Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a2	Several suns	In a certain time in the past three or more suns were on the sky simultaneously
a2a	The sun is a source of distructive heat	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)
a2b	Extra suns and moons annihilated	Other suns or moons besides present ones had been in the sky and were later annihilated
a37	The Sun is attacked with weapons	Person intentionally and with special equipment (usually shooting arrows) attacks the Sun (or several suns if they were many)
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
a6	The Sun and the Moon are females	Both the Sun and the Moon are considered to be females (incl. cases when the gender is not directly specified but both emerge from parts of the body of a female person)
b2d	Marriage of the sky and the earth	The male Sky (the Sun, the Thunder, the creator of the sky) marries the female Earth (or its female creator) or the female Sky marries the male Earth
b2e	The male earth	The earth or the world as a whole is a male person (alone or together with a female person)
b43	Purusha	Parts of the body of the primeval person or creature are transformed into different elements of the landscape and parts of the universe
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
b77a	Giant pushed the sky up	One or several (animal)-persons push sky up to its present height
c2	Deluge and conflagration combined	Inhabitans of the Middle World are (partly) destroyed (or will be destoyed) once by fire or draught, another time by a flood or the world is destroyed with a flood of fire or boiling water
c39	The repaired sky	When part of the sky was broken, the hole was filled up with stones or pieces of ice
c40	Rocks fall from the sky	In the beginning rocks were falling from the sky killing people
c8b	Siblings change their looks and marry	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
c8c	Mother and son produce people	After the world cataclysm, in the beginning of time or coming to a new land a woman marries her son and produce people
c8e	Survival in the floating bottle gourd	During the flood or in the beginning of times persons (usually brother abd sister) are floating in a big bottle gourd
e38a	Woman gives birth to many embryos	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
e38b	People from gourd	After the world cataclysm or in the beginning of times a gourd survives or appears, new people come out of it
f47	Pieces of flesh turn to people	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
f64	The lecherous parent	Person changes his or (rare) her guise to marry his or her close relative in descending or (rare) ascending line
f64a	Describes future husband	Going away or pretending to die, a person bids his or her relative to marry another person who resembles him (her) or has some special traits; or he describes a man who should be met as a dear guest; person comes himself unrecognized and is taken for one whom he had described
f64b	Incestuous woman	A woman pretends to be a stranger to have sexual relations with her (grand)son, daughter or brother
f89	A smart sister	Sister and brother live alone. The brother rejects the incest. The sister makes him take her for unknown girl, marries him
f9	A dangerous woman	For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man
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)
g23	Alive being turns into many objects	Person or creature is transformed. Separate parts of its (his, her) body give origin to different objects or creatures (only etiological narratives are considered)
i104	Stars are fragments	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
i3	Weapon of Thunder	The lightning (and thunder) is (produced with) an object (axe, sword, mirror, belt, stones, skin, etc.) in hands of anthropomorphic being
i77	The lame thunder	Powerful person connected with thunder and rain is lame (usually after falling down from the sky)
i81a	The chthonic crab	A giant crab produces earthquakes or floods, stops or can stop flow of the waters into the chasm or on the contrary prevents waters from being dammed.
i8g	Atlas	One giant supports the earth or the sky
j21	Birth from eggs	Gods, first people or founders of the royal lineages are born from eggs
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
k56c	Golden axe	A man loses an axe. A spirit or a powerful official suggests him a golden axe but the man does not accept it. The spirit (official) gives him axes of gold and silver as a reward for his honesty. Usually another man intentionally loses his axe, claims the golden one but receives nothing
k66	Extraordinary companions	Several companions have extraordinary abilities (one who runs fast, one who eats great quantities, one who produces or can withstand severe frost, etc.); a hero comes across and takes for companions several men, each of them being involved into a special and unusual activity
l28a	Eating of snake meat triggers flood	Because people (or certain person) eat the meat of a snake (dragon, strange fish), a flood begins or a landslide occurs, or a river (lake) appears
m29b	Trickster-fox, jackal or coyote	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is fox, jackal or coyote
m8	Breaking the obstacle	Non-human persons work hard to destroy a strong and durable obstacle that blocks access to some place or object

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