B6. When they meet halfway, they marry .22.24.26.31.34.38.40.42.43.

The first or only remaining man and woman move towards each other, walking around a mountain, pole, or otherwise following in circles from opposite sides, and when they meet, are getting married.

Wa, Palaung, Khmu, Mountain Monks of Laos, Vieta, Minahasa, Yao, Chinese (Sichuan, Henan), Eastern Sami, Khakas, Unghin Buryats, Ancient Japan (Kojiki and Nihon-Shoki), Ryukyu (Okinawa, Yaeyama), Kodiak, bellacula, quarry, chilcotin.

Burma - Indochina. Wa, palaun [brother and sister were in a pumpkin; the bird (sparrow) agreed to release them if it got other grains; the sister filled her mouth and other depressions with seeds, ordered cover your brother's ears with seeds so as not to become deaf at the sounds of the new world; the bird (or many birds) pecked a hole; helping, the brother rubbed the pumpkin from the inside, the peel became charred, so people are dark, dirty on coal); the birds began to fight for grains, made a fuss, brother and sister almost became deaf, brother ran away; they searched for each other for a long time, walking around the mountain; edible seeds sprouted from their lost seeds pumpkins; then brother and sister met, got married, their descendants settled down; var.: brother and sister forgot about their relationship while still in the pumpkin; the birds showed them how to connect]: Stratanovich 1983:67-68 ; mountain monks of Laos [like wa; the number of bird liberators is large]: Stratanovich 1983:68; khmu (tsa khmu) [brother and sister caught a rat in the forest; she asked her to let her go, reported in the upcoming flood, advised me to climb into a hollow tree trunk; after the flood, brother and sister went in different directions to look for marriage partners; met only each other twice; the bird advised them get married; the sister carried the fruit for three years, gave birth to two pumpkins; when she brought down rice, she dropped the pest, one pumpkin split, and tai, ly, lao, etc. came out of it; she gently pierced the other pumpkin with a heated piece iron, but the ahem in it rushed straight outside, got dirty in coal, so dark; pumpkin fragments turned into rocks near the village of Ban Tau Pung ("pumpkin village")]: Roux 1928:177-179 (=1953:295- 300; retelling in Chesnov 1980c: 163; more succinct in Walk 1949:64-65); Viets [Prince Ngo Kuyen (899-944) and his wife have eldest daughter Ba Da and youngest son Ong Dung; brother and sister agreed that they will get married if they get together, running around the mountain (apparently from different sides); when they entered the bedroom, the sister did not dare, ran away; this happened three times; the third time they came across a tiger on the way home; Ong Dung defeated him when his mother and son came to the rescue, catching frogs; brother and sister met at home; the ruler (their father?) told them to pull out their eyes, cut off their ears and nose, cut off their heads, throw them into the pond; since then, bamboo figures with huge genitals have been made in Dongan County; the brother's figure is cut off, shoved into The sister's vulva; the figure of a woman opening her huge vulva with her hands was made in different parts of Vietnam; yao (zao) believed that she could suck animals and birds into her bosom]: Knorozova 2000:167.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Minahasa: Bezemer 1904 [When the earth was still soft, two women came out of it: an elderly shaman Karmah and a young Lumimuut; K. told L. to stand up against the wind to become pregnant; she turned to the south, east, north wind, but became pregnant only from the west, gave birth to a son Toar; when he grew up, K. told L. and T. to stand with their backs to each other and walk T. to the right and L. to the left; gave K. shorter, and L. was longer; K. said that if the woman he met had a stick the same length as him, it would be his mother L., and if not, she could be married; she said the same when she turned to L.; T. and L. met on the other side of the earth, L.'s stick was longer; they got married, had children: twice 9, three times 7, nine times 3; they inhabited the whole earth]: 316-337; Raats 1970 [ Lumimuut was born from a stone burned by the heat of the sun; four winds gave birth to seven, then nine creatures; after the flood, she and her son escaped; both went in different directions in search of marriage partners, taking on a stick of equal length; L.'s wand grew, so when they met, the mother and son did not recognize each other and married]: 31; Isis 1998 [after a rock in the sea gave birth to a crane, sweat came out of it; the goddess Limuvat was born out of sweat; she learned about the existence of the "original land" from the crane, brought a lump of land from there, placed seeds of trees and herbs in it, marking the beginning of peace; went up the mountain, conceived from the west wind, gave birth to a boy; 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, mother and son did not got to know each other, and the staff grew, taller than the mother; mother and son got married and gave birth to gods]: 152.

China - Korea. Yao (Guangxi, Wu. Yongxian City Luocheng; by Chang Zhenxia, "A study of images on stone sarcophagi from Shapinba", magazine. "Showen Yuekan", vol. 1, No. 10-11. Lu Zhenyu. Beijing: Zhongguo Shehui Shigan, 1962) [before the storm, a boy and a girl watched their father start repairing the roof; the father became angry with the thunder god Lei-gong and placed an iron cage under the roof eaves; L., holding a wooden axe, he went down, flapping his wings; the man stuffed it with his horn into the cage and told the children not to let him drink; L. begged the children to give him a few drops of water; breaking the cage, He pulled out his tooth and ordered it to be planted, and flew away; when he learned of what had happened, his father began to make an iron boat, and the planted tooth grew a gourd pumpkin; when the pumpkin was opened, countless teeth were inside; the children threw them away and climbed inside themselves; a downpour poured in, the water covered the ground; the father sailed in a boat to the iron gate and began to knock; the spirit of heaven ordered the spirit of the waters to drive away the waters; they immediately subsided, the boat fell, crashed, the man crashed too; the children in the pumpkin escaped; the boy's name was Fuxi, the same as Paosi ("pumpkin brother"); the children grew up, the brother invited his sister to marry; she offered to catch up with her; but F. ran the other way and ran out to meet his sister; they got married; the wife gave birth to a lump of meat; they cut it into pieces, began to go up to the sky's gate; the wind blew, unfolded the bundle, pieces of meat fell and became human; the person who fell on the leaf received the surname E ("leaf"), on the tree - Mu ("tree"), etc.]: Yuan Ke 1987:39-43; the Chinese (Sichuan) [Fuxi and his sister Nuiwa were virtuous; one of the immortals found out that the Jade Sovereign would send a downpour, flood the earth with a flood; went down under the guise of a beggar, F. and N. sheltered him; he gave them a basket to sit in when there was a flood; only they and escaped; decided to mold new people out of clay; Mother Earth asked not to dig a hole in it, told them to marry; N. agreed if F. caught up with her, ran around the mountain seven times, F. did not catch up; the Turtle advised her to run not after her sister, but towards her; N. broke her shell in anger, F. glued it together, the stitches remained; N. said that she would marry F. if they lowered the millstones from the mountain and his millstones lay on her; the millstone lay down, N. became pregnant, gave birth to a piece of meat; F. cut it into a hundred pieces, each became human; they ran away, F. and N. gave them names depending on who went where (if to the river, then He, if climbed a peach, then Tao, etc.]: Riftin 1987b: 358-359 (=2011, No. 1:16-17); Chinese (Sichuan, wu. Santai) [A long time ago, brother and sister lived at the foot of the mountain, and brother's name was Fusi. One day, a magpie brought them pumpkin seed and told them to sow it. The pumpkin soon grew to be the size of a basket. At this time, an earthly son of a Coriary tree, ten thousand Zhang tall, climbed to the Chambers of Heaven, knocked over a vase on the Jade Lord's table, and a flood began in China. Brother and sister climbed into the pumpkin. When the flood was over, they came out of it and saw that all the other people on earth had died. The brother wanted to marry his sister, but she did not agree and offered to roll millstones down the mountain and marry only if they closed. This happened, but the sister still disagreed and offered to run around the seed and marry only if her brother caught her. They ran and her brother couldn't catch her. Then the turtle told him to run in the opposite direction. He took advice and caught his sister right away. The sister stepped on the turtle in annoyance, and its shell cracked. Fuxi felt sorry for the turtle that helped him, he urinated on her, and she came to life]: Zhou Yang et al. 1998b, No. 27a: 49-50; Chinese (Sichuan, Wu. Sichun) [A long time ago, there were no people on earth, only birds and animals. Dragons have been kings among marine animals for generations. One day, a pair of dragons, brother and sister, accompanied by turtles, secretly went to land to play. After seeing the beauty of nature and the free life of birds and animals, they decided not to return to the sea. On earth, they became young men and women, built a house, began gathering and hunting, and lived very well. One day, while laying stone millstones, they started talking about procreation and became shy. My brother thought that his sister was the only girl in the world, and he consulted the turtle and she agreed to become a matchmaker. She asked them to race to push the millstones: if the brother caught up with her sister, they would get married, and if not, they would both return to sea. The sister ran very fast and his brother was desperate to catch her, but then the turtle bit him on the heel, he turned around, ran into his sister and grabbed her. Since then, they have become husband and wife, and all of humanity has come from them. Inadvertently, they stepped on the turtle, and its shell cracked and all its teeth fell out. To thank the matchmaker, they put her shell back together, but since then she has no teeth and her shell has cracks and can live on land]: Zhou, 1998b, No. 27b: 50; Chinese (Henan) [in the sky There were 10 suns - the grandchildren of the Lord of Heaven (Tien Di); the harvest was dying, the rivers were drying up; Houyi shot 9 suns to save people; the tenth hid, it became completely dark; one day H. heard someone calling him in a weak voice; Earthworm pointed out where the tenth Sun was hiding; H. went to kill him, but could not find it in the dark; realizing that they could not survive in the darkness, people began to ask the surviving sun to return; it came out he was greeted; the sun was covered by the leaves of the purslane (Portulacea oleracea); returning to heaven, the Sun, out of gratitude, decided not to dry out the purslane; he punished the earthworms, and they barely dry out once on the surface] Tao, Yang & Xiu Zhong eds., Zhongguo shenhua. Chinese Mythology. Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi chubanshe, 1990, pp. 395-396 (Yamada Hitoshi); Chinese (Henan, Wu. Zhengyang) [there were ten suns in the sky, and their heat kept people from living. A man named Yi, who was extremely powerful, shot nine of them, and the people healed well. One day, the Jade Lord began to sigh sadly. Sivanmu was asked what was going on, and he said that people were becoming more powerful, nine out of ten of his celestial lamps were shot at his palace. Sivanma was told not to worry, because the world has a catastrophe every 500 years. She went down to people and turned into an old beggar to test them and decide if the Jade Lord was worried for nothing. She was driven from everywhere. She decided that there were no good people left in the world and people deserved disaster. On the seashore, I met my brother and sister named Fusi and Nuiva, who lived without parents. Fusi felt sorry for the beggar and asked her to be a foster mother, and Nuiva brought her rice and fish. Then Sivanmu decided that people should not be completely extinct. F. and N. told me that disaster would soon begin: let them collect enough brushwood and rice and get on the boat. She allowed pets to be saved, but not humans. After that, she went to Mount Kunlun ("Burnt Dragon"), where a black dragon had been sleeping in the cave for five hundred years. Sivanma woke him up and told him to destroy humanity. He flew out of the cave, rushed into the clouds, swam in the Sky River (Milky Way), hit his tail and punched a hole in the Sky River, then returned to the cave and fell asleep again. As soon as Fusi and Nuiva got into the boat, it started raining; it did not stop for 49 days. They saw a man drowning nearby, felt sorry for him and, despite Sivanma's ban, saved him. They also saved a turtle and a dog. When they reached Mount Kunlun, they left a man to guard the boat, and took the harpoons themselves and, together with the turtle and the dog, climbed the mountain in search of a secluded place. The rescued man was dishonest, and as soon as they left, he sailed away in their boat. Brother and sister found a suitable cave and wanted to drag brushwood into it, but the dog, with its keen sense of smell, smelled evil spirits and said they should go inside and kill the monster, otherwise not only would they not be able to live in a cave, but they also say goodbye to life. Brother and sister went into the cave, saw the dragon sleeping and hit him with two harpoons. The black dragon crawled out of the cave in pain and rolled southeast. Where it rolled, a winding river with muddy waters formed - today's Yellow River. The dragon came to sea and died, and since then the law that catastrophes every five hundred years in the world has no longer been in effect. The brother and sister returned to the place where they left the boat, but did not find it, so they returned to the cave with the turtle and dog, hunting wild animals and fishing. Their clothes decayed, and they wore tree leaves in summer and animal skins in winter. Fusi once told N. that there were no other people left in the world, so they should marry, but N. refused. Then they asked the dog to judge them. Dog: Just as male and female flowers that grow from the same root on the same stem can set fruits, brother and sister can marry. N. still disagreed and invited F. to catch up with her, and if he succeeded, they would marry. They ran from dawn to dusk, but Fusi didn't catch his sister. Then the turtle advised F. not to run, but to hide behind the mountain. When N. ran by, F. jumped out and grabbed her. To this day, in many places, spouses are referred to as brother and sister. N. hated the turtle and ordered it to hide its shameless face and close her talkative mouth. Since then, turtles have been pulling their heads into their shells and not talking. Then she peed on the turtle and kicked it into the river. Since then, the turtle's shell has cracks and smells like urine]: Zhou Yang et al. 2001b, No. 9a: 14-15.

Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami [duck lays five eggs on a siyin blade of grass in the middle of the ocean, which grows into the ground; eggs produce 1) vegetation, 2) birds (first duck, then gray goose, white swan, raven, pyz-kydtsynke bird) and fish, 3) animals, 4) man and woman; (the fifth egg is no longer mentioned); the first couple has a son and daughter; the father sends them in different directions along the coast seas; having gone all over the earth, they meet again; the human race originated from them]: Czarnoluski 1972:84-85.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas [Kyrgyz began to fight against the Sagylars, defeated them; in the former nomadic, they had a decrepit old man, and one woman hid in a cave; she came to the nomadic captive Sagylars; Woman, What are you going to do? - If I walk around this mountain, I'll get married; what are you going to do? - If I walk around this mountain, I will get married; the woman took a goatskin with her, went around the mountain; the old man went from the other side; they met with their skin covered, lay down together; after copulating, the old man died; the woman pulled her skin between her legs; joining Pispyyak, Onpyyak, gave birth; the child has goat hair hair, his name is Kinges ("little goat"); his son Sadigas, son of that Saybazah, they are from Saryglar tribe]: Troyakov 1995:275; Unga Buryats [there was only water, fire floated in separate strips like a road; two separate male and female silver boats sailed on the water genitals (father's silver pole, mother's golden vagina); boats made two circles in the sun and could not meet; then they made another circle against the sun and came together after fertilization; in memory of this, the bride and groom, walking on a shawl, make a circle against the sun]: Khangalov 1960, No. 2:11 (Balagansky collection, p. 192).

Japan. Ancient Japan: Kojiki 1994, vol.1-6 [At the beginning of time, seven generations of gods appear, the first two are alone, the rest are in pairs, brother and sister; the last pair is Izanagi and his younger sister Izanami; they stand on the Heavenly Floating Bridge (probably a rainbow), a drop of water that falls from their spear creates an island; they build a pole and chambers; I-gi: How does your body work? - I grew up, did not grow in one place; - Mine has grown too much in one place; you have to put what I grew up into where you did not grow up, have children; I-mi goes around the pole on the right, I-gi on the left; when I meet, I first says: What a handsome young man; I-gi answers: What a beautiful girl; they give birth to a leech child; heavenly gods It is advised to repeat the wedding ceremony so that he is the first to say the words I-gi; now they give birth to the islands of Japan, gods and goddesses (wind, rivers, sea, trees, mountains, plains, food, etc.); giving birth to a fire god, I-mi dies]: 38-45; Nihon Shoki 1997 (1), scroll 1, 4 [when they descended to the island, God the Man (M.) and the Female Goddess (J.) built a palace and a pillar of heaven; M.: What part of your body is created? J.: There is one place in my body, called the source of the feminine, which was created. M.: There is one such place in my body, called the source of the male, which was created; I want to connect the source of the male in my body with the source of the feminine in your body; they began to bypass the Heavenly Pillar - J. on the left, and M. on the right; when they met, J. said: what a beautiful young man; M.: what a beautiful maiden; when they joined together, they gave birth to a leech child Piruco, put him in a reed boat and let him sail; then They gave birth to the islands of Apa no Sima, who is also not included in their children; they went up to heaven, the gods began to wonder and said that J. should not speak first; M. and J. repeated the ceremony and M. was the first to say: what a beautiful maiden; after which they gave birth to various gods, islands, etc.]: 119-121; Ryukyu: Maruyama 2009:32 (Okinawa - Ie Island) [the goddess came from India riding a buffalo; married her a man named Yamashiro from Ie Island; a cannibal from China wanted to eat their child, but his mother scolded him, the cannibal apologized, went inside for years, became a dragon, the patron saint of people; the boy grew up, built a house in in the middle of the island, married his sister; to do this, they went around the house], 33 (Yaeyama Islands) [sun god Kanashi told Aman to create an island, gave it clay and stones; he threw them into the sea from the sky bridge, he whipped the water with a spear, the island of Ishigaki appeared; a hermit crab (aman in the local dialect) appeared, but there were no people; the sun god sent seeds to people, from which a man and a woman were born; the Sun god told them walk around the pond from two opposite sides, they met and got together, they had three boys and two girls].

The Arctic. Kodiak [recorded by Finnish naturalist H.J. Holmberg in 1850-1851; Shilam Shoa, the lord of peace, created the earth and sky but there was no light; sent brother and sister to earth, and prohibited eating grass; the sister offered to eat herbs, maybe it would be light then; the brother did not want to, but the sister ate, it was light; both were ashamed, they went in different directions, could not escape, met in the sky; on the steps leading to heaven, they met, fell in love; five children born died; Shilam Shoa promised to sing a song, after which the children will not die; so it happened; they returned to earth, gave birth to people]: Holmberg 1985:61.

NW Coast. Bellacula [a girl steps into bear droppings, scolds bears; a man comes up, tells her to relieve her need; she puts copper jewelry under her; he does not believe, he really demands says her excrement smells worse than any animal; takes her as his wife; he is the son of a Black Bears chief; gives her lamb, then says it was human; winter goes by like one night; in spring the husband says that his wife's brother will shoot him, tells him to make a blanket out of his skin; the brother goes in front, the sister is called to carry the skin, becomes a bear if he wants; in the village he asks for bone needles, every time says that the old one is broken; the younger sister sees her inserting needles into her skin's jaw instead of her teeth; the woman turns into a bear, kills her mother, tortures her sister (something sexy, Latin); takes out her heart and lungs, hides it in his hands; brother comes, younger sister tells the Bear to shoot in the palm of her hand, she falls dead; brother and sister run, put a log through a deep ravine; Bear comes to life, chases, falls off a log; brother and sister come to the village; Toadstool and Loon send a boat for the Bear, tell crayfish and worms to bite her, she falls into the river, crayfish and worms eat her; brother tells my sister should take one road, go the other by himself, if the roads come together, they will get married; that's what happened]: Boas 1898:111-114.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [women pick berries; one girl brings nothing, says the bears messed up everything; the next day, her basket strap breaks off; everyone goes home; two people approach her Black Bears in the guise of young men; when she opens her eyes, she finds herself in a large village; all the animals take turns dancing and saying what they will feed their wife; Muskrat, Raven, Laska, Frog, Caribou, The marten is rejected, she marries the Grizzly; in the spring he says that the youngest of her four brothers will kill him; this is what happens; the brothers ask what part of the carcass she will take home; she drags her skin and head , turns into a Grizzly on the way, kills brothers, then other people; the youngest brother and sister return from squirrel hunting; the boy tells his sister to run between the Grizzly's legs; then she takes off bear skin, promises not to harm the girl; the girl asks where the Grizzly's heart is; he shows what's in the palm of his hand; the brother kills the Grizzly by hitting the palm of his hand with an arrow; says that if they run around the mountain with different sides and jump between two trees at the same time, they can marry; he manages to catch up with his sister, jump; she gets pregnant at the touch of his foot; gives birth to a son; she is killed by an ogre; brother kills an ogre, burns both bodies; goes to the village, carrying a baby on his shoulders; he kills him by spreading his throat and pulling out his tongue; in the village takes out the tongues of sleeping people; two girls who were in ritual isolation; they push the baby into the fire; its ashes turn into mosquitoes; one girl conceives from a stone and dies, the other gives birth to four Transformer Brothers; see motive J55]: Jenness 1934, No. 6:129-136; chilcotin [a girl marries a man who turns out to be a Bear; her younger brother finds her, kills a Bear; she makes her fangs first from roots, then from bone needles, turns into a Bear herself; kills everyone in the village except her younger sister; his younger brother returns from hunting, his sister tells him that the Bear keeps her life in a basket under the roof; he pierces the basket with an arrow, the Bear dies; brother and sister come to the mountain; he tells her to walk around the mountain on one side and walks around on the other; if they meet, they will get married; they meet; the sister gives birth to a son; see J46 motif]: Farrand 1900, No. 8:19-23.