Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
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
a36	The immortal Moon	The Moon, unlike people, revives or rejuvenates every month; or those who live in the Moon are immortal; or the Moon makes decision if people should die forever or regularly revive
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b114	Old person turns into anteater	Old man or old woman turns into anteater (origin of anteaters)
b12	Rivers and snakes	The river bed follows the way of a snake, fish, dragon or crab; pieces of the snake’s body turn into rivers; a river is a snake
b26	Man joins wild animals	Person who follows the wild animals turns into one of them or into their master
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
b37	Creatures are made appear as they are now	Person decorates different birds (rare: fish), share fat between anomals. Since then, the corresponding species acquire present characteristics
b38	The ruined painting	Person paints birds or animals or they paint each other. Some of them are not satisfied with the result
b57	Blood reddens world	When some person or animal is killed, blood paints the sky (origin of the sunrise or sunset, of reddish colors of Aurora borealis) or other natural objects (Moon, autumn vegetation)
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
b9	Water in the tree trunk	There is enormous amount of water inside a trunk of a tree or a tree turns into water
c1	The collapse of the sky	Catastropic displacement of layers of the univers in the past or in the future is mentioned. Among variants (sometimes combined): the sky fell on the earth; the earth (the underworld) and the sky interchanged their positions; the earth turned upside down; the layers of the universe collapsed in one after another; they will change their place during the future cataclysm
c11	Divine father avenges his son	Person uses his supernatural powers to destroy a large group of people who have offended or insulted his son
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
c9a	The flood: people turn into toads	During a flood or when crossing a river those people who drowned (or those who survived) turn into water animals
d10	Fire sticks are two persons	A male and a female persons personify fire-sticks
e25	Arachne (the spider-weaver)	The art of weaving people get from a spider or from a person who turns into spider afterwards; a spider is weaving for people
f27	Girls and the water spirits	For girls and young women it is dangerous to come near water. Water creatures swallow them or drag away; a girl can die or become pregnant from a spirit; she can trigger a flood (rare: other cataclysm). Water spirits can come themselves to a girl who has her periods
f46	One for all	In the beginning of time two or more men (animal people) have only one woman
f46a	Woman in a tree	Men (animal people) discover a woman in a tree and copulate with her there
g24	Food from the sky	First seeds (sprouts, tubors) of cultivated plants or of important edible wild plants are brought from the sky (received from the sky-dwellers)
g28	The fish tree	Tree contains fish in its trunk
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
h20	Fish disperse in the world	All the fish or (rare) shellfish) was concentrated in one place. Certain person lets it lose or puts it into the rivers or sea
h21a	Not to kill a big fish
h32b	Superfertility lost: a maltreated child	A small girl or boy who is a child of a deity comes to live with humans. Thanks to that, food or other resources become easily available. The child is maltreated, returns to its own world, human life becomes difficult and scanty
h4	The shed skin	Those who change their skin become young again
h47	Offended sky or earth	The sky (or the earth) is offended by people’s behavior in respect to it and reacts accordingly (e.g. rises higher than it was before)
h6a	People and plants	Mortal humans are contrasted with (almost) immortal trees that shed their bark, become green again after winter sleep or propagate by sprouts
h9b	Children as shoots of plants	People are likened to plants which are mortal but revive in their offsets
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
i100	The Pleiades are girls	The Pleiades are a group of girls or women (with children)
i100b	The Pleiades are a group of people	The Pleiades are any people (of any ages and sex, combined data of i99-i100a)
i108	The Pleiades are a person	The Pleiades are only one anthropomorphic being, not several persons
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
i6	Weather birds	A man meets a giant bird that brings with it clouds, rain, hail, thunderstorm, etc.
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
k10	Fight with the monstrous bird	Monstrous bird (giant bat) predates on humans. Heroes fight with it
k10i	A tree that opens its trunk	A tree opens its trunk to provide a refuge for a hero pursued by the monstrous bird. When the bird follows the hero the tree crushes it squeezing its trunk again
k42	Bird-woman kills men (The loon-woman)	Bird-woman is energetically searching a man whom she likes, takes him by force for her husband. Turning into a monster, she kills men but is ultimately destroyed
k6	Vine from body excretions	A vine grows from person's or animal's tears, mucus, urine, etc.
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)
m11	The unclean food	Person feeds others a food that is extracted from his, hers or somebody else’ body or is polluted by body extractions not informing about the source of the food
m11d	Salt extracted from body	Adding salt, person makes food delicious. Another person gets to know that this salt is extracted from the cook’s body (it is contained in his body extractions)
m28	Icarus (failed attempt to fly on artificial wings)	Acquiring possibility to fly, person ultimately falls to the ground or remains in a faraway place being unable to fly any more
m29b	Trickster-fox, jackal or coyote	In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is fox, jackal or coyote
m30	Trickster falls down	Person or creature who has no wings or is unable to fly on a long distance attempts to ascend to the sky or to fly far away but falls down or, deprived of his wings, remains in a place from which he is unable to return

Similar traditions based on Cosmology and Etiology motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Makka
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): 2 Tradition: Bororo
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Mindanao: Blaan (Bilaan), Bagobo, Bukidnon, Cotabato, Hiligáynon, Binukid, Magindaan (=Magindanao: main Muslim population), Mandaya, Mansaka, Manobo (Agusan, Ata, Dibabawon, Sarangani, Ilianen), Maranao, Subanon (=Subanun), Subanen, Tboli
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Trio
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Amahuaca, Cashinahua, Sharanahua, Yaminahua, Yawanahua, Capanahua)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Ainu
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Tacana
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Ancient Greece

Similar traditions based on Adventures and Tricks motifs:
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Chamacoco (Ishir)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 6 Tradition: Makka
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Toba (incl Pilaga)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Chorote
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Naskapi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Mataco
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Aguaruna, Huambiza
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay)