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)
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
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
a9	The moon defends people	Female moon does not permit her husband or son to destroy people
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
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
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)
i3	Weapon of Thunder	The lightning (and thunder) is (produced with) an object (axe, sword, mirror, belt, stones, skin, etc.) in hands of anthropomorphic being
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
k19a	Star-wife	A man maries a star-woman
k25	Magic wife	A man consciously marries a woman related to the non-human world
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

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Mataco
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Sherente
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Guarani: different groups of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina including Apapocuva, Kaiowá, Mbyá, Chiripá (=Ñandeva)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Lacandon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Cayapo (incl. Kubenkranken, Pau d’Arco, Shikrin or Xikrin)
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: Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Wa (incl Kawa), Bulang

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Kamakan; Kutasho
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Craho
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Umotina (Umutina)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Mataco
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Ofaie
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Maxacali
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: Paresi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kayabi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Barasana, Taibano, Macuna