Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a1	The old sun	Another sun, usually less benevolent and/or powerful, existed before the present one
a14a	The conflict between the Sun and the Moon	The Sun and the Moon are or were enemies, either permanently or in particular situations
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
a2a	The sun is a source of distructive heat	The world was or will be (almost) burned when several suns had (will) appear(ed) simultaneously; or the only sun was too hot (or bright)
a3	Male sun and female moon	The Moon is female or bisexual, the Sun is male
a35c	Scars and wounds on the Moon’s face	Dark spots on the Moon are scars and wounds on her face
a7	The sun pursues the moon	The Sun and the Moon are two persons one of which is pursuing another in the sky or pursued him or her when they were rising to the sky from the earth
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
b75c	Sounds of the time of creation: a sound of the surf	The sound of the surf or of the river rapids is heard from the time of creation
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
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
c34	The deluge because of a wounded creature	Killing (injuring, offending) of some cruature (usually related to water) triggers deluge
f22	Study of partner’s body	Person asks another person of the opposite sex about destination or place of her or his genitals. Usually it is made after putting questions about function of other body parts; or person tries to use for sex different parts of the partner's body or tests them before reaching the best place where the genitals should be put
f23	Origin of menses: sexual act	Women menstruate because they bled in primeval time after the first defloration
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
f32	Tree fruits for a woman	Baby child or children who come out of mother's womb and turn themselves into adult men or a snake who lives in her womb climb up a tree and help the woman to gather fruits, bark, edible fungi, etc. Usually the child who is a snake returns to his mother's womb and adult man turns back into a baby; or the girl's love affair with a snake is discovered when her father climbs a tree to gather fruits for her
f33	Water creature paramour	Certain woman or a group of women take for paramour a big water animal (caiman, otter, sea-lion, whale, anaconda; rare: water bird, crab), water spirit or monster. Husbands, brothers or (adoptive) children kill or maim paramour and/or (sometimes) the woman
f34b	The paramour is not a human being	A girl (a woman, a group of women) intentionally takes a penis-being, a snake, an eel, a lizard, a worm, a big water animal or water monster or a big terrestrial mammal for paramour. People kill or maim the paramour, the woman and/or her progeny or she is transformed herself into an animal. She is blamed for her behavior
f35	Feeding with the paramour’s meat	Person feeds another with the meat of his or her sexual partner who cooks or eats it without knowing whose meat it is
f38	Women and sacred knowledge	Women were possessors of the sacred knowledge, sanctuaries or ritual objects which are now taboo for them or they made attempts to acquire such a knowledge or objects
f39	The time of women	The women dominated over the men in the past or in a far away land, were the active part in marriage relations, practiced activities which now are reserved of the men only. Or the women could obtained supremacy but failed to do it for some reason
f41	The men kill the women	The men of primeval community kill the women because of their unsocial behavior
f55	What do you want?	A woman cannot understand what does her partner want. She points at, names or suggests different things. At last she points at, names or exposes her genitals. This is the right answer
f56	Watching vagina triggers incest	A man or boy thinks about incest when he gets to see his daughter(-in-law)'s, sister's, or mother(in-law)'s vagina
f64	The lecherous parent	Person changes his or (rare) her guise to marry his or her close relative in descending or (rare) ascending line
f64a	Describes future husband	Going away or pretending to die, a person bids his or her relative to marry another person who resembles him (her) or has some special traits; or he describes a man who should be met as a dear guest; person comes himself unrecognized and is taken for one whom he had described
f65	The false burial	To realize his or her secret desire (illicit sex, refusal to share food with relations), person pretends to die and is abandoned at a burial place
f85	The Moon: contra men and pro women	The Moon (female or male) is the leader of women in their struggle against the men or leads the women away from the men
f99	Baby copulates with his mother	A baby son turns into an adult man, copulates with his mother, then acquires his baby guise
g2	The return of Persephone	Person who is the incarnation of fertility and life first disappears and then (reriodically) returns
h1a	The originator of death the first sufferer	One person wants man to live forever, another wants man to be mortal. When somebody dear to the latter one dies, he or she is eager to accept the suggestion of his or her opponent but the original decision cannot be changed
h34a	Controversy over conditions of life	Person has a series of suggestions how to make the world easy for living and free of hard work and death. His companion successively rejects them. Their dialogue forever defines conditions of human life
i42	Rainbow is a pair of creatures	Rainbow is two creatures or persons, usually a male and a female
i72	Stars are people	Stars are people, ghosts, anthropomorphic beings (interpretations of unique star objects like Venus or Polaris as persons not considered)
i82a	Venus is male	Morning and/or Evening Star is a male personage
j1	The vengeful heroes	Persons avenge the death of their father, mother or other relatives who are one (rare two) generations older than they
j22a	Two men from one	Two men or a man and a woman appear from two halves of the cut in two anthropomorphic body or embryo; or another man appears from part of the body of the first one or from his body discharge
j37	The antagonist is carried away by bird	A man turns into powerful bird or creates it. The bird carries away his enemy
j4	Revenge for the death of the male relatives	Heroes avenge the murder or captivity of the male relatives: (grand)father, uncles, or the elder relatives in general, the loss of the males being the most traumatic
k1e	Marooned on an islet	Person is marooned on an islet or on another side of a sea or wide river
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.
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)
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)
l31	People stick to monster	People against their will must follow an object, a creature, or a person (usually stick to it) who/which leads or carries them far away, usually into the water or to the sky
l59a	Stuck to a whale	People who treated badly the hero or his son are pulled into the sea and turn into sea animal or into parts of its body or into parasites on its hide
l62	The Stone man	Stone man kills people but ultimately is killed himself
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
m3	Chain of animals	Person crosses a water or air space along the chain of many animals, birds or fish
m44b	Thieves of food: the women	Person discovers that somebody steals game or fish from his trap or devastates his garden. He or his guards catch the thieves who prove to be (the first) women or the thief is the water being whom the hero lets go after receiving a woman for ransom
m63	Body parts enumerated	Before finding a part of the body that is the best for some particular function, other parts are proven or enumerated

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Selknam
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Arnhem Land: Enindhilyagwa (Groote Eilandt), KuTiwi, Yulengor, Mara, Oenpelli, Murngin, Roper River, Maung, Murinbata, Murngin (Duwal), Millingimbi, Goulburn Island, Ngulugwongga, Yirrkalla, Voctoria River Downs, Alawa, Anu, Kunwinjku
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Chamacoco (Ishir)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Northern and Southern Tehuelche
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Torricelli family: Valman, Samap, Arapesh (Upper, Coastal), Monumbo, Lilau, Ngaimbom; Moando (Banara); Menya, Olo, Buna
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Paresi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Northern Taiwan: Atayal (Tayal; Taruko (Toda, Taokas, Torok, Taroko), Pazeh, Sedeq (Sediq, Seedeq, Sazek), Saisiyat (Saixia); Kawalan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Khoekhoe (=Hottentot; incl Nama, Korana); Damara
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Tepehua, Totonac
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 1 Tradition: Kazakh

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Sicuani
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Baniwa (incl. Wakuenai), Bare, Piapoco, Curripaco, Siusi, Guarikena
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Rikbaktsa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Ute
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Chukchi
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Klamath, Modoc
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Nivkh
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Southern Cook Islands: Mangaia, Rarotonga, Atiu, Iatutakim Pukapuka, Tubuai (=Austral Islands, incl Rapa)