Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a14	Eclipses: relations between the Sun and the Moon	Coming together of the Sun and the Moon is the reason of their eclipses
a31	The incestuous Moon	As a result of some intimate contacts and/or love affair, the Moon acquires its present appearance (often, the stains on his face) and/or ascends to the sky
a35	Spots on the lunar disc	Dark spots on the lunar disc are dirt, blood, paint, traces of beating, burning, scratching, etc. on the Moon person's body or face (Kiliwa: spots on the Sun) and do not form any particular figure
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b17	Night in container	Darkness is a particular object that can be carried (usually brought from its original owner in a container)
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
d12	Food baked in the sun	First people or inhabitants of a distant country cook food in the sun; or fire owner lies that he or she cooks food in the sun
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d5	Woman as the owner of the fire	Female person is the owner or inventor (but not the personification) of the fire
d7	Fire and toad	Frog or toad possesses the fire, steals it from original owner, tries to extinguish or to save it
d8	Fire and a predator animal	Fire or summer is stolen from a big predator: a lion (in Africa), a tiger (in Asia), a bear (in Siberia and North America) or a jaguar (in South America)
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
e5d	Predator devours emerging people	People live underground or in a small enclosure. When they come out they are attacked by monster or dangerous animal. Monster is killed or transformed
f40a	Husband of the first women	An anthropomorphic male or an androgyne is the only possessor or leader of women
f43	The women disappear	The women of the ancestral community kill or abandon the men
f44	Women and men separate	The women and the men of the primeval community quarrel and abandon each other
g12a	Plants from drops of blood	Cultivated plants emerge from drops of blood or spill from cuts on the body of a person or animal
g24	Food from the sky	First seeds (sprouts, tubors) of cultivated plants or of important edible wild plants are brought from the sky (received from the sky-dwellers)
g7	Blunt axes	Ancestors try to fell a tree (more rare a high rock) that has different useful fruits on its branchs (on its top) or contains water and fish in its tunck. The notch disappears as soon as the woodcutters abandon their work for a while or periodically
h12	The alive person comes to the land of the dead after somebody’s death	The alive person comes to the land of the dead to bring back somebody who has recently died (besides stories about shamans who journey to the other world to bring back the soul of a sick person) or, having no particular aim, goes there in company of somebody who had recently died or following his or her tracks
h34f	Walking baskets	Baskets carried loads by themselves
i14	No-anus people	Person or creature has no anus opening
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
i30	Master of the dead welcomes women	Master or mistress of the realm of the dead copulates with every new human soul of the opposite sex who arrives to his or her realm
i31	Master and mistress of the dead	In the Beyond, two mythological personages, one male and another female, meet the newcomers, or the same person meet the women in the female and the men in the male guise
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
i44	Chthonic serpent	Giant serpent lies on the perimeter of the earth or supports the earth
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
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
j47	Pursuer falls from height	Person ascends to the sky (rare: descends from the sky; ascends the cliff) by a rope, a ladder, etc. Another person tries to follow him or her but the rope (the ladder) is broken or severed
j58	The arrow ladder	Persons shoot arrows (darts) which hit each other’s end forming a chain (rope, ladder). Persons climb by this chain to the sky or (rare) across an obstacle
j59	Following arrow to get to the sky	To climb to the sky, person must first to shoot an arrow that reaches the sky and sticks to it
k19a	Star-wife	A man maries a star-woman
k20	Wish for star-husband or wife realized	A human person admires a star or (rare) the Moon in the sky, expresses desire to marry it or (rare) to get a star-object. Star descends to him or to her or takes him or her to the sky
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
l21	Cannibal’s attention diverted	A cannibal under a tree plans to eat up a man who has climbed the tree. The man throws down and afar his pray or some object and escapes while the cannibal rushes to this object or is eating the pray
m10	A girl and a honey	A girl or a woman who was stuck in a tree-hollow when she tried to extract honey or who was greedily sucking honey otherwise, dies or turns into the honey or into the bee
m21	A protector hides fugitives	The protagonist pursued by an enemy comes across a person, an animal or an object to help him and receives help
m21a	Under false cause of illness	Person is pursued by an enemy. A bird or animal hides him or her in its mouth (under a wing) and pretends not to be able to open the mouth (to raise a wing) – because of a tooth ache, some injury and the like
m9	Stuck in a tree hollow	Person who puts her or his head or hand into a tree hollow or (rare) other hole is stuck fast in it or falls into the hollow and dies or undergoes a metamorphosis

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Suruí, Gaviâo, Zoro, Arua, Cinta Larga
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Papua–NewGuinea Highland Papuans:Trans New Guinea & unclassified:Chimbu,Gimi,KaugelHuli,Gadsup,Kuman,Kutubu,Foi (Foe),Kyaka,Kamano (Kafe),Mawatta,Kukukuku (=Anga,=Sambia;Manki,Nauti,Ejuti),Baruya,Kewa,Tembregak,Menya,Melpa,Wiru,Pondoma
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: Suya, Txukarramae
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Apinaye (Apinage, Apinaje)
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): 3 Tradition: Wayapi, Emerillon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Wayana, Aparai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Paresi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Caraja

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Chorote
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Craho
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Paresi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Mataco
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Toba (incl Pilaga)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Trio
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Chamacoco (Ishir)