Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
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.
b4	The fished out earth	Islands or continent are fished out of the ocean or pulled to their present place by rope
d1b	Male spirit of fire	The fire is personified as an elder man (alone or with his wife, mistress of fire)
f22	Study of partner’s body	Person asks another person of the opposite sex about destination or place of her or his genitals. Usually it is made after putting questions about function of other body parts; or person tries to use for sex different parts of the partner's body or tests them before reaching the best place where the genitals should be put
f30	Snake paramour	A woman or a girl takes a snake, an eel (i.e. Pacific snake-eel), a lizard, or a worm for husband or paramour. People kill or badly injure him, the woman and/or her progeny or the woman herself is transformed into snake. Cf. motif k76b: the snake-husband becomes and remains a handsome man
f49	The abnormal birth	Cesarean operation upon a woman at childbirth as a custom
f64	The lecherous parent	Person changes his or (rare) her guise to marry his or her close relative in descending or (rare) ascending line
g8	Restored tree	A deep notch in the tree (or in the sky support) is magically restored as soon as persons or creatures who cut or gnaw it stop working
g8a	Cutting tree to make a canoe	To make some object (usually a canoe), person cuts a tree, goes away, returns, finds the tree intact. Usually another person who was restoring the tree by magic fells it down himself and makes a canoe for the hero
h12	The alive person comes to the land of the dead after somebody’s death	The alive person comes to the land of the dead to bring back somebody who has recently died (besides stories about shamans who journey to the other world to bring back the soul of a sick person) or, having no particular aim, goes there in company of somebody who had recently died or following his or her tracks
h12b	Ghosts feed on excrements	Inhabitants of the land of the dead eat excrements
h50	Sky god and mistress of the dead	A couple of deities or ancestors divorces. Man remains on earth or ascends to the sky, woman becomes the mistress of the dead or of the underworld
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”
i43a	The celestial monster	Giant reptilian monster (serpent, more rare fish, chain of fish) extends in the sky and/or supports the sky being associated with Milky Way or the rainbow
i43b	Milky Way is a serpent or fish	Milky Way is a reptile, fish, or chain of fish
i45b	Not to point at the rainbow	It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
j27	Lodge-boy and Thrown-away	A small boy (several babies) was thrown away, born by the dead woman, lives in the water (in forest, etc.). Another boy lives with his father or mother. Ultimately the first boy comes to live in the locus of the second one. Often (see motif j25, Babies escape and return) during some time the boy who lives in the wilderness meets secretly with his brother (with other children, with pups that had been fed up by his mother) who lives with the people
k33	Drowned woman remains alive	A young woman is transformed into an animal, pushed into the water, into the underworld or she herself has to plunge into water (acquire animal form). Her connection with the human world is not completely lost, however, and usually she is helped to return to the people
k65b	Humans and spirits	Spirits or unpleasant animals (reptiles, worms, etc.) are (often: concealed from the eyes of God or deformed) children or miscarriages of the same human couple or the same primeval ancestor who produced first human beings

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Maori, Moriori (Chatam Islands)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Hawaii
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Tuamotu, incl Pukapuka (different from Pukapuka in Cook Islands), Vahitahi, Anaa, Hao, Fangatau
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Society Islands: Tahiti, Borabora, Raiatea
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Nauru, Banaba (Ocean island)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tikopia, Bellona, Rennell, partly Aneytium, Futuna (=Erronan, not to be mixed with Futuna in Western Polynesia), Vaeaka-Taumato, incl Matema, Nifeloli, Nukapu, Nupani, Pileni
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Marquesas
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Melanesians of the northern coast New Guinea, nearest off-shore islands and Huon Gulf (Morobe district): Watut, Bilbil (Bilibili), Jabim (incl Kai), Tami, Bukawac, Wogeo, Tumleo, Yakamul, Manam, Sissano, Sio
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Palau (Western Carolines)

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Jicarilla
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tuamotu, incl Pukapuka (different from Pukapuka in Cook Islands), Vahitahi, Anaa, Hao, Fangatau
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Arapaho
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Scotland
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Algeria Arabs
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Marquesas
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ute
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Udmurt
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Lithuanians