| Motif | Name | Description |
| a21a | The released Moon | The Moon is an object which its owners released by chance or which was stolen from them and ultimately ascended to the sky |
| a3 | Male sun and female moon | The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male |
| a37 | The Sun is attacked with weapons | Person intentionally and with special equipment (usually shooting arrows) attacks the Sun (or several suns if they were many) |
| m44b | Thieves of food: the women | Person discovers that somebody steals game or fish from his trap or devastates his garden. He or his guards catch the thieves who prove to be (the first) women or the thief is the water being whom the hero lets go after receiving a woman for ransom |