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The spatial distribution of folklore-mythological motifs is shown to correlate
rather tightly with the distribution of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and
Y-chromosome (NRY) haplogroups. The analysis of spatial distribution of folklore-
mythological motifs confirms earlier findings of geneticists which identified
South Siberia as the Old World homeland o...
The aim of this paper is to reveal patterns of areal spread of folklore motifs in Eurasia and to understand their rationale. The distribution of 615 motifs related to adventures and tricks according to 339 Old World traditions was statistically processed using factor analysis. Tendencies in the areal spread of motifs are interpreted as proxies for...
A story that described the creation of man became known to at least some inhabitants of the Eurasian Steppe zone not later than the early II millennia B.C. Not a fragment of it survived across most of this area, and our reconstruction is based on the evidence from the areas to the north and to the south of the Steppe Belt. The texts in question sha...
Statistical processing of more than 1200 folklore and mythological motifs selected from about 35,000 texts suggests the existence of major dichotomy between Indo-Pacific and Continental Eurasian sets of motifs (the status of Western European data is still unclear). A series of motifs which explain the origin of death is widespread across Indo-Pacif...
