Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
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
c12b	People descend from a dog	In the beginning of time or after the flood man marries a bitch. Present people descend from them.
c9	Warning about the coming flood	God, animal, some person warns one of the people about the catastrophy (usuallly the flood) that will become soon and in which most of the people must perish
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d4m	Fire owners dance	Person comes to the owners of fire or light. They feast and dance. He joins them and in a proper moment carries away the valuables
e11	The burned skin	Magic person reveals his true nature and/or remains with the real people after the object responsible for preserving the non-human appearance (usually an animal skin) is destroyed (usually burned)
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
g9	Restored forest	People fell trees to make a garden. In the morning, the forest is intact again
g9b	Abandon your work, flood is coming	A man fells trees to clear ground for a garden or breaks ground. Certain person or animal revives vegetation, makes the soil virgin again. He or she explains that the flood is coming, there is no sense to work and advices to prepare a floating device
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
h12c	Orpheus: to return the dead wife	Husband follows his dead wife to the other world but is unable to bring her back or succeeds to do it but loses her once again
h32a	Superfertility lost: a maltreated wife	Supernatural woman comes to live with humans. Thanks to that, food becomes easily available. She is maltreated, goes away, temporal superfertility is lost forever
i82a	Venus is male	Morning and/or Evening Star is a male personage
i9	Colors of the cardinal directions	Four cardinal directions and/or some objects associated with them are associated with different colors
j23e	Flying though the ogre’s body	To become sure that the ogre is dead a bird or an insec enters his body from the mouth and flies out from the anus
k176	A man in search of the woman	A (young) man sets off to find or to return his bride or his wife
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Huichol
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Tzotzil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Cora
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Chol; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Western Mexico Nahuatl
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Northern Luzon: Apayao, Bontoc, Nabaloi (Ibaloi), Ifugao, Igorot (highland people, not specified), Ilocan, Ilongot, Isneg, Kalinga, Kankanay, Tingian (Tinggian, Bilongan Itneg); Ibanag, Kasiguran Agta, Keley-i Kallahan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Ancient Greece
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tuvinians of Tuva
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Persians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 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): 4 Tradition: Lepcha
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Popoloca; Tlapanec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Lisu, Achang, Taunyo