Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a19c	The sun horse	The Sun is associated with a horseman or rides in a cart driven by horses (equids)
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
a8b	The Sun in the land of the dead	When the Sun descends below the horizon, it shines to the anthropomorphic denizens of the netherworld (the dead, dwarfs, etc.)
f35a	Feeding with the kin’s meat	Person does not know that he or she eats or cooks the meat of the member of his or her household (blood relation, more rare a spouse or servant) or serves it to his or her friends, or uses her or his bones for everyday needs, or slowly kills him ort her
f70b	Revenge of a rejected woman	A woman revenges on a man who rejected her love but necessary not pretends to be an object of sexual harassment from his part
f98	God and a cow	Anthropomorphic god descends from the sky and copulates with a cow
g2	The return of Persephone	Person who is the incarnation of fertility and life first disappears and then (reriodically) returns
h12	The alive person comes to the land of the dead after somebody’s death	The alive person comes to the land of the dead to bring back somebody who has recently died (besides stories about shamans who journey to the other world to bring back the soul of a sick person) or, having no particular aim, goes there in company of somebody who had recently died or following his or her tracks
h12c	Orpheus: to return the dead wife	Husband follows his dead wife to the other world but is unable to bring her back or succeeds to do it but loses her once again
h13	Dead person is returned and revives	Person comes to the land of the dead and brings back somebody who has recently died or brings his remains. The dead one becomes alive and lives normal life (for some time)
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
h7f1	Death eats the dead	Death eats the dead and thus assuages his hunger
i35a1	Challenge to Thunder-god	Person claims to be equal to the sky god, imitating him or mocking upon him
i35c	God the craftsman	One of mythological characters using his skills in crafts creates for the first time tools and valuable cultural and natural objects; is a patron of craftsmen (usually of blacksmiths)
i4	Thunder rides in the sky	Thunder is heard when a vehicle moves in the sky
i4c	Storm-god as a prisoner	Thunder-god is temporarily overcome and imprisoned by his enemy
i4e	Storm-god as rider of the clouds	An anthropomorphic sky-god (associated with the thunder and rain) rides on the clouds (uses them as a vehicle)
i68	Opening of the sky	On a certain moment, a crack, a window or the like opens in the sky vault (rains flows though it, the upper world is seen, communication with inhabitants of the upper world becomes possible)
i82a	Venus is male	Morning and/or Evening Star is a male personage
i85c1	The rain stored in the sky	In the sky there is a special container (vessel, skin, box, etc.) for storing the rain
k179	Bride purchased for her weight in gold	An object (usually the bride) purchased for the sum of money equivalent (or bigger) than its weight in gold (silver) or a heap of valuables as high as the corresponding person
k183	In what fish is the swallowed one?	Person cuts open all water creatures (vultures) or looks into their mouths to find the swallowed one or a part of his body
k27o1	Head used as ball	Severed human heads are compared with balls or used as balls
k33f	Basin of honey and basin of oil	Two or more different kinds of valuable edible liquids like oil, honey, milk, etc. are available or imaginable. Cf. motif n34
k38e	Of copper, of silver, of gold	Loci or objects of three (rare – four) different materials are mentioned in such a way that all of them have positive connotations though unequal value (copper, silver and gold; silver, gold and diamonds, etc.)
k38e4	Palace of gold and silver bricks	A palace (castle, crypt, church, bridge) made of gold and silver modules (usually bricks, more rare planks) is mentioned in narratives (in different context)
k41	Thunder against a serpent	Thunder or giant bird fights against a reptile, big water animal or other big and strong creature who lives in water or under the earth
l19b	Beings with odd number of heads	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
l19b1	The seven-headed monster	Описывается или изображается чудовище (обычно змей) о семи головах. При перечисления существ по мере возрастания у них числа голов ряд заканчивается на семи
l90	Mouth from the earth to the sky	Monster's upper lip (fang, horn, etc.) touches the sky, lower touches the ground
n34	Honey and oil	Streams of honey and oil (oil and milk, milk and blood) instead of streams of water are mentioned as a sign of generosity and prosperity. Cf. motif K33F

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Lithuanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Ancient Greece
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Armenians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Old and New Testament
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Hittite, Hurrit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ossetians

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Ancient Greece
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Arabs of Egypt
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Anatolia Turks
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Old and New Testament
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Persians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kara Kalpak
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Armenians