B2D. A marriage between heaven and earth, A625.

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Sky (Sun, Thunder, Wind living in the sky) is considered a man and marries a woman Earth; Sky is combined with Woman Water; with the daughter of Earth; the creator (master) of the sky and the creator (mistress) of the earth is husband and wife; rarely: The female sky (or the Sun) is combined with the male Earth.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Chagga [Kilimanjaro (like other mountains) is a child of Earth conceived by the Sun]: Widenmann 1899:33; como [Sky fertilized Water (Rain), it gave birth to the Marantochloa purpurea plant; it grows by the water and is the totem of the ondó clan]: Mahieu 1975:239; lala [Lesa is the supreme god, chief in heaven, thunder; married to his sister Mushili, she is associated with the earth; both born the first woman to have one breast; one day L. was gone, M. died, she was buried; L. said that it was not necessary, now all people will die; those who could revive M. refused to do so]: Munday 1942:48-49; Lunda [Chinawesi is a space serpent, mother of all things, mistress of the earth, her husband is Lightning, they shared the world; Lightning has gone to heaven and pours rain on the ground, i.e. its urine; when C. hears thunder, she tells rivers to flow]: Scheub 2000:29.

West Africa. Bambara [Muso Koroni, the scary goddess of the earth, looks like a leopard, hurts women with her claws, causing them to menstruate; taught people how to grow millet (rice and corn are also known, but of late origin); the sun god Pemba, in the form of the Acacia albida tree, penetrated it from its roots and gave birth to all plants and all animals]: Knappertt 1997:216; nzema [supreme god Edenkema Created the sky by Nyamenle (man) and Earth-Azele (woman); they are spouses, all living things are their children; when N. doogo does not send rain, A. is angry; when it rains, the couple reconcile]: Grottanelli 1967:34 , 37; baule [Niamye made people, animals, spirits; everyone lived in the sky; made a circle out of dust, put Nemye in the swamp; this is the land, it is still surrounded by this swamp; when the earth dried up, N. sent there her wife Assie, she brought trees with her; younger brother N. Anangama made a chain, lowered people and animals to the ground, the last to the rooster; N. went down to earth, sent A. to heaven; her sewage fell into N.'s food; then he called A. to the ground again, returned to the sky never descended; A. lives on the other side of the Nemier swamp, where the Sun descends in the evenings and where the Month lives, also N.'s son; there the earth meets the sky; N. lives just above A., she gave birth to him a lot children, they live in heaven]: Himmelheber 1951b: 13-18 (translated into Himmelheber 1960:35-40); wolbari [Woolbari was lying on Mother Earth Asasi-Yya; the old woman crushed the yam, touched him with a pestle, the smoke from the hearths ate his eyes , people wiped their dirty fingers on him, and another old woman cut off a piece from V. each time to make the food tastier; so V. went up; animals originally lived with him]: Belcher 2005:111 (translated to Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 9:41-46); Dogon: Palau Marti 1957 [the heavenly god Amma created the earth, made him his wife; first she had a termite clitoris; then A. pulled it out (excision), his wife became to obey him; Yurugu (Fox, Vulpes pallida) was born before excision, then the first man and woman; they put a green skirt on their mother; Yu committed incest with his mother, as a result, forest spirits were born, and the act incest led to menstruation; after that A. left his wife because she became unclean]: 52; Parrinder 1967 [Amma created the sun by wrapping it with 8 rings of red copper, the moon with 8 rings of white copper; stars, shooting ginna balls; threw a lump of clay into space, it spread face up, became Earth; A. came down to the ground, pulling out a termite mound (excision) in the way; first a jackal was born, then half-human half-snake nummo twins]: 23; nankance [Earth is the wife of God Heaven, he fertilizes her with rain]: Zwernemann 1968:30; concombe [Wumbor is son of Earth fertilized by Sky]: Zwernemann 1968:31; Mosi [sky man and earth-woman are spouses personified in Naaba Wende and Napaanga Tenga]: Izard 1991:106; Yoruba [Olorun and his wife Odududua were like two tight halves of a calebas pulled together; Odudua resisted being in the darkness at the bottom, then Olorug pulled out her eyes; she said that he should only eat snails (snails are donated to him); they have a son and daughter, who have given birth to a son orungan; he chased his mother to take possession of her, she fell in Ifa, rivers flowed from her breasts, parts of her body turned into gods - Lightning-Shango and his three river wives, Okean-Olokun, the god of blacksmiths Okun, hunters warriors and others]: Belcher 2005:309; Jukun: Meek 1931 [The Chido man is associated with the Sun, he is the deity of the upper world; the AMA woman is born with the Earth and the lower world; from their union she is born crop in the fields]: 178-190; Scheub 2000:11-12 [Ama is sometimes considered a man, sometimes a woman, but is primarily associated with land that Chido fertilizes with rain], 28-29 [=Meek 1931]; Igbo [Ala is a woman earth, dominates the earth and the lower world, kills and eats people (when they are buried in the ground); Amadioha is the lord of heaven, his weapon is thunder, he is peaceful and merciful; Ala is his mother or wife; he is fair-skinned and associated with white and other light colors]: Cole 1982:56-58; margi [Iju is heaven, man, fertilizes the female land Ii; however, the earth is not clearly personifies and prayers are addressed only to Ija]: Scheub 2000:75; Ekoi: Meek 1931 [our father, the god of heaven and sun Obassi Uso, fertilizes our mother, the goddess of the earth Obassi Nsi, with rain]: 180; Talbot 1912:17 [One informant: I think Obassi Nsi is actually our mother and Obassi Osaw is our father because sacrifices are made to Mr. Obassi and Mrs. Obassi; in addition, HE is kind, and it is known that mother is kinder than father], 70-71 [(but): Obassi Osaw and Obassi Nsi created everything; at first they lived together, but then OO took heaven and HE took the earth; the newborn falls to the ground, and the deceased returns to the ground, from which everything arises; HE controls all cultivated plants; the sky is bad, because it sends too much rain, then it does not rain at all].

Sudan-East Africa. Dinka [male Garang is son of Heaven, Abuk woman is the daughter of Earth, the first human couple; their son Deng]: Lienhardt 196:100; kunama [Earth is our mother, Heaven is father; sending rain, Heaven does The land is pregnant, which gives birth to cereals and herbs]: Haberland 1967:49; Oromo Bartels 1983 [Sky (Waqa) lay almost close to the Earth, watering it abundantly with rain; called all animals to complain; Everyone was happy, but Mule said W. was lying too close to Earth, kicked him; W. moved away, it didn't rain enough; W. made Mule barren]: 104; Haberland 1967 [Father Heaven is Mother Earth's husband; snakes and rain are connected to the sky; the Earth was flat, said that it was more important than Heaven; the sky said it was more important, the streams of rain created a rugged landscape; at first they lay close; the Sky rose, the Earth expressed regret; Heaven then created people on earth; Var.: Earth was the wife of Heaven, their daughter Batto; Heaven withdrew from Earth; B. came together with a black serpent, gave birth to people]: 44-46; konso [1) Jensen 1936:493; God (Heaven) created the Earth, she became his wife; first lay close, then he rose; began to rain it; 2) Jensen 1950/1955; at first the Earth was flat as her husband Sky; they began to argue who stronger; The sky began to throw stones at Earth, it rained, it recognized its superiority]: Haberland 1967:48; sidamo [Sky-Maganno - Earth's husband Batto]: Haberland 1967:48; ubamer [sky- Sabi created the world; his wife Earth-Berri]: Haberland 1967:50; dime [Sky Man and Earth Woman]: Haberland 1967:50; Basketo [Heaven is our father and Earth is our mother]: Haberland 1967:50-51; Masai [Heaven married Earth; Earth receives heat and rain like a woman receiving male seed]: Hollis 1905:279; malgashi: Abrahamsson 1951 (Bara) [1) God came together with Earth, y they are a child; God refused to perform a legal marriage ceremony, so the Earth kept the child for himself; they got into a fight, God threw stones at the Earth, the Earth settled, the child died; God gave the body to Earth, took soul; 2) God and Earth got married; decided to divide the rights to the inhabitants of the earth, God takes their breath, the Earth takes their bodies; 3) Ndriyanakatakati revived a person on the condition that he will receive a gift from the person who owned Ikutuvului; he did not pay, so N. began to take his soul and I.'s body]: 118; Molet 1979 (Merina) [Heaven was looking for a wife; the bird invited him to marry the Earth; the Earth began to connect with Heaven, everyone was afraid; the bird advised Sky to give up marriage; the Earth said that the sky does not respect it, it wets it every day; some parts of the Earth have risen and remain mountains, the sky has decorated them with vegetation]: 32-33; Haring 1982, No. 1.5.09 (Sakalava or Tsimihety, recording from the beginning of the 20th century) [Heaven was looking for a wife; a sparrow-like bird invited him to marry the Earth; Earth agrees, began to reach for Heaven to unite with him; everyone was afraid to be crushed; then the bird advised Heaven give up marriage because the Earth has fainted; Earth was told that Heaven pees on it every day; some parts of the Earth rose and remained mountains, where the Earth grew trees]: 163; Parrinder 1967 [ Earth was God's daughter; playing, he made human figures out of clay, God revived them; people multiplied, the Earth flourished; God, out of envy, demanded half of the people, the Earth refused; then God became take their breath away]: 59; malgashi (bar): Haring 2007, No. 18 [The Sun invited Earth to marry; she was afraid he would burn people's heads; the Sun promised to cool them with rain; they agreed to divide people; their breath would go to God and their bodies to the ground because they were made in the form of clay dolls], 29 [Sun and Earth got married, Earth gave birth to many creatures; they must feed on each other a friend, but not to cause suffering unnecessarily; our father The Sun is watching us all the time]: 22, 29.

North Africa. Ancient Egypt [Geb Earth, son of Shu and Tefnut, a member of the Heliopolis Enneade; quarreled with his wife, sister Nebom-Nut, because she ate her children (heavenly bodies) every day, and then gave birth to them again; S. separated G. and N., leaving G. in a horizontal position and N. lifting them up]: Mathieu 1956:86; Rubinstein 1980a: 267; Gahlin 2007 [Shu is the father of Nut (heaven) and her brother Geb (earth); N. raised, separating her from her brother; here is also a papyrus drawing from the Book of the Dead Tameniu, Third Intermediate Period, depicting anthropomorphic Geb and Chickpeas]: 51.

Western Asia. Sumer: Yemelyanov 1999 [Enki-Ninki - "Mr. Place, Mrs. Place"; spells from Farah and Ebla: "Tamarisk, lonely trunk, Ana tree! From her roots in the land is Enki-Ninka, along her crown is Lord Ana, spread over the | pier | sacred!" ; "Tamarisk, the trunk is righteous, the trunk is clean! Tamarisk roots - Enki-Ninki! Enlil's Tamarisk! Tamarisk! The life of heaven, the life of earth, the life of Ana, Enki-Ninka (be cursed!)" ; we see that Enki-Ninki lives in the roots of a sacred tree whose trunk belongs to Heaven and the crown to the inhabited world (Enlil); Ur-Nanshe's spell: "Sacred reed, water abyss reeds, reeds Ankie Ninky!" ; Eanatuma's inscription on the "Kite Stele": "Let Ninka turn her foot (=Umma) away from the ground!" ; The Ninki here is the goddess of the earth, depriving violators of the sacred treaty of support; first Heaven-Earth exists undivided, then generations of terrestrial androgynes appear, then Demiurge Enlil with his wife (already separately) followed by Enlil and Ninlil's firstborn, the moon god Nanna; the earliest written tradition considers Enki-Ninki to be the deities who were at the origins of life: they live in the roots of the sacred trees near the water abyss, in Nergal's dwelling, are the parents of 7 (or 6, 9) paired deities and Enlil; Sacred Hill is an embankment of earth to a water source from which the tamarisk celestial tree sprouts, where Enlil's androgynous ancestors live, who arose before the separation of Heaven and Earth]: 100-104; 2001 [Urukagina Lagashsky, XXIV century: "The well has released water. Ahn, Vladyka, stood up in his youth. Ahn and Ki shouted at each other (i.e. split, moved away from each other). At that time, Enki-Ninka was gone, Enlil did not live, Ninlil did not live, the Day did not pass, New Month did not come out." The fragment describes the beginning of the world, when there was only a freshwater spring gushing from the ground and the first conflict between Ana and Ki, which previously existed inseparably, took place; after the separation of Heaven from Earth begins giving the deities of air and earth the attributes of the world order]: 107; Babylonia [Habti-Ilani-Marduk is the author of the epic story of the disease-bringing god Erra; Seven (Sibitti) - seven terrible creatures sent by Arra to destroy humans; named children of heaven and earth]: Burkert 1992:109; Phoenicians [Earth Arts is Heaven's sister and wife, Al's mother]: Tsirkin 2004:39.

Melanesia. Marind-anim [the earth embodies the feminine principle, the sky is masculine, all demas are generated by them]: Wirz 1922:28 f in Stagl 197:54.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Tuvalu (Noumea) [Heaven and Earth met, made people]: Williamson 1933 (1): 16; Tuvalu [Nanumanga, Nanumanga: Heaven and Earth were married, lay together; the sea serpent raised the Sky; Nukufetau: Same, but before the fish gathered for advice on how to raise the sky]: Williamson 1933 (1) :45; Niue [Langi's sky held his wife Earth in his arms; their children remained trapped in the dark between parents; some wanted to kill them, others only separated them, leaving them nearby; they raised the Sky; L. cries away from his wife, his tears irrigate the Earth; in spring he hears his terrible complaints {thunder?}] : Thompson in Williamson 1933 (1): 25; Nukumanu [Woman Earth met the Wind that lived in the sky; then he couldn't go down to her, asked them to name their child Sinekepápa; this is a daughter; then The wind came back to Earth, she gave birth to her youngest daughter Asina; Sky found out that Earth had a daughter, asked her father for permission to go down; Earth asked Wind if he agreed to give his eldest daughter, who agreed, the eldest married; after that, a man named Opuna came to marry his youngest daughter, received it; Sinekepapa gave birth to a son Naleau; he decided to go to his father, Kimulani; his mother is blind, N. I touched her eyes, ants, a centipede, black squirrels, crabs fell out, she saw the light, glad to see her grandson; he leaves, meets men led by Opuna, who are building a guest house, mocks them; When he jumps into a hole prepared for a pole, she throws a pole at him; he turns into an ant, hides inside a pole; goes out; replaces food in an earthen oven with crap; they want to bake it in the oven, he turns into an ant, crawls out unnoticed; sails to Keloma Island]: Sarfert, Damm 1931:413-436; Rotuma [Heaven and Earth were close to each other; a man of Heaven lay down with a woman Lands; their son Tangaroa got on one knee, pushed Heaven away; yielding to parents' requests to see each other, T. did not stand full length]: Williamson 1933 (1): 44; Maori: Best 1899 [Rangi ( sky) came together with Papa (earth); they gave birth to Tane, Tangotango and Wai-nui; this was the beginning of all things in the world; Papa is mother earth]: 114-115; Reed 1999, No. 1 [Rangi (Father Sky) and Papa (Mother Earth) lay close to each other; their children decided to raise the Sky; only Tane (the father of the forest, birds, insects) could do it; planted trees on the ground, put the sun, moon, stars in the sky; stars ("Shining Ones") played, then gathered on the mountain, T. collected them in a basket; the Milky Way is this basket; T. placed, then tore off the red cape; its remainder was dawn; the gods made a Hine-ahu-one woman out of clay, washed it in heavenly waters, gave as T.'s wife; their children inhabited the earth]: 11-21 (translated into Reed 1960:9-17; retelling in Dixon 1916:30-31); Moriori [first Range and Rape, i.e. Heaven and Earth, darkness; Rangifocona {was born between them Rangitokona?} , asked them to split, they refused, he divided them himself, put 10 pillars, pushed the sky away with them; the sky began to grieve on the Earth, his tears were rain and dew; Rangofocona made a man out of the earth - Tu; his descendants are Rongo, Take, Tangaroa, Tiki and many others; they are "heavenly born", children of Heaven; the last of them is Ro Tauira, married Rangimaomao, she gave birth to the Winds, the first to the East]: Shand 1894 (3): 121-122; The Cook Islands (Mangaia and probably other islands in the southern group; "among the almost extinct Tonga tribe") [Vatea and Tonga-iti (on the other islands it is Tangaroa) both claimed to be considered father of the first child born to Earth-Papa; cut it; Vatea took the upper half, threw it into the sky, it became the sun; Tonga-iti got the lower half, she stayed on earth; later, imitating Vatea, he also threw it to the sky; this half has already partially decomposed, blood has flowed out of it, so what was thrown became a pale moon; "members of the victorious tribe reject this myth because Tonga-ichi will fall by the Pope's son and not by the Pope's husband "]: Gill 1876:44-45 (quoted in Dixon 1916:37); Cook Islands (southern and northern?) [Vatea (associated with light and clear skies) married Papa ("Foundation", "Earth"), they gave birth to five great gods - Tangaroa, Rongo, Tonga-iti, Tangiia, Tane]: Dixon 1916:14; Tahiti [ Ta'aroa was inside the Rumia egg; went out, picked up the upper part of the egg shell, turning it into the sky; at first, the sky was close to the ground; the Great Octopus, its four tentacles, held the ground and sky supported them on four sides of the world; T. created Atea (Space), the goddess of heaven; created the first pair, Tumu-nui (The Great Foundation) and his wife Paparaharaha (Rock Base); by Papa-tuoi (") Thin Earth") A. gave birth to the Sky Builders, who built 10 celestial layers; at the highest, god Tane; from Rua-tupua-nui ("The Source of Great Power") A. gave birth to all heavenly bodies; her third husband Fa'a-Hotu (" Making him fertile"); she changed sex with him, they gave birth to Ru; he raised the Sky, but not enough; then Maui cut off the octopus tentacles that held the world, they fell into the sea, turned into the Australian Islands ; called God Tanya from heaven; he fixed holes in the sky, raised it to its current height]: Henry 1928:336-344 (retelling in Makemson 1941:50-51, 68-69); Hawaii [Father-Heaven Wakea and Mother Earth Papa gave birth calebasu; V. split it, made the upper half of the sky, the lower earth and the sea; the seeds became the sun, moon and stars, the juice became rain]: Makemson 1941:52; Marquises [Papa-uka ("The Upper World") snuggled against Papa-ao ("The Lower World"), giving birth to Athea, Tanya, and other gods; he lived in a dark underground cave; at the suggestion of T., A. split the body of Mother Earth and they were born]: Christian in Williamson 1933 (1 ): 25-26 (more succinctly in Makemson 1941:71).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [Heaven and Earth (letters. "quadrangular earth") as Father and Mother]: Hermanns 1971:189; miji [Shuzanghu met Zumiang-Nui, who gave birth to a Sky Boy and a Earth Girl; they had no place, they fell down and were swallowed by a worm Phangnalomang; when Z. gave birth to her second child, S. made a playground for him; M. wanted to swallow it too, but was trapped; S. cut it, extracted Heaven and Earth; they married and gave birth to two mountain gods; then Heaven and Earth were divided; in the course of this, the Earth gave birth to two more children in the form of frogs; they got married, had a son and a daughter; they were like humans but covered in hair; they gave birth to three sons]: Elwin 1958a, No. 5:13-14; riga [Earth-sedi and heaven-melo lay close like wife and husband; Polung Sabbo, buffalo (mitun) was born, his horns began to touch the clouds, he threw them high in anger up; when land later appeared, S. wanted to be near M again; but then the Doini sun and the Pollo moon appeared; S. was ashamed to stop rising; the part that had already risen was a big mountain]: Elwin 1955:123 in Ho 1967, No. 35:229-230; the Mori [Earth-Sichi and Sky-Nido lay close to each other; when Earth gave birth to Dige-Wiyu, he moved Sky away from it to its current height]: Elwin 1955:123 in Ho 1967, No. 36: 230; Kachin: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 24 [the father's principle from heaven and the mother's from the earth merged, gave birth to a man and a woman natov; semi-liquid earth thickened from the fog, the nats made it solid; They gave birth to a man and a woman; they first gave birth to all animals, then the man Chave Neinchan Phan Wa Nainshan; he separated heaven from earth, ruled the earth; married Tajamin's daughter, who had descended from heaven; There were nine suns, an eternal day; at the request of C., T. created an alternation of day and night]: 97-99; Elwin 1958a, No. 17 [first clouds and fog, from which the woman Khupning-Knam was born, her body was like a cloud; she gave birth to a girl Ningon-Chinun and a boy Tung-Kam-Waisun; they were like snow; married, had a girl Inga (earth) and a boy Mu (sky); I. was clay, M. was a cloud; their son Wind raised his father far up, where the clouds are now, the mother dried up; this is how the earth and sky arose]: 20-21; Scott 1918 [woman Sik Sawp (sky) and man Hkrip Hkrawp (earth) gave birth to Chanum and Woi-shunm, and from those everything happens on earth and in heaven, including various spirits; then they created NGawn-wa Magam, who armed himself with a hammer and finally finished everything on earth]: 263-264; aka (chrusso): Elwin 1958a, No. 2 [Sky quarreled with his wife Earth, began to harm her; the boy Nejlien was born, he settled everything, was the wind, blew, moved the Sky away from Earth, humans and animals now have enough food and water; the wind still brings coolness to heat and warmth when it's cold], 9 [at first only two eggs, they collided, broke, from one came the Earth, from the other her husband Heaven; Heaven asked the Earth to shrink so that he could hug her; she shrunk, valleys and mountains appeared; Heaven and Earth gave birth to all living beings and plants]: 15-16, 25; Sinha 1962 [the gods of Heaven and Mountains were men, the goddesses of the Earth and the Rivers were women]: 122; miri [Earth and Sky were lying close; Earth gave birth to Dige-Wiyu, he moved Heaven away from it]: 25; lakher [earth is a woman married to heaven; earthquakes occur when they copulate]: Parry 1932:486-487; rengma: Mills 1937:165 [heavenly spirit is father, earth is mother of all things], 246 [Western Rengma: When heaven meets earth, earthquakes occur, evil spirits run out in panic, people drive them away screaming]; angami: Hutton 1914 [proverb: Sky is my father, Earth is my mother]: 497; Sorhie 1993 [heaven is husband, earth is wife]; gallong [cloud and fog gave birth to earth and moon, earth and sky - The creator goddess Jimi-Ane, she has the features of a rhino bird, a deer, a monkey, birds; she also gave birth to a young man Opo Tako; he became pregnant with her unnoticed; she gave birth to various spirits, animals, humans, summer and winter, plants; the earth became cramped; JA gave birth to a daughter, Mipu, who began to expand the space between heaven and earth; Earth and Sky celebrated and then separated; several days had to be observed taboo; the Earth was not taboo, so it was covered with vines, thorns, etc., and the Sky remained clear]: Pandey 1999:47-53; miniong: Elwin 1958a, No. 3 [Sedi's land and Melo's sky lay close like a wife and husband; a buffalo Polung-Sabbo was born, wandered through the hills, horned the earth, threw the sky high up in anger; when the earth was dry, she wanted to reconnect with the sky, but at that time the sun appeared Doini and the month of Pollo; Sedi was ashamed of the light and froze; the part of it that rose closer to the sky became mountains], 16 [Sedi land and Melo sky got married; humans, animals, and Wiyus (gods, first ancestors) they were going to decide how not to be crushed; Sedi-Diyor, one of Wiyus's strongest, pushed Heaven far from Earth; she gave birth to two girls, but grieving for her lost husband, she could not raise them a nanny was found for them; she died, she was buried, the sisters cried, they also died, the light emanating from them was gone; they thought that the nanny had stolen something from the sisters, dug up the grave, the body decayed, but their eyes were gone, they were the images of the sisters; the master extracted from, they turned into living girls; the eldest, Bomong, dressed beautifully, left, did not return, she was the sun; the youngest Bong followed her, was just as bright and hot; they decided to kill her , The frog shot her with a bow, the Rat brought the body to her older sister; out of fear and grief, Bomong put a stone on her head, the light faded; Nginu-Botte sent a rat, a wild bird and a rooster to Bomong; huge the rooster's genitals prevented him from walking, his penis was cut off, it became an earthworm, and his testicles went inside his body; Bomog agreed to return if his sister came to life; the master made the image of Bong, breathed life, Bomong removed the stone, at dawn the rooster and the bird sang, the rat squeaked]: 25-26, 48-50; Roy 1960 (padam mignong) [Sedi (earth) and her brother Melo (sky) first hugged each other, giving birth to many creatures then they parted, the sky moved away from the ground; at the same time they went underground and held it on their shoulders; when they shift the weight from one shoulder to another, they occur on their shoulders; when meearthquakes]: 242.

Burma - Indochina. Ede: Nikulin 1970b [Dam Shan comes to the Sunwoman to marry her; the Sun is the daughter of Earth and Sky; Sky is a male character (i.e. Earth is female); a rainbow staircase leads to the Sun's abode; The sun refuses, because if it comes to earth, everything will burn there; it tells it to leave as soon as it rises; DS stays; the Sun rises; DS goes back, but the heat of the sun makes the earth become resin-viscous, DS dies]: 89-94; 1980 [the head of the supreme deity Aedié symbolizes the heavenly dome, frowning forehead - clouds, breath - air, genitals - fertility, right eye - the sun, the left is the moon, the hands are the two pillars on which the sky rests; his wife Heba (mother earth) gave birth to him a woman sun and a son who died from a scolopendra bite; since then A. has settled in a large a house in the upper tier of heaven]: 49.

South Asia. Rigveda [Father-Sky is Mother Earth's husband; rain is the seed from which all living things are born; sometimes Heaven is depicted as a fertiliser bull or stallion]: Elezarenkova 1972:177, 338; Elwin 1949: 80; baiga: Elwin 1944, No. 1 [The Jackal decided to marry Heaven and Earth so that he and the other jackals could celebrate; the sky began to approach the ground; the gods asked the Jackal to stop the wedding; he agreed in exchange for a promise to give him the whole world; that's why jackals are everywhere]: 460; 1949, No. 2 [Earth had to go beyond Heaven; the gods were afraid to be crushed, Mahadeo created the Bear and married him on Earth; A bear caresses the Earth's breasts - anthills]: 207; punk [Earth and Sky got married; during the wedding ceremony, they went around a pole, slipped on the moss that grew up in the yard, fell; Nanga Baiga told them to bring a certain grass, make a broom out of it, and sweep the yard; after that they went around the pole again]: Elwin 1949, No. 14:311; gondas [Heaven called the gods to marry Earth; Bhimsen stole a foal for him, which was born by the mare Dano; decided that if Earth and Heaven got married, they would crush everyone; created a rooster who announced the beginning of Kali Yuga; the gods decided that marriage in an era of darkness It should not take place; birds and insects were born from the seed of Heaven that fell to the ground, and the Rainbow Horse was let into heaven]: Elwin 1949:105; muria [Bhimul is a man, Earth is a woman; in love he rushes towards her, a thunderbolt is a seed; otherwise it wouldn't rain]: Elwin 1949, No. 21:94; pardhan [Heaven and Earth were to be married; the gods were afraid of being crushed; Guru Bahadeo whispered in his ear Deshiri Mata, who gave birth to Wind; he went to look for his father; Bhimsen called himself a father, the Wind rushed at him in anger, B. knocked out his eyes; since then, the Wind has been blind, looking for a father everywhere]: Elwin 1949, No. 13:87-88.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Semangi (kensiu) [(by Schebesta 1928:251; 1957:21-23); Ta' Pedn lives in the sky; produces a thunderstorm by hitting heavenly planks with a rope or vine (=lightning); Ta' Pedn and Ya' Manoij at first they both lived in heaven and were married; when the dung beetle created the earth, they went down there; then TP returned to heaven and YM went to the middle of the earth]: Endicott 1979:179; dayaki [heaven was created by Mahatara, and his wife Djata's land]: Grabowsky 1892:119; Java [Javanese peasants still maintain the idea that Father Heaven (Bapa-Kasa) and Mother Earth (Ibu-Pratiwi) ensure fertility]: Mabuchi 1969:71; Bali [in Bali in a mix of Sanskrit and Balinese "Father-Heaven and Mother Earth]: Winstedt 1951:143; palawan [in a number of myths, Palawan Father-Sky lies on Mother Earth]: Macdonald 19988, ch.1 in Headley 2005b:186; toraja, boogie, minahasa [marriage of Heaven (Sun) and Earth]: Fischer 1932:231; boogie: Kruyt in Mabuchi 1969 [from the heavenly gods Patoto' and his wife Datu-Palinge has nine sons; the underground couple Gururi-Seleng and Sinau-Toja have nine daughters (both couples are related through cross-cousin marriage); it was decided to send Batara Guru (he is the eldest son of a heavenly couple) marry the eldest daughter of the underground couple We-nyii'li-Timo'; he was placed in bamboo with cultivated plants, lowered from the sky along the rainbow; decided to settle the young on earth, the groom's father sent seven axes to clear the forest; when everything was ready, the bride came out of the sea east]: 48; Kruyt in Stöhr, Zoetmulder 1965 [Sangkuruwira is the god of heaven; his younger brother Gurusisileng is the god of the lower world; each with a twin sister; S. and G. are married to each other's sisters; G.'s wife's name is Sinau-Todya ("Living Under Water"); S.'s wife's name is Datu-Palinge ("Creator"); S. and DP are sent to a non-existent the land of his eldest son Batara Guru; he is killed by putting the earth in his hand, placed in bamboo, lowered down the rainbow into the space between the upper and lower worlds; HD comes to life, abandons the land brought to life, emerges Earth; daughter G. and ST Njilitimo (Born from the Foam of the Waves) with five princesses emerge from the sea, BG marries them all; slaves who come with BG from heaven marry princess maids, their children inhabit the land; the daughter of one of the princesses dies on the seventh day, turns into rice; HD and N. give birth to twins, a son and a daughter; a son and his wife become the new rulers of the lower world, and a daughter with her husband is the new rulers of the upper; the earth's connection with the upper (rainbow) and lower world ceases; later, the ancestors of the leaders of the SW Sulawesi descend from heaven to earth]: 95; eastern Indonesia (Seram, Buru , Amboina, Timor, Kay, Leti, Moa, Lacor, Caesar, Wetai, Aru Peninsulas, Vatubela, Tenimbar, Luang-Sermata, Babar, Flores) [in its original state, the sky lay in coitus on earth until the earth gave birth to elements wildlife, often the first human couple; later, cramped people or trees raise the sky]: Members 1982:92-93; Dixon 1916:166; Fischer 1932:231; ngada ( central Flores) [Déva (Sky) and Nitu (Earth) - spouses]: Arndt in Stöhr, Zoetmulder 1965:131-132 (=Erb 1988:110); mangaray [the supreme deity is referred to as Mori Keraeng ("noble"), but also "Father Above, Mother Below" or "Earth Below, Sky Above"]: Erb 1988:110; Solor, Alor, and the nearest islands [in this area, Sun-Month is male, father, and Earth is female, mother]: Vatter in Mabuchi 1969:70; Tetum: Hicks 1984 [the god of heaven shed his seed-rain on Mother Earth; she gave birth to humans coming out of two vaginal holes]: 6; Vroklage 1952 [Sky is man, Earth is woman, rain - seed]: 134; Seram (nusavele, hatuolu, huaulu) [man to heaven Alahatala met Pohun, a woman earth; she gave birth to the first human couple Tomoa and Binawalu; they pushed the sky aside; the earth also gave birth The Man Sun and the Woman Moon, who gave birth to the Evening Star boy and the Morning Star girl; Mount Hatuolo is the bosom of the Earth]: Röder 1948 in Stöhr, Zoetmulder 1965:139; Vetar, Tanimbar , Aru, Kai [from Vetar to Tanimbar Sun is husband, Earth is wife; on Kai and Aru Islands, Sun is husband, Earth or Moon is wife]: Schmidt, S.244-245 in Mabuchi 1969:71; Kai Islands [Sun - man, Earth is a woman, the Sun fertilizes her with rain]: Nutz 1929:83, 128-129.

China - Korea. Ancient China: Kravtsova 2004 ["Hou-tu definitely acquired a feminine hypostasis already in the Zhou era, when she became the embodiment of the feminine world and paired up with Heavenly Lord (Tian- di) "]: 116; Yanshina 1984 [The Book of Legends: Heaven and Earth are the father and mother of all beings; the feminine character of the deity of the earth Howth is evidenced by later monuments (2nd century BC - 2nd century AD); the earliest monuments know the male heroized deity of the earth]: 77; Eberhardt 1968 [the image of marriage between a man-sky and a female land in early Chinese philosophy]: 443; Ancient China [the image of marriage between a heaven-man and female lands in early Chinese philosophy]: Eberhardt 1968:443; Koreans [Heaven moves, Earth doesn't, like a man moves while copulating and a woman lying under him motionless]: Choi 1979, No. 731:318; fox [sky is male, earth is woman, they are a beautiful couple]: Miller 1994:77; Lee (Hainan, w. Ledong) [The Sun and the Moon are two sisters. Her older sister, the Sun, had dark grey skin, red face, and thick and strong arms and legs; she always left home in the morning, came back in the evening, and was very hardworking. Little sister Luna was pale, fragile, chubby, and as beautiful as a cinnamon flower that had just blossomed; however, she was lazy. The sisters were very welcoming and their favorite guest was Man Earth, who visited them every day. Earth fell in love with her sisters but didn't know which one to marry. The sun is healthy and efficient, but not particularly attractive, and Luna is beautiful but lazy. In the twenty-third year, Earth decided that the creator of wealth was better than just taking advantage of what others had created, and married the Sun in his twenty-fourth year. People are descendants of the Earth man and the Sun woman. Our foremother has turned into a huge red lantern and hangs in the sky, giving light, and our forefather allows him to live safely on his body. And the moon is still sitting around, coming out in the evening when people are already resting, and hanging in the sky in emptiness and alone]: Zhou 2002, No. 16:23.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece: Makemson 1941 (Orphics) [Night in the guise of a black bird laid an egg; Eros came from it; the top of the egg became Father Heaven Uranus, the bottom became Mother Earth Gaia, they gave birth to gods]: 52; Hes. Theog. 127-159 [Gaia gives birth to the Starry Sky - Uranus, the Nymphs and the Pont {the Sea}; then, sharing a bed with Uranus, gives birth to Titans, Cyclops, Cotta, Briaray and Gies]; Hymn. Hom. XXX. 17 [Gay is the wife of Heaven]; [Hyperion is the son of Gay Earth and Heaven-Uranus]: Hymn. Hom. XXXI. 3; Apollod. Bibl. I.1.1 [Uranus married Gaia]; Serbs [in riddles Earth is called wife, mother, Heaven as father, husband]: Jankov 1951:15; Bulgarians: Georgieva 1983 [when Earth married Heaven, drought gave way to rain, the Earth brought a harvest; the Month was born from marriage; then Heaven moved away from Earth]: 18; Stoynev 2006 [The month was born from the marriage of Heaven and Earth]: 193.

Central Europe. Poles [the idea of earth and sky as a married couple remains a mystery: Wysoki tatka, niziutka matka (High Father, Low Mother)]: Belova et al. 1995:316.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Balkarians and/or Karachays [When the trough was made of stone, the sieve was made of wood, /Tairi Neba married Tairi of the Earth, /The sky rattled, the earth conceived. /Nine years and nine days it was heavy was, /Then the land opened and Debet was born]: Aliyeva 1994, No. 2:302-303.

Iran - Central Asia. Yazgulyamtsy [sky - "grandfather" ("father"), earth - nan ("mother"); autumn and winter are men's seasons (it's raining fruitfully), spring and summer are women's seasons (everything bears fruit)]: Andreev 1927c: 20; Tolstov 1931 [as in Andreev; groundwater for women, rain and glacier water for men]: 341 (=Litvinsky 1975:253); Pashtuns [when it rains, the earth becomes pregnant]: Andreev 1927c: 20; (cf. Zoroastrianism [{the marriage of Earth and Sky is not directly mentioned}]: Chunakova 2004:157 [Sky (avest. asman) is an active fruiting male power], 209 [Spandarmad is a female deity who personifies cultivated land].

Baltoscandia. (Everything? Sami [the goddess of the land Madder-akka (Madder-akka, Madder-atje) is sometimes the wife of the heavenly god Madder-Ače]: Eichenwald et al. 1982:169; Estonians, Finns [land (Maa-ema, Maan-emo) - wife of the god Thunder]: Castrén 1853:89 (retelling in Eichenwald 1982:167; Petrukhin, Khelimsky 1982:564); Latvians [in riddles, heaven is associated with "father" "tall" and "field": "Tall father, broad mother, crazy son, blind daughter" (the answers are heaven, earth, wind, night)]: Ryzhakova 2002:61-62; Lithuanians [in riddles heaven is father or husband, and earth is mother or wife]: Laurikene 2019:296.

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [the mistress of the land Tulaua is the wife of the deity of heaven Kyk Tənre; but sometimes the earth is called a red-beard; there is a male character Yer Atasa (father of the earth)]: Khisamitdinova 2011:161.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats, Mongols [sky - father, tengry, earth - mother earth Ulgen; goes back to ancient Mongolian Etugen-utugen, ötugen itügen - mother earth; Buryats have Earth and Sky - divine couple]: Sharakshinova 1980:31-32; 1982 [poorly personalized heaven and earth are carriers of masculine and feminine principles; heaven and earth (in the guise of an old woman) entered the Khitan pantheon of the 4th-12th centuries]: 170-171; the Mongols of Inner Mongolia [the god of Heaven and the goddess of Earth lived in harmony, went to bed together for the night; one day the god of Heaven decided to go down and see the earth; became a hare, and the prince tried it catch up and shoot; saw how the prince entered the grotto, where the poor hermit, with him a golden goat; the hermit asked to change the goat to a princely horse; the prince ordered to kill the hermit and pick up the goat; the god of Heaven turned a goat into a lion who chased the prince; decided to destroy people with a flood; one young man fed the old woman, carried her across the river; she became the goddess of Earth, told him to climb the mountain, but do not tell anyone about the coming flood; however, he told other arats and many of them were saved; and he himself became a stone]: Coyaud 2012, No. 54:115-118; Balagan Buryats [High Sky (Under Tengari) married the daughter of the Broad Earth (Ulgen Dalhey) for her son; the Earth demanded the Sun and Moon for her daughter, locked them in a box; heaven and earth became dark; the sky can't think a means to get the Sun and Moon back; sent Zarya Azarga for the wise Hedgehog, ordered his 9 sons and 9 daughters not to laugh when he enters; ZA had no legs, rolled on the ground; sons and daughters, when they saw him, could not help laughing; FOR was angry, drove back; Heaven sent Hare, Deer, Ermine, Squirrel, Ferret to eavesdrop on what ZA would say; "Let the sons and daughters of the High The skies will descend to earth and become huts and ongons; in order to return the Sun and Moon, we must ask the Broad Earth for the Echo of the Forest and the Flickering of Water; it will be forced to give them back Back to the Sun and the Moon"; the Hare overheard these words; as a result, the Sky received the lights back; 9 sons of the High Sky descended to earth, became western huts, and 9 daughters became ongons]: Khangalov 1960:11-12; The Oirats [in the Mongol-Oirat heroic epic (Vladimirtsov 1923:218), the hero is the son of mother earth and father of heaven]: Neklyudov 1981:198 (same in Popp 1937:63); Buryats [wandered in the darkness Ehe Burhan; made a wild duck, it dived into the water, brought dirt in its beak; EB dazzled Mother Ulgen's land, created plants and animals on it; from the Sun gave birth to a daughter, the good Manzan Gourmet , Western deities were then born from her; from the Month she gave birth to the evil Mayas Hara (or Hara Manzan), from her Eastern deities came; on the sunset side, EB created a woman, on the sunrise side - masculine; they met, united, the first man Pahang, the first woman Tuya was born]: Sharakshinova 1959:40-47 in Zhukovskaya 1980:95-96; Tuvans: Grebnev 1960:87-141 [before his death, Father Myoge Bayan-Dalay (DB) sent him for Lama Koldu-Burgan; he came and began reading sacred books, but the camp was surrounded by enemies, the brothers Ak-Khan and Kadyn-Kara; the BD horse tells him to aim higher , because the brothers jumped up, but the DB did not listen, the arrow flew by; he did not jump himself, he was killed; his pregnant wife Sai-Kuu fled to the steppe, gave birth to a son Kara-Kogel; three days later he was already walking and talk; asks the mother about animals, from small to large, easily kills them with stones; mother taught them how to bow and shoot; KK brought 6 bears at once; mother does not tell them to go to the sacred mountain; he went the mountain is moving, it is a giant maral that eats the forest like grass; KK hit a vulnerable place on the forehead where animal hair is; ripped open the belly of the maral, and many people came out alive from there (this episode on p. 102); from the skins of this maral KK made a home; the mother sent the KK to meet his grandfather Aldyn-Aas; he is going to marry Manchin-Ege Khan's daughter; people without an ear; without an arm; without a leg; they answer that they were attacked by two eagles; two birds of Khan-Hereti; two lions; this was when they went to Manchin-ege-Khan; AA gives the DB a name that the mother only vaguely said: Kara-Kogel, riding the Arzilan-Kyskyl horse; this horse has There are no cracks between the ribs; AA remains with KK's mother, and is sent to Myncheung-ege-han; BD's father married her to him at one time, gave him steel bars and scissors; to cross the sea, the KK fired an arrow, she scattered the passage between the waters; the khan of the competition, the winner will get his daughter; the son of the moon, the son of heaven, the son of the sun participate; the KK arrow passed through the needle eye, through the hole of the shoulder blade, set fire to a bunch of firewood and etc., but he threw a lasso over her and returned it; compete to run from a place where heaven meets earth; the strongmen sent fairies instead of themselves; they gave KK a drink - he, poisoned, fell dead; the horse ran , pushed the jug away, the winds revived the KK, he overtook the old women, dragged those who wanted to hold him with hooks; jumps, those old women on horseback, the horse tells him not to look back; AA turned around, saw his chest mother, fell to her, fell poisoned; the horse woke him up, he overtook the old women; to fight the strongman for 90 days; in winter only hoarfrost creaked under his feet, in summer the dew rustled; AA overcame him and buried him in a hole; fighting a strongman who sparks; AA beat him with an icy fur coat, threw him into the sea; defeat a bull, AA threw a bull by a stone scree; fighting three bears; in winter, hoarfrost creaked under their feet in the summer, the dew rustled; all three KK threw against the rocks; these strongmen were from the lower world, they licked the arrow, vowing not to attack again; horse: they will demand me for the bride, do not give up the iron fetters; but Malchyn-Ege- Khan took the horse away along with the fetters; they gave the KK a drink at the feast, the heroes attacked him; the KK shouted: Earth is my mother, Heaven is my father, where are you? (p. 129) stones fell from the sky, destroyed half of the Khan's squad; the wife brought the KK to her and in the morning he called out again to Earth and Heaven, asked them to be benevolent; the sun shone, half of those killed came to life; The KK melted the broken bronze bowl and poured it again; the KK horse almost died of thirst and hunger, but the khan's little son let him go and drink him; the horse was offended by the KK for giving it along with the fetters, but then forgave him; after visiting his looted camp, KK saw the remains of a long-dead man; this is his father; KK smeared his bones with drugs, the body revived; hit the whip with a golden handle and jumped over - the man got up, but could not speak; from the book, Sudur KK learned that the magic mouse had carried the vocal cords across 7 layers of earth, 9 layers of dust; KK became an ermine, caught up, killed the mouse, returned the ligaments, put it in his father's mouth; the DB came to life, but the KK told him to look after the house, and went to take revenge himself; learned from the shepherds that life was hard under the new owners; invited Ak-Khan and Kadyn-Kara to shoot at each other as he and his father shot; their arrow bounced off the KK's chest and crumbled, his arrow pierced both at once; the KK returned the people to their original place of nomadic], 162 [episode from another story: My Father is heaven, mother mine is the land, my army is grass!].

Western Siberia. Nganasana [there was only ice; the moon girl fell from the sky, became a woman, stuck to the ice, made her pregnant, gave birth, returned to heaven; the baby became Smallpox, found another under the ice; he was Hunger, son of a girl earth; they became white deer, butted, smallpox won; since then they have been cleaning the earth; Nguo ("heaven, god") fell through nine layers of ice, fell in love with the girl of the earth; she said she would not give birth below, n raised her to the ground; she gave birth to vegetation; therefore, every plant stretches up to her father and roots down to her mother; gave birth to seven people, the ancestors of different peoples; gave birth to a Samoyed shaman and Russian doctor]: Popov 1984:44-45; Ents: Dolgikh 1961 [cf. A; old woman Dya-Menuo (mother of all living things; aka Dya-Soi - Earth's parent; lives underground, gives people children, making genitals for boys and girls) finds a baby in the swamp; he is the son Nga-nyo (Heaven's son) and Dya-kata (Earth's daughter); enough of their parents, they can't take him to heaven or underground; his name is Sydene badasi nga (God who raised us)]: 15-27; Prokofiev 1953 [the supreme god Nga, his wife Dya Menu'u ("mother earth"), grows herbs, trees, is in charge of the birth of children, is "on the first lap underground"; when he is in heaven with N. a rainbow is visible - the patterned border of D.'s fur clothes (ngā padde - "God's hem" (Nenets. now (m) pan, nganasan. rgā hphantu)]: 199-200; southern selkups [grass and moss - mother earth's hair (wool), especially grass on the hummock (hummock - head); sky is male, T ly ( sun) and Areth (month) are their sons]: Tuchkova 2004:70; (cf. Nenets (Numo) [Num Nisya (Father-Sky) and Num Neby (Mother Sky) made sons - Russian, Khant, Nenets; they quarreled, the Russian went to the Ob, and the Hunt and the Nenets went to the cold lands; fire came, seven even in the water burned for days, people escaped on the island; then ice came from the north, water came for seven days; then summer for three years, all living things died; then three years of winter, the rest died; Num Nisya and Num Nebia they quarreled, did not live together; decided that children were needed; they cut off a piece of meat from themselves, men and women appeared from it]: Golovnev 2004:98).

The coast is the Plateau. Okanagon: Teit 1930:289-290 in Haekel 1958 [the Earth is a woman; Mystery in the Heights fertilized it, giving birth to humans and natural sites]: 44; Teit 1917c, No. 2 [An old man turns a woman into land; the soil is its flesh, vegetation is her hair, stones are bones, the wind is her breath; when it moves, earthquakes occur; after rolling pieces of her flesh into balls, the Old Man created people], 4 [The leader put woman-earth spread (probably on water) head to the west, legs to the east]: 80, 84; kordalen [many consider the earth to be alive, transformed by a woman; she is called mother, and the sun is father]: Teit, Boas 1930:176.

Plains. Omaha [the top is associated with the masculine and sacred power of the day, sky, sun; the bottom is associated with the feminine, sacred power of night, earth, moon; people descended from the union of heaven with earth]: Liberty et al. 2001: 408.

California. Hupa [sun]; juaneño [sky]; luizeño [sky].

The Great Southwest. The sky. Navajo; Hicarilla: Opler 1938, No. I.1 [At first only darkness, water, hurricane; Hactcin spirits make Mother Earth as a woman facing up; Heaven Father in the form of a man face down], I.6 [ The Earth is our mother, Heaven is the father, the Sun is our grandfather, the Moon is our grandmother (although the Sun and Moon themselves are also children of the Earth); other peoples live on the Earth's feet and arms, and hicarilla lives on its heart], II.1 [Black Sky is the father Belykh Khaksin, Earth is the mother; the next two Hacksin are the Sun and the Moon; Earth and Sky say to each other: How will we create people? They make the moon to watch plants and fruits]: 1, 47-48, 141; teva; zunyi; mojave; diegueño; pima: Olmos Aguilera 2005 [Shaman of the Earth (Chamán de la Tierra) poured water into the bowl, it froze, he threw this piece of ice into the sky, the sun appeared; he also created the moon; he threw both first west, then south, but went too quickly; when he threw to the east, swam across the sky like now; sprinkled water from his mouth - stars appeared; broke his magic crystal, threw fragments, they turned into bright stars; took his staff, sprinkled with ash (colocando cenizas en la orilla), drew the Milky Way in the sky; made people out of clay; they did not die, multiplied, began to kill each other; the Earth's Shamn decided to connect Heaven with Earth, like husband and wife, as well as the Sun with the Moon; picked up the sky with his rod, pulled it up; everyone on earth died, he created a new race, Rsasanatc; the Moon gave birth to the Coyote, the Earth to the Big Brother (SB); people multiplied again, the SB promised to destroy everyone; created a young man who began to be consistently combined with all women; the first child was born 4 months later, the last child immediately; came to the wise Shaman of the South; the flood began, SHU made a rod a hole on the other side of the earth, some people walked along it; others with SHU climbed the mountain; the dog brought people to the top; after the flood they began to make people and animals; the Coyote had snakes and birds (SB ordered he threw them into the water); ShZ sculpted a dog with one leg, huge ears, holes in the body, boils on his knees; diseases have spread on the ground]: 172-180; Russel 1908 [creator (Earth-Doctor) tells Earth and sky copulate; Earth gives birth to Big Brother]: 208-209; Papago: Gifford 1940, No. 2300 [Heaven is male, Earth is female], 2302:61; Olmos Aguilera 2005 [at first only darkness and water , a child was born in them, felt for algae, made termites out of them, they collected more algae, earth arose; Heaven joined the Earth three times, Big Brother, Coyote, Vulture were born; SB created people from chips]: 155-156; Underhill 1946 [dark at first; Earth Creator (NW) and Yellow Vulture (JS) meet four times in emptiness, each forcing the other to create peace; NW took something out of his heart or rolled something the dirt from the skin, put it in the palm of his hand, grew out of it a green branch, greasewood; the louse on the plant produced resin and from this NW created the earth; he sang, bored it, it became flat; he placed mountains on the ground, bird fluff (clouds) and shamans to the tops of the mountains; when the earth spread, shamans and mountains spread everywhere; the Earth expanded to the dome of Heaven; I'itoi jumped out, said he was the son of Heaven and Earth; he small, bearded, gray or blond; a Coyote came out from under the bush from under the bush; the earth was swaying, Coyote, I. and JS unsuccessfully confused to fix it; two Spiders did this, connecting heaven and earth with a web ; all the mountains were inclined to the west, all the rivers flowed there; the JS flew by, waving its wings, gave the mountains a variety of shapes, the rivers flowed in different directions; the NW splashed water to the north, west, south, east, the moon and the sun appeared; spit out stars like saliva; created people from his body, she began to fight; he and I. sent a flood; for this purpose I. created Handsome Man, who became pregnant with all the girls the next morning everyone gave birth; the sorcerer made the Handsome Man himself give birth; he left the child, who began to cry, his tears flooded the earth with a flood; the NW escaped on a magic rod, I. in a large vessel, Coyote in a reed, JS - pierced the sky; some people became birds, clung to the sky with their beaks; others became trees, took root; others with their dog climbed to the top of the mountain, turned into stones there; traces of foam they are visible on the water; the NW and I. agreed that whoever emerges first after the flood is older; the first NW, then I., the last Coyote; but I. made sure that he was considered the oldest; all three became to sculpt new people; those made by the Coyote are shapeless, thrown overseas; the NW's made are also shapeless, and I.'s people are real; the NW and I. began to argue; the NW tried to pull the sky down, then fell through land, spreading diseases; I.'s people became pima, papago, apache, maricopa; I. made papago his people, taught culture (bow and arrow, house-building, drinking ceremony); I. retired to the cave; people especially maricopa, kicked a defenseless rattlesnake; I. gave her poison; she bit a maricopa, who died; he was burned (since then, maricopa has been cremated to the dead); Coyote stole the heart from the funeral fire; opened a hole in the ground, water or wind; closed when two boys and two girls were thrown into it; this is how Santa Rosa ceremonies arose; the cannibal stole children, she was strangled with smoke in a cave; I. killed an ogre eagle, feathers - for witchcraft; the monster sucked everyone into himself; I. let himself be sucked, killed the monster, freed the swallowed ones; I. grew old, began to attack the girls during the adulthood ceremony; people They killed him three times; on the advice of the Sun, JS managed to kill I. with an iron bow (gun); after 4 years, I. revived, went west; I. created deer, the evil shaman drove them into the pen; two brothers paid the shaman, so that everyone can hunt; JS is scalped, so bald; I. sometimes returns from the underworld]: 8-12; series: Coolidge, Coolidge 1939:194-195 [photo of the picture on the sand: Father-Sky and Mother Earth], 260 [The Moon is the wife of the Sun, the Earth is the wife of heaven].

NW Mexico. Huichol [foremother lets the Deer Sun fertilize herself; grows, turns into earth]: Negrin 1979:18; bark [The Iguana man owned fire; brought little meat from hunting, so his his wife (daughter of the Sun) and mother-in-law (Earth {respectively, the character's wife must be the daughter of Earth and the Sun}) drove him away; he rose to heaven, became the Morning Star, took the fire; the first ancestors sent the Raven, then Hummingbirds, they didn't get fire; the Opossum stole the fire while the Star was sleeping, threw it on the ground; the Star nailed it with a stick, but the Opossum came to life; the grass caught fire, a world fire broke out; the goddess of Earth flooded it with her milk, fire became manual]: Preuss 1912:271-272 (paraphrased in Munn 1984:29-30).

Guiana. Kashuyan: Kruse 1955 (Arikena) [heaven is man, earth is his wife]: 414; Polykrates 1962 [Purá brought the first man down from the Sun because the Sun is a man; brought the first woman out from the ground, because the Earth is a woman]: 78.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana (Ixiamas) [Seguameji ("the one who creates") wanted his daughter; she refused, he decided to eat her; she ran to a man named Ena ("water") cuashri ("hot") Cuati bueda ("fire") Rara ("pit") Dsamaji ("close, cover"); he guards the hole; if he dies, boiling water and fire from it will spread all over the earth; he hid the girl in a part of the hole where there was no stench; his stalker father was weaned his right leg, put him in the smelly part; released both, took the father to a place where he could see his daughter, but would not be able to catch up; the father became the Sun, the daughter the Moon; the father married the Earth, the stars their children; himself the owner of the pit became Lightning]: Hissink, Hahn 1961, No. 33:80-81.