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
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
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
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
b3e	Earth falls on waters	In the beginning there are only air and water. 1) Person descends from the sky, creates the dry land or a hard support created for her or him grows into the earth. 2) The earth is sent or dropped from the sky, put on the surface of the water. 3) The earth is brought from somewhere (not from the underworld) and put on the water
b79a1	A bird dropped hard substance on water	In the beginning of time, a bird flies and drops some solid substance on the waters and the dry land or an island appear. Sometimes the precise nature of the substratum on which the solid piece falls is not defined
b7c	Water splashed out	Person or creature possesses all the fresh water. Another person splashes it out of a container or pond making it available for everybody
c4	The flood: fruits fall from a tree	During the flood or in the beginning of times fruits, seeds or other objects are dropped into water one by one, usually by a person who has climbed a tree. As far as the objects fall, water recedes and the dry land appears
c4a	The flood: survival in a tree	During the flood some persons survive in a tree
c5a	Bird-scouts	Birds or humans later changed to birds are sent to explore the earth (is it dry, are any survivals, to investigate why smoke rises to the sky, etc.) or to bring some soil to make the land that would be good for living
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d4g	Hummingbird discovers where the fire is (and brings it to people)	Hummingbird discovers where the fire is (and brings it to people)
d4o	Fire stealer pretends to be wet and cold	To steal fire from its owner, person pretends to be wet or cold and is granted permission to sit near the fireplace. In a proper moment the stealer carries the fire away and brings it to people
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
g18	Person wants to be sacrificed	A person asks people to abandon him or her in the forest, to burn or drag him or her around the future garden plot, to burn her in her house, etc. People fulfill the person's wish and find cultivated plants growing on the place
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
g6	Primeval tree	One of the trees is the principal, original one (emerged before all the other; ancestor of wild or cultivated plants; ocean or rivers inside it; world axis; higher than all the others; overshadows sky)
h9	Strong and weak	People are mortal because they have been likened to something subject to decay and easy destruction (e.g. to the soft wood and not to the stone)
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
j44	The broken bridge	Person or his helper draws his enemies on the unstable bridge and destroys it. The enemies fall into water, into a precipice
l70	Fruit falls and kills	Person or animal is killed or injured with a heavy object dropped from a tree (or rock, etc.). The person or the animal knows that the objects will fall but has falls ideas about its character and weight
m29w	Jaguar (ocelote, puma) is a failure	Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the jaguar (ocelote, puma) suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
m8	Breaking the obstacle	Non-human persons work hard to destroy a strong and durable obstacle that blocks access to some place or object
m8b	Birds break an obstacle to get water	Birds or (rare) animals work hard to break a rock or a cane and get water or honey concealed inside

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Bororo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Wayapi, Emerillon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
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: Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Wapishana (incl Ataroi); Mapidian; Taruma
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Tenetehara
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Melanesians and Papuans of Bismark Archipelago: New Britain (Tolai, Lakalai, Kuni, Sulka, Baining, Gazelle peninsula), New Ireland (Patpatar =Pala), St Matthias Group, Mioko (Melanesians between New Britain and New Ireland)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Wayana, Aparai

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Bororo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Toba (incl Pilaga)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Mataco
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Chamacoco (Ishir)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Aguaruna, Huambiza
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Iranxe