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
a14	Eclipses: relations between the Sun and the Moon	Coming together of the Sun and the Moon is the reason of their eclipses
a14a	The conflict between the Sun and the Moon	The Sun and the Moon are or were enemies, either permanently or in particular situations
a21	Luminaries are objects fixed in the sky	The sun and/or the moon are inanimate objects thrown up to the sky or fixed in the sky
a23	Elections of the Sun to be	The primeval ancestors come together to choose the best candidate to become the Sun and/or to send the Sun to the sky or to see how the Sun rises to the sky for the first time
a24	The first sunrise	In the beginning it is dark. When the Sun first appears on the sky, primeval beings or part of them perish or turn into animals, spirits, stones
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)
a32h	The Moon plant	A tree or bush is seen in the moon
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
b2b	The earth eats the dead	The earth devours bodies of the people when they die and are buried
b62	Buzzard husband	Man thinks that buzzard or hawk has better life than he. They exchange clothes. The bird lives with the man's wife as her husband, the man usually does not enjoy his bird life
c22	Toad in search of thunder	In time of severe drought or the world conflagration birds and animals are sent to bring rain from Thunders who live at the end of the world. Some fail, the last one succeeds. Toad takes important part in the action
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d7	Fire and toad	Frog or toad possesses the fire, steals it from original owner, tries to extinguish or to save it
e9	The mysterious housekeeper	Person observes traces of some activity that takes place in his (rare: her) house in his (her) absence and then takes by surprise the responsible one
e9d	Dog-wife	Man marries a girl who initially has guise of a dog
g23	Alive being turns into many objects	Person or creature is transformed. Separate parts of its (his, her) body give origin to different objects or creatures (only etiological narratives are considered)
h18	Hoarded game released	Game animals were concentrated in one single place. Certain person lets them disperse in the world
i100b	The Pleiades are a group of people	The Pleiades are any people (of any ages and sex, combined data of i99-i100a)
i13a	The horned serpent	Giant water-chthonic or sky serpent or dragon has horns or antlers on its head
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
i3	Weapon of Thunder	The lightning (and thunder) is (produced with) an object (axe, sword, mirror, belt, stones, skin, etc.) in hands of anthropomorphic being
i40	Rainbow bow	Rainbow is a bow
i41	Rainbow serpent	Rainbow is a reptile (usually a snake) or (more rare) a fish, or it is related to snake, to its tongue, breath, or to scorpion's tail
i9	Colors of the cardinal directions	Four cardinal directions and/or some objects associated with them are associated with different colors
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
k10	Fight with the monstrous bird	Monstrous bird (giant bat) predates on humans. Heroes fight with it
k10a	Battle with a bird: a shelter	Heroes kill a dangerous bird. During or before confrontation they hide inside a shelter (hut, cage, vessel, bag, hollow log) or cover themselves with a protective object
k11a	Feathers turn into birds or men	Feathers of (giant) bird turn into different present day birds (in their plumage) or into the men
k11a1	Birds emerge from the monstrous bird	Pierces of flesh or feathers of monstrous/unusual bird turn into common birds (or into their plumage)
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
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
k27n3b	Task-giver lives in the sky but is not the Sun, Moon, Thunder or Wind	Person who gives difficult tasks or tests to the hero or heroine lives in the sky but is not associated with the Sun, Moon, Thunder or Wind
k8a	Jonah: swallowed by monster	Person gets into the belly of water being or into the belly of giant creature which appearance and living place remain vague. He kills the monster from the inside and/or returns to earth by himself (i.e. not extracted by other people)

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Huastec (Teenek)
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Chinantec, Mazatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Zuni
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Cora

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Warao
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Wapishana (incl Ataroi); Mapidian; Taruma
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Locono
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Trio
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Winnebago
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Shuswap