| Motif | Name | Description |
| b77 | Primeval sky close to earth | Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up |
| b77b | Sky touched with a long object | The sky rose to its present height and/or the direct relations of the sky deity with the people were broken off when the sky or the deity was touched or struck with a long object (a pestle, a broom, etc.) |
| b77b1 | Sky touched with a pestle | The sky rose to its present height and/or the direct relations of the sky deity with the people were broken off when the sky or the deity was pushed up, touched or struck with a pestle or with a ladle during the preparation of food |
| h1c | Stamped down grave | People do not come back to life after somebody buries the dead in the grave or stamps down the earth on the grave |
| h36d | Death and the hare | Hare is responsible for introduction of permanent death |
| h56 | The prohibited fruit (origin of death) | After eating certain fruit, berry, tuber, etc. people become mortal (cf. motif F97: people become sexually aware) |