Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a17	The Sun’s relax at the midday	After passing half of the its way across the sky (in the day time) or in the underworld (in the night time), the Sun stops to have a rest
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
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)
c6b	The diver is muskrat (otter, beaver)	A muskrat (more rare beaver or otter) brings the desired object from under the water
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)
g18	Person wants to be sacrificed	A person asks people to abandon him or her in the forest, to burn or drag him or her around the future garden plot, to burn her in her house, etc. People fulfill the person's wish and find cultivated plants growing on the place
h53	Wolf is the master of the dead	Wolf takes part in creation and/or is a brother of the creator who wins demons of the lower world. Wolf is the first person who died and/or becomes the master of the dead
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)
i22a	Rising and falling sky	The sky is constantly moving up and down in respect to earth
i62	Milky Way is a river	Milky Way is a sky river, water body, chain of beings that swim
i65	Milky Way of the dead	Milky Way is the path over which souls travel to the beyond or a path of the funeral procession
k19a	Star-wife	A man maries a star-woman
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
k69	A visit to God	A group of persons decide to go to the end of the world to meet the Sun or other supreme god. One (or several) of them perish on their way, some reach destination, at least one returns home using the shorter way than the one they have took before
l75	Flint kills his mother	One of twin brothers is evil. Being still in the womb, he does not want to be born in a normal way and bursts through his mother’s side killing her
m13	The short-sighted wish is granted	Some person makes a wish not taking in mind that his words can have other meaning or accidentally replacing one word with another. As a result, something quite undesirable takes place
m13a	Transformed into stone	God agrees or suggests to fulfill a demand of a man. As a result the latter is transformed into a stone
m29g	Trickster-hare or rabbit	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is hare or rabbit

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Cherokee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
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: Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Iowa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Lenape (Delaware)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Ottawa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Menominee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Lenape (Delaware)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Eastern Swamy Cree
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Potawatomi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Assiniboine
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Malecite, Passamaquoddy
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Micmac