Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
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
a27	Crowns of the Sun and Moon	Light and/or heat of the Sun and/or Moon originate from their crowns, necklaces or clothes (of feathers, of animal teeth)
b39	Narrow waist of an insect	Insect-person knows the source of food (cultivated plants) and water but does not share his knowledge. To make him speak, ancestors tie a rope around his waist and pull it till the waist becomes narrow (origin of narrow place between breast and belly of insects)
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
c2	Deluge and conflagration combined	Inhabitans of the Middle World are (partly) destroyed (or will be destoyed) once by fire or draught, another time by a flood or the world is destroyed with a flood of fire or boiling water
g3	A rock of crops	Cultivated plants or fertile soil to plant them are hidden inside a rock. Birds or Thunders get them destroying the rock
g4	A food mountain	Cultivated plants are found above or inside a mountain
h18	Hoarded game released	Game animals were concentrated in one single place. Certain person lets them disperse in the world
h24	Container opened too early	Container with valuables or with dangerous creatures is opened (before time). Its content goes out of control or disappear
i14	No-anus people	Person or creature has no anus opening
i17	Body anomalies of inhabitants of a distant land	Beings without mouth, anus, genitals, whose women do not know how to give birth live in the underworld, in the sky, or in a far-away land
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
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
i45b	Not to point at the rainbow	It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
i48	Confined to the underworld	Certain person loses his or her freedom, is confined to a far away place (often, to the underworld) and acquires cosmic dimensions: supports the earth or the sky and/or his or her movements produce earthquakes or (rare) storms
i80	Thunder’s apprentice	Person who got into the place of a deity responsible for atmospheric phenomena breaks certain taboo or instructions producing excessive thunderstorm, rain, snowfall or wind
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
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
k29a	Surviving in a fire	Hero demonstrates his supernatural abilities remaining alive in a burning hot chamber, stove, bonfire, among burning vegetation
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)
l58	Avaricious man	A man does not share food with his wife or kinsfolk. He or his food is transformed (turns into a bird, into worms, etc.) in punishment
l70	Fruit falls and kills	Person or animal is killed or injured with a heavy object dropped from a tree (or rock, etc.). The person or the animal knows that the objects will fall but has falls ideas about its character and weight
m121	Louse as a spy	Louse or other tiny creature (flee, tuck) is sent to spy on a person
m29g	Trickster-hare or rabbit	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is hare or rabbit

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Tojolabal, Chuj, Jacalteca, Kanjobal, Mocho (incl Tuzantec), Acatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Tzeltal
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Zoque; Izapa iconography (I millennium BC)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Nahuan groups of Puebla and Huasteca after AD1900
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Kekchi; Mopan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tzotzil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Yupa (Yukpa)

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Navajo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Kekchi; Mopan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Ingush
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Tzutujil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Lithuanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Georgians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Kogi (Cagaba), Sanha, Creols of Aritama Valley
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Bretagne