Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
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
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b19	The night and the married life	People had trouble making love before night came into being
b1f	Two brothers: a winner and a failure	Two brothers (companions) live In the epoch of the creation. One of them is smart and selfconfident, another is weak and makes mistakes. They are not enemies and demonstrate their qualities in two or more episodes
b36	Creatures acquire their physical traits	Birds, fish, reptiles, mammals intentionally or by chance are smeared with colorful substances or divide among themselves parts of somebody's body thus acquiring their present characteristics
e20	Fish poison person	Entering water, certain person makes fish die. From parts of his body or from his grave grows plant used to prepare fish poison (timbo)
e9g	Vulture-wife	Man marries vulture-woman
f46	One for all	In the beginning of time two or more men (animal people) have only one woman
f46a	Woman in a tree	Men (animal people) discover a woman in a tree and copulate with her there
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)
f7	The underwater-maiden	Man takes or attempts to take a wife who is connected with the underwater world (fish, crab, snake, water animal and the like)
f80	Primeval people have no genitals	The first men and/or women have no genitals
f80a	Genitals apart from the body	Genitals exist by themselves as separate beings, they can be stuck to the human body, remove, etc.
f9	A dangerous woman	For different reasons, sexual contact with a woman is deadly dangerous for a man
f9b	Piranha in vagina	Biting piranha is in woman's genitals
f9e1	Dangerous animal in vagina	Woman is dangerous because biting or stinging animal or animals is (are) inside her genitals (and not only the head of such an animal)
g10	The hanging tree	A tree which trunk is cut through do not fall because it is hold from above
g11	Squirrel the woodcutter	A squirrel plays crucial role in felling the gigantic tree
g4	A food mountain	Cultivated plants are found above or inside a mountain
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)
h11	The call of God	People become mortal because they do not hear or answer a call of a being who promises them immortality (or do not pronounce his name) or answer a call (pronouns the name) of a being who brings death
h24	Container opened too early	Container with valuables or with dangerous creatures is opened (before time). Its content goes out of control or disappear
h5	People and snakes	Reptiles or invertebrates possess the medicine of immortality; are contrasted with men as immortal with mortals and/or are responsible for originating of death; or a snake's bite inflicts the first death
j1	The vengeful heroes	Persons avenge the death of their father, mother or other relatives who are one (rare two) generations older than they
j15	Woman gets to dangerous creatures	Walking in search of her husband, boyfriend, kinsmen, shelter woman or girl gets to the house of dangerous creatures where she is injured or killed
j15a	Woman gets to jaguars	Setting off (usually in search of her husband, boyfriend or kinsmen), woman gets to the place of dangerous felines
j4a	Revenge for the death of the mother	A woman is murdered. Her son or children (rare: grandchildren, nephews) revenge for her death
j58	The arrow ladder	Persons shoot arrows (darts) which hit each other’s end forming a chain (rope, ladder). Persons climb by this chain to the sky or (rare) across an obstacle
j59	Following arrow to get to the sky	To climb to the sky, person must first to shoot an arrow that reaches the sky and sticks to it
j7	The changed signs	A woman or a girl is in search of her husband (lover) or kinsmen or a man sets out on a journey to his bride. She (he) loses her (his) way because signs that should direct her or him to the right place had been changed
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
k27 (motif is not in the correlation table)	Competitions and difficult tasks	Person is suggested to fulfill tasks that are mortally dangerous or cannot be fulfilled without supernatural helpers or capacities. The person fulfills the tasks and remains alive. A contest between persons has form of a competition or game in which the loser is deprived of his status or life
k27n	Difficult tasks of the in-laws	A man must fulfill difficult tasks (to win competition) to receive the permission for a marriage
k27n3b	Task-giver lives in the sky but is not the Sun, Moon, Thunder or Wind	Person who gives difficult tasks or tests to the hero or heroine lives in the sky but is not associated with the Sun, Moon, Thunder or Wind
k29a	Surviving in a fire	Hero demonstrates his supernatural abilities remaining alive in a burning hot chamber, stove, bonfire, among burning vegetation
k8a	Jonah: swallowed by monster	Person gets into the belly of water being or into the belly of giant creature which appearance and living place remain vague. He kills the monster from the inside and/or returns to earth by himself (i.e. not extracted by other people)
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)
m44b	Thieves of food: the women	Person discovers that somebody steals game or fish from his trap or devastates his garden. He or his guards catch the thieves who prove to be (the first) women or the thief is the water being whom the hero lets go after receiving a woman for ransom

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ticuna (Tucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kamayura
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sanema
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: Wayana, Aparai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Waiwai
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Wayapi, Emerillon
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
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