Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a37	The Sun is attacked with weapons	Person intentionally and with special equipment (usually shooting arrows) attacks the Sun (or several suns if they were many)
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
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
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
b40	Rabbit as deer’s proxy	Hare or rabbit is a false deer or it was deer in the past or a close kin of the deer or had horns or antlers or missed opportunity to get them, its ears are the false horns
b40a	Missed opportunity to have horns	Animal who has no horns now had them before or missed opportunity to get them
b92	Flint person turns into flints	Person whose body is extraordinary hard and invulnerable or (rare) a small object is broken to pieces that turn into flints or other hard stones (the origin of flints)
c19	Acquisition of the sun	The Sun (the day light) that was absent, stolen or hidden appears (again)
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d4g	Hummingbird discovers where the fire is (and brings it to people)	Hummingbird discovers where the fire is (and brings it to people)
e29	Lizard gives proper hands	Two persons (usually Coyote and Lizard) argue if people's hand has to be like a paw or people should have fingers
e37	Peoples from sticks	Creator takes many small sticks, transforms them into people of both sexes and all ages
f25	Origin of menses: girl smeared with blood	Woman is smeared with blood or red paint. Since then women menstruate
f3a	The pregnant man	A man carries a child like a woman
h1a	The originator of death the first sufferer	One person wants man to live forever, another wants man to be mortal. When somebody dear to the latter one dies, he or she is eager to accept the suggestion of his or her opponent but the original decision cannot be changed
h36gg	Death and the coyote	Coyote is responsible for introduction of permanent death
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)
i22g	Clapping rocks	There are mountains or rocks which permanently collide and separate again from each other or a crack (jaws) in a vertical cliff which is opening and closing
i40	Rainbow bow	Rainbow is a bow
j1	The vengeful heroes	Persons avenge the death of their father, mother or other relatives who are one (rare two) generations older than they
j22a	Two men from one	Two men or a man and a woman appear from two halves of the cut in two anthropomorphic body or embryo; or another man appears from part of the body of the first one or from his body discharge
j30	Parents’ remains	Before the hero destroys the antagonists or escapes from them, he finds or receives the remains or possessions that belonged to the antagonists' victim
j4a	Revenge for the death of the mother	A woman is murdered. Her son or children (rare: grandchildren, nephews) revenge for her death
j52	Two animal persons and their children	A person (usually zoomorphic and female) treacherously kills her (his) companion. The victim's children revenge on the murderer killing her own children
j52a	Bear as antagonist	A bear-person (usually Bear-woman) kills her or his female companion who is associated with a weaker animal – not a predator or a weaker predator. The victim's children revenge on the antagonist killing her own children and / or run away and escape
j53	The fawns and the cubs	Children of the ungulate animal person (deer, doe, antelope) become the enemies of a predator or bigger ungulate animal person. They kill her (him) and (or) successively escape from her (him)
j53c	One of two female companions kills another	Two co-wives of female companions live together, both have children. Once when they go to work outdoors (usually to gather wild plants), one of them kills and devours another. The victim's children escape
j59	Following arrow to get to the sky	To climb to the sky, person must first to shoot an arrow that reaches the sky and sticks to it
k11a	Feathers turn into birds or men	Feathers of (giant) bird turn into different present day birds (in their plumage) or into the men
k12	Woman is lost and returned	By trick or by force, a rival or adversary kidnaps hero's wife or bride. The man gets her back
k176	A man in search of the woman	A (young) man sets off to find or to return his bride or his wife
k27 (motif is not in the correlation table)	Competitions and difficult tasks	Person is suggested to fulfill tasks that are mortally dangerous or cannot be fulfilled without supernatural helpers or capacities. The person fulfills the tasks and remains alive. A contest between persons has form of a competition or game in which the loser is deprived of his status or life
k27c	Ordeal: knives and thorns	An ordeal: to remain alive after contact with sharp points or blades
k27n1	Task-giver is a king or a chief	Person who gives difficult tasks to the hero and/or person who demands the fulfillment of certain conditions from those who want to marry his daughter is a prominent figure in social hierarchy. He is a head of the socio-political unit of community or super-community level and is neither a member of the hero’s household nor a mythical being
l33	Rolling stone	Stone chases people to crash them
l46	Head downward	Person ascends, descends, walks head downward or sees the world upside down
l47	Enemy moves backward and dies	Hero's enemy ascends a tree or rock head downward or walks backward letting the hero better possibility to kill him or to escape
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
m29e	Trickster-skunk	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is skunk
m96	Imagined guests	Person does not want to share his meal with his close relatives and pretending to have many guests, eats food alone

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Ute
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Pomo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Sierra Miwok
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: Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Yuki (Yuki proper, Coastal Yuki, Huchnob)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Lillooet
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambé; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Klamath, Modoc
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Pomo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Northern Shoshone
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Sierra Miwok