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
a12c	Eclipses: reptiles and fish	During an eclipse or at the sunset the Sun or the Moon are attacked by a reptile (a snake, a lizard, a dragon, a crocodile) or a fish
b75a	Sounds of the time of creation: voice of a person	Voice of a person who lived in the bygone times is still heard (most often it is an echo)
b79a	A bird laid an egg	In the beginning of time a bird flies, lays an egg or eggs, different objects and creatures emerge from them or a bird drops some solid substance on the waters and the dry land or an island appear
b79a1	A bird dropped hard substance on water	In the beginning of time, a bird flies and drops some solid substance on the waters and the dry land or an island appear. Sometimes the precise nature of the substratum on which the solid piece falls is not defined
b98	The bat between birds and animals	Bat (rare: ostrich) makes attempts to join sometimes animals and sometime birds or is excluded from both categories
b98a	Bat becomes an outcast	The bat becomes an outcast among other creatures (usually after it makes attempts to join first animals and then birds or vice versa)
c12b	People descend from a dog	In the beginning of time or after the flood man marries a bitch. Present people descend from them.
c8	The couple of close relations originates the mankind	In the beginning of time or after the natural disaster brother and sister, mother and son, or father and daughters are the only human beings. They marry and the present day people are their descendents
c8c	Mother and son produce people	After the world cataclysm, in the beginning of time or coming to a new land a woman marries her son and produce people
f7	The underwater-maiden	Man takes or attempts to take a wife who is connected with the underwater world (fish, crab, snake, water animal and the like)
g21	Coconut palm from a human head	Coconut palm grows out of the human head
g6	Primeval tree	One of the trees is the principal, original one (emerged before all the other; ancestor of wild or cultivated plants; ocean or rivers inside it; world axis; higher than all the others; overshadows sky)
i20	The undeground dwarfs	Race of dwarfs lives under the ground (deep under the earth or in hills and rocks) or at the horizon where the earth and the sky meet
i20c	Dwarfs live in the underworld	Dwarfs live in the underworld that somewhat reminds the world of humans. If the dwarfs and the humans meet, it is deep under the earther
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
k8a	Jonah: swallowed by monster	Person gets into the belly of water being or into the belly of giant creature which appearance and living place remain vague. He kills the monster from the inside and/or returns to earth by himself (i.e. not extracted by other people)

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Estonians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 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): 3 Tradition: Finns
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Central islands and Bikol: Visaya, Mansaká, Bikol, Mangyan, Panayan, Sulod, Cebuano (Cebu), Capiz, Romblomanon, Manuyu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 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): 3 Tradition: Votians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Lisu, Achang, Taunyo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Northern Taiwan: Atayal (Tayal; Taruko (Toda, Taokas, Torok, Taroko), Pazeh, Sedeq (Sediq, Seedeq, Sazek), Saisiyat (Saixia); Kawalan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: French (northern France)

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Bashkirs
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Mongols (Khalkha)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Daur (Daghur)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Ainu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Southern Selkups