Two persons or animals argue about who of them will be the first to see the rising sun. One who seemed to have less chances wins
Two persons or animals argue who will see the rising sun first. One who got to see not the sun itself but its reflection or the first beams on trees or mountain tops wins
Because the dog was spreading some information, altercated with its masters, was talking in a wrong time, etc. it lost the ability to speak
It is discussed if darkness or light, cold or warm periods should exist
The primeval ancestors (usually birds and animals) participate in discussion concerning the desired predominance or wamth/light or cold/darkness, number of the units of time in a tempoi cycle, etc.
To reach the sky (the Sun, Moon, particular star), people build a ladder or tower that consists of separate modules (bricks, logs, sticks, etc.). This construction collapses
Bat (rare: ostrich) makes attempts to join sometimes animals and sometime birds or is excluded from both categories
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
The Sun (the day light) that was absent, stolen or hidden appears (again)
First people or inhabitants of a distant country cook food in the sun; or fire owner lies that he or she cooks food in the sun
Woman gives birth to a gourd, a bag (with eggs), a piece of meat. The flesh is cut into pieces which turn into people or many people come out of the gourd or bag
Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
The world was or will be (almost) burned when several suns had (will) appear(ed) simultaneously; or the only sun was too hot (or bright)
Other suns or moons besides present ones had been in the sky and were later annihilated
Two or more suns shine in the sky. When the extra suns had been annihilated, there was a risk of the last one being destroyed too
The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
A figure or an imprint of some being or object are seen in the Moon. (For statistical analysis motifs A32A – A32J are also included into A32)
Human being or imprint of human being is seen in the moon
Person intentionally and with special equipment (usually shooting arrows) attacks the Sun (or several suns if they were many)
People fell trees to make a garden. In the morning, the forest is intact again
Game animals were concentrated in one single place. Certain person lets them disperse in the world
After getting domestic animals from supernaturals a person immediately loses the animals or most of them (usually because of a broken taboo like to look, to speak in a loud voice, etc.; the animals disappear in water, remain in the sky, scatter in various directions, etc.)
A living creature or a lump of alive flesh is cut into pieces which are diepersed around. After some time every piece turns into human being
The cock lures out the Sun from its hiding place or people beliefe that the Sun will not rise if the cock would not cry
Killing (injuring, offending) of some cruature (usually related to water) triggers deluge
The bat becomes an outcast among other creatures (usually after it makes attempts to join first animals and then birds or vice versa)
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
First seeds (sprouts, tubors) of cultivated plants or of important edible wild plants are brought from the sky (received from the sky-dwellers)
Initially, the Moon was as bright and hot as the Sun
Person steals cultivated plants for the people hiding the seeds on/in his body
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
Using trick, a man sells or exchanges for treasure ashes. Another person tries to sell ashes and is ridiculed
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