Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a21	Luminaries are objects fixed in the sky	The sun and/or the moon are inanimate objects thrown up to the sky or fixed in the sky
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
a6	The Sun and the Moon are females	Both the Sun and the Moon are considered to be females (incl. cases when the gender is not directly specified but both emerge from parts of the body of a female person)
b10	Drunk out water	Person drinks a lake or all the water in the world or all the water is originally inside person's belly. When a hole is made in it, the water pours out
b12	Rivers and snakes	The river bed follows the way of a snake, fish, dragon or crab; pieces of the snake’s body turn into rivers; a river is a snake
b29	Eschatological feast	People turn into animals, birds or stones at a feast, after the feast, after performing a ritual or after a victory over dangerous enemy
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
b8	Frog hides the water	Frog hides all the water but other person makes it available for everybody
c1	The collapse of the sky	Catastropic displacement of layers of the univers in the past or in the future is mentioned. Among variants (sometimes combined): the sky fell on the earth; the earth (the underworld) and the sky interchanged their positions; the earth turned upside down; the layers of the universe collapsed in one after another; they will change their place during the future cataclysm
c19	Acquisition of the sun	The Sun (the day light) that was absent, stolen or hidden appears (again)
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d4l	Fire from the sky	First fire is sent to earth from the sky or the ancestors ascend to the sky and bring from there fire or warmth
e32	People born from trees	First people are born by trees or come out of a tree, flower, reed
e5b	First couple from the underworld	First man (a group of brothers) or first human couple come out from the underworld (a cave) or from a small enclosure on its surface (tussock, reed, tree, rock, gourd)
e8	People of wood	The first people or (the first) woman (wife of a primeval ancestor) are made of wood
f1	First woman is a transformed man	Woman, female supernatural or animal females are created by changing the sex of a man (or male animals)
f4	Child born in jug	In the beginning of times, a particular person or children in general was or were conceived and grown up in pots, heaps of mud, etc. and not in a womb
h22	Sense of smell	Big game animals obtain sense of smell and/or become to escape from hunters after a person makes them olfactory organs or lets them feel strong odor
i119	The dead shake the earth	The earthquakes are produced by the dead who are in the underworld or during the earthquakes the inhabitants of the lower world try to come out; try to understand are there still living beings on earth
i32	Tree of the babies	There is (or was) a tree on which souls of still unborn babies grow, which leaves transform into people, or which trunk is covered with female breasts or flowers that innumerable babies are sucking
i33	Tree of the dead	The ultimate aim of the afterlife journey is to reach certain tree
i35a2	Thunder is rolling stones or vessels	Thunder is heard when stones or big vessels are rolled, dragged, overthrown in the sky
i39	Rainbow road or bridge	Rainbow is a road, a bridge or a ladder
i39a	Souls of the dead walk upon the rainbow	Souls of the dead walk upon the rainbow to the other world
i47	Rainbow is filth	Rainbow is a flatulence of a demon, a spray of a skunk, is associated with spit, urine, feces, genitals, etc., causes skin diseases, is associated with death
i48	Confined to the underworld	Certain person loses his or her freedom, is confined to a far away place (often, to the underworld) and acquires cosmic dimensions: supports the earth or the sky and/or his or her movements produce earthquakes or (rare) storms
i7	The cloud serpent	A flying reptile produces rain, thunderstorm
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
i72a	Stars are children of the Sun and the Moon	Stars are children of the Moon and/or the Sun
i81b	Haribda (the origin of tides)	It is tide when a creature belches out the sea water or ousts it with its body and it is ebb when it swallows the water or lets it go back (or it is simply told that water periodically emerge and disappears into the maelstrom
i85c1	The rain stored in the sky	In the sky there is a special container (vessel, skin, box, etc.) for storing the rain
i8f	One support of the world	Only one pole or mountain supports the earth or the sky
i96	Bloody rainbow	Rainbow is blood, associated with war and death
j45	The stretched out leg (crane bridge)	Person stretches his or her leg or neck as a bridge across water body. The fugitives or those who walk ahead cross the bridge; the persecutor or those who are behind usually fall because the person takes his bridge off
k65a	Spirits fall from the sky	Being thrown down (usually from the sky), some beings get to different places and turn into spirits or animals with particular functions and names
l110	The devourer	A demonic being swallows a multitude of people and animals. When it is killed and cut open, the swallowed ones come out alive or are revived

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kazakh
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Semang, Senoi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Flores, incl Mangarai (Western Flores), Nage, Keo, Riung, Ngada or Nad'a (Central Flores), Sika (Eastern Flores)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Tzotzil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Amahuaca, Cashinahua, Sharanahua, Yaminahua, Yawanahua, Capanahua)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Wayana, Aparai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Southern Taiwan: Rukai, Paiwan, Puyuma, Saaroa, Ketangalan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kédang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor)

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Mordvins
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Mari (Cheremis)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Georgians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Chuvash
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Osage
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Northern Selkups
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Danes