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
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
b82	The white raven	Raven or other carrion-eating bird of dark color and a similar size was originally white
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
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)
c6c	The diver is a bird	An aquatic bird dives and brings the desired object from the bottom
c6c1	Birds: successful and unsuccessful divers	Two or more different birds (often a loon and a duck) dive one after another to get earth from under the ocean. Only one of them is successful
c6c4	The duck is successful diver	The duck (or an aquatic bird similar to the duck) dives and brings a piece of earth that is transformed into the dry land (it is the only or the only successful diver)
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)
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
e3	New people from bones	After destruction of previous world, new people (rare: new earth) are made from the bones of the perished race
e37	Peoples from sticks	Creator takes many small sticks, transforms them into people of both sexes and all ages
f35a	Feeding with the kin’s meat	Person does not know that he or she eats or cooks the meat of the member of his or her household (blood relation, more rare a spouse or servant) or serves it to his or her friends, or uses her or his bones for everyday needs, or slowly kills him ort her
i100	The Pleiades are girls	The Pleiades are a group of girls or women (with children)
j1	The vengeful heroes	Persons avenge the death of their father, mother or other relatives who are one (rare two) generations older than they
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)
l32	Gluttonous stone	Stone swallows, bites or transforms people
l34	The burning hair	Person kills or injures his enemy putting fire on his or her straw costume, mask, headgear, hair or object on his or her back
l41b	Pitch basket	An ogress puts her victims into a basket which is filled or smeared with pitch
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
l85	One-sided people	One-sided people have one leg and/or also one arm, one half of a head, etc. The second leg is not cut or burned off, preserved as a stump but is absent completely
l85e	One-leg people	Person has only one leg (and one arm) but has no problems with moving. Unlike motif L85 (one-sided people), the person’s body is complete
m50	Man follows stars	A man tries to join a group of persons who are or become stars (usually the Pleiades) but suffers a reverse; or he pursues the stars to have sexual contact or to be reintegrated with members of his family

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Khakas
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sierra Miwok
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kets
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Pomo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Mono (Monache)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Yokuts
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Mari (Cheremis)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Arapaho
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Nanai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ute

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Klamath, Modoc
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Northern Foothills Yokuts (Chukchansi, Dumna, Kechayi)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Mono (Monache)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Western Shoshone, Gosiute
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Sierra Miwok
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Pomo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Northern Shoshone
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz