B36B. Birds find voices. (.36.) .59.68.72.

Birds find their voices by pecking a large reptile, smeared in liquids that have leaked out of its body.

(Ilimpic Evenks), arekuna, munduruku, vaura, kamayura, vilela.

(Wed. Eastern Siberia. Evenks (Ilimpic, western 1986 by Nikolai Oyogir, born in Ekonda) [the birds did not sing; asked God to give them votes; God: the voices of the rainbow, give it your colorful feathers in return; the rainbow gave voices for birds, and they are multi-colored]: Myreeva 1992:7; =2003:10-11).

Guiana. Arekuna [The fox kidnaps the child, gives it to Tapiriha; he grows up, she makes him her husband; he returns to the people; Tapiriha is killed; the father takes his son out of her womb; diving into the water, the boy kills fish; the stork persuaded the boy to bathe at a 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 birds- a diver is killed by a snake with arrows; along with pieces of skin, a snake receives voices and colors; animals, also applying pieces of skin, get a color, and a deer turns such a piece into its horns; at first, a forest deer had savanna deer antlers and vice versa; they changed because it is difficult for a forest deer to walk with large horns; various types of timbo grow from the bones, blood, and flesh of a killed boy ( vines containing poison for fishing)]: Koch-Grünberg 1924, No. 22:72-75.

Central Amazon. 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 the same weight as the Turtle; lifts the Turtle into the air, brings it to the nest; birds hammer its shell; the Toucan fails, the Woodpecker pierces; all birds are colored with blood, bile and fat; the rapinha eagle gets head to blow it like a horn, but the tivito eagle asks to give its head to him; since then, t has a low voice, and the river has a piercing voice]: 128-129.

Southern Amazon. Vaura [The turtle killed people from the Harpy Eagle family (dragged them into the water?) ; one young man trained for a long time, managed to raise the Turtle in his claws, threw it on a rock; the Jaguar and all the birds made their tongues and beaks out of blood, got votes; then they changed which one they liked best]: Schultz 1966:90-93; kamayura: Münzel 1973 [people came to the harpy eagle to ask for feathers; after attaching feathers, they managed to take off; the Harpy Eagle offered to kill Hauatsíu (the big turtle, Podocnemis cayennensis Schw.); everyone flew there with the Harpy Eagle; H. killed everyone; Araura's red bird lured the boy into the forest, became a man, says he is his father, tells him to paint the body is red uruku, promises to come in a year; the bird again leads the young man to the forest, to the village of Harpy Orlov; they say that his father has been killed, give him feathers to train lifting heavy stones; came to H., grabbed his throat, the Eagles carried H.'s children; he himself was thrown on a rock; all the birds gathered to drink his blood, found their current voices]: 180-184; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973 [a man quarreled with his wife and left; consistently approaches three types of trees, wants to be like them; each replies that he can't; comes to birds; he is given feathers, especially eagle feathers- harpies ask to shake; the second time one feather falls; he misses trying to dive and grab a stone; birds say their enemy Avatsiú, who has already killed many birds, is probably his he will kill; he will attack A., but he is killed himself; the birds ask his son for help; not a single feather falls, he lifts A. into the air, throws it; all the birds smear A.'s blood, finding their current voices]: 174-180.

Chaco. Vilela [a timid and unsociable young man turns into a snake in a dream; in shame he rises to heaven in the form of a rainbow; descends to earth to devour people; the latter runs; the mother of the snake advises him to convene birds; Hummingbirds, Herons, Falcons and others came; only the owl Caburé achieved success, pulled out the snake's eyes; his stomach was opened, swallowed out blind, for the gum in his womb covered their eyes; one the bird offered to wash their eyes, but the hawk Carancho said it was not necessary; birds make flutes from snake bones, finding voices; they took pieces of skin for color]: Lehmann-Nitsche 1925b: 226-227.