Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b30a	Murdered person turns into fish	Fish emerges from remains of a killed person or creature
e13a	Sacred knowledge from under the water	Sacred knowledge, objects and rituals are initially obtained from the denizens of the underwater world
e3	New people from bones	After destruction of previous world, new people (rare: new earth) are made from the bones of the perished race
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
f38	Women and sacred knowledge	Women were possessors of the sacred knowledge, sanctuaries or ritual objects which are now taboo for them or they made attempts to acquire such a knowledge or objects
f39	The time of women	The women dominated over the men in the past or in a far away land, were the active part in marriage relations, practiced activities which now are reserved of the men only. Or the women could obtained supremacy but failed to do it for some reason
f40a	Husband of the first women	An anthropomorphic male or an androgyne is the only possessor or leader of women
g18	Person wants to be sacrificed	A person asks people to abandon him or her in the forest, to burn or drag him or her around the future garden plot, to burn her in her house, etc. People fulfill the person's wish and find cultivated plants growing on the place
g2	The return of Persephone	Person who is the incarnation of fertility and life first disappears and then (reriodically) returns
g23	Alive being turns into many objects	Person or creature is transformed. Separate parts of its (his, her) body give origin to different objects or creatures (only etiological narratives are considered)
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
i20	The undeground dwarfs	Race of dwarfs lives under the ground (deep under the earth or in hills and rocks) or at the horizon where the earth and the sky meet
i20c	Dwarfs live in the underworld	Dwarfs live in the underworld that somewhat reminds the world of humans. If the dwarfs and the humans meet, it is deep under the earther
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
l68	Two companions in the night	Person turns into monster at night when he remains alone with his companion in the wilderness

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Mundurucu, Curuaia
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Wayana, Aparai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Zuni
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Wayapi, Emerillon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ticuna (Tucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Baniwa (incl. Wakuenai), Bare, Piapoco, Curripaco, Siusi, Guarikena
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): 3 Tradition: Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Yamana (Yaghan), Alacaluf

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Pawnee
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Arikara
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Kiowa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Gros Ventre
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Crow
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Assiniboine
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Bororo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Sangir Islands
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Mandan