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
b1	Two male creators	Two male anthropomorphic creators compete in producing things. One of them is or becomes master of the underworld and/or spirits while another is associated with humans
b18	Light in container	Day light (also warmth, the sun, the moon) is kept as a particular object in a container, under a cover, etc.
b1a	Three worlds: the universe divided between gods	Anthropomorphic persons agree to divide between them levels of universe (upper world, earth, lower world)
b1b	Two female creators	Two supernatural females compete in producing things. One has positive, another negative characteristics
b3a	Primeval waters	Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later
b3b	Earth grows big	Original earth was small and later increased in size or the fertile soil grew from a small amount of original substance
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
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
b77a	Giant pushed the sky up	One or several (animal)-persons push sky up to its present height
e27	People from drops of blood	People emerge from drops of blood that fall from the sky
e5c	People from the sky	The first people or first anthropomorphic divine beings descend to earth from the sky.
f10	Vaginal teeth knocked out	Woman has another toothed mouth (usually in vagina) or biting animals in vagina. Man inserts there a stone, bone, stick, etc. breaking or knocking out the teeth or extracting from there dangerous animals
f35a	Feeding with the kin’s meat	Person does not know that he or she eats or cooks the meat of the member of his or her household (blood relation, more rare a spouse or servant) or serves it to his or her friends, or uses her or his bones for everyday needs, or slowly kills him ort her
f49	The abnormal birth	Cesarean operation upon a woman at childbirth as a custom
f80a	Genitals apart from the body	Genitals exist by themselves as separate beings, they can be stuck to the human body, remove, etc.
f9	A dangerous woman	For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man
f9e1	Dangerous animal in vagina	Woman is dangerous because biting or stinging animal or animals is (are) inside her genitals (and not only the head of such an animal)
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
h54	The eyelids of Viy	Eyelids (eyelashes, eyebrows) of personage hang long down over his eyes. To make the eyes widely opened, the eyelids (eyelashes, eyebrows) should be propped up with poles, folks, sticks, etc. (rare: cut off)
h7	The personified Death	Death (also Old Age, Disease, etc.) is a particular person not identical with the Master of the Dead. He kills people usually carrying away their souls
i130	The sky net	One of costellations is a hunting or fishing net, trap, snare
i131	The thread of life	Life of every man is related to certain thread. When the thread is cut, the man dies
i133a	The big bird constellation	There is a constellation identified with a bird that corresponds to several big constellations in European traditions (mostly Ecuatorial and not Circum-Popar).
i37f	Fungi are ears	Fungi or mushrooms are named “ears”
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
i82a	Venus is male	Morning and/or Evening Star is a male personage
j64	Person moves on clouds of smoke	Not being burned in a fire, person ascends to the sky or gets across a river on clouds of smoke
k12	Woman is lost and returned	By trick or by force, a rival or adversary kidnaps hero's wife or bride. The man gets her back
k176	A man in search of the woman	A (young) man sets off to find or to return his bride or his wife
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
k27n1	Task-giver is a king or a chief	Person who gives difficult tasks to the hero and/or person who demands the fulfillment of certain conditions from those who want to marry his daughter is a prominent figure in social hierarchy. He is a head of the socio-political unit of community or super-community level and is neither a member of the hero’s household nor a mythical being
k29b	Posthole murder	Hero is asked to climb into a hole or pit. When he does it, they fill it with soil or throw down a post, a stone, etc. The hero demonstrates his magic capacities coming back uninjured
l103	Obstacle flight (Atalanta type)	Treasure, or the like, is thrown back to tempt pursuer to delay
l41	Hero escapes on the way	An ogre or ogress catches a person and carries his or her prey home but the person escapes on the way or immediately after reaching the ogre's house
l72	The obstacle flight	Running away from a dangerous being, person throws small objects behind him or her which turn into mighty obstacles on the way of the pursuer
m42	Eyes: taken out of orbits and lost	Person loses his eyes because of his playfulness or negligence. He makes new eyes of some substance or/and takes eyes of another person
m46	The false baby	Planning to get or to return valuables, person turns into baby or in a small objects that has power to impregnate a woman. The picked up or the born baby steals the valuables and acquires his real guise (including cases according to which the girl herself is the desired valuable)
m46b	A stratagem: baby born by woman	Person turns into tiny object or creature. Touching or swallowing it, the woman conceives and gives birth to a baby-boy. The boy steals valuables or make love to the woman
m46c	Swallowed conifer-needle	Person turns into conifer-needle, a tiny particle, a small insect. Swallowing it by chance, the woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
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): 3 Tradition: Melanesians of the islands of Massim District ( =Milke Bay Province) to the east of New Guinea: Dobu, Rossel, Fergusson, Goodenough, Murua (Woodlark), Trobrian Islands, d'Entrecasteau Islands
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Melanesians of Admiralty Islands (incl Manus); Seimat (Western Islands)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 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): 3 Tradition: Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Warao
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Inland Tlingit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Hixkariyana
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Waiwai

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Tsimshian
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Heiltsuk (Bellabella), Oowekeeno
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Tundra Nenets
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: North Alaskan Inupiat
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Shuswap
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Upper Tanana (Nebesna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Truk, Eastern Fayu, Losap, Pulap, Puluwat, Mortlock (incl. Satawan)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)