Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
b2a	The female earth	The earth is a female person (alone or together with a male person); she is female being or associated with a woman
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)
h4	The shed skin	Those who change their skin become young again
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
h7	The personified Death	Death (also Old Age, Disease, etc.) is a particular person not identical with the Master of the Dead. He kills people usually carrying away their souls
i28	Animals in the underworld	Game animals live inside a mountain, in a cave or in the underworld where they often look like humans and have a master
i8i	Original earth unstable	Originally the earth was unstable and swung, then it was fixed up
k27e	Eating or drinking contest	Person or animal must eat (drink) enormous quantity of food (beverage) or eat or drink poisonous beverage or food
k27n	Difficult tasks of the in-laws	A man must fulfill difficult tasks (to win competition) to receive the permission for a marriage
l11	Turtle-bench	In a non-human world objects of everyday life have appearance of animals and monsters, mainly fish, amphibians and reptiles
l81	Demon’s fire	Person sets off in search of fire and finds it in the house of a demon. The demon makes harm to the person
m149a	Treaty with the tiger	A man, light-mindedly or against his own wish, makes an agreement with a dangerous predator. He does not want (cannot) keep it or breaks it and the predator is going to kill him but the man remains alive
m29b	Trickster-fox, jackal or coyote	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is fox, jackal or coyote
m29w2	The tiger is a failure	Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the tiger suffers a reverse, is injured or dies

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Bribri, Cabecar, Térraba; Chiriqui (AD 800-1500) iconography
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 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): 6 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): 5 Tradition: Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Warli
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Portuguese
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Lithuanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ossetians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Dhanwar
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Slovenians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Latvians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Karelians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Finns
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Serbs, Monte Negro,