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)
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
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.
c13	The objects’ revolt	During or before the world cataclysm (deluge, darkness) or (Suruí) in particular place at night, household objects and/or stones, trees, domestic animals turn into wild beasts and monsters
c14	Monsters destroy people	During or before the world catastrophe (deluge, darkness) wild beasts and monsters attack and destroy people
f45	The Amazons	There are (or were) women who live apart from men in their own village or villages
g2	The return of Persephone	Person who is the incarnation of fertility and life first disappears and then (reriodically) returns
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
i33	Tree of the dead	The ultimate aim of the afterlife journey is to reach certain tree
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
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
i72a	Stars are children of the Sun and the Moon	Stars are children of the Moon and/or the Sun
i82a	Venus is male	Morning and/or Evening Star is a male personage
j55	Unrecognized hero comes across enemies	Hero comes across different creatures or persons who do not recognize him. Everyone tells that he is waiting for the Hero to kill him. The hero easily kills or transforms them himself
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
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
k28	Father or uncle is rival and enemy	Maternal uncle or father (or grandfather if he replaces father who is not mentioned) of the young man is his rival or enemy and tries to kill him
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.
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
m44b	Thieves of food: the women	Person discovers that somebody steals game or fish from his trap or devastates his garden. He or his guards catch the thieves who prove to be (the first) women or the thief is the water being whom the hero lets go after receiving a woman for ransom
m8	Breaking the obstacle	Non-human persons work hard to destroy a strong and durable obstacle that blocks access to some place or object
m8d	Birds break body covering	Birds work hard to peck through the substance that covers some beings' body or to reach its entrails

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Kuna; XVI century data on Eastern Panama
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Tacana
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Tzotzil
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 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): 6 Tradition: Zuni
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Huichol

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 8 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Makka
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Chukchi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Locono
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Trio
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Warao
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Wayapi, Emerillon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna