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
a12a	Eclipses: a predator animal	During an eclipse or at other circumstances the Sun or the Moon are attacked by a predator animal (a bear, a feline, a canine, a racoon)
b1f	Two brothers: a winner and a failure	Two brothers (companions) live In the epoch of the creation. One of them is smart and selfconfident, another is weak and makes mistakes. They are not enemies and demonstrate their qualities in two or more episodes
c2	Deluge and conflagration combined	Inhabitans of the Middle World are (partly) destroyed (or will be destoyed) once by fire or draught, another time by a flood or the world is destroyed with a flood of fire or boiling 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
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)
i22g	Clapping rocks	There are mountains or rocks which permanently collide and separate again from each other or a crack (jaws) in a vertical cliff which is opening and closing
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
j1	The vengeful heroes	Persons avenge the death of their father, mother or other relatives who are one (rare two) generations older than they
j11	Unborn child asks to pick up some flowers	A quarrel between a mother and her sons in her womb flares up after they ask her to pick up flowers or fruits (usually the insect bites her when she picks flowers up)
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
j15	Woman gets to dangerous creatures	Walking in search of her husband, boyfriend, kinsmen, shelter woman or girl gets to the house of dangerous creatures where she is injured or killed
j15a	Woman gets to jaguars	Setting off (usually in search of her husband, boyfriend or kinsmen), woman gets to the place of dangerous felines
j43	Bait for antagonists	To kill his antagonists, hero lures them with an attractive object which is delicious to eat and is usually on the other side of a body of water or a canyon
j46	Enemy drowns	Antagonist perishes falling into the water or trying to cross a water body
j4a	Revenge for the death of the mother	A woman is murdered. Her son or children (rare: grandchildren, nephews) revenge for her death
j56	Father tests his sons	Twin heroes (or one boy) come to their divine father. He puts them under trials to get know if they are really his children and possess supernatural power
j6	Children of murdered woman grow up with her murderers	Pregnant woman is killed (and eaten up). Twins are cut off from her womb. They should be eaten too but survive, live (unrecognized) in the house of the antagonists and revenge on them
j60	Two-fold impregnation	A woman is impregnated by two different males and gives birth to twin sons who have different fathers
j9	Unborn children talk from the womb	A woman is in search of her husband or other person or object. Her unborn children speak from her stomach and shows her the correct way
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
k18	Infant picks out his unknown father	A boy is born whose father or (rare) mother is unknown. He himself points at his parent who as a rule occupies the lowest social position. Usually many men (women) come together and everyone hopes that the boy points at him (her)
k18a	Infant takes father’s bow and arrows	When a small boy has to recognize his father among many men, he comes to him and takes father's bow and arrows
k18aa	Pregnancy because of the non-sexual contact	A girl becomes pregnant without her knowledge thanks to the contact with body liquids of a male person or with objects touched by him (not because of the normal sexual contact, or a wish expressed by the father of her future child, or her mistical contact with a deity). The happy marriage of the girl with her child’s father follows
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
m18	Stolen arrows and hooks	Person transforms himself into an object of hunting or fishing, provokes hunters of fishermen to catch or shoot him and carries way the tools that they use (arrows, darts, harpoons, hooks, baits). Or he fishes by turning himself into a hook. Or he is caught but escapes turning back into a person
m18b	Getting fishing hook or harpoon	Person turns into a fish to steal fishing hook or harpoon or he turns into fishing hook to catch a fish
m29l	Trickster is an opossum	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is an opossum

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tacana
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tenetehara
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Guarani: different groups of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina including Apapocuva, Kaiowá, Mbyá, Chiripá (=Ñandeva)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Wayapi, Emerillon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Suruí, Gaviâo, Zoro, Arua, Cinta Larga

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 10 Tradition: Tupinamba
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 9 Tradition: Tenetehara
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Wayapi, Emerillon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Guarani: different groups of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina including Apapocuva, Kaiowá, Mbyá, Chiripá (=Ñandeva)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
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: Bororo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Zaparo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Xipaya (Shipaya)