B3A. Primary waters, A810.
.11.-.14.17.-.53.55.56.59.61.62.66.67.71.-.74.
Thewaters are primary. The earth is launched, appears above the water, grows from a piece of solid substance placed on the surface of water or liquid mud, from an island in the ocean, becomes exposed when the water has subsided, etc.
The Pygmies of Gabon, Cuba, Soko, Bushongo, Fang, Yoruba, Igbo, Eve, Nzema, Fali, Malgashi (Merina), Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Arabs, Berbers of Morocco (Nador), Old Testament (Genesis), Babylonia, Palestinians, Yirkalla, Mailu, Koil off the coast of New Guinea, Susure, Urara, Massava, Massikonapuka, Vuatom in the Bismarck Archipelago, Guadalcanal, Malaita, Ulawa, San Cristobal, Owa Raha in Solomon Islands : Guadalcanal, Malaita, Ulava, San Cristobal, into the sea; they threw red and black into the sea. Fall on the boat, no-wah, Santa Cruz, Bellona, Rennel, Ticopia, Nukuria, Epi, Tongoa, Futuna, Aneityum, Efate in the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Uvea, Maré in Loyalty, Manus, Gazelle, New Britain, Majprat, Samap, Kanaka, Lamotrek, Futuna (Herronan), Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Haapai, Vava'u, Niua , Niuma, Rotuma, Wallis (Ouvea), Hawaii, Tuamotu, Tahiti, Maori, Marquises, Yap, Ulithi, Carolina, Marshall Islands, Gilbert Islands, Fayu, Ponape, Kapingamarangi, Tibetans, Lepcha, Rai, Kirati, Garo, Tripuri, Kachari , meitei, dimasa, sherdukpen, tawang, gallong, mikir, apatani, miri, mishmi, nokte, kachin, zeme, rengma, ahom, shana, karen, khmer, munda, didayi, birkhor, kol, santaly, bhuya, bhuya, bhuya, baiga, koya, gonda, cond, Oraons, Agaria, Maria, Rigveda, Puranas, Paraya, Chero, Tharu, Nepali, Balakhi, Sinhala, Semangs, Malays, Bataks (Toba, Dairi), Ibanas, Kayans, Dayaki (SE Borneo), Dusun, Minahasa, Flores, Tetum, Timor, atauru (?) , Bicol, Tagals, Samads, Visayas, Koreans, Ancient Greece, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Romanians, Hungarians, Slovenes, Gagauz, Poles, Russian written tradition, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Novgorod, Pskov, Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Kostroma, Kaluga, Ryazan, Smolensk, Vyatskaya, Kazan, Orlovskaya, Tambov, Penza, Saratov), northern Ukrainians, Western Ukrainians, Eastern Ukrainians, Belarusians, Kalmyks, Nogais, Adygs, Karachays, Ingush, Terek Cossacks, Lezgins, Georgians, Swans, Zoroastrianism, Gilgit (Shina, Burish), Dards, Sami, Finns, Karelians, Livonians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Komi-Zyrians, Komi-Permyaks, Udmurts, Mari, Mordvians (Erzya, Moksha), Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Karakalpaks, Yellow Uighurs, Chulym Turks, Altaians, Teleuts, Shors, Khakas (Kachins), Baikal (Balagan, Alar, Ida, Verkholensky) and Trans-Baikal (?) Buryats, Khalkha Mongols, Mongols of Inner Mongolia, Mongors, Nenets (Forest, Yamal, Nadym, Yenisei), Mansi (Berezovsky District), Southern Mansi, Eastern Khanty, Nganasans, Ents, Southern and Northern Selkups, Kets, all Yakuts, Western Evenks, Sym Evenks, Evenki Orochons, Ilimpic and other Evenks of the Turukhansky Territory, Chumikan Evenks from the Okhotsk coast, Nerchi-Chita equestrian districts, Ayansky, Trans-Baikal, Evens, Nanai, Ulchi, Negidals, Udege, Nivkhs, Manchus, Orochi, Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, Ryukyu Islands (Miyako, Yaeyama), Ainu Islands, Forest Yukaghirs, Russkoe Ustye, Markovo, Reindeer Koryaks, Chukchi, itelmen, St. Lawrence, Central Yupik, Nuniwak, Inupiat (Northern Alaska?) , McKenzie estuary, koyukon, upper kuskoquim, kuchin, upper tanana, southern tutchoni, tagish, inner tlingit, helmet, beaver, hea, slevi, doghreb, chipewayan, yellowknife, eyak, tlingits, hyda (Masset, Skidgate), Bellacula, Quakiutl, Quarry, Thompson, Puget Sound, Upper Chehalis, Tututni, Upper Coquill, Tolova, Molala, Cous, Chinook, Yakima, Modoc, Menominee, Winnebago, Oriental Cree, Steppe Ojibwa, hurons, oneida, seneca, mohawki, onondaga, tuscarora, delaware, sarsi, blacklegs, assiniboine, grovantre, arpahoe, crowe, teton (Brule), dakota (sioux, group not specified), santi, mandan, hidatsa, iowa, oto , osage, sheyen, kuapo, arikara, pawnee, wichita, shoni, yuchi, chiroki, chitimacha, taskeghi, alabama, koasati, viyot, yurok, yuki, pomo, vintu, patvin, achomawi, atsugevi, maidu, mountain and coastal miwok, chukchansi yokutz, dumna yokutz, yokutz, salinan, monache, tubatulabal, kawaisu, northern payut, mono (Owens Valley), bannock, eastern shoshoni, southern payut, chemewevi, southern utah, walapai, yuma, maricopa, mojave, Cocopa, Papago, Pima, Navajo, Jicarilla, Western Apache, Lipan, Hopi, Zunyi, Western Ceres (Laguna, Akoma), Seri, Varigio, Tarahumara, Huichol, Bark, Mixtecs, Lacandons, Chol, Chorti, Quiche, Shinka, Eastern Panama (kuna?) , kogi, tunebo, guayabero, macushi, aparai, siona and sekoya, kofan, letuama, uitoto, bora, kashibo, machigenga, takana, chimane, guarayu, sheta, kaingang, nivacle, matako, toba, pilaga, mbia, southern tehuelche.
Bantu-speaking Africa. The Pygmies of Gabon (next to the fang) [at first there was water everywhere; a huge turtle swam, partially covered the waters with its shell, laid eggs, animals, birds, reptiles; a boat sailed, two eggs fell into it (or the snake put them there), of which a man Ntaum and a woman Rae were born]: Trilles 1932:72; cube: Belcher 2005 [Mboom regurgitated the sun, moon and stars; the sun evaporated the water, earth appeared; then M. regurgitated various animals and people; then the crocodile himself regurgitated all the snakes, the goat all the horned animals, the gudgeon all the fish; one man regurgitated the white ants, died, ants he was buried; the second regurgitated plants, the third a hawk; M. told everyone how to live; Mboom and Ngaan quarreled over a woman; N. went into the water, created harmful crocodiles, iguanas, snakes; M. gave birth to 9 Woot's sons; they, acting separately, arranged the land, built rivers, invented blacksmithing; the woman relieved the lake of palm wine, it dried up, palm trees grew in this place; pygmies guessed that the wine had gone to the palm trees; King Woot's son got drunk, lay naked; his sons laughed at him, and his daughter covered him, so he handed over the inheritance to his daughter; W. fell ill with leprosy, retired to the forest, but his sister Mweel went with him, became his wife, they had many children, W. found signs of royalty, recovered, returned; the pygmy spoke about incest, W. fled, his son too, became an ancestor of the Lele people; when he left, W. was going to give the signs of royalty ("chicken-basket") to his son; the pygmy told Brother Voota Nyimi Longa about this; in the pre-dawn darkness, W. did not notice the substitution, handed the "chicken basket" to his brother; after learning about substituted, W. burned down the village, sent darkness, and his wife cursed the crops and livestock, both went up the river; later NL begged him to return the light, fertility recovered; the two genera argued for supremacy, decided to quit Whose axe swims into the water will win; Chief Byeeng ordered a wooden forgery, but his wife, Chief Bushong's sister, changed her axes; Bushong won]: 215-218; Knappertt 1997 [first alone water; Mbombo, a white giant, felt a pain in his stomach, regurgitated the sun, moon and stars; the sun dried the waters, they became clouds; then M. regurgitated the forest, animals, people, tools; Nchienge, the wife of waters, lived in the east, gave birth to a son Woto and a daughter Labama; V. became the first king of Bakuba, lived in the west, made the skin of his subjects black so that hunters would be less visible in the forest; put the potion on their tongue, they spoke the language of a cube; married his sister, ordered only kings to do so; V.'s niece gave birth to the first sheep, sheep were valued only for kings; V. learned to make palm wine from monkeys; goats stayed with people to protect them from leopards; when V. blew the horn, bananas grew; he could also summon crocodiles from the river]: 176-177; bushongo [at first only darkness and water, Bumba regurgitated the sun, the water dried up, it regurgitated the moon and stars, the eagle, the crocodile, the fish, the turtle, the lightning, the heron, the bumblebee, the goat; they created others (goat - horned animals, fish - the rest of the fish, etc.); the lightning was sent to sky, but it still tends to earth]: Scheub 2000:26; fang [Mebege and the Diboia spider were between water and sky; D. advised to create earth; M. took the hair from under his mouse, added something from dipped his brain, took out the pebbles, turned out an egg, lowered it into the sea, told D. to bring the egg when it was hot; he brought, M. added sperm, the god Zame ye Mebege, his sister Nying, came out of the egg Mebege, his brother Nlona Mebege, responsible for evil; ZM saw a raffia palm tree in the sea (leaf), transformed it into a cross responsible for the four sides of the world; took the hair from under his arm, his brain, did ants and termites, their bowel movements formed the earth; it grew in the sea, hardened; ZM and his sister and brother came out of the egg, set foot on the ground; ZM erected a cross, it became a raffia palm; then created people]: Scheub 2000:147-148; soko [at first the earth is covered with water; the water has dried up, plants have appeared; there is only a Month in the sky, only a Toad on earth; The month said it wants to create a man and a woman; The Toad replied that the Month belongs to heaven, so he must create people on earth, the Toad; the Month said that its people would be eternal, and the Toad's people would die and the Toad himself would also die; the Toad created a man and woman; the Month sent its sparks to the Toad and it burned; cooled its anger in the pond, which began to boil; the people created by the Toad had no reason and were only supposed to live for a month; The Month gave them a longer life and more intelligence; washed, finished; gave the man the name Bateta and the woman Hanna; gave them an ax, fire, pottery, bananas, indicated animals and birds to hunt, returned to heaven himself; H. gave birth to 242 children ; the dog showed B. that the fruits of various cultivated plants lying under the tree are edible]: Stanley 1893:4-28 (retelling in Scheub 2000:24-25).
West Africa. Yoruba: Belcher 2005 [Obatala descended the gold chain from the sky to the ocean, poured sand from the shell onto the waters, formed land; he let the chicken go, it began to rummage, created a relief; O. descended on land, made palm wine, got drunk, decided not to drink anymore]: 310-311; Frobenius 1913:283 [(paraphrase in Belcher 2005:311-313); first below the ocean (Okun, or Olorun), above Olorun; Olorun gave the elder to the son of the earth and a five-toed chicken, sent him to create land; on the way he got drunk; then sent his youngest son with the same task; the chicken began to scatter the land he had brought, the water came down; the elder brother became fight with the younger one, but reconciled, both went to the underworld], 283-284 [same, both brothers turn into stones]; Igbo [Ogbughu (rhino bird)'s mother died, he could not find a place to bury her, buried it in my head, now I grow up on it; flying over the waters, I saw a man and a woman copulating in the water; they were moving and the earth appeared; the Ale woman merged with the ground, saying that in the ground they will bury the dead; therefore, cultivated plants grow from the ground and bury them in it]: Belcher 2005:286-287; nzema [water first; Nyamele (Sky) created Azele (Earth); her husband Nyevile (Sea) ); according to another version, all three originally existed and were not created by the supreme creator Ekenkema]: Grottanelli 1967:38; eve [water is everywhere first; God splashed local juice under the bird's wings cabbage, it flew, the waters parted, land appeared, people came out of it; others descended from the sky in a basket hung from a rope]: Spieth 1906:558-559.
Sudan - East Africa. Fali [first two eggs, a turtle and a frog, from which two lands arose, fused together; under them the water that existed before]: Lembezat 196:171-172; malgashi (gelding) [first only the sea, where the monster Itrimobe lives; one day he leaned out, saw the light, found no land, dug holes in the middle and on five sides of the ocean, water gathered in them, land appeared; but his eyes were tired of the light and he died; his spirit wanted his hands to be human, his two legs to be animals, his entrails to be reptiles, his spine to be fish; his right hand to be a man, his left hand to be a woman, and they help each other; legs have become pets that people lean on like legs]: Haring 2007, No. 1:1-2.
North Africa. Ancient Egypt (Heliopolis Version, 5th Dynasty) [Nun's vast ocean at first, it looks like an egg; the earth rose from it in the form of a hill; the bisexual Atum created himself, or he is a Nun child; he created the earth so that there would be a place to stand; he created gods]: (?) ; Salonen 1969 [in all versions, primary waters first; The creator (most often named Nun) raises Ta-Tjenen from the bottom of Hill; in Hermopolis, the hill is raised by Thoth, puts an egg on it, hatches from it the sun soars to the sky; in Heliopolis, the lotus opened in the morning, released sunlight; in the evening it opened again, took the sun for the night]: 118-119; Ancient Egypt (Hermopolis version) [there are four a version of the Hermopol version of creation; 1) the heavenly goose Great Gogotun laid an egg on the primary mound in the waters; the creator of the world hatched from it, the bird of light Ra; 2) the same, the ibis laid the egg, the incarnation of Thoth; He was born himself, the Ogdoad of the Gods was his product; 3) a lotus rose above the waters of the Sea of Two Knives, the petals opened, Ra was there; 4) a scarab (symbol of Ra) was inside the lotus who became a boy and cried; his tears became people]: Ions 1968:37; the Arabs of Egypt [at the beginning there is water everywhere]: El-Shamy 1995:44; the Berbers of Morocco (Nador) [first water; from God's presence it began to boil, smoke rose, became the sky, moss formed, became earth; when God sent Adam to live on earth, she staggered and swam in irritation; God nailed her with a mountain that is at the base of all the mountains; this is Mount Jbal Kaf near Mecca]: Thay Thay 2001, No. 10:14.
Western Asia. Old Testament [God's spirit rushed over the waters]: Gen. 1:2; Book of the Apocrypha 2005 ["The Book of Jubilees or Little Being"; on the second day He created a firmament between the waters; and the waters were filled with that day: half of them went up and half descended under the firmament that is in the middle]: 17; Babylonia: Kramer 2005 ("Enuma-Elish") [after defeating Tiamat Marduk with the help of his father Ea created people from the blood of King, a rebellious god who was the leader of the hostile Tiamat troops; according to another source (prologue to a spell to purify the temple of Babel), at first there was nothing, "everything the countries were a solid sea"; then the gods were created and Babylon was built; after that, Marduk built a structure on the surface of the waters from reeds and, with the help of his mother, the goddess Aruru (Sumerian Ninmah, aka Nintu, aka Nihursag) created people; after man, Marduk created steppe animals, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, grass, reeds and reeds, green shoots of fields, land, swamps and thickets, a cow and a calf, sheep and lamb]: 111-112;? [first salt waters are a woman Tiamat and fresh water is a male Apsu; they give birth to Lahma and Lahama, and those are Anshar and Kishar ("father of the gods, king"; Kishar's son is the god of heaven Ana]; Palestinians: Hanauer 1977 [ First, Allah created the Tables of Destiny recording everything that was and would be; created a giant Pen, told him to write; when the tables were full, A. placed them and the pen in an unknown place; then A. created water and a huge pearl the size of heaven and earth; A.'s voice spread to the first waters, they began to boil, then everything subsided; then A. created his throne, putting it on the waters; created a winged Wind, telling him support the waters; the snake lying in a ring around the Throne; his head is a white pearl, his body is gold, his eyes are sapphires; then A. told the Wind to stir up the sea; the foam formed land on the surface of the waters, splashes and steam have become clouds; frozen waves have formed mountains; mountains prevent the earth from floating on the waters, their roots go to Mount Kaf, which encircles the world and holds its contents; surface waters A. turned into seven concentric seas separated by the same number of continents, but connected by straits and bays]: 3-5; Meyouhas 1928 [starting about like Hanauer; the purpose of the mountains is to hold everything on land, from sliding into the abyss; Allah divided the waters, creating seven seas separated by land; first the earth swayed on the waters; A. ordered the angel to support it by placing an emerald rock for him under his feet; A. told the River Horse with sparkling eyes to hold the rock on one of the horns; when this Beast gets tired, he throws the rock to the other horn, the earth shudders; this creature is born swimming in waters by Leviathan; to illuminate land and sea, A. created the sun, moon and stars]: 7-11.
Australia. Yirkalla [first water is everywhere, the waves knocked down the islands of foam; two sisters sailed in a boat, called the foam earth, it became dry; they dug wells with their digs, from there all the animals came out and birds; sisters gave them names and places to live; people came from somewhere; while women were sleeping, men stole their herbal bags containing quartz crystals and other sacred objects; set fire grass where the bags lay so that women thought they had burned; when women woke up, they heard the voice of a whistle that men set in motion during the ritual; since then, men have power; the Sun Angry, turned those two sisters and four men who stole their handbags into stone pillars; after sunset, the Sun becomes a fish, swims in groundwater from west to east]: Wells 1965:67-74.
Melanesia. Susure [at first one water, the spirit of Tauar rose out of the water; he pushed the water away, land arose, the rest remained sea; first the earth was like a swamp, T. created plants; drew a man on the ground, blew life in him; the same with a woman; people multiplied, T. sent them in different directions]: Lehner 1975, No. 1:741-742; Manus: Meier 1907, No. 2 [Nimei man and Niwong woman swim in the sea; decide create land; they grab a floating tree trunk, it turns into the ground; they create vegetation on the ground; they create two mushrooms; a man made a Month out of his own, a woman made the Sun out of his own], 5 [The month has affected sick, his brother Sun went fishing alone; at this time the Month had sex with the Sun's wife; the Sun found them; swam away with his people, threw sand on the water, the country of Nauna appeared; the Sun now rises with East, Month from the West (otherwise both would have risen from the east); the people of the Month are stars; the people of the Sun live in Nauna]: 646, 940-941; the Gazelle Peninsula [To Kabinana and To Karvuva took clods of land into the boat, scattered across the sea, resulting in islands]: Meier 1909:47-49 in Lessa 196:278; New Britain [Tabui Kor's two sons found out that she was salting their food with her urine and her own with real salt; TC in anger rolled back the saltwater rock, the spilled water formed the sea; they scattered clods of land over it - islands]: Brown 1910:354-355, Mackenzie 1930:150-151 in Lessa 196:278; Majprat ( NW New Guinea) [a flying fox lived in Fu Cave; its excrement fell into the water, formed a mound, it grew, became land; her son Sachaf and daughter Satoch married, had two daughters and two sons, they got married, came out of the cave, blocked the exit; the flying fox followed; those who it bit the most have lighter skin; during disasters, people clean this cave]: Elmberg 1968, No. 52:208 (comm.), 280-281; samap: Gehberger 1950:755-762 [parents put their son and daughter in a bag, put them in a boat, let them go to sea; they threw red, black and yellow paint into the sea, which formed an island ( in Lessa 1961:278-279], 762-765 [a demon took brother and sister to sea, threw it overboard; they took sand from floating leaves, threw it into the water, formed an island (Lessa 196:279)]; Santa Cruz [ Mosigsig lived in Utupua; threw off the fruit of a breadtree, it turned out to be rotten, hollow, M. made a boat out of it; contrary to his mother's ban, he sails to where Santa Cruz is now, catches and brings more and more large and dangerous fish and shellfish; invites a terrible fish with 8 fins, each like a sail, into a boat, invites it to sit on a knife, then again, it dies; the last time it pulls Santa Cruz from the bottom; his little brother got scared, ran, so the cape by the lagoon is too long]: Coombe 1911:192-194; Western Melanesia, New Hebrides, New Caledonia: Lessa 1961 [fished and Mailu, Koil off the coast of New Guinea were considered caught; Urara, Massava, Massikonapuka, Vuatom in the Bismarck archipelago: Guadalcanal, Malaita, Ulawa, San Cristobal, Owa Raha in Solomon Islands: Guadalcanal, Malaita, Ulava, San Cristobal, into the sea; they threw red and black into the sea, but wah; Epi, Tongoa, Futuna, Aneityum, "many islands known to the inhabitants of Efate" in the New Hebrides; New Caledonia; Ouvea and Mare (Loyalty Islands)]: 319; Codrington 1881 [the southernmost island of the New Hebrides was considered to be fished]: 296; Aneityum: Codrington 1881 [Aneityum was considered to be fished]: 296; Humphreys 1926 [Inhugaraig went to sea on a nesiaig tree leaf to fish; pulled out the island, it was Aneityum, I. lodged a man and a woman there]: 112; Kanaka: Leenhardt 1930:218 in Lessa 1961 [The souls of the dead carried the earth on a tarot leaf, poured it on the water, New Caledonia was formed]: 278; Leenhardt 1932 [to create land, God threw a tarot leaf with soil on it, or a yam cake]: 448; Fiji [at first only water and sky; the gods lived in Bulotu, where they drank cava under a tree; Maui decided to lower the boat, and sailed far from Bulotu with his two sons, fished Fiji, then Tonga, Niue, Haabai, Vava'u and other islands]: Fison 1894:139-146.
Micronesia-Polynesia. Uhiti (West Carolina) [two older brothers fished and Motilik fished Fais Island, their boat was in the middle of it]: Lessa 1961, No. 5:35-37, 301 [in Micronesia, they were considered fished Fais, Galap (Palau?) , Ayai, Mili], 318 [motive known in the Carolinas, Marshall Islands, Gilbert Islands], 319 [source list]; Palau, Yap, Uliti, Ngulu, Fayu, Ponapa, Kapingamarangi, Marshall Islands [data on their origin from sand, etc. thrown into the water]: Lessa 196:281-286; Lamotrek [at first the world is dark, the sky is close to water; at sea mother rock that gave birth to three gods; these are Saulal (in the lower world Ilal, lord of the sea and fish), Sauaur (Mr. Vodukha, is responsible for the fruits of the breadtree) and Alúelap, upper, supreme the deity, his wife Limarauarau, is the Sky; according to a version from Elato Island, the mother goddess grew a coconut palm (or rather a trunk without leaves), she rested on the low sky; the son and daughters ordered climb a palm tree, scatter sand from there, islands appeared; a son named Eluelap raised the sky to its current height, expanded the sky; according to Lamotrek, daughter of E. Leboupboup (Ligóubub, Legóupup) descended from the sky, scattered sand and stones, created islands, created plants and animals; cut the tip of her finger on her right hand, and blood drops appeared Yat woman and Yol man, humans descended from them]: Krämer 1937:143-146; Tokelau Islands (Fakaofo) [three Maui First brothers, Maui Middle, Maui The last lived in Tonga, sailed to fish; hook Maui I caught on the root of the coconut palm tree, he began to pull, pulled out Fakaofo Island; swam further; Maui Middle's hook caught, he pulled Nukunono Island; Maui the Last to Atafu Island; Earth and Heaven lay close to each other, people crawled between them; a man Iikiiki and a woman Talanga had a boy Ku; he rested on the sky, moved him away, took a tree, moved the sky like a sixth; then The winds called for help in the 12 corners of the earth; 12 winds raised the sky to its current height]: Burrows 1923:153; Tuvalu (Funafuti) [a man went to sea, scattered sand from the basket, so the islands arose; Pai, Vau: Two women from the Gilbert Islands scattered sand across the waters]: Williamson 1933 (1): 72; Futuna (Herronan, in Vanuatu) [there is a story that the island was caught]: Lessa 196:319; Samoa [Tangaloa I saw a stone floating in the ocean, took it to the sky, turned it into a woman, she gave birth to his daughter Tuli ("plover"); his father sent her to the ground, Tuli returned, saying that there was only water below; Tangaloa or threw a stone from the sky on the water, or fished it from the bottom; the stone grew to become earth; to give shade, Tangaloa threw a seed, a vine grew; Tuli said that there were no people on earth; her father advised her to pull out vine; it rotted, larvae started, two of them turned into men; one was injured while fishing and died; Tangaloa made his body feminine, revived; humans come from this couple; Tangaloa gave them tarot and others useful things]: Makemson 1941:59-60 (also briefly in Dixon 1916:18); Tonga: Permyakov 1970, No. 141 [Tangaloa Autolongolongo in the form of a seagull flies from the sky to search for land in the sea; notices a white stripe, returns; Tangaloa the Builder lowers an avalanche of porous stones from the sky, the land of Eua appears; TA flies again to that strip, it turns into the mainland, into the Foremother Ata; Tangaloa Chief gives fruit, from vegetation grows on the ground; a worm appears in a fragment of the vine, TA tore it with its beak, three people appeared from the two halves and from a fragment stuck to its beak; they are the ancestors of invisible spirits], 142 [Maui Motua ("The Elder") sent in a boat to catch the islands of Maui Vysokoe, M. Low, M. The builder, his son, M. Kisikishi ("Little", he is the strongest); they sailed to Samoa, where the god of Tonga was catching land, to pick up his hook; MK seduced his wife, who advised him to take the most inconspicuous hook; T. asks to name land caught in his honor; in addition to Tonga, they caught Tokelau, Samoa, Haapai, Vava'u, Niua, Niuma]: 363-365, 365-368; Collocott 1924:275-276 [seaweed and mud floating in the water went to Totai Island to Bulota (paradise), split up, a rock was built, four couples came out of it; their children shared the world; Vele-lahi and the Tangaloa brothers took the sky, Hikuleo took Bulotu and the whole earth, Hemoana took the sea, Lube is land and forests; if Hikuleo comes to earth with Bulotu, he will destroy it; so Tangaloa from the sky and Maui from the underworld hold him on a rope], 276-277 [there are five Tangaloa in the sky; one of they send them, T. Atulongolongo in the form of a snipe, to visit the land; he finds only the sea, but in one place he is stranded; after seven nights he is sent again, stranded closer to the surface; to him they told T.-Tufunga to throw down chips and chips from his workshop; from them the earth arose and began to grow; T.-Eiki let him plant a vine seed, vegetation arose; T.-A. ordered to tear off a piece the root, it rotted, with a larva in it; T.-A. tore it in half with his beak; the first three people appeared from the two halves and from the piece left in the beak: the elder Rahai, the middle Koau, the younger Momo ("fragment") ]; Niue [Niue was a reef filled with water at high tide; two men from Tonga, Huanaki and Fao, sailed there, drowned, the island rose above the waters, they drowned again, trees and grass appeared; from ti plants they made a man and a woman, they gave birth to humans]: Thompson in Williamson 1933 (1): 69; Rotuma: Polinskaya 1986: No. 6 [Lou's wife (son of Tangaroa) gave birth to two sons, then she had a miscarriage; Moea-Tikitiki's baby was raised by a wea bird, sent to her parents; Lou walks secretly somewhere; M. watches him; Lou lifts a stone, descends into a hole in the ground; M. looks through the hole, sees below the country of Tonga, descends, finds himself in a tree, throws fruit at his father; he tries to destroy him by sending him to the old man for fire; M. defeats the old man, brings fire; next time he descends with two brothers, M. hooks Tonga's land; Tangaroa got angry and placed his brothers in the sky (three stars of the Orion Belt)]: 55-57; Burrows 1936 [(data from Gordon Macgregor); two winged women poured out baskets of land, creating the islands of Alofi and Rotuma]: 26; Churchward 1937 [two sisters on earth, the eldest Lou; underground was Tonga, where the couple had a son, Mafi; he went to the ground, married Lou; They are Moea Motua's sons, Moea Langon, who miscarried for the third time; Marie-ki-Langi's woman came down from heaven to steal blood, called for help from the wea bird (quail), she chirped, it rained, washed away the blood; MKL and Weah took the child to heaven, named Moea Tiktic; MKl sends him to steal food from his real mother; once warns that his father has ambushed him; he catches MK, the couple is happy; MT is watching his father, sees him pick up a stone, disappear under it; MT goes down the tree trunk, throws fruit at his father; his father sends him 1) for bananas, they are guarded by a huge kalae bird, MT breaks her wings with a stick, father not happy; 2) behind the fire to his parents; the grandfather throws MT, he falls to his feet; MT throws his grandfather, he falls flat; gives a whole burning log; 3) behind the roots of the cava, they are guarded by two huge ants, MT runs until they get tired, brings cava; returns to the ground with his father; catches fish with his brothers, pulls Tonga to the surface with his grandfather and grandmother's house; they are carried away by the current; The brothers are looking for other people, they only find Tupu-a-Rosi; he does not know their names; after becoming a spider, Moea Motua begins to descend on Moea's head; the brothers scream, Moea Motua, see who wants to attack you! The same goes for My Langon and My Tiktik; TaR tells the birds to shout the names of their brothers when they approach, disappears from home every time; the third time, the brothers tell the birds to shout their own names, find Tar; they catch fish, TAR turns into a big fish, tears their net; the third time they grab it, kill it, recognize it by its tattoo, take over the country]: 489-496 (trans. Permyakov 1970, No. 95:207-217); Gardiner in Williamson 1933 (1) [After a quarrel with the king, Chief Rahu from Samoa took his men on a boat, swam for two birds; where the birds were singing, they dumped a basket into the sea sand, Rotuma Island was formed; someone Tokaniua began to mark coconut palms, claiming the island; R. offered competitions; count the grains of sand stuck to the wet leaf; T . counted, but R. could not count the waves; in anger he began to beat the ground with a stick, separating small islands from Rotuma; began to live on one of them, Hataua, but also ruled Rotuma; (according to Pritchard, Rahu is a god, his wife - Iva, corresponds to Khiva in Central Polynesia)]: 70-71; Fr. Wallis (Wallis) [Tangaloa descended from the sky to Ouvea, fished out the surrounding small islands from the sea]: Burrows 1937:161-162; Bellona [the Nerita shell surfaced from the water, it had soil; first the pangati beetle became a living creature on the island; then an arrowroot grew, and the sky rested against it; Tangangoa decided to lift it, but its height was insufficient; another god pushed the sky away with a priestly rod, propping him up]: Monberg 1966:31; Rennell [Mutikitiki and his two younger brothers made a boat, went fishing in it, hooked something on the bottom, pulled Rennell Island]: Monberg 1966: 31; Tikopia [two atua named Tafik Metikitik were fishing from a boat; M. sat aft and rowed, T. threw the line; pulled out two stones, which gave rise to Tikopia, considered the fruit of their union; now male the stone is located in Faea on the leeward side, the female (the "goddess" of the gardens) is under the floor of a dwelling in Paevatmaru]: Rivers 1914:339; Nukuria [A.I. Davletshin, Field Nabl., February 2013; there is a slide in the water white sand, the sea worm's house, grows up, rises, becomes dry; Haraparapa and Kateariki found it; but Roatuu says these are her islands, it rose with the sand; then H. and K. took away the sweet potatoes and taro they brought, leaving only the coconut palm and the kanokano (?) ; R. stayed, began to give birth, gave birth to snakes, birds, fish and all creatures of the sea and land, but not humans; K. and H. returned, one ran along the eastern coast, the other along the western shore of the atoll, created the current configuration reef and islands; so the reef is on the NE side of the straight line, because K. saw normally; and on the SV {obviously, the error is the southern} curve because H. was blind; they divide people into births and create tarot fields]: Davletschin 2018:128-129; Hawaii: Beckwith 1970:229-330 [Hina finds a men's loincloth on the beach, puts it on herself, gives birth to it Maui; chickens own the fire, hide it at approaching M.; he grabs the smallest one, she first says that fire should be extracted by friction from the tarot, from ti leaves (M. tries, holes remain in the leaves of these plants); indicates correctly, M. extracts fire punishes the chicken, leaving a red stripe on her head; the sun moves too fast; M. steals bananas one by one, which his blind grandmother bakes; she recognizes him, agrees to help; sitting on tree, M. throws a loop over the rays of the rising sun; the Sun agrees to move more slowly, especially in summer; together with his brothers M. catches the ground in the forest; tells the brothers not to look back, one breaks ban, forests are breaking off, so the land mass is divided into islands], 232-233 (Fr. Kauai) [2 var.; Maui is fishing for land, but the scoop from his boat turns into a beautiful woman; people scream at the miracle, the M. brothers turn around, the land is divided into separate islands], 308-309 [ Kapuhe'euanui fishes for a piece of coral, throws the pieces back, sacrificing a pig and naming the future islands; this is how Hawaii, Maui, Oahu appear]; Henry 1928 [a bird laid an egg on the waters; upper part the shell became the sky, the lower earth, the contents of Hawaii]: 343 (retelling in Makemson 1941:51-52); Tyerman, vol.1:523 in Williamson 1933 (1) [Tangaroa, in the guise of a bird, laid an egg on the surface primary waters; the egg burst, giving rise to heaven, earth, etc.]: 19; Tuamotu: Beckwith 1970:234 [Ataraga sees Huahega bathing, marrying her, their son Maui-Tikitiki catches the sun in a snare; recognized as father; kills Mahuika; fishes Tahiti and Little Tahiti], 234-235 (Anaa) [Maui-tikitiki is the fifth son of Ataranga and Huahega (daughter of fire master Mahuike); seeks father recognition, competes with Mahuike and kills him, catches the Sun in a snare from his mother's hair Huahega; with the help of his brothers, he catches the Havaiki country from the sea]; Maori [Maui, the youngest of five brothers, gets in the underworld his grandmother's jaw; tells his brothers to send their wives for flax, weave strong ropes, make a trap; catches the Sun that moved too fast; hits him with his jaw, the Sun has lost its former strength and since then moves more slowly; people do not know how to make fire; M. puts off lights to get a new one; goes down to the lower world to the mistress of the fire, old Mahuika; she gives her nail, the flame hits it; M. extinguishes it, says what you accidentally drop gets a second nail; when she comes for the tenth, the old woman throws her nail at him, the flame chases M., he flies like a hawk (since then the hawk has scorched feathers on its wings); gods they fill the flame with rain, Mawick threw the remnants into the trees, now the fire pulls them out with friction; sitting in a boat with her brothers, M. makes the sea endless, pulls new land out of the grandmother's jaw on the hook (hook caught on the door of the house of Tonganui, the son of the sea god); the brothers began to divide the land, striping it with teslas; the land wandered, so the mountainous terrain appeared]: Reed 1960:32-41; The Marquises [at first only the ocean, Tiki swims on it in a boat, fishing for land from the seabed]: Dixon 1916:20; Yap [a tree from the mallow family grew rooted in the sky, top of its head down to the ocean; a woman lived in its branches, gave birth son; did not tell him to go to heaven; he got up, disappeared; she found him dead nailed to the beams of the house; asked the heavenly leader to bring him back to life; he did it, gave sand, earth, seedlings; woman She threw it all into the sea, an island appeared, she began to live on it with her son]: Walleser 1913:609-610.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: Hermanns 1946-1949:289-290 [Is the blue sky, white airspace turtle authentic or not? Is the yellow earth turtle supernatural or ordinary birth? When the surface of the vast ocean extended to the sky, ist dies der Täuschung Grund], 833 [water first; 1) A turtle pulls a piece of land from the bottom, from which our world grows; 2) Manchushri bodysatva created a monstrous Turtle, let it into the waters; shot it with a golden arrow; fire blazed, blood flowed, bowel movements poured out; the turtle turned over on its back; peace stands on its chest shell]; Tibetans (13th century manuscript) [by the time of the king, the egg had been pierced (by the first man), the bird had spread the land in breadth; the water demon had brought the waters of the sea to one place (Seezusammenströmung)]: Hermanns 1946-1949, No. I.1:276; lepcha : Hermanns 1954:30-31 [Rum created the ocean, then ngo fish; three pairs of deities (Rug-lu and Rug-lom, Mon-li and Röng-gul, Pö-ril and Pö-dong) and the first pair of humans (Sö n-li and Söm-nag-Mön-mu); they began to support the plate-shaped land; when the fish moved, the ground shakes; then Rum created a main mountain and four more mountains, two large rivers], 32 [ one water first; The creator placed a clay pot on it, it swims, it's land]; Stocks 1925, No. IV.1 [first one water; Tashey-Takbo-thing created two fish - common and serpentine; the turtle keeps the world and T. placed birds and animals on it; T. made the first man out of oil, but it blurred; people made of oil would be beautiful; then he made man out of earth and clay, and the wind breathed life into him; T. made blood from water and poured them into man, made bones out of stone; but man was silent, without veins and nerves; T. made them out of vines; man came to life but did not have a woman; T. caught birds with snare, once in a snare a woman got there; at first a man and a woman could not get married because there was no matchmaker to agree to marry; then (supreme god) Rum sent an owl], VI [water is everywhere at first; the Creator put on her the ceramic vessel that swam, became dry; the Creator planted bamboo, created the Himalayas, bamboo at their foot; created the Pudung-thing man and the Nazong-gnyu woman, humans descended from them; the king of the serpents Paril-bu dammed rivers, water flooded the earth, rose to the sky; only two people escaped at the highest peak of the Himalayas; Tashey-thing sent a hero to earth, he cut the snake apart, the waters came down, the Blue Mountains - petrified pieces of his body; Tt sent two rivers down from the Himalayas, led by snakes and quail; sent a couple of Lepcha's ancestors, their grandparents]: 355-356, 358-359; Rai [Paruhong killed demons, created water, then extracted earth from water; (but at limbu, p.11, the supreme god Niwa-Buma first created earth and then water)]: Hermanns 1964:8; rai or limbu [Vokmi Yomphami on behalf Earth creates another deity: he creates several huge fish in the empty ocean, puts stones on them, which he covers with clay, sand and earth; he plants plants on the created land; he does not like flat landscape, he creates ever higher mountains; then he populates the earth with insects and creates flowers for them]: Streltsova 2017:156; garo [water is everywhere at first; Tatara Rabuga sent Nostu Nopantu in the image women create land by giving some sand; she sat on a spider-woven web, there was no other place; could not glue the grains of sand into a ball; sent a big crab first, then a small crab, both returned, not Having reached the bottom; the water beetle brought clay from the bottom, NN creates land, TR creates the sun, moon and wind, they dry the earth; the earth is a woman, God gave her clouds as a headdress, sago palms, reeds and grass that are covered by roofs to make it her hair; God first created the hulock {gibbon?} , then monkeys and other animals; from aquatic creatures, he first created fish, and then a frog; created rivers and rain to fill them; sent a goddess to earth to prepare a place for people to live; the first The man and woman created were Sani and Muni, their grandchildren Noro and Mande became the Garo ancestors; first people ate wild roots and fruits, then a couple of dwarfs taught them how to farm; they gave God pumpkin and God awarded them by giving them rice]: Playfair 1909:82-84 (=Bertrand 1958:83); tripuri: Niyongi 1983 in Mandal 2009:85 [it's dark at first, God lived on the waters; he created a wife out of mud on his body; they Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara were born; Brahma created people, they multiplied], 85-86 [at first only water and skies, where the sun, moon and stars are; God took dirt from his body, wrapped a banyan leaf, threw it in water; from this came the earth; then God created an earthen rat, and then from clay, a man and a woman and put his life into them; this couple had children; the man asked God to give them food; he advised take seeds from the queen of the Gandharvas in the sky and sow them, taught me to send a rat to steal seeds; people started farming]; kachari [water is everywhere at first; Alow Ilaja tells crabs to dive on the bottom; they scrape silt into a heap until a mountain of earth shows above the water; having created land, AI creates a man and a woman; he made their bodies before nightfall, went to rest before he had time to invest in them breathing; at this time, his five brothers found the figures, divided them into pieces, and hid these parts in different places in the forest; the same thing happened the next day; on the third day, AI created two dogs, leaving them to guard the figures; when the brothers came, the dogs drove them away; these man and woman became the ancestors of humanity]: Soppitt 1885:32; Dimasa [at first there is water everywhere, on the only island Banglaraja creator with his wife Arikidima; she gave birth to 7 eggs, 6 gods came out of 6, the eldest is Brai Sibrai, the youngest is Mongranraja, aka Hamaiyadao; to find out which of them is older, the brothers throw lumps of earth; BS tied to his beetle; they throw darts, BS tied him to his snake; he was recognized as the eldest; noise was heard from the seventh egg; H. broke it, evil spirits came out, rushed at him, A. ordered not to touch him, but to live in deserted areas and inflict various diseases on people; sick people will sacrifice ducks and other poultry]: Mandal 2009:77-78; Meitei [at the beginning one water; 9 gods and 7 goddesses became create land; the gods took material from Atiya Shidaba and handed it to the goddesses, who poured it into the water; a hill appeared above the waters; so they created 64 hills, after the next 8 appeared they drank wine; so the land was created]: Singh 1985:169-170; sherdukpen [water everywhere first; Lopong-Rimbuche and his younger brother Chom-Dande threw a lotus from the sky into the waters, the water was covered with flowers; the brothers told the winds to blow from four directions; the east brought white dust, western yellow, southern red, northern black; dust covered the flowers, mixed, the earth appeared; the brothers began to level the ground, did it unevenly, appeared valleys and mountains]: Elwin 1958a, No. 14:19 (=Pandey 1999:126-127); tawang [winds collided from four directions, a drop appeared, turned into an ocean; collided again, something arose from the ocean, from it is steam, it covered the ocean, has become a four-part firmament; in its center the land is also four-part; the inhabitants of the east are white, the west is yellow, the south is black, the north is red; in the center of the earth it has grown three-part tree; gods live in the upper part, golden in the middle part, people live here, the roots of the tree are deep in the ocean]: Pandey 1999:131-132; gallons [old man Puk and his wife Yuk lived in the sky; earth water covered; the shrimp collected the garbage, leaves, grass that floated on the water with its antennas, they turned into mountains; the crab dug a hole into which the glass was water, exposing the earth; the Sun and Moon dried the earth with heat, she hardened; P. told his wife that there was not enough greenery; she exposed her genitals in anger, they flashed with lightning; P. hit the water vessel with his pipe, it began to rain, and vegetation appeared on the ground]: Elwin 1958a, No. 6:14; mikir [the gods Hèmphū and Mukráng placed four pillars on the edges of the future land, tied them with their mothers' hair; the god's wife Bāmon was sent to Hāyóng, to the god of the lower world, but he did not give land; when she left, she picked up the worm garbage, hid it on her chest; they sent the king of earthworms, he processed this piece, it all grew, turned into earth; blacksmith Kapr áng dried the earth with furs]: Stack, Lyall 1908:70-71; apatani [water first; three male and three female deities created the rock, then the earth and everything in it and in the sky]: Fürer- Haimendorf 196:133-134; miri [only the Teri-Ramula tree rose above the water; it was sharpened by a worm, decay fell on the water, formed the ground; the tree fell; the bark at the bottom of the trunk became skin of the world, in the upper one - the skin of the sky, the trunk petrified, the branches became hills]: Elwin 1958a, No. 8:15; Mishmi [at first one water; the god Techimdum surfaced, looked around, erected a pillar; white ants crawled over it, carrying particles of earth from the bottom, putting them on the water, land appeared; T. put them on a pole in four more corners of the world, ants climbed along them, land appeared; where they laid more land, mountains; a river flowed from the mountain, filled the lake, it overflowed; brother and sister escaped at the top of the hill; god Drakob extracted fire for them by friction, set fire to the forest; the water dried up, but now everything was burning; brother and sister escaped from the fire behind the wall from banana leaves; married, gave birth to humans, wife brought, planted seeds of all plants]: Elwin 1958a, No. 18:21-22 (=1958b:23-24); nokte [the earth was tiny, surrounded by water; from the sky a woman fell; the water gradually descended; then a man fell from the sky, married a woman, they have many children; the great Rango-Kotakrang placed a Sun man and a Moon woman in the sky; they have many children]: Elwin 1958a, No. 19:51; zeme [the text is titled "The Birth of Spirits"; there was no land, a tarot leaf was floating on the water; Bangklawong fell from the sky, said that if his feet did not touch the water, he would be king; one leg was on the leaf and the other fell into the water; he realized that it would be a long time before he became king; he asked everyone who could make the land, but only King Worm (CC) replied that he could to do this; for this he asked a thousand people to die every day to be eaten; B.: but then there will be no people left; CC: but every day a thousand will be born; went down to the bottom, began to do worm casts ( that the worm leaves on the sand or soil, like a cast of a worm) until the land appeared; the raven (mr., crow, but possibly a crow) leveled it, but when it began to level the hills, he was tired, so eat rocky hills, and there are plains; in a dream, Tingwong came to B. and told B. to cut off two fingers, one would make a wife, the other would make a sister; the sister did everything so quickly to return, bringing water before B. could retire with his wife; then B. scattered katsing seeds in the grass and told his sister to collect everything, otherwise she would cut down her machete (dao); she completed the task and entered when B. copulated with his wife; she was so excited about the sight that she was about to lay an egg; B. told her to go to the upper reaches of Barak to Tallaurok, taking a machete, a banana and a gibbon with her, to lay her eggs there; she set aside there were 8 eggs at the waterfall, left a machete, planted a banana and told the gibbon to guard; Katsingpeo was the first to hatch, but scared and climbed back; the second was Tsiuperai; then K. came out again, they began to argue who the first and the main one; 5 more eggs hatch, one remained intact; T. found a banana and a machete, cut a banana with them, served each one a banana, but Gibbon quietly took them for himself; T. hit the gibbon with a machete, smeared them with blood eyes for themselves and brothers, now they have their sight; the brothers decided that the last egg was damaged, threw it into the river; decided to consider the main one who would throw the stone across the river; all the stones fell into the water, but T. accidentally threw the bumblebee and it flew to the other side; then they began to throw grass stems; T. threw the snake and it crawled far; the brothers flew to their mother in the form of crows; seeing that there were only 7 of them, she decided that they were not her children; but T. called her mother, talked about the eighth egg; the mother explained that whoever hatched from it would be wiser and stronger than the others; it was born a boa constrictor; to determine , who is the chief of the seven, the mother sprayed milk from her breasts; the jet went to K., but turned and fell into T.'s mouth, and from him back to K, and then to the others]: http://www.nagajournal.com/category/arts-literature/folktalesstories/ Nagajournal Oct 27, 2013; rengma [water is everywhere first; god sent birds and animals to search for land, no one found it; the crab dived on the bottom, brought dirt on the claws; God placed dirt on the surface of the water, everyone began to compact it, but stupid; when the wagtail did it, the ground hardened; the wagtail still shakes its tail]: Mills 1937:267; Kachin [at first there is water everywhere; two nats, a Mutum man and a woman Muta, came down from the clouds, took a handful of earth out of the water, put it on the water]: Macgregor 1887:69 in Elwin 1958b, No. 27:137.
Burma - Indochina. Ahom [was the ocean; Phatuvchung opened his eyes, took the god Khunithivkham out of his chest, created a crab from one half that began to support the island-land created by P.; from the other half he created Luck's snake wrapped around the crab; var.: the sky was woven from gold threads by a spider, the earth appeared from its excrement; Phatuvchung lowered thousands of sparkling threads to connect heaven and earth; souls fell to the ground along the threads living beings]: Chesnov 1982f: 354; Shans: Griggs 1902 [first one water; the spider weaved a web, laid eggs, the water swayed, the lump became dry, a man and a woman came out of the eggs, gave birth people; one day the world burned down, then it rained, steam reached the upper world of Möng Hpea, hsang perfume smelled nice; 5 male spirits and 4 women went to find out what was going on; land and could not rise back to heaven; decided to stay on earth; 4 couples got married, and the strongest man, Hsin Kyan, abandoned his wife to then take others' daughters; since then daughters they give to the king; the supreme god Sa Kyah tried to kill HC, began to fight him, could not overcome him; then he promised to marry one of HC's 7 daughters who would bring him the head of his father; 7 daughters, by their names The days of the week are named; 6 daughters tried, but could not, HC is invulnerable to water, fire, iron, etc.; the bird teaches the youngest to sew 7 threads of the web, make a bow, they can cut off the head of HC; the daughter brought a head father, but the UK refused to marry her, fearing that she would now kill him; the sisters are thinking about what to do with their father's head: bury it in the ground, the world will catch fire, throw it into the water, the ocean will boil; the UK ordered each carried her father's head for a year, then passed it on to another; at this time she washes blood stains off her clothes; all people come from this perfume]: 85-91; Milne 1910 [in the world that existed before ours, at first one sun, then a second, a third, seven or nine; men died before women because they were mothers of bodysuits and saints; the last to swim was a huge fish; when it burst in boiling water the sea, its fat ignited and everything was finally burned; our world will also burn; worlds arise and die; at first our world was covered with water, it rose higher and higher, almost reaching the sky; 9 gods descended, but returned; then 4 gods with four spiders descended; each made a ball of web on the four ends of the ocean; the ball in the south became our world; the other three we can't see, but souls are reborn there dead; Mount Meru grew in the middle]: 196-197; Chesnov 1982i [heavenly deities led by thunder Lingaun ordered wise Litlong to build a raft to take only a cow; after the flood, a fire broke out in the dry ground; Lynlawn cut the cow's belly and took refuge there; found two pumpkin seeds in the cow's stomach, planted them; Lynlaun burned huge pumpkins with lightning; shans came out of one, and others from the other nations, animals, birds, useful plants]: 66; Walk 1933 [ants dive into the primary ocean, get land]: 65, 74; (=Hermanns 1946-1949:835, citing W. Schmidt. VI. 230 ff); karen [the supreme god created the male being Tha-lu to rule the sky, and the female Tha-lu to rule the earth; the earth was first the size of a spinner; thanks to an earthworm, it grew; first the earth was covered with water; God squeezed it with iron and silk, the water descended to form rivers; a spider in the sky could go down to earth and rise back; God created two suns, a man and a woman; they lived in in a closed palace, they could not be seen; the pangolin gnawed through a hole, losing all his teeth; both suns came out, it was unbearably hot; God allowed man to kill one sun; he hit him with an arrow from a bow and it became moon]: Mason 1865:175; Khmers: Marunova 1972 [first in Cambodia's place, the sea; a sandbank arose from waves and sea foam; Soma, the daughter of the snake Naga, the owner of the waters, came out in the evenings; her saw the king's son expelled by his father from his country; Naga allowed marriage; so that his son-in-law could live on land, drank the water that covered the country, called the resulting kingdom Kambuja; left the fish lake Tonle Sap and the Mekong River]: 6-7; Nevermann 1956 [At first, only Mount Saumeru in the sea; the wind tried to bring it down, but the dragon Preas Peach Neak, calling for help from his friend Preas Eyn, wrapped around the mountain and did not let knock down; The wind cut off his head with a sword, threw him into the air; PN made sure that where Siempeap Island now appeared from the sea, the head of a dragon lay on it; in this place the great one was later built Angkor Thom City]: 82-83; Porée-Maspero 196:605-606 [first only water and sky; Krn Pãli (crocodile) hit the sea eight times with its tail, formed foam, became like flatbread flour; Seven years later, the earth grew and continued to grow; first it was triangular, then quadrangular, then turtle shaped; Buddha in the sky made Práh Thorni's head, right arm on the east, legs in the north, left hand in the west; made a man out of the ground, then a woman for him; gave the woman three cakes, told him to give two to the man, but she ate two herself, gave the man one; then they copulated; woman gave birth to the Sun, Moon, Mars, etc., and then a boy and a girl; their children inhabited the earth], 608-609 [first the world was destroyed by fire, then it was flooded with water; two naks (naked?) collected foam, earth formed], 609 [the world was destroyed by fire; two tevobots created earth from foam (on water)].
South Asia. Hinduism [in Taittiriya Samhita and Taittiriya Brahmana, the creator of Prajapati raises the earth from the waters in the form of a boar]: Elwin 1950:136 (note 1); Puranas [Vishnu swims in the vast ocean; Brahma sees the light coming to him; he declares that he is older because he has given birth to himself; Vishnu replies that he has already created and destroyed the world many times; a gigantic one appears and grows up from the water lingam; to find its end and beginning, Vishnu dives in the form of a boar, Brahma flies to heaven in the form of a goose, but they cannot find the base and end of the lingam; a niche opens on the side of the lingam, Shiva comes out, says he gave birth to both of them]: Zimmer 1946:128-130; Rigveda (RV 10.129) [initially a lifeless salty ocean; by the force of heat, an embryo appeared in it]: Witzel 2006:290; paraya [first earth covered in water; Bhagwan lives in the sky, with a rooster and a chicken; the chicken laid eggs, they fell on the water, they crashed, the shell turned to dry land]: Prasad 1978:156-157; chero [first water, swims lotus; Bhagawan lived in the lower world, rose to the surface on the Turtle; stayed on the lotus, told the Turtle to get the ground from the bottom; she placed the earth on its shell, but as it rose, the water washed away everything ; B. sent the Rat, who also failed to bring land; sent the vulture Garur, who took out land in the sky, brought it in its beak; B. threw the earth on four sides, and there was a four-sided land (four-sided land mass)]: Elwin 1949:4, 7; tharu [the world is destroyed by a fiery drought, then by a flood; the lord of heaven and his wife copulate as birds, place a drop of blood on the water; 15 months later on a leaf The lotus appears in the form of a pumpkin, the first ancestor of Tharu Aklākal Gurubāba; the heavenly couple puts vitality into his head, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, arms, hair, lower body, he finds human appearance; Dove creates a dove from his nails, he flies over the waters, finds no ground; G. cuts his thigh, Raini fish comes out of the cut; it disappears, the pigeon cannot find it, G. tells pigeons were caught in snare, fried, eaten; creates Crab from his nails to get the "immortal earth" from the lower world; he manages to overcome the Xeremphis spinosa thorn fence, get the ground; on the way back, the demon grabs him by the shell, the Crab loses its land; G. orders that crabs be caught, baked, eaten; in the same way he creates 8 other crabs, with all the same as the first; creates earthworms; the first three do not overcome the barbed fence, G. tells them to feed on earth and water; the fourth penetrates through thorns, swallows the earth; on the way back, the demon cuts it into a thousand pieces, but the worm still delivers land, it gives stability to the world; the first to grow on earth is the sacred herb kus (Poa cynusorides), from which is the first perar tree (Xeremphis uliginosa); G. curses it, let people eat its fruits; creates a semar tree (Kapok, Bombax ceiba), addressing him as a woman, telling him to go find out how far the earth stretches; she does not return so long that G. tells her to hold the sky and the lower world; the same with the pine tree, it's gone even longer, G. tells her to live in the mountains, where her resinous fumes will smell fragrant on Mount Kailash; G. cuts her hip again, his daughter Dharmak Diyeri is born; to hold her back, places four holy mani around the edges of the world, retires to the forest as a hermit himself; D. wants to join him, tells the blacksmith to make her a belt, ring and iron shoes to overcome the prickly a fence; but G. puts a rope for carrying weights, an oil press, a weapon, a pig's bristle bridge on his way to him; D. overcomes everything, marries G.; after that G. is called Mahādeo]: Krauskopff 1987:14-16; Nepali: Heunemann 1980 [Swayambhu Purana, early 15th century; text dates back to the 12th century; Kathmandu Valley was covered with water; Vipasvi bodysatva during Satya-Yuga's time (golden age) planted a lotus seed, a lotus with a thousand petals appeared; Adi-Buddha (the original creator) shone above it, the lake was slightly dry; the Manchushri bodysatva went around the lake, saw the hill, cut through the water with a sword ]: 5-6; Shrestha 1996 [Swasthani, listed in Sanskrit in 1573; the story is structured as a dialogue between Shiva and Parvati); giants Madhu and Kaitabha appeared from the earwax of sleeping Vishnu; along the lotus stem from the water they went up; they began to rock the flower to throw Brahma, who was sleeping, into the water; he asked the goddess Yogamai to wake up Vishnu; V. fought against the giants for a long time, promised them to fulfill him the request; it consisted in permission to kill them; they made it a condition to kill them where there was no water; he killed them on his lap; their fat spread over the water, hardened; their flesh became mountains, bones became stones; B. created the earth, six heavens, seven underground layers]: 12-13; balahi (east of the bhilas) [first water, above it a spirit in the form of a ball, Purush came out of it, followed by Ajar and Niran-jan; light was born from the water - Sakti woman; she wanted P. to be her husband; he told her to rub her hands, three bubbles formed, from which Admi (Adam, "man"), Bhagwant (Vishnu), Sambhu (Shankar) came out; everyone refused to become her husband, because they refused to become her husband. he is her son; Sambhu told her to go to Kashi (Benares), where he will find a husband; he went there as a pilgrim; Sakti was divided into 99 forms and Sambhu into 100; 99 forms embraced Sambhu's forms, but they were all empty, and Sambhu was in hundredth; Sambhu and Sakti have become one form again; Sakti successively turns into a piece of gold, silver, clay (he will paint her body), a stone (Sambhu will sit on it), a stick (will lean on it), but Sambhu recognizes the deception every time, does not pick up the transformed Sakti; she promises to leave him alone if he gives her a gift; Sambhu puts a five-month-old embryo in her uterus; Sakti returns to P., who in anger - it's not for him to become her husband! - says she will die; Sakti gives birth to an embryo, dies; he becomes a Haribans boy, the first balahi; he married the daughter of Julahiya, who honored Sambha; from them balahs]: Fucks 1950:235-237; birkhor [At first, there was water everywhere, there was a lotus on the water, the great Sing-bonga spirit came to the surface at the core of the stem, told the Turtle to bring clay from the bottom; turtle: where will I leave the house? S.: take it with you (this is its shell); the water washed away the clay from the turtle's shell; The crab also could not bring it; the leech took it out by swallowing clay; S. squeezed out the clay from it, threw it in four directions, creating land; the land was moist and uneven, S. began to level it, but mountains remained in some places; threw seeds, forests appeared; then S. created a winged horse, and then sculpted the human figure and left it to dry; the horse came and trampled on it, fearing that the man would harness it; then S. made a dog and a new human figure; when the horse came again at night to trample on the man, the dog barked away; the figure dried up and S. her revived, but the joints did not bend; S. took his life and made a new man with bent joints]: Roy 1925:398-402 (retelling in Prasad 1989:3, Elwin 1939:308, note 1); count (Yernga) [first water is everywhere, the Sun and the Moon are in the sky, they are Singbonga and Chando, husband and wife; they scraped off the dirt from their bodies, S. made a boy, C. a girl, threw them into the water; they began to copulate; S. sent in anger it was raining, but the children were hidden by the goddess of water Nagera, and the waters from the fire dried up, the young man and the girl went ashore; S. decided that there was no sin on them, created vegetation on earth, people descended from the first couple]: Elwin 1949, No. 33:50; Munda: Roy 1912 [at the beginning there is water everywhere; Sun God Sing-bonga sent Turtle, Crab, Leech to bring clay from the bottom; Turtle and Crab failed, Leech brought, S. created from this land; the Swan laid an egg, a boy and a girl, the ancestors of people, hatched from it; the SB taught them how to make beer; after drinking, they got together; gave birth to three sons, they went around the country]: v-vi; Roy 1916:201-214 c Osada 2010 [the ground is covered with water, there are no stars in the sky; the Old One created aquatic animals; told Crab to bring the earth from under the water; he dived to the bottom, but as he rose, the ground was washed away from his claws; the same with the Turtle (the earth has been washed away from the surface of the shell; the Earthworm swallows the earth, floats up, regurgitates into the Old Man's palm; he makes the earth big, creates land and everything on it; sculpts a figure out of clay man; before he could put his soul into it, the Horse came, trampled on the figure; the Old Man tried again and this time the Tiger drove the Horse away without letting it approach the figure; the Old Man cursed the Horse, people they will put iron in her mouth, sit on horseback, hit the ball; Tiger was rewarded by making him strong, everyone will be afraid of him]; van Exem 1982:24-29 in Osada 2010 [{apparently Mundari, because it coincides with the previous one text}; first water alone, Haram first created aquatic creatures; told Crab to bring the earth from the bottom; he took the land into its claws, but as he rose, the water washed it away; H. sent the Turtle, which put the land on her the shell, the water washed it away; sent the Worm; he swallowed the earth, disgorged into H.'s hand; he enlarged it, created land, animals and plants on it; he sculpted a human figure out of clay; before he had time to revive it, The horse smashed it; H. tried again, and this time the Tiger drove the Horse away, preventing it from approaching the figure; H. cursed the Horse, people would put iron in its mouth, sit on horseback, hit the rump; Tiger rewarded by making him strong, everyone will be afraid]; Osada 2010 [author's notes; text A: on the Ganges, at sea, we will create a land, a field; for this purpose we sent Mother Turtle and Mother Crab; The turtle laid the ground for itself on the shell, the Crab took it with ticks, but when they rose, the water washed away the earth; they sent Mother Worm, Mother Leech, they drank the earth, spewed it out, urinating, earth arose; to decorate the earth, they created a stone and wood; they sculpted a human figure out of clay, left it to dry in the sun; they made a winged horse for beauty; a winged horse came from the east, came from the west, they trampled on the figure; made a male dog named Chaura, the female dog Baura, was put on guard; they drove away a winged horse that came from the east, drove away the one that came from the west; text B is almost identical]; Santals: Abbi 2015 [ At first only darkness; voice from darkness: is anyone there? another, one of the voices was female; then another; Thakur Jiv (TJ), Thakuraiin Gogo, Saru, Baru, Jiva and Jangar were created, they were all waiting for the light to come out; Thakuraiin Gogo (TG) created Siny Chando and then it was light; but now everyone is waiting for it to be dark; TG created Yinda Chando and darkness is back, darkness and light alternate; Siny means "day" and Yinda means "light"; in TJ's hands, the rest they saw a clay vessel; it blew on it, the clay blurred in the water and the universe drowned; this ocean was Jalaapuri; TG came to the Kolelavka place (in the shape of a boat) to swim; she sculpted mud washed away from her body human figure and left {two figures?} ; the horse came to drink, trampled on the figure; TG sculpted a new one, but it turned out to be less perfect; asked TJ to revive it; the figure came to life, but in the form of a pair of Hans-Haansil (XX) birds; that's why that TG was doing it in a hurry; XX asked TJ to give them shelter and food; he created a tree in the middle of the water and the birds began to live on it; foam produced by the horse floating on the water, and hair that fell into the water TG gave birth to Saaraanpuri; TG and TJ came to live there; but some of the foam and hair remained in Jaalaapuri and moss appeared there, a plant and grass grew on it, XX made a nest in the grass; from two eggs laid Two figures hatched - the same as TG sculpted and trampled on the horse; when they saw that the figures did not look like them, the parent birds flew away; TJ created a cow and she began to feed everyone with milk; created people named Pilchu HaAram and Pilchu BuraHii; TJ created Marang Buru and he began to hiccup whoever could bring earth from the bottom; (9 creatures are named, but only in santali); Radho BoVar reached the bottom, collected clay in his mouth and I put it on my back, but the water washed everything away; the same with the others; only Kacchim Kuwari and Raaymaat Len om brought (from the bottom) the land and the land was created; TJ created the bull and sent it to the ground; with his help Marang The storm leveled the ground; the first two humans were brought to the ground and they began to live there]; Bodding 1942 [first water; Thakur Jiu created various aquatic creatures (crocodile, crab, shrimp, earthworm, etc.). ); he sculpted two human figures out of clay; when he was about to put his soul into them, the day-horse came down from above and trampled on them; then, taking the material from his chest, T. made two birds Has Hasil, revived them, they flew, but there was no land anywhere, so they returned to T.; he drank water, spat, foam appeared on the water; T. told the birds to sit on it, they swam on it on the waves, but complained that there was no food anywhere; The crocodile agreed to dive, get the ground from the bottom, but it was washed away on the way back; Prawn is the same; Raghop Boar (Buar) fish is the same (it has no scales since); Crab is the same; Earthworm asked the Turtle to be ready; he took the ground from the bottom, placed it on the Turtle's back; T. harrowed it, mountains appeared; foam stuck to the ground; vegetation appeared, two birds laid eggs, of which a boy and a girl were born]: 3-5 in Osada 2010; Campbell, ii, p. 16 ff. in Elwin 1949 [Sole fish, Crab, Prince Earthworm, Prince Lendom lived in the water; Thakur Jiu told them to get the ground out of the water; Fish did not succeeded, the Crab swallowed it, fell out, drowned again; Prince Turtle was found in the water, chained to his feet; Prince Earthworm brought land, placed it on the Turtle; after that, TJ grew a tree on the ground and grass]: 8; Culshow 1949 [water is everywhere; Thakur called on the kings of the sea, but they could not get the earth from the bottom; the Crab agreed to dive, but on the way to the surface, the water makes sense of the pieces of land he grabbed; the same - Turtle; The worm asked to put a golden dish on the Turtle's back, promised to swallow the soil at the bottom and empty his stomach on the dish; he did so, the ground was uneven, T. tried to level it, the sea flooded lowland areas; T. created two geese from the seeds of sirom grass, a female and a male, Hans and Hansil (Goose and Gander); they laid two eggs in the grass, and people came out of the eggs - pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi]: 65-66 in Osada 2010; Shrestha 2019 [first water, above it Thakur and his servant Jahereda; Malinburi lived under water; T. told her to make two human figures; she sculpted them out of clay, brought it to the bottom of the sea, put it to dry in the sun; Shinsadom's horse flew in, smashed the figures with flapping its wings; M. made new figures, asked T. to revive them; T. sent her for souls, but M. brought not human, but bird souls ; T. breathed life into them and they flew to heaven; these are the first swans, Hans and Hansini; they have no place to sit, there is water everywhere; they asked T. to give them a place to live; Solehako fish, Katcom's cancer lived in the water, and the Lenden worm; S. and K. could not lift the ground; L. threw bits of land to the surface, but they sank back to the bottom; T. called Kachik the turtle, told it to lie motionless on the water; L. became throw land on the turtle shell, an island was formed; T. grew a Kadam tree and Syrom grass there; Hansa and Hansini built a nest of grass; Hansiner laid two eggs, the beast ate them to Raghopab; T. sent his servant J. to protect eggs; a boy and a girl hatched from them; the children grew up, T. created a cow and two calves for them; taught the young man to make a plow and plow the land, he started farming; Maranburu ( big mountain) was the guardian of a young man and a girl; taught them how to make an intoxicating drink; they got drunk and got together; M. told them not to worry, let them be husband and wife; they have 7 sons and 7 daughters; they quarreled and began to live in different places; the father took his sons with him and the mother of the daughters; the girls and boys met, began to live in pairs; their parents also reconciled and came to live with them; 7 brothers and sisters went to live with them clans]: 567-570; bondo: Elwin 1950:135-136 [Raja's daughter threw pumpkin seeds; her brother took the core out of the pumpkin; it rained, flooded the ground, brother and sister escaped in the pumpkin; Mahaprabhu sent a wild boar to the lower world to steal land from Kermo; he also took the seeds of seven tree species from K. (mango, tamarind, mahua, sago palm, dumal, pipal, banyan); when the boar emerged, shook off the dirt, drops of dirt fell on the water, became earth; M. took brother and sister out of the pumpkin, changed their appearance by sending smallpox on them, they did not recognize each other and got married; people descended from them], 136-137 [pregnant Olenikha hears how The squirrel tells her son that there will be a flood; he is afraid of a man at a watering hole; her son from the womb reminds that there will still be a flood; the man hears, asks Olenikha to explain what is going on; from Olenikha's womb speaks Mahaprabhu, tells them to put the children in a pumpkin; rain flooded the ground with a flood; M. wanted to know if there were any people left; collected dirt from the body, made a Crow, threw a tree trunk into the water so that she could sit down; opened the crab , there was no land there, found soil in the worm's stomach; the pumpkin settled on the ground, brother and sister came out; M. gave them smallpox, they did not recognize each other, got married; M. gave the girl a remedy that caused her period ]; 1954 [water flooded the ground; Mahaprabhu rubbed his arm, made a crow out of lumps of mud, she flew over the waters, did not know where to sit, saw a floating basket with her brother and sister in it, came back, said M.; he told her to get land; she brought M. an earthworm, who extracted land {from the bottom?} ; M. scattered the earth in all directions, land arose; he took his brother and sister out of the basket, who refused to marry; then he called Thakurani, she spread smallpox on them, the girl became a scythe, the young man fell ill with leprosy; when they met, they did not know each other and got married; their 12 sons and 12 daughters give birth to people]: 423-424; bhuya [Baski Mata was born on a floating lotus leaf; ordered a world to be created from the blood and bones of Boram Burha's son named Parihar; the gods sent the tiger to kill him; the blood splashes on the water became earth, the bones became seven rocks, his hair seven trees; because the gods they walked on the ground that was still wet, mountains formed; the Basques Mata dived, stood on her head, began to support the ground with her feet; when she moved, earthquakes occur]: Elwin 1949, No. 2:28-29; didayas [ water covered the ground; Rumrok hung a wild boar in a web in the sky; only found grains of land on its tail; threw it on the waters, creating land; the earth was first soft; R. boring the boar's bones, strengthened it powder the ground]: Elwin 1954, No. 3:4; bondo: Elwin 1950:135-136 [Raja's daughter threw pumpkin seed; her brother took the core out of the pumpkin; it rained, flooded the ground, brother and sister escaped in the pumpkin; Mahaprabhu sent a wild boar to the lower world to steal land from Kermo; he also took from K. the seeds of seven tree species (mango, tamarind, mahua, sago palm, dumal, pipal, banyan); when he emerged, the boar shook himself off mud, drops of mud fell on the water, became earth; M. took his brother and sister out of the pumpkin, changed their appearance by sending smallpox on them, they did not recognize each other and got married; people descended from them; (=Elwin 1949, No. 8:32- 33)], 136-137 [pregnant Olenikha hears Belka telling her son that there will be a flood; afraid of a man at a watering hole; her son reminds from the womb that there is still a flood; the man hears, asks Olenikha to explain, in what is the matter; from Oleniha's womb, Mahaprabhu says, ordering the children to be placed in a pumpkin; rain flooded the ground with a flood; M. wanted to know if there were any people left; collected dirt from his body, made a Raven, threw a tree trunk into the water, so that she could sit down; opened the crab, there was no land, found soil in the worm's stomach; the pumpkin settled on the ground, brother and sister came out; M. gave them smallpox, they did not recognize each other, got married; M. gave the girl the remedy that caused her period], 141 (tulaguram) [there was only water, a wild boar lived in it; he raised the ground on his fangs (from the bottom), scattered it over the water, creating land; made the moon and sun from the stumps of a sago palm tree, threw it into the sky; the core turned into stars]; 1954 [water flooded the ground; Mahaprabhu rubbed his arm, turned the mud into a crow, she flew over the waters, did not know where to sit, saw The floating basket in which her brother and sister were in returned, said M.; he told her to get land; she brought M. an earthworm, who extracted land {from the bottom?} ; M. scattered the earth in all directions, land arose; he took his brother and sister out of the basket, who refused to marry; then he called Thakurani, she spread smallpox on them, the girl became a scythe, the young man fell ill with leprosy; when they met, they did not know each other and got married; their 12 sons and 12 daughters give birth to people]: 423-424; sora: Elwin 1954, No. 13 (Hill Saora) [the land went under water; Ramma and Bimma lived in the sky, they had a chicken and a rooster; the chicken laid seven eggs; the eighth fell into the sea, crashed, the squirrel spread, became dry; the shell turned into rocks], 14 [Raja Ruhel lived in the sky; the man did not give his mother a seat in the bath, she cursed people, the world plunged into the water; she decided to create a new land, rolled dirt off her body, created a bird that flew for six months, sat on a claw shrimp; one shrimp mustache took out the sky, the other was in the lower world with the king of crocodiles; the shrimp agreed to steal his land, gave it to the bird; Raja Ruhe and his mother mixed the earth with water, threw it on four sides, land arose]: 9, 433; baiga [at the beginning only water, a lotus leaf floated on it, Bhagavan sat on it, rolled dirt from his hand, made a crow out of it - his daughter Karicag, sent her search for land; losing her strength, she fell on the back of the great Turtle, Kekramal Chhatri, sitting on the waters, with one leg at the bottom of the sea and the other reaching the sky; the Raven calls the Turtle her older brother, The turtle calls the Raven its younger sister; says the land was stolen by the Gichnaraja worm, he is at the bottom of the sea; she took the Raven to Logandi Raja; he called 12 Loharsur brothers, 13 Tamesur brothers, 14 Agyasur brothers, they made an iron cage, lowered the Turtle and the Raven to the bottom; the Turtle was afraid of the Worm, hid behind the Raven; the worm itself was frightened when the Raven promised to beat him, lied that Dano had the land, who will burn those who came up; the emboldened Turtle grabbed the Worm by the neck, which regurgitated 21 times; each portion of the land is named in its own way, from mother earth to virgin land (white, red, good, trembling, rocky, etc.); The turtle pulled the chain, Logundi Raja pulled out the cage, the Turtle tied the ground to the Raven's neck, who brought it to Bhagavan; he called the virgin, she knocked down for 8 days and 9 nights the earth in a vessel of leaves; B. threw the earth into the water, it grew, became dry; at first the earth was wet and slippery; B. called Wind and Bhimsen; the wind dried the earth, but when they stood on one edge, the other rose; Bhimsen walked, created mountains, valleys; Nanga Baigin (Nang Baigi's wife) drove four nails in the corners, the earth was established (but the earth itself is round, p.330)]: Elwin 1939:308-316; koya [the earth drowned; Bhima's daughter jumped from the sky into the sea, descended into the lower world; Sesh Nag blew on her, turning her into a wild boar; the boar was lying in the mud, surfaced, shook, and land formed]: Elwin 1954, No. 5 : 426; gondas [Mahadeo swam on a lotus leaf; rolled a ball of mud on his body, made a crow out of it, sent it to look for land; she found Crab, they found Nal Raja and Nal Rani, named them uncle and aunt, asked the land was borrowed; they gave them a drink, prepared to run away, carry the earth; but the Crab woke up, squeezed them out of the ground, gave them to the Raven; she brought them M., he placed the earth in 7 cups of leaves, told the Spider to entangle the ocean with a web, put the cups on the web, 7 types of land appeared: black, red, milky, barren, gravel, virgin, swampy; M. asked Bhimsen to check whether the earth was hard; his feet became get bogged down, he lay down, mountains appeared]: Elwin 1949, No. 16:38; gondas: S. Hyslop in Zograf 1971 [water is everywhere, God was born from lotus; rubbed his hand, made a Raven out of worn out mud, ordered bring land; the crow saw Crab protruding from the water, leaning against the bottom; sat on Crab's back, the mark remained; for God making his body hard, the Crab agreed to dive, brought an earthworm, which regurgitated the earth; God scattered it across the sea, land arose; Mahadeva and Parvati came out of the abscess on his hand; vegetables grew out of M.'s urine, P. ate them, gave birth to gondas]: 7; Shyam Parmar 1973. Folk Tales of Madhya Pradesh in Kudinova, Kudinov 1995 [god Thakur Dev swam on the surface of the waters on a lotus flower; sent the Raven to search for land; six months later he met the Chakarmal Chatri turtle; she was standing with one foot in the water, head to sky; told the Raven that the underwater worm Gichna Raja had swallowed the earth; the Turtle and the Raven arrived at Logandi Raja, told TD's desire to get land; LR told his Lohasura's twelfth brother to make a braided boat; he made it with the help of one of his younger brothers; the Turtle and the Raven dived off it, the Turtle grabbed the worm by the neck, which regurgitated 21 times; he was the first to give it Dharti Mai (Mother Earth), then Mahamundi Dharti (Big-headed Earth), Pan Dharti (Sinful Earth), Yellow Earth, Black Earth, finally Kumari Dharti (Virgin Land); the Raven took all the land in its beak, pulled the rope, the LR pulled the divers upstairs; the Raven gave the land to TD, he rolled the ball, placed it on the water, land appeared]: 29-30; oraons: Elwin 1949, No. 23 [first the ocean, lotus in water, lived on it Mahapurub; a boy and a girl were born from his womb; they played, disturbed M., they killed them; their flesh became earth, their bones became stones, their blood became water, their hair became grass; this is how the world was created; from M.'s womb again a boy and a girl were born; they closed their eyes because they thought it was a sin to look at each other; M. hit them, they opened their eyes but refused to marry; M. directed them in different directions; after 12 years they met again, did not know each other, got married, M. gave them the whole world]: 42; Koonathan 1999 [on the advice of Old Mother, Dharmes created Kingfisher, who dived into the ocean, brought the seed of earth from the lower world; D. made earth out of this; Sit advised to make human figures out of clay, but D.'s horse trampled on them, fearing that a person would harness it; S. advised to make dogs drive away the horse; soon people inhabited the land]: 144 in Osada 2010; cond: Elwin 1954, No. 9 (kuttia) [water everywhere; Chanchenga and Pachenga surfaced, found a rock; asked for land from Nirantalui and Kapantali; N. took a handful out of her hair , it was thrown on four sides, land arose; when a cow, buffalo and pig were sacrificed, the ground dried up; the bones of these animals became rocks, their wool became grass], 11 [Buru Pinnu and Pusuruli swam on waters; found a dead scorpion (leaf-scorpion), its head the size of a bull; scraped off his skin, threw it into the water, dry; the scorpion's back turned into rocks; his bones were made of nails, hammered in the four corners of the earth; his flesh was turned to dust; the particle was left, thrown into the water, it became the current scorpion], 13 [Nirantali spat on the water, white ants appeared from the spit, their excrement formed the earth]: 7, 8-9, 431; agaria [Bhagavan put a lotus leaf on the water, but it withered in the sun; created the world out of varnish, but it broke; having rolled dirt off his chest, created a crow, gave him his milk sent to look for land; tired, the Raven fell on the Kakramal Kshattri crab; he dived, found Nal Raja and Nal Rani sleeping; the crab clenched NR's throat, forcing the ground to regurgitate, the Raven brought it to Bhagavan, who created dry land; to prevent Mother Earth from wobbling, the first agaria placed 12 iron pillars on the four corners of the world]: Elwin 1949, No. 1:27-28; maria (Bison-Horn Maria) [rain flooded the earth; Gajabhimul placed in brother and sister's pumpkin, the pumpkin stuck to the rock; Mahapurub sent the crow to look for people; a banyan grew out of the rock, the crow sat on him, opened a pumpkin; the children climbed the tree, drank its juice, it ran out, they began to cry; M. sent the crow to calm them down, but she wanted to kill the children in order to peck at their corpses, came back and lied that it was all right; the same with the eagle; with the tiger; then sent a monkey; hot rock burned her ass, arms and legs, the monkey smeared her face to black with charred hands; M. sent a wild boar, ordered her to be smeared in the clay on the turtle's back; the boar shook, clods and splashes of earth formed land; small pox was sent to brother and sister to prevent them from getting to know each other; after that they got married and had 12 sons and 12 daughters]: Elwin 1949, No. 4:30-31; Sinhalese [rain at the end of the Kalpa floods the earth with a flood; Saman replies to Vishnu that only the king of the asuras Rahu can revive the land; R. asks V. to grow a lotus; descends its stem to the bottom, brings a handful of earth; V. puts it on the water, creates land; Surya and Chandra (sun and month) came to illuminate the earth; S. and V. sculpted a brahmana, who sculpted a woman for himself, revived her]: Parker 1910, No. 1:47-49 (=Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 1:28-29).
Malaysia-Indonesia. Semangs: Endicott 1979 (batek) [a horned snake turtle swam to the surface in the middle of the ocean; a piece of land or celestial worm excrement fell on its back from the sky, and the snake turtle itself or A carrier bird descending from the sky knocked sea foam into a ball; a substance extracted from the sky and from the sea became Earth on the back of a snake turtle]: 33-34; Evans 1937:159 (Kintak Bong) [1) land in powder form brought a dung beetle from below; the bear rammed it with its paws, otherwise it would have filled the sky; another informant later (1935) said that the bear stopped the beetle when the ground rose by half distances to the sky; 2) (Schebesta 1927:212); at first there is water everywhere; a dung beetle brings a bag of earth from under the water; the earth is growing; there would be mountains everywhere, but the bear rammed part of the land, arose plains]; Schebesta 1931:220 (Kěnta) [at first there is water everywhere; thunderbird Kaei sat in the sky next to the sun; a dung beetle brought a piece of land from the water; it began to grow, would have turned into a giant mountain, but the bear rammed and leveled it; K. went down, created man on earth], 251 (Kěnsiu) [(=1927:242, paraphrased in Evans 1937:160); Pedn and his wife Manoid lived in the sky; The Dung Beetle extracts earth from dirt, it dries up under the sun, hardens; at the request of M., P. takes two fruits, turns Chapong (Rhinoceros) into a boy and a girl Paig (Turtle); from which sons and daughters were born, including Enogn and Kajegn; E. heard a noise in the rock, punched a hole with an arrow, water poured in from there (the origin of the waters)]; Malays [light from God became water, foam surfaced above the water, steam thickened, and earth formed and the sea, each of the seven layers; the earth swam on the water and swayed; to consolidate it, God surrounded it with a diamond chain - the mountains of the Caucasus; spirits live on them; behind them is a desert covered with gold, ischemruds, flowers; all mountains come from the Caucasus mountains, strengthen the land; the Caucasus mountains protect the earth from excessive winds and monsters; they are followed by Yajuj and Majuj (Gog and Magog) when they make a hole in the mountains, the world will end]: Skeat, Blagden 1900:1-2; bataki (toba) [supreme god Mula Dyadi lived on the upper of the 7 tiers of heaven; created three sons; created a tree on one of the lower tiers, its branches reached the upper one; created a chicken, she sat three eggs on a tree, three of which were born, he married them to his sons; one had the face of a lizard, chameleon skin, the girl refused, became spinning, dropped the spinning wheel into the lower world; on the unwound thread she descended on the head of a snake swimming in the sea; put there a handful of earth brought at her request by the MD swallow; the snake was tired and turned over, the world that arose was flooded with water; MD created eight suns, they dried up excess water; the maiden plunged her sword into the snake, nailing it tightly to the ground so that it would not turn over again; taking new soil, created the ground again; MD shot the virgin's fiancé with the blowpipe; once on the ground, the young man shot in the throat, she grabbed the arrow, flew away; following her, he found the heavenly maiden, married her; they gave birth people]: Warneck 1909:30 in Dixon 1916:160-161 (short retelling in Hatt 1949:33); bataki (Dairi) [Supreme God Batara Guru's pregnant wife wants meat; B. sent a crow for meat; around the world The raven found nothing of the gods; flew inside the cave going down, first dropping a bamboo stick, found himself above the ocean, found a stick dropped, sat on it; did not find a hole in the sky to return; B. He went to look for the crow, taking a handful of earth, seven pieces of wood, a chisel, a goat, a bumblebee; he made a raft out of pieces of wood, shouting to eight sides, kindling a fire; the goat and the bumblebee began to support the raft to the ground; B. gave this world to the crow so he could live in it]: Schmidt 1910:7 in Hatt 1949:33-34; the Dayaks [there was water, two bird-like spirits, Ara and Iraq, swam on it; they dived they picked up two lumps of firmament from the water, each the size and shape of a chicken egg; from one A. created the sky, from the other I. created the earth; it turned out that the end of the earth extended beyond the edge of the sky; they squeezed the earth, appeared valleys and mountains; trees and other plants grew on their own; A. and I. searched for a tree whose juice would resemble blood for a long time; when they found it, they could not turn the tree into a person; then they sculpted it out of clay Dayak ancestor man and woman]: Dunn 1906:16 (retelling in Zolotarev 1964:220; in Hatt 1949:32; in Jensen 1974:73-74); ibanas (sea dayaks): Jensen 1974:73 [Rajah Gantallah created two birds; they created the sky, the earth, then Batang Lupar (the beginning of the waters, the mother of rivers); the earth was larger than the sky, they squeezed it, they turned it into mountains; they made man out of wood, then stone; they could not revive it; then from clay , veins made of kumpang wood resin (it's red); man came to life], 74-75 [(Sandin 1962:5-6); Raja Entala and his wife are thinking of creating peace; they rolled dirt off their bodies, made the earth out of it, then the sky, it turned out to be smaller than land; they squeezed the earth, creating mountains, valleys, rivers; the Rura banana seduced the bird Iri, from which fish come; RE made a human figure from the stem of a bangkit banana, blood is the sap of a tree kumpang; RE's wife dressed the figure in ritual woven clothes; when RE shouted for the third time, the figure came to life; this is how Telichu (Iban's ancestor, who married the daughter of the spirit Sengalang Burong) and Telichai (ancestor demons)]; dayaki (ibanas?) [The Nagapousai snake embodies the earth; it had a huge head and tiny body, so it swayed on the waves; Hat-alla sent his servant Praman to find out what N. was complaining about; when he found out what was going on, he descended and connected N.'s head to a larger body, and to protect the snake from the sun, he placed the ground on top; his son Batou Djompa noticed two eggs on the surface of the snake, went down and broke them, and a man came out of them and a woman; they gave birth to 7 sons and 7 daughters, but they were soulless at first; BJ told the man named Soupou to bring 14 souls from the snake; when he left, he told his wife not to go out from under the canopy above her bed ; but she got hot and went swimming; as soon as she lifted the curtain, a thunderstorm broke in and revived the children; therefore, people are mortal; when S. returned, became angry and scattered the children away in pairs; one couple fell into the water and gave birth to the sea god Djata; the rest settled the land ("fields") and the air]: Backer 1874:280-281; Dayaks (the group is not a decree; kayan?) [at first, only water below; a spider descended from the sky on the web, a piece of coral fell into the web, grew, became earth; a worm and a slug crawled along it, their mucus turned into soil, covered the whole earth; from the sky the shoot descended, took root, became a tree, other trees grew under its shade; a crab fell, began to crawl, creating valleys and mountains; rain filled water bodies; cultivated plants grew; male and a woman's perfume; a man made a sword handle, a woman made a spindle; the handle fell into the spindle, it gave birth to a human head, then a second; the spirits did not like these children, they returned to heaven; two heads they came together, their children also have necks, these children also have torso; the children of the last Amei Awi and Burung Une had long arms, they reached the sky; they have 9 human children and 4 lunar children, each one of quarters of the moon of the monthly cycle; 8 children climbed the mountain; those left at the foot became the ancestors of slaves, who reached the middle - free people, climbed to the very top - rulers; AA built a house from bamboo, chips turned into dogs, chickens, pigs; BU gave birth to more children; they first spoke, ate cooked fish, but became the ancestors of the Bahau; AA and BU went to the lower world, responsible for plant growth]: 117-119; Kayan (Central Borneo): Furniture 1899: [A rock fell from the sky into the primary ocean; the top remained above the water; rain formed silt on the surface, worms sharpened the rock, appeared sand; then the wooden handle of the sword fell from the sun, which became wood, and from the moon, the vine wrapped around the tree; the vine became the husband of the tree, they gave birth to two twins who had no bodies below the waist; yet gave birth to real humans; animals, birds, and fish originated from tree twigs and leaves; moss and small plants emerged from the mud on the rock surface]: 6-13 in Stöhr, Zoetmulder 1965:38 (more concisely also in Dixon 1916:158-159, in Hatt 1949:34-35); Nieuwenhuis 1904 (1): 129 in Dixon 1916 [a spider descended from the sky, weaved a web; a pebble fell into it, grew to the horizon; a lichen fell on the stone, on it the worm, its excrement made up the soil; then the tree fell, grew, then the crab cut through valleys and mountains with claws; a vine wrapped around the tree, they gave birth to a child without arms and legs, he gave birth to a boy with as a girl, they gave birth to various gods]: 159; Dayaks (SE Borneo) [at the beginning only heaven and sea, a serpent with a golden crown on its head swam in it; a heavenly deity threw the earth on the serpent's head; island that became land]: Schwanger 1853:177 in Dixon 1916:159-160; dusun [there is a rock in the water, she opened her mouth, a man and a woman came out of it (these are the main deities of the Dusun, Kedharingan and Munsumundok); they began to think about how to go by water; eventually they went, came to the Bisagit house (smallpox spirit), they had land, they asked, he gave them land; K. created a dusun, M. created the sky, both created the sun , the moon, the Pleiades ("seven stars"), Hyades ("top"); they had a daughter, people were starving, then K. and M. killed her daughter, a coconut grew out of her head (her eyes and mouth can be seen on the nut), and sugar cane from her elbows, from fingers - bananas, blood - rice; from parts of the body - all animals; K. asked who could change skin, would be immortal; dusun did not hear, the snake heard and now dies only if a person kills it; dusun missed the ability to revive; K. began to bathe people in a basket in the river, one person fell out, swam away, coastal inhabitants come from him; K. arranged a religious ceremony in the house; one person was at this time, when I returned in the forest, I could not enter, monkeys descend from it]: Evans 1922:175-176; minahasa [first a rock into the sea; when the waves hit it, a crane appeared; from the sweat of the rock arose Lumimu-ut; the crane brought a branch from a secluded island, "the original land"; L. flew there on a crane, brought land in both hands, threw it to four sides of the world, and earth appeared to the horizon; L. planted tree and grass seeds in it, marking the beginning of peace; {until then, Tauchmann is more detailed than in Dixon; then only Dixon}; L. climbed the mountain, conceived from the westerly wind, gave birth to a boy; he He was unsuccessfully looking for a wife; then L. handed him a staff the size of her height, told him to find a wife taller; when they met, the mother and son did not recognize each other, and the staff grew and became taller than his mother; mother and son married, gave birth to gods]: Dixon 1916:157-158 and Tauchmann 1969:32-33; minahasa (totemboa) [the first human couple has three children, including Limimuut; parents filled the coconut with soil, placed there, cultivated plants, L., let him into the sea; the coconut got wet, grew, became dry (Minahasa Peninsula); L. exposed herself to the westerly wind, gave birth to a boy, from which minahasa comes from]: Schwarz 1907 (2): 397- 398 in Lessa 196:276, in Tauchmann 1969:33; East Flores (Sika District): Walk 1949:92 [Arndt 1933:22f; a couple of birds sat on the mud on the outer edge of the primary sea, bringing land from there to the top Gorang mountains; land dried up, 7 valleys and 8 mountains appeared], 93 [Arndt 1933:67-70l; brother and sister lived on a rock in the middle of the sea; saw two falcons copulate, they met themselves]; Tetum: Hicks 1984, No. 8 [First, water is everywhere; God in the sky sent two birds to fly above the water; lumps of clay that stuck to their feet fell into the sea, turned into land; a man and a woman fell on it from the feet of the same birds; they were eaten by demons; God turned birds into two rocks as punishment for not saving people; God threw a man and a dog on the ground; the dog told the man to hide from demons inside the stone; a vagina opened in the stone, man climbed into it, the stone closed; God told demons to leave man alone and eat people only when there were many; later many people descended from heaven through vines, others arose from tubers and cereals ]: 42-44; Vroklage 1962 (Wehali): 139-140 [At first, there was water everywhere; a tiny island appeared, a banyan tree grew on it, two birds descended from the sky to the banyan tree, their children, a brother and sister of a high genus; also two slaves appeared; the waters came down, the land grew], 140 [the land was tiny, God sent old man Hauk and old woman Arus to it; many birds came down from the sky, but there was no place for them; then fell from the sky banyan, birds sat on it; the old man and the old woman, on God's instructions, placed dirt from under their fingernails on the roots of the banyan, the tree strengthened; the earth expanded], 140-141 [in the sky, a hunter shot a bird with a brass guns, she fell on a banyan growing on the ground on a tiny island; the hunter went down for her, asked God to expand the land and give him a woman; people multiplied], 141 [1) first tiny in the waters island; at God's will, a man fell from the sky; asked for a friend; a two-headed man began to crawl out of a hole in the ground; the first man was frightened, threw a stone on him; then he went out a normal woman; this couple asked to make the earth bigger, God dried part of the sea; created the sun, the moon, and three stars - morning, midnight, and evening; humans and animals began to argue whether it should be it is always light or light and darkness must alternate; the crow screamed, "Night 7 then Day 7, then Day 7", berliku, "Night 1", then Day"; people multiplied; 2) first one water, God made a little island; a man and a woman descended from the sky, gave birth to two children], 141-142 [first one water, God sent a boat to drain part of the sea], 142 (Dafala) [at first the earth and sky were tiny, close to each other to a friend, something round the size of a pigeon's egg between them; at God's will, heaven and earth parted, a living being arose from the egg; God shouted, the creature split into man and woman; the man pulled the sky is up, the woman is down, they parted; the white rooster brought mangga seeds, sandalwood and axes from the sky to these people; the woman left, the man married another man descended from the sky and a rice bird; she gave birth to him animals, birds, snakes; a heavenly woman gave birth to a son and a daughter; they married, gave birth to Dafal's seven ancestors], 143-145 [{also about the appearance of the first island and the growth of the earth; obviously similar texts - everywhere and in large numbers}]; Timor [at first, only Mount Mânu-Cóco rose from the sea; a huge Ficus banjamina tree grew on it; tuna fish began to eat its fruits, then the leaves and branches turned into a pig, and the manure formed the ground, the earth grew larger; God was angry that the pig had destroyed the shady tree, hung it on the trunk, and went to heaven for fire; When I returned, I saw that the pig had become a woman; she gave birth to Bui and Mau; God gave them fire, a forge, they dried the sea even more]: Pascoal 1967:44; atauru (?) [There is only water below; the heavenly god sent his son Ná'I Híric to fish; he said there was no place to cook it; God sent him bamboo and everything he needed to dry the earth sent a scale to weigh the earth ; three men and three women came down, hit the sea, the sea retreated; got fire by friction, fried fish]: Pascoal 1967:70.
Taiwan - Philippines. Bicol [the grandchildren of a heavenly deity have bodies made of stone, gold, copper; a stone grandson tries to take possession of the sky with his brothers; killed by lightning, falls into the sea, his body forms earth; from his body golden brother - Sun, copper brother - Month, sister turns into stars]: Eugenio 1994, No. 21a: 65-66; Tagals [first only sea and sky, a hawk flies between them (a bird similar to kite); he is so the waters were disturbed that the sea began to throw portions of water into the sky, and the sky, for protection, began to throw down the islands; then the sky told the hawk to sit on one of the islands, build a nest and leave the sea alone; the wind they married from the sea and the wind from land, they have a bamboo son; he swam, hit the feet of a hawk, who pecked him furiously, a man came out of one knee and a woman from the other; the earthquake summoned all the birds and fish decide what to do with these creatures; decided to marry them; all people descended from them; with so many children, the aged parents did not rest for a minute; the father took a stick and began to beat them; they scattered; those who found themselves in the houses became leaders, slaves in the walls, free on the street, blacks in the hearth, Europeans at sea]: Cole 1916:187-188; Samal [a ball floated on the waters; By the desire of the supreme deity, he split; half rose, turned into a seven-layer sky; the second remained below, turned into a seven-layer earth]: Eugenio 1994, No. 40:96; visayas [first only sea and sky exist]: Gaverza 2014:37.
China - Korea. The Koreans [the daughter of Mr. Heaven dropped the ring; they did not find it in the sky, the strongman went down to search for the ground; the earth was a flat swamp; in search of a ring, he dug through it, creating mountains, valleys, plains, rivers; having found the ring, the strongman returned it to his mistress]: Cho 2001, No. 76:117.
The Balkans. Ancient Greece [fabulist Aesop enters the shipyard; sailors tease the fabulist; the fabulist tells the story: at first there was only chaos and water in the world; Zeus created the land and ordered her to drink water in three sips; with the first sip, mountains appeared, with the second plains; when the Earth took the third sip, the oceans would disappear, the sailors would be left idle]: Gasparov 1968, No. 8:65-66; Bulgarians: Dragomanov 1892 (Bessarabia) [The devil pulls silt from the bottom of the sea; God makes land out of it, pretends to go to bed; the Devil drags the supposedly sleeping God in different directions (trying to drown him) but the water recedes, the earth grows; God says he has already blessed the earth with the sign of the cross; the offended Devil leaves; God does not know how to stop the earth from growing; sends a bee to sit on the Devil shoulder, overhears him saying to himself: you just have to create the sign of the cross on four sides, tell the earth to stop growing; God does so, telling the bee's excrement (i.e. honey) to be sweeter total]: 257-259 in Johns 2005:264; Ivanov 1970:333f in Johns 2005 (NW Bulgaria, Vidin) [The devil dives, brings from the bottom of the earth under his fingernails, God makes dry land out of it; The devil, trying to drown the sleeping God, pulls it in all directions, but the earth grows, becomes larger than the sky; animals are summoned for advice; the Hedgehog advises to raise the earth in places, compact it in places; valleys and mountains, land form becomes the size of the sky]: 264; Nady 1989 [(Strausz 1892; 1899); God invites Satan to go down to the bottom to get the earth; before that, S. must say, With God and with my help; S. puts it twice his name is in front, he cannot reach the earth; the third time he speaks correctly, brings earth under his fingernail, God makes land out of it; pretends to fall asleep; S. drags him into the water, but the earth grows from this; so in all directions; more about the creation of man]: 117; Kovachev 1914 [1) water is everywhere; God and the devil were walking in the sky, tired; the devil offered God that he would dive, bring the firmament from the bottom so that he could they had a rest; the devil took out a piece of land, it began to grow; the land that was under the devil's claws, God began to crumple his fingers and it began to grow unnoticed; this is how God arranged a place to rest and they sat down; the devil wanted to drown God to become the ruler of the world; began to pull the ground on which God was sitting, the earth became very large, the sky could no longer cover it; then God called all animals for advice; the hedgehog's advice, took and pulled a little bit of land to another place, it turned out valleys and mountains; 2) God and the devil discussed how to make the earth; God told the devil to bring sea foam; God immersed the foam in the water, He made a lump, threw it, it became earth; first it was the size of a round baking sheet, then a threshing floor; in the middle God planted a nut, tied a cradle to it, began to swing, fell asleep; the devil decided to throw God off into the water and drown; went to search for the end of the earth, but did not find it; God woke up and asked what he was doing; the devil replied that he was looking for the end of the world; God said he would never find it]: 49 (trans. K. Ragocheva); Petkanov 1982, No. 1 [there was no sky, no earth, only the Sea of Tiberias; God was walking through the air, saw a swimming duck; this duck was Satanael wrapped in sea foam; And the Lord said to Satanael: "Who are you ?" - "I'm God." - "What are you going to call me?" - "You are the God of all gods and the Sovereign of all rulers"; if S. hadn't said this to the Lord, he would have removed him from the Sea of Tiberias; the Lord said: "Satanael, dive into the sea and bring me land and flint"; S. did this; God took the land and sand, scattered it across the sea, said: "Let the land be thick and wide on the sea"; the South Slavic apocrypha (~Bogomily Bulgarians) [before the land was Lord Almighty in three cells (mosquitoes) in the air; he turned away from his heart and gave birth to his beloved son Jesus Christ, and let the Spirit out of his mouth in the form of a dove; and said that the sky should be crystal on seventy thousand myriads iron pillars and there would be lakes and clouds and stars and light and wind; he would plant paradise in the east; frost in the face of the Lord, thunder from his voice in the chariot of fire, lightning was a word from his mouth; the sun was from his lower robe, because he... her face; and the Lord said, Let the pillars be dark in the air. He said, let the Sea of Tiberias be, the water was salty; and the Lord descended to the Sea of Tiberias and saw Gogol floating on it and asked who he was; he said that he was Satan; the Lord told Satan to he descended into the sea, took out land and stone, the Lord broke it by two, gave half of it to Satan with his left hand, hit the stone with a rod, the archangels Michael and Gabriel arose from the sparks and soared up; Satan created made of stone, countless demonic power of the gods; and the Lord said, let there be thirty-three whales on the Sea of Tiberias and on those whales the land]: Badalanova Geller 2011:24; Macedonians: Lafazanovsky 2003: 31 in Rakhno 2016 [at first there is water everywhere; God was up in the sky and the hell was below on the water; hell saw God, called God sister, offered to go down; God has nowhere to go down, he asks if there is a little lands; hell: yes, but deep; God asked the devil to get land; hell: how much? God: as much as you can get; the devil dived, grabbed the sand with both hands while he emerged, there was only a little bit left under his fingernails; God created earth out of this sand; but it was not big enough, so he asked the devil to dive again; after the third time, God made the earth as it is now]: 250-251; Tsenev 2004:12 [first one water, fish swim in it; one side of the fish is burned from the heat of the Sun, separated, went down, split in two; from remaining above came the Month, from which the earth fell completely down came], 20 [first one water; God threw stones and earth at it; where stones fell, mountains formed, where the earth is plains]; Slovenes: Krek 1887:783 in Johns 2005 [God sleeps; when he wakes up, he dives into the primary ocean, brings a grain of sand from the bottom under his fingernail, it falls on the water, the earth grows]: 264; Trdina 1858:60-61 in Kropej 2012 [there was only God, the sun and the sea; the sun was burning, God dived into the sea, a grain of sand was stuck under his fingernail; when God came up, a grain of sand fell, remained on the rock, this grain of sand from the bottom the sea is our world]: 16; Romanians: Beza 1928:121 [God tells the Devil to dive to the bottom of the sea, bring land; the devil took clay, not in the name of God, but in the name of the Devil, the clay was washed away from his hands; the next once he took God and the Devil in the name of both God and the Devil, brought it; God made land out of it, fell asleep; the devil tried to drown God and pull the earth out of him, but the earth only grew], 122-123 [Romanians consider it a sin to kill a frog or a turtle; when there was only water, God told the turtle to dive, bring land from the bottom; the turtle brought land in its mouth, God told the waters to come off]; Johns 2005 [God and Skaraótzki are swimming in boats; God offers S. to bring land from the bottom for fun; creates land from what he has brought; S. drags God in different directions, trying to drown him, but the earth grows]: 268; Müller 1857, No. 208 (Transylvania) [(retelling in Johns 2005:268); God sends Archangel Gabriel to bring sand from under the water; finds several grains of sand under his fingernails, puts them on the water, creating land; from the bushes, the hedgehog tells God to check that the layer of earth is thick enough; God has checked; this is how the earth turned out]: 162; Murgoci, Murgoci 1929 [first there is only water, God and the Devil walk on it; seven years later God sends the Devil to dive for seeds make the earth; the devil takes the earth in his name, washes it out of his hands; when he takes it in the name of God, brings the earth under his fingernails; therefore man belongs to God, and the black under his fingernails to the Devil, preparing the deceased for burial, the dirt from under the nails must be removed; God took three grains of sand from the Devil brought, made them flat earth; the devil tried to drown God who had fallen asleep, but dragging his body only stretched the earth in different directions; it has become wider than the sky; God sent the Bee to eavesdrop on the Devil; he says to himself that the earth must be squeezed, creating valleys and mountains; when the Devil sees the Bee flying away, he hit it with a whip, almost torn in two; she left black bruises]: 135-137; Bukovina (Romanians or Ukrainians; no data on the informant's language and circumstances) [water and sky first; God discovered the piece of foam on which the hell was standing asked who he was; hell: I won't say until you take me into action (in dein fahrzeug); God promised he said he was hell; offered to create land; God: Dive to the bottom for sand I will make it dry; but take it "in the name of God"; hell dived, took sand in both hands and said "in my name"; when I came up, my hands were empty; dived again: "I take it in his name"; brought a few grains of sand under his fingernails; God threw them into the water and there was land large enough to lie on it; God lay down and fell asleep, and the devil pulled it east to push it into the water, but the land grew; then he pulled west to the others sides; land grew; God rose to heaven, hell wanted to follow him, heard sweet singing in honor of God and asked him how he could create as many followers; God: wash your face and hands and splash water behind you; so many devils have arisen that there is no place for angels in heaven; God commanded St. Ilya would drive them away with a thunderstorm; the storm lasted 40 days, the devils understood from heaven to earth; when the angels were already being washed away, God ordered St. Ilya to stop; but sparks flying from heaven to earth are still visible]: Waldburg 1853:178-179; Hungarians [(Bosnyák 1969:462-464); 1) (Chángó settler, Moldavia); God sends The devil gets the earth from the bottom; while he emerges, water washes the ground from under his fingernails; the third time there is a little left, God makes dry land out of it; D. tries to push God into the water; as the earth does grows up; further on the creation of man; 2) (Sekler, Bukovina); an angel, whom God later gives the name Adam, brings sand from the bottom of the sea]: Nadi 1989:117; Zsigmond 2003 [by Bosniák; 5 entries in Moldova and Bukovina, 3 in western Transylvania (Marosszéh); = var. 1 in Nadi; the same for Romanians and Bulgarians]: 423; Gagauz [God sent Sheitan to the bottom to get the land, told me to read, In the name Father and Son and Holy Spirit; S. did not read, returned with nothing; the third time said, In the name of the Father, he brought the earth under his fingernails; God put it on his chest, fell asleep; S. grabbed the ground, ran; wherever he fled, land appeared]: Moshkov 1901:4.
Central Europe. Poles: Krzyżanowski 1963, No. 2450.1 (central Poland on the Vistula) [the devil sent a duck to dive; she brought land to the goiter from the bottom of the sea, but dropped it when she saw her chasing her hawk], 2450.2 (Lodz Voivodeship) [the devil tries to drown God sleeping on a small island; he drags him to the edge, but the land grows and turns into a continent]: 173:173; Russian written tradition (hands. Solovetsky Library; from Palea in the late 16th or early 17th centuries) [God walked on water, saw Gogol's bird; began to ask her, she replied that he was the God of the gods, from the upper ones, and she was from the lower ones; God told her to give it from the lower ones; the bird dived, brought God foam like silt, God made it earth; called the bird Sotonail, made it chief over the heavenly forces; he decides to throne over the stars; God handed over power over heavenly forces to Michael; M. first retreated from S., but God removed S.'s divinity, M. overthrew him from heaven; he fell, fell into the ground, with him part of his strength; others fell to the ground, became demons; still others remained in the air, pretending to be angels]: Porfiriev 1877:87-89; Russians (apocrypha) [there was only the vast Sea of Tiberias, Satanael in the form of Gogol and God swim in it; lead dialogue; - Who are you? - God. - And who am I? - God of the gods. Where are you from? - Ego ex infimis. - Where am I from? - De superis. - Da mihi ex infimis; the bird dives, brings land...]: Dragomanov in Köngäs 1960:160; Kuznetsova 1998 [details of all versions with texts attached; the tale of the Sea of Tiberias belongs to the circle of northern (i.e. Great Russian) versions]: 29-48; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Novgorod, Pskov, Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Kostroma, Kaluga, Ryazan, Smolensk, Vyatskaya, Kazanskaya, Oryol, Tambov, Penza, Saratov) [a story about diving underground and creating land from a small amount of land brought from the ocean floor]: Kuzmina 1998:56-67; Russians (Olonetskaya) [Two gogol sailed along the previous Okiyan Sea: one white gogol and the other black gogol. And the Lord Almighty himself and Satan sailed with these two gogols. By God's command, with the blessing of the Virgin, Satan summoned a handful of land from the bottom of the sea. From that handful, the Lord created flat places and rolling fields, and Satan made impassable abysses, shilli, and high mountains. And the Lord hit the stone with a hammer - and created the powers of heaven, Satan hit the stone with a hammer - and created his own army. And a great war broke out between the armies: at first Satan's army prevailed, but in the end the power of heaven prevailed. And Michael the Archangel overthrew Satanin's army from heaven, and they fell to earth in different places: who fell into the forests became forest dwellers, who into the water became watermen, who fell into the house as housewives; others fell into baths also became bayenniks, some in the yards became courtyards, and others in Riga became rigachniki]: Rybnikov 1864:191-192; Russians (Vologodskaya) [there were two brothers - a dove and a gogol; they take the earth out of the depths waters; create a man from sand, a woman from bone]: Belova 2004, No. 70:47; Russians (Gorky Region, Makarevo, Western Author 1965) [Satan answers God that the land is at the bottom of the sea; dives in the form of a waterfowl, takes land in his mouth, loses it along the way; for the third time he brings it; God scattered it across the sea, islands and continents have appeared; S. he hid part of the earth behind his cheek, it began to inflate; he threw it behind his back, the northern cold lands arose from it]: Morokhin 1998, No. 455:425; Russians (Saratov Volga Region) [God created heaven and waters, rides on the water on a rock, spat, Titan came out of the abyss; says his name is Titaniel, but you can simply call him Gogol; ready to listen to the order; God tells you to fly to heaven, bring land; he brought it, but hid a pinch by the cheek; God scattered the earth on the water, became dry; to keep it, he created three whales, a stone slab on them, earth on it; God sees Gogol's swollen cheek, tells him to spit out the earth, appeared a land with valleys and mountains; out of envy, Gogol rested, squeezed God's land, it also wrinkled; Gogol claims that this is more beautiful; the man will remember the Lord when he goes uphill, and the jester when he goes downhill; God orders to bring seeds from paradise, gave them to God from his right hand, kept them from his left hand; useful plants grew from those sown by God, useless, prickly, poisonous from those sown by Gogol]: Zavaritsky 1916, No. 1:67-69; Russians (Olonetskaya, Vologda, Novgorod, Vladimir, Kostroma, Ryazan, Smolensk, Nizhny Novgorod, Tula, Vyatskaya, Tambov, Orlovskaya, Penza, Saratov, Kazanskaya) [various local versions of the myth about the creation of the world and man with the participation of God and Satan]: Kuzmina 1998:68-109; Ukrainians [southern (Ukrainian) version of the dualistic world: for Satan dives into the material for creation in a non-ornithomorphic form, saying words, I do not take, but God takes; God puts S. to sleep, at this time he creates land on the waters; the earth increases as a result S.'s attempts to drown the sleeping God - he pushes or carries God from shore to shore, but the end of the earth "runs away" further; God sends an angel to take away S.'s valuable object; the sent encourages S. to dive to the bottom seas, at this time it carries away an object (thunder, lightning, heavenly power, robes, a golden crown, a chariot, a board with a record of an agreement with S.); in the northern (Russian) version there are no characteristics of the southern version]: Kuznetsova 1998 : 69-70; Ukrainians (Kherson, Elizavetinsky district) [hell was friends with God; hell owned thunder, and God owned the sky; to take possession of thunder, God began to walk on earth; hell did not have water, he asks to teach him how to get land; God tells me to dive, take from the bottom of the earth, hold in your hand and the one that remains at least under your fingernails, scatter it across the water; the devil left his thunder on the rocks and dived; God to the Archangel Gabriel: hurry up the thunder, he's on our land, and what is put on our land is ours; G. hid behind a stone; hell dived, but popped up and looks: did anyone take the thunder, did not take it; the same second time; hell thought that God forgot about the thunder and dived to the bottom; G. grabbed the thunder; seeing that the devil was rising to the surface, God froze the sea; hell only broke through the ice with his head for the third time; chased G., already grabbed his leg and snatched out a piece of meat - now people there is a notch on his foot; God: yes, you hit him with thunder; G. broke off his wings with thunder, now the devils do not fly well; G. gave thunder to God; then God came down, the hell had already created the earth; God wet his finger, splashed a man appeared with water behind him; hell tried it too, but his man does not speak or walk, but is covered with hard skin; then he spat on him; God: you turn him inside out; damn it, drool and the snot is left inside, and that skin is only at his fingertips, it is his nails; God has returned to heaven, and hell has made people; he envies that he has a lot of people, but everything is on earth, and God has few, but in heaven; hell decided to take over the sky himself, and overthrow God from there; God to the archangel, who holds the sky in his arms: shake; devils fell down, where whoever fell, stayed there; now you can't build a hut everywhere; you will build in hell, you'll work all your life; then God came to hell again, he was building something, one hut was very big - hell; hell then had a receipt: after death, all his people; he tore this receipt Christ, when he went to hell; God to hell: show me how to sit in that heat; hell climbed in, closed the doors; God: In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! the exits are completely closed; but one hand of the devil remains free; he asks the other devils to rescue him, or else he will disappear; the elder has come up, and the one sitting in the heat threw him against the rock; so now the eldest devil crooked, and the first one is still sitting, cannot go out; that's where God's friendship with the devil ended]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 1:119-121; northern Ukrainians (Kozeletsky y. Chernihiv Province) [There was no earth, no sky, water was everywhere; God was flying above the water; he saw a gun without arms and legs; it was Satanael; God said to him: "Dive into the water and get the earth in my name"; S. dived, said: "Take it, earth, in my name"; the land was not given; S. dived a second time, the situation repeated; the third time S. said: "Take, earth, in the name of God"; the land was given, S. gave it to God; God said that they would now sow; where the earth fell like a hill, there was a mountain; where it was flat, there were even fields; where the earth drowned and did not cover the water, there was a lake; when they sown, God crossed the earth and flew to heaven; this is how the earth appeared]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 96:359-360; Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava, Kharkiv) [a story about diving underground and creating land from a small amount of land brought from the ocean floor]: Kuzmina 1998:64, 72; Western Ukrainians (Galicia) [seven lists of carols from the early 1840s; two pigeons fly to two oaks in the middle of the waters; bring sand from the bottom, from which they create the earth with everything on it, and blue a stone from which the sky and stars are made; options: a golden stone, three pigeons, one (green sycamore), three trees (wood is in all versions), two angels bring black earth, make it the sun, month and stars; on trees Paul, Peter and God, the first to dive poorly, God dives, brings sand; two brothers (not named), one dives]: Kuznetsova 1998:110-117; Ukrainians (Hutsuls) [at first everywhere water; God walked on the water, Aley (Ilya) slept in the clouds; one place on the water was covered with foam, God turned it into Aridnyk (Satan); told him to dive, he brought clay from the bottom under his fingernail, God made it out of it earth; God lay down to rest; A. tried to push him into the water, but as he dragged him to the edge, the earth grew bigger; when God woke up, God threw A. into the water, which became covered with ice; A. broke through the ice with his head , went back to land; after that God called him an enemy, not a friend; Alei woke up, saw the ground, pushed it in fear, valleys and mountains formed; to prevent this from happening again, God chained him to hand to rock; with one hand he can only shake clouds (thunder); only A. had the ability to create, and only God could revive creatures; therefore, all creatures belonged to A., God owed them to him steal; their struggle ended with God throwing A. into jail; when they were fighting, a piece of God's skin was ripped off his hand and fell to the ground; that's where Adam came; A. once fell off the chain, found A. spat on him and he became unclean; then God turned A. inside out, the impurity remained inside; when A. slept, God put a willow branch next to him, Eve arose from it; she ate the fruit of the forbidden tree, became the cause of people's sinfulness; people multiplied; sinners became devils - helpers to A.; the first people were small and long-bearded ("lectobeards"); after them, giants inhabited the earth; they were evil, theirs God destroyed by the flood; only Noah and his family escaped; var.: A horn was sticking out of the water, two clung to it and did not drown; from then on, fewer people will become dwarfs again]: Koenig 1936:369-371; Belarusians ( Smolensk) [the sea is everywhere; The devil is in the body of a swan; God promises to free him if he gets the earth from the bottom; tells me to say, Lord bless "; The devil swan dives, takes sand in his mouth, but not says that they ordered, the sand has washed away; the third time he says, brings sand, hides some in his mouth; the earth grows, including in his mouth Devil, he spits it out, creating swamps]: Dobrovolsky 1891, No. 8:229- 300; Belarusians: Grynblat, Gurski 1983, No. 4 [Damn saw God sow the earth, hid a part in his mouth; God asked what he was eating, Damn swallowed the earth, it began to grow; he began to burp, in these places swamps were formed where devils live], 5 [first there was water everywhere; God sailed in the boat, hell saw what he was going to do; God sowed the land, land appeared from the forest, and that's it; hell swallowed the land, it became grow, he belched her, swamps appeared, overgrown with rakita; the man began to tear his bast, the devil asked what he was doing; the man tied him to the oak; the devil rushed, dragged the oak with him, stayed in the swamps trail], 6 [God was in the air, saw a bubble, the bubble in it answers that he is God, and whoever asked is God above the gods; God offered to get land; the one in the bubble brought it in his hands, and what he took in his mouth hid it; God sowed the earth, it began to grow; so is the hell in his mouth; he belched it, swamps and mountains appeared there], 8 [first there is only water, God swims, sees a bubble, the devil has jumped out of there; God tells him to get it out water is earth; the devil brought it in the hem, God sowed it; part of the land The devil hid behind his cheek, the earth began to grow, he regurgitated it, swamps appeared]: 37-38, 38-39, 40, 41; Dragomanov in Köngäs 1960 [in all Belarusian and Ukrainian versions, the participants are purely anthropomorphic; in the Great Russian, Satanael turns into a bird]: 163.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Kalmyks [Khan Tengriev and Khan Asurov looked down - only water; Burkhan Bagshi turned one of his khubilgans into a turtle and lowered it into the water; shot it - the turtle overturned on his back; Earth was created on her belly; Khan Asurov and Khan Tengriev descended on her - darkness all around; they began to filter the waters of the ocean - the moon appeared on a silver wagon with a white horse pulled into it; then the golden sun, drawn by three salt horses; then a vessel with an immortal arshan; khan asurov: I'll take it for myself; Khan Tengriev was sad; the manzhak stole him, left the vessel with arza; Khan's close associates The asurov, after drinking it, became intoxicated; Arshan drank the double-headed Araha, filled it with his urine, and disappeared; Vajrapani went in search; the Sun showed the way to his mind with his chin; the Moon pointed his finger; V. caught up with Araha, cut it in two; chained one half to the Moon's wagon, the other to the Sun's cart; Araha promised to torment the Moon every three months, the Sun every three years; when Araha was cut in two, it spilled out of it the immortal arshan fell on juniper and pine, they became evergreen]: Basangova 2017, No. 1:33-35; Nogais: Aleinikov 1893 [God created fire and water, the water was under fire, boiled; foam, which came from boiling, formed a layer with an uneven surface; the Lord destroyed fire, created the earth from foam; mountains formed from the swelling of the foam; the earth rests on fish left under the foam; water - on a rock, and the stone is back on the water; what's next is not known]: 2; Kapayev 2012 (book: T.Akmanbetov. Syntastyn Yiluvy (Warmth of the Monument), Makhachkala, 2008; recorded by folklorist Tahir Akmanbetov in 1975 from Ozbek Amanbayeva, a resident of the village of Sarysu of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, born in 1913; informant - storyteller, musician, played ancient melodies on the horn) [at first only the eternal sky - Tangri, his companion Umai, Umai has two birds - Ak-Ku ("white swan") and Kara-Bapiy ("black duck"); Ak-Ku laid an egg, it consisted of water; Kara-Bapiy swam in the water, but she was drawn down, she dived and swam; one day she felt silt and sand at the bottom; she began to pull them to the surface and built a nest; she continued to put silt and sand around the nest, which made her nose red and long; the nest grew and became dry; Kara-bapiy knew that she could not do anything; when she created the earth in fear punishment, dived into the lower world; she was restless and persistent, which is why she was named Erke Khan]: 30, 226; Adygi [fox is friends with a pig; steals chicken; suggests that it be eaten by whoever they are older; the fox says it was born when there was almost no sushi; went out with the foxes to the islands so that the children could play in the grass, half the mice, and so everyone ate fish; the pig cries: it swam with piglets in a continuous salty ocean; only later did scraps of land appear; the fox agrees: let the pig eat the chicken; the fox steals the chicken again: let the person who has seen the best dream eat it; the fox dreamed that it the queen and that when the fried pheasants were brought, the pig went somewhere; she replies that she decided to eat the chicken, because after the fried pheasants, the fox is unlikely to want it; after that, the fox and the pig became friends]: Kerashev 1957:294-296; Karachays [Dragon and Fish lived in the ocean of ice; Tagyr-Kaachi's highest spirit (Tagyr-Qachi did the authors of the early 19th century?) went down, slipped on the ice, fell on both hands; the right one melted the ice, became the Aji-Kush bird, the left became the Biji-Kush bird; AK defecated to the surface of the Dragon, from excrement Earth arose, and rivers arose from the wing feathers; the fish ate the excrement of BC, spewed it to the sea surface, from which Kara-Jackie and Emegenes appeared (teratological creatures, see Karajek. motive I51); k. were expelled under the ice, and e. continued to rule the earth until two birds born from the Tamlynyk egg (or Tashchy Katyn; "Stone Woman" came, meaning Tamlun turtle); one was black and the other was red (these are Hummai and Gummai birds, aka Ala-Kaaz and Kara-Kaz, or Ala-Kaz and Boz-Kaz, see motif C6 ("diver")]: Karaketov 1995:17; Ingush [the sea whipped foam, it eventually formed land; mountains give it stability]: Dakhkilgov 2003:20; (cf. Tankiev 1997 [first a deserted firmament, the bird descended, covered the entire earth with its body, left excrement, which formed water and seed; vegetation came from the seed]: 13); Lezgins [ First, water is everywhere; when land was formed, some of the gods came out of the sea, others remained on the seabed or in the waves; therefore, it is common to distinguish between gods living in the sea and those who live on land]: Rizvanov, Rizvanov 1990:37; Terek Cossacks (v. Karabulak) [when the Lord created the sky and the sea, he "began to plant the earth"; sent the devil into the sea to bring sand; the devil climbed into the sea, collected sand in both handfuls, and hid one handful for himself the cheekbone to do what the Lord did; when he got out of the sea, he gave the Lord two handfuls; the Lord began to spread sand in all directions; where even one grain of sand fell, the earth began to grow out of it; the sand in the devil's mouth also began to grow; the devil screamed in pain; told the Lord that he wanted to hide some sand from him, and he began to burst his mouth; the Lord told the devil to run and spit until he will not spit out all the sand; the devil did so; mountains appeared where he spit]: Baranov 1899, No. 9:192-193; Georgians [zap. B. Nizharadze in 1887; first there was water everywhere; God jumped out of the rock of the universe, jumped into the water; froze, dropped two tears, they turned into archangels Michael (on the right hand) and Gabriel (on God's left hand); God began to sink, M. and G. picked it up; the three of them blew on the water, exposed the bottom, saw a trail in the sand, he led them under the blue stone, Samaal jumped out from under the stone, strangled God, let them go for their promise make him a sister; God with M. and G. cannot separate water from land by a wall; S. advised to build and destroy a stone wall many times, then blow into two calling horns, then God must shout; after this scream, the water came down, the land was exposed]: Chikovani 1985, No. 153:324-325 (=Virsaladze 1973, No. 188:257-258); svana [first there is water everywhere, there is a rock in the middle of the water, God in the middle of the rock; he came out of it, drained the water, divided the mixture of water and earth around the rock in two, made the sky from one part, and the earth from the other; a tear from his right eye became Michael the Archangel, from the left eye to Gabriel the Archangel; God and angels Went, met a young man, asked where the men were? - We went to look for quarrels (i.e. to fence off the extreme field with a wattle fence, there will be a quarrel with a neighbor). - Where are the women? - Let's cry (i.e. mourn the neighbor); God liked this clever young man, he took him with him, his name was George; the angels tried to take God away from the stone, but he insisted on coming there, hit the stone Satan came out with a whip, saying that he and God were of the same kind, asked for a share; God chose humans and animals for himself, and Satan chose man's soul; but the angels said that this was only until the Son appeared; {more gospel stories}]: Margiani 1890a: 244-252.
Iran - Central Asia. Zoroastrianism [the earth created by Ormazd after sky and water]: Chunakova 2004:117; gilgit (shina, burishi): Yettmar 1986:223-224 [the world is covered with water, partly frozen; several yats (giants) live under the rule of their Yamlo (demon) lord Gal Singh; they want to place the ground above the water; the wolf Bojare Shal lived in the place of Milgamok ("Old Ice"); Happiness was sent to him, the wolf refused to listen someone who serves anyone; then Trust; Garai Patan, a bird living in the snow of the mountains, was brought in the same way; Bojare Shal ordered to bring the mouse; ordered Gal Singh to stand in the water as a support; Garai Patan sat down on him, spread his wings; the mouse made a hole in the ice, took out the ground, poured it on the bird's wings; when the wings covered the water, the mouse carried out all the land under the water; about the same recorded by Ghulam Muhammad 1907:107ff; Francke 1923:8 et al.], 337 [the myth of diving only in Gilgit; the myths of creation among the Dardas Da and Khan (according to Francke) are different]; dardas (yes) [land taken out (emportstiegen) from the oceans and thrown into the waters (besät)]: Francke 1923:8 in Hermanns 1946-1949:839.
Baltoscandia. Oriental {only?} Sami: Eichenwald et al. 1982 [a duck lays five eggs on a blade of grass in the ocean that grows into the ground; eggs produce vegetation, fish and birds, a man and a woman; the first couple gives birth son and daughter, who go looking for spouses and, having traveled all over the earth, meet again; the human race came from them]: 168; Czarnoluski 1965 [a duck flew over the waters, found a blade of grass Siyin; villages, flew around, a blade of grass grew into the ground; the duck laid four eggs, trees appeared from the first, the second bird, apparently animals from the third, people from the fourth (the informant did not say this directly); people have multiplied]: 122; Finns: Harva 1938 (? Eastern Finland) [God sends the Line to the bottom; C. dives in the form of a black-throated loon, brings earth; hides part in his mouth; by God's will, the earth begins to grow; C. spits out the earth, ravines form and other bad places]: 101 in Napolsky 1991:140; Finns or Karelians (eastern Finland): Mansikka 1909:171 [God was on a golden pillar in the middle of the sea; told his reflection to rise to him; The devil has appeared; God asks how the earth can arise; - We must dive to the bottom three times; God tells the devil to dive three times, the third time he hides part of the earth in his mouth; God tells the earth to grow, the hidden part is also growing; God agrees to take it out of the devil's mouth, throws it north, where stones and rocks appear (=Kongas 1960:161 referring to Mustakallio, MS, No. 72)], 171-172 [swam by sea Gogol, Satan invited him to get the earth from the bottom; he brings land in his beak three times, both began to live on it; God appears, says that part of the land is hidden, pulls out Satan's mouth, throws it away north, stones and mountains appear]; Karelians: Yevseyev 1981 [(Salminen 1908); Loon flies over the sea, Satan sends her to dive underground; she dives three times, each time most of the earth is washed away; everything But it is enough for Loon to be able to live on earth; God says that there is not enough land, S. hid part in his mouth; God ordered to spit it it out, he spat to the north, creating rocks and mountains; S. cut his finger, God spoke to the wound]: 311-312; Kulikovsky 1891 (Olonetskaya Gubernia) [at first only water and wind; God was tired of their noise, shouted for the waves to petrify; the waves became mountains, the splashes became stones; later the rain changed the shape of the mountains, filled the seas and lakes]: 196; Manticca 1909 [Satan and Gogol floats on the sea; S. sends Gogol to the bottom; he brings land three times, S. collects it; God appears, creates the earth's firmament; "hiding the earth"; God does not give the Land Line, he begs for himself as much space as you need to stick a stake; mosquitoes and other harmful insects and reptiles come out of this hole]: 171-172 in Napolsky 1991:140; Livons: Loorits 1998 (1): 81 [God and the Devil Went together, God threw something like a nut behind his back, the devil picked it up, put it in his mouth; it began to grow; God slapped the Devil in his mouth, it grew, became earth], 81-82 [God told the Devil to bring from spaces (ilmaruumist) of dust; naked Devil hid part in his mouth; God ordered dust to be scattered around the world, the earth grew; Damn ran away so that God would not notice what he had hidden in his mouth, the particles fell, so appeared hills]; Estonians [in Estonian runic songs, the motive for plowing and Joukahainen is also characteristic of Ingrian and Karelian (Väinameinen's dispute with Joukahainen about which of them is older) options and sowing the sea where the earth arises]: Kuusi 1982:155-161; Latvians [(2 options); God sends Satan to dive to the bottom of the sea to get land; he brings sand or silt under his fingernails; God puts it on water, the earth grows]: Puschkaitis 1891-1893 (quoted in Dänhardt) in Walk 1993:68-69; Lithuanians [God sends Satan to get sand from the bottom of the sea; creates sand from the extracted land]: Veselovsky (quoted in Dänhardt) on Walk 1933:68-69; Lithuanians [God created an island and lay down on it to rest; Damn dragged God to the water, but the island began to grow in this direction; by God's order, the devil/angel dived into the water to get land but did not reach the bottom; he carried the silt only under his fingernails; God extracted the silt from under his fingernails and created the island]: Kerbelite 2001:44.
Volga - Perm. Komi-Zyrians [zap. P.G. Doronin in 1927, I knew it since childhood); at first there was no earth, no sky, one swamp; two frogs, blind and sighted, climbed onto the hummock; the sighted one was Yong, the blind was cunning Omel; falling off the hummock, turned into human beings; the sighted one broke two teeth, they turned into horns, all living things appeared from a drop of blood, all living things appeared from a drop of blood; and when they fell into hummocks, they turned into humans; the sighted broke two teeth, they became a woman; she became O.'s wife, met in E., O. beat him; E. tamed pigeons, created the sky, created a hole in the center, released pigeons through it; O. vorona, this one for them the hole is small, O. made the other wider, the crows flew into the sky, killed the pigeons, escaped alone; returned to E. with mud; O. sent a crow, he took the mud, E. grabbed the crow by the throat, squeezed it, the mud fell down, formed land; the water that spilled out of his beak was the sea; while E. was away, O. plugged the hole in the sky with the hut in which E. lived; flame burned around the hole; O.'s wife said it was from her silk mitt, gave a flap of her dress to make another mitten, her E. broke the flame; O. sucked the flame; O. from her silk mitt, let a flap of her dress make another mitten, to her E. with her crows and animals fell to the ground; O.'s wife stayed in heaven with E., gave birth to his daughter Yoma and son Wojpel; O. persuaded her to open a hole in the sky, broke in there, threw Y. and V. on the ground (they are the ancestors of people), found a mitten, grabbed half of the sun, but ran into a branch, got stuck in a tree; E. cursed him, O. threw away what he had captured, this half became a month, it had O.'s fingerprints; the female broke off, O. fell, the branch became his tail; E. went down to visit his son, who was making pots; demons O. flew in, boasting that they could cloud the sun or fit in four pots; E. closed the pots, but one crashed, E. drove the demon; whoever fell into the water became water, the goblin into the forest, his fingers became damn fingers; in the ground in the pot O. tries to escape; one day he will come out, fight with E.]: Doronin 2004:392-396 (another lane on Russian to Novikov 1936:40); Komi-Zyrians: Sidorov 1924 to Limerov 2016 [Yong sailed in a boat, spat on the water, looked around - the same person was following him; went together; the companion asked to turn him into loon to reach the land; snatched (from the bottom) a quarter of the land and began to rise, but the sea surface was frozen; breaking the ice, the loon crushed the whole earth from its mouth; the same in the second and third once; finally, the loon spit out three grains of sand, from which Yong created the earth and the useful creatures that live on it, but gave his comrade only a hole from hammering a stake, from which he brought everything a creature harmful to humans]: 15; Plesovsky 1972 (western 1923 in the village. Prondor, P.G. Doronin's list) [the duck is swimming, does not know where to lay its eggs; four eggs are absorbed in the depths, kept the last two under its wing, from which the ducklings Yong and Omöl hatched ; the mother asked them to get the lost eggs from the bottom, break them on her body, flew up herself, killed herself against the water; E. dived, O. shouted, the water was covered with ice, O. broke the ice with thunder and lightning; E. hit what they had brought the egg on the mother's body, the body grew, turned into land, the sun appeared from the broken egg; brought a second egg, angel assistants came out of it; O. brought two eggs covered in mud; one threw up, the moon arose; from the second he made helpers - evil spirits; E. made useful birds and animals, O. - reptiles; E. sculpted Adam's man, blew, revived; O. sculpted a woman, could not revive her, E. revived her ; the wife gave birth to 12 daughters, killed them herself at the instigation of O.; E. cursed her, she turned into death, her daughters into illness; from A. E. created Eve; O. seduced her, so the offspring were bad; E. made the first heaven, O. higher than the second, E. the third, etc., seven in total; E. destroyed the lower six with thunder and lightning, over O. and his assistants into forests, swamps and rivers; E. asked the demon leader Anthus if he and his army could climb into three pots; threw pots into hell, one crashed, some of the demons remained on the ground]: 39-41 (=Sidorov 1924, No. 1-2:24; =Limerov 2005, No. 2:17-20); Sidorov 1924 [Yong (God) spat in the form of a swan, Omöl (devil) appeared from the spit in the form of a loon, which dives and brings land; Yong creates land; there are seven tiers in the sky, the odd ones were created by E., even O.; each sky is one of the colors of the rainbow (the same on Vym, noted by G.A. Startsev); O. asks to give him as much land as necessary to score a stake; from holes come out insects, reptiles] in Plesovsky 1972:42; Komi-Permyaks: Mushrooms 1975:30 in Napolsky 1991 [Yen in the form of a duck; Kul (devil) in the form of a loon; Yen-duck orders Kul loon brings land from the bottom; Yong creates land]: 141-142; Klimov 1990 in Kononov 1999, No. 1 [the bird flew above the water, the droppings fell, the earth arose from it; the bear scratched the ground, swamps formed and mountains], 2 [there was water, the wind brought dust, garbage, land formed, forest grew], 3 [the bird cut off its feather, threw it on the cloud, it hardened, the earth became], 4 [Yong thundered, a piece fell off the cloud; Yong rained on him, earth formed], 5 [Yong rode a horse, she dropped a round timber, land was formed]: 432; Udmurts: Kralina 1960, No. 1 (written by V.P. Petrov in Grakhovsky district, Vouj Egra village) [water everywhere; Inmar told Satan to dive, get land; he took out two handfuls, hid some in his mouth; I. blew the earth into the water, land arose and grew; the earth in Satan's mouth too grew up, his mouth burst, mountains, swamps, hummocks appeared; the first people were giants; one put a man in his pocket, brought it to his mother; she said that these people would be smart; and the giants sat by the fire and did not know how move away, began to coat their feet with clay; when there were many people on earth, I. left them to the next world]: 39-40; Munkácsi 1887 [there was water everywhere, Inmar sailed in a boat, called Shaitan, told them to dive, get everything he finds from the bottom; on the way, Cancer tells S. that he has been living in the water for 12 years, but has not seen the bottom; S. reached the bottom, brought sand in his mouth, despite the prohibition I. hid a little; the earth began to grow; seeing the swollen Sh., I.'s cheeks told him to spit out the hidden, mountains and ravines formed]: 49 in Vladykin 1994:319-320, in Kralina 1960:288-289, in Perevozchikov 1988:15; Yakovlev 1914, No. 1 [water everywhere, God swims in stone on a boat, followed by the Devil; God tells the Devil to get the earth from the bottom; he brings the earth in handfuls; God commands to bring more; the devil brings twice, hides some in his mouth; God told the earth to grow, cover the water; The devil had to spit out the ground, the clods became mountains]: 387-388; Marie: Anonymous 1858 [Keremet was Yuma's younger brother; Yu wanted to create dry land, ordered K., who swam on the waters in the form of a drake, get land from under the water; K., although he obeyed the order, gave only part of the land to Yu, and held part in his mouth; when Yu blew on the land he had brought and told it to cover the water, K. coughed up the retained land; where grumbled, mountains appeared there]: 210; Vasiliev 1907 [Kiremet swam on the water in the form of a drake; Yuma told him to get land from the bottom; he brought it, hid part in his mouth; Yu blew to the ground, spread it over the water, creating a flat land; K. began to spit out the hidden, creating mountains]: 50; Vereshchagin 1996 [(according to V. Bekhterev 1880); Keremet swam in the form of a drake, Humo told him to get land from the bottom; K. brought land, but hid some in his mouth; Yu covered the water with earth, and K. spit out the hidden, creating mountains and bare rocks; Yu. hit the stone with a hammer, the sparks turned into angels (shukchias); the sparks from K.'s blows turned into evil spirits; Yu left the black dog to guard the human body, went behind his soul; K. sent cold, bribed the dog warm hair, spat on the human body, making it sinful]: 134; Kaliev 2003 [In the bosom of the primary ocean from his nest - Ludo Pyzhash (letters. "duck's nest" - Pleiades) a duck flew in. After laying two eggs, she sat them under her wings. Two drake brothers, Yumo and Yeun, were born from these eggs. Then they alternately dived under the water and pulled land from the ocean floor. The land that Yumo took out formed a flat surface. On the other hand, Eun choked and spit out his saliva along with the ground. This is how mountains, lakes and swamps appeared on earth]: 17-18 (quoted from Yuziev 2016:106; the same text cites Limerov 2016:22 with reference to Kaliev 2004:108); Erzya [Chama-paz (supreme deity) sees Shaitan swimming in the form of a duck; orders Shaitan the Duck dives, brings earth; C. creates the earth's firmament; "concealing the earth"]: Melnikov 1981:53 in Napolsky 1991:140-141; moksha: Oral- poetic creativity of the Mordovian people 1983 [God in the form of a duck dives and brings earth from the bottom, spits it out - land grows; Damn, after watching, repeats God's actions, creates mountains]: 188 in Napolsky 1991:141; Veselovsky 1889 [Vardya-shkai (supreme deity) swims in a boat, meets Satan in the form of Gogol; V. orders Shaitan-Gogol dives unsuccessfully twice, brings land for the third time in the name of God; "hiding the earth"]: 12-13 in Napolsky 1991:141; Mordovians [Cham-paz (sun god) spits, the spit turns into stone, it breaks it, it turns into Shaitan; C. tells dive, get the earth from the bottom; S. hid a part in his mouth, spit out, mountains appeared; C. made a blue sky, Sh. - clouds, C. ordered them to bring rain; C. made useful animals, S. - predators, snakes, spiders, mosquitoes; C. made a man under the protection of a dog, S. blew cold on her, she was naked, hid in the hay; S. spat on the man, giving him diseases and vices; C. gave man reason, S. sent him to the lower world]: Sedova 1982:13-15; Chuvash: Egorov 1995 [Tour ă creates land flat, it grows; Shuittan spits out silt hidden in his mouth, creates mountains, ravines, or causes a storm in the ocean, before the earth has time to harden; in order for S. to spit out the silt, T. beats him, evil spirits appeared from the splashes of blood; T. begs for land, agrees to a patch to lean on his staff, makes a hole in the ground falls into the lower world; diseases and reptiles come out of the hole; T. drives them back; S. clumsily imitates T.; T. makes apples, a cow, a sheep, Sh. - potato berries, a goat, a pig; predatory and harmful animals, reptiles, fish (throwing pebbles into the water); T. made a man, went after his soul, left the dog without hair to guard; S. let the dog fall cold, promised the dog a fur coat, spat on a man; T. turned the man inside out , ordered the dog to eat bones and be beaten]: 117-118; Odyukov 1973 (Western Yu. Savin, 1952, Teacher Training Institute, Moscow. Kanash) [two loons (young and old) took the land from the bottom of the sea, carried it out in their beaks and put it on water; since then, land has been formed (translated from Chuvash. A.K. Salmin)]: 59; Rekeev 1896 [there were water and sky; God sailed in a boat, sent angels to dive, they did not get dirt from the bottom; God reluctantly agreed to the devil's offer to dive; he carried dirt in his mouth, Having spit it it out in the palm of God's hand, God scattered this earth in all directions; particles of the earth have begun to grow; God sees that the devil's upper lip is puffing up, hit him, his lip has split, and the earth has fallen out of there and blood flowed; where the blood spray fell, new devils were born]: 1-2; Stagnal 2004, No. 20 [originally a sea without borders; all living things lived in water; they wanted to live on land; no one knew how to create the earth; a little bird volunteered; having descended to the bottom three times, she carried the earth out with her beak; the earth began to grow], 22 [only two pigeons lived on the water, flew above the water; once they dived, raised them in ground with their beaks; three whales came out, asked them to put soil on their backs; since then, the earth has been resting on three whales, there is water around the earth], 24 [once a duck splashed down on the endless sea, dived, removed sea silt to the surface; created the earth from this silt]: 29, 29, 30; Tatars: Tatar halyk Izhaty 1987 (translated by Bakirov, July 2005) [1) did not exist in the world in the oldest times nothing but water, and the whole world was water; people had not yet appeared, only fish and birds were born; and one day one of the birds, a duck, sank very deep into the water, to the very bottom, and came up with a lump of silt in the beak; it began to grow; this is how the earth was formed]: 232; http://www.alabuga.ru/City/History/TatarMyths/earth.htm [God created the lake by his power and ordered the duck to dive into this lake and collect the silt at the bottom; then the Almighty again ordered that you spit it out inside and scatter it; the duck did so (a manuscript of 1843, written by Sharifulla from Kazan, son of Zharmukhammat; found in 1980 in Mamadinsky District)]; Napolsky 1993 [children's songs, proverbs and riddles of Kazan Tatars and Chuvash mention that the land was brought by a duck]: 29; Bashkirs: Aminev 2005 [Western author from his mother, the Burzyan family, in the Bashkir Trans-Urals; first, the water, a duck descends, pulls silt from the bottom, made a nest on it, laid two eggs, began to incubate; two brothers were born from eggs - drake, they are cramped, one pushed the other out of this world, he went under water, became azhdaha]: 31; Barag 1987, No. 1 [water is everywhere, two ducks are swimming; to lay eggs, they began to get silt from under the water; one keeps it under its wing, the other brings more and more pieces; in this silt, the duck has made a nest, brought ducklings, they have bred new ones, clutched nests have formed an island; other islands have appeared, merged into the ground; since then pores in duck goiter pebbles, silt]: 30-31 (quail in Napolsky 1993:29-30).
Turkestan. Karakalpaks [In ancient times, there was no land; instead, everything was covered with empty water. The Suymyryk bird (a mythical bird) began to pull dirt from under the water (1) with its beak to make a nest for itself. All kinds of dust, grass, and algae gathered in the nest for this dirt, and formed a large land. This is where the land was born. 1) "uyyk" in the Karakalpak-Russian dictionary of Baskakov 1958 (30,000 words) translates: 1) swamp, marshy place, quagmire; 2) dirt; (translated by Islam Saparbayev with clarifications and with a comment by Ruslan Doutaliev)]: Aimbetov 2014b: 25; yellow Uighurs [first only water and sky; Śākyamuni summoned the Black Dragon from the sky, put a piece of black silk on his back, ordered bring him gold; put white silk on the White Elephant's back, told him white soil; threw soil and gold into the sea, land appeared; at first it was small; S. went to heaven for advice to the god Layangjia; he replied that when four pillars are erected at the four corners of the sky, the God of Fire will create fire, and women will give birth to children, the earth will grow; when S. returned, the ocean has already shrunk greatly, appeared mountains and rivers, people on earth]: Stuart, Jhang 1996:13.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars: Urazaleev 2005:4 (d. Taychi, Tevriz District, Omsk Region) [two ducks swam, one decided to create the earth from silt (var.: from clay); the second dived, brought silt in its beak; the first began to scatter it over the surface of the water, earth appeared; the second, having reached land, became throw pebbles, mountains have appeared], 4-5 (p. Karagay, Vagai District, Tyumen Region) [heavenly horses sailed, where they touched the bottom with their hooves, silt surfaced, and earth formed from it], 5 (d. Atachka, Tarsky District, Omsk Region) [the supreme god Tenri sent his bird Swan (Ak Kosh) to get land from the bottom of the sea; when the land was formed, he settled Satan spirits (var.: Ishay or Yeshey) on it; they did not obey, he drove them into the forests; then he created the first humans out of clay; the swan became a sacred bird]; Chulym Turks [water is everywhere, a loon floats; God: what do you eat? - Earth. - Where is it? - Underwater. - Get it, thank you. Loon brought the earth three times, it turned out to be a cake, God lay down on it; the devil grabbed his leg and threw it into the water; God was on land, a lot of land was formed; the devil grabbed the sleeping God by the legs, pulled him into the water, and the earth expands; dragged until it was dry all around; hell asked for half the earth; God refused; well, at least stick the stake; God allowed, damn stuck the stake and took out mosquitoes, midges; God plugged the hole; did dog; made a man; went after his soul, told the dog to protect the man; the devil asked to miss: I'll feed and shower it with black hair; the dog missed; the devil pierced the navel and did not care; God told the dog serve humans; since then, people have been ill]: Lukina 2004, No. 5.1:97-98; Altaians: Radlov 1989 [Tengere Kaira Kan and a man soared above the water like geese; a man flew above T., lost the ability to fly, fell; T. rescued him, ordered him to dive, get land; the man put part of it in his mouth; the earth began to swell, T. told him to spit it it out, marsh hummocks formed on the ground; T. cursed him , called Erlik; E. took possession of people T.; created evil spirits, settled in his sky; T. smashed him with a spear, fragments formed mountains; Erlik T. drove deep into the ground]: 357-358; Khokholkov 1997 [water is everywhere, Kudai sent fish to search for land, only Pike brought land from the bottom; K. made it lighter than other fish; K. fell asleep, his brother Erlik grabbed a handful of land and ran; the earth continued to happen; where E. jumped, a mountain appeared, where a trough came, the ground became uneven; K. agreed to give E. land the size of the end of his crutch; E. fell into this hole, came out of it all reptiles and insects]: 21-22; Chelkans (shalgans on the Swan River; self-name ku-k i zhi, swan people) [at first there was water; God sent Swan, he dived, took the earth from the bottom]: Dyrenkova 1929:123; Teleuts [(you as a missionary. Postnikov in d. Myyuta, whose population was formed mainly from Bachat migrant teleuts - see below. Potanin 1883:130, note 2; Funk 2004:9); there was only water; Ulgen went down to create the earth; Yerlik volunteered to dive, brought earth from the bottom in his mouth; W. made the earth, it was all from turf; There was a little land left between E.'s teeth; he spit it it out, a hummocked swampy place formed; W. scolded him; he asked for as much land as the end of his stick took; he fell into that the place he asked for; the swallow brought turf in his beak; W. scattered it; made the forest and everything on earth; created the human body from earth, bones from stones; a dog without hair; went to look for a soul for man, left the dog as a watchman; E. appeared, promised to give the dog hair and soul to the man; the dog ate E.'s excrement, overgrown with hair; E. put a pipe in the man's ass, blew, thereby reviving him; W. came, I wondered whether to exterminate people; the Frog persuaded them to leave them as they are]: Potanin 1883, No. 46a: 218-220; Shors ("Kuznetsk foreigners") [first one water; God often spits in one place, saliva forms a heap, the devil Aina comes out of it, calls him a friend; God tells him to dive to get the ground, say, Help, Lord! A. does not say, the earth is washed off his hands twice, but at the bottom he eats it; the third time he brought the earth, God dried it, scattered it, creating land; the earth in A.'s stomach began to grow; God cut it, cleaned it, cured A., went to bed; A. tried to turn the earth over, but only stretched it; begged for a piece of land at least the size of a crutch; fell down, and reptiles and insects, prickly plants came out of the hole, mountains and swamps appeared; God strengthened the land on three whales (Ker-Palyk); when they change places, earthquakes occur]: Shtygashev 1894:1-7; Khakas: Katanov 1963 (Kachins) [first there was a duck; having made another friend, she sent her to the bottom of the river for sand; she brings it three times and gives it to the first; the third time she left some of the sand in her mouth, this part became stones; the first duck scattered the sand, crushed nine days, the land grew; mountains rose after the messenger duck spit stones out of her mouth; because of this, the former refuses to give her land; agrees to give land the size of a cane; the messenger pierces a hole in the ground, goes into it; the rest sends a swallow for the human soul, telling the dog to watch and bark at Erlik Khan; E. created winter, gave the dog a fur coat, spat on man; God poured his soul on man, made him a wife out of a rib; told him to eat red currants at sunrise but not at sunset; his wife ate; a woman with a child and a mare and a foal eat grass, a woman has crossed seven slides, a mare after one; God decided that if people ate grass, they would eat it all; see motive D13]: 154-156 (quail in Troyakov 1995:6-7); Radlov 1907:523-524; Sagalaev 1992:39 in Butanayev 2003 [water everywhere; Ah-Khudai decided to create the earth; his younger brother Irlik Khan: there is "live clay" under water; becoming a pike or duck, he reached the bottom, took grains of sand in his mouth and brought them AH, but hid some in his mouth; AH caught three perch (ala puja) and made them float on the surface of the water; scattered grains of sand on their backs, from which flat ground grew; I. spit out hidden grains of sand from his mouth and mountains and abysses appeared; "Let it be flat They will say your name to the place, and when they meet mountains and gorges, they will remember me with curses"; earthquakes occur when fish wag their tails; (hereinafter about the creation of cow liver, B48A, and man, H41 )]: 109-110; Buryats (Baikal?) [Ehe Burhan wandered in the darkness; she made a wild duck, which dived into the water, brought dirt in her beak; EB blinded Mother Ulgen's land, created plants and animals on it; she gave birth to a daughter from the Sun - good Manzan Gourmet, from her then Western deities were born; 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 feminine, on the sunrise side there is a masculine principle; they met, united, the first man Pahang was born, the first woman Tuya was born]: Zhukovskaya 1980:95-96 (source cit. Sharakshinova 1959:40-47); Balagan Buryats (Khangalov's recording, the same in Khangalov 1960:7-10): Gomboev 1890, No. 1a [there was only water; Burkhan Sombol (so named because he became himself ) sees an angata bird (arcalic) swimming with 12 children; sends it underground to the bottom; the angata brings red clay on the nose of black earth, in its paws; S. first scatters red clay on the water clay, then black earth; land, grass and trees appear on it; S. blesses the angata bird, You will have many children, swim well on the water and dive well (retelling in Zolotarev 1964)], 1b [ Burhan Sombol walks on water, wants to create earth; sees an angir bird (scoter, red duck) swimming on the water; sends it to the bottom to reach the ground; angir dives, but Hashi-zagahan (scissor fish) tells her to return, because even she did not see the bottom, threatens to cut it in half; S. sends angir again, tells her to say om mani budma khan; angir brings land, S. creates land from it, grows on it grasses and trees (retelling in Khangalov 1890:7-10)], 1c [there is only water everywhere; Shibegani Burkhan, Madari Burkhan and Esege-Burkhan saw the angata bird, it swam with 12 children; they told it dive, get black clay, red clay, sand; she dived, got it; they scattered black earth, red clay and sand on the water, created the earth, and grew grass and trees on it; then they created a man; a body from red clay, a bone stone, blood from water; they made a man and a woman, went to bed; whose candle would burn the next morning, in whose pot a flower would grow, will revive people and become them patronize; Shibegani-Burhan woke up, saw that a candle was burning in front of Madari-Burhan, a flower in his pot; changed, lay down again, was recognized as the winner; M.: now animated People will also steal and quarrel with you; after that, M. and E. took to heaven, and S. stayed on earth, revived the two people they had done; the Burkhans made them covered with hair and the dog naked; Shibegani- The burkhan went up to heaven, left the dog to guard; Shithir came, the dog began to bark, he seduced her by giving her hair and food, spat on people, left; Shibegani Burkhan returned, cursed the dog , telling her to gnaw bones, eat excrement; scraped off people's hair, leaving them on her head, for people held their hands on their heads, so she was not spat on], 1g [Burkhan made the ground flat; stood beside him Shithyr, who hid a little land under his heel; when the burkhan finished creating, S. took the hidden one, scattered it, mountains and valleys formed; explained to the Burkhan that when people descended downhill, they would call, Ay, burkhan; and when they rise, they will remember that Shitkhyrova is a high mountain; so both of them will be remembered constantly]: 65-66, 66-67, 67-69 (the creation of land on p.67), 69; Buryats ( probably from the Baikal region; the place of recording is not specified, from T.K. Alekseeva's materials collected "in the homeland of Dorji Banzarov"; the IMBT SB RAS funds store her records taken in the Baikal region in the Ongoy- Kutanka; cm. Dampilova 2017:62, 64) [there were the highest and lowest zambi, at the lowest four happiness; they formed the sea, the golden willow, the human form, the flame of fire; on the very basis of the golden willow, Mother Divine appeared; she created her son Budar, on the willow branches, the Hunting Bird, from the depths of the sea, Whale's fish, and the earth on her back]: Kozin 1946:173-176; Buryats (Idinsky, Kakha River, Osinsky District Irkutsk region) there were two planes, the upper and lower, the upper one was greater than the lower one; on the lower one there were four happiness (evil); one formed the sea, the second - the golden willow, and the third - human form, fourth - light of fire; human form formed Ehe Burhan (Mother Goddess); created a son named Budarga under the golden willow, and a friend for him from willow bark Anhata shubuun bird; Abarga zaga h an created fish in the sea, created the sun from the light of fire; the demon Archang-Shothor came out of the sea foam; he did not reach the earth; bird ASH brought a handful of clay in its claws from the bottom of the sea, EB on AZ's back made earth out of it; at night, the demon ASH began to pull the sleepers into the water, but only stretched the ground, which had become large; offered to squeeze the ground, so mountains appeared; asked for a share; they agreed to give him enough to put up a cane; insects, snakes, worms, etc. crawled out of the hole; EB created the feminine principle Ehen Altan Tecto at sunset, in the east, a male Esegen Mungöte Bahana; they were looking for each other from east to west - they could not meet; EMB went from west to east, they met; gave birth to a woman Tuya, a man Pahunt; EB gave birth to 9 sons, 1 daughter; 5 went west, 55 Western Tengrians, 4 east - 40 eastern; sister Segang Sabdek Tengri stayed in the middle; Budarga called P. and his family to heaven; Thuya looked around along the way, stayed between heaven and earth; she is a moon, sunflower queen; P. married his daughter Sesen in heaven, they have 9 sons and 9 daughters; see motive J25 below]: Khadakhne 1926:32-33; Buryats: Sharakshinova 1980:21 (Tangut ulus of the Nukut District of the Irkutsk Region) [the land was created by San God; he created his mother's Golden Womb from jewelry (Ehein Altan hebeeli) and Father's golden loins (Essegein altan bahana); radiance emanates from the womb, from the radiance Mother creates the sun, moon and bird Shunguta Shubuun; she pulls out a handful of earth from the bottom of the sea, from with which San God created the land for 5000 years], 24 [Esege Malan Tengriy, Oh Kharkhan, and Damn Arhan Shuther decided to create land; Arhan went to the outside the sea, dived to the bottom, took out a mouth full of land; they created the land from it; it was smooth and even; A. began to ask for his share (a hectare, half a hectare, a quarter, etc.); just to put up a cane, they did not let ; as a result, EM and OH gave land with a small brushwood; A. stuck brushwood into the ground, reptiles, insects and worms crawled out of the hole; EM plugged a hole with a burning log; A. created ninety on earth in the summer devils, in the winter he was born on the ice another ninety; they brought disasters; the children of the gods - nine sons and nine daughters, well-aimed shooters - shot one hundred and eighty sons A.], 25 (Trans-Baikal?) [1) (according to Jamzarano, hand.) the world was created by a thousand heavenly Burkhans; in search of land, the Swan flew through the air, and the Raven was under water; they saw the Golden Turtle holding the ground in its paws; reported Huhuday Mergen, he shot the Turtle, which overturned, formed a firmament on which land and vegetation were created; a thousand heavenly burkhans basked on the ground - Ulgen and in the sky - Under; Arhan Shuther began to ask for a part of the land with a thin vine; stuck the vine into the ground, mosquitoes, flies, gnats and other harmful insects began to crawl out of the hole; 2) the earth was created by God on the four legs of the Golden Turtle, which lies on its back and supports our land], 27 [(Potanin's archive; most likely Baikal) The King of Heaven swam on the surface of the ocean; to to create solid land, it was necessary to dive into the water, turning into a water bird; Erlik Khan turned to Loon, dived and carried a handful of land from the bottom of the sea; the Creator turned it into a continent, which then was covered with vegetation and was inhabited by animals; E. demanded the right to participate in the management of the land; a quarrel arose between the two creators, which, in some cases, ended in a duel or a fight; both concluded a condition that all living creatures must belong to the King of Heaven, and the dead to E.; according to another option, the struggle between the King of Heaven and E. continues to this day; E. has power equal to to the power of the King of Heaven, leads the kingdom of the dead], 40 [(Upper Lensky); Esege Malan Tengriy, together with Mother Ege Yuuren, created land from dust particles extracted from the ocean floor, and the rest scattered across the ocean; mixed with water, dust particles turned into tiny living creatures; some got stuck in coastal pebbles, grew up, became people]; Trans-Baikal Buryats (Aginsky, Nerchinsky okr., art. Razmakhninskaya) [there used to be only water and only a frog looked into it; God turned the frog with his belly up and built a universe on it; on each paw he created a separate type (dvipa); Zampu-tip (Jambu-dwipa) placed one of his paws; on the frog's navel he erected Mount Sumbur-Agula; at the top of this mountain is the North Star, Altan-Gatasun {letters. 'golden col'}]: Gomboev 1890:140; Baikal Buryats: Zhamtsarano 2011 (Olkhonsky, 1903) ["There were a thousand heavenly burkhans, or Ogtorgoin Mingan Burhan, who created the world, including the swan, the crow (hun, hiree), the Khukhudy Mergen (Blue Shooter), and Altai Mylyhey (the Golden Turtle). Hun Hiree flew over the water and sees Altan Mylyhei holding the ground in his paws. He said this to Khuhudoy. He shot at the turtle. It unfolded and formed a firmament with beautiful vegetation. And now 1000 heavenly burkhans were basking in the land of the Ulugun. Arhan Shuthur, or Damn Arhan, who coexisted with the Burkhan at the same time, asked for land for himself, but the gods refused him. At last he started asking for one vine. He was given it. And from this vine he made countless mosquitoes, flies, gnats, etc. harmful insects of various types of yuu yuuna (and in hori, juu zhunoy)"]: 58;; Mongols: Potanin 1883, No. 46b [(recorded by your missionary. Postnikov from Khalkhas); water was everywhere, the Ochurmans lived in the sky; decided to make land, looked for a friend, found Chagan-Shukuta; both went down to the water; the Frog that noticed them dived; O. sent ChSH find it in the water; he took out the Frog, put it belly up on the water; O. sat on it, told ChSH to dive, get the ground; he brought an armful of liquid earth from the bottom, said O., If it weren't for me, you wouldn't get it land; the earth immediately fell out of his hands, fell into the water; O. told him to dive again, take the land and carry it on his behalf; O. poured the land he had brought onto the Frog, the earth began to grow, both sat on it, fell asleep; Shulmus grabbed them to throw them into the water, but the earth grew faster than he ran to its edge; he left them; O. and ChS made a man, went looking for a soul, left the dog as a guard; promised find hair for the dog; The devil gave it wool, fed it, lit yarn, blew smoke into the man's nose, reviving him; O. and ChSH put a cup of water; on whoever side he would grow up in the cup, rule the earth; Sh. he also asked for land, got as much as at the end of his stick; stuck worms, snakes, reptiles in the ground, crawled out; the flower grew from O.'s side, but he dozed off and ChSH put it on his edge; O. said that now both people and animals will steal and enmity; went to heaven; he is a real god, and Ulgen was invented by the kams (shamans)], 54 [first fire, water and wind mixed, there was no land; Burkhyn- Bakshi (one of the stars of the Ursa Major) divided the elements and began to pour ashes above the water; land was formed, trees and grass grew on it; then he created man]: 220-223, 268; Mongols (khalha): Benningsen 1912 [the earth was created by Burhan Shagji-Tubi; he threw a pinch of land he had brought from the sky into the ocean; a pinch grew to form the earth; grass and animals appeared on it; S. brought it to it man; people are gradually degenerating; they will live seven years, the height of an elbow, horses will be the size of a hare; then 3 suns will appear, everything will be burned, mountains will remain; lead rain will level them, remain sand; it will be swept away by the wind; then two whales and a frog on which the earth stands will be released; Maidari will create a new land, placing it on the same whales and a frog]: 13-14; Potanin 1919, No. 26 [was one water; two fish came together and formed a ring; grains of sand began to accumulate in it and Mount Sumbur-Ola grew; we live on four tubes outside the fence formed by fish]: 49; Mongols (Inner Mongolia) [the land on the water has been established, the Galbarragcha sandal tree has grown from the navel of the earth, the Galandava bird (named from Sanskrit, but the specific source is not known) nestled on its branches, its three eggs the poisonous boa constrictor sucked, Heser Bogdo shot at his open body, the snake ate off flour like meat]: Neklyudov, Riftin 1979:105-123; Mongols (Inner Mongolia?) : Nassen-Bayer, Stuart 1992:327-328 [Buddha Shakyamuni flies over the ocean, sees a golden frog floating from north to south, shoots, an arrow hits a frog from the east, turning it north; from a frog's mouth a fire blazed, water poured out of his ass; B. threw gold sand at it, earth arose; the arrow shaft protruding from the east became a forest, the tip protruding from the west became metal deposits; the north became bound with fire, the south with water; therefore, the earth consists of five elements: fire, wood, metal, water, sand; when a frog moves its paws or head, earthquakes occur], 328-329 [the thickened gas has formed ocean, dust and sand rose to the surface, forming the earth; light and darkness separated, light became sky, darkness became earth; 44 tenger appeared in the east, 55 tenger in the west, north and south, 55, Greater The bear was made a banner; there were 99 Tengrias in the sky; the earth swam and swayed; the Tengria created man, sent him to the ground to plant vegetation; the land became stable]: 220-223; the Mongols [ There was water and air, Buddha Ochirvani was in the sky; he decided to create the earth, found Tsagan Shuhart's assistant White Umbrella; told him to turn a turtle swimming in the water over his stomach, dive, bring it from the bottom of the earth, think about him (O.), sat on the turtle himself; the TS grabbed the ground, but felt that something was interfering; thought that O. should take the land; immediately a handful was filled with earth, the CS surfaced; poured the earth to the turtle on belly, earth appeared instead of the turtle; both celestials fell asleep; Shulmas went to the edge of the island to drown them, but as he ran to the edge, the earth expanded; O. and the CSH sculpted people, O. ordered The CSH to make a guard, he sculpted the dog, O. and the CS went for intelligence for man and hair for the dog; Damn gave the dog hair, said that it would be fed by its owner, a man; lit a thread in front of the man's nose, he came to life from the smoke; O. and the CS argued which of them should rule living beings; decided who would have a flower in a cup of water first; O., but the CS placed it in its cup; O. said that now people they will deceive each other, flew to heaven]: Skorodumova 2003:35-37; the Mongors [first only water, God can't find a piece of land; saw a golden frog swimming; snatched a handful out of thin air the ground, put it on her back; the frog went under the water, the ground was washed away; when the frog surfaced again, God shot, the arrow pierced it, the frog turned over on its back, pressed the ground with its paws to its stomach; so land and five elements were formed: metal, wood, water, fire, earth; because God shot from the east, there was a tree (arrow shaft) on this side; the frog had its head south, spewed fire from its mouth, so the south is fire; the metal tip is in the west - there are metals; the frog peed itself, so the north is water]: Stuart, Limusishiden 1994:41.
Western Siberia. Forest Nenets [at first there is water everywhere; Num sent swans and geese to look for land; they came back, said there was no land anywhere; sent Loon to dive; she came back on the sixth day, said that there was something at the bottom but did not have enough strength; the Luri bird dived, on the seventh day it came up with the ground and a stalk of grass in its beak; made a nest for itself; it was driven by the wind from one bank to another; N. told the Lury to dive again, she returned seven days later; N. squeezed the ground, making it large enough to build a house; the old man came and asked to let him in, N. reluctantly agreed ; in the morning they saw that the old man was washing his face at the edge of the earth, but he was really trying to destroy the earth; N. drove him away; made the earth even bigger; let various peoples, animals, trees, rivers, etc. appear; the old man came back, asked for at least enough land to stick a stick; N. agreed, the old man went into the hole, said he had deceived N., now he would steal people from him]: Lehtisalo 1998:8-9; forest Nenets [(from G.D. Verbov's records); there was no heaven and earth; the red sky began to grow like blood; in the middle of it someone sitting looks down; below is water; sitting: my name is God, we must create earth; where- then he took a piece of land and threw it down; it fell, became big; after that, God decided to create a population on earth; animals, fish and people appeared, the earth's population increased; God: it's not good, they must die; God created diseases; now the earth is better: its population cannot grow much and cannot completely die out either]: Barmich 2014:616-618; Tundra Nenets: Verbov 1937 (Nadym) [God took a piece lands, threw down into the water, the earth grew; for people to die, God created diseases]: 19; Labanauskas 1995 [a red-throated loon and a dog swam in the water; the loon dived, brought blades of grass; the dog asked her make the ground; a loon grew dry ground out of many blades of grass; see motive H40]: 13-14; Lekhtisalo 1998 (Obdorsk/Salekhard) [Num suggests preparing the ground; he took sand from the water, but sand slipped between his fingers; Num took the sand, put the cake on the water; told Nga to bring the whale to establish land on it; but the earth kept moving; then he told him to bring it stone, the earth has stopped; this stone is Ural]: 9; Lar 2001 (Yamal): 188-205 [Num and Nga are sons of old woman Pukhutz; Nga asks for food, P. says let Num make the earth first; Orders to build a plague where she will live underground with old man Vesoko (Iri-Vesoko); Num tells Gagara to dive, she brings sand first from the bottom, then silt, and grass for the third time; Num sculpts the earth, throws it into the water; it is unstable at first; Num puts it on the whale, the earth trembles again; throws a stone of copper, iron and transparent stone behind the ground; the earth freezes; for his mother, Num makes red earth, puts a plague; Nga wants land for herself, brothers fight for a long time; reconcile; Num rolls a ball, throws, the sun appears; Nga gets a moon; Num sculpts a naked man, he wants to eat; Nga makes hairy people, they fight, Noom advises to send them underground; brothers fight, Numu has to agree for both of them to breathe life into a person; it was warm, man and dog walked naked; Nga gave the dog warm skin, for which she let him see the man, Nga spat him, sent him illness; the man began to hunt, dress in the skin of a dog; Num told the dog to eat feces, be a servant; taught man to shamanize; went to heaven, gave Nga the underworld], 283-284 [Num made the first man in heaven; water below, he decided to create earth for man, turned it into a loon, ordered him to dive; for the first time he brought a loon in his beak sand, into the second silt, and a piece of land into the third; Num molded the earth, threw it into the water, forgot to restore the loon to its human appearance; she cries, one egg always throws one egg into the water's owner; cries for this child]; Yenisei Nenets [water is everywhere; Ermine asks Loon what to do; she dives, seven weeks later she carried a pebble and a grain of land in her mouth; Ermine told her to sleep, not to look; when she woke up, the earth is all around, mountains, the spirits of earth and sky; Master of heaven; what should I do? Master of the Earth: I will create man; I sculpted a man and a woman out of clay; The master of heaven breathed a soul into the images; XS: How will people live without fire? He took iron out of the ground, XN took flint from the sky, they carved fire; XN created domestic and wild deer]: Popov 1944:85 (quail. Khomich 1976:16-17); the Taimyr Nenets [the Loon and the Dog swam on the water; the loon dived, on the third day brought a blade of grass from the bottom; at the request of the Dog, continued to dive, collected the island, it grew up; a man in iron mittens and bacaries made a man and a woman, went for souls, telling the Dog to protect the creation; a man with a black face came, revived the dolls, left; the first man returned, said that now people will get sick; people have inhabited the land, began to build a stepped house; a man in iron gauntlets and bacaries hit with mittens, people are scattered, they speak different languages]: Nenyang 1997:21- 23; Mansi: Dunin-Gorkavich 1911 [water first; God tells the lula (loon) bird to get the earth, it did not get it; the little lula emerged three days later, blood with liquid earth in its beak; the earth became grow, trees appeared; God created a man ("pyris") and a woman ("ekwa"); to find out how big the earth was, pyris sent a white crow; while the cauldron was brewing, the raven flew around the ground and returned ; the next day, the crow sent pyris again, he returned only in the evening; he sent it the next day, the raven returned only on the third day and black, because he saw the carrion and began to peck at it; since then the raven he feeds on carrion; because Lula took out the earth, the Voguls do not hit it, do not eat it; he went to search for the end of the earth himself, but he was tired and returned; he made a horse out of wood, but he did not like it; then he forged a horse 7 wings - the horse flew in circles; forged the eighth wing, flew for a long time, did not find the edge of the earth; returning to the yurt, pyris noticed that the fire in the dude was barely smoldering; he extinguished it with his foot; the equa sitting in the yurt had time to become an old woman, she began to shout: why did I extinguish the fire of my husband, whom I was waiting for; pyris hit her on the floor of the yurt, she became young; people came from pyris and equa, divided into clans and tribes]: 41-43; Kazakova 1960 (Berezovsky District [husband and wife lived on a piece of tundra in the middle of the water; Loon dived, brought a piece of land, attached it to land near the house; the second time brought a larger piece; the land increased; diving caused the feathers on the top of Loon's head to stir up; the couple had a son, Taryg-Pes-Pygris (Crane Thigh); he brought seven wives: Etpos-ne (Month-Woman), Por-ne (Woman- witch), Mosh-ne (Good Woman), Hotal-ne (Sun Woman), Vit-Koshai-ne (Woman Mistress of Water), Thief Koshai-ne (Woman Mistress of the Forest), Syp-Koshai-ne (Woman - mountain mistress); then began to live with the same Mos-ne]: 47-48; Lukina 1990, No. 105 (northern Mansi) [an old woman and an old man live on a tundra hill, water is around; an iron loon dives from the sky, on the third attempt brings earth in her beak; when she inhaled it, her throat burst (there is now a reddish spot in this place); the iron crest (called the second loon) also dives, its top bursts (there are reddish feathers there); the earth grows; the old woman and the old man send the white crow to find out if it is big; the third time he bites the dead, returns black; the old man tells him to eat carrion; (then the old woman gives birth to Taryg-pesh -nimala-sov, aka Mir-Susne-hum, "a man watching the world"; see motif A4; he visits distant worlds, gets wives; the old man is Torum, his wife is Kaltas)], 106 [the beginning is same], 107 (southern Mansi) [Bright boy (SM), son of the Bright Husband-Father (Num-Torum) goes from the sky to the middle world; there is water everywhere; he blew his nose, created a tundra hill out of snot; hell comes, tries to break the hill, SM takes two loons with iron beaks out of his pocket, they kill the line; sends them to dive underground; the first emerges seven years later, the second seven years later, shakes off, rocky ground appears; its inhabitants are mortal; SM blows out, a snake worm appears, turns into a man; meets a Ruff woman; they ask each other what each other is from arose; he is from the snot of the Bright Husband-Father, she is from black earth; she lies down, pulls him towards her, he has genitals under his arm; she tears them off and puts them in place, the man and E. copulate; E. tells him eat two berries from a three-leaf tree, its leathery membrane comes off it; they give birth to a whole genus of girls and boys]: 258-259, 272-273, 291-293; Rombandeeva 1991 [a husband lived on a patch of peat in the middle of the water and wife; they had Loon and another waterfowl, Lula; they ask L. to get land from the bottom, which brings a lump on its beak; it grows; the white Raven flies to see if the earth is big; eats a corpse, turns black; at first the earth was smooth, then rattled for seven days, mountains appeared]: 14; Chernetsov 1935 [(prefabricated version from individual excerpts heard by the author); big and small loon dive to get the ground from the bottom; at first it was unsuccessful; when they dived together, they got it; because of tension, they bleed, now the big loon has a red chest, and the small one has a red head]: 23-24; Eastern Khanty: Kulemzin 2000 [luli was translated by the informant as "wader", and the dictionary contains a translation of "small lake loon"; according to one version about the origin of the land, it was raised upstairs during the luli flood - red-necked toadstool]: 163; Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 9 (Yugan river; =Lukina 1990, No. 2:63) [the Khanty do not kill Kulik-lyuli, because he took the earth from the bottom on the third attempt; Kon-iki-pah sent him to dive]: 17; Shatilov 1931 (Vakh river) [water is everywhere, Loon flew above it, Torum swam on the water; ordered Gagara to dive, she brought silt in her beak; T. created from it a land with mountains, rivers, vegetation, animals]: 100; nganasans: Long 1976, No. 4 [Duck asks Loon to dive to find land; she emerges dead on the third day; Duck brings grass and moss seven days later; says that she has raised the ground up], 5 [The Duck and Loon agreed that the Duck would get the ground, and Loon would release the disease with the nose, piercing the sick (Duibu-nguo stabs the loon's nose when he heals); The duck dived, brought black earth; Duck brought moss from nine Syrad, put it on water]: 50, 51; Popov 1984 [(zap. Popov in 1938, quail in Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:109-112); the water reached the sky, Loon lay on it; a voice asked her to dive underground; she was frightened, did not dive; Kamenushka dived, surfaced on the fourth day with blades of grass, moss in her mouth; Loon was punished by telling her to nest in the water, laying only two eggs; Kamennushka nests in a dry place, has many chicks; people began to appear from the ground; Nguo created the sun, thunder and rain, a month for women to calculate the time of birth]: 41-42; Simchenko 1996 (1) [first there was water; Nguo decided to make land; sent Loon to dive; she the second attempt reached the bottom, brought grass; the earth covered the water; seven children, ancestors of different nations, appeared from somewhere]: 13; 1996 (2) [first there was water, a stone in the middle; there were two diamads on it (" having a throat") argued which of them would get the land; a bird flew in, the nose was long, the breast was red (sandpiper?) ; the diamada did not dive to the bottom, the bird brought grass, moss, earth from the bottom; the Sun came, the bird flew away, the sun was gone, in five days the earth was covered with ice; the bird came back, said that now everyone has The diamada will have five fingers; therefore, it is cold for five days; the Mother Sun has melted the ice; the bird is flying, throwing grass, roots; Mother Earth has become alive; worms have crawled out of it, covered with hair like bears; then the wool fell off, they became like humans, gave birth to children, carved fire out of the flint; they were females, looking like deer]: 14-17; Ents [at first there was water, Nga flew on top; told Gagara to dive; Loon dived for a long time, brought earth in its beak; N. made land out of it]: Prokofiev 1953:204; the southern Selkups [I.N. Gemuev's recording, 1980, an informant shamanized when he was young; "The Earth was the first to sink. God sent a loon, it didn't get anything. Gogol (porya) took out sand. This is our land. God let the snake go, then the bird, the speckles. And earlier - to a hoof. And the speckle frightened the hoof. The hoof began to bite at him, which is why the grouse only has a little white meat, the rest is black. And he let everyone go ahead - he let people go. People got into a fight, he let the snake go to disperse them. He let the dogs go, as he let a naked man go. She's freezing - damn it. - What happened? I'm freezing. Got the hell out of her skin. Now we are sick - we cough. God sent - made a man out of clay, he sits like a man. And the hell spit, I spit. This is what we are rooting for]: Baulo, Tuchkova 2016, No. 4, fragment 3; Northern Selkups Selkup mythology. Tomsk.: Pelikh 1998:67-68 (Nizhnyaya Baikha) [Monga's shaman rose to heaven on a cloud, married Pari-numa's daughter, Pari-numa's daughter; began to transport his earthly family to heaven; dragging sledges through a hole in the sky, dropped his little son; managed to evoke the power of the earth, she kept the boy in the air; he hung for a long time with his arms spread out; dark light came from below the ground, a white glow from the sky; back the boy turned black and his belly white, his hands turned into wings, he became a loon; Pari-num told the loon to dive into the sea and reach the land, promising to restore its human appearance; the loon failed to do so do, remained a bird], 68 [Shaman Monga went to live in heaven; his little son Luchaku turned into a loon, began to live with his father in heaven; Num asked if he wanted to be a man or a bird; L. replied that man; Num told Uro-bo (= Luchak) to get the drowned land from the bottom of the sea, promised to restore its human appearance for it; Uro-bo found land but could not raise it to the surface; then Noom sent a duck; she too I could not lift the ground, but I guessed to break off the piece, bring it to the surface; a large earth grew out of a piece; Urobo remained a bird, loons come from it; the loon still remembers that it used to was human; trying to talk to people but they don't understand her]; Stepanova 2006 [(p. Ratta, zap. Stepanova); Num said to the loon: "If you fly high and dive deep, and your beak is so long, get the ground from the bottom," and sent her underground under water; Gagara (mo) dived under water, she brought a lump of earth, emerged, flew up, threw a lump of earth from her beak (I wanted to say something upstairs, and the earth fell out of this lump); earth formed from this lump, and people began to live on this land]; chum salmon: Alekseenko 1976 [there was only water; You dived, grabbed the ground (mud) in his mouth, put it by the cheeks; emerged, blew - the earth worked out; Damn spinning, doing nothing; E. dived again, grabbed mud by the cheeks , blew - deciduous, cedar forest grew; E. collected what was crawling, dug a hole, lowered them there, dug a pole so as not to get out; C. sees the pole, decided to pull it out - everything crawling ran across the ground]: 72; Nikolaeva 2006 [at the beginning, the water, the duck was swimming, dived, brought some land in its beak, carried the earth, the pieces came together, bushes and trees grew, the sun appeared; then there was no big water, lakes remained and rivers]: 55.
Eastern Siberia. Northwestern Yakuts [all storytellers agree that there used to be no land; then Loon, flying above the water, dived, pulled out several grains of earth in its beak; they created the earth from them ; the most common story is that Gagar was sent by Ayy-Toyon (the White Master, the Supreme Deity) to get the land; after several unsuccessful attempts, Gagar brought him a sand spool in his beak or the silt from which he created the earth; Ayy-Toyon (AT), his antipode Allaraa-Ogonnyor (lower old man; AO) and Ilya the Prophet, take part in one of the stories about the creation of the earth, and in some versions of Christ and Hara Suor (black raven); usually these versions describe a dispute between AT and AO, the latter refuses to participate in the creation, and only after that , as all good forces have been used, AT is forcing its older brother, evil but less powerful A O, to get a handful of land; according to these reports, AO dived into the water in the form of a loon and delivered at some land in its beak]: Gurvich 197:191-192; Western Yakuts: Gurvich 1977 (Vilyui districts and Ugulyatsky nasleg of Olenek District) [Allaraa-Ogonnor dived into water below the ground, but took out only a few grains that were stuck under his fingernails; when he emerged, he fell and lost consciousness; at this time Ayyy-Toyon stole these grains of land from him; when Allaraa- Ogonñor woke up and dived into the water again, Ayyy-toyon made earth out of them; rising again from the water with the earth in his hand, Allaraa-Ogonñor was convinced that he had been ahead of him, with annoyance threw his handful of land on land that had already been created; this formed mountains]: 192; Tretyakov 1871 (Turukhansky Krai) [the mother of God created the white-nosed loon and the long-nosed merganser (i.e. duck), sent them below the ground to the bottom; the merganser was the first to emerge, gave the land he had brought; then the loon, which, although she had land in her beak, said that it did not have a bottom; the mother of God cursed the loon, saying that she had given it to her." holy name" and hoped for her, but she did not live up to expectations; condemned the loon to live on the water and eat rubbish; the merganser was given agility; then the Mother of God made two men and a woman out of sand]: 421 (quoted in Napolsky 1991:151, citing Tretyakov 1871:207); central Yakuts (central Yakutia) [the world consisted of water; God (B.) claimed that the devil (D.) would not be able to reach from the bottom sea land; D. decided to go down to defeat B. in the dispute; three years later he emerged, but saw that the land he had taken from the bottom in both his fists was washed away by water; B. noticed that under one claw D. there was a grain of land left, which he stole unnoticed; B. mocked D. that he could not get the promised land; D. dived again; taking advantage of this time, B. created land from the stolen grain the size of bed, he lay down on it to rest and fell asleep; when D. emerged from the water and saw B.'s prank, he gave out a terrible scream, which crumbled in all directions the earth he had taken in his mouth from the bottom of the sea; it formed mountains, irregularities, and generally unsuitable places for humans; then D. sent a bunch of his servants, and all together began to pull the land on which B. lay with their iron claws in order to sink her; instead, the land stretched in all directions and formed the current land; then see motive B1]: Kulakovsky A.E. 1979:14-15; northeastern Yakuts (Verkhoyansky) [Christ sends Satan to the bottom, S. dives unsuccessfully twice, the sand in his hand is washed with water; the third time, turning into a swallow, brings earth in his beak; H. creates land; S. hid part of the earth in his mouth; H. hit him down the neck, the silt fell asleep, mountains formed]: Seroshevsky 1896:653; the Kirenian Evenks [two brothers lived in the upper world; the elder told the duck to dive to the bottom of Lake Baikal, get sand; the youngest put it on the sea leaf, ground on it; from the wind, the leaf crumpled, mountains turned out]: Pinegina, Konenkin 1952:49; Sym Evenks [at first there was water and two brothers; younger Action made the loon dive and get the earth from the bottom; Loon could not do it, for which E. broke her legs (that's why all loons don't walk well); E. Gogol sent, who dived and seized the ground from the bottom with his beak; for this, Exery kissed him on the head (so all the Gogols have white spots on their heads since then); E. put a piece of land on the surface of the water; the land began to grow, but was still so small that action could even rest on it; his older brother was angry with E. ; when he was sleeping, he began to pull the ground from under him, but the land only stretched out and became very large]: Vasilevich 1936:4; 1959:173; Far Eastern Evenks (Chumikan from Okhotsk coast) [seweki (this is the name of the younger brother) sent an avasa (his older brother) down to land; ordered the land to be brought to create the (middle) land {dunne). Awasa, went down, clutched the ground {tukala) with his claws. When I returned, I poured it out before the seweki. He created (our) land (dune) from the spilled out. Seweki built a box, told everyone the avas to get into the box. The Avas said they could fit in. Saveki closed them, left the dog as a watchman]: Vasilevich 1959:173; Baikal Evenks: Vasilevich 1969 (Nerchi-Chita district) [a frog was the creator's assistant; she carried the earth in her paws to the surface of the water, but the creator's evil brother (later, a heavenly shaman) shot at it; it turned over, and since then began to support our land in the water with its paws (MAE inventory No. 1879); shamans hung her image as a symbol of the earth from their suit; the legend of the fire was borrowed from her southern neighbors: the land grew, burned for a long time, rivers and lakes appeared on the fires (Ilimpic, Ayan, Trans-Baikal Evenks)]: 214-215; Baikal Evenks (northern Transbaikalia, 1951) [water is all around; in the upper world, two brothers are discussing how to make land; the eldest had a duck; the youngest let it go get sand from the bottom of Lake Baikal; the duck brought sand, the youngest put a leaf on the water and the ground {sand} on top; the wind blew, the leaf crumpled, mountains appeared; the youngest made a dog and a man, covered the whole man shell - strong; put the man in one barn, the dog in another; went to make rivers, told the dog not to give the keys to his older brother; he came and promised the dog warm, colorful skin; she opened barn; the older brother ripped off the man's shell, left only his fingernails; the younger brother returned, punished the dog, depriving him of the ability to speak]: Pinegina 2019:70-71; Baikal Evenks ( Transbaikalia) [At first, there was only water. And there were Buga and Buninka (two brothers). Buga sent fire to the water, which partially destroyed it. Then the earth was formed. Booga created light and separated it from darkness. Then he descended to earth and here he met Buninka, who began to claim to be the creator of the earth. A struggle ensued between them. Buninka ruined the harp, Bug's 12-string musical instrument. Angry Buga offered a contest: you need to grow a pine tree from the bottom of the lake. Anyone who does not know how to do this must admit defeat. By order of the Bug, pine immediately emerges from the bottom of the lake and rises above the water. Buninka pine cannot stand and falls. But Buninka doesn't want to admit defeat. And then, to punish Boog, he made his skull iron. Buninka is hard to carry an iron head on his shoulders, and he asks to be released from torment. In return, Buga demands not to interfere with him when he makes a person. To make a Bug man, they took iron in the east, fire in the south, water in the west, and land in the north. He transformed these elements into heart, warmth, blood, meat and bones, respectively. This is how Buga created man and woman. When humans began to breed, the buninka needed half of it. Then the bug promised him vicious people after their death, and he took those who lived virtuously on earth for himself; (retelling by E.S. Novik)]: Spassky 1822:54-55; VerkhneAldan Evenks (written by shaman M.P. Kulbertinova) [Robbeck et al., MS; at first only water and sky; winged ones flew and sat on the crests of the waves; then a creature without a head appeared; the headless had eyes on their chest, just below their eyes, mouth, arms, They put food in their mouths with their hands; there were many headless people where they lived, no one knew; apparently, they lived on pile decks or on rocks; they said to each other: they decided to dig rivers; the water began to decrease, land appeared; they made large rivers, seas; rivers carried stones; headless: let them be called "stones", when there are many people, they will name everything they have done; the earth has dried up, appeared vegetation; headless: now real people will begin to appear, they will start coming from somewhere, they need to be born from something; the headless lived the same way as people: when it snowed, they did skis for themselves, they knew everything about everything; once huge shiny winged ants flew to that land; headless: they will be real people with heads, start hunting like us; ants divorced a lot, tall - in the middle, thin at the waist; later they turned into huge people; headless: you need to watch out for these loggerheads; and those who have headless heads were also afraid]: Dyakonova 2014:67-68; Evenki Orochons: Mazin 1984:19-20 [there was water and sky, a snake and a frog lived in the water; the sun, the moon, the star of Cholbon (Venus), the enekan bug were shining; the snake was old, tired and froze in the water; asked the frog to get land, strengthen it on the water so that the snake could rest and bask in the sun; the frog dived, took out the earth; when it began to strengthen it, the earth began to sink; into this time the snake swam, the Frog was afraid that the snake would scold her for her helplessness, turned over, began to support the ground with its paws; it has remained to this day; when the earth appeared, Enekan Buga lodged a mammoth sali there; the Snake did not like it, she began to expel the mammoth from the ground; they fought until they fell into the ground; then they reconciled, became spirits- guardians in the lower world; the piles of land they twisted during the fight turned into mountains, the depressions into rivers and lakes], 20-21 [at first it was water; two brothers lived, good Seveki above, and evil Kharga - below; S.'s assistants were Gogol and Loon; Loon dived, took out the land; gradually the earth grew and took on a modern look]; Evenks of the Turukhansky Territory [Amaka made water and let birds go along it; he needed land to rush; ordered Gagara to get sand from the bottom to make land out of it; Loon took it out, but did not give it to A., wanted to make land herself; A. ordered Gogol to dive, he brought A. grains of sand, he made the ground; Loon pulled his paws off his belly, stuck them to his tail so that he could not live on the ground]: Osharov 1936b, No. 11:279-280; Evens: Lindenau 1983 [Seuki hovered above the water, did sand first from water, then earth]: 54; The history and culture of the Evens 1997 [the cosmogonic myth recorded by Robbeck and Dutkin can be considered all-Even: it is characteristic of the Evens of Kamchatka, Yakutia, Magadan Oblast]: 112; Evens: Robbeck 2005:206 [water everywhere first; Hevki: can you find clay? goose: no, we'll die from the cold; duck: no, we'll die in the water; the loon dived, brought a piece, H. ordered to keep it in its beak for now, but Arinka stole it; H. sang, clay slipped out of A.'s mouth; X. singing the earth opened (I mean expanded}, streams and mountains appeared], 209-210 [there was a fire on the ground, then it was flooded; deer and people gathered on the high mountain also drowned when the mountain went under water; Mikola asked the loon to dive, she brought some clay in her beak; clay slipped out of the beak, the hell stole it, M. spat at it, the devil fell underground; M. began to sing: a river, a lake, a mountain appear; M.: let there be no mosquitoes; hell: let the mosquitoes stay so that people would not be proud and that there were fewer of them], 212-213 [people lived in heaven; the girl's parents died, she hired a rich man, he decided to pass her off as an old man, and she wanted to for the young; for this she was expelled: they put her on her eight-legged deer, sent to the ground; when she was hungry, the deer gave her its horn, she sucked, she was full; below was the sea, the deer began to fall down, told him to rip out his hair, throw it down, the wool turned into logs, the girl made a raft out of them; she weaved nets from the deer's neck hair, caught fish, so they fed; the deer told him to be killed, his skin lay on the water - there will be earth, wool - forests, put your head in the middle, bones, broken, along the edges; do not kill lice - they will become deer; put your heart to your left, your lungs to your right; last breath a deer turned to the wind]; Robbeck, Dutkin 1978:157 [1) a girl expelled from the sky descends to the sea surface on an eight-legged deer; on the advice of a deer, she scattered scraps of wool over the water, they turned into logs she made a raft; at the request of the deer, she killed it, cut it as he commanded; the skin turned into earth, the skull and bones into mountains, the wool into the forests, the lice into wild deer; the crunch of broken bones became thunder a dying sigh is in the wind; the heart has turned into a hero, his lungs into a boy and a girl; 2) the shaman asks to get a lump of clay from the bottom; the goose cannot, the Loon pulls it out, the shaman creates land; in another version The Duck plays the role of the demiurge; 3) people sailed on a raft, caught fish, ducks; they caught Loon, she promised to get the earth from the bottom; the raven makes her drop a lump into the sea three times; the shaman of the sky helped; 4) Loon pulls out a barely visible speck of dust from the bottom, puts it in the guy's palm; he does not understand how to make the ground out of it; God put a speck of dust on his left palm, it has become a squirrel on the stomach; on the edge of the raft - from the hoof of a deer; with elk stomach; grew into an island].
Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais: Beldy, Bulgakova 2012, No. 1 [there was only water; the eagle was flying, there was nothing to sit on; he saw a piece of land, sat down; the owner of this land was an old man; the eagle asks for land; old man: take how much You like; the eagle took the earth with its claws, put it in its beak; when it returned, it dropped the earth, so the earth appeared, since then it has grown bigger]: 9; Laufer 1899 [three people lived: Shanwei, Shankoa , Shanka; there were three dives and three swans; three men sent three dives and three swans to dive to get land, stones and sand; the birds were under water for seven days; when they came up, they carried them in their beaks land, stones, sand brought from the bottom; where land, mountains, plains arose; riverbeds were marked; when they flew to the sea, the Amur flowed; three people made a Kado man and a woman Julcha , Mamilji's maiden; the people multiplied; it was three suns, too hot; K. went east, hid in a hole, shot the first and third suns, shooting at the second, missed; M. made drawings on stones while the stones were soft with the heat; decided that there were too many people, died to show them the way to the afterlife; chipmunk, tumna (?) , the snake sleeps in winter, does not die; the rest are mortal]: 749-750 in Okladnikov 1968:163-164; Sem 1986:31-32 [first was water; the current began to drive foam, it turned into earth, the earth grew], 32 [first there was water; the hadon bird was flying, saw a mamildi bird sitting below; it took the ground from the bottom, took off, dropped, land formed from the land that fell on the water]; Sem, Sem 2020, No. 15 [the land is small, there is only one on it man; shouted; saw seven people jumped into the water; found a saddle and a whip; whipped at the edge of the bank; the edge disappeared, and new land appeared behind the water; he began to whip; the strip of land at his feet disappeared , and a big piece appeared aside; the earth began to displace water, different countries on earth; a man met a woman, from them people]: 102-104; ulchi [(source?) ; there was no land; the loon dived for 6 days, on the seventh day it took a piece of firmament from the bottom, it grew and became dry]: Podmaskin 2013:59; Negidals [an all-Siberian version of the cosmogonic was recorded in the village of In the myth of a loon that brought a grain of sand from the bottom of the sea, which grew and turned into earth]: Cincius, mouth in T.Sem 1990:92; Udege people: Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 58 [the old man tells the girl with the youngest go to the singm as a brother (a water monster that looks like a snake or crocodile swallows people); the wind starts, they sit on the singma's back, then hide in his mouth; when they go out, they're on an island, there is the sea around; the sister offers to marry; the old man tells them to push the upper and lower millstones off the mountain in different directions; if they join, they can marry; brother's millstone lay on his sister's millstone; they have many children; a bird was flying above the water, saw an old woman standing on one leg on a small island; the bird sat down, the old woman drove her away; the bird grabbed the ground in its paws, flew, threw, land was formed; the descendants of the brother and their sisters settled them]: 323-327; Podmaskin 1991, No. 1 [an evil old woman lived on a tiny island in the middle of the sea; a sky duck descended there, lived there for seven years; on the eighth, the old woman drove her away; when the duck took off she seized the land, began to scatter it in the ocean; this is how small and large islands appeared]: 118; the Orochi [the land has just cooled down, covered with water; a family of eagles and a family of ravens are flying over it; they find a rock, become like people, eagles give birth to a son, crows give birth to a daughter; the sea recedes, the land grows; the water that covered the earth was worried, so the mountains are like waves]: Aurora, Lebedeva 1966, No. 48:194-195 (= Medvedev 1992:368-370); nivhi [first one water; teal (var.: broad-nosed duck) swims, wants to lay eggs, plucks feathers and fluff, makes a nest; ducklings grow up, do the same; nests they join into an island, trees grow on it, it turns into a mainland; when larch resin touched the ground, nivkh appeared; larch nivkhs, therefore red; wilt from fir, white-bodied; Ainu from spruce]: Sanghi 1989:295 (=Medvedev 1992:78); Manchus: Chen, Wang 1989 [The sky has 17 levels, the earth has 9 levels; the heavenly spirit controls the seventeen-level sky and the nine-level earth Abukaenduli; there was no land, only water and sky; A. created a man and a woman in his own likeness, put them in a stone jug, put the jug in water, the jug began to swim in it; man and woman married, gave birth to many people, generation after generation, the jug also grew; when there were too many people in the jug, A. built another place for people to live; he created a large land out of clay, put it on the surface of the water, told three fish to support it; he also sent the heavenly spirit to bring food to the fish every few days; sometimes the little heavenly spirit would be lazy and bring food at the wrong time; fish, hungry, pulled their bodies, and the earth was also swaying, they were earthquakes; there were more and more people, they stopped fitting on the ground; then A. cut down the largest and a thick tree in the sky, placed it on the edge of the earth, and humanity has since developed along the branches of this tree; therefore, various peoples have appeared in the world]: 13-14; Wei et al. 2001, No. 4.5 [when the sky was still separating from the ground, a flood occurred; the youngest daughter of the god Arbuka, Gege Baiyun (Gege, "highly revered princess") stole two boxes, hid sand in them to engulf the flood; A. in anger told the snow god to freeze it and that's it; GB turned into a silver birch tree in a forest near Changbaishan, where there has been a lot of snow and strong winds since then]: 196.
Japan. Ainu: Batchelor 1894, No. 3a [at first water is mixed with the earth, this liquid mud floats in the vast sea; God sent a wagtail from the sky, it beat the dirt with its legs, tail, wings until land has formed]: 27-28; Etter 1949 [first there is one water, then an island grows]: 21; Kojiki 1994, ch. 3 [Izanagi-no mikoto and Izanami no mikoto, stepping on Heaven The Floating Bridge, that precious spear, was immersed, and by rotating it, the squish-squish kneaded the seawater, and when it was pulled out, the water that had dripped from the tip of the spear thickened and became an island. This is Onogorodzima, a Thickened Island by itself; (then we descended to the island, gave birth to many creatures and objects)]: 40; Nihon Shoki 1997 (1), scroll 1, 1-4 [at first Sky-Earth is not were separated; then the pure, bright spring stretched out and became Heaven, and the heavy-dark stayed stuck with the Earth; eight generations of gods arose alternately; Izanaki no mikoto and Izanami- but Mikoto, standing on the Sky Floating Bridge, began to think that there was no country at the bottom; they felt for the ocean with a spear, drops that fell from their spear formed islands]: 115-117; Ryukyu Islands: Matsumoto 1928 [historical Chûzanseikan, 1650; Mr. Neba told God Amamiko that there is only water below, and we need to create a place for the gods to live; he went down and saw that the waves of the East Sea were joining in the waves of the West; returned to heaven and lowered the earth, stones, grass, trees, creating numerous islands; at the request of A., Mr. Nebo lowered a man and a woman to the ground; they learned to copulate, observing other living creatures; a female goddess gave birth to three boys and two girls; the eldest son became the first king, the middle son became the first local elder, the youngest the first peasant; the eldest daughter - the first princess priestess, the youngest - the first priestess; having risen to heaven for the third time, A. brought the seeds of five cereals from there, organized a festival of heaven, earth and gods; later the gods disappeared, fell on the country disasters]: 114-115; Maruyama 2009:32 (Miyako Islands) [by order of Heavenly Lord, Koinutsu descended to the tiny island of Miyako, piled up stones (making the island larger); married the heavenly goddess Koitama; they gave birth to the god Sotatsu and the goddess Kagyoku; the god Mokusu (tree) and the goddess Sousou (grass) appeared from the earth, all of them became the ancestors of the people of Miyakokinawa show his prints legs; rakon;], (Yaeyama Islands) [sun god Kanashi ordered Aman to create an island, gave it clay and stones; he threw them into the sea from the sky bridge, whipped the water with a spear, Ishigaki Island appeared; crab- a hermit (aman in the local dialect), but there were no people; the Sun god sent seeds to people, a man and a woman were born; the Sun God told them to go around the pond from two opposite sides, they met and got together, they had three boys and two girls], 34 (Taketomi Island near the main island of Yaeyama) [the divine brothers Shinshimi and Masoba descended from the sky; S. found a rock, piled up around stones and clay, creating Taketomi Island; M. created Mount Ishigaki and stayed there; together, the brothers created the large island of Ishigaki, then divided it into 8 parts].
SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs (p. Ridiculous Verkhnekolymsky District) [two brothers, Christ and Satan, were boating; H. sent S. to the bottom of the earth and punished: "You will take the earth, say: sorry, Christ! "S. turned into a loon, dived, took the ground, but forgot to say the right words; so the earth woke up between his fingers; then H. and S. began to clean the ground from under S.'s long nails; it turned out to be a mountain lands; H. blew, the mountain crumbled, land and mountains appeared; S. dived under water and did not appear again]: Nikolaeva et al. 1989 (1): 13; Russian Ustye [during the flood, Christ tells Chirka to dive to get Chirka earth; he swam for three years, emerged, carried the earth on his nose, where his mark remained; Christ made land out of it]: Azbelev, Meshchersky 1986, No. 71:213; Markovo: Dyachkov 1992 (originally Chuvanian author) [" according to the legends of pagan foreigners, "two spirits, good and evil, flew over the water; the good tells the evil to turn into a merganser, bring land from the bottom; three days later, the evil emerges, gives land, keeps the seed mouth, so that, after learning how to make land, make your own; the good makes the earth grow, the part in the mouth also grows, the evil spits it out, creating mountains]: 231; Hakkarainen 2000 [the loon dived, took out the earth from bottom, land grew]; reindeer Koryaks (the text was recorded in Palana, but the storyteller M.T. Etneut was not born there, but in a family of Koryak reindeer herders (according to some sources in 1928, according to others in 1929) who lived in the upper reaches of Achaiwayama) [First there was Yga. They had close people - Cheung (Kuthinyaku's father) and Tonga (Kutkinyaku's mother). And so they gave birth. Ygyn father, Yga mother. And so Yga gave birth, Anotyykinav gave birth to a queen, Anoytyykinav gave birth to the sun king, then Anotykinav Vulhi (night) gave birth. Cheung Tonga gave birth to Kuthinyaka, a boy named Kuthinyaku. Then she gave birth to Mitchgeune Queen. This is his Kuthinyaku sister. And after that, when their children grew up and now they decided to marry. This is how they got married. Ingin has a daughter named Mitta for Kuthinyaka. And Mitchgeune (Kuthinyaku's sister) married the sun. And so they gave birth. Mitchgeune gave birth to stars and the moon. And Father Sun ordered his children to look down, watch what was happening below, everything below was origin, what and what, they all see, write down, note. Here it is. But Kuthinyaku is their deputy, Ygyn's chief and chief in the Sun, is like his deputy. Chief Ygyn, and he has the Sun's assistants and the chief Sun, is like a deputy. Chief Eugin, and his assistants are Sun and Kuthinyaku. So Kuthinyaku Mitta gave birth to Ememkut, then Dinnyanav gave birth, then Kichimanav gave birth, then Chanyaenav gave birth, then Yvyan gave birth - the last was a boy, so glorious grew up Kuthinyaku's son. Here it is. Then they live, live and live. Then Kuthinyaku goes downstairs. And there was only one sea below, not the sea, but liquid and damp. And a huge, huge forest grew from under the bottom. So Kuthinyaku decided to make animals, insects and birds of all kinds, both small and large. And now they have no place to live. This was a primitive forest, a huge forest. While they began to live in trees and in the forest, they had no place to live. They lived, lived and lived in the forest. Then the Sun King and his wife dabbled. They laughed, dabbled, and accidentally the Sun Tsar dropped Mitchgyne's wife (this is fire) down to the bottom of the liquid. And my husband wanted to raise a fire for his wife, but she refused: "I don't need to get up, I feel good here, at the very bottom: then the bottom will be the land, they will grow it on it." And now I stayed at the bottom of the sea (this liquid). And they lived and lived. And the sun said to his wife, "Let me pick you up, or I'm alone back and forth, I'm bored." "No, I don't want to. And you take your sister here Vulha (night), and Woolha's assistant will be with you." And the husband agreed to the Sun King. And then Kuthinyaku says to Mitty (this is her sister by the sun): "Mitty, oh, I'm tired of living in the woods. We need to restructure." Mitty says, "Where is your advisor, the Sun King? Go see him. And he'll tell you how to move forward." And Kuthinyaku went to the sun and asked the Sun King, "Why have you come? Why did you come here?" - "But I came here to consult on how we can continue to live. I'm tired of living in the woods. How do we live?" The Sun King says to him: "And you gather your own. Who is brave among them, let him go to the bottom of the sea. There is land there, let whoever can go there bring it." When Kuthinyaku returned, all the animals, birds and insects gathered and began to advise on how to move forward. Kuthinyaku said, "Whoever is brave, let him go to the bottom of the liquid sea." They are silent, they are silent, no one answered. And the crow says, "Who else is going to go down there? Let the whale go. It's big." And now everyone agreed and that's right. The whale is in the middle and is trying to dive down to the bottom of the earth. And no way. It's just circling. It's big, couldn't go down there. I wanted to dive and didn't dive. So since then, he has had a hole at the top, and he lets air out through it. And here we go. And no one could dive: "Oh, I'm tired, tired, I can't, I'm tired." And he sat down and breathes and breathes, tired breathes. Everyone is silent, they are silent all around. So what can you do about it? They are silent. And the tired whale is resting, resting, breathing, her eyes are closed. And suddenly ha-ha (loon. - E. B. ) the voice says: "Let me go for land, for moss." And then everyone started laughing. They fall back laughing. They laugh (That's why they laughed). And then she is small in the middle, and they look at her and then they start laughing and laughing. And they look where she was sitting, they just showed up the bubbles, she's already gone. Bubble bubbles come out on the fly. And so they're silent again, waiting for her to come, where she's gone, where she's gone, where she's little. And we waited a long, long time. Then we saw in the middle, from where she disappeared, and reappeared from that place. He breathes and breathes, his eyes are closed, but there is nothing on his beak, empty. And they started laughing and laughing again. And the fox pees laughing. She turned the fresh sea into a salty sea from scripture. And then again, ha-ha, while they're all around laughing, she's gone again. And we watched again - it was not there. Where, where did you go? And they are silent, they are silent. They wait, wait, wait for him to appear. Then it appears - moss keeps on its beak. And she breathes so wearily, her eyes are red, her legs are like sticks like sticks. And she still has legs like sticks. Kuthinyak distributed all this moss and ordered all animals, birds, insects: "Let's," he says, "get to work. We need to rebuild housing." Ga-ha left Kuthinyaku alone: "Don't do anything, you're tired, rest." And they started doing all this]: Batyanova 1995:219-222; Chukchi [Big Raven Kurkil and his wife live on a tiny piece of land in emptiness; the wife turns into a man, gives birth to two sons- twins; they laugh at their father, who is still a crow; K. decides to create land; flies to the horizon, the sky rubs against the ground; there anthropomorphic creatures have arisen from the dust; one of them tells K. create land; it defecates in the sky, its excrement falls, turns into islands and continents; K. pees, and when he reaches the ground, his urine becomes fresh, turns into rivers; he defecates again, mountains appear; trees grow on the ground; K. shatters chips from them, throws them into the water; pine trees turn into walruses, oak trees into seals; chips from dwarf cedar trees into polar bears, from stone birch - whales, from other species - fish, crabs, and other sea creatures; chips that fall to the ground - in land animals; at first there are only men, Spider gives birth to four daughters; companion K. marries alone, but they sleep apart; K. teaches them how to copulate]: Bogoras 1904 in Norman 1990:65-72; Chukchi [Tirkermin became pregnant without her husband; father beat her, daughter fell off the star; on our planet there was only water; T. formed foam with her feet, stopped on the foam and gave birth to a crow, then a wolf, then a boy; began to think about what to feed him; the raven flew to see if there was land; flew to one side, a day has passed, flew to another, to four parts of the world, there is no land anywhere; during these days the boy grew up, found a sprout, gave it to the crow's beak, said to cut it, burn it, mix it with foam, put it; this they began to make continents; the next morning they got up, the earth was already there; the boy made continents, the raven brought algae, the woman asked the sun to light them, the father lit them; at night the mother cried out of the clouds; the raven made from the branches toy crow, she-wolf, woman; they came to life; he flew away with a crow, the wolf left with the she-wolf, the boy stayed with his wife (Tatarkhtyna Maria, born in 1953, Chukotka Autonomous District, Chukotka District, p. Lorino, April 2001)]: Vukvukoi 2006; the Itelmen [" Kuthu created the land from his son named Simscalin, who was born by his wife Ilkhum while walking by sea with him; or K. and his sister Khutlyzhich demolished the land from the sky and approved it at sea "]: Krasheninnikov 1994 (1): 71.
The Arctic. St. Lawrence [after creating Russia and America, the Creator decided that something else could be done before sunset; he took a handful of sand from the bottom with his hand and squeezed water out of it (that's why the island is called" compressed, squeezed"), put pebbles in front of him, put pebbles on this mound to be people, told them to fish]: Bogoras in Krupnik, Krutak 2002, No. 3:201; central yupik: Curtis 1930 (Nunivak) [two brothers swim on an ice floe, strand on an ice-flow; the youngest cries, the Spirit of the Universe woman hears it; she relieves herself by standing alone with one kayak on the other, her excrement becomes Nuniwak Island; her younger brother becomes a woman; this couple is descended from the islanders]: 74 in Cumming 1954:52-53; Fienup-Riordan 1983, No. 2 [husband's name is Crow; his wife sails away on an ice floe; her husband follows her in a kayak, takes land with him, throws this land into the sea; the ice field stops, the land on the surface grows, turning into a big island]: 373; inupiat (Northern Alaska?) : Ostermann 1952:184 [people are crowded on an island; a raven harpoons a huge sea monster, land emerges from it; it is cut into pieces, thrown into the sea; they turn into islands, then merging into the mainland], 224-225; Spencer 1959 [Tulungishirak (Raven) lives with his parents on a tiny island; a bubble hangs in the house; T. asks him to play, tears, makes light; father wants It was also night, it does not allow it to be torn to the end; T. swims in a kayak, sees the ground; she rises above the water, then dives; he harpoons it; the earth becomes earth, grows]: 384-385; McKenzie estuary [man in heaven he realizes that he exists, turns into a Raven; sculpts a creature out of clay, throws it into the abyss, this is an evil tornak spirit; a Sparrow appears; the Raven flies with it down into the abyss, finds himself on the ground; creates people from clay, creates animals and plants; dark; the raven sends a Sparrow, which brings light and dark pieces of mica; the raven breaks off a piece of light, light appears; the dark one is night; the island is small, Something huge swims into the sea; the raven harpoons this mass, people divide it into pieces, throw it into the sea, the pieces turn into islands, merge into the mainland]: Ostermann 1942:61-65.
Subarctic. Koyukon: Jetté 1908-1909 [a girl rejects her suitors; a young man comes to her with his four nephews; makes her fall into the ground; a man and a woman give him theirs a baby girl; the mother of the deceased girl causes a flood; only a young man and a girl escape; he throws a harpoon into a wave, she turns into a mountain, into a new land; the girl grows up immediately; they come from new people; young man - Raven]: 312-313; Attla 1983 [huge animals enter the sea, water floods the land; animal people flee on a raft; Raven and Seagull fly in different directions, find no land; many they dive, but only the Muskrat pulls clay from the bottom, the Beaver helps to put it on the raft; when enough land has been piled up, the land has reappeared; vegetation appeared; the raven drew the channels, the water in them flowed into both sides at the same time; then decided that it would be too easy for people, let rivers flow only downstream; made a man out of stone; decided that he would live forever and would not be smart enough (his mind would not be right); then made it out of clay; this man knew how to think, was able to reproduce his own kind; made a woman; at first people died and reborn, but Raven decided that people should live only once; he was about to marry, others tried to take the woman away from him; then the Raven brought a rotten willow, sprayed dust, it turned into mosquitoes (to bite rivals); after that human animals became animals]: 129-137; Nelson 1983:34 [(by Jetté 1908:312-313, but this is clearly another option); Raven asked the girl, she refused, he drowned her; her mother sent two brown bears, they drove a wave on the lake; the raven paved a path of quiet water in front of him, swam along it; threw a harpoon at the crest of the wave, it turned into a land with forests; threw it into a big wave, it became Mount McKinley]; Rooth 1971 [water covers everything; Muskrat, Otter, Ducks dive, can't reach land; Beaver brings sand]: 182, 205; Smelcer 1992 [The Great Raven tells the Raven to build a ship; rain floods the ground; the Raven sends Seagulls to explore, they return without finding land; tells Muskrat to dive; she pours a pile of clay from the bottom, the earth reappears]: 124; upper pieces [like a koyukon in Smelcer]: Smelcer 1992:124; Kuchin: McKennan 1965:90 [people are crowded on an island; land swims in the ocean, occasionally showing up on the horizon; a raven throws a harpoon at it; a continent emerges], 103-104 [brother Jateaquointa turns into a Wolf; drives an elk into the lake; a big fish (she is the mother of both brothers) swallows it; at night, fish play with Wolf and elk skins; D. sharpens Kingfisher's beak; he gratitude tells him about his brother's fate; D. hides in a hollow deck on the shore; fish go out to play, fall asleep; he kills them, two are saved; rain begins, the flood begins; D. sails on a raft; sends The crow and the other bird, both return without finding land; ties a rope to the Beaver, asking him to dive; he pops up dead; the same with the other two Beavers; the Muskrat dives several times; the last time D. pulls her dead, finds the ground on its paws; creates land; revives the Muskrat; sends the Wolf and the Fox to explore the earth; the Wolf does not return, the Fox reports that the earth is great]; tanaina ("inner tinne, to the NE from the konyags") [a huge bird flies over the ocean; the flapping of its wings produces thunder, lightning flies out of the eyes; it touches the water and the earth rises]: Bancroft 1875:105; Khan (Eagle): Schmitter 1910 [(=1985:31); during a flood, the family rafts birds and animals; a man ties Beaver with a rope, sends him to the bottom; he does not dive, drowns; the muskrat pops up dead, the man scrapes off clay from its paws, dries it into dust, scatters it; land appears]: 21; upper tanana [The raven marries Swans; flies with her south across the sea; gets tired, the swans leave him; he sits on a rock in the middle seas; enough big fish for the child; promises to return stones if the fish pulls him from the bottom; makes them an island; tells him to bring moss, returns the baby to the fish; moss grows, Alaska appears]: McKennan 1959:190; southern tutchoni [water has flooded the earth; the Raven clings its beak to a star in the sky; sees fire below on the sea surface; the Sea Woman (Var.: she is a female Sea Lion) sits by the fire on a piece sushi with the baby in her arms; the Raven takes it away; agrees to return it after the Woman brings a lump of land; she plunges into the water three times and emerges, fearing that the Raven has taken the child; on the fourth once brings a little firmament; the Raven sends it again, it brings more; the raven returns the child, spreads what it has brought, creates land, it grows]: McClelland 1987:253-254; tagish [Raven throws sand into the water, it doesn't sink but turns into land]: McClelland 2007, No. 34e: 206; tagish, inner tlingits [A raven sits on a piece of log floating in the ocean; kidnaps a child The Sea Lion; returns after the Lion brings him sand; scatters sand, creating land]: Cruickshank 1992:44; helmet: Honigmann 1949 [during the flood, Jesus sends the Rat (Muskrat?) get the earth from the bottom; it sinks; the little Duck pulls out, the earth grows; I. sends the Wolf to see if it is big; the Wolf does not return, the earth is big]: 214; Teit 1917a, No. 2 [the earth is covered by water; birds and animals decide to dive; Beaver, Muskrat and others do not reach the bottom; The dive returns after six days; others find clay under his fingernails; create dry land on the surface of the waters; the earth grows]: 441-442; Beaver: Goddard 1916 [water covers the ground; birds dive, only a little jackal manages to bring silt from the bottom under its claws; land emerges from it]: 256-257; Ridington 1981 [Sitting in Heaven puts a cross on the water, tells various animals to dive to get the ground; the muskrat brings some earth under his fingernails; The one sitting in Heaven puts earth in the center of the cross, tells it to grow]: 354; 1988 [ starting in 1981; The Creator sends the dog to find out if the earth is big; it returns with a human bone in its teeth; for this, the Creator turns it into a wolf; the wolf leaves and does not return]: 117-121; 1999 [ everything is covered in water; God swims on the cross, tells animals to dive; the muskrat brings silt from the bottom, God creates land; sends the Dog to see if it is big; the dog brings human bone; God sends the Wolf, he does not return]; hea [Kunyan warns his sister-wife that there will be a flood; builds a raft; people do not believe, they drown; K. tells animals to dive; Muskrat does not dive, Beaver brings to silt; K. makes land out of it; sends the Fox to run in circles, the earth grows; The bittern drinks all the water; the plover pierces its belly; the water pours out, forming lakes and rivers]: Petitot 1886, No. 13:146-149; doghrub, slevi [Chapevi drives his two sons away; it starts to rain, the sea floods the earth; C. makes a raft, tells animals to dive to the bottom; Otter, Beaver, Harelda glacialis duck does not they dive; The muskrat brings the earth on its paws; T. creates land; places the Crow on it, then the Fox; builds a support pole]: Petitot 1886, No. 3:316-319; domushroom [without details; Thunder Bird pulls out land from the bottom of the sea]: Dahnhardt 1907:85; Chipewayan: Birket-Smith 1930:83 [water is gradually flooding the earth, animal people are fleeing on a floating island; Loon, Black Plover, Teal and others divers come back without reaching the bottom; Pintail brings land on its paws; dives again, other birds dive for it, brings more land; land grows], 87 [Bear steals summer, animal people bring heat back; snow melts, water floods the ground; everyone gathers on a high rock; Pintail dives, brings a lump of clay, the earth grows]; Lowie 1912:187 [cold, no animals; people get to the place , where a cloud hangs from the sky; it contains bags of different animals, with warmth; people throw a bag of warmth from the sky, it bursts, the ground is covered with water (probably from melted snow); people send birds from the sky dive underground; only Pintail brings earth from the bottom in its beak and paws; it is sent to dive again; this is how the earth grows], 195 [rain floods the ground; Visákecak makes a boat, asks Duck dive; she brings silt on her paws several times, V. creates land; see motif M28]; Yellowknife [animal people climb into the sky to get heat; a squirrel from the top of the spruce gnaws a hole in the sky, light illuminates the ground; The bear keeps wineskins on the island with rain, snow, good weather, storm, warmth; The deer swims to the island, takes the heat, goes down the rope to the ground; The mouse gnaws a hole in the wineskin to make moccasins to his children; heat spreads, melted snow floods the ground; Grandfather escapes in a boat; first the Eagle, then the Pigeon fly in search of land; they come back; next time they bring a spruce branch; Muskrat, An otter cannot sink to the bottom; a duck brings silt from the bottom; new land is made from it]: Petitot 1886, No. 5:373-378.
NW Coast. Eyak [The raven flies above the waters; the top of the tree protrudes out of the water; he collects fin, garbage around, makes it earth; it grows; the raven tells mountains to appear, then all living creatures; Seagulls arrive, he turns them into various birds; man, Raven and man came to live together, then separated]: Birket-Smith, de Laguna 1938:257-258 (=Johnson 1988:11-12; translated into Romanova 1997, No. 1: 25-26, taking into account a close version in Krauss 1970); Tlingit [The raven flies over the waters; the Fish promises to become his wife if he makes the ground; the Seal, the Frog agree to bring sand from the bottom if he gives Seal fur, will make the Frog the Keeper of the Earth's Treasures; the Seal dives, receives sand-filled frog skin from the Frog; the Raven soars as high as possible, where a strong wind scatters sand, the wind carries it around the world, grains of sand fall into the water, islands grow out of them; Fish dries their hair for the first time, becomes the wife of the Raven, they are the ancestors of the Raven family]: Smelcer 1992:7-8; haida (Masset) [one water first; the Raven (Yale) tells dust to appear, this is land, it grows; it divides it into Queen Charlotte Islands and the mainland]: Swanton 1908a: 293; Hyda (Skidgate) [ only one flat rock can be seen in the middle of the sea; the raven flies to the sky, puts on the skin of the chief's daughter's newborn son; walks at night, taking out people's eyes; eats them; thrown down; Chomga emerges, invites him into an underwater house; the old man gives him two pebbles; tells him to bite off a piece from the variegated one, spit on the black one, put it on the water; Queen Charlotte Islands grow out of black, colorful specks are trees]: Swanton 1905:110-112; Haida: Boas 1916:575 [No. 112: The raven is flying with the Geese; they throw it, he sprinkles sand, creating Rose Spit], 630 [The raven lives in the clouds, the world is covered with water; the raven hits the water wings, splashes turn into stones on which he rests; stones grow to become Queen Charlotte Islands]; bellacula [(review of parallels to the myth of the flood among the Indians of the Great Lakes region); "I discovered a story with Ondatra bringing silt from the bottom, molal, chinook and bellacula "]: Boas 1940:440; Quakiutl: Boas 1895, No. XVIII.1.6-7 (neveti group, tlatlasicoala subgroup) [Norka wants a boat with women capsized; dives, sealing their genitals with resin; a raccoon asks who can cure women; Mink is called to do so; removes resin, copulating with each of the women; all become pregnant; he sails away with his son in a boat; pretends that his nose insert has fallen into the water, dives; the wife sees that Norka is not looking for an insert, but eats seals (Seehunde), swims away; he asks to leave him his bow and arrow; shoots at the sky, makes a chain of arrows; comes to his father, the Sun; he asks him to carry the sun disk (this is a nose pendant) instead of him; tells him not to stray above and below, otherwise the earth will freeze or burn; the mink descends, the sea is boiling, the forests are burning; the Sun has thrown it to the ground, turning it into a hole]: 172-173 (=2002:381-382); 1910, No. 18 [Omean (the raven) sends Loon, seal, Hobe duck get soil and leaves from the bottom; the first emerge before reaching, the Duck brings soil and leaves, Omean drags it into the boat; since then there has soil and leaves; O. painted Kamenushka, Gogol and other birds; he was in a hurry, so the Raven only managed to rub coal and the Seagull with clay; the flood began; those who dived became seabirds; those who did not reach the water were land]: 223-225 (per. in Romanova 1997, No. 55.2:209).
The coast is the Plateau. Quarry: Harmon at Bancroft 1875 [everything is covered with water at first; the muskrat swims in search of food; dives, pulls clay from the bottom, spits on the surface of the water; an island gradually forms and land]: 96; Jenness 1934, No. 8 [seal hunter tells his new wife not to look if she hears dogs chewing; woman watches; sees first wife in Wolverine guise; she bites her in half; husband burns Wolverine by pushing her into an earthen furnace, revives his new wife; one day he brings a white seal, asks his wife to wash the carcass; she enters the water, the marine inhabitants take it away; the husband dives, brings stones to the little ones the fish under which the fish live makes blind geese sighted; Satsan cuts a tree to make the kidnapped woman's fins; the husband tells the wedge to split; repairs; for this S. pours water into the fire; husband takes his wife; S. prevents the pursuers from leaving the house, Geese and Fish put obstacles in their way; the sea floods the earth to the sky; the husband kills his wife with an ax, throws him into the water; the water begins to fall; first The muskrat, then the Beaver dive, both repeatedly bringing portions of clay from the bottom; man makes new land out of them]: 141-143; Thompson (Nicola Valley) [The old one lives in heaven; creates peace by throwing at water ball]: Boas 1916, No. 3:617; Puget Sound [brothers are angry that their father-in-law (a bird singing in front of the rain) does not wash his face; he washed it, it has begun to rain, the flood has begun; the muskrat dives, in his own skin brings some land from day to day, makes earth]: Ballard 1929:50 [Muskrat swims to poles], 51 [birds, Beaver, Otter escape with Muskrat on a raft, do not dive to the bottom]; upper chehalis [three option; The thrush girl is forced to wash her face; this causes rain, flood; people flee to the mountain; animals dive, only the Muskrat reaches the bottom, brings land; sprinkles on the water, the land grows]: Adamson 1934:1-3; tututney (joshua) [at first only water and sky; the Creator (The Giver) and his companion are in the steam room; a white object arrives, two trees grow on it; he grows, turns into earth; it swings, freezes after the Creator and his companion fumigate it with tobacco; now there are only two trees on earth - red-wood in the south and ash in the north; days and nights began to alternate, grass grew, leaves on trees; The Creator sculpts five lumps of clay, turns them into stone, throws them into water; hears a distant blow, the water is deep; the next stone is the bottom closer, even one is the earth is almost at the surface of the water; the buruns have run, after the sixth the water has receded; the Creator notices someone's footprints in the sand; floods the earth five times again and frees it from water, but traces every time appear; it means that disorder and evil (trouble) in the world cannot be avoided; The Creator sculpted two figures out of clay, gave it to his companion; 4 days later, a female and a male appeared, they have many puppies; The Creator again sculpted two figurines, which made snakes and snakes, they have many snakes; the Creator placed the snakes in a basket, crushed them, threw them into the sea; but two crawled out, all snakes from them; the Creator ordered these two big snakes to wrap around the ground like a belt so that it does not fall apart; five bad dogs The creator went into a ditch, they gave rise to water monsters (or possibly seals, marine mammals); the Creator's companion smokes all night; a woman appears, the Creator tells the companion to marry her, give birth to people; the companion lies down with her, she does not see him, gives birth to a son; he grew up, people from him (his wife is not mentioned)]: Farrand 1915, No. 16:224- 226; the upper coquil [first one water; a house has descended from the sky, there are two people in it; they put five layers of earth on the water one by one; the first go to the bottom when they put the fifth, earth appears with vegetation; they see the traces of a dog and a wild cat; one of them creates a woman, gives another as a wife; he becomes invisible, so the woman goes looking for him, forgetting about the baby; he almost died, husband appears, reproaches her; their descendants have inhabited the land; they have dogs; Indians have dog eyes and white people have cat eyes]: Jacobs 2007:218-221; Tolova [first water and darkness; The creator created by thought peace (=earth), the world came from the south; First Redwood was in the center, with traces of all animals ('prehumans") on it; the Coyote was dug out of the ground, it grew rapidly, destroyed monsters]: Drucker 1937:268; cous [is only the sea; two young men travel, decide to create land; they successively throw five discs of soot into the water, land appears; it is unstable at first; they put a mat torn in half, then two halves of the basket; they stick eagle feathers into the ground, they turn into trees; they create animals; they see traces, they find a man, he says he's a shaman; they kill him, spray blood, future generations will see him {as a spirit?} ; one of them got pregnant for no reason, the baby can't get out; they invite a man from the north, he comes in a boat, takes out the baby, it's a girl, all people come from her; there were no waves, their young men create; shoot at the sky, making a chain of arrows, go up to the upper world]: Frachtenberg 1913, No. 1:5-14; molala [(review of parallels to the myth of the flood among the Indians of the Great Lakes region); "I found the story of Ondatra bringing silt from the bottom, molal, chinook and bellacula "]: Boas 1940:440; modoc [at first there is only Lake Tule; Kumokuma dives five times, brings a handful of silt from the bottom, creates land; part of the land moves west and north is mountains; draws furrows - river valleys with his fingers; creates all forms of life; stays in a cave under the lake]: Marriott, Rachlin 1968:28-29; yakima [the ground is covered with water; the Great Chief Above went down to a shallow place, piled up mountains; Mother Earth once became angry with people, brought mountains down into the Great River (Colombia)]: Clark 1953:142-143;.
The Midwest. Winnebago: Radin 1909, No. 4 [the creator of Ma-ona cries in empty space; his tears form the primary ocean; created the earth with thought, it swings; created four Winds, putting four each to the sides of the world like four mighty men; threw four snakes with their heads east, they pierced the ground, it stopped swaying; created four Thunderbirds, they hit the ground with clubs, creating hills and valleys; created four brothers, gave them tobacco, sent them to land]: 307-310; 1932:56; Smith 1997:18-22 [The creator woke up, cried, his tears formed the sea; by the power of thought he created light, the earth, it swayed on waves; grew grass, created stones, placed four Winds to the cardinal points, but the swing continued; then he pierced the earth with four snake heads to the east, the earth froze; created four from clay Thunderbirds in his likeness; created four brothers by giving them tobacco, the Thunders lowered them to the ground; by hitting clubs, they created hills and valleys], 149 [the creator of Ma-ona saw that the land he created was smooth, people they slip off her; he began to cry, his tears formed seas, rivers, washed valleys, mountains appeared; under their weight, the earth moved, people stopped sliding]; menominee [was only water; god from heaven sends down an old woman, puts some land under her in the center of the sea; she makes the land big]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II1:305; Eastern Cree [the world is covered with water, animals dive from the bottom the ground; the muskrat brings clay on its tail, but little and the clay sinks; the Otter fails, the Beaver brings enough to form an island; it grows]: Swindlehurst 1905, No. 1:139; steppe ojibwa: Simms 1906:337 [water is everywhere; Weese-ke-Jak sees geese; they say that the land is somewhere in the south; V. asks them to bring some land with them; makes it a big land; creates all living things on it], 340 [ Weese-ke-jak causes a flood, saves a couple of animals in a large boat; tells them to dive underground; The otter sails away; the muskrat brings land, but immediately dives back; V. just grabs it by the tail, it becomes long and naked; The beaver dives, brings land, is rewarded with beautiful skin and strong teeth].
Northeast. See motif B1; for a complete list of sources from 25 versions of the Huron and Iroquois myth, see Fenton 1962. Hurons [1) in the sky, Aataensic sees a bear, followed by a dog chasing him into a hole; then falls into the water, the water dries up; var.: A sick husband A. dreams that a tree must be cut down, with whom people got their food; A. begins to cut down, the tree immediately falls through, A. falls after him; down into the sea, the Turtle puts his back in; sends Beaver, he brings it from the bottom of the earth, she growing up; A. was pregnant, gave birth to a daughter, who soon gave birth to twins Tawiscaron and Iouskeha; they began to fight; T. beat his brother with rose hips, and I. with a moose horn, killed him, flints appeared from his blood; A. - Moon, I. - Sun; 2) (p.43); at first there is water everywhere, there is only a tiny island; the man asks Lisa to dive, she is afraid, he throws it into the water; asks "a small animal like a marten" to dive (Muskrat, Mink?) ; the sea turns out to be shallow, the Muskrat hits the bottom, brings land, man creates land]: Brébeuf in Greer 2002:42-44; hurons [woman falls from the sky into the primary ocean; animals and birds they dive to get the earth from the bottom; the toad brings silt in her mouth; the earth grows]: Barbeau 1960, No. 1 [sister lives in heaven with her brothers; plucks all the cobs from their corn at once; for this they throw it down through a hole in the sky; first Geese, then the Turtle support the woman; she sprinkles silt on the Turtle, creating land; finds two twins, good and evil]: 4; Connelley 1899 [daughter of a heavenly leader fell ill; my father told me to dig a huge tree to collect medicine from its roots; a tree and a woman fall into the abyss; two Geese (Swans?) they pick it up; the Little Turtle sprinkles the ground along the edge of the Big Turtle's shell; when it moves, earthquakes occur; a woman comes to her grandmother; she has two twins, Fire and Flint]: 120-123; Hale 1888 [husband throws his pregnant wife to the ground; Loons pick her up in the air, put her on the Turtle's back; she tells the animals to dive; Beaver, Muskrat, Dive can't reach the bottom, some they pop up dead; when the Toad pops up, the Turtle finds some clay in her mouth, gives the woman, who puts clay on the Turtle's shell, the earth grows, the Turtle has been supporting the ground ever since; the twins in The woman's womb is arguing how to be born; the good Tijuskeha (Ioskeha of French sources; "good", "savior") is born normally, the evil Tawiskarong ("flint") comes out of the mother's side, killing her; she is buried; a pumpkin has grown from her head, corn from her breasts, beans and other cultivated plants from her arms and legs; makes snakes, predators, huge mosquitoes, a huge toad that has drunk all the water on the ground; good makes harmless and useful animals; the partridge flies to Taviskarong in search of water; Tijuskeha follows her, rips the Toad's belly, the water pours out; he reduces evil creatures in size; the kind says that he can only be killed with a bag of corn and beans; evil - that he can only be killed with a deer horn; the first to hit the evil, but the good comes to life, kills the evil with the horn; he goes west, becomes the master of the dead ; the good wanted the rivers to flow in both directions, the evil one demanded that only one way]: 180-183; oneida: James Dean (1770s?) in Elm, Antone 2000:157-162 [in a country in heaven, a man asks to dig a tree with flowers of light, pushes his pregnant wife into a hole, explains that she was unfaithful; there is water below; only the Turtle can support the ground; Mink dives, pops up dead with the ground on its paws and muzzle; Loon lays the ground on the Turtle, the earth grows; a woman gives birth to a daughter; animal people marry her; the mother agrees to Turtle proposal; husband puts two arrows with flint and bark tips crosswise on his wife's belly; two boys quarrel in the womb; younger Tan -lon -ghi -au -wan -goon (hereinafter T., good) wants to go out normally, older Than -wisk -a -law (hereinafter referred to as Th.) - through the mother's side; as a result, she dies; grandmother kills her grandchildren, throws them into the sea; they come back; the grandmother divides her daughter's corpse in half, throws it up; the top turns into the sun, the bottom turns into the moon; Th. has his father's flint, he kills game with them; the grandmother loves him; the old man gives T. corn; says he must kill an evil brother whose body is made of flint, otherwise people will not be able to live on earth; T. pretends to be afraid of beech branches and reeds; Th. replies that he is afraid flints and deer antlers; defeated, runs away, creating ravines and mountains, turning into Rocky Mountains; an evil grandmother tries to destroy people with a flood, snow; causes them all the disasters that people now cause suffer], Frederick Waugh (West 1912-1917) in Elm, Antone 2000:164-168 [brother and sister live in heaven; sister gets pregnant, people believe it's from a brother; he uproots a tree with glowing flowers, push sister into the hole; water below; The turtle agrees to support the ground; The mink dives, pops up dead with the ground on its legs and muzzle; Loon puts the ground on the Turtle, the earth grows; the woman gives birth to a daughter; a stranger takes her as his wife; puts two arrows on her stomach, with a blunt end and a sharp end; disappears; two boys quarrel in the womb; Talohiawago wants to go out normally Davisgal - through her mother's side; as a result, she dies; the grandmother kills her grandchildren, throws them into the lake; they return in the morning; they race to her; T. would win, but his grandmother does not love him, let D. ; their mother would have risen from the grave ten days later, but D. smashed her head with an ax; the old man gives E. corn, T. exchanges flint from his brother for it; T. sees D. picking up a stone, killing someone coming out of bear land; T. releases game, scatters it on the ground; answers D. that he is most afraid of tree buds; he says he is afraid of deer antlers; T. makes the river flow in two directions, D. spoils creation; brothers fight as long as bones remain; T. promises to return at the end of time]; Seneca: Converse 1908 in Turner 1978 [in heaven, the Great Leader pulls out a tree, sends down pregnant woman; birds pick her up without letting her fall into the sea; The beaver dives to get the ground from the bottom, disappears; The duck pops up dead; the muskrat brings clay on its paw; clay is placed on the Turtle, the ground grows up; when the Turtle moves, earthquakes occur; a woman gives birth to twins; an angry one comes out under her arm; she dies giving birth to good things]: 36-38; Cornplanter 1938, No. 1-2 [in heaven, the leader thinks that his wife is pregnant with the Blue Puma or the Fire Dragon (=Meteor); pulls out the Tree of Light, throws his wife into the hole that has formed, throws characters who turn on earth into cultivated plants and animals; birds catch a falling woman; everyone dives to get the ground from the bottom; the Muskrat brings the earth in his mouth; the turtle puts his back; the woman throws the earth around, the ground grows up; a woman gives birth to a daughter; a stranger hangs two arrows over the girl, one of them with a flinttip; a girl gives birth to twins; one of them kills her mother when born through her armpit]: 19-26; Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 74 [in heaven, a woman is instructed in a dream to dig a tree with the flowers of light; people dig it up, it falls into the abyss; the chief tells the woman to throw after her; Loon tells the Osps pick her up; rejects the Horned Serpent's offer to take care of a woman; the Turtle is chosen for this role; animals and birds dive to get the ground, emerge dead; Hell-diver brings some land; her put on the Turtle, Beavers and Ducks make the ground big; a woman gives birth to a daughter; she becomes pregnant by a man who turns out to be a Turtle; gives birth to twins; one comes out of her armpit, killing her mother; his head is flint]: 409-415; Hewitt 1903 [the heavenly leader suspects his wife of infidelity, pushes her into the abyss with her little daughter; she falls on the Turtle; sprinkles the earth he holds on the shell the earth grows; her daughter is pregnant with the Wind; gives birth to twins; the youngest, Warty, goes through her mother's navel, killing her; the eldest comes to his father Wind; he invites him to run around the earth along with his two other sons; then gives him a bag with all the animals; the grandmother secretly eats corn, which she hides among her things; the grandson spies, finds an ear, cooks porridge; brings from the beaver's hunt; the grandmother splashes blood between his legs, says that he is now menstruating; he splashes blood on his grandmother's legs; says that menstruation will not be for men, but for women; grandson: let the period last as many days as there are spots on the deer's skin; grandmother: as many stripes on the chipmunk's back (four); he agrees]: 221-254; onondaga [like Seneca; Chief's wife gets pregnant from his breath before he can get along; Ducks pick up a falling woman; many can't get the ground from the bottom; the muskrat pops up dead in his mouth; only the Turtle, but not the Otter, can withstand the weight of the earth ; earth grows]: Hewitt 1903:141-182; 1928 [Beaver finds clay in Muskrat's mouth; can't bear the weight of the earth; Fox, Raccoon come to marry Heavenly Woman's daughter, rejected]: 470-486; mohawks: Hewitt 1903 [like onondag in Hewitt 1903; a man hangs an arrowhead over a woman's bed; then she gives birth to Flint and Maple Escape; a woman's mother makes the moon out of her head, the sun from his daughter's body; Escape lies that sedge or grass (cattails) will kill him; Flint says yellow flints and deer rolls are deadly for him; brothers are fighting; Flint is killed, turning into a mountain range]: 255-339; Rustige 1988 [A man dies in heaven for the first time; a girl whose father is unknown goes to his remains; she is watched, heard calling the deceased father; he tells her to go to the chief at the end of the world; the leader likes the way she cooks porridge, he marries her, sends her home for a while; as a result, corn falls from above; the woman becomes pregnant, the leader falls ill; tells the tree to be uprooted, asks the wife looks down, pushes her, immediately recovers himself; ducks pick up the falling one, put the turtle on her back; the woman asks the animals to dive; the Beaver, the Otter emerge dead, the Muskrat brings under silt with a claw; while a woman sleeps, earth emerges from it; a woman gives birth to a daughter; a man comes at night, leaves an arrow near the girl; she conceives twins; good brother Rostock is born normally, angry Flint comes out of the mother's side, killing her; proves to the grandmother that it was Rostock who killed her daughter, who throws the Sprout into the willow thickets; Flint and grandmother hide animals; Sprout finds and opens the door in the rock; monsters are still in the rock; Flint and grandmother hide the sun on the tree on the island; Beaver, Spider, Rabbit, Hawk don't go to take the Otter Talker with them; they get the sun, the Rabbit runs away with him, the shine the wool on his stomach whitewashed; the otter talker was hit with an oar, his jaw became short; the sun was thrown into the sky; Flint and Sprout are fighting to create irregularities in the landscape; Flint has been thrown into the lower world, creates evil spirits; Grandma Rostock cuts off her head, makes it a moon]: 3-18; Tuscarora [a woman in the upper world is ready to give birth to twins; at this time she falls down; sea monsters reach some land from the bottom is placed on the turtle; when a woman lands on it, the land begins to grow; the good son Enigorio (E.) is born normally, the evil Enigonhahethea (OH) is born through his mother's side, killing her; E. turns his mother's head into the sun, her body into the moon; creates plants, animals, people, turns monkeys; E. lies that he can be killed with reeds; OH replies that he can be killed with deer horns; brothers fight, E. kills EH, he falls into the ground, becomes an evil spirit]: Cusick 1827 in Leland 1968:24; in Beauchamp 1922:8-11; Delaware: Bierhorst 1995, No. 2 [(see below Dorson 1959; collected . 1679; there was only water; the turtle raised its back, the ground dried up; a tree grew in its middle; the first man came out of its roots; the first woman came from the top of its head when she leaned to the ground], 30 [in heaven there was a sun-like object called a cornstalk; there was a woman with a child, she fell ill; she thought of healing by pulling out the stem; everything fell into darkness; people threw her and the child into the hole, formed where the stem grew; it was picked up by the Hawks, placed on the Turtle's back; the Loon dived, brought earth from the bottom], 44 [the husband in heaven is jealous of his wife for the Comet; throws her into a hole on the spot uprooted sky tree; when she falls, a woman grabs a blackberry bush, the Comet gives her corn seeds, a pot, a beaver bone, a mortar and a pestle; the pike offers to support her, but beckons only laugh above him; the Turtle becomes a support; a woman gives birth to a daughter; she becomes pregnant from the wind, gives birth to twins, these are Flint and Mosky ("hare", "rabbit"); Flint comes out through the mother's navel, killing her; grandmother buries her daughter with her head west, marking the path that the souls of the dead must follow], 77 [the earth rests on a huge Turtle; when there was only water everywhere, Muskrat began to create land by placing it on her back To the turtle; then the Beavers added land], 187 [west 1977; the turtle is the "mother of the earth", for it first brought from the bottom the silt from which the Creator made the earth]: 28-29, 34-35, 38, 46, 71-72; Dorson 1959 [ Jasper Danckaerts, a Dutchman, asked an 80-year-old Indian on Long Island where his people came from; he drew a circle with four legs, a head and a tail with coal on the ground; explained that at first only water; the turtle slowly surfaced, the water subsided, land formed; then the Indian stuck a straw into the circle; a tree grew in the middle of the earth, a man grew from its top; the tree bent down to the ground , took the second root, and from there a woman grew up; people come from them]: 19.
Plains. Sarsi: Curtis 1976 (18) [The old man gives Muskrat a piece of land, asks him to run around until he grows up; but he does not grow; then he tells him to dive; for the fourth time, the Muskrat brings clay from the bottom; The old man rolls it into a ball, tells Zuyk to run around, the earth grows; the old man creates earthly inhabitants; the crow makes it out of coal, for other materials have come out by that time; sarsi is the last to make, turning them into skin flakes]: 180-182; Dzana-gu 1921, No. 3 [the flood flooded the world, the Old Man gathered birds and animals on a raft; sent birds to dive, only a small swamp bird with red ones reached the bottom with rims around her eyes when she dived for the fourth time; surfaced dead, but the Old Man found grains of earth under his claws, revived the bird; told the plover (Charadrius vociferus) to run in circles around a grain of earth, that began to grow; the old man told the plover to run all his life, and then his descendants fled; the earth grew, animals and people descended from the raft to land], 4 [a man has a wife and two sons; he combs his wife, paints her face, but Every time she goes for brushwood and comes back, her hair is tangled, the paint is blurred, her clothes are dirty; he watches her approach a rotten tree, knocks, says she's here, crawls out snakes wrap around her body; the husband tells his sons about this, tells them to run, goes to the tree, calls the snakes with the same signal, kills with a stick, throws the bodies into the ravine, one escaped but lost her tail; the wife He finds only one snake, comes back, her husband cuts off her head, she falls into the tipi, the body falls outside, the husband runs away in the opposite direction than the sons; they reached the river, asked the water monster for them smuggle; he invited them to eat his parasites; they were frogs; the brothers snapped seeds from which they had necklaces, the monster was happy, lay down like a bridge, the brothers crossed to the other side; the mother's head set off in chase, saw through the frog, spat with disgust, the monster asked her to cross the river, threw it into the water, her head drowned; the brothers saw a raft, put the board from there, offered to take food, the elder stepped on him they threw him at the fruit, sailed; he shouted to the youngest not to go anywhere, wait for him; he returned, but his brother turned into a wolf; they were hunting together; the wolf rushed to the river for the deer, something dragged him under the water; The old man led his older brother to the river, where there were fish near the shore; they shot at them, wounded the chief; the shaman frog walks, saying that she was called to treat the wounded fish leader; the old man killed him, dressed like him, went down to the fish, found the wolf's skin, revived it, he returned to the shore; the old man told everyone to close their eyes while he healed the leader, killed everyone, returned to the shore; the other fish caused the flood; the old man on The raft tells the animals to dive; only the Muskrat dived, surfaced dead; the Old Man took grains of earth from under his claws and teeth, revived the Muskrat; this is how she dived four times; the old man invited the animals to run around a lump of earth, only the Wolf and the Otter agreed; the earth grew, they came back old, the Old Man rejuvenated them; so three times, after the fourth they did not return, the earth was big]: 5, 6-8; Simms 1904 [two young men from the upper world go down to people; the leader's two daughters fall in love with them; people go to make their sisters go beyond two bright stars; kill young men; as punishment, the Creator sends a flood; the old man is saved the raft, animals and birds with him; he sends animals to dive; the Muskrat is the last to emerge, the old man scrapes off her legs some silt, blows, creates land; sends Zuyk to find out if the earth is big; he returns aged, tired; the earth is big]: 180-182; Simms 1904 [two young men from the upper world go down to people; the chief's two daughters fall in love with them; people go to see sisters marry two bright stars ; young men are killed; as punishment, the Creator sends a flood; an old man is saved on a raft, with animals and birds; he sends animals to dive; the Muskrat is the last to emerge, the old man scrapes off her legs some silt , blows, creates land; sends Zuyk to find out if the earth is big; he returns aged, tired; the earth is big]: 180-182; blacklegs: Fraser 1990 [the leader's daughter with two friends sleeps outside, She wants a Star as her husband; in the morning a beautiful man comes up to her, takes her to heaven; she gives birth to a child, is happy; her husband does not order to dig up a large root crop; she violates the ban, sees through a hole in her native camp in the sky, cries; her husband tells him to make a rope, sends it back; she comes to her parents, but her son turns into a smoke mushroom; people cut him to pieces; she asks the Morning Star for revenge; he tells her and her parents to make a raft, sends rain that floods the earth; her father tells Beaver, Duck, and other animals and birds to dive to the bottom; no one comes back; the muskrat brings on his foot land; land reappears]: 32-35; Linderman 1995 [rain floods the earth with a flood, animals ask Napi ("The Old Man") for help, he makes a raft, tells him to dive underground; Loon, Otter, Beaver, Goose, Goose are not they dive to the bottom; the muskrat pops up dead, N. revives her, she says she has seen the ground; on the second attempt she pulls out some land, brings more for the third time; N. creates land, tells the Wolf to check Is it big; he returns six months later, N. says that the earth is small, continues to expand it; the second time the Wolf does not return, the earth is big; N. sculpts from clay, revives the first pair of Indians chippewa]: 16-21; Maclean 1893 (blood) [during the flood, the Old Man sends four animals one by one; the Fish, the Frog, the Lizard do not return; the Turtle brings clay in his mouth; the old man puts clay on the water , makes the earth out of it]: 165; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 1 [a woman who became the wife of a star gave birth to a child who is a fungus; it was torn apart, for which the heavenly inhabitants sent a flood; during the flood An old man with animals sits on a high mountain; Otter, Beaver, Muskrat, Duck (?) consistently sent to bring earth from the bottom, float up dead, but the Old Man finds some clay on the legs of the Duck; he throws it into the water, land appears; heavenly inhabitants send rain, everything on earth grows]: 19; assiniboine [only water first]: Clark 1966 [Muskrat pulls the earth from the bottom]: 297; Dusenberry 1962 [Inktomi created everything in four steps; blue, black, white and speckled rocks symbolize these stages of creation; separated the spirits of the day from the spirits of the night; created a man and a woman from clay, then animals; people began to kill each other, I. chose one, taught me how to make a raft; after 4 days, water flooded the ground; I. chose seven waterfowl, ordered clay to be brought from the bottom, they surfaced dead, got nothing; I. sent a muskrat, a mink, a beaver, a little otter (fisher); they also surfaced dead, but grains of clay were under the claws; of which I. created land; made a woman for a man and 6 other pairs of men and women; these are the ancestors of seven fires of the Dakota Council {Dakota means assiniboine}]: 71-73; Lowie 1909a, No. 1 [The creator sails in a boat; towards the Muskrat, silt in his paws; the Creator scatters it on the water, makes the earth]: 100-101; Grovanter: Cooper 1975, No. 3 [The creator of the earth knows only that there would be a flood; made a raft, hung up on it; stuck to the mountain, told Mud Hen (=Hell Diver), Turtle, Beaver, Muskrat to dive underground; they all surfaced dead, but on the legs of Mud Hen and the Turtles some land; the Creator threw pinches in different directions, land arose; sculpted a man, created a woman from his rib]: 435-436; Kroeber 1907b, No. 1 [water is all around; someone, perhaps Nishant, sent Duck, Otter , Beaver, Turtle to dive underground; only the Turtle brought the Earth; this character scattered it, creating land; created mountains, gradually squeezing the earth out of his hand, made rivers, vegetation], 2 [first world Nishant destroyed with fire, the second by a flood; placed his pipe on three sticks, a pipe and he himself swam on bison cakes; he stamped his foot, shouted, water poured out of the ground, it began to rain, everything was flooded, bison the cakes surfaced; the crow remained to fly; N. allows her to sit on the tube; extracts animals and birds from the tube, tells them to dive; first the Big Loon, then the Little Loon do not reach the bottom; the Turtle dives; into N. finds some clay on the folds of her skin and on her paws; throws land into the water; N. sings, the earth grows, he sculpts people and animals, revived three times by shouting; called the world the Turtle, because the Turtle got the earth; the rainbow is a sign that the earth will no longer be covered with water; after that, the world will be different]: 59, 59-61; arpaho: Dorsey 1903 [flood, man walks on water, thinks how to preserve his pipe; creates seven poplars, birds have sat on them, reptiles have sailed; Ducks, Kingfisher, Crane and other birds do not reach the bottom; The Creator turns into the Red-headed Duck; he and the Turtle both bring clay from the bottom; The Creator puts it on his tube, the earth grows; the turtle represents the earth; The Creator places black, yellow, red, green colors on the four cardinal points (unnamed); c One of the four Old Men is tied with each color and side; throws the core of the poplar into the water, it pops up - even if people's lives are so; Nihansan throws a pebble, he drowns - let people die]: 191-204; Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 1 [there is water everywhere; Grandfather saw the Father - a pipe on four support sticks; Father called waterfowl; they dive one by one, drown, only the Duck brings clay on their paws; Father lays clay on the tube, but the earth is not enough; the turtle is called to dive, brings the earth on four legs; the Father dries the earth, creates land, rivers; where more has fallen, there are mountains; the Father creates the Sun and the Moon as the embodiment of a man and a woman; sculpts a man and a woman], 2 [a man, his wife and son swim on a wooden tube; a son wants land; a father collects waterfowl, a duck is sent to the bottom as the best diver; The duck brings some land on its paws, the father creates land, but the earth is too small; the father sends the Turtle, which brings clay on the shell, the man creates land by waving a pipe, creates rivers], 3 [for four there was a pipe on the supports, a man on it; he calls waterfowl, asks them to dive, everyone emerges dead, the Duck is the last; then the Turtle calls to dive, brings earth on the shell; the man dries it on a pipe, throwing, creates land; the earth is in the shape of a turtle; a man sculpts a man and a woman from clay; note: one informant identified the creator with Nihansan (letters. Spider, trickster)], 6 [a fragment of stone falls into the bosom of a woman; she gives birth to a boy named Scala; during the flood, he tells the Raven, Magpie, Jay and other animal people to make a raft of dried mushrooms; mushrooms they get wet, the raft begins to sink; the Rock tells the White-Nosed Duck to reach the ground; it does not dive to the bottom; turns one of its tortoise shell moccasins into a Turtle; the Turtle brings clay from the bottom rib, reed; Rock creates land, waving its edge in four directions; turns reeds into corn; creates a sky; after that, Nihansan began to live in the sky, became our father; the one who has there were turtle moccasins, threw a cake into the water with a bison, it surfaced - even if man's life was so; N. threw a stone, it drowned - let people die, otherwise there will be too many of them]: 1-2, 3-4, 4-6, 14-17; Crowe: Lowie 1918:14 [everything is covered with water; Old Coyote (=Sun) tells ducks to dive; three types of ducks don't dive to the bottom, Dive brings clay on their paws; The old man makes the ground, mountains, trees], 16 [before Old Coyote makes a boat with a flood; tells two ducks to dive; one cannot reach the bottom three times; the second brings clay in his beak on the fourth attempt; he makes the ground with mountains and rivers], 17 [everything is covered with water ; Old Coyote asks ducks to dive; they bring clay from the bottom four times, he makes the ground], 17-18 [everything is covered in water; four ducks decide to dive; one brings clay to their nostrils, they make the ground; Old Coyote helps them create mountains, rivers]; 1960:195 [everything is covered with water; the Coyote old man sends the Swallow to the bottom, then the Raven, then the Wolf; they do not bring land; sends the Duck; makes land out of the clay she brings; makes a man and a woman out of clay], 198-200 [it rains, a flood floods the ground; Old Coyote calls two ducks, a white one and a black one, asks which of them is better at diving, they say they dive the same way; white the duck dived twice, did not see the bottom; the black one brings earth in its paws; the earth is scattered, land has arisen; the Old Coyote asks the Smart Woman to make rivers for ducks; she draws their channels with a cane], 205-209 [in There is only one water in the world; the Coyote old man asks two red-eyed Ducks to dive; one dives, the other stays with the Coyote, measures time - did the diver suffocate? The first Duck brings the spine, it is not good; dives again, brings the earth on its paws; the Coyote blew on it - the land has grown; at the request of the Ducks, the Coyote makes rivers; sculpts people and ducks from clay - first men and males, then women and females]; Simms 1903, No. 1 [all covered in water; The old man asks four ducks which one is braver; one dives, brings earth in its beak; the old man blows in all directions, the earth forms with mountains and rivers; makes man and woman, gives them culture]: 281-282; santi: Skinner 1920:273-278 (watchpeton) [the world is covered with water; Wakan Tanka (Great Spirit) descends in the form of a rainbow, throws two of his ribs when they fall into the water, they turn into two horned four-legged water monsters; from the right thigh - a male, from the left thigh - a female; VT teaches them to lead the Witch Doctor's Ritual; monsters They tell Gagara, another bird (Diver?) , Beaver and Muskrat dive; three emerge dead, VT revives them; Muskrat brings silt on its paws, monsters throw it west, land appears there, all animals have swam there; various groups of animals enter in the home; each appears with its own witch doctor's chants, this is how the Watchpeton society arises; later animals appear to people in their dreams, teaching songs and rituals; monsters descend to the lower world; from their wool witch doctor's herbs appear (paraphrase in DeMallie, Parks 2001:1065)]; Wallis 1923 [first one water; Great Power created land, then man and woman, animals; it rained, the earth was deserted, dried up rocks appeared in the sun; piling stones (on top of each other), the Great Force created mountains; soon there was a flood, the descending water made the valleys]: 36-37; teton (Brule) [The creator splits the earth, the water pours from above and below, everything is drowned; he swims on his sacred pipe; the crow flies, saying that it has no place to sit; the Creator pulls out all the animals and birds from the pipe bag; sends Loon then the Otter, the Beaver, they don't dive; the turtle brings earth from the bottom under its shell and on its paws; the Creator puts it on the water, creates land; the crow sits down to rest; now there is no water; the Creator cries for the earth and its inhabitants, its tears turn into seas and other bodies of water; the Creator sculpts people from clay; says that he destroyed the first world by fire, the second flood; this one calls the Continent of the Turtle; after there will be a fourth world]: Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:496-499; Dakota (Sioux, band not specified; identification with Dakota in Thompson 2000, No. 92:299) [recorded from members of the secret society; Bubble and Monster - twins, sons of the Turtle; the Monster's body was made of stone, he killed his mother at birth; The bubble looked everywhere to kill him; the turtle brought earth in its mouth from under the flood, the aquatic bird a blade of grass; this put it on the Turtle, the land has grown; in some stories, the Turtle is replaced by Muskrat or Coyote; only initiates know that the Turtle is earth and we live on its shell]: Meeker 1901:161-163; santi [first one water; Great Powers created land, then man and woman, animals; a thunderstorm caused bubbles of mud to appear on the water, the sun dried them up, turning them into rocks; the Forces piled them into heaps, creating mountains; waters that surged after the flood paved valleys]: Wallis 1923:36-37; mandan [at the beginning of time, the Lonely Man tells the Ducks to dive; they bring land from the bottom; he scatters it across water, the earth grows]: Beckwith 1938:1-2 [At the beginning of time, the Creator and the Lonely Man walk on the waters asking the Duck to dive; it brings sand in its beak, earth emerges from it; the Creator takes land for himself South of Missouri, Lonely Man North]; Bowers 1950:347-348 [A lonely Man walks on the water, sees a Flower with blood in it; the Flower says PTS is her son; PTS tells two Ducks to dive four times, they bring four pieces of land from the bottom; he scatters it, there is land with trees; OCH picks up his phone, comes to the First Man (this is the Coyote); they argue which one is older; PTS plunges into the ground his spear, symbolizing two ducks that have brought the ground, and the IF lies side by side; PTS comes to this place four times; the last time, many years later, the spear has almost fallen, only bones from the IF; but the IF has revived, proving that he is older; they go together to build land; because the OCH pipe was two-halved, Missouri in the middle of the earth; the PTS created the land north of the river, the IF to the south; the ground was PTS flat, and the IF created irregularities to make it easy to sneak up on the bison; created buffalo; cattle are very domestic, IF bison are wild], 361-364 [A lonely person walks on water, sees a flower, decides what was born from it; someone says I am your father; PTS meets the First Creator; both ask the Dive to get silt from under the water; PTS gives half of the land brought by the Dive to the First Creator, creates the eastern, masculine, even side, livestock, PS creates Western, female, crossed, bison; they argue who is older; decide that the one who stays dead longer; PTS puts a stick for himself, PS lies down with a coyote; when a few For years, OCH thinks with pity about the long-dead PS and takes out his stick, the Coyote resurrects, proving his seniority]; mandan, hidatsa [Lonely Man (Coyote) walks on the water, meets the First Creator; both ask the Dive (Mudhen) what he eats; I dive to the bottom under the mud; he brings silt four times; P.S. makes the land south of Missouri, O.C. to the north; they argue whose land is better and who is older]: Beckwith 1938:7-9]; hidatsa [water covers everything; The First Creator tells Dive to get sand from the bottom; makes the earth, creates the Lonely Man, they argue]: Beckwith 1938:15; Arikara [two Ducks swim on a big lake; Wolf comes from SW, Lucky Man from the north; Wolf offers to compete to see who can withstand the rain longer; hangs his skin on a stick, MF - different feathers; The Wolf loses, offers the MF to be his co-creator; tells the Duck to get dirt from the bottom, she dives, brings it, the Wolf scatters it, land appears, this is a plain north of Missouri, on it bison; MF also asks Duck to bring silt from the bottom; she brings more, he throws what he has brought south, a hilly country appears south of Missouri; MF says it will be more convenient for people and buffalo to live among hills; Missouri flowed like a boundary between two lands]: Dorsey 1904d, No. 11; throw off the pawnee [see motif B5A; The Morning Star gets a pebble from the Evening, throws it into the waters; after a long time the earth emerges from the pebble; the four gods of the cardinal points have hit (on the surface of the sea?) hands, the ground rose to the sides of the water]: Chamberlain 1982:25-26; iowa [zap. Rev. William Hamilton; Ictc ñ'ke swims in a boat; sends Muskrat to the bottom, which brings some clay in its paws; the bird flies away and returns with a branch; I. rips off its leaves, mixes it with clay, throws it all onto the waters, creating dry land]: Dorsey 1892:300 (mentioned in Boas 1940:439); Osage (fratria vazhaje) [people lived in the sky (sometimes stars); the Sun told them it gave birth to them; The moon said that she gave birth to them from the Sun; that they should go down to earth; but there was only water below, people were hovering in the air; they asked for help, the elk fell into the water, began to sink; the winds called, they began to blow, the waters descended; first only stones, then soil appeared; the elk began to lie happily on it; its fur adhering to the soil turned into beans, corn, potatoes, wild tubers, trees and herbs; people meet members of other Osage divisions, decide to live with them]: Fletcher, LaFlésh 1911:62-64 at DemAllie, Park 2001:1066 and Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:119; from [four brothers are in the water, looking for land; three do not find, the youngest finds; they begin to live on the ground, creating Moose and other animals]: Whitman 1938:175-176; Omaha [at first all creatures in Wakonda consciousness; they came down in the form of spirits, water was below; the earth was torn out of it in flames]:? ; sheyens: Grinnell 1907-1908 [At the beginning of time, the Creator asks waterfowl to dive; swans, geese, ducks do not reach the bottom; a little duck brings silt in its beak; the Creator throws it into the water, Land arises]: 170; Marriott, Rachlin 1968 [Maheo creates sky, salt water, light, waterfowl; tells them to dive and get land from the bottom; Goose, Duck, Loon do not dive; Coot brings silt from the bottom in his beak, puts M. in his hand; he sculpts a lump, creates land; M. is looking for whose back to approve the land; snails, crustaceans, fish are not suitable for this; only Grandmother Turtle is able to hold this weight; this is Mother -Earth, it produces plants; from its right and left ribs, M. creates a man and a woman (retelling in Cooper 1996:222)]: 22-26; Arkansas (probably cuapo) [the world is covered in water; god in white brings bags of tobacco to clothes, takes people out of the ground; the world is dark; The beaver dives to the bottom, brings land; the white Eagle brings the green branch; (without continuation)]: Charencey 1884:284 in Dähnhardt 1909:88; wichita [first the earth is not separated from the water, swims on the water in darkness; Kinnekasus creates the land, then the first man and woman]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 1:25.
Southeast USA. Shawnee: Trowbridge 1939 [After the Flood, the Great Spirit tells the Shrimp to dive; it brings some clay from the bottom; the Great Spirit makes the earth]: 60; Voegelin 1936 [1) Eastern Shawnee: Our Grandmother's Grandson pierces the belly of the Big Man with a knife; from there water flows out, floods the ground; grandson and Grandmother escape to the tree; Grandma sends the Shrimp, which brings silt from the bottom; Grandma makes new land; sends Vulture fly and dry the ground with flapping its wings; 2) shoni absinthe: the same, but the grandson violates Grandma's ban on going west; pierces the belly of the Monstrous Fish; Grandma and grandson escape in the boat]: 9-10; teals : Duncan 1998 [grandfather and grandson are sitting on a tiny island; grandson has no place to play; grandfather sends various animals to dive to the bottom; a turtle pops up dead with earth on its paws; grandfather dries the ground, throws it into the water the earth grows; the vulture dries it with flaps of its wings, creating valleys and mountains]: 40-43; Mooney 1900, No. 1 [at first there is water everywhere, animals are crowded in the upper world of Gălûñ'lăt; Beetle- The swimmer Dăyuni's( Beaver's grandson) goes on exploration; when swimming, he finds no land, then dives, brings clay, it grows, turns into land; animals send various birds to find out whether the earth has dried up; they ask the Great Vulture (the ancestor of the present) to dry the earth; he hovers above the ground, it is still soft; when he reached the country of the teal, he waved his wings out of fatigue; where he touched them lands, valleys appeared, where wings raised - mountains; animals were afraid that the whole world would become mountainous, recalled Vulture, but the country of Chirokee remained mountainous]: 239; chitimacha: Swanton 1907 [ during the flood, the Dove (Var.: Cardinal) brings a grain of land; when placed on water, it grows and turns into land]: 286; 1911:356 [at the beginning of time, the Creator tells the Shrimp to dive, it brings it from the bottom some land, it grows], 358 [(=Swanton 1907), during the flood, two people escape in a clay vessel; the woodpecker clings to the sky, the end of the tail remains in muddy water, changes color; when water begins to fall, he is sent to search for land, returns without finding it; the dove brings a grain of sand; it is placed on water, land grows out of it]; 1917 (=Swanton 1907): 358; Taskegee [water everywhere; some birds wants land as well; Chief Eagle sends the Pigeon, he returns without finding land; the Shrimp dives, four days later brings silt from the bottom in its claws; the Eagle makes an island; then a few, they merge into land]: Swanton 1924-1925:487 in Edmonds, Clark 1989:284; Yuchi: Gatschet 1893 [Loon dives, lacks the bottom; the necklace around her neck is pressed into her skin, still visible; Beaver pops up dead; The shrimp brings clay from the bottom in its claws; the Creator sprinkles it on the water, makes the ground; The vulture flies over the still soft ground, flapping its wings; mountains appear]: 279-280; Speck 1909, No. 1 [everywhere water; flying and floating creatures send the Shrimp to get the ground from the bottom; on the fourth day, the Shrimp pops up; the earth becomes big; the Vulture is sent to make it flat; he gets tired, waves frantically with its wings, creating mountains]: 103-104; Swanton 1929, No. 90 [The lobster dives, pours a hill at the bottom, the top of which appears above the water; the Vulture dries the earth and spreads it in breadth]: 84; alabama , koasati [at first there is water everywhere; birds and animals swim on a raft; Chief Horned Owl offers to dive; The Beaver does not dive; The frog returned, frightened by the Garfish; Cancer has reached the bottom (Sargan decided that this is not a worthwhile prey); rakes clay with its tail, making it a pillar that rose above the water; the earth grows; the Vulture flies above it; when it raised its wings, mountains appeared, when it lowered, valleys, when it soared, the plains]: Martin 1977:2-3.
California. Villot: Curtis 1976 (13) [water first; "The Old Man Above" created land, then vegetation, humans; they were bad, they quarreled, he washed them away by the tidal wave; Shatash (Condor) and his sister they wove the basket in advance, swam in it on the waves; when the water came down, S. went to look for food, came back and asked if his sister was at home; she replied that she was at home, but did not add "brother"; next time he "wife" addressed her; she laughed, they gave birth to new people]: 190-191; Kroeber 1906a, No. 7 [only water first; Gudatrigakwitl ("the old man above") takes dust, blows, it turns into land; creates a man named Chkekowik; then creates a wife for him; an elk, then other animals, birds and fish to feed them; when he shakes his head, snow falls out of his hair, a blizzard on the ground; sneezing makes people young, their suede clothes are new; chews deer tendons, spits out, a white deer appears; a rich man can see such a deer in the sky]: 97-98; yuki (huchnom) [water everywhere, feather floats, from Taikomol appears; he asks Gopher to get the land; he digs, but the earth is too soft, sinks again; T. creates a Mole, who works for a long time, installs land {gopher was a poor helper; the land he brought up was too soft, and sank back into water; mole made the land stand upapparently, both are digging a hole and the land that has arisen is a pile of soil thrown out of the hole)}; T. creates mountains on it, vegetation, which makes people, are birds and animals; they behave incorrectly, T. decides to destroy them with a flood; at this time everyone gathered in a dance house; T. hits the Raccoon with a charred stick since then black spots on his head and circles on his tail; one Rabbit got into a fight with another, tore his lip; Vulture wants to be a big man, T. doesn't allow it, he rubs his head in blood (now red); Jackdaw ( blackbird} wants to be an Eagle, rubs her shoulder in blood, now she has red wings; after the flood, T. returns animals and birds in their current form; makes a huchny and yuki from a shrub oak, so they are low grew and ugly); makes kato out of good oak, they are taller; waylaki is made of cedar, Little Lake pomo is made of pine]: Foster 1944:232-233; yuki [foam on the water; Taiko Mall comes out of it (" Lonely"); puts the rope four times from south to north, but water absorbs it; then places "stone hooks" at the four corners of the world, pulls them to cross in the middle of the world, creates land; its edges covers whale skin so that the sea does not wash away; creates mountains, rivers, birds; takes sticks of mountain mahogonia, turns them into people (thickened at the end into men, smooth in women, small in children); Coyote helped him, put the sun and the month in the sky]: Curtis 1976 (14): 169-170; pomo [rain floods the earth with a flood; Falcon flees on top of the mountain, Coyote and others drown; Falcon sends waterfowl dive; they bring mud, reeds, silt; out of this Falcon makes the mountain taller; there is no fire; two Ducks dive, bring fire in clogged reeds from their flooded homes; bring acorns and cakes, others they fish; the water comes down]: Barrett 1933, No. 23.1:127-128; screw [water first; waterfowl do not dive to the bottom; the turtle dives with a rope tied to its body; pulls the rope, pulls the ground she is being pulled to the surface; she is unconscious, but there is some dirt left on her ears and claws; she is being made of an island; land grows out of the island]: Dubois, Demetracopoulou 1931, No. 4:287; patvin [Falcon, Old Coyote Man, Turtle watching the flood from the sky; Turtle dives with a rope tied to its leg; emerges; Falcon scrapes dirt from under its fingernails; puts it on water; the earth dries up]: Kroeber 1932a, № 1:304-305; achomavi: Angulo 1928 [water is everywhere; the fox sings in the sky, meets the Coyote; creates a handful of earth by the power of thought; throws it down; tells the Coyote not to look, then open his eyes; the earth is small; the third time is already big; both stretch it with their paws, create mountains, rivers, animals; live together in a community home]: 583-584; Curtis 1976 (13) [The Silver Fox swims in the boat, then the Coyote appears; both arose from the fog; the fox combs the Coyote's head, makes a lump of skin scales, throws it into the water; the earth grows, the Fox does everything on it; makes service-berry bushes out of sticks ; takes out two bones from everyone, makes them a woman (K.: achomavi hardly had the opportunity to borrow this motive from Europeans); sons Fox and Coyote die; the Fox resurrects them, the Coyote tells them to die forever; the fox kills the Coyote, he comes to life; Coyote's daughter forcibly forces her relative (cousin) Apon to live with her; at night he runs away to the men's house (steam room); she demands his extradition; sets him on fire home; The Fox tells the Mouse to shoot at the sky with a straw; the straw turns into a ladder, the Fox and Coyote go to heaven]: 206-210; Dixon 1908, No. 1 [clouds turn into Silver Fox and Coyote; they they swim in a boat; while the Coyote sleeps, the Fox combs dirt out of his fur, kneads it in his hands, makes the ground; creates plants, stones, animal people]: 159; Merriam 1992 [water everywhere, darkness; Apponahah ( Silkworm) sees a piece of foam in the east, tells him to swim towards him, stands on it; notices that his fingers have nails; the foam hardens and thickens on his feet; he rips it off with her toenails, it crumbles, turns into a triangular island; A. turns the corners east, west, south; the earth grows]: 1-3 (then at p.4-8 A. finds a boy, this is Annicadel; he finds a boy him three times in three corners of the earth, not realizing that the boy is still the same; Annicadel says that he is actually an adult, that Apponahah would not have made the earth without him; that there is also a Coyote, Silver Fox and Frog (Alleum); she will become the mother of people); atsugevi: Dixon 1908, No. 11 [The Silver Fox and Coyote live in the upper world; the fox descends through the hole, makes an island into the sea; allows the Coyote to descend; pushes the ground with its foot, it grows in all directions; creates plants, animal people]: 170 (quail in Judson 1997:21-23); Garth 1953 [the first world was destroyed by the flood, the second was a fire when the Coyote tried to kill his rival Silver Fox; after that, the Coyote and Fox descended a rope into the ocean, the Fox created the ground from the skin (or from a piece of turf), stretched in all directions, created trees, animals, then people; the Sun and the Month are two brothers who were told by the Fox to climb into heaven and illuminate the world, one during the day and the other at night; the Fox wanted to do two months and two sun, but Coyote said it would be too hot; the sun and month are denoted by the same word]: 195; Maidu: Curtis 1976 (14) [Heavenly Chief (HB) sends the Turtle to the bottom; the second time it brings under the claws of the ground; HB puts it on the water, the land grows; the Talking Through the Nose (GN) eats a piece of salmon placed in the river; the river dries up; causes not two deer or badgers, but many at once, cannot get none; HB calls salmon from the hollow tree, fills the basket; warns not to eat the first fish; GN eats, calls fish from the next tree, frogs and snakes fall from there; HB puts it side by side two sticks, by morning they turn into a man and a woman; a woman tickles him, he doesn't laugh; GN brings ten sticks, HB takes eight of them; the remaining two make two beauties; they tickle GN, he laughs, they are made old women; NV creates a rejuvenating lake; Kuksu swims in it, becomes young and beautiful; GN says people should die and hold memorial ceremonies; NV sends a rattlesnake, the bitten son of the GN dies; the GN regrets that the death was made irreversible; NV goes into the mountain, meets the first dead, the son of the GN; sends back the GN himself, because he is alive]: 173-176 ; Dixon 1902, No. 2 [The Turtle and the Creator swim on a raft; The turtle dives, brings clay; the Creator kneads it, puts it aft; clay grows into the ground]: 39-40; mountain mivok: Barrett 1919, #1 [The frog invites the Coyote to create land; the Coyote is looking for the best diver; the Duck and the Water Serpent don't dive; the frog brings two handfuls of sand; the Coyote throws sand, earth appears]: 4-5; Kroeber 1907a, No. 7 (Pohonichi Miwok) [water is everywhere; the Coyote tells the Duck to dive; she brings earth from the bottom in her beak; he sends it to bring seeds; mixes them with earth and water; the mixture swells, turns to earth]: 202; coastal miks: Kelly 1978, No. 2 [water everywhere; Coyote came from the west (where the world of the dead is now); shook a reed cloak to the south, east, north, west, west, the water was dry, Earth arose; the Hawk (Chicken hawk) followed Coyote like a feather; the Coyote speaks to him, naming various relatives, who says he is the grandson of the Coyote; the Hawk gave birth to a boy from the navel; from the water The Frog, the wife of the Coyote, came out; became a deer; the Hawk asked the Coyote for an arrow, who gave him a bow and arrows; wounded him with a deer, chased him, met the Frog; she gave birth to a boy; this is the son of a Coyote, but he Obsidian (Obsidian young fell) because he was actually born from Hawk's arrow]: 28-29; Merriam 1993 [the world is covered with water except Mount Sonoma north of San Francisco; Coyote comes on a long raft from sticks and reeds; throws it into the water with the long side along the north-south line; earth appears; the center of the raft was on the mountain; the frog sits next to him, jumps into the water whenever he wants to grab it; when the water falls, does not have time to jump to the water; she is the wife of the Coyote; when the ground is dry, the Coyote has planted bushes and trees; the Falcon wants people; the Coyote throws feathers into the air, they fly across the country turning into people]: 203-205; Chukchansi yokutz [water has covered the whole earth; Coyote asks Drake to get sand from the bottom; he emerges with grains of sand under his fingernails; Coyote makes a lump of sand, puts a seed on top, land grows out of a lump]: Rogers, Gayton 1944, No. 1:192; dumna yokuts [Chicken Hawk was God's son; God created four ducks, they began to dive; they answered the Hawk that they were trying get the ground; only the smallest one brought sand; the water washed away the sand from her hands, but the Hawk found grains of sand under her fingernails; God told the Hawk to go west, throwing over a grain of sand; the water retreated to the west (where now ocean)]: Gayton, Newman 1940, No. 20:28; yokutz: Gayton, Newman 1940, No. 7 [water is everywhere, only Eagle and Puma escaped on the island; they tied ropes to the legs of three ducks, told them to get the ground from the bottom, they surfaced dead; then they tied a rope to the turtle's leg; she brought land under its claws, the Pigeon collected grains, gave it to the Eagle; he made land out of it; Crested Jay, Blue Jay, Coyote ran on the ground, planting trees; the Eagle sent the Wolf far north; when the world gets old and sick, it must howl and the world revives], 8 [at first there is only water in the world; the Eagle consistently sends to dive five types of ducks, starting with the smallest; pulls them by the rope, no one reached the bottom; then he sent the Turtle, she had grains of sand under her fingernails; the eagle bored them in a tobacco mortar, threw them at four sides, after 12 days, land appeared; the Eagle ordered the Dove to gather the animals; the Bear did not want to go; came after losing the Dove the race competition; the leader ordered the animals to disperse to the areas where they now live ], 39 (Wobonuch, Centrall Hills) [The world is covered with water; Tobacco flies through the air from east to west, flops into the water; next time, Chief Falcon and Crow place a net under the water surface, catch Tobacco; They catch a mortar, a pestle in the same way; the Falcon pushes tobacco; placing a net in the air, it catches the Night (draws the net north, west, south; Night came from the east, singing, Close your eyes! ); The Falcon rolled the Night into a ball, the Sun rose, it became light; he smeared the Raven at Night, which turned black, had previously been like a Falcon; wild ducks complain that there was nowhere to sit to rest; Falcon called the animals, told the Ducks to dive; they came back, saying that there was land, trees, etc. under water; Duck's wife dived to get sand; Falcon and Raven stretched their net on the water to prevent it from trembling (it's not clear whether water or net) , fumigated with tobacco; The duck came up, losing consciousness, bringing sand under her fingernails; The Falcon brought her to life with tobacco; told everyone to leave when he returned 6 days later; put sand and dirt on her knee, the land began to grow from where the Duck dived; after another 6 days, the waters grew, the waters were draining; to watch the world grow, the Falcon flew north east, the Raven flew west; then flew south, near the waters saw a black man's hut, a dog; these people lived on the ground, did not fly; the Falcon taught them how to make porridge from acorns; the messenger (Falcon?) named those who will become shamans and fly away (with Falcon and Raven?) : Coyote, Puma, Wildcat, Fox, Bear, Weasel; also Owl and Skunk; Condor and Eagle; they all became animals; Coyote and Dog stayed on the ground], 40 [Wolf warns his younger brother Coyote not to touch a leather bag full of soil and water; the bag hung on the wall, the Coyote made a hole in it with a stick, the water flooded the world, the Coyote drowned; the wolf made a raft, a net, caught tobacco falling from above, chewed, revived the Coyote, ordered bring the Duck, Duck to dive; she emerged, saying that she had reached the bottom; the Wolf ordered silt to be brought, promising to revive the Duck if it lost consciousness; under the Duck's fingernails, the Wolf found grains of earth, revived the Duck threw the earth around him, a little land arose; sent the Coyote to find out if the land was big; Coyote returned saying he was small; telling Coyote to close his eyes, scattered the land again; when he returned, Coyote said that the land is great; sent the Coyote to bring the Moose, then the Mountain Sheep; said where to live, first ordered them to make mountains in the west (the Moose went north, the Ram went south, then met); the wolf sent the Coyote to give to all elements of the name's landscape; called on the Eagle, and he went to rule the land of the dead; see further motif H34 (Eagle and Coyote argue about the fate of people)]: 20, 20, 38-39, 39-40; salinan: Mason 1912 [ after the flood, ducks dive, missing the bottom; the Eagle puts a load on Kingfisher's back; he pops up dead; the Eagle finds dirt under its claws; makes it the ground; revives the Kingfisher]: 190; 1918:82 [sea it boiled, overflowed its banks, flooded the world with boiling water; all the animals gathered on Mount Santa Lucia; the Eagle Chief asks the Duck to dive; on the second attempt, he reached the bottom, surfaced dead, but the Eagle took it out from under his fingernails silt; rolled four balls, threw them in four directions, the waters came down; in the future, the catastrophe will happen again], 105 [The Old Woman of the Sea wants to destroy the Eagle, brings the sea in the basket, pours out, the flood floods the ground, Mount Santa Lucia remains; the eagle takes the Puma's mustache, makes a rope, throws a lasso over the basket, the old woman dies, the water stops rising; the Dove brings clay, the Eagle makes it a new land; transforms it three alder sticks per woman and two men; they are lifeless; he revives them in the steam room]; yokutz: Kroeber 1907a, No. 11 (northern, Gashowu band) [water everywhere at first; Beaver, Otter, Dive, Duck, Duck Potikh, do not dive to the bottom; Little Duck grabs sand from the bottom, rises, loses it, stays a little under his fingernails; gives sand to the Falcon, who mixes it with tobacco, gives half to the Crow; both they fly north, then parallel to the south, pour pinches of sand; earth appears below; the Raven flies to create the Coastal Range, and Sokol is the Central Range; the Raven Mountains are first higher, the Falcon changes them], 15 ( Truhohi) [only the mountain rises above the water; Coyote offers Chief Eagle to get land; both ask Magpie for advice, who replies that the land can be reached below; all Ducks dive, emerge dead; under with their nails, ears, mouth The dive finds some earth; they mix it with seeds, make the ground; the Eagle sends the Wolf, who runs around the ground, reports that it is still soft; the Coyote runs on the ground ahead of time Gorges and mountains appear; the Eagle sends the Raven and the Falcon, who report that the earth has hardened; animal people diverge in different directions, turn into people; the Eagle flies to heaven, the Coyote follows him] , 25 (Wükchamni, central foothills) [just a small island in the waters; a turtle comes to Eagle and Coyote, telling it to dive; they find some land under their claw, put it on the water, the earth grows; they make six human pairs, send them in different directions; people have nothing to eat, they eat the ground, some have already been eaten; the Eagle and the Coyote send a pigeon, which brings a seed; the ground is covered with plants; underground and now water], 37 [a tree grows from the waters to the sky; Eagle Chief, Wolf, Coyote, Falcon, Puma, Hawk, Condor sit in the nest; the Eagle tells the Ducks to dive; both emerge dead, under the fingernails of one Eagle finds some earth; mixes it with seeds, puts it on water, the earth grows; the Eagle tells the Wolf to shout, the earth disappears; makes the earth anew; the wolf screams, the earth only shakes; they catch the Tobacco creature, kill deer, using tobacco to turn a deer into a woman]: 204-205, 209-211, 218-219, 229-231; Potts 1892:73 -74 in Edmonds, Clark 1989 [The Eagle and the Raven sit on a stump sticking out of the water; they feed the Duck fish; for this, that brings the earth from the bottom; they put the earth in two piles; the water falls down, land arises; part of the Eagle is larger than part of the Raven]: 133-136; the monak [The Falcon and the Raven swim on a log; the Falcon tells the birds to dive, get the ground; Duck, Coot do not dive; Great Chomga emerges dead; Falcon and Raven revive her; they find grains of sand under her knees, scatter them, from which the earth emerges]: Gifford 1923, No. 2:305-306; tubatulabal [rain causes a flood; animal people gather on a mountain; Coyote is looking for a diver; A dive brings some land, then more; places it among the waters]: Voegelin 1935, No. 12:209-211; kawaiisu [1) there is water everywhere; animals and birds live in the sky; the Coyote sends them one by one to get the earth from the bottom; it dives only half, almost sinks; a small black waterfowl Potok ( Coot?) brings dirt under the fingernails; the earth grows; animals come down to live on it; the Blue Jay plants plants plants, still plants pignons and oaks; 2) rain floods the earth; some ancestors flee to the mountain; the stream dives to the bottom, brings earth under the fingernails; the earth is placed on a tray for a breath, it grows; the ground still lies on this tray; it is flat; the squirrel builds gorges, pours mountains; Blue Jay plants plants]: Zigmond 1980, No. 1:27-28.
Big Pool. Northern Payutes: Kelley 1938, No. 38 [at first only an island in the middle of the water; an old man lived on it; the Star took pity on people, gave them commercial animals; the Sun promised that people would come to him come]: 437-438; Mooney 1896 [first water is everywhere; the top of Mount Grant was the first above the water; at the top there is fire, water overwhelms it, sage-hen (Centrocercus urophasianus) made a nest there, she drove away the water with flaps of her wings; the feathers on her chest were burned and remained black; then a rabbit ("he is like a god") helped to get the fire from the mountain; Our Father came from the south, followed by Our Mother; they have two sons and two daughters, children got married, couples fell out, some became ancestors of Lake Walker Payut, others Bannock; Our Father and Our Mother went to heaven]: 1050-1051; Steward 1936, No. 1 (Owens Valley) [during the Hawk Flood and his uncle Crane (?) flee to the mountain; they sing and rattle; earth falls out of the Hawk's rattle], 2 [during the flood, the Wolf and Coyote swim in the boat; the Wolf puts a handful of earth on the water; the Coyote rushes, asks to make the ground bigger; The wolf complies with his request], 3 (Owens Valley) [The duck sprinkles the earth on the water; the earth grows; the duck bandages it with reeds so that it does not fall apart]: 364; mono (Owens Valley) [water everywhere; in Topi's older brother (Wolf) and younger Isháa (Coyote) sail the boat; they pour sand on the water, earth appears; I. asks T. to pour more, that sprinkles, the earth grows; T. goes, creates everything on ground; I. runs to the hot springs of Coso, each time throws the loser into the fire; the fire was supported by Snipe; it became dark, it began to rain; I. paid the shamans Utka and Owl, who began to sing, it became to dawn; T. kept the animals in the pen; sent I. to bring one; he put his penis in them, they smelled it, regained their sense of smell, broke the fence, ran away; T. hung arrows on the sunny ones that entered the house rays, but I. could not; women lived in Towova, their husbands went hunting; I. and T. came to them with their men; in the evening they all lay down with the women; I. was supposed to lie down with the youngest of the sisters, but approached him old woman; he rejected her; she went out and turned young; I. rushed to catch up with her; the girls' old mother said she did not know where her daughter had run away; I. put his penis in her ear; when he finished, the old woman ran into mountains, called her sons; they attacked T.'s people; everyone died, T. was left alone with all the women; went to bed with two every night, but did not touch them; killed deer, the girls' mother brought them; hid the youngest daughter; T. found her, but because she was being hidden from him, he cut off her head; the old woman chases him, he hides in Húnupi's house (Roadrunner bird); the old woman tells her to throw what he cooks H.; H. throws a hot stone, she swallowed it, ran away (died); T. was afraid that H. would take his youngest girlfriend, so he turned it into a worm hidden inside a cocoon; told his sister not to look into the cocoon ; the girl was lying naked on the floor, H. spat in her vulva; she opened her cocoon, H. became a man; she addresses him, naming all categories of relatives; finally, her husband; they lie down together, she gives birth son; T. and his people became animals; H.'s wife into an edible plant, he himself in Roadrunner]: Curtis 1976 (15): 123-128; bunnock [Our Father, wife and son walk on the ground, behind the fire; Our Father tells us not to look back, the wife looks around, turns into stone; Our Father and his son merge into one character; the flood floods the earth; Our Father swims on the sea foam, calls animals for advice; The Beaver answers , who does not dive to the bottom, offers his younger brother Muskrat; he dives, pops up dead, Our Father revives him, finds clay under his fingernails; rolls it into a lump, spreads it on water; creates plants and animals; made the earth turn to the shady and then to the sunny side, winter and summer alternate]: Clark 1966:172-174; eastern shoshones [during the flood, the peak remains above the water mountains; Our Father sends birds; the raven eats corpses, comes back, exuding stench; God makes him black, tells us to eat only carrion from now on; Chickady brings some clay; Our Father makes earth out of it]: Saint Clair 1909b, No. 10:272-273 (Quail in Köngäs 1960:152-153); chemeuevi [1) =1976:148-149; Ocean Woman, Puma, Wolf, Coyote sail in a basket boat on limitless waters; JM exfoliates its skin, rolls a ball, throws it into the water; earth appears; JM lies on its back, arms spread out, head west, pushes and stretches; sends Wolf and Coyote to find out if it's big earth; after several returns, the Coyote reports that it is large enough; 2) The Sea Woman falls from the sky in the form of a worm; creates the earth by crumbling it into water and stretching it, as in the first version; exfoliates The skin scales, rolling them into a ball, makes a Coyote; he runs around the ground to see if it is big; then JM creates the Wolf and the Puma; because the wolf is smart and the Coyote is reckless, it is decided that the older brother will be the Wolf]: Laird 1974a: 20; southern payut (Moapa) [water is everywhere first; the old woman lives with her son and daughter on a small dry patch in the middle of the sea; scattered the earth like seeds on the water, sent her daughter to find out if it is big land; the daughter said not yet; this was repeated many times until the daughter announced that the land was large enough; the daughter found and brought the only man; mother-in-law told him to insert a vertebra into his wife's vagina deer; he broke his vaginal teeth with it, since then he could copulate; his wife gave birth to children in a bag, his mother-in-law told him not to untie him along the way; the man opened, the tribes separated, only left at the bottom a little bit of payut]: Lowie 1924, No. 1:157-158; southern Utah [Sünā'wavi notices dirt on the water, makes it earth in six days; sculpts a man, makes a woman out of his rib (biblical influence, more on the expulsion from paradise)]: Lowie 1924, No. 1:1.
The Great Southwest. Navajo: Klah 1960 [island in the fourth bottom (=our) world]: 5-6; O'Bryan 1956 [floating island in the lower world; four deities drive water away]: 2; hicarilla [everywhere at first only water; Hacksin spirits make Mother Earth in the form of a woman facing up; Sun Father in the form of a man face down; Earth and Sky say to each other: How will we create people? They make a Month to keep an eye on plants and fruits]: Opler 1938, No. 1:1; Western Apaches (Wout Mountain) [four have established the ground, it was blown away by the wind, it is as weak as an old woman; they pulled it to four sides, the elongated piece became like a leg; on each side they placed a reed with metal thorns (reeds and thorns of the colors associated with the directions to B, Y, Z, C); but the earth still soft and mixed with water; Black Old Man East The wind blew, the ground has hardened]: Goodwin 1994, No. 1:1; lipan [people live in the dark under the ground, the ground is covered by water; The wind goes out for exploration , the earth is covered with water, he turns the water like a blanket; the Raven, the Beaver are sent to explore; one eats dead fish, the other builds dams, does not return; the badger returns; four people are sent to create rivers, mountains; animals, birds, trees, and people are the last to come to the ground; trees remain where they currently grow; lipans are the last to emerge after Tonkawa]: Opler 1940, No. 1:13-15; Hopi Cushing 1923 , No. 1-8 [the cave of the lower world is full, everyone's garbage stains the rest; two twins have grown to the ceiling, made a hole; grew reeds, people climbed it to the second world, then also to third; here the twins got fire, lit torches, built houses; here women abandoned their children, confused their husbands, occupied kivas; men carried babies there to feed them; then men got into the fourth world; it's dark here too, it's also wet; people made a deerskin shield, decorated it with turquoise, sent it east, it became the sun; the cape became the moon; the Coyote opened the vessel, flew out of it stars burned his face; the Vulture drove the water away with its wings, mountains appeared; the twins paved canals, the water flooded through them]: 163-166; Voth 1905, No. 1 [first only water and two female characters named Hurúing Wuhti in the east and west; they made the waters come down; the Sun indicated to these women that the earth was not inhabited; a woman met, created a wren and sent to look for living beings; he I did not find anyone; then women made many different birds and they scattered in all directions; then an oriental woman (hereinafter referred to as VJ) sculpted a man and a woman out of clay, revived them; a spider woman also created two people, but they were the ancestors of the Spaniards; she also made donkeys for them; made many such people; one woman constantly quarreled with one man, so the Hopis are now arguing; ZJ also did people; Westerners and people of the East quarreled, ZJ decided to go to sea; VJ also left]: 1-5; Wallis 1936, No. 1 [mound in the waters]: 8; Zunyi: Cushing 1896 [the creator of Awonawilona appeared as the sun , flooded the space with light, the fog descended, forming the ocean; collecting flesh {dirt?} from his body, A. fertilized the waters, from which the four-layer Mother Earth and the all-covering Father-Sky arose; lying on the waters, they gave rise to earthly life; then the Earth pushed Heaven away from itself; holding in his hands a water-filled bowl with stepped protrusions on the whisk on its four sides (terraced bowl), she spat in it, interfered with her finger, foam gathered on the stepped ledges; these are the clouds that are under with the cold breath of Heaven, they will rain; The sky responded by putting seven corn kernels there; (quoted in Thompson 2000:17-19)]: 379-381; Muller 1968 [water everywhere; Coyote comes from the cloud, Silver Fox from fog; they create a boat; the fox combs the hair from the sleeping Coyote, puts it on the water, stretches it, weighs it with stones; when the Coyote wakes up, the ground is ready]: 223-224; Western ceres (Laguna): Boas 1928a: 9 [first water everywhere, then earth rose; waters subsided, Nautsit y 'i (Our Mother) and Itctsit y 'i (Thought-Woman) appeared], 221-222 [at the beginning Thought-Woman ) she lived on an island in the lower world, there was water around; she looked like a man; when people came to earth, it was dark, only the water was shining a little; the Thought Woman told the sun to rise in the north, west, south, finally, in the east; people went out, scattered across the land], 222-223 (Laguna) [Our Mother lived among the waters in the lower world; went to the middle of the south, where the Thought Woman asked who would work; Our Mother called two spiders, they went to the middle of the north, west, south, east, returned to Our Mother, who was sitting on a tiny island in the middle of the waters; she had a long fish tail, the Old Fire woman cut it off; Our Mother was in the white world among white waters; above was the red world, then blue, then yellow; Our Mother rose through four worlds, created man in our world; people rose up those made of fir notched prayer sticks], 224 [first Nautsit y 'i (Our Mother) and Itctsit y 'i (Thought Woman) were inside a balloon floating on the water, then the waters left, Our Mother and The Thought Woman was made of clay into four people, revived, covered with bison skin and then removed]; mojave: Bourke 1889 [the valley was under water; the woodpecker lived on the mountain for ten days; the water soaked his tail, now it was stained; it was dark, the whole earth was covered with water; Mustam-ho carried the Mojave Indians in their arms until the waters came down; the animals were like humans; M. reached the mouth of Colorado, the water retreated into the ocean]: 179; Kroeber 1972, No. 9 [people huddle on an island during a flood; Matambo walks in four directions, land gets bigger]: 9; yuma: Densmore 1932a [details unclear: Sun Father summoned the earth from under the water]: 5; Harrington 1908 [The ancestor interferes with water in the dark with his index finger; an island appears in the primary ocean]: 328, 332; series: Relatos Guarijíos 1995 [ first only the sky and the sea; marine animals are unsuccessfully trying to get the earth from the bottom; the turtle (caguama) dives, grabs a handful of sand, emerges in a month, almost all the sand has been washed by water, but a few grains of sand left; appears drier]: 61; (chapter on the series in Entre dos Vientos. Mexico, 1990?) [the pelican dives to the bottom, brings silt, and earth emerges from it]; maricopa [water floods the world; Cucumat and Isasipas (hereinafter also Sipas) sink to the bottom; I. emerges first K. replies that he kept his eyes open; K. goes blind from salt water; both swim on a log, gradually the water descends, but around the swamp; one of them digs a hole, pulls out sand, scatters it, the earth dries up; I. rolls her hair into a ball, puts it in the eastern sky, making the sun; out of the nail, the moon; puts it on different sides of the world, it slides off; when it goes west, it stays in the sky; throwing sand into the sky, creates stars; I. and K. make people out of clay, people K. have webbed fingers, he says that it is more convenient to take water to drink; I. says that it is more convenient for people to make their hands with a cup; I. and K. argue whose creations are better; K. falls into the ground in anger, breaks what he has created, throws fragments into the sea, from which ducks, beavers and other creatures with webbed legs emerge; failing, I. pulled along sky; left a hole in the ground, blood (i.e. diseases) flowed from it; I. covered the hole with his foot, but left a small stream to prevent people from becoming too numerous; now they sometimes get sick; I. gives tribes their customs; the Rabbit offended the Snake, I. gave the Snake poisonous teeth, she bit the Rabbit, he died; for this people decided to kill I.; the frog drank water from the reservoir where I. swam, he fell ill, died; the Coyote was sent to the sun behind the fire for the funeral fire, lit a fire in his absence; looking around, Coyote ran back, jumped over those around him, carried away and ate I.'s heart; I. waits for people to speak; The Indians of Southern California (Mission Indians) spoke first, then maricopa, then the others; the Chemewevi at night, so their speech is incomprehensible; Europeans last; they were crybabies; trying to calm them down, The creator made them richer than the Indians]: Spier 1933:345-352; cocopa [Sipa and Komat underwater like in a mother's womb; S. pushes K. the first one up, so he is two older; replies that the eyes must be discovered; he discovered it in the water, went blind; the brothers sent flying ants to dig land, land was formed; they began to make people, K. did better, he left, S. replaced them with his own; next time replaced him with his fox of a different kind; both times K. guessed it; S. wanted to put his eyes on his toes, K. wanted to put his eyes on his toes, K. wanted to put his eyes on his head; S. made the sun, but turned out to be pale; K. made it bright, let the sky go from east to west, Sun S. became the moon; S. replaced people again; K. furiously broke the sky, made a hole in the ground, went down, releasing smoke, lightning and everything that kills people, including diseases; Coyote annoyed his sister Snake; S. gave her poison, Coyote died; S. died, vomited four flowers, and she vomited edible wild plants ( comidas silvestres); Coyote was sent to the sun, at which time S.'s body was cremated; chants came out of it before the body burned down]: Olmos Aguilera 2005:75-79; papago: Kroeber 1912 [ Big Brother is born by the friction of darkness against water; creates earthworms from sea foam; worms collect more foam, the earth emerges from it]: 96; Olmos Aguilera 2005 [first only darkness and water, in them a child was born, felt for algae, made termites out of them, they collected more algae, earth arose; Heaven joined Earth three times, Big Brother, Coyote, Vulture were born; SB created people from chips ]: 155-156; pima [in the darkness of Djivut Maka (Shaman of the Earth) picked up a ball of clay from the bottom, threw it up, stood on it, began to sing, the lump grew, covered most of the water, the current ocean remained; land swayed, DM told the spider to braid it around the edges with a web, the earth was established; created two pimas and two Apaches, they spoke different languages, he resettled the Apaches, now those enemies; the son of DM Siöhö picked up a baby he liked in the village, left it under the bush; when he returned to this place, water was pouring from there, a flood began; the woodpecker clung to the sky with its beak, its tail was soaked; people fled to the mountains, turned into stones; Woodpecker, Coyote, DM and S. began to make new people out of clay; Coyote made one-legged, DM threw them into the sea; DM people could do everything, S. sent diseases out of envy; people asked Vulture for him kill; he made the water in the pond where S. bathed boiling, S. died; Vulture said that he would be reborn in four years; four years later S. came to his father, who began to reproach him for his attitude towards people; S. went underground, promising to send a new flood; it will come again]: Olmos Aguilera 2005:187-190; Valapai: Kroeber 1935:245-246 [one mountain rises in the primary ocean; then the water around him dries up; Matavilla cuts the reeds, turns the reeds into people, each reed is a special tribe], 247 [first the earth is covered with water; (the waters come down); the Coyote cuts the reeds, turns reeds to people of different tribes].
NW Mexico. Varigio: Gentry 1963 [Tata Dios pulls a handful of sand from the ocean floor, throws it across the water; sends the Pigeon to see if the land has hardened; returning for the fourth time, he replies that hardened]: 133; Relatos Guarijíos 1995 [there was no land, one sea; god and goddess descended, created land and everything that is edible in nature]: 17; tarahumara [God in heaven, water below; God created the earth by shaking the water (moviendo el agua) when it was hot; the foam surfaced, hardened, and became dry; others believe that the earth is a disk on four pillars in the manner of a chicken coop; God sent two pigeons; they came back with the leaves of the chimali plant and said that the earth was good for life; after that, God and his brother Atanasio went down to earth to create { what's on it}]: Mondragón et al. 1995:15-16; Huichol [earth arises from the reed bed of the gods on the surface of the ocean=underworld]: Preuss 1932:452; crust [goddess of earth creates gods rain, puts lakes (seas?) on the water ; they are dissatisfied, she sends them to heaven, twisting a rope out of her hair; they are dissatisfied again; she asks them to look for earth on their bodies; they roll a ball of mud, give it to the goddess; she puts a ball with two crosswise arrows tied by her hair and a snake; tells the rain gods to dance on the ground; this expands the earth]: Preuss 1912:57-61.
Mesoamerica Mixteks [at first only mud floats on the water; god and goddess Deer raised a rock into the sea; they put a copper ax upstairs to support the sky; their sons ask to make the earth bigger; after the flood Creator (re-makes earth and sky)]: Fray Francisco de Burgoa 1674 in Krickeberg 1928, No. 24:201-202 (text recorded at Cuilapa Monastery by Gregory Garcia; lengthy quote in Dahlgren de Jordan 1966: 259-260); lacandons [first was K'akoch; created earth, water, sun, moon, tuberose (essential oilseed, Polianthes L., Amaryllidaceae); Sukunkyum ("Our elder brother) was born from tuberose flowers Father", master of the lower world), Ah Kyantho, Hach Akyum ("Our Father"); the brothers told Our Father that his home was Palenque; he scattered sand across the swamp, the earth hardened, stones appeared]: Boremanse 1986:25; chol [Ch'ujtat brought the earth out of his heart like an orange on a branch; at first it was like the wind, the wind became a cloud, a cloud of water, mud, dirt with earth; put it in the four corners of the earth Three Chuntewinikes each support her; these people feed only on the smell of flowers and fruits; after that, C. cut off the umbilical cord that connected his heart to the ground; the earth was covered with vegetation; C. created the first people, smaller than the Chuntewinikes, but larger than the current ones, very smart; without needing anything, they forgot the creator; C. destroyed them with the flood, sent Vulture to see if anyone was left ordered him not to touch anything, but he ate the corpses; C. punished him by telling him to eat carrion; sent Gorlinka, she saw that there was blood everywhere, but some had escaped on rafts; after staining her feet with blood, she returned to C. ; he turned the survivors into monkeys; the foam of the flood turned into stones that were not there before]: Gebhardt Domínguez 2001:49-51; chorty [one angel wanted to cause an earthquake and began to shake Four pillars supporting the earth, but as a result it fell into the water; God became angry and told the angel to fix it; the angels began to pour earth into the water, but this made the earth even deeper; God at all became angry; finally, the San Reimundo angel took some land and threw it on the waters; the land immediately spread, covered the water and hardened]: Fought 1972:357-380 (brief retelling in Hull 2016:6); quiche [at first only waters and sky; Tepeu and Kukumac (Great Mother and Great Father) were in endless waters; they decided that the waters should retreat; they created the earth; first it was like dust, then mountains grew]: Popol-Vuh 1959, Part 1, ch. 1:10-11; shank [there is an idea of the primacy of water; then fish appear in the water; then the winds blew out and land appears]: López Ramírez 2007:93, 98-99.
Honduras-Panama. Eastern Panama (kuna?) [a parrot and a partridge bring land from the Sun Father's land (is the earth from the excrement of one of these birds?) ; they are still reluctant to descend from trees for fear of drowning (in flood waters?)] : Casimir de Brizuela 1972:60.
The Northern Andes. Kogi [water first; mother goddess drinks half the sea, land is exposed]: Reichel-Dolmatoff 1985 (2): 20; tunebo [primary ocean exists; Bistoa tells us to bring red, yellow , white, black land (the motive for land growth is unclear)]: Márquez, 1980:633, 646-651.
Llanos. Guayabero [at first there is water everywhere; Wamek sets fire to wax, it spreads through the water, forms earth; V. makes plants and animals; Laman is lazy; V. sends him for water; he sees reflection of two women sitting on a branch; they spit, he brought them home; they like V., they went to him; V. plays ball with his wives; L. brings a snake parrot, which takes the form of a ball; V. is bitten in the back of the head; three days later he comes to life; his grandmother is unhappy, refused to warm the water to rinse his mouth; V. goes to heaven, followed by his grandmother; L. goes underground with oinu perfume]: Schindler 1977a: 221- 222.
Guiana. Macushi: Amodio 1989, No. 5 [at first, only Paaba flew in the sky as a bird; sat on a plant protruding above the water; lowered his thumb into the mud, rolled a ball of stuck silt, played with it, threw it into the water; rivers were formed, along which the water of glass; land appeared]: 104; Farabee 1924 [Entcekerang's elder brother, the youngest is Anikě; turn the first bad people into stones; they notice the remains of various fruits on Aguti's teeth; they send Squirrel to trace; she finds a tree with all the cultivated plants on the branches; the brothers cut it down; A. tells the trunk to be firm on the side where E. cuts down; the tree falls, the brothers collect fruits on a mat; the water from the trunk floods the world, A. tells the sun to go out; the brothers climb two Maurutia flexuosa palm trees, throw seeds into the water; from which they arise new earth; A. tells the sun to shine again]; Brandao de Amorim in Goeje 1943, No. d29 [the deity's skin slipped off him to form the earth]: 117; aparai [world fire; animals escaped to the peaks mountains; only one man left, got married; water flooded the world; a new land fell from the sky, a new world grew out of it]: Rauschert 1967, No. 9:185.
Western Amazon. Siona, Sekoya: Cipolletti 1988, No. 5 [water floods the world (details and causes of the flood are not specified); God notices bubbles on the water, concludes that there is someone in the water; this is Little Battleship; God forgive him to dive, he brings some silt from the bottom on his back; God makes new land out of this silt; steps on it, the earth grows]: 57-58; Vickers 1989 [Lutayo and Rebao are Muhu's wives, they they made chicha; Baina quarreled with M., cut it in half, birds appeared from his blood; L. knocked over the vessels of boiling chicha, chicha flooded the world; B. told L. that he was water, shoved it deeper, pulled it out by the hair; The battleship dived, brought some land, put B. at his feet; B. stepped on this place, the land reappeared]: 158; cofan: Calífano, Gonzalo 1995, No. 2 [was only a small fraction of the land; Chiga (The Sun) placed a worm to eat it; from its excrement there was earth - a big island, then became even bigger], 3 [as in (2)], 4 [C. brought a lump of earth; then trees grew and appeared birds]: 69-70; (cf. Napo [the earth is in the middle of the waters, the sky is submerged in water]: Mercier 1979:63).
NW Amazon. Letuama [this world came from a handful of lower world land that four Ayas brothers (they're cuñados or Brothers of the Moon) placed on the water that flooded the world]: Palma 1984:51; uitoto [land originated from primary waters; its first inhabitants are monkeys and anteaters; the deity punishes them by populating the land with jaguars, snakes, etc.; this first generation was destroyed by a fire catastrophe; Bunaima (the great anaconda) met Na fuey (the first woman associated with the moon), who gave birth to a boy; on the fourth day it turned into a tree with sweet and bitter cassava, corn, peanuts and others on its branches cultivated plants; the mother collected these fruits, other people ate the ground; people found a tree, cut down; water poured out of the trunk, forming rivers; the branches formed schematic plants, mainly cassava; Var.: Bunaima -The owner of the Forest, Thunder, cuts down a tree himself with an ax to give people fruit and water]: Girard 1958:74-76; bora [water first; an anaconda man appeared and took a woman out of the water Matchutahemegua, then Mekheretchieieko, the Morning Star, who married Navene; Anaconda lived on a piece of land; he is eternal, lives under water; created the Sun, which later rose to heaven, his wife is the daughter of the Heron, his children are pineapple, peach palm, etc.]: Wavrin 1937:637.
Montagna - Jurua. Kashibo [Bari's creator god comes to our world; it's just water; throws the earth onto the waters, creating red, yellow, white layers of the earth; these layers are his sons; asks the Earthquake to run; that runs, the earth is cracking; B. reinforces the ground with log fittings; The earthquake is running again; reports that the earth is strong]: Frank et al. 1990, No. 1:44; machigenga [Irioshi (aka Tasurinchi, Taso'rintsi) lives in the sky, created all good things; Kenti'vakori is underground in a dark, smelly world surrounded by his disgusting creatures; created all bad things; water first; I. offers create land; K. does not dare; I. throws his rod into the water, the water is covered with an even crust; K. also throws something, but creates unusable, infertile areas of land (sand, clay, rocks); I. creates useful animals, useful plants, machigenga people; K. - harmful animals, demons, foreigners; if the earth were flat, it would be cut through numerous channels through which it can be cut it would be easy to swim anywhere; and now rivers flow down to where all the water at the edge of the earth falls into the abyss; if I. were the only creator, people would not die or suffer from heavy jobs; children would be born without sex and pain, like I.'s creatures in the sky (in particular star people)]: Baer 1984:237-241.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana [the owner of fire and earth is a toad (or a frog?) bururu (Leptodactylus pentadactylus labirinthicus Spix)]: Hissink, Hahn 1961, No. 5 [(San Buenaventura); during the flood, two Edutzi (Edutzi is the original ancestor; the name of one means acute wild pepper) in the form of parrots, a boy and a girl, cultivated plants were transferred to the top of the tree; animals also escaped there; after the flood, the land near mother earth, the Bururu toads; she did not give land, both educi- the parrot carried away some ground under their fingernails; this was used to make the ground, flew several times for a new portion; the fire is also near Mother Earth, Bururu toads; they asked to bake a corn cob, it retained a spark , they made a fire; the Toad tried in vain to fill it with urine; doing what was necessary for the children, the educzi flew into their world; var. 1 (Tumupasa); the land was small, slightly larger than the old toad Bururu, who was alone sat on it; kept fire in her mouth; two educzi (young men from another world) asked for land, she did not give it; they asked them to bake a corncob, stole a handful of land, scattered them on a sandbar, which then there was land; so twice, the earth grew; a dry tree was lit with a spark on the cob; var 2 (Tumupasa); during the flood, Bururu and Jujupueva (Steisshüner Art) were covered with earth, became masters of the land; two men escaped from the flood on the royal palm tree; saw the ground, hid it under their fingernails, created a new one; var 3 (Tumupasa); two men escaped from the flood at the top of the royal palm trees; below, the flood survived Bururu, kept fire in her mouth; men stole an ear with a sparkle, Bururu could not fill it with urine; brother and sister escaped from the flood at the top of the royal palm tree; after the flood saw smoke; asked Burura to bake bananas, stole fire; today's people were from this couple], 6 [a boy and a girl escaped during the flood on the royal palm tree; they noted on the trunk how the water was falling, rings are still visible; after the flood, the earth first looked like a sandbank, then larger; two arars brought a corn cob; the next day corn grew out of the grains; a boy and a girl asked the old woman Bake Bururu's toad on the cobs; she kept a spark in her mouth during the flood; she baked it; the next day, the arara was brought a banana sprout (the same); then cassava; the boy reached out to steal yam potatoes from Bururu's pot, the pot's throat grabbed his hand; the old woman was angry, but freed him, gave him tubers; there was a spark in the dry cobs Bururu baked, the children fanned the fire, and Bururu could not fill him with urine]: 42-43 , 43-45; chimane: Daillant 1995 [Dohichi, Micha are brothers; their sister Dobose invites them to heaven to drink their third brother Tsun 'a (the sun) to keep him at his zenith and prevent people from sleeping; it fails; D. and M. throw a balsa raft down, it grows, forms the ground; they cry, a vine emerges from their tears; D. goes down, M.'s vine breaks, he falls, breaks; D. He glues him together, but puts his head to the ass; D. and M. come to the frog women; D. took one, M. raped everyone at night, they urinate with blood in the morning; M. digs a tunnel east to the edge of the world, now to him the dead go there; D. pretended to be dead, covered with worms; the Frogs threw him into the river; he turned them into frogs, worms into fish; goes looking for M.; along the way he turns people into animals - arachnids monkeys, howlers, capuchins; asks parrots for feathers, they give on the condition that he does not imitate their voices; D. violates the ban, parrots take feathers, he falls on a tree, it becomes tall; The caterpillar lowers it, putting it on its back; when the ground is near, it makes it fall, it breaks its back; gets to a place where the sky beats against the ground; inserting a log, it slips into Mishá; steals one of his wives, she is pregnant; meets people on the way about to kill the one who kidnapped M.'s wife; D. turns them into arrow canes, bamboo, palm trees for making bows and tips; they climb the Manika River; the wife gives birth, D. turns her and the baby into salt; wants to establish a village in the center of the world, sends birds to explore; they return, reporting that the center is further in mountains; D. founded a village in the Andes (Var.: La Paz); left a footprint on a stone, this is a sign that salt is here]: 163-164; Hissink, Hahn 1989, No. 1 [Dohitt created the land as a raft on water; led see Kiri (moon) - his brother's wife, whose name is Mich; made a vine out of snot, went down to earth; K. climbed, the vine broke off, she fell; returned to heaven the next day; D. sent Hummingbird and another bird to scout where the end of the earth was; that bird returned quickly, the Hummingbird searched for a long time; D. marked the center of the earth with his footprint, but the Hummingbird said that the center was in the mountains; then D. here is a salt rock, and the village is in the mountains (var.: La Paz); where D. walked, the Beni River formed there; the Inigua River turned; the cry of an eagle frightened him, peed himself, formed a lake; walking on the ground, evil people turned them into animals; Cimane created from stone, carved the inhabitants of San Borja and others out of balsa; since then, people have spoken different languages; D. and M. come to women living without men; they lock them in at home; M. digs a tunnel to the end of the world; D. dies, women throw his wormy corpse into the river; he comes to life, turns them into frogs, their house into a rock; D. received feathers from birds, flew; feathers fell, he fell to the tree; the caterpillar lowered him; D. almost catches up with his brother; cuts a tree without noticing that M. is sitting on it; M. falls with his neck broken; D. puts his head to his ass; D. took the eldest of his brother's two wives, she pregnant; in Rio Pacena, he turned them into salt; asks people in the tree what they eat; they eat fruits, say they have their eggs; D. hit himself in the eggs with a stone, died; came to life, turned those people into monkeys; goes further, turned other humans into arachnids; in the same way created jaguars, agouti, wild pigs, birds, fish; jaguars ate almost all humans; D. turned jaguars into battleships, bakers, anteaters, but one escaped, turned the current ones from him; turned monstrous cannibal animals (huge duck, fish, snake, monkey, dog) into stone]: 60-63; guarai [according to Franciscan José Cardús, 1886; first water; the mbir worm, aka Mbirachucha, walked through high marsh waters; created people and land; then Zaguaguayu ("yellow feather crown") appeared, saying that he, Z., should have appeared earlier than M.; began to make different people earlier than M. in both dry and digital forms (systematization of data, probable dating), these are the names of human figures, all were not suitable, he broke them; Finally, he created Alaangui ("the man with his nose fallen off"), who had a saggy nose so long that he beat it off; the fourth character, who was at the beginning of time, is Candir; A., M. and K. created the world, although the Guaraya themselves consider Z. their ancestor; the Guarais come from A., the Brazilians from M., the blacks from K.; Z. retired to where there is no sky and sun]: Grubb 1924:185-187.
SE Brazil. Sheta [rain floods the earth; a person asks birds to get a new one; sapakura (ibis) and sarakura birds bring some clay or soil in their beaks, throw it into the water; earth dries up; where the earth fell, mountains appeared; before the flood, the land was smooth; Ducks showed the man the lake where the girls were swimming; he grabbed one of them, married them; Sheta were their floods]: Borba 1904 in Koch -Grünberg 1921, No. 78:212-213; kaingang [water flooded the ground, Mount Krinjijinbe remained; the people of the Kaingang, Kayurukre and Kame groups swam, holding smoldering smut in their teeth to keep the fire; kayyurukre and kame drowned, got into the mountain, began to live there; the kaingang climbed the mountain, some on the trees on the mountain; the sarakura birds (Aramides saracura) began to sing, brought baskets of soil, poured to the water, ducks came to their aid; a plain arose; those who climbed the trees became monkeys; they began to fill the ground from the east, so the rivers flow west to Parana; kayyurukre and kame climbed to the surface on different sides of the mountain; the kame's legs were injured, they were swollen, now their legs are big and their kayurukre are small; shaman Kaiyurukre made jaguars from coal and ash; when he made tapirs, he was left alone ash; told them to eat meat; the tapir ears were small, the tapirs were asked again, the shaman was sculpting another animal, telling them to eat leaves and grass; by morning the shaman did not have time to finish the anteater, so he no teeth; Kaiyurukre made good animals, including bees, and Kame bad animals so that they could defeat Kaiyurukre's created: puma, venomous snakes, wasps; after learning that jaguars devour humans, Kaiyurukre and Kame threw a log across the river; when the jaguars entered the bridge, Kame pushed the log; got scared, let the parts go; kayyurukre, kame and kaingang set rules for the exchange of marriage partners]: Borba 1904:57f in Koch-Grünberg 1921, No. 77:209-212 (Russian per. Siebert 1972:134-137; French retelling by Ploetz, Metraux 1930:212-213).
Chaco. Nivakle [the earth came from red and brown algae, began to grow, first saturated with water, only clay; a stone fell, it made mountains; the earth continued to grow, dried up, cracked, Rivers flowed from the cracks; only there was a forest in the sky; the dove brought branches from the sky, scattered branches, then seeds; after the rain they sprouted, the earth changed color from white to red; insects started in the forest turned into animals; the Stork and his wife, the bird Chaja, were the first to live on earth; their son and daughter got married, gave birth to people]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 40:111; matako [god throws some land on water surface]: Calífano 1974:35; toba-pilaga [first one water; Lapichí (the constellation responsible for the ripening of wild fruits) prevented, rubbed between and made it hard land; created the Paraguay River with a stick on his shoulder - the water followed it; threw a bottle tree into the river, it turned into a (mythical) water creature Lek, swallowing people; met Nowaikalachigí shot at a big fish, the water rose; L. noticed N.'s wool, picked it up, rubbed it, it turned into mosquitoes; there is another world underground, there are also people and the sky - three skies; fire is burning, because of this, the earth is like burnt brick; L. is watching this fire; there are no trees there and houses are made of iron]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989a, No. 78:113-114.
Southern Brazil. Mbia [Nhandé Ru Pa-pá tenondé (the first in the world) sat in the dark; two winds came in, it dawned a little, N. saw water all around; the winds blew and dried the earth; N. got up, did stick, worked for six days creating the world; decided to make a forest; created a tree, all branches of which were trees of different types; they bore fruit, N. planted them, all the trees that were there grew; second ancestor, Nhandé Chy tenondé; he has three sons - Tupã in the west, Karaí Ru Eté in the east, and Jakairá-Mirim at its zenith; Nhandé Ru Pa-pá tenondé and Nhandé Chy tenondé live in the fifth, highest sky; T. taught farming, gave seeds; they harvested in three days, and now they are yielding in three months]: Baldus 1952:483.
The Southern Cone. South Tehuelches: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 22 [first one water; Elal fires arrows that break through riverbeds, water flows down], 23 [first one water, E. threw a stone where it fell, the water dried up], 24 [first one water, E. dried the earth], 62 [first one water; first there were other people who lived before us (i.e. sea lions, birds, etc.); this world of ours was created by Elal]: 36, 37, 37, 105.