B3D. Worm excrement. 21.-.25.50.61.
Theearth is retrieved by a worm, it arises from the worm's excrement, extracted from the worm.
Mikir, Mizhi, Limbu, Zeme, Bru, Tharu, Santaly, Munda, Bondo, Baiga, Gonda, Agaria, Semangi, Kayan, Bahau, Sulod, Paywan, Chemeuevi, Kofan.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mikir: Stack, Lyall 1908 [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 Hāyó ng, 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; sent the king of earthworms, he processed this piece, it kept growing, turned into earth; blacksmith Kā práng dried the earth with furs]: 70-71; Lyall 1909:70-72 in Mandal 2009 [the gods Hèmphū and Mukráng placed four pillars on the edges of the future land, tied them with their mother's hair; steel think where to get the land; a hundred gods and their wives decided to send the god Bamon's wife to another world to the god Hajong, but he did not; on the way back, Bamonpi (i.e. B.'s wife) picked up worm excrement; sent After the king of earthworms Helong Recho, he turned the particle into a mainland; it was soft and wet, the blacksmith Kaprang dried it; to get plants, they sent for Rekbepi, which is at the pillar that at sunset; she came and sowed plants; Pithe and Pothe ("great mother" and great "father" helped H. and M. create animals; first an elephant, then a tiger; the first man created was Bamonpo, he created two wives, one mikir and the other assamka; they did not give birth for a long time; then the Assamka sent her husband to her brother, who gave his wives two oranges; on the way back, while B. was swimming, the crow took one orange; the Mikir wife was left without an orange, but ate the peel and gave birth to a son Ram; the assamka gave birth to a son Chaputi; R. was strong, C. was weak; R. found an egg, brought it, and the girl came out of it; demons tried to steal it, but R. returned and married, she gave birth to many children, their descendants were Hindus; decided to build a tower to heaven; gods and demons were afraid that these giants would take away their sky; they mixed languages, people went apart sides]: 78-79; miji [Shuzanghu met Zumiang-Nui, who gave birth to a Sky Boy and a Earth Girl; they had no place, they fell down, they were swallowed by the Phangnalomang worm; when Z. gave birth to her second child , S. made a platform for him; M. wanted to swallow it too, but was trapped; S. cut it, extracted Heaven and Earth; they married, gave birth to two mountain gods; after that Heaven and Earth were divided; in In the course of this, the Earth gave birth to two more children in the form of frogs; they got married, had a son and a daughter; they were like humans but covered in hair; they had three sons]: Elwin 1958a, No. 5:13-14; limbu and ( or) rai [Ninvaphu came out of the void; he gave birth to two creator gods Poromibhu and Yambhamiphu and told them to build land; they prepared dishes decorated with the sun and moon; pulled them out of the void white and black naga, wrapped around the vessel and began to pull back and forth, smelling emptiness; the water element appeared, then the sky and clay at the bottom; N. created a worm to turn clay into soil; created stars and planets, told the sun and moon to go out one by one; created vegetation; created a bird, a fish, a snake; the bird flew away, the fish dived into the water, the snake crawled into the gap; then N. created various animals; created man from diamond, but could not put his soul into him and make him speak; then P. and Y. brought moss from the south, and ash from the north, mixed, sculpted two human figures; N. breathed soul into them, they came to life, spoke; N. was angry: let them be short-lived as moss and ash]: Shrestha 2019:467-469; zeme [the text is called "The Birth of Spirits"; there was no land, a tarot leaf floated on the water; Bangklawong fell from the sky, said that if his foot did not touch the water, he would be king; one leg was on a leaf and the other fell into the water; he realized 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 do it; for this he asked that a thousand people die every day to be eaten by him; B.: but then people will not remain; CC: but every day a thousand will be born; went down to the bottom, began to do worm casts (what the worm leaves on the sand or soil, like a cast of a worm) until land appeared; raven (mr., crow, but perhaps a crow) leveled it, but when he began to level the hills, he was tired, so there are rocky hills and there are plains; in a dream, Tingwong came to B. and told B. to cut off two fingers hands, one would have a wife, the other would be a sister; the sister did everything so quickly that she returned, bringing water, before B. could retire with his wife; then B. scattered katsing seeds in the grass and ordered her sister collect everything, otherwise she would hack her machete (dao); she completed the task and entered when B. was copulating with his wife; this sight excited her so much that she was going 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, lay her eggs there; she laid 8 eggs at the waterfall, left a machete, planted a banana, and told the gibbon to guard; Katsingpeo was the first to hatch, but he got scared and climbed back; the second was Tsiuperai; then K. came out again, they began to argue who was first and in charge; five more eggs hatch, one remained intact; T. found a banana and a machete, cut down a banana with them, gave everyone a banana, but Gibbon quietly took them for himself; T. hit Gibbon with a machete, smeared blood on his and his brothers' eyes, and now they had sight; the brothers thought that the last egg was spoiled, threw it into the river; they 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 she crawled far; the brothers flew to her mother in the form of crows; when she saw 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 hatches from it will be wiser and stronger than the others; he was born a boa constrictor; to determine who was in charge of the seven, the mother sprayed milk from her breasts; the jet went to K., but turned and hit T.'s mouth, and from him back to K, and then to the rest]: http://www.nagajournal.com/category/arts-literature/folktalesstories/ Nagajournal Oct 27, 2013.
Burma - Indochina. Bru [three brothers caught frogs; they hear them say that animals will soon gather to judge a man; the brothers let the frogs go, the elder goes to a meeting with the old frog, hides in a hollow; animals accuse each other of being guilty to man; only frogs man destroys innocently; the frog promises that there will be a flood; animals run away; the frog tells brothers make a raft; water floods the fire, brothers want to fry crab, swim to the Sun's house; the eldest fell in love with the daughter of the Sun, baked the crab to black; now visible in the sun with a black crab in his hands; raft descended on bare rocks; an older brother threw a tree trunk with two termites and two earthworms from the sky; termites and worms turn wood into soil, brothers plant rice; younger brother studies magic, meets an old woman, turns him into a beauty; the middle brother fell in love with the bride, took her younger brother on his magic horse; contrary to the warning, he galloped him, which caused the earth to catch fire, mountains and the sea formed, a horse and riders jumped to the moon, can now be seen there; a pumpkin has grown in the fire, brought one fruit; the ancestors of peoples came out of it; their skin is darker or lighter, depending on who smeared more with charcoal; some of their hair caught fire, became curly; taoi, vankieu, ede, sedang, banar, viets came out; the younger brother became the Spirit of the Earth, told everyone where to live and what to do (vietu - better lands), ascended to heaven]: Nikulin 1976:186-195 (=Vietnamese tales 1992:174-182).
South Asia. 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; after 15 months, a lotus leaf appears in the form of pumpkins are the first ancestor of Tharu Aklākal Gurubāba; the heavenly couple puts vitality into his head, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hands, hair, lower body, he takes on a human form; from his nails creates a Pigeon, he flies over the waters, does not find land; G. cuts his thigh, Raini fish comes out of the cut; it disappears, the pigeon cannot find it, G. tells pigeons to be 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, he is grabbed by the shell demon, Crab loses land; G. orders crabs to be caught, baked, eaten; in the same way he creates 8 other crabs, all the same as the first; creates earthworms; the first three do not overcome prickly hedges, G. tells them to feed on earth and water; the fourth penetrates thorns, swallows the earth; on the way back, the demon cuts it into a thousand pieces, but the worm still delivers the earth, it gives it to the world stability; 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, tells him to go find out how far the earth stretches; she does not return for so long that G. tells her to hold the sky and the lower world; the same with the pine tree, her Not longer, G. tells her to live in the mountains, where her resinous fumes will smell fragrant on Mount Kailash; G. cuts her thigh again, his daughter Dharmak Diyeri is born; to contain her, places four saints m āini around the edges of the world, retires to the forest himself as a hermit; D. wants to join him, tells the blacksmith to make her a belt, ring and iron shoes to overcome the barbed fence; but G. puts her on her way to him a rope for carrying weights, an oil press, a weapon, a pig bristle bridge; D. overcomes everything, marries G.; after that G. is called Mahādeo]: Krauskopff 1987:14-16; santals : 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 horse came down from above and trampled 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 on the way back it was washed away; The shrimp (prawn) is the same; the Raghop Boar (Buar) fish is the same (it has no scales since); the Crab is the same; the Earthworm asked the Turtle to be ready; he took the ground from the bottom, put it on its back The turtle; 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 failed, swallowed the Crab, fell out, drowned again; Prince Turtle was found in the water, chained by the feet; Prince Earthworm brought land, placed it on the Turtle; then TJ grew wood and grass on the ground]: 8; Culshow 1949 [water 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 is the Turtle; the Worm asked to put a golden dish on the Turtle's back, promised swallow the earth at the bottom and empty his stomach on a dish; he did so, the ground was uneven, T. tried to level it, the sea flooded the lowlands; T. created two geese from the seeds of the sirom grass - a female and a male, Hans and Hansil (Goose and Gander); they laid two eggs in the grass, and humans 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 them to dry in the sun; Shinsadom's horse flew in with flapping its wings broke the figures; M. made new figures, asked T. to revive them; T. sent her for souls, but M. brought not human souls, 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 cancer, and the Lenden worm lived in the water; S. and K. could not lift the ground; L. began to throw away grains 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. began to throw the earth on the turtle shell, an island was formed; T. grew there is a Kadam tree and Syrom grass; Hansa and Hansini built a nest of grass; Hansiner laid two eggs, the beast ate them to Raghopab; T. sent his servant J. to guard the eggs; a boy and a girl hatched from them; children grew up, T. created a cow and two calves for them; taught the young man how to make a plow and plow the land, he started farming; Maranburu (a 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 sons with him, and the mother of daughters; girls and boys met, began to live in pairs; their parents also reconciled and came to live with them; 7 clans went from 7 siblings]: 567-570; bondo: Elwin 1950 [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 ]: 136-137; 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 a floating basket containing her brother with sister, 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; Mundari: Roy 1912 [at the beginning, water is everywhere; sun god Sing-bonga sent the Turtle, Crab, Leech to bring clay from the bottom; the Turtle and the Crab could not, the Leech brought it, S. created land out of it; the Swan laid an egg, and 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; they gave birth to three sons, who went across the country]: v-vi; Roy 1916:201-214 in Osada 2010 [the earth is covered with water, there are no stars in the sky; The Old One created aquatic animals; told Crab to bring earth from under the water; he dived to the bottom, but while he was rising, the ground was washed away from his claws; the same with the Turtle (the earth was washed away from the surface of the shell; the Earthworm swallows the earth, pops up, regurgitates into the palm of the Old Man; he makes the earth big, creates land and everything on it; sculpts the figure of a man out of clay; before he can put his soul into it, the Horse came and trampled on the figure; The old man tried again, and this time the Tiger drove the Horse away, preventing it from approaching the figure; the Old Man cursed the Horse, people would put iron in its mouth, sit on horseback, hit the rump; the Tiger was rewarded making him strong, everyone will be afraid]; van Exem 1982:24-29 in Osada 2010 [{apparently Mundari, because it coincides with the previous text}; first water alone, Haram first created aquatic creatures; told Crab to bring the earth from the bottom; he took the earth into his claws, but while he was rising, the water washed it away; H. sent the Turtle, which put the earth on its 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 broke it; H. tried again, and this time the Tiger drove the Horse away without letting it get closer to the figure; H. cursed the Horse, people will put iron in her mouth, sit on horseback, hit the ball; Tiger rewarded by making him strong, everyone will be afraid of him]; 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 put the earth on its shell, took the Crab with ticks, but when they rose, the water washed away the earth; sent the mother -Worm, Leech Mother, they drank the earth, spewed it out, urinating, earth arose; they created stone and wood to decorate the earth; sculpted a human figure out of clay, left it to dry in the sun; for beauty they made a winged horse; a winged horse came from the east, came from the west, they trampled on the figure; they made a male dog named Chaura, a female dog Baura, put on guard; they drove away the winged the horse that came from the east was driven away by the one that came from the west; text B is almost identical]; baiga [at the beginning it was 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 to 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 reached the sky; the Raven calls the Turtle his older brother, the Turtle calls the Raven his younger sister; says that the earth was stolen by the worm Gichnaraja, he is at the bottom of the sea; 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 frightened of the Worm, hid behind the Crow; the worm itself was frightened when The crow promised to beat him, lied that Dano had land, who would burn those who came; the emboldened Turtle grabbed the Worm by the neck, who regurgitated 21 times; each portion of the land was named differently, starting with his mother- land ending with virgin land (white, red, nice, 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 Bhagavan; he summoned a virgin, she knocked down the ground in a vessel of leaves for 8 days and 9 nights; B. threw the earth into the waters, it grew, became dry; at first the earth was wet and slippery; B. called the Wind and Bhimsen; The wind dried the earth, but when they stood on one side, the other rose; Bhimsen walked, created mountains, valleys; Nanga Baigin (Nang Baigi's wife) drove four nails into the corners, the ground established (but the earth itself is round, p.330)]: Elwin 1939:308-316; gondas [Mahadeo swam on a lotus leaf; rolled a ball of mud on his body, created 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 for a loan of land; they gave them a drink, prepared to run away, carry the land; but the Crab woke up, squeezed them out of the ground, gave them to the Raven; she brought M., he placed the earth in 7 cups of leaves, ordered the Spider to entangle the ocean with cobwebs, put the cups on a web, 7 types of land appeared: black, red, milky, barren, gravel, virgin, swampy; M. asked Bhimsen to check if the earth was hard; his legs began to get stuck, he lay down, 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 the Raven out of the worn mud, ordered the land to be brought; the Raven saw the Crab protruding from the water, leaning against the bottom; sat Crab on his back, the mark remained; for the fact that the Almighty made his body firm, the Crab agreed to dive, brought an earthworm, which regurgitated the ground; 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, who rolled the ball, placed it on the water, land appeared]: 29-30; agaria [Bhagavan put a lotus leaf on the water, but it withered in the sun; created a world from lac (?) , but he broke; having rolled the dirt off his chest, created a crow, gave him his milk, sent him to look for land; tired, the Raven fell on the Kakramal Kshattri crab; he dived, found Nal Raja and Nal Rani sleeping; the crab squeezed NR's throat, forcing the earth to regurgitate, brought it to Bhagavan, who created land; to prevent Mother Earth from wobbling, the first agaria placed 12 iron pillars at the four corners of the world]: Elwin 1949, No. 1:27-28.
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 sky worm excrement fell on its back from the sky, and the snake turtle itself or A carrier bird that descended from the sky knocked sea foam into a ball; the substance extracted from the sky and the sea became Earth on the back of the snake turtle]: 33-34; dayaki (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 - the ancestors of 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 growth plants]:? : 117-119; kayan [first bare rocks; the rain has grown moss, worms and dung beetles, their excrement created the soil; the handle of the sword fell from the sky from the sun, became a tree; fell from the month the vine (masculine) wrapped around him; the tree and vine gave birth to the first man and woman; they had no bodies below the waist; they gave birth to ancestors of nations]: Hose 1912:137-138; kayan [from heaven to the primary ocean a rock fell; the top remained above the water; under the influence of rain, silt formed on the surface, worms sharpened the rock, sand appeared; then the wooden handle of the sword fell from the sun, which became wood, and from the moon - a vine wrapped around the tree; the vine became the husband of a tree, they gave birth to two twins with no bodies below the waist; yet they gave birth to real people; animals, birds and fish arose from twigs and leaves wood; moss and small plants emerged from the silt on the rock surface]: Furniture 1899:6-13 in Stöhr, Zoetmulder 1965:38, more briefly in Dixon 1916:158-159, in Hatt 1949:34-35; Bahau [two a man in the sky plucked each other's eyebrows, dropped their forceps, they fell on a rock in the middle of the sea; a worm emerged, left its excrement on the forceps; the crab scattered them, the rock was covered with earth; the forceps let go the roots became a tree with copper foliage; the heavenly spirit Uwang found a hole in it, fertilized it; a male shoot and a female shoot grew on the tree, they had no arms or legs; the inhabitant of the earth tried to kill a leech with a sword, hit the trunk; men and woman were injured but were able to meet; gave birth to Bahau ancestors; the copper tree continued to grow and sprout; so evil spirits appeared, then good spirits, then gods, and at the top the supreme god amei Tingei]: Nieuwenhuis 1917:57 in Stöhr, Zoetmulder 1965:41.
Taiwan - Philippines. Sulod [there was only heaven and sea; giantess Bayi put a worm in the palm of her hand; excrement fell out of it, began to grow, earth arose; B. became pregnant with her husband Laki, began to give birth; from her fingers hands - all wild ungulates, toes - all aquatic creatures, calves - pets and birds, hips - wild birds, genitals - three boys (hereinafter, a retelling of the biblical story of nudity Noah and the ancestors of three groups of nations)]: Eugenio 1994, No. 30:80-81; Paywan: Egli 1989, No. 17 [during the flood, people escaped on the mountain; sent a bird to search for land; it found a place where excrement was made of excrement worms arose a new land; people began to live there]: 47; Ho 1967, No. 93 [brother and sister escaped during the flood, clinging to the grass; excrement fell from the worm cut in half and formed a mountain; brother and sister got married, but their first children were blind, freaks; the next ones became less ugly and the latter were born healthy and normal; so incest is now banned]: 267-268; Whitehorn, Earle 2003 , No. 53 [everything was flooded during the flood; little brother and sister escaped by clinging to the grass; half a worm was there; every time the worm defecated, a hill appeared; there was no fire; a lizard (?) brought a burning head with it in her mouth; brother and sister grew up; found sweet potato, tarot and millet; finding no other marriage partners, they got married; the first child was blind, without arms or legs, the second better the third is normal; so brother and sister are not marrying now], 68 [the Taruvar monster is on the plain, all the waters fell into its mouth; when this mouth was closed, water began to arrive, flooding low mountains; only three high mountains remained above the water; the people gathered on Mount Yumapalapalai had no fire; they sent a munjak deer to Mount Palasidang; he swam back and forth and brought fire; when Taruwara's mouth opened again (was unblocked), the water subsided; there were still hanging worms in the trees, the chiefs began to feed them; worm excrement formed the soil; so there is soil, and the land is Owned by leaders - after all, they fed worms]: 239-240, 302.
Big Pool. Chemewevi [The Woman of the Sea 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 by rolling them into a ball, makes a Coyote; that runs around the ground to see if it is big; then JM creates Wolf and Puma; because Wolf is smart and Coyote is reckless, it is decided that Wolf will be the elder brother]: Laird 1974a:20.
Western Amazon. Cofan: Calífano, Gonzalo 1995, No. 2 [was only a small fraction of the earth; Chiga (The Sun) placed a worm to eat it; its excrement gave rise to earth, a big island, then became another more], 3 [there was nothing, only a river; a worm lived in a tiny piece of land; it ate the ground and its bowel movements formed an increasing amount of it, and vegetation grew on it]: 69-70.