Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
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
b13a	Stream follows person	A stream of water (with a monster in it) pursues person who tries to escape from it
b28	Travelling transformer	The transformer walks along coming across different persons and creatures, transforming them into birds, animals, stones, shrines, etc. (or transforming monstrous animals into present day ones) and introducing cultural norms, landscape features, etc.
c34	The deluge because of a wounded creature	Killing (injuring, offending) of some cruature (usually related to water) triggers deluge
c7	The flood: breaking the dam	In the beginning of times or after the flood a dam of earth, person or creature does not let water to recede. The dam is broken or opened, waters withdraw
e5b	First couple from the underworld	First man (a group of brothers) or first human couple come out from the underworld (a cave) or from a small enclosure on its surface (tussock, reed, tree, rock, gourd)
f30	Snake paramour	A woman or a girl takes a snake, an eel (i.e. Pacific snake-eel), a lizard, or a worm for husband or paramour. People kill or badly injure him, the woman and/or her progeny or the woman herself is transformed into snake. Cf. motif k76b: the snake-husband becomes and remains a handsome man
f34b	The paramour is not a human being	A girl (a woman, a group of women) intentionally takes a penis-being, a snake, an eel, a lizard, a worm, a big water animal or water monster or a big terrestrial mammal for paramour. People kill or maim the paramour, the woman and/or her progeny or she is transformed herself into an animal. She is blamed for her behavior
g20	Woman turns into plants	Food crops emerge from remains of a woman or girl
i14	No-anus people	Person or creature has no anus opening
i17	Body anomalies of inhabitants of a distant land	Beings without mouth, anus, genitals, whose women do not know how to give birth live in the underworld, in the sky, or in a far-away land
i17a	Dwarfs without body openings	Beings without anus or mouth are dwarfs
i20	The undeground dwarfs	Race of dwarfs lives under the ground (deep under the earth or in hills and rocks) or at the horizon where the earth and the sky meet
i20c	Dwarfs live in the underworld	Dwarfs live in the underworld that somewhat reminds the world of humans. If the dwarfs and the humans meet, it is deep under the earther
i24	A snake bridge	Snake, lizard or worm is a bridge or a rope over the river
i3	Weapon of Thunder	The lightning (and thunder) is (produced with) an object (axe, sword, mirror, belt, stones, skin, etc.) in hands of anthropomorphic being
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
i47	Rainbow is filth	Rainbow is a flatulence of a demon, a spray of a skunk, is associated with spit, urine, feces, genitals, etc., causes skin diseases, is associated with death
k60b	Invitation to coffin	Person is lured into a trap being invited to lie in a box or a hole to measure it. Being unable to liberate himself from the box etc., the person remains in power of his enemies
l11	Turtle-bench	In a non-human world objects of everyday life have appearance of animals and monsters, mainly fish, amphibians and reptiles
l13	The reared up monster	A small creature is reared up by people. When it is grown up, it becomes harmful and dangerous
l14	Reared up serpent	A small creature (often a worm or a reptile) is brought home and reared up or it becomes to live by itself in an artificial body of water. When big, it goes out of human control or becomes something huge and/or dangerous. Cf. motif L13A (The reared up monster attacks people)
l17b	Two faces	Person or creature has another face (another mouth) on the back of his (her, its) head
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
l42	Hero carried to ogre’s home	An ogre or ogress catches a person and brings him to his or her home where he or she plans to cook and eat him. The hero escapes
l5c	Rolling head is a dangerous monster	Rolling head is a dangerous mobster (pursues celestial bodies, people etc.)
l65	Demonic baby	A baby or small child proves to be a demon, devours or injures people
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
m71	Picked up piece of wood	Trickster floats down the river or falls from the height and turns into a piece of wood or into a wooden object. Somebody picks it up. Eventually, the trickster acquires his real self, usually in the host's absence
m8	Breaking the obstacle	Non-human persons work hard to destroy a strong and durable obstacle that blocks access to some place or object

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Yupa (Yukpa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kechua-speaking communities of Apurimac, Cuzco, Arequipa, Puno departments; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries; Callawaya (Kechua with Pukina substratum)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Chinantec, Mazatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tacana
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tzotzil
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): 3 Tradition: Shasta; Chimariko
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
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: Yurok
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Malagasy
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Armenians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Khakas
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Papua–New Guinea Southern Lowland Papuan groups (Trans New Guinea and unclassified): Gimi, Kiwai, Bina, Mawabula, Mawatta, Keraki, Gambadi (incl. Kwavaru), Purari River delta, Masingara, Wiram (=Suki), Ngain, Daga, Elema
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Lithuanians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)