Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
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
c10	The flood: the wet tails	During the flood birds or animals escape to some place (mountain, tree, boat, sky). Tips of their tails or other body parts get covered with water or foam and acquire their present color and form
c10a	The flood: birds cling to the sky	During the flood some birds survive clinging to the sky with their beaks
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)
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)
c6e	The diver is a crustacean	A crustacean brings the earth from the bottom of the ocean or from the lower world
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
g24	Food from the sky	First seeds (sprouts, tubors) of cultivated plants or of important edible wild plants are brought from the sky (received from the sky-dwellers)
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
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

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Alabama, Koasati
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Yuchi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Choctaw, Chicasaw
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Tlingit
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
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: Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Potawatomi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Menominee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Eastern Swamy Cree
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Shawnee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Yuchi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Chitimacha
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Alabama, Koasati
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Cherokee