Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a26	The Sun-bird	A bird incorporates the Sun or the day light. It can be caught, let free, killed
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
a32	Figure on lunar disc	A figure or an imprint of some being or object are seen in the Moon. (For statistical analysis motifs A32A – A32J are also included into A32)
a32d	Man in the Moon	Human being or imprint of human being is seen in the moon
a35	Spots on the lunar disc	Dark spots on the lunar disc are dirt, blood, paint, traces of beating, burning, scratching, etc. on the Moon person's body or face (Kiliwa: spots on the Sun) and do not form any particular figure
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b29	Eschatological feast	People turn into animals, birds or stones at a feast, after the feast, after performing a ritual or after a victory over dangerous enemy
b3b	Earth grows big	Original earth was small and later increased in size or the fertile soil grew from a small amount of original substance
b56	Fire tongue of the crocodile	After the crocodile or caiman swallows or loses fire (that he possessed before), he remains without his tongue; or the crocodile's tongue is cut off to make something related to celestial fire (thunderbolt, sun beams, etc.
b67	Tree turns to rocks	People fell giant tree. The fallen tree and/or its stump turns into mountain(s) or rocks
c9	Warning about the coming flood	God, animal, some person warns one of the people about the catastrophy (usuallly the flood) that will become soon and in which most of the people must perish
e22	Swallowed person obtains knowledge	Getting into the body of certain being, person obtain knowledge of rituals, songs, ornaments, poison or drugs and then brings it to people
e32	People born from trees	First people are born by trees or come out of a tree, flower, reed
f16	Men and women: exchange of anatomical characteristics	Initially men possessed women's biological traits and vice versa (beard, menses, breasts, bearing children)
f18a	The long penis	Penis is so long that he can turn it round his waist or send into a woman who is at a long distance from him. (Only texts considered to describe real events and beings and not anecdotes are included)
f22	Study of partner’s body	Person asks another person of the opposite sex about destination or place of her or his genitals. Usually it is made after putting questions about function of other body parts; or person tries to use for sex different parts of the partner's body or tests them before reaching the best place where the genitals should be put
f23	Origin of menses: sexual act	Women menstruate because they bled in primeval time after the first defloration
f38	Women and sacred knowledge	Women were possessors of the sacred knowledge, sanctuaries or ritual objects which are now taboo for them or they made attempts to acquire such a knowledge or objects
g10	The hanging tree	A tree which trunk is cut through do not fall because it is hold from above
g17	Gift of a reptile	Serpent (snake-eel in Oceania) or alligator is the original possessor or the source of cultivated plants or wild staples
g5	Food tree	Fruits and shoots of different cultivated plants grow on the branches of one tree (on one vine) or certain plant has a tree form that is alien to it in nature
g6	Primeval tree	One of the trees is the principal, original one (emerged before all the other; ancestor of wild or cultivated plants; ocean or rivers inside it; world axis; higher than all the others; overshadows sky)
i28	Animals in the underworld	Game animals live inside a mountain, in a cave or in the underworld where they often look like humans and have a master
i32	Tree of the babies	There is (or was) a tree on which souls of still unborn babies grow, which leaves transform into people, or which trunk is covered with female breasts or flowers that innumerable babies are sucking
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
j37	The antagonist is carried away by bird	A man turns into powerful bird or creates it. The bird carries away his enemy
k16	To get access to a girl in guise of a bird or an animal	Disguised as a bird, small animal or insect, a man penetrates into the place of a girl (into her father’s house)
k17	The ornitomorphic suitor	An ornitomorphic hero impregnates a girl magically or imperceptibly for her
l19a	Beings with even number of heads	Beings (any besides birds) with even but not more than ten number of heads are described in tales or represented in art. Beings that with even number of heads named in a row with other multi-headed beings and the highest number is even or bigger than ten are not considered
l70	Fruit falls and kills	Person or animal is killed or injured with a heavy object dropped from a tree (or rock, etc.). The person or the animal knows that the objects will fall but has falls ideas about its character and weight
m47	Head put to bottoms	Punishing a person or animal or restoring his or its body after its disin­teg­ration, a powerful being intentionally or by chance puts head to bottoms
m63	Body parts enumerated	Before finding a part of the body that is the best for some particular function, other parts are proven or enumerated
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): 5 Tradition: Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Wapishana (incl Ataroi); Mapidian; Taruma
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: Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Makiritare (Yecuana)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sanema

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kekchi; Mopan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Paresi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tariana
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tillamook
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Carrier
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Toba (incl Pilaga)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Navajo