Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b99	Person turned into the nest of insects	Person (his/her head) who was abandoned in a tree or falls on a tree turns into a nest of insects
c11	Divine father avenges his son	Person uses his supernatural powers to destroy a large group of people who have offended or insulted his son
c34	The deluge because of a wounded creature	Killing (injuring, offending) of some cruature (usually related to water) triggers deluge
c34a	Buried in sand	A supernatural person comes to people who fish. They bury him on the beach or throw him into river or marsh. Somebody saves him. He or his father sends the flood
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
e5a	Mankind ascends from the underworld	The first people (or only the first men or the first women) are not created but come to earth from the underworld (from a cave) or from a small enclosure under the earth or on its surface (tree trunk, rock, gourd, etc.). Many people of both sexes and of different ages or people and different species of animals come out together
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
h30	A wrong choice	Seeing two women who have come together or in succession, man has to choose one of them. Usually he takes the one who is less pretty and smart or more dangerous inflicting troubles on himself and humanity
i22	Objects in permanent movement	There are objects which remaining on the same place are moving permanently or periodically (meet and part. rise and fall down, shut and open, rotate)
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
i45b	Not to point at the rainbow	It to point at the rainbow, pointing finger or entire arm will rot, wither or become crooked
i78	The square earth	The earth is square, the sky is usually round
j12	Travelling girl walks across suitors	A girl (or two sisters) travel, usually in search of a proper marriage partner who lives far away or who has gone away. On her way or after reaching the place of destination the girl gets to some unpleasant suitors
j13	Two sisters	Two sisters (if more, only two play a significant role in the plot) travel and meet an unpleasant suitor or get to an ogre
j34	Frightened grandmother	After killing their enemy, heroes have fun frightening their (grand)mother or father with its dummy
k177	The travelling heroine	A girl or young woman sets off to find or return her fience or her husband or she escapes from a fanger and ultimately marries happily
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
k25e	Magic wife is an ancestor	All humans, members of a particular ethnic or social group or a ruling dynasty are believed to descend from a mortal man and a woman of supernatural origin
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
k27n3a	Task-giver is the Sun, Moon, Thunder, or Wind	Person who gives difficult tasks to the hero is associated with the Sun, Moon, Thunder, or Wind (Cloud, Rain)
k38f4	Fire-breathing monster	From the mouth of a monstrous creature or person who is the enemy of the hero fire is coming out; its breath is fire
l11	Turtle-bench	In a non-human world objects of everyday life have appearance of animals and monsters, mainly fish, amphibians and reptiles

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tacana
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Bororo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Urarina
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Yagua
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Suruí, Gaviâo, Zoro, Arua, Cinta Larga
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Piro (Yine)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Chayahuita

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Quinault
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Chilkotin
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Sinhalese; Vedda
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kédang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Yana
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Coos
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Pomo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Plains Cree
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki