Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
b77b1	Sky touched with a pestle	The sky rose to its present height and/or the direct relations of the sky deity with the people were broken off when the sky or the deity was pushed up, touched or struck with a pestle or with a ladle during the preparation of food
b86	Babylonian tower	To reach the sky (the Sun, Moon, particular star), people build a ladder or tower that consists of separate modules (bricks, logs, sticks, etc.). This construction collapses
f83b	The stuck between trees she animal is rapes	A strong she animal pursues a weaker one male but is stuck netweem trees or stones. The male taunts (usually rapes) her
i87a	Series of creatures ever greater in size	Personage of gigantic dimensions in respect to normal humans and animals proves to be tiny dwarf in respect to another personage
i87b	The quest for a strong adversary	A man seeks a strong adversary to wrestle with and comes across person who is incomparably stronger than he
k49	Dead mother returns to nurse her baby	A woman who is transformed into animal or driven out of the human world returns to her baby to feed and to care for him
m156	The ungrateful one returned to captivity	An (animal) person saves a dangerous animal from a snare or the like. The saved one is going to kill his savior but the third person saves the second (usually tricks the first one to captivity again)
m156a	Objects that give the answers	Dangerous animal seeks to kill a person or other animal who rescued it from captivity. The dangerous animal and its victim agree to ask somebody else if a good deed should be repayed with a bad one. Inanimate objects are among those who answer to this question
m29b	Trickster-fox, jackal or coyote	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is fox, jackal or coyote
m75b1	Marco the Rich	A respected man gets to know that a poor boy must inherit all his property or become a king and tries to prevent it, but the fate cannot be changed

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Armenians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Hausa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Georgians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Somali
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ancient Greece
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Northern Luzon: Apayao, Bontoc, Nabaloi (Ibaloi), Ifugao, Igorot (highland people, not specified), Ilocan, Ilongot, Isneg, Kalinga, Kankanay, Tingian (Tinggian, Bilongan Itneg); Ibanag, Kasiguran Agta, Keley-i Kallahan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Nogai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Estonians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Latvians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Finns
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Anatolia Turks
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ossetians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Albanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kazakh
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Spain