The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
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.
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
Light and/or heat of the Sun and/or Moon originate from their crowns, necklaces or clothes (of feathers, of animal teeth)
There is enormous amount of water inside a trunk of a tree or a tree turns into water
Chips of wood, branches or pieces of bark thrown or fallen into the water turn into fish and/or aquatic animals
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
The first people or first anthropomorphic divine beings descend to earth from the sky.
First people are born by trees or come out of a tree, flower, reed
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
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
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
Earthquake is a person. Whenever he or she runs or walks, the earth trembles
Milky Way is the path over which souls travel to the beyond or a path of the funeral procession
Shining sky objects or atmospheric phenomena are excrements of sky dwellers
Birds, first of all vultures and eagles, live in the sky, usually at one or more layers of the upper world
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
Non-human persons work hard to destroy a strong and durable obstacle that blocks access to some place or object