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
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
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b15	River from woman’s body	A river flows from the body of a female person
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
e5c	People from the sky	The first people or first anthropomorphic divine beings descend to earth from the sky.
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
e9d	Dog-wife	Man marries a girl who initially has guise of a dog
f2	Pregnant limb	Child is born from a tumor or swelling on person's body (on thigh, knee, finger, etc.) or is temporarily placed there or child grows from blood that flew out from a cut
f27	Girls and the water spirits	For girls and young women it is dangerous to come near water. Water creatures swallow them or drag away; a girl can die or become pregnant from a spirit; she can trigger a flood (rare: other cataclysm). Water spirits can come themselves to a girl who has her periods
f30	Snake paramour	A woman or a girl takes a snake, an eel (i.e. Pacific snake-eel), a lizard, or a worm for husband or paramour. People kill or badly injure him, the woman and/or her progeny or the woman herself is transformed into snake. Cf. motif k76b: the snake-husband becomes and remains a handsome man
f32	Tree fruits for a woman	Baby child or children who come out of mother's womb and turn themselves into adult men or a snake who lives in her womb climb up a tree and help the woman to gather fruits, bark, edible fungi, etc. Usually the child who is a snake returns to his mother's womb and adult man turns back into a baby; or the girl's love affair with a snake is discovered when her father climbs a tree to gather fruits for her
f50	The often-born children	Child or children come out of mother's womb and return back
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)
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)
h28	Plagues from the body of a person or creature	Killed and destroyed (often burned) person or creature (usually ogre, fierce animal, powerful shaman) turns into a multitude of biting insects or into other small molesting creatures
h4	The shed skin	Those who change their skin become young again
i1	The thunderbirds	Creatures that produce rain and/or thunderstorms are birds or anthropomorphic beings with wings; or (rare) some or all birds are connected with thunder, lightning or rain though Thunder is not a bird
i100b	The Pleiades are a group of people	The Pleiades are any people (of any ages and sex, combined data of i99-i100a)
i124	Ursa major is a boat	Ursa major is a boat
i129	Constellation of Heron	When constellation of Heron appears on the sky, the rain season begins
i133a	The big bird constellation	There is a constellation identified with a bird that corresponds to several big constellations in European traditions (mostly Ecuatorial and not Circum-Popar).
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
i82b	Venus is female	Morning and/or Evening Star is a female personage
i82c	Venus is the Moon’s wife	Venus or some other bright star seen near the eastern or western horizon is female and wife of the Moon
i99	The Pleiades are boys or men	The Pleiades are a group of boys or men, or a group of different people but predominantly males
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
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
m70	An elder person poisons a younger one with intestinal gas	Old person tricks a young man into smelling her or his intestinal gas
m70a	Old woman is pierced through	An old woman defecates or breaks wind over a man. He kills her inserting a cutting object into her anus or vagina

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Warao
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ashaninca (Campa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Wapishana (incl Ataroi); Mapidian; Taruma
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Trio
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Orinoco Kariña, Yaruri, Tamanak
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Paresi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Chorote
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Desana, Siriano; Tatuyo, Bara, Tuyuca

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Domenica Caribs, Carifuna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bororo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Wayana, Aparai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Karen, Pa-O, Padaung, Kayah
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Warao
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ticuna (Tucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Rikbaktsa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Chamacoco (Ishir)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Bora