B28B. Taming things. 43.49.50.
The inhabitants of the area where the hero finds himself are afraid of creatures that are tools, utensils, and plants that are now harmless. The hero easily defeats these creatures and usually turns them into what they are today.
Upper Chehalis, Kerdalen, Upper Coquill, Modok, Northern Payute, Gosiyute, Panamint, Northern and Western Shoshones, Southern Payut, Utah, Chemewevi, Zunyi, Navajo, Western Apaches.
The coast is the Plateau. Upper chehalis: Adamson 1934, No. 87 [Xwαn makes two girls out of salmon milk; my wives turn to them, they run away; an old woman shakes a baby on the swing, his girlfriend kidnapped with a rotten deck; his mother conceived him from a blue stone, he is a Month; she squeezes his diapers, makes his brother's urine the Sun; Blue Jay goes west, slips under five barriers that fall and rise; the Month is the husband of the women who kidnapped him; they gave birth to bushes and trees, the youngest is the mother of all fish; when Soyka finds the Month, he makes arrows, the fragment hits Jay in the eye; The month says goodbye to its fish children; on the way to earth turns monsters into objects (mat trowel, wind barrier, head of cabbage); various Herbs respond that they want to kill the Month, he turns them into herbs; a deer makes a spear to kill the Month, he makes his ears out of it; a woman puts passers-by on a swing, rocks, people break against a rock; a woodpecker helps her; The month is unharmed, rocks a woman, she breaks; five women breathe fire; stone, wood, water cannot cover the Month (burn, split, boil), the path covers; another woman lies with her legs open; the month knocks out she has vaginal teeth and splits her in half with a hammer and a moose horn wedge; The month rises to shine during the day, but it is too hot; the weak Sun Brother should have shone at night, but afraid of ghosts; the month becomes a month, the Sun becomes the sun], 45 [Brother Spear catches fish and eats alone, and his sister collects fern rhizomes and, when she brings them, the brother comes to eat them; realizing that deceived, the sister leaves; where the sky meets the ground, she marries Salmon, she has a child; the Spear comes there; the old man calls the elk, kills, takes the carcass out of the skin with his legs, tells the elk to go away, that (i.e. the skin with legs) leaves; the sister's sister Spear's sister (her name is the End of the World) gives him a fraction of berries, but there are plenty of them, you can't eat them all; at dusk, salmon people come into the house to dance, each in their hands some item for catching or cooking fish; so 5 types of salmon; The End of the World killed Sister Spear's child, cooked it, ordered not to throw away the bones; then the bones were covered with a handkerchief, the child came to life; so every day; on the fifth day, the Spear hid his cheek bone with meat; the child could not be revived, he died; his sister told him to leave; he came to Thunder's house, who allowed the Spear to take his daughter; father-in-law teaches the Spear to become He can't thunder, he is afraid that he will be killed, leaves; he marries in another house, cannot get up in the morning, a board sticks to his back; the old woman separates her, tells her to leave - these are the Resin People; The Spear comes to the old man, he warns: when you meet another old man, you must climb a dry spruce tree, its bark will fall on him, otherwise he will eat it; that old man is killed by bark, his Spear burned; the giant offers his daughter, asks help defeat another who breaks his peaks; the giants began to fight, the Spear killed both; comes to a blind old woman, blows her eyes, she saw the light; warned her to shoot first when the Puma meets; The spear killed, burned the Puma; Wild Rhubarb screams that they will kill the Spear but do not recognize it; he turned them into wild rhubarb; his sister is waiting for the Spear at home; it has turned into a flower that blooms in May, the children play with it; sister also turned into something]: 87-94, 158-169; kordalen [a woman goes out every day to dig rhizomes (probably hogfennel, Peucedanum palustre, marsh mustard); her son looks after her mother; he has grown up, asks about his father, the grandmother replies that he did not have a father; he threatens to kill her with a stick, she admits that his father is the rhizome of a mustard plaster; the young Chief Son-Root (UK) leaves, calls the water is a monstrous fish, pulls its throat out, turns it into a boat; the Pest boy asks to take it with him, jumps in a boat, SK turns it just into a pestle; sees a burning tree, comes up, there is a Grouse (Foolhen , Falcipennis canadensis) touches his burnt eyebrows; the UK tells him to peck raw moss, no longer build a house or cook on fire; and Grouse used to collect moss under his wing, set fire to wood and rushed into the fire; the rabbit jumped into the boat, the UK killed him; the Otter (Fisher) demanded its prey, threatened to hit her tail, began to hit the water with its tail, spraying the UK; he killed her, threw her to the rabbit; comes into the house, there are many children, the hostess tells them that their father will soon return from hunting; the children see an Otter killed by the UK, he was their father; the UK revives him; enters a house where there is an awl on the walls; takes a large one with patterns, awls dig into him; he sets fire to the house, says that Shilla will no longer be cannibals, but will become awls for making moccasins; the same in the house where the Combs are; where Bubbles (they will now store tobacco); The kingfisher dives, but the fish slips out; he washes the smell of fish into the bucket, cooks soup, he likes it; he makes the Kingfisher claws and beak so that the fish is easy to grab; he should not live in the house, but by the river, there is raw fish; the same is with Osprey; by the river there is a man with one leg - a spear; SK turns into salmon, harpoons himself, breaks off, carries the tip; he harpoons the fish with it; Ostronog again sharpens his tibia; SK comes to him, says he has caught salmon with the tip stuck; Ostronog tries to cover his leg with a cape; SK offers to play hoop and stick on capes, wins, Ostronog is forced to give his own, SK hits him on the leg with a stick, makes it normal, gives a moose horn, tells him to make tips from moose horn from now on, not from his own bone; everyone comes out meet the UK; the ugly Toad causes rain, enters the house; the UK is forced to enter her; he addresses her, calling her varying degrees of kinship, finally says "wife"; she jumps between his eyes; she cannot be torn off ; Coyote says to choose Sun and Month; Robin is too hot, Coyote talks about everything he sees; SK says it will be the Month, will go far without the Toad visible on his face; son One-eyed toadstool, becomes a good Sun - he does not see everything so clearly and is not so hot; when the sun is less bright, a one-eyed toadstool is visible]: Reichard 1947, No. 1:57-63; upper coquill: Jacobs 2007:132-135 [Noise-under-ground and Big Fat talk about the ocean overflowing; people get into boats, but boats and oars turn into snakes; to prevent this from happening, they need them it was smeared with crap; at the top of the mountain, a young man, a girl, an old man, his wife, daughter and son, sails in the boat; the Red Squirrel brings fire to the back of her head, so she has a red head; after a while the waters have come down, the survivors have married, repopulated the land; the Coyote comes to the woman, tells her daughter to bring water; she is afraid that those who come for water are dragged away by Cancer (crawfish); Coyote insists, the girl is coming, Cancer grabs it, the Coyote turns Cancer into cancer, it has been cooked and eaten; two blind women are pushing acorns; the Coyote slowly takes a handful; the blind can feel it; he cuts through their eyes, turns them into partridges, tells you not to grind acorns, but to speak while sitting on a branch; the person says that they do not go across the river, where the Salmon Ostrog kills people; the Coyote turns it into a salmon prison; the River Oyster woman lies on his back, offers to copulate, bites off men's penises; Coyote turns it into a river oyster; The deer tries to hook the Coyote, the Coyote tells him to be a deer, deer are hunted], 263-266 [Laska is Norka's naughty younger brother; they travel; stones fall from the mountain, Laska in front, dodges, almost dies; Mink stabs a knife into the stone, the stone turns into a baked kamas tuber; Mink tells these creatures to be camas tubers, not rolling stones; the woman lies with her legs apart, calling to copulate; Weasel to her, wounded; this is a river shell; Mink opens it, throws all the shells into water, tells them to be shells; Laska replies that the place to sleep is called "Fight Fire"; at night, the Fire attacks Laska, who dodges; Mink sleeps peacefully; two blind women rub the seeds ( Indan oat) on a grain grater, pass it to each other; Laska eats everything unnoticed; they say that Laska is probably here; Ostrog attacks, Mink turns it into a jail, catches salmon]; takelma [Daldal (dragonfly) lived near the mouth, chopped bodies float along the river; goes upstream; fires an arrow into the sky, it falls to the top of his head, separates from him a second person, his younger brother; they are successful they fight oaks and fir trees; come to Blue Jay, she is the mother of the forest man K'uk'u; reluctantly agrees to give them her son's large shell in exchange for bundles of money; the son comes and kills her for this; catches up with his brothers, demands that the shell be returned; D. breaks his leg with a stone; he weakens and dies, repeats everything they say in front of him (he is probably an echo); the old man always turns into blood, travelers they try it, they die; the younger brother almost died choking, D. extracted blood from his throat with a flint squeezer; the woman offers to warm her back by the fire, D. tries, burns, turns the woman into a burning plant in the swamp; another woman lies with her legs spread, offers to copulate; Brother D. tries, is injured; D. puts a push-up in her vagina, turns her into a freshwater shell, throws her into the water, she will become people's food; two blind women crush seeds; Brother D. takes them quietly, ties women's hair; they accuse each other of stealing, fighting; D. touches their eyes with the burning end of the stick, they they see the light; D. looks into the house, there are Tendons, this character, trying to burn those entering; D. turns him into reindeer tendons to attach feathers to arrows; in another house, D. sees baked salmon, eats, on Ostrog pounces him; he turns her into a prison to beat salmon; brothers look into two empty houses, an old woman and a girl in the fourth; the girl is afraid to go for water; D. sends her, she is grabbed by Cancer, D. turns it into cancer, crayfish are boiled; brothers meet two bad people, older and younger brothers; defeat them; D. turns the eldest into the Evening Star, the youngest into the Morning Star; tells Coyote not to catch salmon and gopher; turns into a low mountain, his younger brother into a tall one]: Sapir 1909, No. 2:34-42; modoc [see motif K42; twin brothers kill a woman who killed their parents and swims on the lake in the form of a monstrous duck; they cut off its head, turn it into a duck whose meat is inedible; the grandmother is angry at them, they go through the hearth, she follows them underground; they go west; the Duck is another their aunt, she has a swelling on her head; they press him down, since then birds and animals do not carry cubs on their heads; they kill the Snake, the Duck's husband; turn live pebbles into ordinary pebbles; the younger brother would like serve the Month, the eldest to the Sun; the one-legged Thunder pursues them; they kill him, turn into two stars that appear in the spring]: Curtin 1912:95-117;
TheGreat Pool. Northern Payutes: Curtis 1976 (15) [Tavúu hunts rabbits, comes to a girl, sleeps with her; paints red eyes, hangs stones above the door; the girl's brothers come back, afraid of him; then they come in, take his rabbit away; he turns into a Rabbit, watches them fight to beat him; ties him by his hair, burns him at night; the girl refuses to go with him; he pricks her with a finger on the anus, throws it into the fire; the sun goes down before T. has time to get the rabbit he ran after; together with his younger brother (Little Rabbit), they go east; the sun rises, the arrows burn, T. He fires a fire drill instead of an arrow, breaks the Sun, throws bile into the sky, this is the new sun; it now walks not in the mountains, but across the sky; an avalanche of fire haunts the brothers; they are not saved by stone, wood, they hide under a cactus that only burns thorns; T. spends the night at Vulture; swaps places with his son, at night Vulture holes his son's head; T. offers to shoot each other at friend; Vulture misses, T. kills him; the old woman replies that she is weaving the basket to put those who killed the Sun in it; T. invites her to try on the basket, climb into it, rips open the old woman with a knife; Other women are weaving water baskets to have supplies when the Sun Killers arrive and we hide; Show me! They entered the house, he burned them; people were swaying on the branches of the tree; the brothers also began to swing, told the branches to fly into the sky, the swaying ones crashed; people built a house under the rock; T.: why? - Hide from the Sun's killers; - Show me; everyone went in, the rock collapsed, crushing everyone; the brothers turned into big and small rabbits]: 143-147; Lowie 1924, No. 10 [the day is too short; The rabbit asks his maternal grandmother to give him food on the road, goes to the Sun; when they see the Rabbit, the Squirrels say that it is not clear who is going; the Rabbit kills them with an arrow; comes to the North Wind house in his absence, He hangs stones above the entrance, paints his eyes red; the people of the North Wind come in, get scared, rush away, hitting the rocks; he is given rabbit skins, he removes the stones; he is given the worst meat, but it turns out to be the best; they rush at him, he kills everyone, only the youngest hides somewhere, has become the new North Wind; The Raven (?) scrapes his claws, says he will kill Rabbit with them when he arrives; Rabbit sleeps in his house, swaps places with Raven's son, who kills his son with his claws at night; Rabbit invites him to shoot each other at friend; hangs his skin as a target, but he is unharmed; kills the Raven with the last arrow; Louse says he will kill someone from the west; Rabbit throws a lump of grass into his stomach; hears Louse say he will kill You can only crush it completely; The rabbit presses but does not find a finger; tells you to be lice; shoots at the Sun, the arrows burn, hits the Sun with a fire drill; removes bile from the corpse, throws it into the sky, the new sun will go higher and the day will take longer; the rabbit goes home, behind him is fire, he hides in the badger's hole, his neck burns; the same is in the stump; when under the cactus, he escapes from the fire; comes to his grandmother, that calls him husband; he copulates with her, marries her]: 224-228; Powell 1971 [days are too short, people don't have time to hunt; Tā-vu (Little Rabbit) goes east to kill the Sun; his arrows burn in the air; it wets the latter with tears, it hits the Sun; T. gutts it, throws bile into the sky, it turns into a new Sun, which is higher, so the day is longer; the Sun haunts T., he hides in a hole, in a tree, in wet clay, but the Sun burns it every time; only under a thorny tree (apparently a cactus} that does not burn, T. escapes; the squirrel on the rock laughs at T., who pulls it out from under the stone , tears to pieces; people attack T., he takes off and hangs his skin, they shoot at it without causing harm to T.; he comes to their house, paints his face with red stripes, people who come are horrified run away; for a promise to wash off the paint, the old woman gives him her daughter; the hunters who come fry rabbits, and T. a piece of their tail; their meat is lean and a piece of tail is a fat rabbit; people rush to T., but he leaves his skin to them and runs away; burns the attackers in their house; his wife cries, he throws her into the fire too; these people were Red Ants; Chief Lice says that the Killer T is coming; T. kills with a stone him and many of his people; Vulture says that T. is coming, he will kill him with his claw; unrecognized T. comes, says he has not seen T. anywhere; at night he changes places with Vulture's son, he kills his son; T. invites Vulture to shoot at each other, takes off the skin, arrows hit it without causing harm to T.; with the last fifth arrow, T. kills Vulture; burns the corpses of him and his son; the chipmunks mock over T.; he comes unrecognized, tears their leader apart, kills everyone else; the old woman feeds T. cold porridge; he asks to warm him in a bag over the fire; she also asks to warm her, he burns her; at home some want the day to be always and ask T. to go fight the Sun again; T. objects because people should sleep with their wives and have dreams; people talk in dreams; in the morning T. tells who to bring water to whom firewood, etc.; says people should only eat once a day; it is believed that a dream speaker speaks to T.]: 227-229; panamint [while the Rabbit sleeps, the Sun counts its vertebrae; the Rabbit goes him kill; asks different bushes how they burn; one replies that only his leaves are burning; under him the Rabbit digs a hole; arrows fired into the Sun burn; the Rabbit hits him with a fire drill; earth heats up, the Rabbit hides in its hole, only his neck is burned; when the earth cools down, the Rabbit makes a new sun from the heart of the old, a month out of his kidney; Squirrels scream that the Rabbit killed the Sun, hide under rock; Rabbit breaks a rock, kills Squirrels with a stick; comes to children, cooks porridge from seeds, feeds children; offers to climb on the juniper; bends and lets it go, the children fly off and break to death; people rush to kill the Rabbit, he hides under a rock, runs away; the old woman weaves a waterproof basket; the Rabbit climbs inside; then offers the old woman to climb, braids the hole, rolls down the mountain, the old woman dies; the old woman cleans the prickly pear fruits from small thorns; they do not fall into the Rabbit's eyes; he blows into the eyes of the old woman, she goes blind and dies from the thorns; two women throw on The rabbit's rock, he's alive; he throws it on them, they die; he comes into the house, paints his face red, people get scared; at night he burns everyone with the house, pulls out one woman; she tries to burn it when he climbs under a rock, he's safe; burns it under a rock; Mountain Sheep says the Rabbit that killed the Sun is coming; he throws them a potion to smell, ask them to throw it back, they fall off the rock after them, they break; at home, Rabbit's mother says the rock crushed his food; he throws away the rock, pulls out seeds]: Zigmond 1980, No. 72:233-236; Western Shoshones [Sun killed; Rabbit makes new sun and the moon from the entrails of the old; kills human animals on the way home]: Steward 1943:277-278 [The rabbit turns the Sun's gallbladder into the new sun], 278-281 [the sky is too low, the sun is too hot; The rabbit and his brother kill the Sun; brother burns; The rabbit makes the moon out of the Sun's gallbladder, the new sun from the old bladder; pushes the sky higher]; Smith 1993:97-101 [The sun is too low, it is very hot; every night two Rabbit Brothers dig a shelter to kill the Sun; they are moving closer to the sea; the Sun rises from an island in the ocean; arrows burn before they reach it, brothers kill the Sun by throwing it at it grass torch; the earth is burning, the water is boiling; the elder Rabbit tells the north wind to bring snow; revives the charred youngest; brothers cut the dead Sun, turn its bile into a new sun, biliary bubble to the moon, eyes (?) into the stars; the elder leaves the youngest, goes, kills people; invites the Cedar Birds to swing in the tree; when he lets go of the tree, they all break; Gorlinka cries for his dead son, the Rabbit mourns with her; Groundhog calls Rabbit Rabbit, who is furious, kills and roasts marmots by moving the hill; tells Coyote how to kill marmots; he repeatedly tells the hills to give him marmots; marmots in they catch up with him in large numbers, throw them on the hot coals on which the Coyote wanted to fry them; the rabbit meets a woman who is weaving a waterproof basket; offers to weave them around each other; wraps around the woman, throws her in the basket, she dies; the Hummingbird and the Insect shoot arrows at the flower, lick the nectar; otherwise the Flower rushes at them; the Coyote shoots at the flower, the tree, the water, now they are no longer they attack people; the Rabbit did not kill these people because they called it Red Willow, not the Rabbit; the girl's brothers call the Rabbit Rabbit, they don't give rabbit meat; he burns them with the house; wants to save them their sister but she refuses to go out], 168-172 [gallbladder in the sun, buds to the moon]; northern shoshones: Clark 1966 [The sun is very hot; the rabbit was on three legs, making himself a fourth wooden one; waddles towards the Sun, decides that only the cactus does not burn; pierced the heart of the Sun with an arrow; turns the white of the Sun's eyes into clouds, the iris into the sky, the kidney into the star, the liver into the moon, the heart into darkness; himself the sun stops being too hot]: 180; Lowie 1909b, No. 8a [The sun is too hot; the rabbit shoots, the arrows burn; the Sun knocks down by firing a fire drill; people rip open the Sun's belly, get bile , make it a new sun; the Horned Toad puts it in the sky with its horns], 8b [starting as in (a); people make the Sun and the Month, put it in the sky]: 252-253; gosiyute [The sun was close to the earth, it's very hot; the Rabbit went to kill him; first the Sun sees him unharmed; then the Rabbit dug a hole, hid; the arrows burn, but the Rabbit took the stone out of his belly, killed the Sun with it; the earth caught fire; the rocks , the trees respond that they are burning and hot; the bush protects, under it the Rabbit makes a hole, only his back is burned; he caused hail to cool the ground, made himself new eyes out of hailstones to replace the burnt ones; leftists The Forest Marmots laughed at the Rabbit, he killed them; comes to his two aunts; they are afraid to make a fire, get water; The rabbit hits trees, water with his magic stone, which he pulls out of his stomach, since then trees, water don't rush at people; The rabbit pushed back the rock that crushed the seeds, now the aunts could take them]: Smith 1993:21-22; chemewevi [The sun was bigger and hotter than it is now; Rabbit went to the sunrise; I ran into two rabbit kids (one Cottontail, the other Jackrabbit); they said they were coming to Immortal Water, she rushes at them, they ran away, and then they drink from the water left behind puddles; Rabbit told the children to provoke Immortal Water to attack, threw a stone at it, splashes formed all freshwater bodies; Immortal Yuka Sate swam in the air, the children called her, she rushed at them, they chipped off small pieces from her; the Rabbit ordered Yucca to be provoked, threw a stone, she broke into pieces, from which all yucca plants with edible fruits come from; the gap in the rock where the late mother of the rabbits put the seeds closed; the Rabbit opened it, took out all the edible seeds; all the shrubs tell the Rabbit that they are burning, one says only its leaves are burning, Rabbit makes a hole under him; the Month rises first, the Rabbit lets him pass, the crows that flew out before the sunrise of the Month sit down for the Month; the Sun rises, the Rabbit falls into it with a stone, beats off a piece, the ground lights up; he hides with two rabbits under a non-combustible bush; the sun has been less hot since then]: Laird 1976:152-154; Southern Payutes: Lowie 1924, No. 15 (Shivwitz) [The rabbit notices that his shadow has become short, and the skin is all pierced; decides to take revenge on the Sun; comes to two boys, asks them to light a fire; they are afraid that trees (wood) will take away their parents; the rabbit sends them for firewood, but the trees they go to them; the rabbit tells them to go to it, throws the magic stone, it crumbles small; now it is safe to make a fire; makes the seeds available; before that they were crushed by a boulder; promises boys not to suffer if the ground catches fire; meets girls, tells them to blow chaff in his eyes, blows towards him; now blows into their eyes, they die; man does arrow, replies that the Rabbit is coming, he will kill him; the Rabbit offers to put a hot stone on each other's chest; he is protected by another stone, kills that man; the woman does (obviously weaves) vessel basket, says that the Rabbit goes and kills people; suggests weaving them so that they take turns inside the basket; easily gets out, walled up the woman in the basket, kills her; girls on the rock laughs; he throws his pebble at them; asks them to throw them back; they all fall after them and crash; eats up the Coyote field; the villagers kill many rabbits, but not the Rabbit; he hides in a hole, everyone they climb after him, he gets out, collapses the ground on the hidden ones, they die; the Bear digs a hole, says he will hide in it from the Rabbit; the Rabbit offers to hide one by one, kills the Bear; everything trees respond that they will burn in a fire, but shrubs will only burn from above; Rabbit breaks the Sun with a stone, hides in a hole; trees burn, the Rabbit runs farther and farther, makes a hole under the bush; gradually burns; when his eyes burst, water spills, cools the ground; Rabbit's body gathers again; he comes to those boys, his brothers, they're safe], 29 (Moapa): 142-147, 198; Utah: Lowie 1924, No. 33 (Southern Utah) [The rabbit walked around killing people; he had two cedar cone necklaces (?) ; The bear replies that he is digging a hole to hide from the Rabbit; The rabbit offers to try, puts an arrow in the hole, the Bear attacks it, dies; fills a scarecrow, drags it like a dog; rolls it drops of sweat in two balloons, throws a woman with children on the rock to smell; tells them to throw it back, they fall after them, break; two boys turn to the Rabbit, calling him the Inverted Quiver; that's the name the one he likes, he killed those who called him the Rabbit; the boys say that their mother crushed the Rock; the Rabbit moves the rock; ask them to make a fire; they say that the trees prick them; the rabbit hits cedars, says that now even children and women will be able to use them as fuel; the same applies to water; now the water does not fall in a wave on those who want to take it; the Sun calls the Rabbit Rabbit, who in rabies; the Spider masks it with its web; arrows burn before reaching the Sun; the Rabbit beats off a piece of the Sun with a club, the earth lights up; the tree, the stone, the river respond that it will burn, burst from the heat, it will boil; one grass says it will only burn from above; The rabbit dug a hole under it, only his neck is burned; The rabbit comes out, all its dicks are gradually burning; at night the Sun sent snow, the earth has cooled down; the Sun turned the Rabbit into a rabbit, now even children will hunt him]: 59-62; Powell 1881 [as in 1971]: 52-56; 1971 (Moapa) [Ta-woats sleeps with his back to the sun, burns; goes revenge; kills along the way various people (animals) waiting for him to arrive but do not recognize him; all the trees say they are burning, the smallest hides T. under his roots; T. breaks the Sun to pieces, the world lights up; T. goes out to the unfrozen earth burns; his tears cool the earth; since then the sun has been rising and setting]: 78-80; Smith 1992 (White River) [The sun was hotter than it is now; the Cottontail went east; he had two names, the simple one is Tawuc, and another; when the grass (weed) called him with a simple name, he hit him with a club for it; he met the Bear, who replied that he was digging a shelter; he heard that T. was coming and killing people, we must hide; the Rabbit asks to show hits; says that the Bear will probably stick out his nose to look at it; the Bear sticks out, the Rabbit hits him with a club; meets two boys; they say that they have there is no mother; Boulder did not want her to collect roots, and crushed her; they say that they are afraid to make a fire and drink water, for they frighten with sparks and splashes; the rabbit tells them to light a fire, sparks burn faces for boys; The rabbit hits the bush, says that from now on even old women will be able to use the bushes as fuel; the same with water, hits it, now everyone uses it; the boys turned to the Rabbit, calling him good the name; the Rabbit is happy; the Boulder rolls, revives the mother of the boys; now it is the Gorlin family; The Rabbit is waiting for the Sun in ambush, but he passes by; the Rabbit asks the Spider to cover it with a web; the Sun beats with a club, the world lights up; The rabbit runs, asks who will hide it; the trees say they will burn, but the bushes (rabbitbrush) say that the fire will come from above, they will not suffer; The rabbit digs a hole under bushes, escapes; there are dark spots behind his ears where the fire burned him; today's black stones were burned in that fire; this story was told the night after the children fell asleep]: 54-57.
The Great Southwest. Zunyi [see motive I14; twin brothers descend into the underworld; dwarfs who eat the smell of food live here; they are attacked first by jays, then by pots of soup; many dwarfs die; brothers easily catch birds in snare, break pots, eat soup; pierce dwarfs anuses]: Cushing 1901:400-410; Navajo: Johly, B'yash 1958 [young man goes to heaven; helps eagles win bumblebees, wasps, locusts; also herbs]: 11; Reichard 1977, No. 4 [pueblo enslaves a young man, called the Scavenger; they descend on a rocky ledge, telling them to throw off their eagles; the Wind and Talking God advise not to throw chicks; pueblo leave the young man on the rock; Eagles bring him food; wrapped in a cloud and tied with lightning and rainbows, carry him to a heavenly hole; get tired; give feathers to lightning sky snakes, they help carry the burden into the hole; Eagles warn not to touch the blue vessels in the house; the young man opens them, the rain begins on the ground; the young man runs in fear, he is caught by the Spider; the Eagles help him out; touching young men, the coyote turns him into a coyote; the Eagles find him, let him through the hoop, the young man takes on his true form; the swallow knocks stones over him, the Eagles revive him; fighting the Bees, Tumbleweed, Stones, Grass, Eagles suffer heavy losses; the young man easily defeats enemies, throws several bees, stones, etc.; since then, all this has been on the ground; grateful Eagles ask him marry their girlfriend; before that, he goes down to earth, teaches his brother spells and sand drawings (the origin of the Bead Trail rituals); wearing feather clothes again, returns forever to heaven where he marries; spiritually continues to help brother]: 26-36; Yuinth-Nezi, Hatrali 1957 [as in Johly, B'yash 1958; defeat bees, helps hawks defeat wasps]: 5-6; Western Apache: Goddard 1918 ( San Carlos) [The Coyote sends the Puma to the eagle's nest on the rock, tells the rock to grow; the eagles give man their plumage, fly with him to heaven, give him a wife; their enemies are pumpkins, zucchini, melons, the Puma easily killed them; went down to earth, five years later; caught up with his wife, who had Coyote children in her basket; Puma killed all but one, hid himself; told Coyote to swallow four hot stones and drink water; Coyote burst]: 67-68; 1919 (White Mountain) [the hunter has a wife and two sons; the Coyote reports a nest with eagles at the top of a cliff; lowers the hunter on a rope to the rocky cornice, throws the rope, says that now will take his wife; a man asks eagles how adult birds will arrive; a male arrives, then a female arrives, a male again, a female again, each with a "rain-man" or with a "rain-woman"; eagles bring a person the waters in a turquoise vessel give an eagle's robe; a man kills a man with a skull who killed eagles with a stone; kills bees, wasps, hornets; grass that attacked eagles; stars bring him down to the top of the hill, from there he flies to the ground; the Coyote gouged out the eyes of the man's children with an awl; he told his wife to heat four stones, put the Coyote's legs on two, ordered them to swallow two; the Coyote's tail fell off; the Coyote's children a man killed with a stick; became an eagle and lives in the sky]: 132-135.