Another sun, usually less benevolent and/or powerful, existed before the present one
The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
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
Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
Frog or toad possesses the fire, steals it from original owner, tries to extinguish or to save it
First people or inhabitants of a distant country cook food in the sun; or fire owner lies that he or she cooks food in the sun
The first people or first anthropomorphic divine beings descend to earth from the sky.
Fruits and shoots of different cultivated plants grow on the branches of one tree (on one vine) or certain plant has a tree form that is alien to it in nature
A deep notch in the tree (or in the sky support) is magically restored as soon as persons or creatures who cut or gnaw it stop working
(Animal-)people try to fell a tree that contains water and fish or has cultivated plants on its branches. The notch disappears and the tree becomes intact
Heroes avenge the murder or captivity of the male relatives: (grand)father, uncles, or the elder relatives in general, the loss of the males being the most traumatic
A murdered parent of the hero comes to him as a ghost and informs about the circumstances of his or her death
A young hero obtains and uses weapons or other powerful objects which belonged to his murdered father
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)
Turtle goes to war, kills people (usually a woman), is caught and killed but continues to live in its animal guise
The earth is a female person (alone or together with a male person); she is female being or associated with a woman
Birds, first of all vultures and eagles, live in the sky, usually at one or more layers of the upper world
Before present world, several (two or more) other worlds or races of people existed
Catastropic displacement of layers of the univers in the past or in the future is mentioned. Among variants (sometimes combined):
the sky fell on the earth; the earth (the underworld) and the sky interchanged their positions; the earth turned upside down; the layers of the universe collapsed in one after another; they will change their place during the future cataclysm
Mother tries to kill her son (children) because he interferes with her love affair
During the flood birds or animals escape to some place (mountain, tree, boat, sky). Tips of their tails or other body parts get covered with water or foam and acquire their present color and form
Children (son, sons, son and daughter) of the murdered woman or man revenge on persons who have marital or close kin relations with the victom
Persons avenge the death of their father, mother or other relatives who are one (rare two) generations older than they