Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b2a	The female earth	The earth is a female person (alone or together with a male person); she is female being or associated with a woman
b2d	Marriage of the sky and the earth	The male Sky (the Sun, the Thunder, the creator of the sky) marries the female Earth (or its female creator) or the female Sky marries the male Earth
b3a	Primeval waters	Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later
b3e	Earth falls on waters	In the beginning there are only air and water. 1) Person descends from the sky, creates the dry land or a hard support created for her or him grows into the earth. 2) The earth is sent or dropped from the sky, put on the surface of the water. 3) The earth is brought from somewhere (not from the underworld) and put on the water
b4	The fished out earth	Islands or continent are fished out of the ocean or pulled to their present place by rope
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
b86	Babylonian tower	To reach the sky (the Sun, Moon, particular star), people build a ladder or tower that consists of separate modules (bricks, logs, sticks, etc.). This construction collapses
d13d	To make hidden woman laugh	To find a person who is hiding somewhere inside the house, another one tries to make her or him laugh
f49	The abnormal birth	Cesarean operation upon a woman at childbirth as a custom
i108	The Pleiades are a person	The Pleiades are only one anthropomorphic being, not several persons
i17	Body anomalies of inhabitants of a distant land	Beings without mouth, anus, genitals, whose women do not know how to give birth live in the underworld, in the sky, or in a far-away land
i37f	Fungi are ears	Fungi or mushrooms are named “ears”
i82b	Venus is female	Morning and/or Evening Star is a female personage
j25	Babies escape and return	Heroes (usually one or two), being still babies or embryos, escape or are thrown away, often into the water. To bring them back into the human world, they are lured (persuaded) to come out or caught with difficulty
k26	A hole in the firmament	Finding a hole in the ground or making it, person gets to see below another world. Usually the earth is seen from the sky
k27 (motif is not in the correlation table)	Competitions and difficult tasks	Person is suggested to fulfill tasks that are mortally dangerous or cannot be fulfilled without supernatural helpers or capacities. The person fulfills the tasks and remains alive. A contest between persons has form of a competition or game in which the loser is deprived of his status or life
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
k61b	To get know names	To get know names of strangers, person finds or creates situations when the strangers call each other by name
l19a	Beings with even number of heads	Beings (any besides birds) with even but not more than ten number of heads are described in tales or represented in art. Beings that with even number of heads named in a row with other multi-headed beings and the highest number is even or bigger than ten are not considered
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
m44c	Thieves of food: a young hero	A boy or young man comes to steal food of a person who is elder than he. Usually he is caught but not punished and invited to live with the elder person
m81c	Blinds met in the sky	Getting to the sky or (rare) to the lower world a man comes across one or two blind persons, then returns to the earth. Usually he cures their eyes
m81d	Blind persons cured	A man comes across (often in the sky) one or two blind persons and cures their eyes

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Marshall Islands, incl Ailinglapalap, Arno, Jaluit, Kili, Lae, Maloelap, Majuro, Ratak, Wotho, Ujae, Jaluit (=Jalooj), Namdrik
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Truk, Eastern Fayu, Losap, Pulap, Puluwat, Mortlock (incl. Satawan)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kédang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: North Alaskan Inupiat
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Maori, Moriori (Chatam Islands)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Palau (Western Carolines)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tuamotu, incl Pukapuka (different from Pukapuka in Cook Islands), Vahitahi, Anaa, Hao, Fangatau
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Northern Luzon: Apayao, Bontoc, Nabaloi (Ibaloi), Ifugao, Igorot (highland people, not specified), Ilocan, Ilongot, Isneg, Kalinga, Kankanay, Tingian (Tinggian, Bilongan Itneg); Ibanag, Kasiguran Agta, Keley-i Kallahan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Marquesas
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Hawaii

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Makiritare (Yecuana)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Pawnee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tlingit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Ulithi, Ngulu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Chukchi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Assiniboine
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Northern Luzon: Apayao, Bontoc, Nabaloi (Ibaloi), Ifugao, Igorot (highland people, not specified), Ilocan, Ilongot, Isneg, Kalinga, Kankanay, Tingian (Tinggian, Bilongan Itneg); Ibanag, Kasiguran Agta, Keley-i Kallahan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Karok
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Wayapi, Emerillon