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
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)
a32a	The Moon rabbit	Rabbit or hare are seen in the moon
f10	Vaginal teeth knocked out	Woman has another toothed mouth (usually in vagina) or biting animals in vagina. Man inserts there a stone, bone, stick, etc. breaking or knocking out the teeth or extracting from there dangerous animals
f23	Origin of menses: sexual act	Women menstruate because they bled in primeval time after the first defloration
f9	A dangerous woman	For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man
f9a	Vagina dentata	There are teeth, blades or sharp stones in woman’s genitals, vagina is the biting mouth. (Only texts that are believed to correspond to reality are considered but not anecdotes and jokes)
i82b	Venus is female	Morning and/or Evening Star is a female personage
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)
i8g	Atlas	One giant supports the earth or the sky
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
m151a	Holding up the rock	(Animal) person pretends to hold up a rock, tree etc. and explains that otherwise it will fall

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Pomo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Kogi (Cagaba), Sanha, Creols of Aritama Valley
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Bondo, Didayi (Gata')
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Mixtec, Trique, Cuicatec; Amuzgo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Koreans; Goguryeo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Pame, Jonaz (Chichimeca-Jonaz), Mazahua, Otomi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Mataco
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Chukchi

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Gulf Nahuatl
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Khoekhoe (=Hottentot; incl Nama, Korana); Damara
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Lima dep: Costa and adjacent Sierra (Spanish, Kechua, and Jacaru-speaking communities, mostly in Pachacamac, Cajatambo, Canta, Huarochirí; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Chinantec, Mazatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambé; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Kechua-speaking communities of Apurimac, Cuzco, Arequipa, Puno departments; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries; Callawaya (Kechua with Pukina substratum)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Tojolabal, Chuj, Jacalteca, Kanjobal, Mocho (incl Tuzantec), Acatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Nahuan groups of Puebla and Huasteca after AD1900
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China