Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

I140. A jaguar and a deer in the sky (.66.68.)

In

the night sky, you can see figures of a deer and a jaguar; these images are connected in a plot.

Montagna - Jurua. Conibo [The Great Magellanic Cloud is a jaguar that holds a deer in its claws; at the beginning of the world, a jaguar chased a deer that ran along the road of life, grabbed it; this was the first victory of death over life]: Díaz Castañeda 1923:406.

Southern Amazon. Camayura [see motif J12; the Sun and Month brothers avenge the death of a mother killed by a Jaguariha mother-in-law; the Jaguar father and the deer were moved to the Milky Way, this is α and β Centauri]: Seki 2008, No. 2 : 197 (full text p. 151-187)

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