Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a1	The old sun	Another sun, usually less benevolent and/or powerful, existed before the present one
c1	The collapse of the sky	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
e8	People of wood	The first people or (the first) woman (wife of a primeval ancestor) are made of wood
h1d	The first dead is rejected by the alive people	Person dies and returns soon but people send him or her back, refuse to accept as a member of their community or bury again. Since then death becomes permanent
i8e1	Four supports of the world	The sky or the earth rests upon four or five (cardinal points and the center) supports of any kind (poles, mountains, giants)

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tzotzil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tojolabal, Chuj, Jacalteca, Kanjobal, Mocho (incl Tuzantec), Acatec
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Yucatec, Itza; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography of Yucatan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Nambikwara
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Kanamari
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Kekchi; Mopan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Chacobo

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