Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a20	Childhood and youth of the Sun and Moon	The Sun and the Moon (rare: the Sun and a star, the Moon and a star) are two siblings who live on earth and then ascend to the sky being still young persons
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
a8b	The Sun in the land of the dead	When the Sun descends below the horizon, it shines to the anthropomorphic denizens of the netherworld (the dead, dwarfs, etc.)
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
e38b	People from gourd	After the world cataclysm or in the beginning of times a gourd survives or appears, new people come out of it
f9	A dangerous woman	For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man
i20	The undeground dwarfs	Race of dwarfs lives under the ground (deep under the earth or in hills and rocks) or at the horizon where the earth and the sky meet
i20c	Dwarfs live in the underworld	Dwarfs live in the underworld that somewhat reminds the world of humans. If the dwarfs and the humans meet, it is deep under the earther
i20c2	Dwarfs live at the horizon	The denizens of the country at the horizon (where the sky and the earth meet) are dwarfs
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
k16	To get access to a girl in guise of a bird or an animal	Disguised as a bird, small animal or insect, a man penetrates into the place of a girl (into her father’s house)
k17	The ornitomorphic suitor	An ornitomorphic hero impregnates a girl magically or imperceptibly for her

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Chinantec, Mazatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Colorado (Tsachila)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Tacana
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Zuni
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tzotzil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Estonians

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Wanana, Tucano proper, Pira-Tapuya, Arapaso
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Yucatec, Itza; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography of Yucatan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Oaxaca Mixe
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Gulf Nahuatl
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Lacandon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Kekchi; Mopan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Ancient Greece
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Piaroa