Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
b1a	Three worlds: the universe divided between gods	Anthropomorphic persons agree to divide between them levels of universe (upper world, earth, lower world)
b2a	The female earth	The earth is a female person (alone or together with a male person); she is female being or associated with a woman
b2d	Marriage of the sky and the earth	The male Sky (the Sun, the Thunder, the creator of the sky) marries the female Earth (or its female creator) or the female Sky marries the male Earth
b42p	Ursa major is a bear	Ursa major is identified with a bear
b42t	Ursa major is a big mammal	Seven main stars of Ursa major are interpreted as a figure of a mammal: bear, deer, mountain sheep, camel, dog
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)
e5a	Mankind ascends from the underworld	The first people (or only the first men or the first women) are not created but come to earth from the underworld (from a cave) or from a small enclosure under the earth or on its surface (tree trunk, rock, gourd, etc.). Many people of both sexes and of different ages or people and different species of animals come out together
h4	The shed skin	Those who change their skin become young again
h5	People and snakes	Reptiles or invertebrates possess the medicine of immortality; are contrasted with men as immortal with mortals and/or are responsible for originating of death; or a snake's bite inflicts the first death
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
i43a	The celestial monster	Giant reptilian monster (serpent, more rare fish, chain of fish) extends in the sky and/or supports the sky being associated with Milky Way or the rainbow
i82a	Venus is male	Morning and/or Evening Star is a male personage
i82b	Venus is female	Morning and/or Evening Star is a female personage
i82d	Morning and Evening stars are a man and a woman	Morning and Evening stars are opposed as a man and a woman or vice versa
l17a	Eyes on the back of the head	Person or creature has another pair of eyes (or one eye) on the back of his head or (rare) on his back

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Ancient Greece
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Early Chinese written sources
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Mordvins
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambé; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Greeks (modern)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Zuni
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bulgarians

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs: