B5B. Universal mother.

.11.-.13.19.-.25.35.38.41.44.48.50.

A woman (alone or with her companion) creates or gives birth not only to people, but also to various creatures, objects, and parts of the universe.

Karanga, Mongo, Nkundo, Rotse, Bambara, Lugbara, Korowai, Mangaia, Tahiti, (Nukuria), Rai, Gallong, Bugun, Aka, Rengma, Mao, Kachin, Mona, Sora, Bengalis, Ngaju, Murut, Sulod, Nganasans, (Buryats), Ancient Japan, Tagish, Inner Tlingit, Southern Tutchoni, Helmet, Northern Ojibwa, Yokutz, Louisenya, Navajo, Zunyi.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Karanga (hungwe): Frobenius 1931 [God Maori created a man at the bottom of the lake, Mwuetsi ("The Month"); he went to nothing; God gave him a wife, Mossassi ("Morning Star"), she gave birth to plants; took gave birth to her wife Morongo ("Evening Star"), she gave birth to pets; the morning after re-copulation, she gave birth to sons and daughters, who immediately became adults; God warned against further copulation, but Mvuetsi did not listen; after the fourth copulation, the wife gave birth to predators, snakes, scorpions; then told her husband to marry their adult daughters; slept with the snake herself; Mwuetsi wanted to be with her to sleep, the snake was under his bed, bit him, he fell ill, the rains stopped; his children strangled him, burned him, Morongo also killed, chose another ruler; (=Frobenius, Fox 1937:215-220; retelling in Abrahamsson 1951:72)]: 237-240; Beier 1966 [{source? This is a slightly different text than in Fribenius 1931}; god Maori created a man at the bottom of the lake, Mwuetsi ("The Month"); he went to empty land; God gave him a wife, Mossassi ("The Morning Star"), she gave birth to plants; two years later, Maori took her to live in heaven, eight years later he married Morongo (Evening Star) for two years; she gave birth to pets on the first day, wild herbivores and birds on the second day, and wild herbivores and birds on the third - people; contrary to warning, the Month slept with her for the fourth time, she gave birth to predators, snakes, scorpions; the Month met with her daughters, they gave birth to many children, the Month became the king of a large people; Out of jealousy, the Evening Star sent a snake to bite her husband, who fell ill, the rains stopped; the children killed the Month, threw them into the sea, chose another king; the Month ascended to heaven, haunting its first wife The Morning Star with whom he was happy]: 15-17; mongo [see J56 motif; young man Ilelangonda (aka Ilele) rejects brides, goes to look for a wife; Mbombe promises to marry the one who will defeat her in martial arts, standing in a puddle of oil; always wins; I. defeats her; on the way home, M. does everything better than he does; he presses great mushrooms, she picks them up; the porcupine runs away from his trap, he sends M. with dogs; she catches a porcupine, it turns into an antelope, runs away; catches an antelope, it turns into a leopard; M. screams, I. comes running, throws a spear at M., she throws a leopard net at I. from the leopard, giving names to all living creatures found in the forest; runs to the village of women; there is only one old man; I. must know the names of the women, otherwise he will be killed; is going to relieve himself a garbage dump, sees an old woman in a pile of dirt and garbage; she was the chief of women, but thrown away when a young female leader appeared; advises what to do; I. holes in a fish dam; a woman who noticed this calls everyone else by name; I. remembers names; during the meal, I. calls all women; M. comes, easily calls all women by name, eats all the food, retires with I., they return to the village , M. is pregnant, wants to eat only safu nuts; a bird brings them, M. sings him a love song; then I. goes for nuts; they are in Chief Sausau's village; every time I. climbs a tree, enemies surround him, but he jumps off easily; the turtle makes a hunting hole, I. attacks the stake, only the Turtle manages to dismember his body; signs left at home report the death of I. (the horn is filled with blood, etc.); M. does not cry because he is just giving birth; first all insects, then birds, then people of different genera and ethnic groups, then Entonto; his older brother Lianja from the womb says that the road is dirty, refuses to be born normally, comes out of his mother's thigh with his sister Nsongo, immediately an adult; Lianja sends his insect brothers against Sausau, then humans, attacks are repulsed; Entonto kills S.'s son, S. kills Entonto; S.'s spears do not harm Lianja, L. cuts off S.'s head; at the request of his sister Nsongo (she loves S.) revives, makes him a slave; revives his army; commands cut down a tree with nuts; axes don't take it; Lianja tells them to moisten them, cut down the tree]: Belcher 2005:204-214; nkundo [Mbobme, wife of Itondo's first man, gave birth to flies first, then buffaloes, then goats, other animals and humans, then Lianja and his sister Nsongo]: Knappert 1997:150; Rotse [creator of Nyambi (Nyambe) is the sun, his wife is the moon, she gave birth to animals, then humans; N. revived animals killed by man; man turned out to be more cunning, N. rose to heaven on the web, since then invisible]: Scheub 2000:186.

West Africa. Bambara [Muso Koroni, the scary goddess of the earth, looks like a leopard, hurts women with her claws, causing them to menstruate; taught people how to grow millet (rice and corn are also known, but of late origin); the sun god Pemba, in the form of the Acacia albida tree, penetrated it with its roots and it gave birth to all plants and all animals]: Knappertt 1997:216.

Sudan - East Africa. Lugbara [the spirit created a Gborogboro man ("descended from heaven"), a Meme woman ("heavy in body"), and livestock in the sky; M. had all wild animals in his womb; a gazelle jumped out of there, followed by a gazelle others; after that, the Spirit placed the children in her free womb; var.: M. became pregnant after a goat's blood was shed on her feet (thus she learned how to menstruate and conceived); var: first the couple was taught to copulate; M. gave birth to a boy and a girl, who are also a couple of siblings, etc.; finally, Jaki and Dribidu were born]: Middleton 1965:18-19 (retelling in Scheub 2000:58).

Melanesia. A cow [Yokhemel Yambin woman placed tobacco leaves on a leaf stalk of a sago palm tree, Ginol, "the Little Mouselike", collected dry leaves but could not light it; and the woman's uterus ignited, tobacco leaves caught fire, the whole world burned down; G. turned into a swift; raked up ash, water poured over, Faül boar swam on it, G. killed him, made earth out of sternum bone and meat on his chest (more precisely put it all down), and from the spine - the sky, shoved the sky higher with arrows from palm leaf cuttings; this spine smeared the dead dog with breast fat; ratan seeds burst, the youngest came out of them and older brothers, as well as the moon and the sun; the elder cut off the younger penis and testicles, turning him into a woman, began to copulate with her; the elder smeared (vagina) with snake fat - did not like it, fish - the same tree larvae - I liked it, let the woman stay like this; the woman gave birth to snakes, animals, (and obviously people)]: Enk, de Vries 1997:163-170.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Mangaia [Avaiki is like a coconut with a root, there are tiers inside it; the earthly world is outside it, on its upper surface; at the base of the root is TE-aka-ia-roe ("root of existence"; roe is a worm, thread-worm); above him is the demon Breath of Life, on him Long-lived; these three form the root; at the lowest and narrowest part inside Avaika itself, a demon woman Varima-te-Takere crouching ("the most beginning"); from a piece of her right side, she created the first Avatea (Vatea) man - Noon, half-human half-fish (vertically); his eyes are the sun and the moon; he climbed to the very top of Avaiki, just before going out of A.; his eyes come out of the hole every day and return there; from the other piece on the right side, the great mother created her second son Tinirau (Countless); he is also a half-fish (like sprat ); lives on a tier below Avatea, master of fish; from the left side of the foremother Tango (Support), then daughter Tumuteanaoa (Echo), then son Raka (Trouble, controls the winds); sixth, again from the right side, beloved daughter Tu-metua (Stick-by-the Parent); they occupied tiers from top to bottom, Tu-metua was the lowest with their mother; Vatea was married to the Pope ("foundation"), their first sons Tangaroa and Rongo (the first purely anthropomorphic creatures); Ranges and Rongo's other two grandchildren pulled Mangaia out of the lower world, the ancestors of its inhabitants]: Gill 1876:1-11 in Williason 1933 (1): 11-14; Tahiti [Ta'aroa was inside the Rumia egg; came out, picked up the upper parts of the egg shell, making it into the sky; at first, the sky was close to the ground; the Great Octopus held the earth and sky, its four tentacles supported them on four cardinal points; T. created Atea (" Space"), the goddess of heaven; created the first couple, Tumu-nui ("The Great Foundation") and his wife Paparaharaha ("Rock Base"); from Papa-Tuoi ("Thin Earth") A. gave birth to Sky Builders, who built 10 heavenly layers; at the very top god Tane; from Rua-tupua-nui ("The Source of Great Power") A. gave birth to all the heavenly bodies; her third husband Fa'a-Hotu ("Making Fertile"); she changed sex with him, they gave birth to Ru]: Henry 1928:336-344 (retelling in Makemson 1941:50-51); Yap [two heavenly maidens went down, went to the village to dance; Maraaluog hooked the thread of one of them with a comb, she could not return to heaven, he married her; her name is Maragigi, they have a son; her parents went down to her, told her to come to them seven days later with her husband; they went up from the mountain to heaven; the wife wanted to go behind, the husband sent forward, I smelled it, made him meet with him; so the spirits killed him; his wife revived him as a lizard, a bird, then a man; gave birth to many daughters and sons, as well as a shark, a frigate bird, a tree pandanus; children spread across Yap; the couple threw sand on the water, an island arose]: Müller 1918, No. 78:629-630; (cf. Nukuria [A.I. Davletshin, Field Nabl., February 2013; in the water, a slide of white sand, a seaworm house, grows up, rises, becomes dry; Haraparapa and Kateariki found it; but Roatuu says these are her islands, she rose with the sand; then H. and K. took away the sweet potatoes and tarot they had 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).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Rai: Allen 2011 [Leaves fell into the primary lake, a plant grew out of which Miyapma originated; her husband could be the immortal Rolasila (Venus) from the sky, but she conceived from another character (in mostly like in Ebert, Gaenszle 2008); gave birth to a tiger, a bear, a monkey, a prickly vine, all kinds of living things, the last Mini boy; Tiger killed his mother]: 33-39; Ebert, Gaenszle 2008 [it was raining, on the ground a lake was formed, the wind brought leaves there, the first plant grew from them, gave birth to a creator goddess, different groups have her name Salapa, Paruhang, Ruwasila, etc.; she learns about the male living in the sky the character sends for him; his appearance seems disgusting to her (var.: he has a huge goiter); then he dries all water bodies, leaves his seed or urine on the leaf; not knowing what kind of liquid it is, a woman drinks it, gives birth to a tiger, bear, monkey or dog, other creatures, and then a person; The tiger quarrels with his mother, but cannot bury it; The bear eats parts of her body; The man is indignant, sends both to forest; in some cases, the episode explains the origin of the spirits responsible for death]: 7, 53-65 [(No. 1a); the woman's name is Naïna, the man's name is Paruh; the wind Kurima suggests that P. bring them together, if not he can, let him break his wing; when he sees P., N. says that he is ugly, refuses to marry; P. breaks K.'s wing, drought sets in; N. sends Woodpecker, Owl, Grasshopper and cicalemma bird to look for water; Woodpecker and Grasshopper drink the water they find; Woodpecker pulled out his tongue for this and put it back crooked, Grasshopper's legs were pierced; the bird shows where to drink, but this is P.'s urine; N. drinks, gives birth to a Tiger, Man, Bear and Dog; N. warns Tiger that Man will outsmart him; The man left his scarecrow under the tree, killed the Tiger with an arrow; N. revived the Tiger, and he said that she had a louse on her throat, tore throat; The man told the Bear to carry the body, and he ate it; replied that he had buried it; then he was told to laugh, his mother's hair was noticed on his teeth; the man sent the Bear to the forest, was going to kill the Dog, but he asked to keep it with him], 67-76 [(No. 1b); a white ant was born from a termite mound, it was a flying ant; then Salapa was born, and then his younger sister Simnina ("fly, housefly") was born; the brother knew they siblings (my sister didn't know), so I climbed Wabuma (sky?) ; the sister grew up, sent the animals to Salapa; the bird and the crab went; the bird could not go under water, the crab went down, pinched Salapa, said that Simnina grew up below, where the waters meet; this was said by the crab, totimi bird and marten; Salapa ordered to sow corn, millet, he will come when the plants grow; descended in the form of a boar, fell into their trap; Simnina turned him into a human; he went through a few reincarnations before she could marry his sister; daughter Naïna was born; grew up, learned to weave; then about (1a)]; gallons [cloud and fog gave birth to the earth and moon, earth and sky - The creator goddess Jimi-Ane, she has the features of a rhino bird, a deer, a monkey, birds; she also gave birth to a young man Opo Tako; he became pregnant with her unnoticed; she gave birth to various spirits, animals, humans, summer and winter, plants; the earth became cramped; JA gave birth to a daughter, Mipu, who began to expand the space between heaven and earth; Earth and Sky celebrated and then separated; several days had to be observed taboo; the Earth was not taboo, so it was covered with vines, thorns, etc., and the Sky remained clear]: Pandey 1999:47-53; bugun: Elwin 1958a, No. 4 [Apuphulma's wife complained on the riverbank that he old, she was married by a water spirit; A. married a girl with one ear, one eye, no nose, no chin; she gave birth to strange children that the couple threw away; when thrown away, everyone said who he is and what he will do; 1) a stone (it will be built on it, it also has rivers, there will be fish in them); 2) Thunder (will fight a heavenly serpent that stops the rain; lightning is its burning smut); 3) Earthquake; 4) Rain (will send rain from the sky): 5) Wind; 6) A rainbow (this is a snake, it will live in rivers, it will call rain in the sky in the drought); 7) a poisonous snake (bitten by his mother, A. revived her, the snake became live in the forest in a hole); 8) Diseases (parents fell ill, the hornet cured them); 9) Death (parents died, the son went to other people, brought death to everyone); some children were good, others were bad because their mother was good at one half, bad at the other]: 10-13; 1958b, No. 5 [Apuphulwa and Muinini had a son, Assanga, and a daughter, Arangma; they lived on the side of two different mountains; the bee carried a piece dirt from brother's skin to sister's skin and vice versa, they were passionate about each other, got married; Assanga went west to look for another wife, met only an old woman with one eye, one nostril, half mouth, one hand, one breast, one leg, married her; she gave birth to 1) stone, 2) thunder Haklum, 3) god of death Sakatung (he went underground, shakes her), 4) water god Khawai (Abua), 5) giver Chakmao Rain, Lightning Daughter Halia]: 112-114; aka [at first only two eggs, they collided, broke, one came from Earth, from the other her husband Heaven; Sky asked the Earth to shrink so that he could to hug her; she shrunk, valleys and mountains appeared; Heaven and Earth gave birth to all living things and plants]: Elwin 1958a, No. 9:15-16; rengma [the first woman came out of the earth along the pangolin hole; gave birth to the Spirit , then Tiger, then Man; when she fell ill, she became afraid to stay with the tiger; the spirit and man sent him away when his mother died, buried him under the hearth so that the tiger would not find her; at night, the spirit felt that the tiger tries to get up to eat a man; the brothers decided that the first person to touch the banana would go the right way in life, and the other would wag; the spirit paved a straight path for man, and the tiger a winding path; gave a bow to the man, the man fired an arrow, it touched the banana before the tiger reached; the tiger went to the forest, told him not to take wives from his family; the man asked the tiger what he was most afraid of: a shepherd a horn; a man wove a mat, woven the tail of a tiger sitting next to him into it, strangled it into a horn; the tiger rushed across the field, knocking down plants with a mat; under the threat of strangling him again, the man forced him to fix it]: Mills 1937:265-367; mao [the first woman Dziilimosiiro (Dziilimosiia) was lying spread apart under a tree in Makhriifii (Makhel); it is believed that Mao, Angami, Poumei, and Chakhesung finished at this place wandering; she was wrapped in a cloud, water entered her vagina, she conceived, gave birth to Okhe (tiger), Orah (god, spirit), and Omei (man); when she was old and ill, her brothers took turns caring for her; Tiger lists all the parts of her body, each time saying how she will eat them after her death; she feels worse; when the Spirit stayed, it got worse; The man gave her pepper soup, hoping that she would die without suffering, but the soup made her she recovered altogether; when her mother finally died, the man buried her under the hearth, putting the focal stones in place, and dug up the ground in various places; the Tiger tried to find the corpse there, but did not look under the hearth; Since then, people have been burying relatives under the hearth; the Tiger tries to eat the Man; he sleeps high on the roof; the Tiger sees his reflection and rushes into the pond; the Man asks what the Tiger is afraid of; he answers like thunder; The man tied a pumpkin with pebbles to his tail, strangled him, the Tiger disappeared into the forest; the Spirit went south, where the sun was hot; otherwise, his mother put three menhirs (or a ball of grass): who will run faster, inherit the land; the Tiger was the first to run, but his mother said that he started running ahead of time; taught Man to make a bow and shoot an arrow at his target to ensure his victory; or brothers competed after the death of their mother and the Spirit taught Man to shoot an arrow]: Mao 2009:10 (also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Naga); kachins: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 24 [paternal beginning from heaven and The mother's merged from the ground, gave birth to a man and a woman of natov; semi-liquid earth thickened from the fog, the nats made it solid; gave birth to a man and a woman; they first gave birth to all animals, then to humans Chaiva Neinchang Phan Wa Nainshan; he separated heaven from earth, began to rule the earth; married Tajamin's daughter, who had descended from heaven; there were nine suns, an eternal day; at the request of C., T. created an alternation of the day and nights]: 97-99; Gilhodes 1908:673-674 [feminine and masculine give rise to many different creatures and objects, including earth, sky, drum, pillars separating sky from earth, ropes supporting the earth , a big bird, knives, a venomous fer de lance snake, scissors, a snake bordering the ground around the perimeter; etc.], 675-676 [paternal and maternal principles give rise to heaven, earth, sun, moon, bison, elephant, tiger, a crow, a bear, a hawk, a snake, a rock (all these are the "embryos" of current objects); the Rock began to run, but her brother The Sun jumped on it and killed her; since then the rocks have not moved; the god of war, darkness, light].

Burma - Indochina. Mons [in the desert world, the first female being, Itangeya Sambasoi, created and named all useful things; much later, Paosangeia Sangasoi, the first man, began to search for and meet IS; from them people appeared in the union]: Chesnov 1980:579.

South Asia. Bengalis (recorded in 1947 by a brahmana priest) [the goddess Adi-Sakti was born from the sweat of the creator of Dharma; D. meditated by the river, but was woken up by a flying owl and went to look for a husband for his daughter. leaving a vessel of honey and a vessel of poison; while he was away, the AU gave birth to Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, they were blind; to test them, D. became a stinking corpse and swam along the river; Brahma and Vishnu allowed him to sail further, and Shiva guessed that since no one was born yet, no one could die; for this, D. gave him vision and gave him another third eye; S. asked to make his brothers sighted as well; D.: for that's enough for you to spit on them; D. told the AU to give birth to all beings; she replied that she did not have such an ability; then D. told her to be Shiva's wife in all rebirths; giving birth every time, AU gave birth to all beings]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 21:73-75; sora (Ghajapati District): 1) (informant Srinivas Gomango, Christian, d. Nuagada) [There were brother and sister. God told them that there would be a flood and they needed to build a boat. They didn't have the tools to cut wood, so they chewed on the tree with their teeth. Everyone drowned during the flood. After 140 days, the waters came down. Brother and sister saw that there was no one but them. The brother told his sister to give birth to everything on earth again. She did this. She was the last to give birth to fire, as a result of which she burned herself and the boat burned down], 2) informant Enam Gomango, Christian, d. Serango) [All living things had one Mother. It creates everything on earth, and the last thing is fire. Because if she gives birth to fire first, she'll die, and she won't be able to give birth to everything else. After giving birth to fire, the ancestor dies. Sometimes, when they see a large boulder, they believe that it is part of the mother's progenitor's body]: Krylova, Renkovskaya 2017, field materials (briefly Renkovskaya et al. 2018:563): Vitebsky 2017 ["But look around you: everything you see, animals, trees, mountains, sky - they all came out of God's vagina. Why do you think the world stays the same now, and no new kinds of things are born? Because her very last offspring was fire, and it scorched her clitoris. 'U gai! ' she yelped, 'I'm not giving birth to anything more! '"] : 190.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Ngaju: Schärer 1966:68-71 [(Schwaner 1853:179); a tree grew in the sky, the growth on it broke off from the movement of branches, fell into the Sangiang River (S. - inhabitants of the sky), tried to destroy it the Serpent who lived in it, but the growth was washed ashore, a woman arose from it, made a boat out of a banyan leaf, sailed along the river to the sea, where she met with a man who had arisen under the influence of waves from a floating log; the first six times she had miscarriages, each became a woman, who gave birth to different gods and spirits from different creatures (the first gave birth to Djangan Hatuen Peres, the leader of diseases); the seventh time she had sons Mahadara Sangen and Mahadara Sangiang; Sangen took the embryos of plants and animals, descended to earth; there, from the marriage of two trees, an egg was born, in which a lifeless female image; Sangen went to heaven for live water; at this time, Angoi breathed wind into the woman, made her blood from the rain, bamboo bones (probably); Sangen, who returned, spilled living water in anger, she sprinkled the plants; they are now they grow back when cut off, and people die; he killed A., cut the corpse, and snakes, tigers, and other harmful creatures arose from his marriage to that woman; Sangiang gave birth to many gods, in including a guide of souls to the world of the dead, Sangsang Tempon Tellon], 76-77 [(Mallinckrodt 1924); having created the earth, Mahatara threw a piece of garing wood on it from the sky, at one end of which he carved the figure of a man, on another woman; the tree split, the male image fell into the water, the female image on land, both came to life, began to live in the boat on which the woman went down to the sea; the first miscarriage fell into the water, turned evil water spirits, the second to land, in evil terrestrial spirits; the third was wrapped in a banana leaf, left on a tree, it turned into wood spirits; then M. went down, taught man and woman marriage customs, the woman gave birth to three sons named Maharadja Sangian, Maharadja Sangen, Maharadja Bunu; the sky was near the ground and served as food; Mahatara gave the seeds of all edible plants to the first, and the second "floating" iron that kills only for a while, the third "sinks", kills iron; in the end, Mahatara stopped carrying living water to the ground, reviving the dead, the sky moved away from the ground, MB was left alone on earth; made a woman out of clay, Mahatara promised to revive her; at this time, angoi (chameleon) offered his services; Mahatara returned with living water, was upset, explained that since the figure had been revived by a mortal creature ( chameleon), then people will also be mortal; people come from this woman Hantelo Petak ("three times earth") and MB; M.Sangiang M.Sangen also married, gave birth to Sangian and Sangen air spirits]; murut [after Brother and sister escaped the flood; brother saw rats or squirrels copulating, got together with his sister; she gave birth to a dog; she brought everything she needed to get fire by friction, showed what to do, the young man kindled fire; a sister gave birth to a chicken, then a son and a daughter; they gave birth to new people; the chicken found rice, the dog taught farming]: Wooley 1928, No. 3:261-263.

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.

Western Siberia. Nganasana: Long 1987, No. 1 [the earth first is bare ice; the first man finds the first woman all white; she says she gave birth to worms, birds, all living things; they gave birth to a blade of grass, from him, the icy ground began to gradually become covered with grass; the man is afraid that "something flying" will destroy the child, the earth will not grow; they give birth to a second child, this is a hornless deer; the flying man has appeared, this a horned deer defeated a hornless man; he asked the White Man to give him horns; the father made one horn of stone, the other from a mammoth bone; the son of the White Man defeated the enemy, he left; the earth became big ; many flying flew in, the son of the White Man defeated everyone; the White man and the woman gave birth to many people; the son of the White Man asks to clean his horns; the clearing of the stone horn strengthened the earth with stones, she was soft, moving; cleaning the mammoth horn became mammoth bone; the mouse asks for help, everyone overcomes it; the son of the White Man threw his stone horn, it became clouds, it snowed; the mouse wants a long winter so that it would not be found under the snow; so it was; the mammoth horn threw it up - it was frost, clear; thunder - the stones above are knocking, lightning is sparks from the stones]: 39-44; Popov 1984:42-43 [there was only ice; in A white man lived in the ice plague; he came to a woman, asked her how to live in an icy world, asked her for a boy; she gave him their child, a tulnik branch with one leaf; the man stuck her in the ice, waited when he grows up; The disease spoiled the leaf, sent worms and reptiles; the man brought from the woman their second child, a deer; his father made him one horn out of a mammoth's fang, the other out of stone, the deer killed reptiles; the peel fell from the horns, forming the northern (Middendorf) and southern (Byrranga) ridges; the branches of the northern horn are a red cloud, northern lights; the southern one is thunderstorm and snow clouds; we live on the back of this deer; his father is Syrese nguo (white deity), his mother is Nemy Nguo (the deity that gives us eyes {Moon})], 44-45 [there was only ice; the moon girl fell from the sky, became a woman, stuck to ice, because of this she became pregnant, gave birth, returned to heaven; the child became Smallpox, found another under the ice; he was Hunger, the son of the Earth girl; they became porotic deer, butted, Smallpox won; since then they have been clearing the earth; nguo {sky, god} fell through nine layers of ice, fell in love with the girl of the earth; she said she would not give birth below, n. lifted her to the ground; she gave birth to vegetation; so every plant stretches upwards to her father and roots down to her mother; gave birth to seven people - ancestors of different peoples; gave birth to a Samoyed shaman and a Russian doctor; gave birth to fish].

(Wed. Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Buryats [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 earth, created plants and animals on it; from the Sun gave birth to a daughter, the 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 came Eastern deities; on the sunset side EB created a feminine, masculine on the sunrise side; they met, united, the first Pahang man was born, the first Tuya woman was born]: Sharakshinova 1959:40-47 in Zhukovskaya 1980:95-96 ).

Japan. Ancient Japan. See B5A motif. Kojiki; Nihon-Shoki.

Subarctic. Tagish, inner Tlingits, southern tutchoni, helmet [Animal Mother gives birth to commercial animals; rocking them on moose skin between four mountains, gives rise to current ones features; before that, Rabbit had horns; Animal Mother gives them to Moose; scary fangs from the upper jaw Moose gives Grizzly]: McClelland 1975 (2): 454-456; 1987:257; Tagish: McClelland 2007, No. 69 [a woman is married to two brothers; in winter they are going to migrate, they make her skis, but at night she makes her skis turn back into rods and ropes; her pregnancy is prolonged; in June she tells them to go to the mountain, gives birth to all animals; the rabbit was born first, the wolf was the last], 75 [the girl has reached maturity, married two brothers; in winter they make snowshoe skis for her, but in the morning everything the braided line is unwoven; husbands throw their skis into the fire, she tells them to move away, gives birth to all animals; it gives them names by throwing moose skin off the swing, teaches them habits]: 341-343, 377-379; inner tlingits : Cruickshank 1990 (mother of a Tagish informant, but she has only spoken Tlingit since she was 5 years old) [the woman is married to two brothers; they try to make her racket skis many times, each time she puts them under her head for the night and her skis untwisted; her stomach becomes huge, she asks her husbands to move away; they see her giving birth to animals from the mountain; the first to go out is the elk (? moose), he had grizzly fangs, she took them out, told him to eat willow branches, told him to shed his horns every year; then caribou is born; let the male shed his horns every year, let the caribou eat moss; mountain ram - let him eat grass; grizzly; she was confused and could not take out his fangs, he could not take out his fangs; wolf; rabbit, began to eat twigs; the animals lived with their mother for a year, she was tired of them; made a swing out of skin, tying ropes to four mountains; heavy animals pierced the swing; she left, her tracks remained in some places]: 44-48; McClelland 2007 (3), No. 169a [woman married to two brothers; she asks to do she skis, they break; she asks to do others; she is pregnant, gives birth to all animals and birds, teaches them habits; the rabbit had horns, she removed them, told the rabbit not to eat anyone; she gave the grizzly horn to the elk, taking them out he has upper teeth], 169b [~ (169a)]: 742-744, 744-747; southern tutchoni [two sisters married to a hunter; one gives birth to a pair of moose, caribou, mountain sheep, rabbits; she turns into an elk herself; At first, the rabbits had horns, Mother removed them so that the rabbits could fall into traps; does she create {giving birth?} also all other animals and birds]: McClelland 2007, No. 28:154-158.

The Midwest. Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [O-ma-ma-ma, Mother Earth, eternally young; gave birth to world spirits; this is 1) Thunder Bird (protects others from the Genay-big water snake); 2) Oma-ka-ki frog (watches insects); 3) Wee-sa-Kay-jac; 4) Ma-heegun Wolf; 5) Amik Beaver; also gave birth to fish, rocks, plants, and other animals]: Ray, Stevens 1971:20-21.

California. Jokutz [all creatures living on earth were born at the Tabiyawet hot spring; from there the mother came out, summoned all the tribes, directing each to live where it belongs; if you look into the black water, you can see all kinds of animals running around there; Coyote is often seen; singing is heard]: Gayton, Newman 1940, No. 42:41; luiseño [in the primary darkness, the supreme deity creates a man heaven and a woman earth]: DubOis 1906, No. 1 [At first the world is empty, there is only Ke-vish-a-tak-vish; several eras go by without events; finally, K. creates a man, heaven and a female earth; "Who are you?" - the man asked. "I'm To-Mai-yo-vit. And you?" "I'm Took-Meath." "Then you're my brother." "You are my sister"; siblings get married, a woman produces many things, from sacred pointed flints to equip the chiefs' sword-shaped rods to stone vessels; also gives birth to people, trees, rocks, sun, etc.]: 52-53; 1908:128-132 [Kivish Atakwish is first in the void; Waikut Piukut ("whitish-gray") appears, creates two creatures who get to know each other; according to some informants, they are a man and a woman born from two eggs; Wykut Piukut leaves; creatures argue about which one is older; a man sighs a woman to sleep, makes her a mother; ashamed of what she has done, turns into heaven, and she creates earth from a small piece; gives birth to people, stone vessels, wampum, bear, eagle, funeral pole, pine, oak etc. (15 names in total); The sun lives among people; it is too hot; it is sent east, three days later the sun rises; a woman lies down with her arms and legs spread out; she is the earth], 138-143 [first Kiwish man and woman Atakwish appeared; then Omai man ("not to be" about animated objects) and woman Yamai ("not to be" about inanimate objects); brother and sister realize each other's existence; a man thinks of a woman first as a sister, then his form of conversion changes; Woman: "Who are you?" Man: "I'm Kivish, I'm Kivish, I'm Kivish, khan-n-n-n-n" [ceremonial groan while singing sacred narratives]; what do you have to say?" Woman: "I am Atakwish, I am Atakwish, I am Atakwish, khan-n-n-n-n-n." Man: "Omai i, Omai i, Omai i han-n-n-n-n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n Woman: "Yamai I, Yamai me, Yamai i, khan-n-n-n-n-n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n Chatutai - woman, earth; or: were Tukmit (sky) and Tomayovit (earth); from here the story follows smoothly again; Tomayovit lies, head north, legs south; brother She sits to her right; he asks who she is and hears a poetic description of the land in response ("I am the one that stretches to the horizon; the one that trembles and rumbles," etc.); then she asks and gets back a description of the sky, culminating in Tukmit's statement "I am death"; everything happens in the dark; he touches her right hand. "What is this part of your body?" - "My right hand." - "And this one?" - "My left hand." The head, hair, hair parting, skull, temples, eyebrows, eyelashes, cheekbones, teeth, etc. are similarly listed. Apparently, it ends in the genitals, after which brother and sister have sexual intercourse; burden Tomayovit's womb is so huge that she falls on her back, and Tukmit takes a sacred stick with a flintlock knife at the end and rips her body open from her breasts down; one by one, the children are born; their list reaches 29 numbers and consists of randomly listing different objects].

The Great Southwest. Navajo: Stephens 1930 [in the lowest crimson, deserted world, old man Etsehostin and his wife Etseasun create creatures by exfoliating lumps of skin; the old man creates the first man the water monster, the frog Tkalk, the Teclaliale crane; his wife is the first woman (Josdlhaji, the Biting Vagina), the salt spirit woman, the Thunder; both create twelve creatures in total; the old man also creates locusts, ants, horned toads]: 88-89; see motif B5A. Zunyi.