Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a11b	One-eyed luminaries	The Sun or the Moon is one-eyed (usually another eye was knocked or sucked out but sometimes this defect is not explained
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)
a14	Eclipses: relations between the Sun and the Moon	Coming together of the Sun and the Moon is the reason of their eclipses
a20	Childhood and youth of the Sun and Moon	The Sun and the Moon (rare: the Sun and a star, the Moon and a star) are two siblings who live on earth and then ascend to the sky being still young persons
a5	The Sun and the Moon are males	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (much more rare) asexual
b17	Night in container	Darkness is a particular object that can be carried (usually brought from its original owner in a container)
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
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
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
h24	Container opened too early	Container with valuables or with dangerous creatures is opened (before time). Its content goes out of control or disappear
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
i42	Rainbow is a pair of creatures	Rainbow is two creatures or persons, usually a male and a female
j58	The arrow ladder	Persons shoot arrows (darts) which hit each other’s end forming a chain (rope, ladder). Persons climb by this chain to the sky or (rare) across an obstacle
j59	Following arrow to get to the sky	To climb to the sky, person must first to shoot an arrow that reaches the sky and sticks to it

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 5 Tradition: Sicuani
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Sicuani
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: Ache (Guayaki)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Makiritare (Yecuana)