Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a14	Eclipses: relations between the Sun and the Moon	Coming together of the Sun and the Moon is the reason of their eclipses
a14a	The conflict between the Sun and the Moon	The Sun and the Moon are or were enemies, either permanently or in particular situations
a15	Eclipses: crossing of the paths	The lunar (and solar) eclipse or spots on the lunar disc are expained by the fact that the Sun or the Moon came to a wrong path or that their paths crossed
a33	The sun ram	The Sun has appearance of a big terrestrial mammal (bull, ram, antilope, pig, rhinocero, etc.) or rides such an animal
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b9	Water in the tree trunk	There is enormous amount of water inside a trunk of a tree or a tree turns into water
c1	The collapse of the sky	Catastropic displacement of layers of the univers in the past or in the future is mentioned. Among variants (sometimes combined): the sky fell on the earth; the earth (the underworld) and the sky interchanged their positions; the earth turned upside down; the layers of the universe collapsed in one after another; they will change their place during the future cataclysm
c12b	People descend from a dog	In the beginning of time or after the flood man marries a bitch. Present people descend from them.
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d4b	Retribution for using fire	Person or people who have stolen fire or asked its owner to share the fire are punished by God
d4l	Fire from the sky	First fire is sent to earth from the sky or the ancestors ascend to the sky and bring from there fire or warmth
d9	Fire and vulture	Raven or other big dark-feathered bird scavenger is the owner, personification, spouse, obtainer or stealer of fire, daylight, or the Sun
e32	People born from trees	First people are born by trees or come out of a tree, flower, reed
e5a	Mankind ascends from the underworld	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
e5b	First couple from the underworld	First man (a group of brothers) or first human couple come out from the underworld (a cave) or from a small enclosure on its surface (tussock, reed, tree, rock, gourd)
e5c	People from the sky	The first people or first anthropomorphic divine beings descend to earth from the sky.
f38	Women and sacred knowledge	Women were possessors of the sacred knowledge, sanctuaries or ritual objects which are now taboo for them or they made attempts to acquire such a knowledge or objects
h24c	Death in container	People open container with death or disease inside and become mortal
h34a	Controversy over conditions of life	Person has a series of suggestions how to make the world easy for living and free of hard work and death. His companion successively rejects them. Their dialogue forever defines conditions of human life
h36h	The unhappy jump	Some beings, frog and toad among them, have to overcome an obstacle. This is realized not the way it was planned and as a consequence, people become mortal
h36hh	Death and the frog	Frog or toad 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)
i24	A snake bridge	Snake, lizard or worm is a bridge or a rope over the river
i41	Rainbow serpent	Rainbow is a reptile (usually a snake) or (more rare) a fish, or it is related to snake, to its tongue, breath, or to scorpion's tail
i7	The cloud serpent	A flying reptile produces rain, thunderstorm
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
i7a	The lightning- serpent	The lightning is associated with a snake
i82c	Venus is the Moon’s wife	Venus or some other bright star seen near the eastern or western horizon is female and wife of the Moon
i82c1	Two wives of the Moon	The Moon has two wives (usually the Morning and the Evening stars). One of them takes care of him and he becomes fat, another neglects him and he becomes thin
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
l46	Head downward	Person ascends, descends, walks head downward or sees the world upside down
m11c	Person gets lard from his body	A male person cuts or roasts his own body to extract meat, lard or blood, cooks it and serves to his guest without injuring himself. Such a food is not considered to be unclean
m38	Stupid imitation (all versions)	Person sees how others act using magic or according to their animal nature. He or she imitates their actions and gets into trouble. Actions are not heroic deeds, competitions or tests and refer to everyday activity, mostly to providing and cooking food
m38a	The bungling host	Being on a visit to other people or (more often) animals, an (animal)-person sees them act using magic or according to their animal nature. Back at home, he imitates their actions and gets in trouble. Actions are not heroic deeds, competitions or tests and mostly refer to providing and cooking food

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Ancient Greece
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Melanesians of the islands of Massim District ( =Milke Bay Province) to the east of New Guinea: Dobu, Rossel, Fergusson, Goodenough, Murua (Woodlark), Trobrian Islands, d'Entrecasteau Islands

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Quinault
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tlingit
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