Birds or humans later changed to birds are sent to explore the earth (is it dry, are any survivals, to investigate why smoke rises to the sky, etc.) or to bring some soil to make the land that would be good for living
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
Supernatural person rubs his or her skin, creates the entire earth, human or other beings of dirt (from under his or her nails) and cuticle
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)
Snake (Pacific snake-eel in Polynesia) is in vagina; around the woman's thighs; vagina is a mouth of a snake; a woman with toothed vagina is associated with a snake; a snake crawls out of woman's mouth to bite off the man’s penis during the copulation
Initially men possessed women's biological traits and vice versa (beard, menses, breasts, bearing children)
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
The sky or the earth rests upon four or five (cardinal points and the center) supports of any kind (poles, mountains, giants)
Two anthropomorphic beings, a male and a female, are in the underworld and support the earth
Originally the earth was unstable and swung, then it was fixed up
Giant serpent lies on the perimeter of the earth or supports the earth
Being thrown out, put into certain places, born by primeval couple some beings turn into spirits of particular loci
Spirits or unpleasant animals (reptiles, worms, etc.) are (often: concealed from the eyes of God or deformed) children or miscarriages of the same human couple or the same primeval ancestor who produced first human beings
Being (any besides birds) with more than ten heads or with odd (but more than one) number of heads are described in tales or represented in art. If beings with ever more number of heads are named, the row ends with a being that has odd (or more than ten) number of heads
Constellation are interpreted as agricultural tools or people occupied with agricultural works (mostly ploughing and haymaking)
In the sky there is a special container (vessel, skin, box, etc.) for storing the rain
Extra suns who almost burned or could burn the world are children of the present one
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
A creditor comes from time to time to the Sun or the Moon to claim back his money producing eclipses
The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
In the beginning of time or after the world catastrophe brother and sister or mother and son are the only humans. They reject marriage or only the man does not want to marry his sister or mother. After their looks are changed (or only the sister or mother changes her face) they take each other for strangers, marry and beget the new race
Brother and sister avoid incestuous relations but marry after getting over the smallpox and because of this being unable to recognize each other
During the flood or in the beginning of times persons (usually brother abd sister) are floating in a big bottle gourd
Person conceals his or her close relatives (children, mother, brothers) and tells another that he or she has killed them. Another believes and agrees to kill his or her own children, mother, etc.
Person conceals her children and tells another one that she has killed them. Another person really kills her own
By trick or by force, a rival or adversary kidnaps hero's wife or bride. The man gets her back
Master of the house allows person to feel himself (herself) free bit not to look into particular place. The person breaks prohibition
Person sets off in search of fire and finds it in the house of a demon. The demon makes harm to the person
In a certain time in the past three or more suns were on the sky simultaneously
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)
A worm obtains the earth (from the underworld), it emerges from the worm's excrements, is extracted from inside of the worm
Persons or animals dive or otherwise decend to the lower world to get a desired object and to bring it to earth (besides episodes in the fairytales, cf. motif k27x9)
A crustacean brings the earth from the bottom of the ocean or from the lower world
Stars are nails in the firmament or pegs, or stars are nailed to the sky
The sky (Milky Way) is a skin of an animal or a cloth
Original earth was small and later increased in size or the fertile soil grew from a small amount of original substance
God, animal, some person warns one of the people about the catastrophy (usuallly the flood) that will become soon and in which most of the people must perish
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