Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b12	Rivers and snakes	The river bed follows the way of a snake, fish, dragon or crab; pieces of the snake’s body turn into rivers; a river is a snake
e33	People from seeds	People emerge from grains, seeds
f30	Snake paramour	A woman or a girl takes a snake, an eel (i.e. Pacific snake-eel), a lizard, or a worm for husband or paramour. People kill or badly injure him, the woman and/or her progeny or the woman herself is transformed into snake. Cf. motif k76b: the snake-husband becomes and remains a handsome man
f34b	The paramour is not a human being	A girl (a woman, a group of women) intentionally takes a penis-being, a snake, an eel, a lizard, a worm, a big water animal or water monster or a big terrestrial mammal for paramour. People kill or maim the paramour, the woman and/or her progeny or she is transformed herself into an animal. She is blamed for her behavior
g2	The return of Persephone	Person who is the incarnation of fertility and life first disappears and then (reriodically) returns
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
i7	The cloud serpent	A flying reptile produces rain, thunderstorm

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Piro (Yine)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Cherokee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Toba (incl Pilaga)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Arapaho
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Pawnee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tzotzil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Blackfoot
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Witoto, Ocaina

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