Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a12	Eclipses: monster’s attack	Some creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, summer and winter, lunar phases) or irregularly (solar and lunar eclipses, eschatological events) attack the luminaries or shade their light
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
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.
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d4a1	Dance fot the hidden fire	Person who incarnates or owns the fire 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
e9	The mysterious housekeeper	Person observes traces of some activity that takes place in his (rare: her) house in his (her) absence and then takes by surprise the responsible one
f1	First woman is a transformed man	Woman, female supernatural or animal females are created by changing the sex of a man (or male animals)
f28	Primeval penis	The penis is a particular monstrous being with whom copulate the primeval women, the amazons, or a certain woman
f28a	Primeval penis grows from the ground	There is only one monstrous penis, a husband of primeval women or the amazons, which grows out of the ground or out of the water in a lake
f34a	The paramour of primeval women	Women of the primeval community or amazons have one non-human paramour for all or simultaneously copulate with animals of particular specie whom they summon using special sygnal
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
f36	Sons kill paramour	The (adoptive) children or grandchildren and not person's spouse or brother kill the paramour of their (step)mother or father
i14	No-anus people	Person or creature has no anus opening
i16	Body anomalies of the first people	First human beings have no mouth, anus or genitals, their women do not know how to give birth
i19	People inhale the odor of food	Anthropomorphic beings satisfy their hunger cooking food and inhaling the odor
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
i39	Rainbow road or bridge	Rainbow is a road, a bridge or a ladder
i42	Rainbow is a pair of creatures	Rainbow is two creatures or persons, usually a male and a female
i45b	Not to point at the rainbow	It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
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
j44	The broken bridge	Person or his helper draws his enemies on the unstable bridge and destroys it. The enemies fall into water, into a precipice
j46	Enemy drowns	Antagonist perishes falling into the water or trying to cross a water body
m121	Louse as a spy	Louse or other tiny creature (flee, tuck) is sent to spy on a person
m57b	Sweat of the Sun and tears of the Moon	Beads or metals are discharged by bodies of deities

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Yupa (Yukpa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Urarina
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Cofan (Cofán)
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: Nahuan groups of Puebla and Huasteca after AD1900
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): 3 Tradition: Queensland: Mungkan (Wikmunkan), Wiknatara, Bloomfield River, Cape Bedford, Cape Grafton, Kokowara (Koko-Warra), Koko-yalunyu (Kokokulunggur), Bunya Bunya, Waka-Waka (Wakawaka), Kabikabi, Chepara
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Karijona
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tenetehara

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Yupa (Yukpa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Koyukon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Chinantec, Mazatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambé; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Takelma
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Quinault
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tenetehara
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Witoto, Ocaina