B14. River rapids. 43.56.59.61.

The character creates rapids on the river.

Thompson, Klikitat, Okanagon, Flethead, Shikuani, Makushi, Napo, Vakuenai, Yukuna, Carijona, Maku

The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [at the beginning of time, Coyote makes a son out of clay; he bathes, dissolves in water; from resin he melts in the sun; from white stone he lives, his name is Nlixentem; Loon and Duck give his daughters into wives, one is dark skinned, the other is light; the Coyote turns his excrement into eagle chicks, asks his son to climb a tree for them, tells the tree to grow tall, and comes to his son in clothes and in the form of his son wives, takes a bright one, drives away a dark-skinned one; N. walks along the heavenly plain, pulls out large edible rhizomes, the wind blows out of the holes, these rhizomes are stars; goes into an empty dugout, takes a basket, baskets attack him; he puts the basket back, tells the baskets to become men's servants; the same episode in the dugout of mats; awls; combs, birch bark vessels; N. comes to two blind old women; they they eat rotten wood, pass food to each other, N. intercepts it, old women quarrel, accusing each other; they feel a man, say that he smells bad; N. turns them into two types of hazel grouses; comes to Spider spouses, who call themselves his grandfather and grandmother, are lowered to the ground in a basket; N. finds a faithful wife and son; the Coyote people are starving, the Raven discovers N. who has returned, gets meat for his children; people force him to confess where the meat comes from; they return to N., celebrate, ask him to take his second wife back; N. sends the Coyote for the carcass of a dead deer, the Coyote falls into the river, swims to the dam, after her two sisters keep salmon; turns into a wooden plate; eats food, throws a plate into the fire, Coyote turns into a baby, sisters adopt him; in their absence, he breaks the dam by releasing salmon into rivers; goes downstream; asks three or four girls if they want salmon, the youngest answers, Yes; he sends his penis to her across the river, the end stays in the vagina, the girl gets sick ; Coyote carries salmon across rivers; a group of girls replies that they want mountain sheep meat, not salmon; in this place, the Coyote creates rapids; disguised as a shaman, comes to the sick person, asks everyone to sing loudly, leave him with the girl in the steam room, copulates, removes the end of the penis, the girl recovers; the Coyote creates fake berries on the bushes, negotiates with the Grizzly to eat her supplies first, then him; runs away, berries dry up]: Teit 1898, No. 2:21-29; clickitat [Luca's wife turns into a Grizzly, kills people, stalks son and daughter; they run away, marry each other, they have a boy ; A grizzly meets and kills her son, comes to her daughter; she pushes her into a ravine, she dies; a Coyote appears, a woman throws her things into the fire, then burns herself; Coyote raises a boy; this is the Eagle, he grows up, marries three Mice, Gorlinka, Cricket; Coyote puts willow branches into the fire, flames break out, women lift their legs; Coyote sees that the Mice have white, the other two have black genitals; he likes whites; he turns his excrement into eagles; sends the Eagle to the rock to get feathers; makes the rock tall; takes the form of a son, puts on his clothes, takes his wives Mice, mistreats him with Cricket and Gorlinka; The Spider lowers the Eagle off the cliff; Gorlinka's son recognizes his father; the Eagle kills the deer, tells Coyote to carry it, it rains, the Coyote is washed into the river, swims downstream, turns dead a deer; a girl picks him up; her grandmother knows it's a Coyote, wants to hit, he swims on, turns into an old man, stays with five unmarried duck sisters; they own a salmon lake; he makes them digging sticks, digs runoff from the lake himself; sisters beat him, breaking five bone spoons with which he covered his head, but he releases water and fish; he catches fish in the river, bakes, falls asleep, her Wolves eat; Wolves fall asleep, Coyote steals bird eggs from them; makes rapids on the river that salmon should not rise above]: Jacobs 1934, No. 31:79-91 (retelling in Lévi-Strauss 1971, No. 606a: 233-234); Okanagon: Teit 1917c, No. 3a [Coyote sails down Colombia in the form of a small inverted boat; at the mouth of the river, two sisters blocked it with a pond, preventing the salmon from going up; find the boat at the top, used as a trough; the fish put in it disappears; they hit the trough, it turns into a boy; it grows fast; while the sisters are away, it breaks the dam, frees the fish; sisters turns sandstone birds; leads salmon up the river; lets them where they give them wives, blocks the channel with rapids where they don't give them]: 67-70; Hill-Tout 1911 [once hit by a hurricane, Coyote wants him to was even stronger, thrown by the wind into the river, swims in the form of a wooden bowl to a fish dam owned by two sisters (birds); they pick up a bowl, put salmon meat in it, meat in their absence eaten; the youngest throws the bowl into the fire, it turns into a baby, the youngest decides to raise him; when the sisters leave, the Coyote gets out of the cradle, breaks the dam; the sisters rush to beat him with sticks- digs, but he put a bone spoon over his head; leads salmon up Colombia, marries Wolverine's daughter, puts rapids in this place so that the fish do not go higher; leads salmon through the tributaries of Colombia; people- Mountain Rams on the Simulkameen River abandoned salmon, now there are no fish]: 146-147; flethead [Coyote is going to marry a Kalispel girl; her tribal chief refuses to give her away; Coyote makes Spokane Falls to prevent salmon from climbing to Kalispel Country]: McDermott 1901, No. 1:240

Llanos. Sicuani: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 44 [the boy asks his grandmother to buy him in the trough; produces starch; people tell him to swim in the river, collect starch; when angry, the boy tells his grandmother awake to hear a rumble; she falls asleep; only Kinkaju hears it and knows where the Kalievirne tree grew; see G5 motif; people cut it down; after the tree falls, people die; Chamani tells you to dance to find ease and go to another world; old Ibarruua breaks her abstinence, takes Cayman as a lover; summons him by putting an inverted calebass on the water and tapping on it; people kill his lover, let I. eat his penis; I. tells the fish to swallow C.; his brothers arrange rapids on the river to stop the fish; revive the regurgitated C., who tells the hawk to kill the fish; shoot up, only a virgin manages to fix an arrow in the sky and make a chain of arrows; the sky was low at that time; in the guise of termites, C.'s people climb into the sky; thunder Yamakhyonë lives there; C. replaces his club, I. cannot kill people, C. kills him; his wife tells ants to collect pieces of his flesh, I. revives; I. and C. reconcile; people continue to climb the chain of arrows; Bat prunes it, fallen ones turn into turtles, parrots]: 191-198; Yépez 1984 (guajibo) [at the beginning of the world, 4 men (Tsamani, Livirnei, etc.), they ate only wild fruits; they came to their village all people are animals; the opossum found the Kalivirnai tree (fruit tree); a vine departed from it, along which he moved to the other side of the Sipalo River (a tributary of the Orinoco); this is where the tree grew; under it he found tubers and fruits of cassava, peach palm, yam, mapei (Lilium sp.); paca traced, swam across the river, found pineapple peel; one whole opossum pineapple dropped, paka brought it and let everyone taste it; Paka and possum began to fight, burned each other with hot coals; C. and L. gathered people to cut wood; some had bad axes, but the felling made with good axes overgrown by morning; then asked the ants to carry the chips; they threw them into Orinoco, so rapids formed; for this they said they had the right to eat cassava leaves and other cultivated plants; the tree still did not fall, on top of it held the vine; the birds Mochilero and Piapoko tried to cut it; the juice was the first to splash into the eyes, since then they were green; the squirrel cut the vine; when the tree collapsed, they collected all kinds of seeds and shoots; Each branch had its own plant species; a branch with a peach palm fell into the water; each group of cutters picked up its own branch, so ethnic differences (cuiba, piapoco, etc.) appeared; the turtle picked up only pepper, and the tapir took the last branch that fell into the water; C. told everyone to plant what they had picked up, but the tapir wanted to keep everything for himself, fished his bunch out of the water and hid it; but while he was climbing for the second bunch, C. stole the seed from the first one; this is how all the cultivated plants were extracted; they held a festival, took the drug yopo; there were no people then; the tree fell east, below the mouth of Vichada; the fallen parts became mountains, In clear weather, you can see; if the tree fell otherwise, it would block Orinoco; the houses where the holidays were held were also petrified]: 8-11, 16-17.

Guiana. Makushi [The sun owns fish ponds; Cayman steals fish, the Sun catches it; cut all the skin, now it's in notches; Cayman promises to give his daughter in exchange for his life; he has no daughter, he makes a girl out of a tree - a wild plum; the woodpecker hollowed out her vagina; the Sun is gone, told her to follow him later; (a brief retelling in the source); she enters the house of a Toad woman, dies, biting through poisonous lice, boys are found in her womb, these are Pia and Makunaima; P. kills Jaguar, finds pieces of her mother's body inside, revives her; The toad hides from the twins that he owns fire; M. likes to swallow coals, decides to leave; digs a canal, sails along it with his brother and mother; from the Crane they learn how to make fire by carving (he hits a stone with his beak); the brothers have blocked the river with stones, detain fish; now rapids in these places; the crane began to steal fish from them; P. quarreled with him, he grabbed M., took him to Spanish Guiana; his mother was tired, P. left her on top of Roraima; walked, teaching people, also stayed on Roraime with her mother]: Roth 1915, No. 39-41:135.

Western Amazon. Napo [Apustulu alone uses a tree with fish in its trunk; a wasp boy helps him fish; Jaguar and others pull the Wasp's belt with a rope; he reports on the tree; they can't catch fish, cut down the trunk; felling overgrows as soon as they don't look at it; they work without interruption, burn chips; the tree still does not fall; the bird sees that it is tied to the sky by a vine; Squirrel climbs upstairs, cuts off the vine; the tree falls, turns into rivers, leaves into fish; A. in anger throws his feather fan and belt into the water; they turn into a poisonous stingray, into an eel; turns the rest chips into fish and aquatic animals; makes rapids to prevent fish from going up the river; turns squirrel into stone as punishment]: Mercier 1979:69-80.

NW Amazon. Vakuenai [O'ã-khë called his sons to go swimming, they did not go; his three daughters heard him, went, found the sacred miñapõ'rã flutes hidden by their father in the water; the woman's flutes they did not like it, they tried to hide; women did not know how to play; asked caruci fish to teach them, he said that those with a vagina should not play the flutes; the same urutu fish; Crane; Duck; fish jacunda agreed; took the flute in his mouth, since then his mouth had turned white; the sisters learned to play; his father tried to take away their flutes, each time turning into a fish, a bird, a piece of cotton wool, etc., but they're here But they recognized him; they wanted to celebrate and become the leaders of the Tarian; the father made rapids on the river; the father made another flute, went into the few women, played, they became like crazy; the men took the flutes, but one woman ran away, hiding the flute in her vagina; the man caught up with her, raped her; the woman drew pictures on the rocks, went to Milk Lake (Ahpikondia)]: Moreira, Moreira 1994:24-25; yukuna : Herrera Ángel 1975a [Iyamatuma's women appeared at the beginning of the world, owned sacred mountains; lived alone in Maloka without men; Kanuma asked to live with them, saying he was more nowhere; the horns were kept outside the maloka, K. asked the lizard to steal them; when they found out that the horns had been stolen, the women decided to leave; at night, intoxicated, they danced; the younger sister sang spells so that there would be diseases in this world ; began to descend the Miriti River; K. began to block the river with stones, they were soft then, so the rapids appeared; they left the footprints and buttocks of the female leader; K. was ready to give horns for women to return, but they refused; one drew an ugly face (petroglyphs) on a stone; women went down to the Amazon, at the mouth, from there to the underworld; Europeans were born from them, they make clothes, guns]: 390-394; Mich 1995:490-493; carihona [Tukučimobi (The Sun) spilled water to make a lake; balsa wood carved two catfish (or whales); chips turned into all kinds of fish ; grew a Reventillos tree (Hura crepitans), during the dry season, fish feed on its fruits; he turned into a fruit himself, let the fish swallow itself, went out through the gills; so he caught five; his brother Months tries repeat the trick, swallowed by sabalo fish; T. rips open the bellies of many fish, finds and revives his brother; he decides to harpoon the two biggest fish; T. orders to tie the tench to a mighty tree; Month binds to the common; fish dig up a tree, swim to form the Caquetá River; the male swam along one bank, the female along the other, so there are many islands; T. throws stones trying to detain fish; so rapids turned out; fish dragged the Month into the sea, swallowed by a sea turtle; T. catches the leg bone of the Month with a net; other bones scattered across the sky, became stars; both brothers went to heaven]: Schindler 1979, No. 1:48-54; Maku [Idu Kamni's mother ordered the huge Ye tree (Mimeogasea family, up to 50 m high) to be cut down; he cut down for two years when the tree collapsed, the flood began, people gathered in the IK boat; the water lifted the boat, people's heads rested on the sky; when it descended, rivers remained, the branches turned into tributaries (the trunk, apparently, into the main river); IR put the leaves and twigs together, rapids formed)]: Silverwood-Cope 1972:217.