B4. Fished land. 19.20.38.40.41.

Islands or mainland are caught in the ocean, pulled by a rope.

Melanesia. Mailu, Koil off the coast of New Guinea were considered caught and 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, Aneityum, "many islands known to the inhabitants of Efate", in the New Hebrides; New Caledonia, Ouvea and Mare in Loyalty. Lessa 1961 [list of sources, including Gehberger 1950:753]: 319; Loyalty Islands (Lifou) [the man began to throw the hook, pull out the islands; from the south he pulled Ouvea, from the west New Caledonia, from east Mare; when he threw his fishing rod north, the forests were cut off; the inhabitants of Lifou did not know about the existence of the New Hebrides]: M'Farlane 1873:20 (=Hadfield 1920:106); Santa Cruz [Mosigsig lived in Utupua; threw off the breadfruit, it turned out to be rotten, hollow, M. made a boat out of it; contrary to his mother's prohibition, he sails to where Santa Cruz is now, catching and bringing larger and more dangerous fish and clams; 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; for the last time he pulls Santa Cruz from the bottom; his younger brother is scared, ran, so the cape near the lagoon is too long]: Coombe 1911:192-194; Aneityum: Codrington 1881 [Aneityum was considered to be fished]: 296; Humphreys 1926 [Inhugaraig went to sea on a tree leaf nesiaig to fish; pulled out the island, it was Aneityum, I. lodged a man and a woman there]: 112.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Satawan (Truk County, Carolina) [a woman on Kuttu Island, she has five sons; she dives secretly from them, visits an island below Kuttu; her youngest son secretly follows her; when she sees him, she says that now he must die, asks her to be buried in a certain place; when he returns, the boy catches a fishing rod with his brothers, catches cooked food, then coconuts, then an entire atoll; brothers they took away the youngest's food, coconuts; they agree to go to the mother's grave, ask who will own the island; the mother replies that the youngest son, because the elders have already received theirs]: Mitchell 1973, No. 4:23-26; o- va Truk [Morub has five sons, only the youngest takes care of his father; the evil spirit has a fruit tree; the youngest picked up rats in the bag, climbed the tree for fruit; the spirit came, the younger one poured out rats, the spirit got scared and ran away, the youngest went down, returned home; the other brother decided to do the same, picked up rats but dead; the spirit did not pay attention to them, climbed a tree, the younger brother came, frightened the spirit alive rats, saved the elder; when M. died, the brothers went fishing, caught nothing; the younger one fished, threw it back, fished the larger one, threw it away again, fished the land for the third time; the brothers took everything for themselves; the youngest demanded that the father decide; at the grave, the elder called his father, he did not respond; when the younger one called, the father ordered everything to be given to the youngest]: Bollig 1927:236-237; Yap [the plot is best known from o- Wow Truk do Yap, the most commonly mentioned island of Fais; also in Palau, Ponapa, Mokil and the Marshall Islands]: Mitchell 1973:245; Uliti (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 [Fais, Galap (Palau?) were considered fishing in Micronesia. , Ayai, Mili], 318 [motive known in the Carolinas, Marshall Islands, Gilbert Islands], 319 [source list]; Gilbert Islands [land fished by Spider's son Nareau Maturang]: Poignant 1967:74; Tokelau Islands (Fakaofo) [Maui First Brothers, Maui Middle, Maui The Last lived in Tonga, sailed to fish; Maui I's hook caught on the coconut root, he became pull, pulled Fakaofo Island; swam on; Maui Middle's hook caught, he pulled Nukunono Island; Maui the Last to Atafu Island; Earth and Sky 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, began to push him away, took a tree, pushed the sky away like a sixth; then the winds called for help at the 12th corners of the earth; 12 winds raised sky to its current height]: Burrows 1923:153; Futuna (Herronan, in Vanuatu) [there is a story that the island was caught]: Lessa 196:319; Futuna [Te-Aili-Ito, servant (porter) Maui-Alonga, told him that in the depths of the sea there are flocks of fish, i.e. islands; M. fished the island, jumped on it, began to make it flat; then fished a few more; however, M. was active only at night; it began to dawn, at the last on the island, i.e. Futuna, M. only managed to make a few springs, but it remained mountainous]: Burrows 1936:26; Fr. Wallis (Uvea) [Tangaloa descended from the sky to Uvea, fished the surrounding small islands out of the sea]: Burrows 1937:161-162; Fiji [at first only water and sky; the gods lived in Bulota, where under They drank cava with wood (Tree of Speech); Maui decided to lower the boat, sailed far from Buloto with his two sons, fished Fiji, then Tonga, Niue, Haabai, Vavau and other islands]: Fison 1894:139-146; Samoa [Tangaloa turned the stone into a woman, she gave birth to a daughter Tuli ("plover"); her father sent her to the ground, Tuli came back saying that there was only water below; Tangaloa either threw a stone from the sky on the water, or he fished it from the bottom; the stone grew to become earth; to give shade, Tangaloa threw the seed, the vine grew; Tuli said that there were no people on the ground; her father advised her to tear out the vine; it rotted, and there were larvae, two from them to men; one got hurt while fishing and died; Tangaloa made his body feminine, revived his body; people come from this couple; Tangaloa gave them tarot and other useful things]: Makemson 1941:59-606; Tonga: Brown 1910 [Maui or Tiitii (who extracted fire from the underworld by defeating the Earthquake) came to Manu'a to ask for a fishing hook; he was not at home, Maui got along with his wife, she advised me to ask for an old and dirty hook, not a shiny one; Maui caught Samoa with it, but did not have time to build this land, because Manua rushed after him when he learned of his wife's infidelity; Maui ordered to name it his son from his wife Manua Tong and gave the same name to another islands caught; he made them flat, but Samoa remained mountainous]: 366-367; Collocott 1924 [Maui Motua ("The Elder") sent in a boat to catching the islands of Maui High, 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]: 278-279 (translated in Permyakov 1970, No. 142:365-368); Mangareva [Maui is the youngest eighth brother, others They envy him; they don't take him to fish, he hides in a boat for the first time in the guise of a rat, then as a lizard; for the first time he is given a piece of bait, he catches a big fish; at home, his blind grandfather gropes it and says that she is perfect; the second time M. cuts off his ear, catches the ground with trees with this bait; when she pulls it up, she goes under water; the grandfather explains that M. did not receive what he needed instructions]: Buck 1938:310-311; The Marquises [Maui-tiki-tiki is the youngest of seven Maui brothers; the brothers made a boat, fished, then hooked a mountain, pulled Toka Eva Island; then Maui got it fire at Mahuike; to dry his clothes, M. caught the Sun in a snare of human hair, since then the world has been light; Tai-ana-e-Vau stole M.'s wife; he made a dove, climbed into it, flew to the kidnapped; she recognized M., fed the bird; at night, M. took a human life, took T.'s club, called him, killed him, took his wife home]: Handy 1930:103; Mangaia [Vatea began fishing on a giant hook by planting a star on him, caught nothing; then he planted meat on him from his thighs; pulled Tongareva Island; hung the hook in the sky, this is the Scorpio constellation; otherwise, it is not Vatea's hook, but Maui]: Gill 1876:48; Manihiki [Iku lived in Rarotonga, was fishing, noticed Manihiki Island at the bottom, could not catch it; began to catch Maui with his two older brothers and sister; the older ones only caught it fish, M. - island; I. tried to kill M., chased them; M. drowned, the island almost split in two; Scorpign constellation - "Maui hook"]: Gill 1876:72-74; Samoa, Tonga, Mangaia , Tahiti, Marques, Mangareva, Tuamotu [(various fishing options for individual islands and archipelagoes in general)]: Williamson 1933 (1): 33-37; Rotuma: Polinskaya 1986: No. 6 [Lou's wife (son of Tangaroa) gave birth to two sons and then had a miscarriage; Moea-Tikitiki's neonoska raised a wea bird, sent her to her parents; Lou goes somewhere secretly; M. watches him; Lou lifts a stone, descends into a hole in the ground; M. looks through the hole, sees Tonga below, goes down, finds himself in a tree, throws fruit at his father; he tries to destroy him by sending him for fire to old man; M. defeats the old man, brings fire; next time he descends with his two brothers, M. catches the land of Tonga; Tangaroa is angry, placed the brothers in the sky (three stars of the Belt Orion)]: 55-57; Churchward 1937 [two sisters on earth, the eldest Lou; underground was Tonga, where the couple had a son, Mafi; he went to earth, married Lou; they have sons Moea Motua, Moea Langon, in third miscarriage; Marie-ki-Langa's woman came down from the sky to steal blood, called wea (quail) for help, she chirped, it rained, washed off the blood; MKL and vea took the baby to heaven, called Moea Tiktic; McL sends him to steal food from his real mother; one day warns that his father has ambushed him; he catches MK, the couple is happy; MT watches his father, sees him lift the stone, disappeared under him; MT descends 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, her father is not happy; 2) behind fire to his parents; grandfather throws MT, he falls to his feet; MT throws up 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 land with his father; catches fish with his brothers, pulls Tonga to the surface with his grandfather and grandmother's house; they themselves are carried away by the current; the brothers are looking for other people, finding only Tupu-a-Rosi; he doesn't know their names; when he becomes a spider, he begins to descend on Moea Motua'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); Bellona, Rennell: Elbert, Monberg 1965, No. 31A (Rennell) [Mautikitiki arose from his father's bowel movements 'Ataganga; he bandaged his loincloth at night with a bandage, the place where the hoe joins the handle; M. hid the bandage; A. is angry; peeking through the mat, M. sees A. lifting the reed bush, hiding in a hole; in the lower world, the guns themselves they cultivate the site; daughter A. comes to look for her father in his head; A. realizes that M. is spying, because the work suddenly stops; A. pulls M. off the tree, cuts it in half; daughter A. cries; then A. revives M . with ants; taking revenge on his father, M. causes a storm; swims into a lodva with two younger brothers, hooks Rennell Island], 33 (Rennel) ['Atahangahenua has Mautikitiki's son; A. every night somewhere leaves, wearing his work loincloth; M. hides it; in the morning A. found it; M. secretly follows his father; he picks up a reed bush, goes underground; there diggers and fire cultivate the fields themselves; work suddenly stops, A. realizes that M. is peeking while sitting on a tree; A. cuts down a tree, it falls, M. is crushed to pieces; when daughter A. looks for her father in her head, her tears fall on him; A. agrees to revive M.; M. and his two younger brothers sails away in a boat, his hook clings to something, he pulls out Rennell Island; the brothers are angry with M. that he ate their fish (M. himself caught the island, not fish) that killed their father, who fell and died; M. offers the brothers to get tridacna; she swallows one brother first, then the other; M. is also swallowed, but turns the tridacna over, comes out; brothers dead; turning {apparently all three along with M.} into Orion's Belt], 39 (Bellona) [Mautikitiki wanted to pull Rennell out the front, east, but the hook slipped off, she fell, so the low seat and the lake in the east of the island, and the rear, western part is high]: 110-112, 114-116, 122; Monberg 1966 (Rennell) [Mauitikitiki and his two younger brothers made a boat, went fishing in it, picked it up hook something at the bottom, pulled Rennel Island]: 31; Tikopia [two atua named Tafik Metikitik were fishing from the boat; M. sat aft and rowed, T. threw the line; pulled out two stones, they gave birth to Tikopia , considered the fruit of their union; now a male stone is in Faea on the leeward side, a female stone (the "goddess" of vegetable gardens) is under the floor of a dwelling in Paevatmaru]: Rivers 1914:339; Hawaii: Beckwith 1970 : 229-330 [Hina finds a man's loincloth on the beach, puts it on herself, gives birth to Maui; the fire is owned by mud hens, hidden when M. approaches; he grabs the smallest one, that first says that fire should be extracted by friction from the tarot, from ti leaves (M. tries, there are holes in the leaves of these plants); indicates correctly, M. makes fire, punishes the chicken, leaving it on its head a red stripe; the sun moves too fast; M. steals bananas one by one, which his blind grandmother bakes; she recognizes him, agrees to help; sitting on a tree, M. throws a noose over the rays of the ascending suns; The sun agrees to move more slowly, especially in summer; together with the brothers M. catches land in the forest; tells the brothers not to look back, one violates the ban, the forests break off, so the land mass 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 future islands; this is how Hawaii, Maui, Oahu appear]; Tuamotu: Beckwith 1970:234 [Ataraga sees how Huahega bathes, marries her, their son Maui-Tikitiki catches the sun in a snare; recognized as a father; kills Mahuika; fishes Tahiti and Little Tahiti], 234-235 (Anaa) [Maui-tikitiki is the fifth son of Ataranga and Huahega ( daughter of fire owner Mahuike); seeks recognition from his father, competes with Mahuike and kills him, catches the Sun in a snare from the hair of his mother Huahega's head; with the help of his brothers, he fishes Havaiki country from the sea ]; Maori [Maui, the youngest of five brothers, gets his grandmother's jaw in the underworld; tells brothers to send wives for flax, weave strong ropes, make a trap; catches the Sun that moved too fast; hits him with his jaw, the Sun loses its former strength and has been moving more slowly ever since; people do not know how to make fire; M. turns off lights to get a new one; descends to the lower world to the mistress of the old fire Mahuike; she gives her fingernail, a flame hits it; M. extinguishes it, says she accidentally dropped it, gets a second nail; when she comes for the tenth, the old woman throws a nail at him, the flame chases M., he flies in the form of a hawk (since then the hawk has scorched feathers on its wings); the gods pour rain into the flames, Mawick's remnants have thrown 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 his grandmother's jaw (the hook caught on the door of the house of Tonganui, the son of the sea god); the brothers began to divide the land, stripping it with teslas; the earth trembled, so it appeared mountainous terrain]: Reed 1960:32-41; The Marquises [at first only the ocean, Tiki floats on it in a boat, fishing for land from the seabed]: Dixon 1916:20.

Japan. Izumo-fudoki [god Yatsukamizu-omitsuno decided that Izumo's country was too small; he sped off and pulled other lands by the rope, starting with Shiragi on the coast of Korea; the rope turned into Sono's long seashore]: Popov 1966:19-20; retelling in Matsumoto 1928:117.

The Arctic. Bering Strait Inupiate: Curtis 1976 (20) (Fr. King) [the man harpooned the bullhead fish (mason fish), she pulled the boat by the tench, did Salt Lake and Grantley Harbor, turned into the sea into King Island; the man came home, took the poor young man, to check whether the island had really formed; tired of waiting for him to hunt birds, he sailed away; the young man was feeding on dead seals and whales nailed to the shore; the man returned to see what happened with a young man; he hid, sailed away in his kayak; the man starved to death]: 105; Lucier 1954 (kingickmiut) [umiak turned into Chamisso Island, whale to Egg Island, harpoon floats into two islands, tench - pitfalls]: 230; Northern Alaska Inupiate: Cleveland 1980 [during a flood, people gather at the top of a mountain; it is known that if you harpoon a bunch of grass floating in the water (tussock), the waters will subside ; the bundle behaves like an animal, preventing it from approaching; only the Crow can kayak and harpoon it; when the waters ran down, giant sea worms crossed the riverbeds, so they torturers]: 62-65; Gubser 1965 [water floods the world, a small island remains; the raven harpoons floating bunches of grass, the water is gradually coming off; fish in the lakes are left over from then on; large sea animals crawled to the ocean, paving riverbeds]: 34-35; Lowenstein 1992, No. 1 (Point Hope) [there is no sun, only the moon; the girl does not want to marry; the raven sings a song to sleep, puts her in bed woman's crap, goes to bed with her; promises to tell her that she is messing in bed if she doesn't agree to sleep with him; she agrees; no one can harpoon a sea animal; Raven harpoons, an animal It pops up, this is our land; the Falcon owned two balloons of light, they were hanging in his house; the Raven hid in the aisle to the house, inspired Falcon's daughter to ask her father to give him a darker ball to play; grabbed him, ran, tore, daylight appeared; Falcon began to repeat, Darkness, Raven - Light; so day and night alternate; (11-12: at the end of the text, the name of the Raven changes; instead of tulungigraq ("like a crow"), tulugaq (simply "raven"); Raven's opponent is the same speckled falcon as in the story about Raven and Loon (or Owl, Falcon) coloring each other]: 6-9; 1993 (Point- Hope) [(more than the 1992 episode of the harpooned whale; it turns into Tikigaq, the name of this cape, showing the west, a harpoon wound]: 8-9; Ostermann 1952 [people are crowded on the island; The raven harpoons a huge sea monster, from which land emerges; it is cut into pieces, thrown into the sea; they turn into islands, then merging into the mainland]: 151 (Colville River), 184 (Noatak), 225 (Point Hope); Rainey 1947 (Point Hope) [the first people walked in their arms, had no names, seal fat was like caribou black fat to them; a woman made a man with a bird's beak in his forehead from a fat whip; he came to life, went on his feet, his voice was the voice of a crow; he got light, put people on their feet, turned snow into snow that could be turned into water, etc.; making a kayak, he harpooned like a whale creature; it became the land on which Tigara village stands]: 269-270; Spencer 1959 [Tulungishirak (Raven) lives with his parents on a tiny island; there is a bubble in the house; T. asks him to play tears, it becomes light; the father wants it to be night, does not let it 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; central Yupik (south Norton Bay) [The raven and his aunt lived in the sky; the raven took a straw from his shoes, dropped it down, it sprouted, he threw two handfuls of earth from above, it took shape in plan crow (head to SW); the raven made a mountain there, a source of fresh water; once chased a big animal, threw spears at it; when he returned, he found King Island in the place of the animal; went with Fox get light; through the hole they saw a sleeping man and his two daughters in the house; two light sources hung on the sides; the Raven took the smaller one; if he took the larger one, there would be no night]: Ray 1968, No. 2: 52-53; McKenzie estuary [a man in heaven realizes he is, turns into a Raven; sculpts a creature out of clay, throws him into the abyss, this is an evil tornak spirit; a Sparrow appears; the Raven flies with him down into the abyss, finds himself on the ground; creates people from clay, creates animals and plants; dark; the Raven sends a Sparrow, who brings light and dark pieces of mica; the raven breaks off a piece of light, light appears; dark is night; the island is small, something huge swims in 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 continent]: 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 them new people; the young man is a Raven]: 312-313; Nelson 1983:34 [(by Jetté 1908:312-313, but this is clearly another option); the Raven asked the girl, she refused, he drowned her; her mother sent two brown bears, those 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]; Kuchin [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]: McKennan 1965:90.