Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b125	Animals exchange their organs	During the time of creation particular species of animals (rare: plants) exchanged certain organs or traits or one animal borrowed an organ from another one but never brought it back. Thence the characteristics of these animals now. In rare cases the back exchange and restoring of the initial situation or the passing of certain organ from one animal to another without compensation are described
b30b	Murdered person turns into game animals	Different game animals emerge from remains of a murdered person
b40a	Missed opportunity to have horns	Animal who has no horns now had them before or missed opportunity to get them
b40b	Horse exchanges features with cow	The horse exchanges some parts of his body with the cow, usually gives her horns and/or obtains teeth
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
e24	Origin of elbows and knees	Human arms and legs become pliant (get joints) when a primeval ancestor(s) fall from height and break his arms and legs
f39	The time of women	The women dominated over the men in the past or in a far away land, were the active part in marriage relations, practiced activities which now are reserved of the men only. Or the women could obtained supremacy but failed to do it for some reason
f42	The men abandon the women	The men feel themselves offended by the women and abandon them
f43a	The women kill the men	The women of the ancestral community kill, try to kill or transform the men
f44	Women and men separate	The women and the men of the primeval community quarrel and abandon each other
g23	Alive being turns into many objects	Person or creature is transformed. Separate parts of its (his, her) body give origin to different objects or creatures (only etiological narratives are considered)
h18	Hoarded game released	Game animals were concentrated in one single place. Certain person lets them disperse in the world
h54b	The glance of death	Person’s glance brings death (and destruction)
i82a	Venus is male	Morning and/or Evening Star is a male personage
k2	The destroyed ladder	Hero climbs up (e.g. to a tree) or down (e.g. into a deep cave) by ladder, rope, from branch to branch, etc. The rope etc. breaks or is intentionally destroyed and the hero cannot return to the ground. (All cases of motif K2A, besides the Koreans, also contain motif K2)
k28	Father or uncle is rival and enemy	Maternal uncle or father (or grandfather if he replaces father who is not mentioned) of the young man is his rival or enemy and tries to kill him
l4	The unmasked murderer (Blue Beard)	Person kills girls (rare: his nephews or younger brothers of his wife) in succession (usually the male person kills his wives). The last of potential victims escapes, usually after finding remains of those who had been killed or imprisoned earlier
l9	Sharp body members	Body members of a person has the form of cutting or piercing weapon
m29g	Trickster-hare or rabbit	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is hare or rabbit
m29g1	Hare or rabbit as the main trickster	In most of the episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is hare or rabbit. Not considered are traditions in which 1) trickster hare/rabbit is rare while other trickster (usually fox/jackal/coyote) typical; 2) Mesoamerican traditions in which episodes with trickster rabbit are not many and could be borrowed in post-Columbian time being of African origin
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
m91a	Simulated killing (a bag with blood)	Person pierces a bladder with blood or red juice, simulates murder or suicide

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tacana
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Wayana, Aparai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ancient Greece
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Seri
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Shavante
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Saibai, Dauan, Boigu, Badu, Waraber, Wet, Warei, Dauar, Badu, Moa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Iranxe
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Poles
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Hadza
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Latvians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Mansi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sardinia, Corsica
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bretagne
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Armenians