Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b3a	Primeval waters	Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later
b3b	Earth grows big	Original earth was small and later increased in size or the fertile soil grew from a small amount of original substance
b42s	Hit with a projectile	Ursa major or Polaris are identified with a middle size animal (ermine, fisher, woodchuck) or with a basically anthropomorphic person (with some animal characteristics) hit with a dart or an arrow
b87	Alcor	Alcor (a weak star near the second star of the handle of the Big Dipper) is selected as a particular sky object
c5a	Bird-scouts	Birds or humans later changed to birds are sent to explore the earth (is it dry, are any survivals, to investigate why smoke rises to the sky, etc.) or to bring some soil to make the land that would be good for living
c6	Valuables brought from the lower world	Persons or animals dive or otherwise decend to the lower world to get a desired object and to bring it to earth (besides episodes in the fairytales, cf. motif k27x9)
c6c	The diver is a bird	An aquatic bird dives and brings the desired object from the bottom
c6c4	The duck is successful diver	The duck (or an aquatic bird similar to the duck) dives and brings a piece of earth that is transformed into the dry land (it is the only or the only successful diver)
c6d	The aquisition of the earth from the lower world	The dry land (the earth) grows from a small amount of solid substance (sand, clay, dirt and the like) brought from the lower world (usually from the bottom of the ocean)
d4c	Acquisition of summer	Warm season is obtained from its original owners
d4l	Fire from the sky	First fire is sent to earth from the sky or the ancestors ascend to the sky and bring from there fire or warmth
d8	Fire and a predator animal	Fire or summer is stolen from a big predator: a lion (in Africa), a tiger (in Asia), a bear (in Siberia and North America) or a jaguar (in South America)
f9	A dangerous woman	For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man
f9e	Mice in vagina	There are small mammals with sharp teeth in woman's genitals.
h37	Magic device lost by a failure	Magic object, device that makes hunting or fishing easy gets into possession of a person who is unable to operate it or abuses it. The device kills or injures the failure himself, other people and/or disappears
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
i1	The thunderbirds	Creatures that produce rain and/or thunderstorms are birds or anthropomorphic beings with wings; or (rare) some or all birds are connected with thunder, lightning or rain though Thunder is not a bird
i133	Whole-sky constellation	Sideral objects in different parts of the sky are identified with one and the same humanoid figure (parts of its body, decoratioons, etc.).
i6	Weather birds	A man meets a giant bird that brings with it clouds, rain, hail, thunderstorm, etc.
i6a	Male and female birds: different kinds of precipitation	The male and the female birds bring with them different kinds of precipitations (e.g. the male comes with a hail, the female with a rain). Or (Buryats of Mongolia) one and the same bird brings different kinds of precipitations depending on is it angry or not.
i85c	Containers with weather	A person rises to the sky and finds there containers with different (two or more) types of precipitations, atmospheric phenomena, seasons and/or celestial bodies
i85c1	The rain stored in the sky	In the sky there is a special container (vessel, skin, box, etc.) for storing the rain
l65	Demonic baby	A baby or small child proves to be a demon, devours or injures people
l85	One-sided people	One-sided people have one leg and/or also one arm, one half of a head, etc. The second leg is not cut or burned off, preserved as a stump but is absent completely
m81b	Not to climb after an arrow stuck in a tree	Despite a warning not to do so, person climbs in a tree to get his arrow that was stuck and gets into trouble (Cf. Tree, from which an arrow is supposed to be fetched, grows up high and thus carries the arrow’s owner into the sky, Boas 2002: 662)

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Dogrib, Slavey
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kaska
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tagish
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Navajo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Crow
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Upper Tanana (Nebesna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Gros Ventre
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Han

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Carrier
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tlingit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Khakas
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Blackfoot
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Northern Selkups