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
a12a	Eclipses: a predator animal	During an eclipse or at other circumstances the Sun or the Moon are attacked by a predator animal (a bear, a feline, a canine, a racoon)
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
a31	The incestuous Moon	As a result of some intimate contacts and/or love affair, the Moon acquires its present appearance (often, the stains on his face) and/or ascends to the sky
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
b2a	The female earth	The earth is a female person (alone or together with a male person); she is female being or associated with a woman
b2d	Marriage of the sky and the earth	The male Sky (the Sun, the Thunder, the creator of the sky) marries the female Earth (or its female creator) or the female Sky marries the male Earth
c2	Deluge and conflagration combined	Inhabitans of the Middle World are (partly) destroyed (or will be destoyed) once by fire or draught, another time by a flood or the world is destroyed with a flood of fire or boiling water
e17	Origin of design	Humans acquire (the idea of) ornamentation of the vessels, baskets, body, etc. or the idea of the system of signs after somebody gets to see the pattern on the body of zoomorphic and/or supernatural creature
e18	Snakes and containers	People learn how to decorate ceramics or baskets (usually learn decorated patterns) thanks to a water creature
e5d	Predator devours emerging people	People live underground or in a small enclosure. When they come out they are attacked by monster or dangerous animal. Monster is killed or transformed
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
e9j	Monkey-wife	Man marries monkey-woman; supernatural woman takes form of a monkey or the man pretends that the house-keeper is a monkey
f43	The women disappear	The women of the ancestral community kill or abandon the men
f44	Women and men separate	The women and the men of the primeval community quarrel and abandon each other
f46	One for all	In the beginning of time two or more men (animal people) have only one woman
f47	Pieces of flesh turn to people	A living creature or a lump of alive flesh is cut into pieces which are diepersed around. After some time every piece turns into human being
f47a	Men use pieces of woman’s flesh	Every man uses for copulation certain part of an only woman or takes a part of her body after it was cut into pieces
f51	The clandestine lover	Person who conceals his or her identity comes to his or her lover (at night). Next time, the lover puts a mark on the stranger's face, body or clothes doing this intentionally (to recognize him or her) or by chance (that leads to the identification)
f8	Women and men come together	Initially women and men live apart from each other. Later they meet each other and become to live together
h4	The shed skin	Those who change their skin become young again
h8	The failed test	People lose immortality because they do not dare to touch or drink something loathsome, poisonous, hot or otherwise dangerous
h9	Strong and weak	People are mortal because they have been likened to something subject to decay and easy destruction (e.g. to the soft wood and not to the stone)
i83	The sky of birds	Birds, first of all vultures and eagles, live in the sky, usually at one or more layers of the upper world
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)
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)

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Wayapi, Emerillon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Shavante
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Mundurucu, Curuaia
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kamayura
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Manao, Katawishi (Teffé lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Cariri
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Viet, Muong
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Wayana, Aparai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sherente
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Waiwai

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Katu (Ködu); Bru (incl. Van Kieu, Khua)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Simeulue, Nias
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Bretagne
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Ganda, (Ba)Nyoro, Nyankole, Masaba (Gisu), Luia (=Luyia, Haya, Luhya, Bantu Kawirondo; incl. Vugusu, Maragoli)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Mangbetu (Ngbetu), Mangbutu, Moru, Madi, Lugbara, Lendu (=Bale)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Jiangsu and Zhejang Chinese
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Armenians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Trans-New Guinea and unclassified Papuan groups of Irian Jaya: Mejprat, Arandai-Bintuni, Inanwatan-Berau, Papua of Gelvink (Cenderawasih) Bay, Kamoró, Marind Anim, Sawi, Mafore; Korowai; Kwerba; Momina, Eipo, Yale, Awyu, Muyu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar)