Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a12	Eclipses: monster’s attack	Some creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, summer and winter, lunar phases) or irregularly (solar and lunar eclipses, eschatological events) attack the luminaries or shade their light
a12a	Eclipses: a predator animal	During an eclipse or at other circumstances the Sun or the Moon are attacked by a predator animal (a bear, a feline, a canine, a racoon)
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
a22	To the sky from a bonfire	After getting into the fire or boiling water, one or two persons ascend to the sky and turn into the Sun and/or Moon
a22a	The hot Sun and its cold companion	After two persons burn up, one turns into the present Sun and another into a less important sky object
a22b	Hot fire and cold ashes	Person who becomes the Sun burned up in a hot fire while his companion burned up in the less hot fire or threw himself into the ashes. He (she) turns into the Moon or a star which gives no warmth
a22c	Person sacrificed to the Sun	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
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
a34	The fox and the Moon	Jackal, coyote, or fox are connected with the Moon (usually with the origin of spots on the lunar disc)
b23	Prohibited fire and smoke	God prohibits making fire for cooking and punishes breakers of this taboo
c5a	Bird-scouts	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
f17	Misplaced genitalia	Originally, humans had (had to have; can have under some special confition) their genitals not on the place where they are now; the genitals were absent, or people did not know know their function and used for copulation other parts of the body
f22	Study of partner’s body	Person asks another person of the opposite sex about destination or place of her or his genitals. Usually it is made after putting questions about function of other body parts; or person tries to use for sex different parts of the partner's body or tests them before reaching the best place where the genitals should be put
g14	Swallowed man returns with plants	A man is swallowed by a water monster and comes out from its belly in the land of the supernatural beings. He receives from them cultivated plants and brings them to people
g16	Ants find cultivated plants	Ants are the first who find cultivated plants (corn or manioc) which are concealed from the others in particular place
g24	Food from the sky	First seeds (sprouts, tubors) of cultivated plants or of important edible wild plants are brought from the sky (received from the sky-dwellers)
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
i1	The thunderbirds	Creatures that produce rain and/or thunderstorms are birds or anthropomorphic beings with wings; or (rare) some or all birds are connected with thunder, lightning or rain though Thunder is not a bird
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
i45b	Not to point at the rainbow	It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
i4a	Thunder in trouble: falls to earth	Thunder falls to earth, cannot return to the sky. Usually a human person helps him to do it
i62	Milky Way is a river	Milky Way is a sky river, water body, chain of beings that swim
i8g	Atlas	One giant supports the earth or the sky
j21	Birth from eggs	Gods, first people or founders of the royal lineages are born from eggs
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)
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
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
m47	Head put to bottoms	Punishing a person or animal or restoring his or its body after its disin­teg­ration, a powerful being intentionally or by chance puts head to bottoms
m5	Provoked insult	Being in a situation when his life depends on a good will of a demon or animal, person either resists or does not resist the temptation to insult or to beat, bite, etc. the latter
m63	Body parts enumerated	Before finding a part of the body that is the best for some particular function, other parts are proven or enumerated
m8	Breaking the obstacle	Non-human persons work hard to destroy a strong and durable obstacle that blocks access to some place or object

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Aztec; Aztec and Teotihuacan iconography
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Nahuan groups of Puebla and Huasteca after AD1900
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Pame, Jonaz (Chichimeca-Jonaz), Mazahua, Otomi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Huastec (Teenek)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Chinantec, Mazatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Cora
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Yagua
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Paya (Pech), Sumu, Misquito
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Huichol

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
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: Toba (incl Pilaga)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Zoque; Izapa iconography (I millennium BC)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Makka
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tojolabal, Chuj, Jacalteca, Kanjobal, Mocho (incl Tuzantec), Acatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Navajo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kekchi; Mopan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Paresi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet