Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a18	The Sun boat	During the day and/or the night (in the underworld, beyond the horizon etc.) the Sun and/or the Moon regularly travel in a boat.
a23	Elections of the Sun to be	The primeval ancestors come together to choose the best candidate to become the Sun and/or to send the Sun to the sky or to see how the Sun rises to the sky for the first time
a27	Crowns of the Sun and Moon	Light and/or heat of the Sun and/or Moon originate from their crowns, necklaces or clothes (of feathers, of animal teeth)
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
b54	Chips turn into fish	Chips of wood, branches or pieces of bark thrown or fallen into the water turn into fish and/or aquatic animals
b9	Water in the tree trunk	There is enormous amount of water inside a trunk of a tree or a tree turns into water
e32	People born from trees	First people are born by trees or come out of a tree, flower, reed
e5a	Mankind ascends from the underworld	The first people (or only the first men or the first women) are not created but come to earth from the underworld (from a cave) or from a small enclosure under the earth or on its surface (tree trunk, rock, gourd, etc.). Many people of both sexes and of different ages or people and different species of animals come out together
e5c	People from the sky	The first people or first anthropomorphic divine beings descend to earth from the sky.
h12	The alive person comes to the land of the dead after somebody’s death	The alive person comes to the land of the dead to bring back somebody who has recently died (besides stories about shamans who journey to the other world to bring back the soul of a sick person) or, having no particular aim, goes there in company of somebody who had recently died or following his or her tracks
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
i41	Rainbow serpent	Rainbow is a reptile (usually a snake) or (more rare) a fish, or it is related to snake, to its tongue, breath, or to scorpion's tail
i49	The running earthquake	Earthquake is a person. Whenever he or she runs or walks, the earth trembles
i65	Milky Way of the dead	Milky Way is the path over which souls travel to the beyond or a path of the funeral procession
i69	Star dung	Shining sky objects or atmospheric phenomena are excrements of sky dwellers
i74a	Stars are fire-flies	Stars are fire-flies, glow-worms
i83	The sky of birds	Birds, first of all vultures and eagles, live in the sky, usually at one or more layers of the upper world
l24	Monsters suffocated	Demons (or one of them) attack people and return to their den (usually a cave or tree hollow). People make suffocating fire around the den killing most or all of the demons
m8	Breaking the obstacle	Non-human persons work hard to destroy a strong and durable obstacle that blocks access to some place or object

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Yupa (Yukpa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Yagua
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Paresi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kuna; XVI century data on Eastern Panama
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ticuna (Tucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Warao
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Xipaya (Shipaya)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Piro (Yine)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Ticuna (Tucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Coos
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Cubeo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Letuama, Tanimuca, Ufaina, Yahuna