Wikipedia Trail: From "Golem" to "Motif (narrative)"

Golem: I was interested in golems because of my story choice from this past week; golems are from Jewish folklore, and I used a Jewish fairy tale where a Rabbi brought two mechanical creations to life using the "Name of God" written on a parchment. It sounded very much like I believed a golem to be, although the term was never used in the original tale, instead calling them "mechanical creations" or "bogey-men".
The source of the word golem was in the Bible, where it was used to describe the "unfinished human being before God's eyes". Additionally, the earliest story of a golem is described on the Wikipedia page as being Adam's - the first human's - creation, before he was truly made into a human. Interestingly, while there are multiple examples given for stories of golems, the story of Rabbi Lion's bogey-men is not mentioned, which implies that it is either not seen as a golem story or is not well-known enough to be included.

Creation of man from clay: Since golems are usually created from mud or clay, and the previous article mentions that golems are equivalent to unfinished humans, I was interested in seeing how many different cultures also have the theme of humanity being created out of clay - as golems of a sort.

(Stworzenie Adama by T Kowalski, "Fashioning a man out of clay" [Wikipedia])

The list is rather significant, including Sumerian mythology, Judaism/Christianity with the Bible (as expected from what was learned on the golem page), the Qur'an, the Greek, Egyptian, Incan, and Chinese mythologies, and more. It surprises me to see how many different religions and cultures seem to have origin myths that involve humanity being created from clay (or earth, or mud), especially since it is highly unlikely that these cultures came into contact with each other prior to these myths existing. It brings to mind the idea that there is an underlying human consciousness, or that certain themes are 'natural' for humans to think about.

Theme (narrative): Given the prolific nature of the theme of humanity being created from clay, I was interested to see if there was any more about that kind of theme (as mentioned at the end of the previous page's thoughts).

The different ways that themes can be expressed is interesting, especially in the case of expressing the same theme different ways. "Leitworstil" is the repetition of certain wording to draw the attention of a reader, which reminds me of the more well-known term "leitmotif", which (to my knowledge) is a repeated musical theme in a work that is related to a certain part of the story, such as a character or setting.

Motif (narrative): Due to thinking of a leitmotif, I was interested to see if the page for motif had any more specific information about that. Based on the initial description, it sounds like a motif is often used for expressing themes (which is brought up as a potential way to express theme in the "Thematic patterning" part of the theme page, talking about inserting recurring motifs into a narrative). Motifs seem very broad from this page, being "any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story" - essentially, just any element of a story that isn't meaningless and shows up multiple times.

Based on the "See also", it seems that there are different definitions of motif for different types of art, as "folkloristics", "music", and "visual arts" are all different "Motif" pages of their own.