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)
a22	To the sky from a bonfire	After getting into the fire or boiling water, one or two persons ascend to the sky and turn into the Sun and/or Moon
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
b102	Clouds from smoke	Clouds are formed from smoke that ascends from the earth
b19	The night and the married life	People had trouble making love before night came into being
b36c	Fat animals	Animals get meat and fat extracted from some original creature or created otherwise. Some get a lot, some remain lean
c34	The deluge because of a wounded creature	Killing (injuring, offending) of some cruature (usually related to water) triggers deluge
d13f	Laughter and fire	Laughter triggers emergence or spread of fire. Usually fire is obtained from a creature when it bursts out laughing
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d7	Fire and toad	Frog or toad possesses the fire, steals it from original owner, tries to extinguish or to save it
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
e5c	People from the sky	The first people or first anthropomorphic divine beings descend to earth from the sky.
e5e	The two-headed being is not allowed to come to the earth	First people or animals ascend or descend to earth. The two-headed monster attempts to follow them but is prevented from coming to the earth
e7	Person stuck in a cosmic hole	To descend from the sky, ascend from the underworld or come out of the cave, people must pass through narrow hole. A person is stuck in the hole blocking forever communication between different parts of the universe
f42	The men abandon the women	The men feel themselves offended by the women and abandon them
f53a	Bat or owl hides his face	A man hides his face from his wife because she does not know that he is a nocturnal being (a bat or an owl)
h30	A wrong choice	Seeing two women who have come together or in succession, man has to choose one of them. Usually he takes the one who is less pretty and smart or more dangerous inflicting troubles on himself and humanity
i1	The thunderbirds	Creatures that produce rain and/or thunderstorms are birds or anthropomorphic beings with wings; or (rare) some or all birds are connected with thunder, lightning or rain though Thunder is not a bird
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
i4a	Thunder in trouble: falls to earth	Thunder falls to earth, cannot return to the sky. Usually a human person helps him to do it
i65	Milky Way of the dead	Milky Way is the path over which souls travel to the beyond or a path of the funeral procession
i85c1	The rain stored in the sky	In the sky there is a special container (vessel, skin, box, etc.) for storing the rain
j2	The tree-husband	Husband or lover is a tree (that temporarily turns into a man)
k17	The ornitomorphic suitor	An ornitomorphic hero impregnates a girl magically or imperceptibly for her
k87	Marriage with an animal creates problems	A woman becomes the wife of an animal (rare: other non-human being). Her husband cares for her but ultimately the animal, the woman, her children or her relations are killed, she turns into an animal herself, animals and humans become enemies, etc.
l15a	Vulnerable place on the body	The only vulnerable spot is near the surface of person’s or creature’s body and not in his inner organs
l15a1	Achilles' heel	Vulnerable place on the body of a person or creature is on his or her foot (toe, heel, sole, ankle)
l19a	Beings with even number of heads	Beings (any besides birds) with even but not more than ten number of heads are described in tales or represented in art. Beings that with even number of heads named in a row with other multi-headed beings and the highest number is even or bigger than ten are not considered
l20	Eater of the raw meat	Two persons hunt or fish. One of them is or becomes a cannibal. He or she reveals his or her nature eating the quarry raw
l20a	Eater of parrots	A man climbs a tree, throws down bird nestlings to a woman. She eats them raw and then kills or tries to kill the man
l22	The sound sleep	After breaking some taboo, coming across a strange object or person, people fall asleep. They do not feel when at night spirits come and injure or kill them
l22a	People become blind	After breaking some taboo, coming across a strange object or person, people fall asleep and awake blind
l36	Woman attacks man who climbs a tree	When a man climbs a tree (escaping from persecutor; to get bird nestlings, honey, fruits, etc.), his wife (rare: her brother) kills, injures him or turns into demonic creature who pursues him
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
l42	Hero carried to ogre’s home	An ogre or ogress catches a person and brings him to his or her home where he or she plans to cook and eat him. The hero escapes
m29b	Trickster-fox, jackal or coyote	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is fox, jackal or coyote
m33	Anus closed	Person himself or somebody else stitches up or firmly stops his anus (with wax, clay, grass, etc.)
m8	Breaking the obstacle	Non-human persons work hard to destroy a strong and durable obstacle that blocks access to some place or object
m89	Melted wax	Person dies or is humiliated after some object that he or she made of wax, resin, excrements and/or took for something worthy are melted down
m8c	Eyes cleared out	Birds peck through a layer of clay, wax, pitch etc. with which person’s eyes or anus are stuck up

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tacana
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Sanema
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Cayapo (incl. Kubenkranken, Pau d’Arco, Shikrin or Xikrin)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Bahnar, Bana, Sedang, Por
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Witoto, Ocaina
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar)

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Toba (incl Pilaga)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 7 Tradition: Mataco
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Warao
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Chorote
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Chamacoco (Ishir)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Melanesians of the northern coast New Guinea, nearest off-shore islands and Huon Gulf (Morobe district): Watut, Bilbil (Bilibili), Jabim (incl Kai), Tami, Bukawac, Wogeo, Tumleo, Yakamul, Manam, Sissano, Sio
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Tacana