Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a23	Elections of the Sun to be	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
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)
a32d	Man in the Moon	Human being or imprint of human being is seen in the moon
a32e	Person with an object in hands	Person who holds some object in his or her hands is seen in the moon (rare: in the sun)
a47	The Sun is born from an egg	The Sun is born or created from an egg
b41	The talking dog	Because the dog was spreading some information, altercated with its masters, was talking in a wrong time, etc. it lost the ability to speak
c25b	A spinner in the Moon	In the sky, on the Moon (rare: on the Sun), i.e. somewhere outside of our world certain person is spinning, weaving, plaiting, or embroidering
h24	Container opened too early	Container with valuables or with dangerous creatures is opened (before time). Its content goes out of control or disappear
h26	Mosquitoes had to be drowned	The right way to dispose of container with stinging insects would be to throw it into the river or sea or bury in a far away place, but it was not done
h27	Mosquitoes let lose	Stinging insects (rare diseases) had been inside a container or some enclosure. They escaped to the world when the container or enclosure was foolishly opened
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
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
i8e	Four men at the cardinal points	Four (or eight) anthropomorphic male persons support the earth or the sky or are placed at the four cardinal points
i8e1	Four supports of the world	The sky or the earth rests upon four or five (cardinal points and the center) supports of any kind (poles, mountains, giants)
j21	Birth from eggs	Gods, first people or founders of the royal lineages are born from eggs
j24	Grounded to powder	Hero is grounded to powder but resuscitates
j26	Babies come out of the water	Baby heroes, embryos or objects from which they emerge are found in a river or lake or come to people out of the water
l11	Turtle-bench	In a non-human world objects of everyday life have appearance of animals and monsters, mainly fish, amphibians and reptiles
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
m29k1 Not used in statistics	The turtle (toad, frog) is a tricky failure	A turtle (tortoise, toad, frog) behaves foolishly creating serious problems for himself
m29w	Jaguar (ocelote, puma) is a failure	Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the jaguar (ocelote, puma) suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
m30	Trickster falls down	Person or creature who has no wings or is unable to fly on a long distance attempts to ascend to the sky or to fly far away but falls down or, deprived of his wings, remains in a place from which he is unable to return
m57b	Sweat of the Sun and tears of the Moon	Beads or metals are discharged by bodies of deities

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Zoque; Izapa iconography (I millennium BC)
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): 5 Tradition: Yucatec, Itza; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography of Yucatan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Gulf Nahuatl
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Chol; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kekchi; Mopan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tzeltal
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tzotzil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Kekchi; Mopan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Gulf Nahuatl
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Zoque; Izapa iconography (I millennium BC)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Lithuanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Estonians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: XVI century Cañari; Kechua-speaking groups of Azuay, Cañar, Cayambe, Otovalo, Imbabura provinces
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)