B11A. The mammoth is the creator of the relief .32.35.-.37.
Amammoth, presented as an underground fish-like creature, creates a rugged terrain on undried land and digs riverbeds.
Komi, Nenets, Northern (?) Selkups,
Volga - Perm. Komi [under the weight of a mammoth, the ground caved, where it passed, rivers appeared]: Rochev 1984, No. 108, 109:114-115.
Western Siberia. The Nenets [Num made the earth smooth; the mammoth spoiled it; where it passes, there is a river, where the lake will lie; then he went underground and took his offspring there]: Tretyakov 1869 (2): 414-416 in Anisimov 1959:19; the Nenets (Turukhansky Krai) [seven people escaped from the flood in a boat; were lifted under the sky by water, so they could not stand up bent under the sky; asked to find the loon land; she dived, a few days later she took out some land with sand and grass; throwing it on the water, people asked Nua to arrange land for them; the water began to decline and disappeared altogether; one woman sucked their own breasts, died from this; the other drank her urine, survived; people guessed to dig a hole, found water; began to starve, left a boy and a girl; were fed up with mice; the mammoth turned the mountains and ravines, lakes and rivers formed; Nua was angry, the mammoth drowned, now lives underground; one man made a bow out of wood, the other made an arrow out of mammoth bone, killed a deer; removed the skin with a knife from mammoth bone]: Tretyakov 1871:201-202; northern (?) Selkups [koshchar (mammoth fish) is building new riverbeds]: Golovnev 1995:509.
Eastern Siberia. Dolgani [the mammoth agreed with the man that he would walk on the ground for three years before going down to the lower world; rivers formed where he passed, lakes where he lay down]: Popov 1937:85; northern Yakuts reindeer herders (Oleneksky Nasleg) [the rivers were trampled by selia (mammoths) created by Allaraa-Ogonyor; they could trample the entire land, but Ayy-Toyon destroyed them or sent them to lower world]: Gurvich 1977:199-200; Turukhan Evenks (Chavida River, upper reaches of Podkamennaya Tunguska) [the land was small, there was no place for deer to graze; the man complained about his grief to a mammoth (heli) ; the mammoth wandered through the water and, when he found the snake {jiabdar), persuaded him to go and drain the land; the mammoth hammered its tusks into the bottom, began to turn clay, sand and stones from the bottom; the stones and clay discarded began grow, turn into cliffs, mountains and plains; snakes crawled behind the mammoth, leaving a trail; snake tracks became riverbeds]: Anisimov 1951 (the Idukon River between the Angara and Podkamennaya Tungusskaya) [the land was flat, inhabited by a mammoth, a dyabdar serpent and other animals; a one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged creature of the chulyugds began to chase them; the mammoth and others fought against him; where the mammoth set foot, lakes and swamps formed; where he dug the ground with tusks, throwing clods - mountains into the chulyugds; d., crawling, laid riverbeds; the heroes pushed the chulugds into the abyss of the underworld, went into the ground themselves]: 195; Osharov 1936a: 14-15 (retelling Vasilevich 1959:174); Western Evenks: Osharov 1936b, No. 14 (Turukhans, Chavida) [the man grieves that there is little land; Mammoth began to turn sand and stones, the serpent Zhyabdar crawled, creating valleys; water of glass]: 280; Evens [Havki first threw giants into the deserted land; when he saw that they had nothing to eat, he threw off mammoths (kyami, plural kamil); under the weight of giants and mammoths the earth caved, lakes and rivers formed; to prevent the earth from collapsing, H. turned the giants into rocks and sent mammoths underground]: Robbeck 2005:214-215.
Amur - Sakhalin. The Manchus [during the flood, snakes cut through gorges, and mammoths laid riverbeds with their horns; thanks to this, the water descended]: Wei et al. 2001, No. 3.2:195.