Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a14a	The conflict between the Sun and the Moon	The Sun and the Moon are or were enemies, either permanently or in particular situations
a20	Childhood and youth of the Sun and Moon	The Sun and the Moon (rare: the Sun and a star, the Moon and a star) are two siblings who live on earth and then ascend to the sky being still young persons
a31	The incestuous Moon	As a result of some intimate contacts and/or love affair, the Moon acquires its present appearance (often, the stains on his face) and/or ascends to the sky
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
a7	The sun pursues the moon	The Sun and the Moon are two persons one of which is pursuing another in the sky or pursued him or her when they were rising to the sky from the earth
a7a	Torches in hands of celestial bodies	Light of the Sun (Moon, Venus) is a torch in hands of the celestial body
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
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
b71	Aurora borealis	Aurora borealis is spirits (of the dead) who run holding burning torches, play or fight with each other
f1	First woman is a transformed man	Woman, female supernatural or animal females are created by changing the sex of a man (or male animals)
f65	The false burial	To realize his or her secret desire (illicit sex, refusal to share food with relations), person pretends to die and is abandoned at a burial place
f65a	Death feigned to meet paramour	Person pretends to die. His or her wife or husband abandons him or her on a burial place. He or she marries his or her paramour
f91	A worm-breeder	A man lets his wife to be eaten up by worms. She either dies or has a narrow escape
h1f	People learn how to bury the dead	People get to know what they should do with the dead body observing the behavios of a raven (crow)
h34a	Controversy over conditions of life	Person has a series of suggestions how to make the world easy for living and free of hard work and death. His companion successively rejects them. Their dialogue forever defines conditions of human life
h34e	The edible snow	Snow was edible or something edible was falling from the sky instead of the snow
h36ff	Death and the raven	Raven is responsible for introduction of permanent death
i22	Objects in permanent movement	There are objects which remaining on the same place are moving permanently or periodically (meet and part. rise and fall down, shut and open, rotate)
i22c	A plank from the stern of Argo	Person succeeds in getting through the opening which is going to bang shut but the stern of his boat, the tail of an animal or a bird, the body of his horse, or his own heel is flatterned, torn off, etc.
i22g	Clapping rocks	There are mountains or rocks which permanently collide and separate again from each other or a crack (jaws) in a vertical cliff which is opening and closing
i35	Dragging a hide produces thunder	Thunder is produced by dragging behind a dry animal skin or (rare) a person (rare) or by shaking clothes
i36	Thunder and lightning are relatives, spouses or in-laws	Thunder and lightning (two thunders, two lightings) are close relatives, spouses or in-laws
i55	Stars are openings	Stars are openings in the firmament; holes in dwelling's covering are thought to be stars
j37	The antagonist is carried away by bird	A man turns into powerful bird or creates it. The bird carries away his enemy
j44	The broken bridge	Person or his helper draws his enemies on the unstable bridge and destroys it. The enemies fall into water, into a precipice
k27 (motif is not in the correlation table)	Competitions and difficult tasks	Person is suggested to fulfill tasks that are mortally dangerous or cannot be fulfilled without supernatural helpers or capacities. The person fulfills the tasks and remains alive. A contest between persons has form of a competition or game in which the loser is deprived of his status or life
k27n	Difficult tasks of the in-laws	A man must fulfill difficult tasks (to win competition) to receive the permission for a marriage
k27s	Contest: a race	Contest: a race
k28	Father or uncle is rival and enemy	Maternal uncle or father (or grandfather if he replaces father who is not mentioned) of the young man is his rival or enemy and tries to kill him
k47a	A woman and a dog	After having sexual contact with a dog, a woman gives birth to his children. The puppies turn into humans and usually become ancestors of particular groups of people
k51	The deceived wife	A Man disappears or goes away for long time. His wife sets off, comes to a house where her husband lives now or first sends her son there. She gets to know that he has married another woman
k51a	Woman pushes her rival into the boiling pot	A woman comes to her rival and kills her pushing her head into boiling liquid or pouring it into her ear
k59	Box for Osiris	One man puts another into a box, closes the lid (or ties him to a board, to canoe, etc.) and puts the box adrift. It floats to another land, man is released there, returns home, revenges on his enemy
k8a	Jonah: swallowed by monster	Person gets into the belly of water being or into the belly of giant creature which appearance and living place remain vague. He kills the monster from the inside and/or returns to earth by himself (i.e. not extracted by other people)
k8b	Woman is soul of a whale	Raven gets inside a whale where he sees a woman who asks him not to touch an inner organ of the whale (usually its heart) or a burning lamp. Raven touches it, woman disappears, the whale dies
l134	The third wave	Hero’s enemy (often a demonic woman) hides inside a sea wave or is associated with it
l1a	Woman turns into the bear	A young woman turns into the bear (in Asia, into the tiger) and attacks her husband or close relatives
l65d	Younger sister of cannibal woman	When the elder sister becomes a cannibal, the younger one (temporarily) escapes. Cf. motifs L1B, L65C
l85	One-sided people	One-sided people have one leg and/or also one arm, one half of a head, etc. The second leg is not cut or burned off, preserved as a stump but is absent completely
m29a	Trickster-raven	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is raven
m29a1	Raven (crow) is the main trickster	In three or more different episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is raven (crow)
m53e	Would believe evil omen	Person (always a raven) kills a whale. When people come, he tells them about some circumstances that can make the meat dangerous. People do not dare to touch the meat and the deceiver eats it alone
m64	Person pretends to possess resources	To get valuables (food, fire) concealed by their owner, person pretends that the valuables are already in his possession

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: North Alaskan Inupiat
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Labrador Inuit (Koksoagmiut)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Baffin Land Inuit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Netsilik
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Iglulik
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Polar Inuit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Chukchi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: West Greenland
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Caribou

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: North Alaskan Inupiat
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Chukchi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Chugach
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Haida
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kodiak
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Aleuts
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Central Yupik
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)