B20. Expedition to the Upper World.18.43.72.

People go up to heaven to hunt, fish, or collect honey; don't give honey, fish, or good meat to the person below; one or she keeps them forever in the sky.

Australia. Votzhobaluk [a man lent six dogs to young hunters, and they ate one; the young went hunting in the sky, climbing a tall pine tree; the dog owner drilled a hole in the trunk, put a hole in the trunk coal there; the tree burned down, fell, the hunters remained in the sky, visible as a cluster of stars; the top of the tree is a dark spot on the Milky Way; pieces of tuff are the cones of that pine tree; the river valley and the lake are the trail of the fallen wood]: Waterman 1987, No. 4520 (1): 121; mara, anula [old Kakan hawk (apparently chicken hawk) opened fire by friction; quarreled with the White Hawk, as a result, the ground caught fire; before that, men, women, children climbed the pine tree into the sky every day; now the pine tree has burned down, some people did not have time to descend, remained in the sky; stars are crystals implanted in their heads, elbows, knees and other joints]: Spencer, Gillen 1904:628-629 in Maddock 1970:187.

The coast is the Plateau. Chilcotin [three young men hunt with two dogs; give their blind grandmother a rotten tree disguised as caribou liver; she witches, they can no longer descend from heaven; the elder tells them to cover themselves with blankets, don't look; they start to descend, but the youngest peeks, they turn into three stars (probably Orion's Belt); dogs and elk are also visible among the stars; the Morning Star is their grandmother holding in torch hands]: Farrand 1900, No. 15:31.

Chaco. Hunters, fishermen, or honey collectors climb wood into the sky; they don't give honey, fish, or good meat to the person below; he or she destroys the tree with fire or gnaws on the trunk, becoming a rodent or an insect. Chamacoco: Escobar 2006 [people climbed wood to collect honey; the shaman widow's daughter Laguylta complained about them to her mother; she turned into a termite, gnawed on a tree, and it swayed and collapsed; The people on the branches were scattered, they became different groups of chamacoco (Ebytoso, Tom√°raho, Horio); L.'s daughter ran away, became a source of disease; the sky had previously rested on tree branches, now rose; The sun on the contrary descended closer to the ground]: 222; Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 2 [meat and honey; an old woman turns into a locust-like insect], 3 [honey; the man is offended because others doubt him shamanic abilities; sends mouse and bugs to nibble on wood], 4 [honey; old bat]: 31-36; matako [tree burned]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 5 [fish, honey; old woman], 6 [meat; old man]: 45- 46; poppy: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 86 [the lignum vitae tree reaches the sky; people climbed it to the sky to fish there; the grandson of the elderly couple asked for food, the grandmother looked for food among things Those who had gone to heaven found large fish hidden there, although they gave them only small fish; they set fire to the tree; some people remained in the sky, some had time to go down; they chased the old man, he threw himself into the water, became a caiman; the old woman became a capybara], 87 [people climbed the lignum vitae tree into the sky to fish there; the grandson of the elderly couple wanted to eat, the grandmother went to his parents' house, found a big fish there, which was hidden from them; an old woman and her husband set fire to a tree; some people remained in heaven; those on earth chased the old woman, she turned into a capybara; her husband became a crocodile]: 193-194, 194-195; mocovi [fish; old woman turns into capybara]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 20:46.