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
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
b36b	Birds obtain their voices	Birds obtain their voices after pecking big reptile and smearing themselves with liquids from its body
b42n	Orion is one person	Constellation of Orion or the Belt of Orion is identified with only one male person, usually with a warrior or hunter
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.
b9	Water in the tree trunk	There is enormous amount of water inside a trunk of a tree or a tree turns into water
c4	The flood: fruits fall from a tree	During the flood or in the beginning of times fruits, seeds or other objects are dropped into water one by one, usually by a person who has climbed a tree. As far as the objects fall, water recedes and the dry land appears
c4a	The flood: survival in a tree	During the flood some persons survive in a tree
d6a	Fire and crocodile	Crocodile or cayman is an original or temporary owner of fire or lighting
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)
e21	Avenged victim of water creatures	Child fishes with poison or his or her body produces fish poison. Fish or water snake kills him or her. The perished child is avenged
e5c	People from the sky	The first people or first anthropomorphic divine beings descend to earth from the sky.
f34	Land animal paramour	Certain woman or a group of women takes for a paramour a big land animal. Husbands, brothers or (adoptive) children kill or maim paramour and (sometimes) the woman
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
f4	Child born in jug	In the beginning of times, a particular person or children in general was or were conceived and grown up in pots, heaps of mud, etc. and not in a womb
f43a	The women kill the men	The women of the ancestral community kill, try to kill or transform the men
f44	Women and men separate	The women and the men of the primeval community quarrel and abandon each other
f45	The Amazons	There are (or were) women who live apart from men in their own village or villages
f86	Conditional signal	Person summons with a certain signal a non-human being (usually his or her sexual partner or his or her protégé). Another person spies, uses the same signal or pronounces the same words and kills the being who comes to him (or uses this being sexually himself)
g24	Food from the sky	First seeds (sprouts, tubors) of cultivated plants or of important edible wild plants are brought from the sky (received from the sky-dwellers)
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)
i108	The Pleiades are a person	The Pleiades are only one anthropomorphic being, not several persons
i115a	Orion and the Pleiades as a man and women	Orion and the Pleiades are opposed as a man or men and a woman or women. Orion is usually male
i41	Rainbow serpent	Rainbow is a reptile (usually a snake) or (more rare) a fish, or it is related to snake, to its tongue, breath, or to scorpion's tail
i63	Milky Way is a path of tapir	Milky Way is a path of tapir, or tapir is seen in the Milky Way
i64	Milky Way is a trace of animals	Milky Way is a trace of big animals who were walking or running along it
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
k13a	Person with cut off leg ascends to the sky	Person's leg (rare: both legs) is cut, torn, bitten off, injured. He (rare: she) ascends to the sky: to the Moon; turns into the Moon, Sun, star, constellation; blood from the injured leg makes the sky red
k13c	Ogress’ daughter avenges death of her mother	A man marries an ogress' daughter, kills her mother. The wife revenges on him, gets to cut off his leg
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)
l36	Woman attacks man who climbs a tree	When a man climbs a tree (escaping from persecutor; to get bird nestlings, honey, fruits, etc.), his wife (rare: her brother) kills, injures him or turns into demonic creature who pursues him
l56	Fire in monster’s belly	A monster or a big animal dies when fire is kindled in its belly
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: Wayapi, Emerillon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Wayana, Aparai
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kamayura
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Mundurucu, Curuaia
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tupinamba

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Warao
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Choco: Embera, Nonama (Waunana), XVI century Dabaiba, pre-Columbian iconography of Sinu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Locono
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Yagua
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Trio
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Makka
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Shuswap