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
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
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
b42m	Second hunter’s cooking pot	Three stars of the Dipper’s handle of Ursa Mayor are three men (hunters, thieves) who are eager to get an animal (an elk or a bear) or an object (a cot). Alkor (a weak star near Mizar) is a receptacle in possession of the second man
b42u	Big Dipper’s handle are three persons	Three stars of Big Dipper’s handle are three persons. Four stars of the Dipper itself are objects of animals (one or several)
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
b87	Alcor	Alcor (a weak star near the second star of the handle of the Big Dipper) is selected as a particular sky object
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
c8aa	Brother and sister beget the people	In the beginning of time or after the natural disaster brother and sister are the only human beings. They marry and the present day people are their descendents
e4	Creation from dirt of the skin	Supernatural person creates the entire earth, human or other beings of dirt taken from his or her skin, from under the nails, etc.
f9	A dangerous woman	For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man
f97	The prohibited fruit: origin of sex	After eating certain fruit, berry, tuber, etc. people become sexually aware
f9a	Vagina dentata	There are teeth, blades or sharp stones in woman’s genitals, vagina is the biting mouth. (Only texts that are believed to correspond to reality are considered but not anecdotes and jokes)
h2	The selfish animal	Animals ask God to make people mortal because people would be too numerous and step on the animals, deprive them of their food and habitat, or because the animals want to feast on the human corpses
h40	Dog is the guard of man	Dog guards (successfully or unsuccessfully) the (still unfinished) physical body of man or the entrance to paradise
h42	Creator goes away for a while	After creating the bodies of the first people or after getting a conception how to do it the Creator goes away for a while. During his absence another person, because of his or her ignorance or intentionally, spoils the creation or makes himself or herself what the Creator would make in a better way. Usually because of this people are mortal and subject to diseases
h43a	Broken figure of the first man	After making human body, creator goes away for a time. In his absence another person makes attempt to break human figure that was not yet alive
h51	The demonic horse	A horse eats people or is associated with antagonist of the God
i110	Night sky agriculturalists	Constellation are interpreted as agricultural tools or people occupied with agricultural works (mostly ploughing and haymaking)
i110a	The star plough	Orion (rare: other constellation) is a plough
i127	Ursa major is a bed	Ursa major is a bed, a cot, a bedstead
i41a	Rainbow from anthill or termite nest	Rainbow rises from an anthill
i59a	Thief in the sky	Astral objects or lunar spots are associated with a story of a stealing and the value of the stolen objects is low (straw, firewoods, cabbage, etc.)
i69	Star dung	Shining sky objects or atmospheric phenomena are excrements of sky dwellers
k103a	Tree raises its branches	A plant (tree, vine, lotus) that has grown up rapidly does not let anybody besides the hero or the heroine to climb it or to pick its fruits (flowers)
k24	Stolen clothes of supernatural woman	Women (rare: men) who possess supernatural power and usually come from a non-human world (from sky, from under the water, they are winged beings, bird- or animal-persons; rare: a girl of higher social status than the hero) take off their clothes (feather skins and the like) or part of it. Because a person hides the clothes (of one of them), their owner(s) have (has) to marry him or help him (rare: her)
k38	Hero helps the nestlings	For helping its children, their powerful mother or father who is a giant bird or (rare) other flying being helps the hero
k38b	The nestlings and the aggressive snake	A serpent or water monster regularly devours or injures children of a bird or other flying creature (almost always nestlings of giant bird). The hero kills the serpent (monster)
k80a	A bird or an object tell about a murder	An object or a creature that emerged from remains, decorations, etc. of a killed person tells about his or her fate. Usually a reed grows from the person's grave and a pipe made from the reed tells the story
k82	Evil sister-in-law	Wife of a man or wives of a group of brothers envy his (their) sister and tries (try) to destroy her
k96	Fifty sons	Many brothers marry or have to marry in such a way that all their wives are (were) sisters

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kharia
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kolam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Santali, Turi, Mahli
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bhils (incl Barela-Bhilala), Pardhi, Kokna, Parwa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Cherokee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Mindanao: Blaan (Bilaan), Bagobo, Bukidnon, Cotabato, Hiligáynon, Binukid, Magindaan (=Magindanao: main Muslim population), Mandaya, Mansaka, Manobo (Agusan, Ata, Dibabawon, Sarangani, Ilianen), Maranao, Subanon (=Subanun), Subanen, Tboli
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Khakas

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Lithuanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Sinhalese; Vedda
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Bashkirs
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Byelarusians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Bulgarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Greeks (modern)