Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
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)
a32h	The Moon plant	A tree or bush is seen in the moon
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
c38	People are coming soon	Those who inhabited the world in the time of creation were saying that real people were to come and so they had to do this and that
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
h24	Container opened too early	Container with valuables or with dangerous creatures is opened (before time). Its content goes out of control or disappear
h24b	Souls disappear from the opened container	Person receives a container with the soul of a dead person and has to open it not before he gets to particular place or after particular time interval. He opens it too early, the soul fly away
h24e	To choose life or death	People are suggested to choose one of two objects, associated with life and death. They choose the object with death
h34a	Controversy over conditions of life	Person has a series of suggestions how to make the world easy for living and free of hard work and death. His companion successively rejects them. Their dialogue forever defines conditions of human life
h36gg	Death and the coyote	Coyote is responsible for introduction of permanent death
i39	Rainbow road or bridge	Rainbow is a road, a bridge or a ladder
i45b	Not to point at the rainbow	It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
j12k	A valuable partner and an imposter live in one house	A valuable partner whom a girl (two sisters) should marry and an imposter live together in one and the same house
j12m	Woman turns into duck	A girl or two sisters marry a valuable partner. His rival kills or attempts to kill him or his wives. As a consequence, the women turn into water birds
j13	Two sisters	Two sisters (if more, only two play a significant role in the plot) travel and meet an unpleasant suitor or get to an ogre
k10	Fight with the monstrous bird	Monstrous bird (giant bat) predates on humans. Heroes fight with it
k10d	Bird carries man to an island	A flying monster carries a man to a far away island. There he gets to kill the monster. To return, he uses a boat, a bridge or a rope made of parts of the monster's body
k19b	Star-husband	A woman maries a star-man
k19g	Two stars of different color and brightness	Two stars are men, an old and a young ones. They look different as about their color or brightness but these characteristics do not correlate (the bright star can prove to be an old man and vice versa. Usually two girls wish these stars for husbands and express different preferences (one prefers bright blue star, another wants small and red one, etc.)
k20	Wish for star-husband or wife realized	A human person admires a star or (rare) the Moon in the sky, expresses desire to marry it or (rare) to get a star-object. Star descends to him or to her or takes him or her to the sky
k21	Woman gets to the sky and marries a sky-dweller	Woman gets to the sky and marries a sky-dweller
k21a	Woman returns from the sky	A sky-dweller marries a woman. Being eager to return home, she secretly descends to the earth
k25d	Prohibited bulb in the sky	Person gets to the sky, makes hole through the firmament digging out a root. Usually woman's husband or his kinsmen warn her against digging out a special bulb or tuber; breaking taboo, she gets to see the earth, decides to descend
k26	A hole in the firmament	Finding a hole in the ground or making it, person gets to see below another world. Usually the earth is seen from the sky
k27e	Eating or drinking contest	Person or animal must eat (drink) enormous quantity of food (beverage) or eat or drink poisonous beverage or food
m11	The unclean food	Person feeds others a food that is extracted from his, hers or somebody else’ body or is polluted by body extractions not informing about the source of the food
m42c	Animal person eats his own marrow	Breaking or cutting his leg, animal person becomes to eat his own bone marrow

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Ute
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: Achomavi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Flores, incl Mangarai (Western Flores), Nage, Keo, Riung, Ngada or Nad'a (Central Flores), Sika (Eastern Flores)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Cahuilla, Cupeño
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Chemehuevi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
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: Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
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: Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Kutenai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Cheyenne
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Pawnee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Ute
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Plains Cree
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: Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)