The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
After getting into the fire or boiling water, one or two persons ascend to the sky and turn into the Sun and/or Moon
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
The primeval ancestors come together to choose the best candidate to become the Sun and/or to send the Sun to the sky or to see how the Sun rises to the sky for the first time
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
At the moment when the first day or the first night come, (some) people turn into supernatural beings
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)
The earth is a female person (alone or together with a male person); she is female being or associated with a woman
God prohibits making fire for cooking and punishes breakers of this taboo
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
Birds or humans later changed to birds are sent to explore the earth (is it dry, are any survivals, to investigate why smoke rises to the sky, etc.) or to bring some soil to make the land that would be good for living
During or before the world cataclysm (deluge, darkness) or (Suruí) in particular place at night, household objects and/or stones, trees, domestic animals turn into wild beasts and monsters
During or before the world catastrophe (deluge, darkness) wild beasts and monsters attack and destroy people
The fire is personified as an elder man (alone or with his wife, mistress of fire)
The first people (or only the first men or the first women) are not created but come to earth from the underworld (from a cave) or from a small enclosure under the earth or on its surface (tree trunk, rock, gourd, etc.). Many people of both sexes and of different ages or people and different species of animals come out together
Woman, female supernatural or animal females are created by changing the sex of a man (or male animals)
Cultivated plants or fertile soil to plant them are hidden inside a rock. Birds or Thunders get them destroying the rock
People fell trees to make a garden. In the morning, the forest is intact again
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
Ants are the first who find cultivated plants (corn or manioc) which are concealed from the others in particular place
The lightning (and thunder) is (produced with) an object (axe, sword, mirror, belt, stones, skin, etc.) in hands of anthropomorphic being
The sky or the earth rests upon four or five (cardinal points and the center) supports of any kind (poles, mountains, giants)
First human beings have no mouth, anus or genitals, their women do not know how to give birth
Anthropomorphic beings satisfy their hunger cooking food and inhaling the odor
A dog is the lord, guard or guide of/to the land of the dead; or dogs live on the way to the land of the dead
Powerful person connected with thunder and rain is lame (usually after falling down from the sky)
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
Feathers of (giant) bird turn into different present day birds (in their plumage) or into the men
An ornitomorphic hero impregnates a girl magically or imperceptibly for her
An ordeal: to remain alive in a closed room full of beasts of prey, poisonous or other dangerous creatures
In a non-human world objects of everyday life have appearance of animals and monsters, mainly fish, amphibians and reptiles
Person crosses a water or air space along the chain of many animals, birds or fish
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
Beings (any besides birds) with even but not more than ten number of heads are described in tales or represented in art. Beings that with even number of heads named in a row with other multi-headed beings and the highest number is even or bigger than ten are not considered
It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
Four (or eight) anthropomorphic male persons support the earth or the sky or are placed at the four cardinal points
First seeds (sprouts, tubors) of cultivated plants or of important edible wild plants are brought from the sky (received from the sky-dwellers)
To kill the hero, his enemies involve him into a game with a dangerous ball (or ice, stone, bone, iron, a walrus head, a biting skull, etc.)
Pierces of flesh or feathers of monstrous/unusual bird turn into common birds (or into their plumage)
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
Person feeds others a food that is extracted from his, hers or somebody else’ body or is polluted by body extractions not informing about the source of the food
Adding salt, person makes food delicious. Another person gets to know that this salt is extracted from the cook’s body (it is contained in his body extractions)
Person who follows the wild animals turns into one of them or into their master
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
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