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• Creative mother source of everything. A3
• Brothers as creators. A15.2
• Creator's grandmother. Casually mentioned in the course of the creation myth. A31
• Other animal companions of creator. A33.4
• God created angels by striking one small stone with another. Lucifer created devils by imitation. A52.0.8
• Angels created on fifth day with other winged creatures. A52.2.5
• God and the devil torment each other with their creations. Devil pesters God with gnats. God makes a fire and safeguards himself; God plagues the devil with fleas. Devil is unable to find means of protecting himself. A63.4.1
• Satan attempts to create another world. A63.8
• Supreme god. One god chief of all other gods. (Often not worshipped as other gods are.) A101
• God of the living and the dead in the otherworld. A108
• Goddess as mother of Pacific Ocean. A109.2
• Mother of the gods. (Cf. A116.2.) A111.1
• God born from mother's ear. A112.7.1
• God born from mother's armpit. A112.7.2
• Goddess born from mother's eyes. A112.7.3
• God born of another god's sweat. A114.1.1.1
• Twin gods – one mortal, other immortal. A116.1
• Giant goddess bestrides entire land. One foot is in the north of the country and the other is in the south. A133.2
• God carries brothers and sisters on his back in basket. A137.4.1
• Small-pox deity rides nude on an ass with the half of a winnowing fan for an umbrella and with a swing in one hand and a broom in the other. A137.8
• Various other dwelling places of gods. A151.14
• Brahma cursed by other gods: now has no temples. A162.4
• Brother-sister marriage of the gods. A164.1
• Mother-son marriage of the gods. A164.1.1
• Gods and men judge each other. A187
• One sun-god for night; another for day (Osiris, Horus). A227.2
• Other weather-gods. A289
• Mother Earth. The earth is conceived of as the mother of all things. (Cf. A431.1.) A401
• Mother Earth pregnant with Adam. A401.1
• Other deities. A499
• Culture hero snatched from mother's side. A511.1.1
• River flows from corpse of mythical mother of culture hero. A511.1.1.1
• Culture hero in mother's womb indicates direction to be taken by her. A511.1.2.2
• Demigod son of king's unmarried sister by her brother. A511.1.3.2
• Hero formed by god out of mother's apron. A511.1.4.2
• Culture hero son of deer mother. A511.1.8.1
• Culture hero's grandmother. A512.1
• Culture heroes brothers. A515.1
• Sworn brothers as culture heroes. A515.1.2
• Culture hero has blood brother. A515.3
• Other animals as culture hero. A522.3
• Culture hero fights with his elder brother. A525.1
• Universe from copulation of various objects to produce others. A615.2
• World parents: sky-father and earth-mother as parents of the universe. The sky-father descends upon the earth-mother and begets the world. A625
• Heaven-mother – earth-father. A625.1
• Raising of the sky. Originally the sky is near the earth (usually because of the conjunction of the sky-father and earth-mother). It is raised to its present place. A625.2
• Pre-existing world of gods above. Such a world is assumed before the real creation of the universe. Though this belief is not explicitly set forth in many mythologies, it seems to be implied in most of the North American Indian systems. See, for example, motif A31, Creator's grandmother. A631
• Other means of creating the universe. A640
• Hierarchy of worlds. A series of worlds, one above the other. A651
• Heaven and earth touch each other at east, west, and south. A657.2
• Soul-bridge: easy for righteous to cross, more difficult for others. A661.0.5.1
• Rodent gnaws away ladder to other world and thus ghosts remain on earth. A666.2
• Other locations for hell. A671.0.1.1
• Other rivers in hell. A671.2.2.6
• In other world one room contains the dead, another contains souls of the unborn waiting to enter the wombs of women, and a third contains all the evil spirits. A678
• Overseas otherworld in the west. A692.1
• Christian paradise (Terra Repromissionis) corresponding to pagan Celtic otherworld (Ireland). A694.1
• Various Buddhist otherworlds. A697
• Sun and moon as eyes of Rama which he tore out after his brother's death. A714.7
• Sun and moon from breasts of mother earth. (Cf. A401.) A715.4
• Sun led through stream to cool off heat at night; otherwise might consume earth. A722.5.2
• Phaëton. Sun entrusts his chariot to another (his son) and the horses run away. The world is almost burnt up. A724.1.1
• Sun sister and moon brother. Brother visits sister at night. She marks him to identify him. He flees and she follows with flaming brand. She is sun and he the moon. A736.1.1
• Sun-brother and moon-sister. A736.1.2
• Moon, sun are sister and brother, wife and husband. A736.1.4.2
• Sun and moon as brothers. A736.3
• Sun and moon as twin brothers. A736.3.1
• Sun and moon brothers: sun clever, moon stupid. A736.3.2
• Sun and his brother rise and set alternately. A736.3.3
• Cause of eclipses: mother's curse laid upon her third son. A737.2
• Each of sun brothers works for a month and plays for the other eleven; were they to work all together, the world would be burned up by the heat. A739.3
• Mother of the moon: the most distant star in the sky. A745.2
• Moon younger brother of the sun. A745.3
• Man in the moon a rabbit (hare, other animal). A751.2
• Mark of her mother's hand to be seen on moon's shoulder. A751.5.3
• Other marks on the moon. A751.11
• Moon is wife to all twelve brothers of the sun and they have her a month at a time because she ate up her sisters. A753.1.4.2
• During day moon stays with his mother under the earth. A753.3.3
• Most brilliant stars children of the sun; others are children of the moon. A764.3
• Other means of creation of earth. A820
• Earth by murder of first brother and sister. A831.4
• The four world-columns fastened immovably by two gods with their mother's hairs. A841.0.1
• How the earth became oblong. God the Father situated on one side of the earth, the Son on the other. A851
• Other streams from roots of earth-tree. A878.1.1
• Natural features because of combat of huge rock columns with each other. A901.2
• Rivers formed where certain stones are placed. Each of seven children are to go in a different direction, to walk a mile and put down a stone, then another mile and a stone, etc. Thus rivers are formed. A934.2
• Origin of other bodies of water. A940
• Mountains fight each other: cause of their present shape. A964.2
• Mountains fight each other for honor of being the spot for the revelation. A964.2.1
• One mountain in love with another stretches leg out to meet her: origin of a mountain chain. A965.1
• Other stories about stone origins. A979
• Other land features. A990
• Flood caused by gods or other superior beings. (Cf. A1018.) A1015
• Persons excluded from Noah's ark build another ark and sail to Ireland. A1021.0.1
• End of world when stars in one constellation overtake those in another. A1051.2
• Other gods battle Fenris wolf at end of world. A1082.2.1
• Monsters kill each other off at end of world. A1087
• Origin of lightning – other motifs. A1141.8
• Why days shorten in autumn: the real sun sets very early because the red cockscomb plant, used to kill his brother sun with, grows to its full height during this time. A1156
• Night and day have steeds and chase each other. A1172.3