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
a46	The Sun and Moon emerge from the eyes of a being	The Sun and Moon (Rig-Veda: the Sun only) appear from eyes of an anthropomorphic being
a46a	The Sun and Moon are eyes of a deity	The Sun and Moon (Rig-Veda: the Sun only) are associated with eyes of an anthropomorphic being (the motif of their emergence, creation from his eyes is not obligatory)
b3	A primeval swamp	Initially the earth is a swamp, water and dry land are not separated from each other
b43	Purusha	Parts of the body of the primeval person or creature are transformed into different elements of the landscape and parts of the universe
b53	Creatures or objects from cut off genitals	Supernaturally big genitals are cut off and turn into snakes or other creatures and objects
d1b	Male spirit of fire	The fire is personified as an elder man (alone or with his wife, mistress of fire)
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
f11	Biting penis	Penis is biting, stinging, eats food
f16	Men and women: exchange of anatomical characteristics	Initially men possessed women's biological traits and vice versa (beard, menses, breasts, bearing children)
f23	Origin of menses: sexual act	Women menstruate because they bled in primeval time after the first defloration
f24	Origin of menses: a bite	Women bleed because fish or snake bites them. Usually it is invisible fish inside their body
f6	Gouged our vagina	Woman has no vagina and it is later made by bird or animal
f9	A dangerous woman	For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man
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)
g15	Plant maidens	In the other world or in the time of the ancestors food products or materials used by people looked as persons
g23	Alive being turns into many objects	Person or creature is transformed. Separate parts of its (his, her) body give origin to different objects or creatures (only etiological narratives are considered)
h1e	The first dead opens the road	After the first death the road to the realm of death remains open; certain person makes a road to the realm of death; the first person who had died becomes the ruler of the guard of the realm of death
h5	People and snakes	Reptiles or invertebrates possess the medicine of immortality; are contrasted with men as immortal with mortals and/or are responsible for originating of death; or a snake's bite inflicts the first death
i104	Stars are fragments	Stars are fragments of a bigger luminary (usually the Moon); or stars, the sun and the moon are formed from one and the same primeval person or creature
i35	Dragging a hide produces thunder	Thunder is produced by dragging behind a dry animal skin or (rare) a person (rare) or by shaking clothes
i73	Stars are sparks	Stars (rare: suns and moons) are sparks or burning coals
i8i	Original earth unstable	Originally the earth was unstable and swung, then it was fixed up
i96	Bloody rainbow	Rainbow is blood, associated with war and death
k161	The liberated dragon	Person imprisoned a dragon (demon, Thunder, etc.) and warns the other not to open a certain room (not to give water to the prisoner, etc.). The instruction is broken and the demon liberates himself that has undesirable consequences
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): 5 Tradition: Bondo, Didayi (Gata')
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Amahuaca, Cashinahua, Sharanahua, Yaminahua, Yawanahua, Capanahua)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Southern Cook Islands: Mangaia, Rarotonga, Atiu, Iatutakim Pukapuka, Tubuai (=Austral Islands, incl Rapa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ingush
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Bosnia Muslims
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Byelarusians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Greeks (modern)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Bulgarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Hungarians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Georgians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Bashkirs