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
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)
a32c1	Predator animal in the Moon	A predator animal (fox, wolf, dog, coyote, jaguar, lion) or its imprint is seen in the Moon
a34	The fox and the Moon	Jackal, coyote, or fox are connected with the Moon (usually with the origin of spots on the lunar disc)
b2a	The female earth	The earth is a female person (alone or together with a male person); she is female being or associated with a woman
b2d	Marriage of the sky and the earth	The male Sky (the Sun, the Thunder, the creator of the sky) marries the female Earth (or its female creator) or the female Sky marries the male Earth
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
b40a	Missed opportunity to have horns	Animal who has no horns now had them before or missed opportunity to get them
b42	Cosmic hunt	Certain stars or constellations are interpreted as hunters, their dogs and game that the hunters pursue
b42b	Sky hunters pursue an ungulate	In the cosmic hunt tale the game pursued by the hunters is an ungulate (elk, deer, mountain sheep, etc.)
b42h	The Belt of Orion is the game, other star is the hunter	The Belt of Orion is the animal or three animals, other star (of the Orion or outside of this constellation) is the hunter
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)
c6a	The diver is turtle or frog	A turtle or a frog (toad) brings the desired object from the bottom of the water body or from the lower world
c6c	The diver is a bird	An aquatic bird dives and brings the desired object from the bottom
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)
d4q	Fly obtains fire	Fly(-woman) obtains fire by "washing" her hands like a fire-drill twirler
e32	People born from trees	First people are born by trees or come out of a tree, flower, reed
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
f34b	The paramour is not a human being	A girl (a woman, a group of women) intentionally takes a penis-being, a snake, an eel, a lizard, a worm, a big water animal or water monster or a big terrestrial mammal for paramour. People kill or maim the paramour, the woman and/or her progeny or she is transformed herself into an animal. She is blamed for her behavior
f40b	A man in a village of women	A man gets into the village of women. Usually he has to satisfy every woman against his will or every woman claims him for herself
f42	The men abandon the women	The men feel themselves offended by the women and abandon them
f44	Women and men separate	The women and the men of the primeval community quarrel and abandon each other
g6	Primeval tree	One of the trees is the principal, original one (emerged before all the other; ancestor of wild or cultivated plants; ocean or rivers inside it; world axis; higher than all the others; overshadows sky)
h12	The alive person comes to the land of the dead after somebody’s death	The alive person comes to the land of the dead to bring back somebody who has recently died (besides stories about shamans who journey to the other world to bring back the soul of a sick person) or, having no particular aim, goes there in company of somebody who had recently died or following his or her tracks
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
h36gg	Death and the coyote	Coyote is responsible for introduction of permanent death
i103	The dog star	Sirius is associated with a dog or a wolf
i42	Rainbow is a pair of creatures	Rainbow is two creatures or persons, usually a male and a female
i55	Stars are openings	Stars are openings in the firmament; holes in dwelling's covering are thought to be stars
i69	Star dung	Shining sky objects or atmospheric phenomena are excrements of sky dwellers
i9	Colors of the cardinal directions	Four cardinal directions and/or some objects associated with them are associated with different colors
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
k27n	Difficult tasks of the in-laws	A man must fulfill difficult tasks (to win competition) to receive the permission for a marriage
k27n3a	Task-giver is the Sun, Moon, Thunder, or Wind	Person who gives difficult tasks to the hero is associated with the Sun, Moon, Thunder, or Wind (Cloud, Rain)
l19a	Beings with even number of heads	Beings (any besides birds) with even but not more than ten number of heads are described in tales or represented in art. Beings that with even number of heads named in a row with other multi-headed beings and the highest number is even or bigger than ten are not considered
m151a	Holding up the rock	(Animal) person pretends to hold up a rock, tree etc. and explains that otherwise it will fall
m29b	Trickster-fox, jackal or coyote	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is fox, jackal or coyote
m41	The eye-juggler	Person plays throwing his eyes or (Alaska Athabascans) his tooth up or away. Eyes or tooth first come back to eye sockets or mouth but eventually are lost
m42	Eyes: taken out of orbits and lost	Person loses his eyes because of his playfulness or negligence. He makes new eyes of some substance or/and takes eyes of another person
m42b	Eyes of gum	Person loses his eyes, makes new ones of gum and is able to see again (though usually not well)

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Cocopa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Diegueño: Ipai, Tipai, Kamia (Kumeai)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Pima
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Cahuilla, Cupeño
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Navajo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Cherokee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Seri
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Ute
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Hopi
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: Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov
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): 6 Tradition: Pima
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Plains Cree
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Carrier