Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a23	Elections of the Sun to be	The primeval ancestors come together to choose the best candidate to become the Sun and/or to send the Sun to the sky or to see how the Sun rises to the sky for the first time
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)
a32b	The Moon toad	Frog or toad are seen in the moon or the Moon is associated with them
a32b1	Jumps on the face of the Moon	A woman sits (jumps) on the face (back) of the Moon man and now is seen as the shadows on the lunar disc
a40	The Sun or Moon marry toad	Frog or Toad is a wife of the Sun or Moon
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b107	The black oyster	During a (world) fire oyster was burned, nor now oyster shells are black
b12	Rivers and snakes	The river bed follows the way of a snake, fish, dragon or crab; pieces of the snake’s body turn into rivers; a river is a snake
b14	To regulate the river current, person creates rapids and falls	Person creates river rapids
b83	Bag too heavy to be lifted up	Person tries to pick up a small object or creature but it proves to be of enormous weight (and size)
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
g6	Primeval tree	One of the trees is the principal, original one (emerged before all the other; ancestor of wild or cultivated plants; ocean or rivers inside it; world axis; higher than all the others; overshadows sky)
h28	Plagues from the body of a person or creature	Killed and destroyed (often burned) person or creature (usually ogre, fierce animal, powerful shaman) turns into a multitude of biting insects or into other small molesting creatures
i1	The thunderbirds	Creatures that produce rain and/or thunderstorms are birds or anthropomorphic beings with wings; or (rare) some or all birds are connected with thunder, lightning or rain though Thunder is not a bird
i12	The world axis	A tree or post pierces and unites different layers of the universe
i75	World ages	Before present world, several (two or more) other worlds or races of people existed
j1	The vengeful heroes	Persons avenge the death of their father, mother or other relatives who are one (rare two) generations older than they
j4	Revenge for the death of the male relatives	Heroes avenge the murder or captivity of the male relatives: (grand)father, uncles, or the elder relatives in general, the loss of the males being the most traumatic
j5	Brothers as victims	Two or several brothers or friends are killed by antagonists. One of them is the father of the young hero who avenges their death or all of them are his uncles
k58a	Water in exchange for love	Person makes water or fish available only if girl agrees to marry him and does not do it if the girl is unwilling
l110	The devourer	A demonic being swallows a multitude of people and animals. When it is killed and cut open, the swallowed ones come out alive or are revived
l33	Rolling stone	Stone chases people to crash them
l33a	Rock pursues stealer	Trickster takes off an object (often a blanket) that lies on or near a rock or other seemingly inanimate object and that has been presented to it. The object pursues or otherwise punishes the stealer
l33e	Presented blanket	Trickster takes a blanket or decorations which are a property of Rock or other seemingly inanimate object (usually the same trickster presented this blanket to Rock before)
l53	Stones into the maw	A monstrous being is killed or neutralized by (burning hot) stones (pieces of metal, heavy fruits, etc.) thrown into its maw or anus or the being retreats when they menace to throw a stone into its maw
l65	Demonic baby	A baby or small child proves to be a demon, devours or injures people
l66	Tunnel under the monster	A small animal digs an underground hole to the place where the monstrous stag, elk, antelope, or buffalo lies. Hero climbs along the tunnel and kills the monster
l93a	Helpful fox	Cunning fox, jackal or coyote saves particular person or many people, helps them
m29b	Trickster-fox, jackal or coyote	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is fox, jackal or coyote
m29b2	The bear is a failure/enemy	Because of its stupidity or unsocial behavior, the bear suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
m86	Rock punishes trickster	Rock chases or otherwise punishes person who has offended it (usually deceived it or has taken objects that belong to Rock)
m88	Involved into dance	A man joins a group of dancing women and is killed or injured as a result

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Okanagon, Sanpoil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Arapaho
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Crow
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Hidatsa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sicuani

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Crow
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Teton (incl Oglala)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Santee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Arapaho
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Western Shoshone, Gosiute
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ute
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Blackfoot
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Hidatsa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Assiniboine