Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a12	Eclipses: monster’s attack	Some creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, summer and winter, lunar phases) or irregularly (solar and lunar eclipses, eschatological events) attack the luminaries or shade their light
a32	Figure on lunar disc	A figure or an imprint of some being or object are seen in the Moon. (For statistical analysis motifs A32A – A32J are also included into A32)
a32d	Man in the Moon	Human being or imprint of human being is seen in the moon
a32e	Person with an object in hands	Person who holds some object in his or her hands is seen in the moon (rare: in the sun)
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
c25b	A spinner in the Moon	In the sky, on the Moon (rare: on the Sun), i.e. somewhere outside of our world certain person is spinning, weaving, plaiting, or embroidering
e5aa	People grew like a grass	The first people grew or crawled out of the earth like a grass, mushrooms, worms, etc.
i131	The thread of life	Life of every man is related to certain thread. When the thread is cut, the man dies
i39	Rainbow road or bridge	Rainbow is a road, a bridge or a ladder
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
i45a	Not to point at the Moon or a star	Person who points at the Moon or a star or looks intently at them will get sick or die or his pointing finger will rot or wither
j25a	Son of the grave	Mother dies or is killed. Her (still unborn) baby-son is buried with her. He comes out of the grace, meets people, then returns to the grave but ultimately agrees to remain with the people

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Hawaii
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Bulgarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Society Islands: Tahiti, Borabora, Raiatea
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Southern Cook Islands: Mangaia, Rarotonga, Atiu, Iatutakim Pukapuka, Tubuai (=Austral Islands, incl Rapa)
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): 5 Tradition: Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Maori, Moriori (Chatam Islands)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Samoa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Khmer
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Viet, Muong
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Tuvalu (Ellice)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Easter Island
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Melanesians and Papuans of Bismark Archipelago: New Britain (Tolai, Lakalai, Kuni, Sulka, Baining, Gazelle peninsula), New Ireland (Patpatar =Pala), St Matthias Group, Mioko (Melanesians between New Britain and New Ireland)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Southern Solomons: southern part of Santa Ysabel (Bughotu), Guadalcanal, San Cristobal, Malaita (Kwaio people), Ulawa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Central Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo, Araki, Aore, Maewo, Malekula, Vao, Efate (Vate), Shepherd Islands, Nguna, Mae, Ambrim, Pentecost, Oba (=Aoba, East Ambae, Lepers'), Omba
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Kanaka (New Caledonia)