Tradition analysis result motif count all:
Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo:
Motif Name Description a11a Eyes of the Sun and the Moon: coolness and night Visible sun and/or moon are the Sun's and/or the Moon's eyes. If these eyes were not injured, light and heat would be more intense a11b One-eyed luminaries The Sun or the Moon is one-eyed (usually another eye was knocked or sucked out but sometimes this defect is not explained 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 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 b2e The male earth The earth or the world as a whole is a male person (alone or together with a female person) 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 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 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 i72 Stars are people Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered) i85c1 The rain stored in the sky In the sky there is a special container (vessel, skin, box, etc.) for storing the rain i9 Colors of the cardinal directions Four cardinal directions and/or some objects associated with them are associated with different colors l116a Doe with golden horns Hunting a doe (a deer), hero gets to the place of a magician or demon; the doe is a bewitched person or demon 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 l5c Rolling head is a dangerous monster Rolling head is a dangerous mobster (pursues celestial bodies, people etc.) l6 Demon clings to person A demonic being demands that a person would carry it permanently, clings to his shoulder or back l7 Chasing an animal by mistake Instead of chasing a person, a bush spirit, a monster or a dangerous animal follows by mistake an object or animal that moves nearby 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 l7a Sticking demon: first to person and then to animal A demon who sticks to other creatures and refuses to get down sticks first to a person and then to an animal or first to an animal and then to a bird m8 Breaking the obstacle Non-human persons work hard to destroy a strong and durable obstacle that blocks access to some place or object