Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a36	The immortal Moon	The Moon, unlike people, revives or rejuvenates every month; or those who live in the Moon are immortal; or the Moon makes decision if people should die forever or regularly revive
a38	The Sun caught in snare	Person prepares a snare, loop, noose, etc. to catch the Sun and/or the Sun is caught in a snare, tied by a rope, etc.
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b3a	Primeval waters	Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later
b4	The fished out earth	Islands or continent are fished out of the ocean or pulled to their present place by rope
e32	People born from trees	First people are born by trees or come out of a tree, flower, reed
e35	Webbed fingers	First people or people made by Creator's rival were imperfect, not completely anthropomorphic (often: had webbed fingers)
f18a	The long penis	Penis is so long that he can turn it round his waist or send into a woman who is at a long distance from him. (Only texts considered to describe real events and beings and not anecdotes are included)
f45	The Amazons	There are (or were) women who live apart from men in their own village or villages
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
h24	Container opened too early	Container with valuables or with dangerous creatures is opened (before time). Its content goes out of control or disappear
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
h36e	Death and the rat	Rat is responsible for introduction of permanent death
h6a	People and plants	Mortal humans are contrasted with (almost) immortal trees that shed their bark, become green again after winter sleep or propagate by sprouts
i33	Tree of the dead	The ultimate aim of the afterlife journey is to reach certain tree
i37f	Fungi are ears	Fungi or mushrooms are named “ears”
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
i44	Chthonic serpent	Giant serpent lies on the perimeter of the earth or supports the earth
i45b	Not to point at the rainbow	It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
j57	Son of the Sun	A virgin girl is impregnated by the Sun and gives birth to a son or twin boys. When her son (or the twins) grows up, he (they) comes to his father
k61b	To get know names	To get know names of strangers, person finds or creates situations when the strangers call each other by name
m111	Monkey on the banana tree	An animal person who can climb trees (usually a monkey) suggests another (a turtle, a crab) to harvest bananas. He climbs the banana, throws down but peels, rotten fruits and the like. His companion revenges on him
m180	Fox and crane invite each other	An animal person invites another and serves his food in such a way that he is unable to taste it. Then the other invites the first animal and puts him in similar situation
m183	A race: one against many	Many animals of one species that all look identical together fulfill the task that would be impossible for any of them if he were alone; the competitors believe that the task was fulfilled by only one animal. Usually a slow and a fast animals agree to race. The slow one puts other animals of his species at the finish or along the distance, each one answering the fast one that he is ahead of him. The fast one accepts his loss
m185	On the tail of the fast one (animals)	A slow and a fast animals (or not flying bird) agree to race. The slow one imperceptibly sticks to the fast one’s body (or to a vehicle) and getting to the finish pretends to come there simultaneously with the fast one or before him
m185a	On the tail of the winner (all versions)	Birds, animals or fish compete as about who is the fastest or can fly higher than others. A weak one imperceptible sticks to the body of the fastest or strongest and wins
m187c	A crab is a participant of the race	A crab participates in the race and wins
m44b	Thieves of food: the women	Person discovers that somebody steals game or fish from his trap or devastates his garden. He or his guards catch the thieves who prove to be (the first) women or the thief is the water being whom the hero lets go after receiving a woman for ransom

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