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The riddle about a year. 2019. Logany Alexander
The riddle about a year. 2019. Logany Alexander
Collection
digital audio recordings
Title
The riddle about a year
Annotation
I'll tell you a riddle: there is one cedar in the middle of the forest . It has twelve branches, twenty-eight or thirty-one cones on each branch. Answer: It is one year. A cedar is a year, twelve branches are twelve months, twenty-eight or thirty-one cones are twenty-eight days or thirty-one days in one month.
Etnos
the Samoyedic languages, the Forest Nenets people
Ganr
Folklore, Small genres of folklore, Riddles
Place
Numto settlement, Beloyarsky District, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra
Date