Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
b17	Night in container	Darkness is a particular object that can be carried (usually brought from its original owner in a container)
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
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d6b	Burned person becomes a caiman	Badly burned person turns into caiman or crocodile
d9	Fire and vulture	Raven or other big dark-feathered bird scavenger is the owner, personification, spouse, obtainer or stealer of fire, daylight, or the Sun
e26	People (women) transformed into fish become humans again	People or only women disappear under the water and turn into fish. They are caught using fishing tools and become humans (women) again. (Narratives that tell about a man who caught only one fish who because his wife are not included; see motig F7)
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
f31	The snake egg	Girl or woman is imperceptibly impregnated by snake when the content of a broken egg of a snake flows into her vagina or when she touches a dead snake
f32	Tree fruits for a woman	Baby child or children who come out of mother's womb and turn themselves into adult men or a snake who lives in her womb climb up a tree and help the woman to gather fruits, bark, edible fungi, etc. Usually the child who is a snake returns to his mother's womb and adult man turns back into a baby; or the girl's love affair with a snake is discovered when her father climbs a tree to gather fruits for her
f34	Land animal paramour	Certain woman or a group of women takes for a paramour a big land animal. Husbands, brothers or (adoptive) children kill or maim paramour and (sometimes) the woman
f34b	The paramour is not a human being	A girl (a woman, a group of women) intentionally takes a penis-being, a snake, an eel, a lizard, a worm, a big water animal or water monster or a big terrestrial mammal for paramour. People kill or maim the paramour, the woman and/or her progeny or she is transformed herself into an animal. She is blamed for her behavior
f35	Feeding with the paramour’s meat	Person feeds another with the meat of his or her sexual partner who cooks or eats it without knowing whose meat it is
f50	The often-born children	Child or children come out of mother's womb and return back
f7	The underwater-maiden	Man takes or attempts to take a wife who is connected with the underwater world (fish, crab, snake, water animal and the like)
f86	Conditional signal	Person summons with a certain signal a non-human being (usually his or her sexual partner or his or her protégé). Another person spies, uses the same signal or pronounces the same words and kills the being who comes to him (or uses this being sexually himself)
f95	Wife of one of two brothers	Two companions or brothers live together. One has a wife which he conceals. Another suspects her existence, destroys her or tries to get a wife also for himself
g20	Woman turns into plants	Food crops emerge from remains of a woman or girl
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)
j1	The vengeful heroes	Persons avenge the death of their father, mother or other relatives who are one (rare two) generations older than they
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
j21	Birth from eggs	Gods, first people or founders of the royal lineages are born from eggs
j37	The antagonist is carried away by bird	A man turns into powerful bird or creates it. The bird carries away his enemy
j4a	Revenge for the death of the mother	A woman is murdered. Her son or children (rare: grandchildren, nephews) revenge for her death
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
j8	Feathers at the crossroad	A woman or a girl is in search of her husband or other person. Bird feathers at the cross-road or near the person's dwelling mark the correct or the wrong way
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
k1f	Conflict because of a woman	A man maroons another because of jealousy or because he plans to take hold of his wife
k2	The destroyed ladder	Hero climbs up (e.g. to a tree) or down (e.g. into a deep cave) by ladder, rope, from branch to branch, etc. The rope etc. breaks or is intentionally destroyed and the hero cannot return to the ground. (All cases of motif K2A, besides the Koreans, also contain motif K2)
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
k7	“Like pubis of your wife”	Hero compares something with pubis of another man's wife or sister. The insulted man maroons him in a tree or rock.
k8a	Jonah: swallowed by monster	Person gets into the belly of water being or into the belly of giant creature which appearance and living place remain vague. He kills the monster from the inside and/or returns to earth by himself (i.e. not extracted by other people)
l39	Hero is compelled to descend from a tree	When a person climbs a tree, a demon comes to it and carries the person away, or the person follows the demon to his world by his own will
l41	Hero escapes on the way	An ogre or ogress catches a person and carries his or her prey home but the person escapes on the way or immediately after reaching the ogre's house
l46	Head downward	Person ascends, descends, walks head downward or sees the world upside down
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
m19	The bait-person	Person ties another one (usually a child) to a fishing line to use him as a bait or orders the tied one to catch fish with his hands
m75	Valuables taken off the vultures	Person attracts and catches the carrion-eaters (usually some birds) and thanks to this obtains valuables retrieves valuables (fire, woman, animals, etc.)

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: Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Warao
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kayabi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tenetehara
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Cayapo (incl. Kubenkranken, Pau d’Arco, Shikrin or Xikrin)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Suruí, Gaviâo, Zoro, Arua, Cinta Larga
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Maue (Mawe)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bororo

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Suruí, Gaviâo, Zoro, Arua, Cinta Larga
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Warao
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Paresi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Mehinaku, Waura, Yaulapiti
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tenetehara
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kuikuro, Kalapalo
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: Kamayura
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Orinoco Kariña, Yaruri, Tamanak