Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a2	Several suns	In a certain time in the past three or more suns were on the sky simultaneously
a2a	The sun is a source of distructive heat	The world was or will be (almost) burned when several suns had (will) appear(ed) simultaneously; or the only sun was too hot (or bright)
b46	Big Dipper is seven men	Every one of the seven main stars of the Ursa mayor is a an adult man
b46c	Big Dipper is seven persons or animals	Every main star of the Big Dipper is interpreted as a particular person or animal
f70f	Sex is changed accidentally	Getting into a far away place, person discovers that his or her sex is changed
i85	Polaris is a pole, a nail	Polaris is a (tethering) pole or a nail
k116a	King is killed after putting on a strange attire	A powerful person abducts or is going to abduct a poor man’s wife. She tricks him to put on a strange attire (often her husband’s clothes). After this his men or dogs kill him taking for the poor man (fool, devil)
k56e	Two humpbacks	Two men have a similar defect (a hump, a lump). One spends a night in a place where spirits free him from his defect. Another comes to the same place but spirits double his defect giving him what they had taken off from the first man
n5	They recognize winter by rime, summer by rain	Long trips, campaigns, flights or battles are described using cliché which contain expressions like “they get to know that it is winter seeing rime, that it is summer, seeing rain” and the like
n6	Horse tells to whip him strongly	A horse tells his rider to whip him with such force that his blood would splash out, skin would come off, flesh would be gashed to the very bone, etc. The rider follows these instructions

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Mongols (Khalkha)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Darkhad
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Khamnigans
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tuvinians of Tuva
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Shaanxi Chinese
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kara Kalpak

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tuvinians of Tuva
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Abkhaz
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Chuvash
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Bashkirs
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Lisu, Achang, Taunyo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Persians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Saudi Arabia