Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
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
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b2a	The female earth	The earth is a female person (alone or together with a male person); she is female being or associated with a woman
b2b	The earth eats the dead	The earth devours bodies of the people when they die and are buried
b3b	Earth grows big	Original earth was small and later increased in size or the fertile soil grew from a small amount of original substance
b75d	Sounds of the time of creation: a murmur of the forest	The murmur of the forest or grass swayed by the wind is heard from the time of creation
c14	Monsters destroy people	During or before the world catastrophe (deluge, darkness) wild beasts and monsters attack and destroy people
c2	Deluge and conflagration combined	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
c22	Toad in search of thunder	In time of severe drought or the world conflagration birds and animals are sent to bring rain from Thunders who live at the end of the world. Some fail, the last one succeeds. Toad takes important part in the action
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
d7	Fire and toad	Frog or toad possesses the fire, steals it from original owner, tries to extinguish or to save it
e33	People from seeds	People emerge from grains, seeds
f62	Incognito at the feast	An (ostensibly) sick (ugly, weak, poorly clad) person remains at home when others go to the feast. The person comes by himself or herself looking like a handsome man or beautiful girl. The man (woman) does not recognize him (her) and feels against her (him) sexual interestю (All texts with motif k57, Chinderella, are also included into f62)
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)
h28	Plagues from the body of a person or creature	Killed and destroyed (often burned) person or creature (usually ogre, fierce animal, powerful shaman) turns into a multitude of biting insects or into other small molesting creatures
h35	Fragile teeth	Human teeth are made of material subject to easy damage (etiology of tooth ache in most cases)
i13a	The horned serpent	Giant water-chthonic or sky serpent or dragon has horns or antlers on its head
i48	Confined to the underworld	Certain person loses his or her freedom, is confined to a far away place (often, to the underworld) and acquires cosmic dimensions: supports the earth or the sky and/or his or her movements produce earthquakes or (rare) storms
k10	Fight with the monstrous bird	Monstrous bird (giant bat) predates on humans. Heroes fight with it
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)
l103	Obstacle flight (Atalanta type)	Treasure, or the like, is thrown back to tempt pursuer to delay
l17b	Two faces	Person or creature has another face (another mouth) on the back of his (her, its) head
l18	Multi-headed bird	A bird with two or more heads on top of one body is described in tales or represented in art
l3	Husband turns into demon	A demon takes appearance of a man and comes to his wife or (rare) to other woman. The woman (alone or with her child) runs away and/or kills the monster (herself or with somebody's help)
l34	The burning hair	Person kills or injures his enemy putting fire on his or her straw costume, mask, headgear, hair or object on his or her back
l53	Stones into the maw	A monstrous being is killed or neutralized by (burning hot) stones (pieces of metal, heavy fruits, etc.) thrown into its maw or anus or the being retreats when they menace to throw a stone into its maw
m11	The unclean food	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

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Cora
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Nahuan groups of Puebla and Huasteca after AD1900
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Paya (Pech), Sumu, Misquito
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Chinantec, Mazatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Bribri, Cabecar, Térraba; Chiriqui (AD 800-1500) iconography
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tequistlatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tacana

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Chukchi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Koreans; Goguryeo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Lithuanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Aguaruna, Huambiza
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ticuna (Tucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi