The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
The sun and/or the moon are inanimate objects thrown up to the sky or fixed in the sky
The Sun and Moon (Rig-Veda: the Sun only) appear from eyes of an anthropomorphic being
Initially the earth is a swamp, water and dry land are not separated from each other
Parts of the body of the primeval person or creature are transformed into different elements of the landscape and parts of the universe
Supernaturally big genitals are cut off and turn into snakes or other creatures and objects
The fire is personified as an elder man (alone or with his wife, mistress of fire)
Woman has no vagina and it is later made by bird or animal
For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man
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)
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
Initially men possessed women's biological traits and vice versa (beard, menses, breasts, bearing children)
Women menstruate because they bled in primeval time after the first defloration
Women bleed because fish or snake bites them. Usually it is invisible fish inside their body
In the other world or in the time of the ancestors food products or materials used by people looked as persons
Person or creature is transformed. Separate parts of its (his, her) body give origin to different objects or creatures (only etiological narratives are considered)
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
Originally the earth was unstable and swung, then it was fixed up
Stars (rare: suns and moons) are sparks or burning coals
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
Many brothers marry or have to marry in such a way that all their wives are (were) sisters
Thunder is produced by dragging behind a dry animal skin or (rare) a person (rare) or by shaking clothes
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
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)
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