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Motifs — first 20 of 346
- Brothers as creators. A15.2
- God carries brothers and sisters on his back in basket. A137.4.1
- Brother-sister marriage of the gods. A164.1
- Demigod son of king's unmarried sister by her brother. A511.1.3.2
- Culture heroes brothers. A515.1
- Sworn brothers as culture heroes. A515.1.2
- Culture hero has blood brother. A515.3
- Culture hero fights with his elder brother. A525.1
- Sun and moon as eyes of Rama which he tore out after his brother's death. A714.7
- 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
- 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
- Moon younger brother of the sun. A745.3
- 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
- Earth by murder of first brother and sister. A831.4
Episodes
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 9 9.— THE TWELVE BROTHERS.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 60 60.— THE TWO BROTHERS.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 100 100.— THE DEVIL'S SOOTY BROTHER.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 124 124.— THE THREE BROTHERS.
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 2 II. SUN SISTER AND MOON BROTHER *
Tale types
- ATU 1147 Thunder (previously Thunder the Rolling of his Brother's Wagon)
- ATU 1284C 'You, or your Brother' A fool meets two people and asks one of them, 'Are you you or your brother' [J2234]
- ATU 1364 The Blood-brother's Wife
- ATU 1525R The Robber Brothers
- ATU 1536B The Three Hunchback Brothers Drowned
- ATU 1650 The Three Lucky Brothers
- ATU 303 The Twins or Blood-Brothers
- ATU 303A Brothers Seek Sisters as Wives (previously Six Brothers Seek Seven Sisters as Wives)
- ATU 312A The Rescued Girl (previously The Brother Rescues His Sister from the Tiger)
- ATU 312C The Rescued Bride (previously Devil's Bride Rescued by Brother)