Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a28	The smart Sun and the unwise Moon	The Sun and the Moon are men. The unwise Moon tries to repeat dangerous tricks of the Sun but fails to do it successfully
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
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b15	River from woman’s body	A river flows from the body of a female person
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
b54	Chips turn into fish	Chips of wood, branches or pieces of bark thrown or fallen into the water turn into fish and/or aquatic animals
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
c2b	The burned Moon	The Sun and Moon get into conflagration. The Sun survives, the Moon is burned
d13c	Trickster makes his brother’s wife laugh	Two companions or brothers live together. The elder conceals his wife from the younger. In his absence, the younger tries to make the woman laugh and this way to get know her hiding place
d13d	To make hidden woman laugh	To find a person who is hiding somewhere inside the house, another one tries to make her or him laugh
f16	Men and women: exchange of anatomical characteristics	Initially men possessed women's biological traits and vice versa (beard, menses, breasts, bearing children)
f2	Pregnant limb	Child is born from a tumor or swelling on person's body (on thigh, knee, finger, etc.) or is temporarily placed there or child grows from blood that flew out from a cut
f25	Origin of menses: girl smeared with blood	Woman is smeared with blood or red paint. Since then women menstruate
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
f43a	The women kill the men	The women of the ancestral community kill, try to kill or transform the men
f45	The Amazons	There are (or were) women who live apart from men in their own village or villages
f46	One for all	In the beginning of time two or more men (animal people) have only one woman
f50	The often-born children	Child or children come out of mother's womb and return back
f56	Watching vagina triggers incest	A man or boy thinks about incest when he gets to see his daughter(-in-law)'s, sister's, or mother(in-law)'s vagina
f79	Animal wives	Person marries several non-human wives in succession, every time (besides the last one) is disappointed
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
g17	Gift of a reptile	Serpent (snake-eel in Oceania) or alligator is the original possessor or the source of cultivated plants or wild staples
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)
g23a	Alive being turns into plants	Person or creature is transformed. Separate parts of its (his, her) body give origin to different plants, mostly edible or cultivated
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
h18	Hoarded game released	Game animals were concentrated in one single place. Certain person lets them disperse in the world
h37	Magic device lost by a failure	Magic object, device that makes hunting or fishing easy gets into possession of a person who is unable to operate it or abuses it. The device kills or injures the failure himself, other people and/or disappears
h7g1	Death is more fair and rich than God	Person (who is usually in search of the godgather for the newborn child) rejects God (saints) and devil but accepts Death who is more fair (or rich)
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
i82b	Venus is female	Morning and/or Evening Star is a female personage
i82c	Venus is the Moon’s wife	Venus or some other bright star seen near the eastern or western horizon is female and wife of the Moon
k19a	Star-wife	A man maries a star-woman
k19b	Star-husband	A woman maries a star-man
k1f	Conflict because of a woman	A man maroons another because of jealousy or because he plans to take hold of his wife
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
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
m121	Louse as a spy	Louse or other tiny creature (flee, tuck) is sent to spy on a person
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
m18a	Getting arrows	Person turns into a fish or game and exposes himself as a target. A lot of arrows, darts or harpoons stick in his body making him no harm, he carries them away
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): 4 Tradition: Bororo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Mundurucu, Curuaia
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Apinaye (Apinage, Apinaje)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Craho
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Trumai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Paresi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Rikbaktsa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Canela (Eastern Timbira): Ramkokamekra, Apaniekra
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Kamayura
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Mehinaku, Waura, Yaulapiti

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Craho
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Chamacoco (Ishir)
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: Maxacali
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Paresi
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: Kamakan; Kutasho
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bororo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Kamayura
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Canela (Eastern Timbira): Ramkokamekra, Apaniekra