Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b109	Person turns into bear	Person turns into a bear (origin of bears)
b120	The hibernation of snottish people	There are creatures who hibernate having frozen snot under their noses
b36a	Two creatures decorate each other	Two zoomorphic personages decorates each other or somebody decorates each of them
b38	The ruined painting	Person paints birds or animals or they paint each other. Some of them are not satisfied with the result
b38a	Two birds decorate each other	Two birds decorate each other, one becomes worse than it was before
b38c	Raven and loon paint each other	Raven and loon paint each other
b38e	Tail base of the loon	Person kicks loon or other water bird. Since then this bird has flat tail base and it walks on dry land with difficulty
b3a	Primeval waters	Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later
b3b	Earth grows big	Original earth was small and later increased in size or the fertile soil grew from a small amount of original substance
b81	Rifle for the dog	Creator and his opponent ponder upon should the dog be able to use a bow or fire-arms
b82	The white raven	Raven or other carrion-eating bird of dark color and a similar size was originally white
c5a	Bird-scouts	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
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)
c6c	The diver is a bird	An aquatic bird dives and brings the desired object from the bottom
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)
c6j1	The earth is brought by the God's enemy	God sends his enemy to bring earth from the bottom of the waterbody. In the beginning, the enemy or also the god can have guise of birds. When the earth is brought up and dry land created, two persons, now always anthropomorphic, are engaged into confrontation
e2	People made for a test	Making people, creator does not reach perfection immediately. First variants of creation are rejected, then proper form and material found
h40	Dog is the guard of man	Dog guards (successfully or unsuccessfully) the (still unfinished) physical body of man or the entrance to paradise
h41	Death and the dog	Dog is responsible for people being mortal or imperfect. Usually the antagonist bribes dog with a warm fur and the dog lets him spoil the half-ready human figures
h42	Creator goes away for a while	After creating the bodies of the first people or after getting a conception how to do it the Creator goes away for a while. During his absence another person, because of his or her ignorance or intentionally, spoils the creation or makes himself or herself what the Creator would make in a better way. Usually because of this people are mortal and subject to diseases
h43aa	Figure of the first man smeared with filth	After making human body, creator goes away for a time. In his absence another person spits on the human figure that was not yet alive, smears it with filth, etc.
m106	Meaningful name	Person lies that his name is so and so. Others understand it not as a name but as a common word and behave accordingly
n36	Above the forest, below the clouds	Tale and epic formula: a horse is galloping above trees (grass, surface of the earth) and below the sky (clouds)
n5	They recognize winter by rime, summer by rain	Long trips, campaigns, flights or battles are described using cliché which contain expressions like “they get to know that it is winter seeing rime, that it is summer, seeing rain” and the like

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Evens (Lamuts)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Mansi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Khakas
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Creols of Russkoye Ustye
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Mongols (Khalkha)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars