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
a24	The first sunrise	In the beginning it is dark. When the Sun first appears on the sky, primeval beings or part of them perish or turn into animals, spirits, stones
a25	Getting accustomed to the light	When people see light of day for the first time, they are prohibited to look at it immediately. Those who break this taboo are ruined
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
b125	Animals exchange their organs	During the time of creation particular species of animals (rare: plants) exchanged certain organs or traits or one animal borrowed an organ from another one but never brought it back. Thence the characteristics of these animals now. In rare cases the back exchange and restoring of the initial situation or the passing of certain organ from one animal to another without compensation are described
c18	Luring out the hidden Sun	Person who incarnates or owns the sun hides himself or herself or is hidden. To return or to get heath and light, his or her interest is attracted or diverted by way of singing, dancing, playing music, provocative behavior, offering of unusual gifts, sex or alcohol
c19	Acquisition of the sun	The Sun (the day light) that was absent, stolen or hidden appears (again)
d1	Female spirit of fire	Fire is personified as an (elder) woman, alone or with her husband, master of fire
g1	A kidnapped child	Valuables (earth, soil, sun, crops, fire, sacred knowledge, hunting luck) are got or returned when son or daughter is stolen from his or her parent
g18	Person wants to be sacrificed	A person asks people to abandon him or her in the forest, to burn or drag him or her around the future garden plot, to burn her in her house, etc. People fulfill the person's wish and find cultivated plants growing on the place
g23	Alive being turns into many objects	Person or creature is transformed. Separate parts of its (his, her) body give origin to different objects or creatures (only etiological narratives are considered)
g23a	Alive being turns into plants	Person or creature is transformed. Separate parts of its (his, her) body give origin to different plants, mostly edible or cultivated
i9	Colors of the cardinal directions	Four cardinal directions and/or some objects associated with them are associated with different colors
l19b	Beings with odd number of heads	Being (any besides birds) with more than ten heads or with odd (but more than one) number of heads are described in tales or represented in art. If beings with ever more number of heads are named, the row ends with a being that has odd (or more than ten) number of heads
l46	Head downward	Person ascends, descends, walks head downward or sees the world upside down

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar)
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Jicaque
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Upper Tanana (Nebesna)
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Nambikwara
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Ijka (Ika)
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Cheyenne
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Winnebago
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Tlingit