on the left with his dog, and at the bottom with the Ripper trying to make people laugh and then snatch them out intestines; stains used to be considered traces of soot that the sister used to smear her brother's face]: Birket-Smith 1924:437-438.

Subarctic. Chipewayan: Birket-Smith 1930 [a man's wife turns into a beaver; returning to his plague, he finds snowshoes ready; finds a partridge, she turns into a woman; warns her not leave fingerprints on the fat of beavers; when he enters and removes the grease from one leg, he notices prints on fat; runs out of the house, rises to the moon; he can be seen there with his dog and greed only on one leg]: 88-89; Lowie 1912 [the beaver hunter has accumulated a lot of beaver fat, does not tell others to touch it; taking off his greaves, he saw one man put his finger in the fat; angry, he went up to the moon; seen there with his greaves down and a dog sitting on his lap]: 184.

The coast is the Plateau. Quileut [a girl smears a lover who comes at night with resin; recognizes her brother in the morning; leaves people with him; a boy born asks why father and mother are similar; they burn themselves alive; their The slave takes the boy to his grandparents; the grandfather gives him a bag of dental shells (Haliotis kamchatcana) and a dog, sends him to the moon; he is still visible there]: Andrade 1931, No. 56:165-171.

Northeast. Iroquois {European borrowing is possible} [the old woman was carried to the moon because she could not predict when the world would end; she can be seen weaving a strap on the moon to wear behind her back cargo; once a month she gets up to prevent the porridge that is being cooked; at this time, the cat nearby breaks the weave; until the end of time, the old woman will not be able to finish her work]: Smith 1883:81; seneca [on the moon a woman sits, embroidering a porcupine with needles; a pot on fire next to her; whenever she gets up to prevent the brew, the dog sitting next to her dissolves her handicrafts; if she finishes embroidering, the world the end will come]: Curtin 2001:508.

Plains. Wichita [brother promises to grant all the wishes of her beloved sister; another woman asks her to ask her brother to marry her; sister asks, but brother refuses, saying he is still young; then sister She goes to the moon; she can be seen on one half of the moon, her basket on the other half, her dog in the middle; she is the moon, "Bright Sparkling Woman"]: Curtis 1976 (19): 101.