B36. Color, voice, form: one is divided among many.
.19.-.21.42.-.45.47.48.55.57.58.59.62.-.68.72.74.
The integrity of a creature (rarely: an object) is broken. As a result, various living beings acquire their own different colors, voices, or other bodily characteristics.
Melanesia. Tanna: Bonnemaison 1987 [giant Semo-Semo ate everyone; the last old woman and lost her little daughter in the grass; she sucked roots, grew up, rubbed fire, found yams on abandoned ones vegetable gardens; became pregnant by inserting a vine into her vulva; gave birth to twins, taught everything; they lit a fire to attract the SS, ran, throwing spears stuck in advance along the way, killed; first the ants checked Whether the SS was dead, then one bird put the SS's head in the anus, the other flew through and back from mouth to anus; then various parrots and other birds of different colors climbed into the SS; the brothers cut the body swallowed people, chickens, rats, birds went out; everyone was thrown a piece of SS flesh, told who would live, how and where; mother and sons turned into stones at the entrance to the cave]: 98-105; Humphreys 1926 [one a woman left her baby daughter to eat tree sap; she and all other people were eaten by the giant Semsem; Nepkalam ate a piece of edible stone, gave birth to twins Kasasaou and Kaniapnin; taught them make spears; they killed S. with spears; asked the birds to check if he was dead; two flew into his wound, stained with blood; the third (now this parrot is all red) flew through; the brothers cut the body cannibal, pieces turned swallowed (paraphrase in Poignant 1967:95)]: 95-97).
Micronesia-Polynesia. Maori: White 1887 (1) [Ta-whaki stamped the sky, it split, water poured down and flooded the ground; brother-in-law killed T.; two species of parrots (Nestor productus {now extinct species} and a small green parrot painted its feathers with his blood; T. later came to life]: 55; 1887 (2) [when Maui's wife was swimming, a large Tuna-roa eel hit her with its tail; Maui cut off his head, threw him into the sea, and his tail threw it into freshwater; freshwater eels come from this tail; blood splashed on the green parrot, the pukeko bird and three species of trees; since then these birds have red feathers, and these trees red wood]: 115-116 (narrated in Dähnhardt 1910:70); Pileni [the cannibal pig and the cannibal pacola ate people on the island of Taumako; they fled the island, the Kahiva woman remained, hid , gave birth to twins Lauvaia and Hemaholuaki, they killed a pig and a cannibal; the brothers collected all the birds; attached the pig's bristles to the bat's back and sent the Taumaco people to the men's home in Pileni; flying the mouse is tired and returned halfway through; then the cardinal was sent, smeared with pig blood; the same; then all the birds are sent one by one, staining the pig's blood on different parts of their bodies (origin bird colors); a small parrot was the last to be sent, which was smeared with black blood on its back; it flew and people returned to Taumaco]: Richter-Gravier 2019 (1): 170-171.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Sema [The Lizard and the Weaver quarreled; the Lizard called for help from all the crawlers, and the Weaver called all the birds for help; after a long struggle, the Eagle defeated the King Cobra; the birds shared its meat; the Raven (Corvus) macrorhyncus) smeared himself with bile, turned black; Minevit (Pericrocotus speciosus) was covered with blood, now scarlet; Ruby-throat (Calliope tsebaiewi?) I was late, got only a little bit of blood, and smeared my throat]: Hutton 1968:312-313; (cf. Angami [The lizard muddied the spring where the Bird took water; they quarreled, the Lizard called snakes, the Bird called the birds; the birds carried away all the snakes, but the big snake could not; the crow dropped it; finally, the big snake a bird killed her]: Hutton 1921:267).
NW Coast. Makah [see motif K8A; Quati trains, lets the Shark swallow his boat; cuts off the Shark's heart; the corpse sails ashore; birds and small animals slaughter it, pull out its intestines (formerly they didn't have entrails), found inside Kwati]: Densmore 1939:195-197.
The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [The Red-headed Woodpecker and other Birds turn into fish to steal Rednosed's magical jail; when the Woodpecker swims in the form of a fish, the Red-Nosed tells his son to hit with a jail; Woodpecker cuts off the tench, carries the tip; The birds come to the Red-nosed; he agrees to change his red feather cloak to a tip; the birds share the cloak, get their red plumage]: Teit 1909a, No. 6:659- 661; quinalt [people shoot a sparkling duck whose body sounds like copper; the chief has no son, only two daughters; they secretly make arrows, hit a duck, make potlach; all birds get pieces of magic plumage, finding bright feathers and tufts; chiefs get the best; Blue Jay is dumped in what's left]: Farrand 1902, No. 2:92-94; quileut [no one can shoot an unusual bird; the leader of the Golden Eagle has no son, only two daughters; they secretly make arrows, the eldest hits the bird; asks the father to tell his slave Blue Jay to convene all the birds; gives them colors to everyone (potlach origin)]: Andrade 1931, No. 57:171-175; katlamet [a shining piece of copper floats in the sea; no one can harpoon it; the chief's two daughters disguise themselves as young men, hit the target; copper they divide, give blood to birds; they dye green, white, black; Blue Jay gets the best part; the mollusk takes it away (the origin of mother-of-pearl); the jay is painted with copper excrement]: Boas 1901a, #5:39-44.
The Midwest. Menominee: Bloomfield 1928, No. 92 [The raccoon makes a ball out of his excrement, gives it to the hungry Wolf to eat, hides in a tree; the watchman under the tree, the Wolf falls asleep, the Raccoon smears his eyes with resin; the blind Wolf stumbles upon trees, asks them their names; drowns in the lake; the old man catches a corpse, melts fat, summons birds and animals; who took how much fat is from him now; The bear wants eternal night; Chipmunk - as many summer months and as many winter months as there are stripes on his body; repeats, Day, Day; Bear repeats, Night, night, but accidentally says Day; The chipmunk wins, the Bear cannot catch up with him; the Puma wants to hunt Man, but the Dogs drive him away; the Birds decide to fish; the Turtle chases the Otter; the Mosquito decides to drink Human blood], 93 [ as in (89); The owl begins to hunt the Hare]: 303-323, 323-339; sauk [Visakya tells every animal and every bird what they will be called, what they should do; creates a lake of fat, He dips everyone in it; Mink jumps ahead of turn, V. pulls him out, so the minks are skinny]: Skinner 1928, No. 8:150-151; chippewa [Venebojo kills two underwater snake leaders; their bodies turn into fat; all animals take their share]: Barnouw 1977, No. 3:69; Ojibwa: Blackwood 1929, No. 3 [the giant killed everyone, the grandmother hid Manabazoo in a hole from the wigwam pole; M. made everyone out of the earth animals, revived them, released them into the forest; greased the boat to swim across the resin near the giant's house; bribed the guards - he made the whale the greatest fish, gave poison to rattlesnakes, painted them; gave bears (like a whale) tobacco; fed the parrots, they did not raise the alarm; they reported that the giant's vulnerable place was under a scythe at the back of his head; M. hit the place with an arrow, took out paint, released birds from captivity, painted; the woodpecker made him handsome for his help, left the crow and the crow black for ridicule; the squirrel showed where the bag with the hearts of the dead people was; on the way back, M. and the squirrel were swallowed by a whale; M. pierced his heart with an arrow, released black paint; the grandmother saw it on the water; M. ordered the birds to hammer a hole outside the whale, M. and the squirrel came out; M. painted the seagull white, gave claws en masse, made it the leader of the birds; for the festival, M. gave the birds voices; the squirrel carried their hearts to the graves, M. revived people; the squirrel gave the right to all nuts; people named M. Hiawatha, "All Father"]: 329-332; Carson 1917 [Unnecessarily catches ordinary trouts first, throws them away, wants to catch their leader named Ogima; in the spring he hides Laska under his nephew's clothes; shouts O. to swallow the bait, he swallows the boat; Laska gnaws at his heart; trouts bury him at the bottom, but N. releases bile and O. pops up; N. comes out, comes to his grandmother's house, there are many around him dead birds; they teased the old woman, imitating the voice of N.; he dries two ponds, O. cooks in one, releases fat in the other; convenes animals; Rabbit was the first to throw himself into fat; The elk was the last, pulled out The rabbit and wiped it off, said he was too young to feast with others; the Rabbit replied that it would now be much easier for rabbit hunters to kill than moose; when everyone left, the Rabbit put fat around his neck and legs, now only he has fatty meat]: 492; oriental marsh crees (Albany) [Wicágatcak stuffs asks the Bear if he sees that thing protruding from the water; Bear replies that no; V. explains how to improve eyesight; you need to fill your eyes with berry juice, go to bed with a stone under your head; breaks the head of a sleeping Bear with a stone, melts fat; asks Muskrat to take a bubble of fat, swim in cold water to make the fat freeze; cuts off the fat from the Muskrat's tail so that it swims faster; the muskrat used to have a tail like a beaver; the muskrat swims so fast that the bubble bursts; since then, there has been an oily trail on the water behind the muskrat; V. eats bear meat; asks two birch trees to squeeze it to empty the intestines and eat further; birch trees hold it, call the animals to a feast; The seal eats the most fat, the Rabbit is the least; when released, V. curls birch trees; since then, the seals are fat, the rabbits are lean, the trees grow in a spiral]: Skinner 1911:86-87; Steppe Cree [Visakachak invites the two bison to identify which one is older; feels their testicles, pierces their bellies, bakes meat, convenes birds and animals to a feast; tells two birches to pinch them; then pushes them apart; but they they pinch him again, animals and birds eat all the meat; V. whips birch trees, traces remain on the trunks; V. splits the bison bones, extracts fat, tries to freeze it, fat spreads along the river; animals they come to eat it; the hare ate a lot, but V. squeezed the fat out of it back; determines what and how all species of birds and animals feed]: Dusenberry 1962, No. 4:238-236.
Northeast. Montagnier: Desbarat 1969 [the girl has a penis lover; she drives him swaddled on a sledge; descends into the river from the mountain; The penis tears its wet wrappers, gets out of the ice, chases the girl; the old woman kills him with a needle; all animals come to share fat (the origin of the species); the rabbit wanted to be Caribou, he was not allowed]: 4-5; Savard 1979, No. 2 [Ayasheo (apparently from the word crow; note 17:74) takes his son named Ayashish to the island to collect bird eggs; y132
swims, leaving him there; a horned serpent carries him to the mainland; tells him to take a stone with him, say if a cloud appears; at the sight of a cloud, A. hits him in the horns with a stone, he swims faster, reaches the shore, he is now an adult; to overcome the obstacles sent by his father, his grandmother gives him his white Fox's companions; the crest turns into a forest, A. goes through it; the fox makes a hole through the thrown resin; the bone pestle turned into a rock; he walked around it; met his mother; she says that his father throws hot coals at her; A. goes to his father, shoots up and down; the ground lights up; he advises his father to hide in the prepared fat; goes up with his mother; the father dies in boiling fat fat; all animals come to the lake of fat, drink; the sea lion dived, became fat; the beaver crawled his chest; the caribou just drank, the fat is in his stomach; the partridge rubbed its wings and back; the hare soaked its paws and touched shoulders]: 12-14; Seneca [grandmother tells his eldest grandson that his father is Wind; he comes to the Wind, gets a bag; on the way she looks inside, the animals that were there jump out, run away; at home, the grandmother sees animals, gives them names; the young man himself creates a pond with fat; animals dive (or do not dive) there, depending on whether they are now fat (bison, bear, raccoon, porcupine, skunk, woodchuck) or skinny (wolf, puma, fox); The deer says it will bite hunters; his upper teeth have been removed; the same goes for other horned animals]: Beauchamp 1922:215-216; mikmaq [big whale washed ashore; all animals and birds take its flesh; the elk put a piece on its back, people on their feet; Gluscap shoved the skeleton into the water, it turned into an island; the partridge was late, remained skinny; G. told her to wrap her legs in yellow birch (you can see the yellow ring on her legs)]: Wallis, Wallis 1955, No. 5:327-328; delaware [humans and animals defeat the grandfather of monsters; everyone takes part of his brains; every species animals acquire their inherent characteristics; humans get a mixture of different parts, change easily]: Bierhorst 1995, No. 56:42.
California. Yurok: Kroeber 1976 [first ancestors shoot at a huge eagle, finally kill; make feathers and wool for themselves from its feathers, turn into birds and animals], No. G2, J3, K3, X1:298, 320, 329, 421; Sapir 1928b, No. 8 [to get feathers for birds, they kill a huge bird with feathers of all colors; each bird gets its own color; the raven insists that it be made entirely red; then he is made entirely black; he gets angry, rolls some birds in the mud]: 258-259; karok [not Coyote, but Wren kills a huge bird; everyone makes blankets from its feathers (= animal fur and plumage and birds)]: Kroeber, Gifford 1980, No. II2:146-147; shasta [Coyote comes to treat a girl, copulates with her; people chase him, he hides in a hollow oak tree, tells a hole to overgrow; little woodpecker arrives to hammer an oak tree; the Coyote asks him to call the rest of the birds to help; when he goes outside, he pulls out his guts, paints all the birds with blood]: Dixon 1910a, No. 22:33-34.
Southeast USA. Biloxi [Goldfinch is the elder, Redbird is the younger brother; every time their father does not tell them to open the door to one of the buildings, Goldfinch opens; lice, fleas, bison; lice and fleas pop up from there father puts back; after losing buffalo, he wants to kill his sons; they tear hornet nests, father's people are bitten to death; father hides in a hollow; Goldfinch pulls him out, cuts him, bathes in his blood; Redbird runs away, his brother sprays him with blood, but this bird's plumage is not entirely red]: Dorsey, Swanton 1912, No. 31:114-116.
The Northern Andes. Guajiro: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (1), No. 26 [the hero takes the form of a woman, comes to a jaguar; he causes rain; the hero enters the house, the house turns into a rock; ants make a hole; the hero squeezes, is scratched; the birds smear his blood], 30 [the girl bit off the penises with her toothy womb; Maleiwa turned into a boy, whistled, the girl's vagina responded; M. knocked out the vaginal with a stone teeth; various birds flew in, painted their feathers with spilled blood], 32 [Big Belly wounds a girl with an arrow; her father calls the offender and his brothers to his house; the house turns into a rock; birds they peck a hole; the bird that finished this work was scratched; others are stained with its blood], 34 [the women had teeth in their vulvas; to remove the baby, the pregnant woman had to rip open her stomach; then the stomach was sewn up; Mareiwa throws a stone at the vulva, knocks out their teeth, now babies can be born normally; that woman's name was Worunka; this place is now a rock, like her vulva; birds touched this rock and got their red plumage; while there were teeth in the vulvas, men inserted the penis into the navel of women; at Vorunka's time, a woman bought a man and came to his house to have sex with him; Mareiwa did the opposite (a man moves into a woman's house and manages it)], 35 [Mareiwa created a woman named Borunka, the mother of all guajiros; gave her a companion, but she could not give birth because vaginal teeth; M. removed her, inserted her two additional ribs, taking them out of her husband; each time B. gave birth, M. told the birds to bathe in her blood, so they were colored]: 75, 87, 89-90, 91-92, 93-94.
Southern Venezuela. Two girls are looking for a groom; the Opossum pretends to be a worthy contender; the girls go to Med, the Opossum kills him; fleeing persecution, hides on a tree or rock; the first ancestors (mostly birds) cut down a tree or rock; smear the blood of the possum, getting the current color. Sanema [(Colchster 1981:78-86); Samonamaniapada (samonala ola: sweet honey) works well on the site, speaks Makiritare, Possum does not work well, does not know the language; two partridge girls ( Odontophorus gujanensis) came, saw Kashtali (a little inedible mouse) in the hammock, began to poke him in the eye with a lit knot; he ran to his older brother Opossum; Opossum dressed up, came home, lay down in a hammock; the girls try to play with him, but push him away because of the stench; Honey came, all the girls surrounded him; Opossum went to the Lizards, took their witchcraft grass, blew on Honey, he died; girls they mourn; the Opossum is just pretending; the snakes understood this, chased him, he climbed a tall tree; all the bird and woodworm people began to cut him down, everyone's axes broke; all the animals came; Ant ( his name means wide-ass little agouti) climbed a tree, killed the Possum with an ax, killed him, blood flowed; the trunk was cut off, the tree remained hanging on the sunny vine; Small The Sloth, then the Big, White Monkey, Squirrels, Ocelot, Puma, Jaguar tried to cut it, but not completely, tried to descend quickly; the Squirrel cut, crushed the Little Sloth; the birds painted with the blood of the Possum, acquired their current color]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 132:240-246; Yanomami: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 131 [(Cocco 1972:221-224); the girls rejected the Naro opossum because of its stench; The bee and N. were at a festival in another village; N. rejected everything, the girl followed the Bee; when she came, N. was the first to see her, but she rejected him, came to the Bee; N. prepared witchcraft grass, shot grass at the Bee with a wind gun; when he returned home, he died; N. went and shot guaricongo, but he woke up, said at home that N. had also killed Meda; N. ran away, began to turn into a possum; they sent for him Watch out for the boys, they became birds; N. hides in a tree, the Ant climbs after him, then turns into an ant; everyone cut down the tree, broke off their axes, so these birds have short beaks; finally, they cut the trunk, but the tree hangs on the vine; Little Sloth cut it, fell down, N. crashed; birds and animals painted with blood, brain, possum crap, regained their current color, became birds and animals], 133 [(Lizot MS); Opossum was in a neighboring village, left a love remedy there, two girls followed him, he met one on the road; came back, met the second, her name was Honey; both came to his house; his mother Smelly Mushroom cut the meat off her thighs, gave them tapir under the guise of meat; the sisters left the Possum for Honey; the Opossum made a witchcraft from rodent and vegetable hair fibers, sent him to Meda; also to the Lizard, but he survived, said that the Opossum only pretended to be grieving, he was the murderer; the Opossum disappeared, the Woodpecker saw him in the recess on the rock; Earthworm they sent to cover the Opossum with a stone; people began to cut the rock; many axes (= beaks) broke; the rock began to fall, but it was held by a vine; the Sloth cut it, the Opossum was crushed; the birds and animals colored it blood, excrement, brain, turn into hekura spirits; Smelly Mushroom became a mushroom; ash from burned Honey became bees], 134 [(Lizot MS); two girls came to marry a handsome man, entered the house; sat down to the right of the entrance where Opossum and his mother Stinky Mushroom lived; Opossum returned from the site (pretending to be working), dressed up, cut off a piece of meat from his thigh, gave the girls tapir under the guise of meat; they saw Meda, passed to him; at night, the Opossum hears their laughter; does a witchcraft, tries on the Lizard, he survived; Honey is sick, died; Opossum lies as if his "younger brother" bequeathed wives to him; The Lizard tells the truth, the Opossum is running, the Woodpecker sees him on the rock; the Earthworm climbed in, covered the recess where the Opossum took refuge with a stove; the birds began to cut the rock, the axes (i.e. beaks) were dull, bent; the rock began to fall, hung on the vine; the Sloth cut it, the Opossum crashed, the birds and the sloth painted his blood, brain, became hekura spirits]: 235-239, 247-256, 257-262; yanomam [(Albert MS); two The pigeon sisters reject the smelly Possum, want to marry Med; their brother tells them that Meda's house will have mako feathers; Opossum puts on Honey's jewelry, throws mako feathers around himself; Honey works for On the plot, Opossum only pretends to cut trees; girls see mako feathers, hang hammocks in the Opossum section; he cuts off a piece of meat from his thigh, gives them tapir meat; Honey demands its mako feathers Back, Opossum has to hang motmot feathers; Honey takes his wives; Opossum burns his armpit hair, makes it a code remedy, kills Honey in his hammock, the girls also died; The opossum ran, hid in a hollow in a tree; two Ants got up, crushed it with a stone; bird people cut down the tree, the axes were dull, but it still fell; birds and animals painted with blood, bile, and Possum's brain]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990, No. 130:229-234.
Guiana. Varrau: García 1993, No. 44 [it was not night, she was in one man's bundle; his sister's younger brother, out of curiosity, opened the package, it became dark; he began to cry, ran, turned into a Tobesia bird; the owner of the night was found by darkness in a palm grove; he went, illuminating the way with a torch, and came to the young man, the master of the sun; as he was pulling the sun by the rope tied to his house, night fell when he let go - day; (or rather, he could do it); the owner of the night gave him a woman, for which the owner of the sun released the sun for 6 o'clock; the owner of the night decided that this was not enough, but he did not have another woman; carved the Usidamani woman out of wood; the owner of the sun could not get along with her because she was wooden; told the Monkey to make holes in his body, he could not; the Woodpecker did; when he made a vagina, blood splashed, painted his head red; the woodpecker called Simocu, painted it whole red; the parrot only painted his breast; gradually the blood began to change color, so the rest of the birds dyed in different colors; when the blood turned white, the Heron and other now white birds came; when the blood rotted, the Vultures came, turned black, disgusting]: 151-152; Wilbert 1970, No. 84 [forest spirit; women and children: hair], 120, 172 [owned Imanaidarota at night, Hokohiarota owned the sun; kept the night in a scarf in a basket; in his absence, his wife's brother, a boy, opened the bag; darkness came, boy turned into an owl; I. came to H., in his house dancing and music; when H. wanted the sun, he pulled it up on a rope; for the girl H. gave a day of 6 hours, for the second he promised to give a normal one, 12 hours; I. did not have a second girlfriend, he carved her out of Usirou wood; her name was Usirumani; H. could not sleep with her, asked the woodpecker to make a vagina; all the birds were smeared in the leaked blood; a crane in white blood , in curled black - crows]: 190-191, 247-248, 377-379; arecuna [The fox kidnaps the child, gives it to Tapiriha; he grows up, she makes him her husband; he returns to people; Tapiriha is killed; the father takes his son out of her womb; when diving into the water, the boy kills fish; the stork persuades the boy to bathe at the waterfall, where there are many fish; the Water Serpent kills the boy with an arrow; the father asks the birds to kill the snake; most birds and animals cannot dive deep; two diving birds kill a snake with arrows; along with pieces of skin, a snake receives voices and colors; animals, also applying pieces of skin, they get colored, a deer turns such a piece into its antlers; at first, a forest deer had savanna deer antlers and vice versa; they have changed because it is difficult for a forest deer to walk with large horns; from bones, blood, the flesh of a murdered boy grows various types of timbo (vine containing poison for fishing)]: Koch-Grünberg 1924, No. 22:72-75; akawai [humans and birds are going to war on a water snake with a rainbow skin; Duckler (Plotus anhinga) ties a rope to an arrow, pierces the snake's neck; the snake is pulled ashore; each bird takes a piece of leather for color; Duckler is dim because he got it head]: Brett in Im Thurn 1966:382; in Roth 1915, No. 162:225-226; waiwai [hunters eat a harpy eagle, at night the forest spirit comes screaming: You ate an eagle's liver! Some wake up, poke the rest on the cheeks with smut, they run away, becoming kibihee (some animal, hunting object); so they have a white spot on their cheeks; Kurum-yenna (people- Vultures) play flutes, inviting them to dance in their village; Kworo-yenna (Parrot People) and other Birds come and take local girls; some of the current waiwai bands descend from them; when they parted home, became real birds; Kamara-yenna (Jaguar people) came to the river; turtles formed a bridge, the Jaguars walked along it; Kurum Yenna asked the turtles to destroy the bridge; the Jaguars were eaten by a giant piranha , the boy escaped, part of his foot was bitten off; Kurum Yenna kept him with him; the Kworo-yenna woman kept the Petalï anaconda in the pond; the husband brought game, the wife ate big, P. gave little agouti; P. found out, swallowed the woman; swam along the river; her husband tried to stop her by creating rapids; diving, surrounded himself with otters; otters jumped P. down the throat, came out of the ass, carrying the woman's bones; the old woman washed herself, poured water into the river, poisoning the fish and P.; Kworo-yenna pulled P. ashore, the tail came off, the current anacondas were removed from it; Kvoro-yenna and other Birds swam in blood, then it rained, some of the blood washed away; Birds have become birds of various colors; bile has turned yellow, the mixture of bile and rain has turned blue; the old woman has become various plants from which fish venom is made]: Fock 1963:62-66; hishkaryana [a woman catches a snake, raises it; she swallows the mistress, crawls into the river; the shaman scrapes off her dirt, throws it into the water; all anacondas die; bird people are stained with blood and others with the fluids that leaked out of the body of the anaconda that swallowed the woman]: Derbyshire 1965:93-94; kalinya, curl [birds kill the Great Serpent; everyone takes a piece of its skin; so birds take on colorful colors]: Goeje 1943, No. d27:114; oyana: Magaña 1987, No. 76 [birds kill an anaconda, bathe in its blood, take color], 82 [birds cut down a tree with their beaks; finally, it falls, birds smear its juice, color]: 49, 50; trio [someone steals fish from the top of Yaravare (Orion); Frog, Hummingbird and other watchmen fall asleep; Nightjar sees the Royal The vulture removes its feather crown, dives for fish; the Nightjar takes the crown away, gives me; in the absence of I. The Royal Vulture comes to the village, asks the children to try on the crown, says that it does not suit them, puts it on himself, flies away; bird people hit him with arrows, smear his blood, share fat; at a general festival A sloth has been shoved into the fire since then its skin has been stained; Monkeys have burned their hands; Frogs have been given a drink made from Vulture fat]: Koelewijn, Riviere 1987, No. 2:22-25; Oyampy: Grenand 1982, No. 19 [birds they peck at the anaconda, smear blood and other liquids; the spirit of the anaconda becomes a rainbow]: 154-163; Renault-Lescure et al. 1987, No. 1 [the birds were black; they began to kill the anaconda, two hummingbirds succeeded , the birds took possession of its multicolored excrement, painted (details who how); everyone danced; sat on branches of a tree that no longer exists, the branches broke under weight, the birds parted, scattered, some remained in the water; it was finally dawn]: 75-87.
NW Amazon. Makuna [Yiba has Yawira's wife; during the festival, the Vulture Chief took her away (with her consent); Yiba found her asleep, took her home; she saw a hollow, started drinking honey, died; Yiba shot the anteaters, hid under a pile of meat; Vulture came down, Yiba began to rip out his feathers, tear off his jewelry; all the birds and animals took possession of some color, some shape; the howler monkey took Vulture's Calebass (that's why he screams loudly and loudly); Vulture has grown feathers, he left everything to those who took it; Yiba turned into an anaconda]: Palma, Feuillet 1980 {without pagination}.
Central Amazon. Lower Rio Negro (manao?) [Does the turtle kill (drags it under water?) Orla Harpy; his son finds feathers, his mother says they are his father's feathers; he hunts turtles; they say their father killed him; he trains strength by digging trees; he lifts the Turtle into the air; all birds bite it, get dirty with blood, bile, etc., gaining colorful plumage]: Barbosa Rodrigues 1890:171; maue [Harpy Eagle wears the son of monkeys; he cries and wants fish; the Eagle suspects that the wife has a lover who brings fish; sends a fly to watch her, kills her lover, the Soko bird, drives his son away; tells his wife to put her hand in the hollow to catch a rat; the hand gets stuck, the wife turns into the creaking of trees; the eagle asks Aram to eat the corpse, take the twins out of the womb of the murdered woman; eat Soko's son too, and give his son (Eagle) to his mother; she washes the baby in the river, he slips away, becoming a fish; the brothers of the murdered offer Eagle to pick up a log in the middle of the water; it breaks, the Eagle falls into the water, he is killed by the Big Turtle; the grandmother asks the sisters of the killed to catch her grandson; he asks his grandmother who killed his father; answer, Wind, then Hot Summer; he scratches aunts, they say their father killed his father; he finds feathers, later his father's leg on the ceremony court; trains pick up logs and stones; pulls the Turtle out of the water; the Toucan, then the Dove, cannot penetrate its shell, the Woodpecker pierces; these birds are stained with its blood; the Jaguar and the fish also color]: Ugge 1991, No. 2: 130-146; parintintin [Canauréhu and Ipanitégué went to ruin the harpy eagle's nest; I., who remains below, asks about the chicks; K. replies that the chicks have fluff like I.'s wife's pubis; he throws away the stairs; the Eagle flew in, K. hid; he saw him, laughed while listening to the story, turned him into an eagle; taught him to fly, lifting heavier branches; they flew to the village together, tormented I. beaks and claws, lifted into the air by the legs and behind the head; all birds paint their beaks and feathers with its blood and brain, and ate their meat]: Pereira 1980 (2): 582-585 (retelling in Lévi-Strauss 1964:319-320); Munduruku: Kruse 1949, No. 26:633-634; Murphy 1958, No. 54 [The Harpy Eagle grabs the Turtle but she drags her under water; other eagles feed her son; he trains strength by lifting a log of the same the weight that the Turtle raises the Turtle into the air, brings it to the nest; the birds hammer its shell; the Toucan fails, the Woodpecker pierces; all birds are colored with blood, bile and fat; the rapina eagle gets the head, to blow her like a horn, but the tivito eagle asks you to give her head to him; since then, t has a low voice, and the river has a piercing voice]: 128-129.
Eastern Amazon. Urubu [(beginning at p. 611-612: the huge Madjou-ã serpent lived in water, swallowed people; the shaman Karará-Ramoui sharpened the edges of two calebas, let himself be swallowed; those swallowed with knives could not cut M. from the inside, and Calebas K. cut all his ten hearts one by one; M. began to swallow water, but K. cut his side, emerged, went home, died of fatigue; another shaman revived him; M. died, rose to the sky, his shadow there is the Milky Way; he himself fell, pushing the ground, so the sea formed); this is where a new text begins: K. collected M.'s colorful blood, first painted all the birds , then forest animals; the snake was the last, K. poured rotten blood on it, so the color of this poisonous snake is disgusting]: Ribeiro 2002:612-613; spiking [one of the two brothers notices that their sister pregnant; advises her to smear her night lover's face with genipa juice; she turns out to be another brother; lovers run to heaven; quarrel, sister falls to the ground with a meteor, turns into a tapir; brother gets done A month; another brother tells the warriors to shoot; only the Battleship's arrow hits the Month; blood is shed; women wipe themselves from the bottom up, are under the influence of the Month; men wipe from top to bottom; birds bathe in blood, getting colored plumage]: Nimuendaju 1920:1010-1011.
The Central Andes. Aymara (dep. Puno) [pets bathe in Jesus' blood, take color]: Ortiz Rescaniere 1973:25.
Montagna - Jurua. Kashibo: Estrella Odicio 1977, No. 5:81-83 [Uirakocha]; Frank et al. 1990, No. 3 [Irakucha]: 65-68; Tessmann 1930 [The Inca had fire, cassava, corn; kashibo lived on another on the riverbank, I. did not give them anything; they sent a dwarf parrot (Chiricles L.), I. noticed it; the parrot grabbed the coal; first dropped it while flying back across the river, the next time he brought people fire; all people- the birds pressed their coal to their chest, some burned themselves; therefore, tinamide's chest is always warm; they sent the battleship to dig a passage into I.'s house; they crawled over it, killed I.; the red arara bathed in his blood, the marsh bird dipped its beak into the blood, the trumpeter bird applied fat to the wings of the stripes; the battleship took long nails I.]: 149; shipibo [Inca owned cultivated plants, did not give it to others; he was killed]: Bardales Rodriguez 1979:37-38; Bertrand-Rousseau 1984 [summary of two texts; shipibo cook meat in the sun, the sun was closer to the ground; wild fruits are harvested; the Inca has corn, bananas, cassava; giving others plants, making them unsuitable for breeding; a group of children climbed a tree to look at I.; he threw a stone at them from a sling, they turned into monkeys; Having blown on the flute, I. created a straight road through the forest; people decide to kill him; chameleon (Battleship?) digs a course under I.'s path; he fails, but gets out; next time he attacks stakes; each takes part of his strength; this is how birds get color, habits, and the ability to fly]: 215-222; Roe 1982, No. 10 : 68-70; Waisbard 1959 [no details]: 65; matses [has a motive for birds and animals to color after killing Irakocha; {most likely like a shipibo}]: Wistrand MS in Erikson 1994:79; amuesha [Yompor Eror (yompor - "father") paints the birds in bright colors; black Curasso asks everyone, he is told that they have always been like this; the woodpecker speaks the truth; angry , Curasso hacked YE with an ax; the birds were going to bathe in blood, the yellow feathers of those who dyed themselves fat; when he died, YE told Curasso to wear his ax forever; so he has black feathers but his beak is red speckled]: Santos-Granero 1991, No. 16:218-219; Ashaninka (river camps) [relatives chase K íri; along the way he plants corn; in the first field they see pursuers, the corn is ripe; on the last one it has just been planted; they try to kill K. with arrows, but only kill each other; K. tells the rest to pierce themselves so that the stake goes over their heads and the body has pierced into the ground; turns into a peach palm (kir í, Guilielma speciosa); its blood forms a lake, birds bathe in it; good ones only once have beautiful plumage ; bad twice, they look ugly; The vulture wiped its ass on the palm tree, its trunk was covered with thorns]: Weiss 1975:328; Machigenga: García 1935-1937 (18) [the birds found red and yellow feathers painted with blood and bile from the first ancestor (tasorinchi) Yab írir í]: 94 in Weiss 1975:344 (note 10); 1942 [(cf. Ashaninka); Yabiveri turned every now and then people in animals; going to the menstrual hut, turned the girl into a tapir; sister (or mother) I. Parény invited him to the party, stole his amulet and pushed him into the abyss; he tried in vain to get out, becoming an ant, a wasp, a vine; asked P. for corn kernels, and strengthened his strength with them, got out, went, sowing corn everywhere; the pursuers first reached the ripe field; the farther the corn was sown recently; I tried to fill the river, his uncle father Quinteroni asked Don't do it; I couldn't move, K. carried him on his shoulders, Y. turned K. into a battleship; Uncle I. Berenákoni carried Y. to the ends of the earth and nailed seven spokes to the ground, piercing his arms, legs, knees, chest; if he moves, the earth will collapse and be flooded; another name is I. - Pachá kamue; because it was pierced, people are now dying]: 234-235; Kashinaua: Ans 1975 [Yawashikonawa owns cassava, maize, bananas, all cultivated plants; they are guarded by wasps, snakes, stingrays; the lizard picked up his corn, hid the seed behind her tooth; Y.'s wife tore her mouth to look at it; I myself twisted the Lizard's arms and legs; she lost consciousness, then ran away. brought people corn; humans also had fire at first, but either the tohuayo nocturnal bird or the pauhil dropped a large shell into the fire, it went out; I. gives smut only by lowering it into the water; The parrot became screaming near Y.'s house, smut was thrown at him, he brought it to people, his beak turned black; the inhabitants of Y.'s house began to beat their magic stones, it rained; the birds hid the fire in the hollow; many suffered from fire and smoke, turned red and turned black; Cayman wants to steal cassava shoots, but he was bitten by wasps, he threw himself into the river, became a caiman; battleships dug a passage into Y.'s house; bird people walked through it, killed I. with arrows, smeared in liquids that had leaked out of his body, became colored; when flying away, the hummingbird sat on large branches, they broke; since then it has sat on thin ones; birds, animals, and poisonous creatures scattered around the world]: 81-82; Capistrano de Abreu in Tastevin 1926 [old Yauchiku nava owns fire and cultivated plants, her gardens are guarded by wasps, scorpions and snakes; Kashinahua roasts meat in the sun; the father of black iguanas stole a grain of corn, hiding it in the hollow of a tooth; the ancestor of the tyontyon songbirds stole the cassava shoot; var.: cassava was stolen by the caiman father; the hornets guarding the field bit his eyebrows; he rushed into water, became a caiman, his eyebrows were still swollen; the ancestor of the little black-headed parrots began to cry plaintively near YAN; she threw coal into him, thought it was extinguished; the parrot brought coal people, his beak turned black; people made a fire; YAN began to hit the bone of a creature that had drowned in the flood, it began to rain; bird people spread their wings, saved the fire; people, turning into battleships, dug underground passage (no one could get into the little one's hole, the large battleship dug a good passage); bird people killed YAN, painted it with blood and bile, killed snakes and scorpions, took bananas, cotton, corn, peanuts, cassava; maize was first planted on the cob, cassava with branches, peanuts in pods, roofs were covered with leaves that let water through; Kumau taught me to do the right thing]: 164-166; Shenipabu Miyui 2000 [ Yawa Xicu Nawa and his wife own fire and cultivated plants, others are starving; his land is guarded by poisonous snakes, hornets, etc.; when asked to sow corn, he gives boiled food; birds steal corn, etc., the carica bird carried away the burning smut, its beak was burnt, it used to be like a toucan; the fire was placed in a dry tree; Cayman also tried to steal cultivated plants from Y., but his poisonous creatures bitten, he threw himself into the water, stayed there, since then his eyes were swollen; in order to avenge him, others decided to kill I.; battleships made an underground passage; I. killed with arrows; opened his body; his skin was blue, red blood; the birds smeared, got their colors; scattered, everyone began to live separately from the others; the hummingbird sat on large branches, they broke, and since then they have sat on thin ones]: 123-127; yaminaua [a bird was sent to steal corn from a dawa (foreigners); D. gives fried grains; the bird hides those that are not fried under the phallocrypt; it is searched, it flies away, brings people corn; Iguana comes to D., grabs pepper, takes it away; the Great Battleship digs a tunnel to the village of D., people kill the leader (only the little bird Tiko can do this); people burn the body, paint with blood, ash and bile all birds]: MacQuarrie 1992, no.2:122-124.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Eseeha: Chavarria Mendoza 1984 [various birds (especially the spider) attack and kill the ancestor; parrots and other birds smear red, blue and yellow blood and become colourful] : 31-32; Verna 1985:68 [Pacicione wants to have sex with her brother's wife; she says her husband takes her from behind because of a thorn in her chest (teta; a pubic euphemism?) ; P. does not listen, is injured, sick; people kill and eat him; his bones turn into all kinds of birds, nails into beaks; birds sit on a tree; branches break off under their weight; from these branches form current forest]; chacobo [see motif J16; Kako is swimming, the waves have washed away the shore, the stream has become a broad river, K. can't get out; the stork (Alcedo sp.) pulls K. behind his back; K. does not know who saved him, gives all the birds his robe, so they get colorful feathers; when the Stork admitted that he is the hero, K. There was only a neckerchief left; the stork tied it, was offended, flew away]: Kelm 1972, No. 1:214.
Southern Amazon. Kamayura [Uvaiacá drinks a potion to become strong; imperceptibly from him, the pigeon drinks from the same vessel; W.'s mother throws out the pigeon, it flies, regurgitates the swallowed water, all the water in it inhabitants and monsters; a lake forms on the site of the village, fish eat W., his wife and children; his brother wants to be eaten too; makes a platform, shoots fish from it, kills their leader's son; finally, two fish managed to jump, grab him by the ears, drag him into the water; he was eaten, everyone is painted with the colors he used to paint his body, this is how the fish take color]: Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973:201-205; kayabi [the old woman is the owner of jaguars and all animals; kills the first jaguar when he brings a child in his teeth; the parrot spreads the news; all animals smear blood, brain, etc.; son of a jaguar has been taking revenge on people since then]: Grünberg 1970:166; Iranian woman [man fishing; saw a blond boy and girl Neykyú come out of the water; girl entangled in her hair trapped, boy disappeared into the water; the fisherman, his wife and N. are losing weight because they only eat fish broth and the meat goes somewhere; at night, the fisherman saw that the thief was Wanali, he had a second mouth on his hand; he ate with his hand, throwing it to the fish through the wall of the house; the next night the man left the Owl to guard, who signaled that the man cut off his ugly hand; Marten promises to find V.'s house on a trail of blood, instead collects honey; V.'s house finds Maned Wolf; Parrot, Toucan, Mutum and other birds kill V., dye them with his blood; Parrot and Arara make beaks for themselves from their axes]: Pereira 1985, No. 30:138-142; nambiquara: Pereira 1983, No. 66 [only the Jaguar has a fluffy skin; Jaguariha kills the female Battleship; asks her children how they became beautiful; tightly wrapped in a rope; Jaguariha suffocates; all animals share her skin , make their own out of her; her drops of blood turn into current jaguars and ocelots], 69 [Ocelotic kills a female Battleship (Mutetia hybridum); asks her young son to give her his beautiful skull; he asks in return, let him tie it; pushes her into the river, it sinks; all animals divide it into pieces, make tails out of them; drops of blood turn into current ocelots; they don't eat turtles and caimans, they don't participating in the sharing]: 98-99, 101-102; Rickback [the first ancestors of the birds ask the Sloth to throw fruits from the tree; he refuses, says that the fruits are imripe; the birds tear off his tail, smear it blood, colored]: Hahn 1976 in Pressman 1991:84; paresi [Cocotero, Zatiamara's wife, first menstruated; he leaves a large supply of meat in her menstrual hut but his wife is losing weight; Z. sees a hand stealing meat, cuts it off; follows a bloody trail, various animal people follow him; they come to the shaman Vanare's house, kill him; birds smear his blood, become colourful; animals dismantle his property]: Pereira 1986, No. 3:102-112.
Chaco. Ayoreo [it is clear from these and other texts (Wilbert, Simoneau 1989b, No. 188-192) that the tools and tools obtained by the characters are bird beaks]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989b, No. 174 [some The bird-man had all his tools and all his clothes; he was killed, all living things dismantled him; taking pieces of his skin, the trees found bright flowers], 175 [pío (big black bird) was a heron hunter; told his grandmother that he had killed the Heron; grandmother: is she white? If you didn't kill, then follow a trampled path - Heron's trail; P. went and came to the Heron's children; - Where is your father? - He'll be here soon. - How do you know he's coming? - A breeze would begin to blow before he approached; when the Heron appeared, Pio ran; the tree promised to help him and his trunk opened; and the tree fell and ran over the Heron; Pio dragged the Heron's body to to my grandmother; he could not drag far, so he cut out only one feather, sharp as a knife; at first my grandmother did not believe that Pio killed the Heron; but Pio showed a machete taken from the Heron's house; everyone was happy, but not at all there were enough guns; then Heron's fluff was taken to trees that have since had white flowers; there was not enough fluff, others were given blood, their flowers are now red; watermelons also got blood, so their flesh is red ], 186 [the stork gill was a man, and other ayoreos came to kill him; at that time only his daughter was at the camp; she was asked when her father would return; daughter: the wind would blow, then the father would appear; the wind blew; daughter: will appear now; the gill sat down at the house, the aioreo rushed at him, but he ran away; the tree trunks opened and let him in; others shouted to the trees: close and grab it! the third tree closed and the gill was caught; he was killed; one took feathers, the other took red feathers, the third took blood; cactus: I want its blood, I want to dye my whole body], 187 [Heron is male, Gatia is beautiful, Pío is another man; Heron and P. got into a fight over G., P. killed the Heron; his blood colored the fruits red and the fluff turned into flowers on the trees] : 244-245, 245-246, 255, 256 (cf. Wilbert, Simoneau 1989b, No. 188 [the star Gedosna is a woman, seen at dusk; in her absence, the first ancestors of the birds came to her house and took all the tools and other iron items; made beaks out of them; some got good axes, others just pieces of wire, so birds' beaks aren't the same], 189 [the red star Edocaraté told her son and granddaughters (they're different types of woodpeckers) to pick up her bones when she will die; from ribs and shoulder blades, they made axes for themselves - beaks; all bones have turned into iron, so there are iron tools]: 257-258, 258-259); chamacoco [a woman's sons or husband kill her eel lover; sons shoot arrows into the sky, open a door in the sky with them, or pull the sky closer to the ground; the hole closes when the leg of the youngest of the three brothers is still hanging down; the mother sends birds cut off a leg; paints birds with colored blood spilled out of their legs]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 75 [Cordeu 1084:237-238; three brothers caught a newborn eel; their mother leaves him to grow up; sees takes his penis as a lover; he gives her his caviar {maloki?} ; sons smell a strange taste in wild beans; which the mother collects; the youngest spies, sees the mother whistling an eel, copulates with it, which gives her caviar under the guise of beans; sons killed an eel, gave its mother its roasted meat, ran to heaven; the youngest shot into the sky to descend; the elders immediately went into the hole in the sky, the youngest commanded the sky to rise, but the leg had not yet been removed; mother saw the reflection of his foot into the water, asked the birds to cut off his leg; only the falcon (he eats only live prey) managed to fly to the sky, which had already risen high, cut off his leg; tells the woman to prepare the vessels in them blood of different colors is shed; the woman paints the birds the way they want; then paints herself black, turning into a karau (Mesembrinibus cayenensis), screams, grieving for lost children] 76 [about like (77); a woman paints birds the way they want; a hawk who cut off his leg with black and white stripes], 77 [the husband brought a small eel to his wife Lalhorha, let their child play with him; L. placed the eel in a pot on the edge of the swamp; the eel grew; the woman knocked on the pot, the eel came out, copulated with it; he spewed eggs instead of sperm; she cooked and ate it, fed it to the child; he did not like it these "berries"; he watches the mother, tells his father; the father causes the eel with the same signal (hitting the pot), cuts off the tail; cooks other eels with the meat, gives it to his wife, tells the son not to eat; the wife guesses, finds a dead eel; the village is empty, everyone ran away, the youngest son was the last to run away; the sky was low; firing arrows, the boys pushed him away; they pierced a hole, climbed into the sky; when he climbed last, the hole closed, the boy's leg remained hanging; the mother saw her reflection in the water, then looked up; tells the birds to cut off his leg; the hawk bites his leg, and first pours into the placed vessel red blood, then black, white; when the hawk cut off his leg, the sky closed forever; the woman colored the birds depending on whether they sang well; the vulture sang badly, it was painted black and with white stripes]: 260-261, 267-268, 270-272; Angaite [killed the battleship, all animals ate; whoever ate has so much fat; the deer just got blood and remained skinny]: Cordeu 1973, No. 10: 208-209; caduveo: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990a, No. 2 [someone steals fish from God's trap; dogs can't detect a thief, God sends nocturnal birds; one of them sends him on the trail of a dangerous beast; God finds a hole in which people and animals were, pulls them out, caduveo after Europeans; the beast ate people coming out; God kills the beast, distributes its fat among animals; the pig has come First, caiman also got a lot of fat; nandu, the deer remained skinny], 30 [(Riveiro 1950, No. 8:140-142; comm. Ribeiro: 14: some of the spilled blood formed a rainbow); three children always play late; a painted vessel with flowers in it descends from the sky; children climb after them, the vessel begins to rise; mother clings to the last boy's leg; his leg comes off; blood stains the sky, since then there has been a red stripe on the horizon (at sunset); all the birds were white; they come to swim in a pool of blood, take on color ; The vulture can't stand the heat, wiped off with coals, turned black], 31 [the children play late, then lie down in the yard; the old man shouts to others that the creature (bird?) comes down from heaven and takes children away, but parents don't pay attention; children sing when they get up; the old man grabs the creature, sticks to it; parents grab the old man's leg, it comes off; they collect blood in vessel, calling birds to swim; Vulture could not bear the itch, was lying in the burnt grass, turned black; other birds acquire colorful plumage], 32 [Ribeiro 1950:150-151; Heron, then some animal they refuse to lend Gô-noêno-Hôdi their skin (=appearance), the Kingfisher also refused, but G. tore off his chest and, in the form of a kingfisher, hit a large snake living in the lake in his heart; called animals; the pig, the cow ate a lot of fat; the Jaguar took part, Cayman stole it, hid it in the water; the turtle got fat mixed with mud, so its liver is black]: 21-22, 55-56, 57-58, 59-60; nivacle [hero kills a royal vulture]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 94 [the young man sent his younger brother to his mother for water, she refused; all the young men decided to become birds, each of their own species; they glued feathers from the arrows to the body, flew away as birds, their mothers offered them water in vain; Axtitá killed the royal vulture; everyone tries to peck a hole in his body, but only Woodpecker succeeds; the birds were smeared with vulture blood, coals and ash, taking on their current color; when the world turned upside down, birds and thunderbirds were in the sky; one person all ate the fruits of the caraguat (Bromelia serra), he, his the wife and all the people of the village turned into bakers and also found themselves in heaven; bakers on the ground are their relatives], 97 [=№ 94+ 96], 164 [Stavuun (royal vulture) kills people, his children play with their bones; Ajti't't'a trains to run fast; the sky used to be where the earth was and vice versa; the sky wanted to be clear, and the earth decided people wouldn't get it dirty; they swapped places after two menstruating women have relieved themselves and wiped their anuses; these are now two spots in the sky {Magellanic clouds? Coal Sacks?} ; The Milky Way is a place where S.'s children played with bones; A. killed S.'s children; when S. approaches, the sound {thunder?} , it's raining; A. hides with his wife S., asks to send S. alternately to four directions of the world; S. returns each time and hurries in a new direction; finally notices the hole in which A. hid; digs it up, he releases the butterflies he has taken with him, S. eats them (thinking that A. ate?) ; finds a snake, shows it to his wife, asks if it is A.; meanwhile A. runs away through another exit; successively turns into a tree, into another plant, into a flower; S. does not recognize him, flies by; A. wants to hide in a bottle tree, it replies that it can't hide it, suggests hiding in Palo Mataco; he hides; when S. tries to penetrate the same hole, the tree pinches him; animals and birds came to share his flesh; the deer was well suited; the birds also bathed in blood, took on color; some immediately shook off the blood, left only specks, others kept their red color], 165 [the royal vulture (S.; Sarcoramphus papa) hunts humans, his wife is Kafók (K.), a black-headed vulture (Coragyps atratus); their daughters played with bones eaten; now these daughters are wasps; K.'s grandson, Axtitá, trained to kill S.; cut his body and ran through the fire; when the blood stopped flowing, he realized he was ready; K. lived on earth and S. lived in the sky; K. replied that S. will come from the south, but she does not know when exactly; but there will be a signal: it will rain; S.'s children asked A. why he painted himself so beautifully; A.: you have to cut off your tongue and paint yourself with your tongue; they allowed K. cut off everyone's tongues (and there were many of their children) and died; but A. shamanically made them look alive; asked K. to answer S. that the murderer of his children (and S. immediately realized that the children were dead) fled to north, south, east, west; A. himself dug into a hole; going up into the sky, S. realized that he killed children in the ground; began to dig; as he dug, different types of lizards appeared, then snakes, then grass in dew, then butterflies; he killed them all; now A. jumped out and ran, S. after him; palo flojo replied A. that his wood is too soft to cover A., let him hide at palo mataco; palo mataco opened to A., it went {through?} , and S. was clamped; when the wind blows, palo mataco was buzzing - it was S. moving inside him; A. attached an S pen to his head, which was like a knife, he killed people with it, came to his grandmother; told her not to eat anymore humans; all the birds raced to where S. was killed; the turtle too, but could not get over the fallen tree; the birds had long beaks, but became shorter, they broke them off on S., because they were their axes; the little woodpecker (Picumnus cirrhatus) managed to cut S.; blood gushed and the birds dyed with it; those that do not have red feathers did not spray to them; some shook off some of the blood; K. did not paint, remained black; the stork (Jabiru mycteria) only painted his neck; so all the birds took on their current appearance], 166 [the royal vulture Tabún (T.) ate people; the young Ahtitáh came, there are only T.'s children; children: the young man is so handsome, he must be eaten; they ask how he colored his cheeks; A.: cut off his tongue, painted it with blood; A. all five boys took turns cutting off their tongues, they died; flying up , T. does not hear the usual voices of children; T. Afók says her husband is angry; A.: I'm angry too; hid underground; T. saw him from the sky; Afok was blind; pointed her finger up; T. saw A. running, chasing after him; A. asks his grandmother the algarrobo tree (carob tree) cover it; she replies that its roots are weak; then another grandmother, quebracho (of the genus Schinopsis, hardwood, "quiebra-hacha"); she let A. in and T. roots; when Afok woke up tired A., he pulled out T.'s pen as proof that he was dead; Afok looked for insects from him and saw the pen; said that T. was angry; he pulled out her eyes and hung them out; he also pulled out the eyes of many others; A. began to look for her eyes, took the first one he came across; when he began to see, Afok found her own eyes and put them in for herself; A. told people (i.e. birds) that T. he had killed was far away ; the hummingbird went in search, came back; then the dove was the same; the hawk rose high into the sky, saw; pulled out T.'s pen, blew, everyone saw feathers in the distance; went there in the morning; all night everyone tried to cut T.'s body; when everyone fell asleep again, the little woodpecker managed to cut; all night the birds ate T.'s meat; the bird was cardinal; could not make its way to the meat, screamed, dawn did not come; when the bird also gave painted her head red, dawn had come; the same happened to the second bird - although dawn, the sky was gray and it was raining; when they gave, it stopped raining; the bird now has red spots], 167 [at Stavunitáx ( royal vulture) many sons; Axtitá persuaded them to allow him to cut off their tongues and paint their faces with blood; they all died; Qafóx (black vulture, wife S.) asked what would happen to them children, if you cut off his tongue; A.: nothing, just fall asleep for a while; S. chased A., he ran all over the world, asked his grandmother the quebracho tree to save him; she closed her roots around him and S. did not I was able to get it]: 238-241, 246-247, 250-252, 388-392, 393-398, 399-403; chorote: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 100 [Sákiti harpy eagle lived high in the sky near vultures and the eagle; he had four chicks; when he flew to them, it was like the wind; after killing small game, he began to kill people; his children played with their bones; Wiskilióte ("laughing falcon") lives with his grandmother, hears this knock; painted himself beautiful yellow paint, took the head of a rattlesnake with him; tells the chicks to let the snake bite the tongue, then you will turn yellow; the chicks die; S.'s wife shows V. where he holds his spears ; S. is surprised why you can't hear the children making noise; makes his wife admit where V. is; pokes there with a spear, but V. turned into many butterflies and S. does not know what they are like V.; V. turns into flowers, into hummingbird; unable to transform anymore, asks her grandmother a bottle tree to hide it; she replies that it has only one root, let the grandson hide in the one with five roots; V. hid in a tree, S.'s head was stuck; he began to tear, four of the five roots broke off, then V. cut off his head; she told his wife S. that glad, because S. wanted to kill her; V. came to his grandmother and asked him to look for him lice, she saw S.'s red feathers on him; all the people with knives went to slaughter S., Woodpeckers in front; no one's ax could pierce a hole, a small piculet pierced; blood gushed; all the bird people were smeared red, yellow, blue, green, taking on its current color; and the piculet was pushed back, he was offended and left], 101 (the informant is a woman) [the women are missing; Ahóusa explained that the Sákiti harpy eagle is the size of the ostrich takes them to the sky; S. has four children on earth; A. came to them with striped cheeks; S.'s children also wanted this color; A. told them to stick out their tongues, cut them off, they died; A. hid among butterflies, S. did not know which one was A.; A. ran, climbed a tree, S. crashed into him, got stuck, died; all the birds began to hammer his body, but only a small piculet pierced; he was pushed back, and the rest bathed in a stream of blood, acquired their current color; the sun did not rise; then the piculet gave blood to paint and dawned again]: 194-195, 197-198; poppies: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 9 [by At the boy's insistence, the grandmother says that his father was killed by Sinj (y) ena'x (royal vulture); the boy trains running; paints himself red, comes to S.'s children, says he has become handsome, piercing his tongue and smeared with blood; piercing his tongues, kills; saves the youngest, tells him to consistently point his father to the four sides of the world, the zenith and the nadir, when he asks where a man ran; hides in the sky among red butterflies; runs away from S., hides in trees, one of them squeezes a hollow around the stalker's neck, the man finishes S.; comes to the grandmother; all the birds are trying make a hole in S.'s body; only Little Woodpecker succeeds; inside white, yellow, red; all the birds are colored, and S. put pieces of flesh on their bodies], 10 [the grandmother does not want to tell the young man who killed his parents; a young man asks the yellow bird Quistawá who killed his parents; he says that two water snakes, a male and a female; the young man lets the male swallow himself, cuts off all the hearts in the snake's body from head to tail; then the same with the female; the snakes rushed ashore and died; the grandmother sees dead snakes: well, now all the water will dry; the grandmother admits that the young man's father was killed by Sinjenaj ( royal vulture); the young man painted himself red paint, learned to run faster than fire, came to S.'s children; they play with the bones they ate; agreed to become beautiful like a young man, let him pierce their tongue; the eldest doubts, but the young man told the moths to move the bodies of the dead; the elder agreed to pierce his tongue, also died; the youngest young man did not kill, told his father that the killer of his children ran north, south, west, east; S. flies in these directions, every time he brings a dead man; only when he rises high, he sees a young man; he asks his grandmother to hide the quebracho tree; she replies that she is too weak; then But with the rest of the trees; the carandá tree opens, and when S. rushes after him, clamps it; the young man hit S. with a stick at the place where that soul was dead; all the men (they are different birds) ran there; the little hawk was the first to fly in, took the necklace and whistle, but the others took them away; began to hammer S.'s belly to get paint; only the little woodpecker pierced; everyone swam in blood; took pieces of flesh; when k'oloj appeared, he didn't get it anymore, only his skin was left]: 35-42, 43-45; matako [Takwah eats Wasp's baby; she covers all the holes in his body with wax or clay; birds pierce hard crust, splashing blood stains their feathers]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 99-103:197-205; toba: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 129 [fox anus broken]: 249; 1989a, No. 210 [seeing Iguana eat mistol fruits, the fox eats them too, because of them he is constipated; various shaman birds treat him, i.e. they try to punch a hole in his anus; only Woodpecker manages to pierce; everyone is sprayed with blood, their feathers turn red or brown]: 292-293; mocovi [Fox]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 56 [Chunga invites Fox to dive; at this time it steals his supply of mistol seeds; puts the Fox on a sharp branch; tornado takes it off, but the food is now falling out of his ass; he asks the bees to seal it with clay; now the Fox suffers from constipation; the woodpecker pierces the plug, excrement splashes on the gathered birds; they have since colorful plumage], 57 [about the same; passing animals remove the Fox from the stake; the woodpecker first seals its anus, then breaks through the cork; now the birds are brightly colored], 58 [as in (56); wasp seals; details of red and yellow coloring pages are described], 59 [Raccoon and Fox got into a fight over mistol seeds, Raccoon put Fox on a sharp branch; tears himself; further as in (56)], 60 [Duck is Woodpecker's girl; Fox kills her, puts on her feathers; the woodpecker smells strange, invites Ant, he bites the imaginary girl in the genitals, the Fox screams, runs away; the Woodpecker asks the Raccoon to punish the Fox; the Raccoon and the Fox fight over mistol, the Raccoon puts the Fox on the branch; he gets off himself, further like in (56); the fox bleed and died], 61 [Kotaá made the Fox's wife (i.e. the Fox) immediately fall through the ass; further as in (56); since then, the fox has a red ass], 63 [The woodpecker has broken the plug in the Fox's anus, all the birds have colored]: 77-79, 80-81, 82-83, 83-84, 85-86, 87-88, 89-90; vilela: Lehmann-Nitsche 1925b: 221- 225 [contrary to his mother's warning, the young man kills many hummingbirds; finds colorful pebbles on the river bank, makes a necklace out of them; turns into a snake in a dream; promises his mother not to leave her; three snakes Sits on a tree for days, grows, sparkles at night; then begins to devour people and animals; in the distant past, only a person tells everyone to leave, goes to the snake; the Pigeon advises to shoot arrows while running away; they turn into palm trees, a serpent climbs on each, loses time; the same with a bowstring, a bow thrown; A dove summons birds to war; Storks rush to attack, but a serpent (aka rainbow) swallowed them; Little Owl Caburé the snake manages to blind; the birds tear its body, swallowed out of the womb; after the rain, the corpse disappears, a rainbow appears in the sky; the Little Owl is made a leader], 226-227 [a timid and unsociable young man in a dream turns into a snake; out of shame rises to heaven in the form of a rainbow; descends to earth to devour people; the latter runs; the snake's mother advises him to call birds; Hummingbirds, Herons, Falcons and others have come; success Only the owl Caburé reached, pulled out the snake's eyes; his stomach was opened, swallowed out blind, for the gum in his womb covered their eyes; one bird offered to wash his eyes, but the hawk Carancho said , what's not necessary; birds make flutes from snake bones, finding voices; take pieces of skin for themselves, taking on color].
The Southern Cone. The Yagans [Akáinix, Brother of the Sun (Lem), painted himself more beautiful than anyone else; at this time, women were in power and sisters A. trained in kina's sacred hut to pretend as if they are dead; they did not succeed, A. came up, showed how to freeze while holding his breath; when he returned home, A. pretends to be dead; other men sleep with his sisters and wife, but the imaginary dead man is still sees; when men go hunting cormorants, he gets up, scares off birds, kills men with a sling; their relatives attacked A., but failed to break, but only bent him and his son, who came to help to his father; A. is the rainbow, his son is the second, smaller rainbow, sometimes visible with the first; the attackers got dirty with the paint with which A. painted himself, since then on the feathers of these birds (which ones are not specified ) red spots]: Wilbert 1977, No. 4:21-24.