Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b3e	Earth falls on waters	In the beginning there are only air and water. 1) Person descends from the sky, creates the dry land or a hard support created for her or him grows into the earth. 2) The earth is sent or dropped from the sky, put on the surface of the water. 3) The earth is brought from somewhere (not from the underworld) and put on the water
b52b	Some earth is concealed	Person spits out earth that he swallowed or concealed otherwise. This way the broken landscape is created
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)
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)
c6h1	Earth is extracted from the belly of an invertibrate	The earth brought from the lower world was in the belly of a worm or an insect and extracted from their
c8	The couple of close relations originates the mankind	In the beginning of time or after the natural disaster brother and sister, mother and son, or father and daughters are the only human beings. They marry and the present day people are their descendents
c8e	Survival in the floating bottle gourd	During the flood or in the beginning of times persons (usually brother abd sister) are floating in a big bottle gourd
e38b	People from gourd	After the world cataclysm or in the beginning of times a gourd survives or appears, new people come out of it

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bondo, Didayi (Gata')
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Chinese of Qinghai and Gansu provinces and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Poles
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Lahu, Kucong, Yi, Nosu (Nuosu, Northern Yi), Nisu, Nusu, Sani, Jino, Lolo (incl. Bai), Axi, Nasu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sichuan Chinese
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
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Southern Selkups
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Nganasans
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Enets
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Northern Selkups
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Kets
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar