Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a32	Figure on lunar disc	A figure or an imprint of some being or object are seen in the Moon. (For statistical analysis motifs A32A – A32J are also included into A32)
a32d	Man in the Moon	Human being or imprint of human being is seen in the moon
b2a	The female earth	The earth is a female person (alone or together with a male person); she is female being or associated with a woman
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
b87	Alcor	Alcor (a weak star near the second star of the handle of the Big Dipper) is selected as a particular sky object
b87d	Alcor is a baby	Alcor (a weak star near Mizar, the second star of the Big Dipper’s handle) is a baby
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)
e5a	Mankind ascends from the underworld	The first people (or only the first men or the first women) are not created but come to earth from the underworld (from a cave) or from a small enclosure under the earth or on its surface (tree trunk, rock, gourd, etc.). Many people of both sexes and of different ages or people and different species of animals come out together
i100	The Pleiades are girls	The Pleiades are a group of girls or women (with children)
i100b	The Pleiades are a group of people	The Pleiades are any people (of any ages and sex, combined data of i99-i100a)
i126	Funerals in the sky	Ursa major or other circumpolar constellation is a stretcher on which a dead or sick person is carried, a dead body ready for the burial, a tomb

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Santee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Bhils (incl Barela-Bhilala), Pardhi, Kokna, Parwa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Melanesians of the northern coast New Guinea, nearest off-shore islands and Huon Gulf (Morobe district): Watut, Bilbil (Bilibili), Jabim (incl Kai), Tami, Bukawac, Wogeo, Tumleo, Yakamul, Manam, Sissano, Sio
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Pawnee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Nogai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Poles
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Mari (Cheremis)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Lenape (Delaware)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Blackfoot

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