Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a12	Eclipses: monster’s attack	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
a12f	Eclipses: the creditor	A creditor comes from time to time to the Sun or the Moon to claim back his money producing eclipses
b3a	Primeval waters	Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later
b3d	Earth from worm’s excrements	A worm obtains the earth (from the underworld), it emerges from the worm's excrements, is extracted from inside of the worm
b3e	Earth falls on waters	In the beginning there are only air and water. 1) Person descends from the sky, creates the dry land or a hard support created for her or him grows into the earth. 2) The earth is sent or dropped from the sky, put on the surface of the water. 3) The earth is brought from somewhere (not from the underworld) and put on the water
c6	Valuables brought from the lower world	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)
c6d	The aquisition of the earth from the lower world	The dry land (the earth) grows from a small amount of solid substance (sand, clay, dirt and the like) brought from the lower world (usually from the bottom of the ocean)
i40	Rainbow bow	Rainbow is a bow

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 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): 5 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: Bondo, Didayi (Gata')
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Santali, Turi, Mahli
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Semang, Senoi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bashkirs

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Southern Selkups
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Nganasans
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Enets
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Northern Selkups
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Kets
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar