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
a12d	Eclipses: birds	A bird or birds attack or shade the Sun or the Moon during an eclipse or at the sunrise and sunset
a16	Dangers along the Sun’s way	Every night the Sun passes by creatures or objects which try to destroy them
a22	To the sky from a bonfire	After getting into the fire or boiling water, one or two persons ascend to the sky and turn into the Sun and/or Moon
a22c	Person sacrificed to the Sun	To make the Sun rise above the horizon, to send him to the right distance from the earth, to make him move across the sky, etc. a person has to be sacrificed
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)
a32a	The Moon rabbit	Rabbit or hare are 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
b2e	The male earth	The earth or the world as a whole is a male person (alone or together with a female person)
b52a	Vulture creates the landscape	Flying above the earth and flapping its wings, a bird (usually a vulture) makes it dry after the flood or otherwise creates present landscape
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
c12b	People descend from a dog	In the beginning of time or after the flood man marries a bitch. Present people descend from them.
c34	The deluge because of a wounded creature	Killing (injuring, offending) of some cruature (usually related to water) triggers deluge
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
d1b	Male spirit of fire	The fire is personified as an elder man (alone or with his wife, mistress of fire)
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
f34	Land animal paramour	Certain woman or a group of women takes for a paramour a big land animal. Husbands, brothers or (adoptive) children kill or maim paramour and (sometimes) the woman
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
f35	Feeding with the paramour’s meat	Person feeds another with the meat of his or her sexual partner who cooks or eats it without knowing whose meat it is
f36	Sons kill paramour	The (adoptive) children or grandchildren and not person's spouse or brother kill the paramour of their (step)mother or father
g13a	People ate dirt	Before acquisition of cultivated plants (fire, hunting skills) people ate dirt, mud or stones
g13c	Bad food of the pre-agricultural epoch	Before the cultivated plants or edible wild plants become known, people ate (decomposed) wood, bark, mud, stones, fungi
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
i62	Milky Way is a river	Milky Way is a sky river, water body, chain of beings that swim
i69	Star dung	Shining sky objects or atmospheric phenomena are excrements of sky dwellers
i7	The cloud serpent	A flying reptile produces rain, thunderstorm
i9	Colors of the cardinal directions	Four cardinal directions and/or some objects associated with them are associated with different colors
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
k25e	Magic wife is an ancestor	All humans, members of a particular ethnic or social group or a ruling dynasty are believed to descend from a mortal man and a woman of supernatural origin
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)
l3	Husband turns into demon	A demon takes appearance of a man and comes to his wife or (rare) to other woman. The woman (alone or with her child) runs away and/or kills the monster (herself or with somebody's help)
m151a	Holding up the rock	(Animal) person pretends to hold up a rock, tree etc. and explains that otherwise it will fall

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Cora
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Nahuan groups of Puebla and Huasteca after AD1900
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Chinantec, Mazatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Huichol
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Huastec (Teenek)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Yokuts
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Society Islands: Tahiti, Borabora, Raiatea
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sicuani

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Chinantec, Mazatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Kekchi; Mopan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Mixtec, Trique, Cuicatec; Amuzgo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Tzotzil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Koreans; Goguryeo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Gulf Nahuatl
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tzeltal