Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a12	Eclipses: monster’s attack	Some creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, summer and winter, lunar phases) or irregularly (solar and lunar eclipses, eschatological events) attack the luminaries or shade their light
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
b125	Animals exchange their organs	During the time of creation particular species of animals (rare: plants) exchanged certain organs or traits or one animal borrowed an organ from another one but never brought it back. Thence the characteristics of these animals now. In rare cases the back exchange and restoring of the initial situation or the passing of certain organ from one animal to another without compensation are described
b26	Man joins wild animals	Person who follows the wild animals turns into one of them or into their master
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
b40a	Missed opportunity to have horns	Animal who has no horns now had them before or missed opportunity to get them
b82	The white raven	Raven or other carrion-eating bird of dark color and a similar size was originally white
b86	Babylonian tower	To reach the sky (the Sun, Moon, particular star), people build a ladder or tower that consists of separate modules (bricks, logs, sticks, etc.). This construction collapses
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
c14	Monsters destroy people	During or before the world catastrophe (deluge, darkness) wild beasts and monsters attack and destroy people
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
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d4d	Opossum steals fire	Opossum steals fire for people
e35	Webbed fingers	First people or people made by Creator's rival were imperfect, not completely anthropomorphic (often: had webbed fingers)
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
h11	The call of God	People become mortal because they do not hear or answer a call of a being who promises them immortality (or do not pronounce his name) or answer a call (pronouns the name) of a being who brings death
h2	The selfish animal	Animals ask God to make people mortal because people would be too numerous and step on the animals, deprive them of their food and habitat, or because the animals want to feast on the human corpses
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
i13a	The horned serpent	Giant water-chthonic or sky serpent or dragon has horns or antlers on its head
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
i27a	Towns and paths of dogs	Souls of the dead dogs have their own towns in the Beyond or their own paths to travel there
i28	Animals in the underworld	Game animals live inside a mountain, in a cave or in the underworld where they often look like humans and have a master
i4b	Thunder in trouble: fights with his enemy	A man helps Thunder who fights with his enemy
i7	The cloud serpent	A flying reptile produces rain, thunderstorm
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
i9	Colors of the cardinal directions	Four cardinal directions and/or some objects associated with them are associated with different colors
j12	Travelling girl walks across suitors	A girl (or two sisters) travel, usually in search of a proper marriage partner who lives far away or who has gone away. On her way or after reaching the place of destination the girl gets to some unpleasant suitors
j22b	Two women from one	A woman is torn or cut in half, two new women appear
j46	Enemy drowns	Antagonist perishes falling into the water or trying to cross a water body
k177	The travelling heroine	A girl or young woman sets off to find or return her fience or her husband or she escapes from a fanger and ultimately marries happily
k22	Dwarfs and cranes	Different from (common) people inhabitants of a distant land fight from time to time with non-human enemies who periodically attack them
k22a	Dwarfs attacked	Birds or other creatures which not dangerous for common people attack dwarfs who live in another world
k22b	Man helps inhabitants of other world	Inhabitants of a distant land who have different nature than (normal) human beings struggle from time to time with some non-human enemies. Man helps local dwellers because their enemies are not dangerous for the human beings
k41	Thunder against a serpent	Thunder or giant bird fights against a reptile, big water animal or other big and strong creature who lives in water or under the 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
l28	The snake-eater	Person who have eaten a prohibited meat or fish turns into monstrous snake or fish
l70	Fruit falls and kills	Person or animal is killed or injured with a heavy object dropped from a tree (or rock, etc.). The person or the animal knows that the objects will fall but has falls ideas about its character and weight
l98	Cannibal owl	Dangerous cannibal or bush spirit who abducts children, attacks people, etc. is associated with an owl
m109	The tail-fisher	Animal person puts his tail (penis) down and waits in hope to get something edible. The tail (penis) is torn or cut off, the person escapes or dies
m29b	Trickster-fox, jackal or coyote	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is fox, jackal or coyote
m29b1	The wolf is a failure	Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the wolf suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
m29b2	The bear is a failure/enemy	Because of its stupidity or unsocial behavior, the bear suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
m8b	Birds break an obstacle to get water	Birds or (rare) animals work hard to break a rock or a cane and get water or honey concealed inside

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tlingit
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Papago
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Chitimacha
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Navajo

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Alabama, Koasati
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Cherokee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Arikara
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Crow
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
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