Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b79	Cosmic egg	From the primeval egg, eggs, or egg-like ball emerge the earth, the sky, sky bodies, different animals (all or part of the items of this list)
b79a	A bird laid an egg	In the beginning of time a bird flies, lays an egg or eggs, different objects and creatures emerge from them or a bird drops some solid substance on the waters and the dry land or an island appear
c19	Acquisition of the sun	The Sun (the day light) that was absent, stolen or hidden appears (again)
c23	Tree eclipses sky-light	Growth and falling of giant tree defines the condition of the sky with luminaries on it (tree eclipses the light of the sun, can destroy the sky, tears the sun off the sky, etc.)
h7	The personified Death	Death (also Old Age, Disease, etc.) is a particular person not identical with the Master of the Dead. He kills people usually carrying away their souls
i104	Stars are fragments	Stars are fragments of a bigger luminary (usually the Moon); or stars, the sun and the moon are formed from one and the same primeval person or creature
i110	Night sky agriculturalists	Constellation are interpreted as agricultural tools or people occupied with agricultural works (mostly ploughing and haymaking)
i110b	Orion is mowers	(Belt of) Orion is (three) mowers or agricultural tools related to mowing and harvesting
i130	The sky net	One of costellations is a hunting or fishing net, trap, snare
i87aa	The big bull	Huge bull (rare: horse) is described: its head is in one field, its tail in another; a bathhouse on its tale, a lake on its back; person who is near the head walks a long time till he meets another neat the tail; etc. Usually the bull is killed and eaten (by people in Baltic Finnish traditions and in Russian bylina from Olonets area; by bird in most of southern traditions)
k27 (motif is not in the correlation table)	Competitions and difficult tasks	Person is suggested to fulfill tasks that are mortally dangerous or cannot be fulfilled without supernatural helpers or capacities. The person fulfills the tasks and remains alive. A contest between persons has form of a competition or game in which the loser is deprived of his status or life
k27c	Ordeal: knives and thorns	An ordeal: to remain alive after contact with sharp points or blades
k27f1	To build a bridge	Person builds a bridge (usually of gold etc.) during a very short time
k29a	Surviving in a fire	Hero demonstrates his supernatural abilities remaining alive in a burning hot chamber, stove, bonfire, among burning vegetation
k94	Bird of luck (eaten up head)	Person eats magic bird, fish, small animal, or fruit and becomes prosperous and powerful
l72	The obstacle flight	Running away from a dangerous being, person throws small objects behind him or her which turn into mighty obstacles on the way of the pursuer
l72a	Comb becomes a thicket	Running away from a dangerous being, person throws a comb (a brush) that turns into mighty obstacle (usually a thicket) on the way of the pursuer. (In South America the motif is probably of European origin)
m114	Rope of sand	Person is suggested to twist (or he really twists) a rope or make other object of sand, ash, smoke, etc.
m83	Who is older?	Somebody claims that he has been born before present world came into being. His opponent claims the same, and they argue who of them is the older

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 10 Tradition: Ingrians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Finns
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Estonians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Hungarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Mordvins
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Lithuanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Byelarusians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Poles

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Ingrians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Greeks (modern)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Latvians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Kazakh
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Finns
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Mongols (Khalkha)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Estonians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Bulgarians