Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue translated by Jon F White

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

B1D. Two employees .20.21.25.26.38.

Two characters make up the world, one works poorly, the other works well, so parts of the universe (or a particular island) have different looks.

Nukuria, Tibetans (Amdo), Mangyan, Tboli, Lolo, Lisu, Lahu, Ainu.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Nukuria [A.I. Davletshin, Field Nabl., February 2013; in the water, a slide of white sand, a seaworm house, grows up, rises, becomes dry; Haraparapa and Kateariki found it; but Roatuu says these are her islands, she rose with the sand; then H. and K. took away the sweet potatoes and tarot they had brought, leaving only the coconut palm and the kanokano (?) ; R. stayed, began to give birth, gave birth to snakes, birds, fish and all creatures of the sea and land, but not humans; K. and H. returned, one ran along the eastern coast, the other along the western shore of the atoll, created the current configuration reef and islands; so the reef is on the NE side of the straight line, because K. saw normally; and on the SV {obviously, the error is the southern} curve because H. was blind; they divide people into births and create tarot fields]: Davletschin 2018:128-129.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. The Tibetans (Amdo) [the goddess Ane-Goma-jamu gave the goddess Njigma the hem of the earth, ordering the land to be flat and people equal; to say, Where should the mountains be, so that there are no mountains, where To be rich (poor), so that there are no rich, poor; she hurried and confused, saying, Where to be mountains, be mountains, who will be rich (poor), let it be]: Potanin 1893, No. 82:315.

Taiwan - Philippines. Mangian [Mahal Makanaako held a tree in his hands, it gave shade; a worm fell from the tree into his hand, his bowel movements became earth; other worms appeared in the ground, it grew larger; MM created the brothers Malvay and Dalidali, ordered the land to be sculpted; M. worked diligently, valleys appeared; D. was in a hurry - mountains; a grain of rice was enough to feed everyone; the machete cleared the field himself; people dumped skin and younger; children were born by men from calf legs; the first were born to M.; Doug's woman ("earth") felt sorry for men, told her brother that women would give birth; stepped over his leg, she had the baby in his stomach; the sky was low, preventing the rice from breaking; D. hit it with the upper end of the pestle, it rose; Wild Chicken gave people eggs; D. ran impatiently to see if there was droppings in the basket, Wild The chicken refused to give more eggs; D. watched one rice fill the pot; the rice felt ashamed to be looked at, now they needed a lot of rice]: Eugenio 1994, No. 25:73-74 (translated into Rybkin 1975, No. 1: 27-28); tboli [d'Wata, the son of the supreme god, has two wives, Hyu We and Sedek We; D.'s sons dug holes for the pillars of his house; D.'s wives sculpted human figures from this land; H. did the right thing, and S. the nostrils were open upwards, the genitals were on their knees; S. began to destroy the rice, hit the sky with a pestle, it moved away from the ground; S. and H. quarreled, H. hit the figures sculpted by S., their noses and genitals hit where they are now; H. wanted to place the figures on the moon so that they would always be children; S. wanted to place them on a stone to be hard as stone; H. disagreed, turned away, then S. put it on banana; so people multiply like bananas and die; D. revived the figures by blowing on them]: Eugenio 1994, No. 182:307-308.

China - Korea. Lolo [A-chi worked soundly, made the sky flat; A-li woke up, saw that the sky was ready, hurried to make land, piled up mountains; the moon and sun were muddy at first; two heavenly the maidens washed them and they shone]: Henry 1903:105; the fox [Mwüpüp'a and his wife Mwüpüma worked to make the ground flat; the husband kept chatting and the wife worked without opening her mouth; when the husband I saw that his wife did much more, he began to throw clods of earth in 9 directions in his hearts; therefore, on mountain land]: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:153; lahu (northern Thailand) [at first only G'ui-sha in the center of the world like a spider in a web; he scraped off the dirt from his hands and feet, made four fish out of it: gold, silver, copper and iron; put them on a pole; laid 4 beams of heaven and 4 earth; from that but he made poutrelles of scraped mud, creating heaven and earth, but the earth staggered; G. rolled 70,000 balls out of the same mud, filling the cells (mailles) of the earth with them; made bones from the bones of his hands the sky, and from the bones of the legs, the bones of the earth; to find out how thick the earth is and the thickness of the sky, he created two ants from the mud; one climbed through the sky, the other through the earth; when they returned, they said that the thickness is the same; G. has two assistants: Ca Law, the man he told to make heaven, and Na Law, a woman who was told to make land; NL worked day and night, and KL drank tea, so heaven and earth were not the same in size: the sky was like a large canopy, and the earth was narrow, wrinkled; because the earth was compressed, valleys and mountains appeared; so that the earth did not swelled, G. put a rock on it, but it slipped; the bulbul bird (Hypsipetes mcclellandii) told her not to slide; G. placed fire in the Sun, fireflies in the moon; but they do not go to heaven, they are afraid people; then G. gave them needles {obviously rays that pierce their eyes}; tiger to the Sun: you're too bright; he bit him, hence the eclipses; frog to the Moon: you're too cold; she tried to swallow it, so spots on the moon; by letting a tiger and a frog into the sky, G. made the sun go east and the moon west, otherwise they were constantly in the sky; from the mud scraped off his hands and feet, G. created stars, as well as a chicken with rooster; the rooster sang three times and the east lit up; so the light separated from the darkness; G. moon: it will be 12 months in the year]: Coyaud 2009, No. 1:9-12.

Japan. Ainu [The creator sends a man and a woman to make the shores of Yezo (Hokkaido); the man worked hard, and the woman spoke to the character's sister named Aeoina; realized she was late, did Somehow, that's why the western shores are rocky, uncomfortable, and the southern and eastern shores are good; the man scolded the woman, she cried, and people have been crying ever since]: Batchelor 1927:13.