A47. The sun is born from an egg .18.26.32.43.48.50.52.61.62.

The sun is born or arises from an egg.

Wonghibon, Yualarayi (and other groups in New South Wales), Miao, Komi, Shuswap, Mountain Totonaki, Veracruz Nahuatl, Chontal, Yucatec, Masateques, Chinantecs, cuicateques, shuar, aguaruna, huambisa, carijona.

Australia. Wonghibon (NSW) [another bird persuaded Ema to cut off her wings and eat her chicks, leaving only one; in a fight, Emu threw the remaining egg at her, it flew to the sky and became the sun]: Cameron 1903:47 in Waterman 1987, No. 1460 (9) :56; "everywhere in Victoria" [Emu lived in the clouds, had long wings, came down to join the dancers; old Courtenay said you can't learn to sing and dance with such long wings; all the other participants hid their wings unnoticed; Emu let her wings be cut off; others showed theirs, laughed; laughing jackass before that he was dumb, laughed for the first time; Courtenay hid her chicks, leaving them alone; told Emu that she killed her own people, advised me to do the same to reduce the hassle; Emu killed, Courtenay showed her own; her neck turned crooked; the next time she broke Emu's eggs, launching the latter into the sky; it fell on a pile of brushwood collected by the celestial Ngoudenout, which caught fire, the world was lit up by the sun; after this bird stopped quarreling; N. started lighting a fire in the sky every morning; at night he collects firewood for the fire]: Thomas 1906:247-249; Yualarayi [emu Dinewan and Bralgah's bird quarreled and got into a fight; B. grabbed one of D.'s eggs, threw it into the sky, it crashed against a pile of firewood, it burned; this is how the sun appeared; the heavenly deity and his assistant began to set fire to firewood every day, sending The Morning Star warn people of the imminent dawn; to be heard, told the Gourgourgahgah bird to start laughing and waking up the whole world at this time]: Anonymous 1907:29 in Dixon 1916:274-275, in Parker 1965: 31-33 [similar myths across Southeast Australia]; (cf. Murray River, NSW [Emu wanted to join dancers (or fishermen); Wild Turkey persuaded her to cut off for herself wings to make it easier to dance (fish); others ridiculed Ema; she persuaded Turkey to eat her chickens so that the remaining two would grow larger (or Turkey persuaded Ema to eat his own so that they would not interfere with their movement); the turkey broke Emu's eggs; the rest of the Emu was thrown at the Turkey, it flew to the sky and became the sun (or it hit a pile of Gnawdenoorte firewood; he every day lights a new bonfire there)]: Massola 1968:99-102, Parker 1930:1-6 in Waterman 1987, No. 1460 (10): 56; New South Wales [Emu is the main bird; Bustard is jealous, says the main one It is not good to have long wings, that she does not have wings herself and is supposed to be the main one; Emu cut off her wings with an ax, Bustard dances with joy; in response, Emu hid her chicks, leaving only two; told Drofa that if she also wants to be large, she should not raise many children; Bustard kills her children leaving two, Emu shows her 12; since then, the emu has short wings, and the bustard lays only two eggs]: Thomas 1906:249).

China - Korea. Miao [Naloyingou separated the sky from the ground, raised the sky, lowered the earth; Renyungulo gave eight wooden pillars and 16 millet stalks to support the sky; these, as well as stone and iron supports turn out to be short-lived; old woman Uluoso told N. to pull four of the eight joints out of his legs, to support the sky on four cardinal points; in this likeness, N. blinded four legs to animals; N. stretched heaven and earth, they have expanded; W. gives 12 eggs, N. lets the bird sit them; 12 suns have hatched, N. placed them in the corners and in the middle of the sky]: Riftin 1993:306-312.

Volga - Perm. Komi (western 1923 in the village) Prondor, P.G. Doronin's list) [the duck is swimming, does not know where to lay its eggs; four eggs are absorbed in the depths, kept the last two under its wing, from which the ducklings Yong and Omöl hatched ; the mother asked them to get the lost eggs from the bottom, break them on her body, flew up herself, killed herself against the water; E. dived, O. shouted, the water was covered with ice, O. broke the ice with thunder and lightning; E. hit what they had brought the egg on the mother's body, the body grew, turned into land, the sun appeared from the broken egg; brought a second egg, angel assistants came out of it; O. brought two eggs covered in mud; one threw up, the moon arose; from the second he made helpers - evil spirits; E. made useful birds and animals, O. - reptiles; E. sculpted Adam's man, blew, revived; O. sculpted a woman, could not revive her, E. revived her ; the wife gave birth to 12 daughters, killed them herself at the instigation of O.; E. cursed her, she turned into death, her daughters into illness; from A. E. created Eve; O. seduced her, so the offspring were bad; E. made the first heaven, O. higher than the second, E. the third, etc., seven in total; E. destroyed the lower six with thunder and lightning, over O. and his assistants into forests, swamps and rivers; E. asked the demon leader Anthus if he and his army could climb into three pots; threw pots into hell, one crashed, some of the demons remained on the ground]: Plesovsky 1972:39- 41 (=Sidorov 1924, No. 1-2:24; =Limerov 2005, No. 2:17-20).

The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [people call the Coyote the sun; he sees women copulating, telling everyone; gets too close to the ground; then Woodpecker is made the sun; he lays an egg out of it the current sun is emerging]: Teit 1909a, No. 53:738.

Mesoamerica Mountain Totonaki [it was only the Month, the lover of all women; said he was the Sun; the boy was watching the Iguana, who was basking on a hot stone; all the birds were hammering a stone, the Hummingbird succeeds in it split; there is a yellow egg inside the rock; it is surrounded by girls; it burns their skirts, stays lying on an orphan's skirt; she is told to swallow an egg; she gives birth to a boy; he drinks broth, not milk, does not tell his mother Approach him; climbs a tree, branches light up (the origin of fire); says that his grandmother will be east at the edge of the sky, his grandfather in the west, his mother at the zenith; tells his dog to point out to the pursuer- The month is the wrong way; when the month returns to the crossroads, the dog kicks; dogs have not talked since then; the month is still chasing the Sun; their quarrels cause eclipses]: Ichon 1969, No. II: 55-57; Nahuatl Veracruz: González Cruz 1984:211; Law 1957 (town of Mecayapan) [the devil's daughter (tsitsimilama) became pregnant by a bird dancing around her; when she gave birth, the devil collided the baby, blinded the balloon, gave it to the red ants; three days later, Tamakasti's child was intact, told the ants to fold his body again; he was thrown into the pond, the fish swallowed it, carried it to the black ants, it was reborn; the devil threw him into the lake, he swam there in the shape of an egg for three days; his grandmother and mother could not catch him with a net for a long time; his mother cried, he felt sorry for her, he allowed himself to be caught; his grandmother put him in the deck ; after 30 days, the deck burst, many different animals came out of it; the boy's father came, the grandmother was spinning; he began to fly a bird around the nanchi tree; the grandmother could no longer weave; ate the ripe fruit; she liked it, she decided that her grandson threw it off for her; she was bitten by big lice, she cut off her hair, became bald; the bird threw a ripe fruit on her head for trying to kill him after birth; the next time T. became a cat, stole one of the bananas she baked from her; shot many birds; the grandmother complained that he killed their chickens; he revived them; T.'s grandfather invited his grandmother to eat it; T. ordered the bat to kill his grandfather; blood dripped from the attic, the grandmother decided that it was her grandson's blood, started drinking; called her husband, found him dead; T. brought water, said that he did not kill his grandfather, because he went to get water; the grandmother wanted to cook T., he threw it into the cauldron himself; burned the bones with his grandfather's corpse, told the Toad to throw the ashes on the other side of the sea; the Toad reached the shore, threw a deck with ashes, it burst from the ashes mosquitoes, flies and mosquitoes appeared; the Lizard also only said that she had carried the deck with ashes; Skunk took it overseas; T. (or someone else?) split the lizard's tongue in half; T. told his mother that he would go to his father; on the way he sat on a stone, he swallowed it; he cut the heart of the stone with a sword; T. came to his father, brought Fox and the musicians; {hereinafter European a tale of matchmaking and marriage trials; T.'s rival - South Wind}]: 345-355; mountain camps: Elson 1947 [old Tsitsimat saw an egg in the lake, began to catch it with a net; realized what it was reflection, and the egg is on a tree; told her husband to get it, the boy Homsuk hatched from the egg; he shoots fish and lizards with a bow; realized that the old man wanted to eat it; hid under the roof, taking a bat with him; the old man went upstairs, the bat cut off his head; the old woman drank the bleeding, thinking it was the blood of a young man; rushed after him; the man he met replied that H. had been here for a long time; the old woman burned down, H. told the Toad to throw out the ashes; she opened the bag, the ashes turned into poisonous snakes and insects; when X. was young, he always cried; his mother ground it and threw it into the water; now he came to her, asked her where his father was; He went to the country of Thunder and died; the Turtle took H. across the sea; she was in pain, she returned; because the Rabbit had cured her, H. gave him horns; the Deer stood with him compete, the horns suited him more, he took them for himself; H. arrives at the Thunders, who put him in a cage with snakes, with jaguars; H. easily pacifies them, sitting first on a snake, then on a jaguar; remains unharmed in a house filled with arrows; sits in a hammock above the waterfall; when the Thunders sit in the hammock, the rodent bites the rope, the Thunders fall, die; alone remains, asks not to kill him, revives Father X .; H. sends a lizard to tell his mother to laugh when the deceased returns; the lizard told her to cry and bite the ground; Father H. is dead again; H. tore the lizard's tongue in two]: 195-213; Foster 1945a, No. 1 [the old woman saw an egg in the river, began to catch it with a net; realized that it was a reflection, and the egg was on a tree; told her husband to get it, the boy Homshuk hatched from the egg; he shoots gudgeon bow; gudgeon it is said that he is just an egg caught by a net; an old woman tells him not to pay attention; the same is true of thrushes in the forest; the old woman tells him to return the gudgeon caught into the water, revive and release the dead thrushes; says the old man that X. should eat; H. feels it; hid under the roof, telling the bat to cut off the old man's head; the old woman drank the bleeding, thinking it was H.'s blood; rushed after him; H. warns the old woman that if she doesn't stop chasing, she'll burn; the savanna is on fire, the old woman is burned; on the seashore, H. hits the drum; Hurricane sends to find out who it is; I'm the one who Sprouts in the knees, whoever blooms; Hurricane again asks H. to name himself, he calls him, says he is the one who is peeled and eaten; H. asks Tarantula to build a house for him, because he will now come Hurricane; in the morning, Hurricane's people find themselves on the shore of X. hitting the drum; the Turtle agrees to transport it across the sea, but returns because its shell cracks on its stomach under its weight; this species turtles - pecho quebrado; the larger one transports Hurricane to the country, for which H. paints it brightly; the Hurricane puts him in a cell with snakes; with jaguars; in the morning he sits on a snake; on a jaguar; with arrows; H. tells them to be servants of man, binds them; who will throw a stone across the sea; H. asks the woodpecker to knock on wood when he throws a stone, as if the stone fell and jumped; and when the Hurricane threw, it was not heard falls; Hurricane proposes to transport H. across the ocean with a hammock; shakes, thinking that he fell and drowned; H. did not fall out; when Hurricane and his men land in the hammock, H. asks Agouti to gnaw on the roots trees to which the hammock is tied; everyone is drowning, the Hurricane itself escaped, but broke his leg when he fell from a height; recognizes the strength of H., promises to water it in June-July]: 191-194; chontal [mother cannot calm him down young son, leaves on an ant heap (he still cries, throws him into a ditch in the rain, finally killed, rubbed it on a grain grater, placed it in an eggshell, threw an egg into the lake a childless old woman found it, her husband told me to put it down so that the chicken would hatch, a boy was born the same night; he grew up, was mischievous, came to his real parents, told them who he was, turned them into a couple deer attached to a tail cloth; hit the drum at the holidays; people were tired of his mischief, wanted to shoot him at the party, but he disappeared from sight]: Keller, Gerónimo 2001:111-117; yucatecas (Izamal) [the old sun (man) was tired of wearing the crown, it was too hot; the iguana couple found two eggs by the sea, buried them in the sand to warm them; the old sun caused a flood; the eggs were preserved, from a boy and a girl came out; a girl slept at the bottom of a well (cenote), a boy in a tree; saw an iguana create valleys and mountains, trees, etc.; Iguana asked him to be the new sun; the boy became the sun, girl with the moon; they dried the earth; it was too hot while they were shining together; they decided that the sun would be during the day, the moon at night; when the moon was not visible, she sleeps at the bottom of the well]: Villar 1989:82; masateki: Inchaustegui 197:27; Johnson, Johnson 1939 [an old woman goes to the river to wash corn; fish steal particles; an old woman watches a bundle of corn, finds two eggs there, puts them in cotton wool at home; they are born from brothers Sun and Moon; in the absence of the old woman they throw everything away; she is angry, they turn into young men; they cannot throw the ball into the sky, the old woman throws, wins, locks her brothers to eat them; The sun runs away, the Month is eaten; the sun turns into a dog, asks him to throw bones; there is no head, it is hidden under the roof; he asks the birds to distract the attention of the old woman and her husband with singing; takes his head away, restores the Month; to revive it, one of the animals must become its heart; the deer and others pass by, do not respond to the Sun's request; the Rabbit is the last, the Sun puts it in the Month, it comes to life] : 218-220; Portal 1986:49; chinantecs [people hear sounds inside a tree; Comet, Thunder can't cut down, Woodpecker cuts down a tree; two eggs inside; an old woman takes them; carries food to her reindeer husband every day ; when she returns, the house is a mess; the Sun boy and the Moon girl rush to hide inside the eggs, the girl hesitates, the old woman catches them; hunting a bird: Why do you kill birds for someone who is not your mother? The sun revives dead birds, kills the Deer, the old woman's husband; fills the vessel with wasps, they buzz, he tells the old woman that this is her husband's voice; but Luna says he's gone fishing; the old woman is chasing children; they throw the comb, mountains appear several times on the way (the origin of the mountains); the twins cross the river; when the old woman is in the middle of the river, they throw bola de acuyo at her; she falls dead, turns into agouti; many animals emerge from her blood; twins shoot wind guns at interpreting rocks, they disperse; a seven- or double-headed eagle takes people to the rock; twins do the cage, the eagle carries them away; at noon he sleeps, one head is awake; the twins strangle it with a noose, at which time the earth shudders; the eagle's eyes fall out, the moon grabs the right bright, the Sun is dim on the left; The vulture is unable to lower the twins on its back, it will now eat carrion; the Bat is fed seeds, the excrement grows into a tree, twins and other people descend it to the ground; the Moon wants drink; agrees to change eyes with his brother if he creates a source (the origin of the springs); drinks without waiting for the brother to bring the Rabbit Priest to bless the water; he throws the rabbit to her in anger in the face, it sticks to her, is still visible; the Sun and Moon rise to the sky]: Bartolomé 1984:13-16; Weitlaner 1977:52; cuicateques [the old woman found two eggs, put them in a vessel, of which they were born Sun and moon; every day she went to feed the deer corn porridge, told the twins to stay at home; called the deer the father of twins; when she returned, the house was a mess; once sent them themselves feed your father - call him, Kundo, Kundo! ; they called, the deer came, they killed him, the Moon took her right eye, the Sun took his left eye; fire was needed to cook the meat; they sent a fox to the old woman; she set fire to her tail, ran away; so that the tail would not burn, the fox placed fire in the stone {obviously in the flint}, the twins cut fire out of it; brought the old woman roasted venison, and made a scarecrow out of the skin, filling it with wasps and other stinging insects; old woman she ate, and frogs by the river told her that she ate deer liver; the twins told the old woman to pour sand on the frog's ass, so it was rough; the black vulture also told the old woman that she ate deer; she accused the twins of killing their father; went to check it out for herself; the deer did not respond; she went to the scarecrow and hit him with a stick - why she did not answer; insects bit her; she returned home and promised the twins call their uncle; this is a jaguar; they dug a trap hole, the jaguar fell into it; then the old woman called the twins' aunt, an eagle with two heads; they made a cage, the eagle sat on top, they grabbed her by paws (and killed); the old woman called another uncle; this is an aquatic animal with a shell, but big; the twins ran, met Thunder, asked them to hide them behind her cheek; Thunder replied to the beast that his teeth hurt and his cheek swollen; the beast tried to get into Thunder's mouth, but the Sun asked to hit, Thunder smashed the beast to pieces; while Thunder was working, the twins opened three vessels in his house: water, wind and hail; The soaked Thunder came back, closed the vessels and drove the twins away: that's why your aunt kicked you out; they found honey, the Sun ate a little, and told the moon to eat more, she was thirsty; the Sun gave water only after how they changed their eyes; the Sun did not tell them to drink everything, but the Moon drank everything; the Sun told them to regurgitate some of the water, otherwise it would not be on earth; the moon regurgitated, but the dirty water stained her face, so she was wearing it stains; the woman has a chest; the Sun gave her ripe cherimoyi and said that there are many of them in the forest; she left, and he asked the rat to gnaw through the chest; the woman hears and asks, Sun: don't worry; the same with the woodpecker; agouti gnawed, a wheel with a rope in the chest, the Sun and the Moon rose to heaven, agouti followed; asks what to do; Sun: cut the rope above you; Aguti fell, buried in the ground; the woman managed spanking the moon; so when the moon looks like a sickle, women are menstruating; woman to the Sun: remember me when I cover your face with my underskirt]: Weitlaner 197:56-62 (=Bartolomé 1984:6-9).

Western Amazon. Shuar: Barrueco 1988 [Cere (a monkey) climbs a vine into heaven, brings a woman from there, Atsuta; Ivia marries her; she always brings a lot of fish; I. watches to her, discovers that Anaconda gives her fish; out of jealousy, I. kills his wife, gutts; his (second) wife finds two eggs inside; the Duck takes them away, from which the brothers Sun Etza and the Month appear Nantes; they eat all the peppers from the Heron garden; she sends them to steal from I.; I. leaves two insects as guards, catches thieves; E. takes E. as a grandson (N. is no longer mentioned); E. invents a wind gun, kills birds; Pigeon advises killing his mother's killer better; E. sees I. and his wife playing with his mother's skull and eye, his eye sheds tears; E. kills I.'s wife, cuts off his head and limbs, torso turns it into a deer, feeds I.; kills it with a spear, burns it; tobacco grows in this place; I. comes to life but cannot kill E.]: 36-41; Karsten 1919:338; 1935, No. 8:524; Pelizzaro 1961, No. 12, 17:7, 10; 1993 [the father of heroes is a drake]: 43; Rueda 1987, No. 19:109; Aguaruna: Akutz Nugkai et al. 1977 (1) [A predator (el Carnívoro) killed a pregnant woman, gutted it, began to wash meat in the river, found it in her stomach put the egg on a stone to bake it later, the goose took it to his nest down the river; a boy came out of the egg, the goose raised it; the boy began to come to the site of the murdered mother, ate hot pepper there; the boy was radiant, he was the sun; the Predator's wife noticed that on their property (they considered him their own) someone was eating all the pepper; the Predator lay in wait for the boy, called him a son, brought him to him; made him little sarbakan; wanted to shoot flies that stuck to the Predator's body, and hit each one without injuring the Predator; the Predator offered to build a house, asked to go down a pole hole to deepen it, lowered it a pole from above and threw earth at the hole; the Sun got out through the hollow core of the pillar; both pretended nothing had happened; the Sun became a young man, the Predator made him a big sarbakan on the condition that all the game he would bring him; the Sun brought birds, the Predator barely roasted them, ate them raw; made thundering pendants in the Sun's ears to hear him approach; left alone, he played the flute from the skull his mother; the Sun destroyed all the birds, the dove remained; asked to shoot bird feathers from the sarbakan, the birds were reborn; the dove told everything; ordered to fix the pendants so as not to make noise, quietly come and see what the Predator is doing; he tried to hide the skull, the skull rolled under the Sun's feet, tears are dripping from his eyes; the Sun has created a tree whose fruits are loved by deer; the Predator ordered to go hunting tomorrow ; The Sun made him a spear out of bad wood, bewitched him not to hit the target, and the Predator made a good spear for the Sun; since the Sun hit the target, he was the one who went hunting; let the Predator send a wife to the site for cassava; The sun turned her into a deer, killed her, but the head was human; The sun told the digging stick to be responsible for it; brought home a deer without a head; The predator eats meat, the Sun pretends to call" his mother," answers the digger stick; the Sun sent the Predator to swim, brought his wife's head, cursed all objects to rot immediately; when he saw the head, the Predator wanted to kill the Sun, but all he took into hands, crumbled to dust; the Sun pierced the Predator with a spear, nailing him to the ground; a vine grew and tied him; the Predator's back took root; a flower grew out of the penis, hummingbirds flocked to it, the Predator caught He ate them; once he almost ate a man, the Sun decided to move him to the end of the world; the toucan and woodpecker cut off the roots, raised the Predator into the air; the Sun created a fruit tree, and many birds rushed to it; The sun told the Predator about the tree, who did not resist, he sucked the guts of the gathered birds; he did not want to fly, but the birds carried it; they shouted "like a balsa" (i.e. light) and he "like a stone"; at the end of the world downstream The Predator could only grab and eat fish, catch it all; then the Sun left him only one hand free; he turned into a tree, and the three women promised to him in red, cream and gray clothes (they are actually birds) - leaves; at certain times of the year, the leaves dry out, and the wind brings birds from the lower reaches of the river; these birds bring the Predator the souls of the dead, but they themselves say that they hunt monkeys; when birds arrive, many people die; when corpses are smoked, birds are driven away]: 135-169; Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1979 (1), No. 1 [Ajáim went to the site, met a pregnant woman killed a woman, gutted it by the river, found an egg in her stomach, put it on a stone; a duck (Phalacrocoracidae) took it away; Etsa (the sun) was born from it; one day he got out of the water, came to site A. and began to eat burning pepper, which was sweet to him; A. sent the snake to find out who was on the site; E. ran away from the snake, but then A. caught him, brought him to his place; E. began to live with him; A. tied seed bells to him; when E. grew up, A. made him a small sarbakan; E. shot flies, then A. sent him to hunt for birds; E. brought them, A. ate; made a big sarbakan for E. soon shot all the birds, the last hummingbird; the dove tells me not to shoot, says that A. killed E.'s mother; he made a vessel (rather a wind instrument) out of her head, blows at it; E. crept up and saw that it was; the mother's skull rolled to E.'s feet, tears fall from his eyes; E. calls A. into the forest: there is a fruit tree to which deer go; E. throws his spears more accurately; tells A. to send his wife to the site; he killed her himself, turned her into a deer, only her head human; E. cut it off, and told his wife A.'s digging stick to be responsible for her; A. ate the deer, and when he returned from the bath, E. gave him his wife's head; A. grabbed the spear, but it turned out to be rotten, and E. pierced A. with his spear; a flower grew out of A.'s penis, hummingbirds began to flock to him, A. caught and ate them; to take A. to take A. to where he could not eat, E. called for help from a pauhil, a toucan, a woodpecker and peacock (Pipile cumanensis, sem. Cracidae); at first A. shouted: as heavy as a stone, the birds could not lift it; then he was promised two women and A. began to scream: light, light; he was placed on the island, but he ate all the fish; this place called Tunkín; left one hand on the ground - same, fishing with one hand; you can still hear his screams when he is hungry; the Leistes militaris (Pexites militaris) bird fumigates sick people or the dead and brings A. to eat; A. sings, birds flock to him, sitting on trees]: 39-45; Guallart 1958:61; huambis [Ajaimpi caught people in traps like birds, devoured; once gutted by a ravine woman, found an egg the size of a turtle's egg in her stomach; A. put it on a stone and began to swim; the heron carried the egg to its nest; sat out, the Sun Boy was born; began to live in the forest, ate pepper on A.'s garden; he waited for him, brought him home, called himself a father; seeing the boy shoot flies accurately with a toy sarbakan, A. made him a real one; the Sun brought him all the birds shot by A.; dove told him about the murder of his mother; the Sun shot birds from the sarbakan and they came to life; tying their ear pendants so as not to make noise, the Sun watched A. play an instrument made of his head mother of the Sun; suddenly entered, the skull rolled at his feet; the Sun asked A. to make two spears; he fell into a palm tree, but A. did not fall; so it was better for the Sun to follow the deer; asked him to send his wife to the area behind cassava; turned it into a deer, but the head remained human; the Sun set his head on a stick and told her to answer if they called, and A. brought the deer carcass; he ate all the meat; while he was swimming, The sun brought his head; made all objects rotten; A. grabbed them to kill the Sun, but they crumbled; the Sun hit him with its spear; A. put his right hand behind his back, and left his left hand free ; put a flower on his penis so that hummingbirds could flock to it, A. ate them; the vines braided A. firmly; the birds released it, fell as if dead, and then everything immediately came to life and lifted A. into the air, left it above the Santiago River down Marañon; the body became a tree, the hand with which A. grabbed the fish with a branch]: Ortiz Rescaniere 1985:61-85; achuar: Seymour-Smith 1988:116-117.

NW Amazon. Carijona [a woman takes Jaguar as a lover, allows him to kill her husband; when she is two years old, her son Months asks his mother how his father died; Missing in the woods; boy wanders through the woods, Forest says he did not kill his father; Fell off a tree; boy jumped off a tree, fell slowly; Earth; Didn't kill; - Drowned fishing; boy swims in a hollow over rapids, Water: She did not kill; the boy took a hummingbird egg, from which his younger brother Tukučimobi (hummingbird egg first) was born; he is the Sun, on the third day he is smarter than the Month; the Month brings a lot of meat, but the mother is still gives it to Jaguar; brothers kill birds to tell them about the death of their father; the woodpecker who hammered the tree in which the Jaguar and the Night Monkey lived told; brothers revive dead birds; spy on the mother in The girl brings food to the girl's outfit, calls the Jaguar, knocks on wood with a vine, copulates; when he leaves, the brothers call the Jaguar with the same signal, kill him with poisoned arrows; T. made a necklace out of his fangs, wears it for war; when the Month wears the necklace, the hunters have a lot of prey; the mother takes a palm larva as lovers, the brothers burn the palm tree, the larva dies; the mother causes T.'s eye disease (same after Jaguar murders); the forest chicken screams about it; T. tells all the birds to voice, finds a chicken by voice, brings it to its mother to fry; she witches to pour water from the bone broken while eating, flooded the earth with a flood; T., with the help of a magical calebass, stops the flood; tells her mother to drop her milk into a pot of ash, from which a fruit tree grows; animals come to the tree, including Night A monkey; she has a horn from Father T.'s skull around her neck; the brothers ambush the Monkey, but the mother creates a snake that steals her father's skull; so he could not be resurrected; the mother tells T. and his month-old brother that she would die, tell her to cut off her hand, put it in a basket with cassava, hang it over the hearth; when her sons returned from hunting, the food would be prepared; she said that the garden was ruining Aguti, she went make a trap, turned into an agouti, died deliberately trapped; there was a trap on her paw where T. took a sand flea out of his mother's leg the day before; the brothers did as his mother ordered, but T. did not believed that Aguti's paw was preparing the food; told the kuckuck bird to shout if women appeared; but the brothers were far away, did not have time to run; the same with the woodpecker (the brothers noticed the traces of two women); the third time the cacambra bird warned in time, the brothers grabbed two women, both wanted a lighter and younger one; T. managed to grab the eldest before she put on her Vulture outfit, and the youngest wore and flew away; because the eldest's clothes were torn, she remained human, T. married her; had many children, but was dumb; then T. showed her huge larvae, she spoke in surprise]: Schindler 1979, No. 1:21-43.