Person spits out earth that he swallowed or concealed otherwise. This way the broken landscape is created
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
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)
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)
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
During the flood or in the beginning of times persons (usually brother abd sister) are floating in a big bottle gourd
After the world cataclysm or in the beginning of times a gourd survives or appears, new people come out of it
The earth brought from the lower world was in the belly of a worm or an insect and extracted from their