Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
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
b12	Rivers and snakes	The river bed follows the way of a snake, fish, dragon or crab; pieces of the snake’s body turn into rivers; a river is a snake
b28	Travelling transformer	The transformer walks along coming across different persons and creatures, transforming them into birds, animals, stones, shrines, etc. (or transforming monstrous animals into present day ones) and introducing cultural norms, landscape features, etc.
b2c	The earth is a human body, is born by the woman	The earth, elements of the landscape or the fertile soil are the transformed body of a person or the earth (islands) were born by a woman
b2e	The male earth	The earth or the world as a whole is a male person (alone or together with a female person)
b36	Creatures acquire their physical traits	Birds, fish, reptiles, mammals intentionally or by chance are smeared with colorful substances or divide among themselves parts of somebody's body thus acquiring their present characteristics
b3a	Primeval waters	Water is the original element, the dry earth appears later
b3b	Earth grows big	Original earth was small and later increased in size or the fertile soil grew from a small amount of original substance
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
c14	Monsters destroy people	During or before the world catastrophe (deluge, darkness) wild beasts and monsters attack and destroy people
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d4p	Parrot or parakeet obtains fire	Parrot or parakeet steals fire for people. (Australian data not computed because historically definitely unrelated to the Tropical American data)
h35	Fragile teeth	Human teeth are made of material subject to easy damage (etiology of tooth ache in most cases)
h41	Death and the dog	Dog is responsible for people being mortal or imperfect. Usually the antagonist bribes dog with a warm fur and the dog lets him spoil the half-ready human figures
i10b	Colored layers of the earth	Particular layers or categories of the earth have different colors
i14	No-anus people	Person or creature has no anus opening
i17	Body anomalies of inhabitants of a distant land	Beings without mouth, anus, genitals, whose women do not know how to give birth live in the underworld, in the sky, or in a far-away land
i28	Animals in the underworld	Game animals live inside a mountain, in a cave or in the underworld where they often look like humans and have a master
i47	Rainbow is filth	Rainbow is a flatulence of a demon, a spray of a skunk, is associated with spit, urine, feces, genitals, etc., causes skin diseases, is associated with death
i49	The running earthquake	Earthquake is a person. Whenever he or she runs or walks, the earth trembles
i78	The square earth	The earth is square, the sky is usually round
i8i	Original earth unstable	Originally the earth was unstable and swung, then it was fixed up
j1	The vengeful heroes	Persons avenge the death of their father, mother or other relatives who are one (rare two) generations older than they
j4	Revenge for the death of the male relatives	Heroes avenge the murder or captivity of the male relatives: (grand)father, uncles, or the elder relatives in general, the loss of the males being the most traumatic
k10	Fight with the monstrous bird	Monstrous bird (giant bat) predates on humans. Heroes fight with it
k1f	Conflict because of a woman	A man maroons another because of jealousy or because he plans to take hold of his wife
k32	The false wife	An ugly, old, lazy, etc. woman or (in Chaco) a male trickster comes to man under disguise of his wife or bride who is driven out, confined to the underworld, killed, etc.
k4	The bird nester	Person climbs up a tree or rock or descends to a cave to get eggs or nestlings from the bird's nest. Another person remains on the ground. They get into conflict and/or the first person is unable to get back to the ground
k8c4	Elk dies after swallowing mouse	A mouse, a small bird, a porcupine or other animal (rare: person) of a small size gets inside a big ungulate (elk, deer, buffalo, tapir) to kill (and then usually to eat) him
l24	Monsters suffocated	Demons (or one of them) attack people and return to their den (usually a cave or tree hollow). People make suffocating fire around the den killing most or all of the demons
l43	Dangerous persons eat filth	Persons who are dangerous for the hero (demons, robbers, merchants) take for something pleasant and edible those objects, creatures or matters (excrements, snakes, insects, etc.) that are disgusting (not edible)
l89	One secretly feeds another	Person transforms humans into monsters or animals secretly putting prohibited meat, grease or eggs into their food or provoking them to use a particular object
m43	Doll as a decoy	To kill or catch a monster, human figure of wood or clay or alive woman is exposed as a bait. Usually monster's claws or sharp leg get stuck in the wood

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Yucatec, Itza; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography of Yucatan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tzotzil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kechua-speaking communities of Apurimac, Cuzco, Arequipa, Puno departments; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries; Callawaya (Kechua with Pukina substratum)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Lahu, Kucong, Yi, Nosu (Nuosu, Northern Yi), Nisu, Nusu, Sani, Jino, Lolo (incl. Bai), Axi, Nasu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Early Chinese written sources
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Pame, Jonaz (Chichimeca-Jonaz), Mazahua, Otomi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Navajo

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Machiguenga
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Ticuna (Tucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Ute
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: North Alaskan Inupiat
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Aguaruna, Huambiza
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Jicarilla
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Bororo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Cayapo (incl. Kubenkranken, Pau d’Arco, Shikrin or Xikrin)