Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
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
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
c5a	Bird-scouts	Birds or humans later changed to birds are sent to explore the earth (is it dry, are any survivals, to investigate why smoke rises to the sky, etc.) or to bring some soil to make the land that would be good for living
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
f1	First woman is a transformed man	Woman, female supernatural or animal females are created by changing the sex of a man (or male animals)
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
f33	Water creature paramour	Certain woman or a group of women take for paramour a big water animal (caiman, otter, sea-lion, whale, anaconda; rare: water bird, crab), water spirit or monster. Husbands, brothers or (adoptive) children kill or maim paramour and/or (sometimes) the woman
f34a	The paramour of primeval women	Women of the primeval community or amazons have one non-human paramour for all or simultaneously copulate with animals of particular specie whom they summon using special sygnal
f34a	The paramour of primeval women	Women of the primeval community or amazons have one non-human paramour for all or simultaneously copulate with animals of particular specie whom they summon using special sygnal
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
f40a	Husband of the first women	An anthropomorphic male or an androgyne is the only possessor or leader of women
f49	The abnormal birth	Cesarean operation upon a woman at childbirth as a custom
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
h37	Magic device lost by a failure	Magic object, device that makes hunting or fishing easy gets into possession of a person who is unable to operate it or abuses it. The device kills or injures the failure himself, other people and/or disappears
i16	Body anomalies of the first people	First human beings have no mouth, anus or genitals, their women do not know how to give birth
i27a	Towns and paths of dogs	Souls of the dead dogs have their own towns in the Beyond or their own paths to travel there
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
l23	Proteus	Person gets hold of another. Trying to free himself, the latter turns into different materials, elements, animals or (Urarina and Setebo) orders different dangerous creature to attack the person
l23d	Metamorphosis of the caught female person	Being seized by a person, a female person turns into different materials, elements or animals (Urarina and Setebo: sends different dangerous creature to attack the one who caught her)
l44a	Give me your liver	A man hides in a shelter. An ogre wants him to give certain parts of his body. The man gives the ogre instead parts of the body of a killed animal. The ogre does not understand the deceit, gives in response parts of his own body and dies
l88	Ogre returns to life	A man kills an ogre. When he later comes and touches the ogre's remains, the latter revives

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Rikbaktsa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kandoshi (Murato, Maina); Iquito
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Torricelli family: Valman, Samap, Arapesh (Upper, Coastal), Monumbo, Lilau, Ngaimbom; Moando (Banara); Menya, Olo, Buna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Chayahuita
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tenetehara
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Wayana, Aparai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bororo

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Urarina
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Wayana, Aparai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Manao, Katawishi (Teffé lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Trio
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Wayapi, Emerillon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Warao
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Karijona
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo