The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
Anthropomorphic persons agree to divide between them levels of universe (upper world, earth, lower world)
The earth is a female person (alone or together with a male person); she is female being or associated with a woman
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
Animal who has no horns now had them before or missed opportunity to get them
Constellation of Orion or the Belt of Orion is identified with only one male person, usually with a warrior or hunter
Ursa major is identified with a carriage, a cart
Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
Alcor (a weak star near the second star of the handle of the Big Dipper) is selected as a particular sky object
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
Anthropomorphic god descends from the sky and copulates with a cow
One of the trees is the principal, original one (emerged before all the other; ancestor of wild or cultivated plants; ocean or rivers inside it; world axis; higher than all the others; overshadows sky)
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
People are suggested to choose one of two objects, associated with life and death. They choose the object with death
The Pleiades are a group of boys or men, or a group of different people but predominantly males
The Pleiades are any people (of any ages and sex, combined data of i99-i100a)
Two constellations (usually Ursa major and Ursa minor) are interpreted as twin objects of the same type (two animals, two carts, etc.)
For helping its children, their powerful mother or father who is a giant bird or (rare) other flying being helps the hero
After the hero helps a powerful bird (usually does good to her nestlings), the grateful bird brings him to the place where he is eager to get or tells to do it one of her nestlings. (It is not the vertical movement between layers of the world. According to the Sumerian variant, the bird endows the hero with capability to move with extraordinary speed and directs him to his destination)
In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is fox, jackal or coyote
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
Mighty bird helps a man because he had given food to its nestlings
Mighty bird or other flying creature helps a man because he took care of its youngs feeding them, warming, decorating, etc.
Creatures that produce rain and/or thunderstorms are birds or anthropomorphic beings with wings; or (rare) some or all birds are connected with thunder, lightning or rain though Thunder is not a bird
Being (any besides birds) with more than ten heads or with odd (but more than one) number of heads are described in tales or represented in art. If beings with ever more number of heads are named, the row ends with a being that has odd (or more than ten) number of heads
Constellation are interpreted as agricultural tools or people occupied with agricultural works (mostly ploughing and haymaking)
There is a tree, one of its kind, that should be cut or bended down. Particular creatures or beings live in its different parts and/or special objects of top significance are made from its wood
Person suffests another a woman but does not have any or does not want to give her. He makes artificial girl (of wood, snow, etc.), sends servant girl instead of his daughter, turns into a woman himself, or recognizes his fault when he feels that it is save to do so
The Sun is associated with a horseman or rides in a cart driven by horses (equids)
Severed human heads are compared with balls or used as balls
Описывается или изображается чудовище (обычно змей) о семи головах. При перечисления существ по мере возрастания у них числа голов ряд заканчивается на семи
The first people grew or crawled out of the earth like a grass, mushrooms, worms, etc.
Supernatural person rubs his or her skin, creates the entire earth, human or other beings of dirt (from under his or her nails) and cuticle
Rivers (lakes) of blood (also of puss, bones, sweat or water used for washing of corpses) are mentioned in narratives (in different context)
Two or more different kinds of valuable edible liquids like oil, honey, milk, etc. are available or imaginable. Cf. motif n34
Person who is the incarnation of fertility and life first disappears and then (reriodically) returns
The image of a three-ply rope is used to describe the invincibility of two close-knit friends
Thunder-god is temporarily overcome and imprisoned by his enemy
First seeds (sprouts, tubors) of cultivated plants or of important edible wild plants are brought from the sky (received from the sky-dwellers)
Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the lion suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
Person lies that his name is so and so. Others understand it not as a name but as a common word and behave accordingly
At the beginning of time, a supreme deity or his messengers decided that the human lifespan would be limited to one hundred and twenty years
Person gets to a place from which he is unable to come out. Several (more than two) different celestial bodies rise and move near him or above him. He puts attention to them (and asks their help)
Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later
Cunning fox, jackal or coyote saves particular person or many people, helps them