B63A. Elemental Brothers (.21.22.65.)

Several brothers turn into Thunder, Storm and other elements.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Bugun: Elwin 1958a, No. 4 [Apuphulma's wife complained on the riverbank that he was old, married by a water spirit; A. married a girl with one ear, one eye, no nose, no chin; she gave birth to strange children, whom the couple threw away; when thrown away, everyone said who he was and what he would do; 1) a stone (they would build on it, it also has rivers, they will have fish); 2) Thunder (there will be fight a sky snake that delays the rain; lightning is its burning smut); 3) Earthquake; 4) Rain (will send rain from the sky): 5) Wind; 6) Rainbow (this is a serpent, it will live in rivers, in drought will appear in the sky to call rain); 7) a poisonous snake (bitten by his mother, A. revived her, the snake began to live in the forest in a hole); 8) Diseases (parents fell ill, the hornet cured them); 9) Death (parents died, son went to others, 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 daughter Arangma; they lived on the slope of two different mountains; the bee carried a piece of dirt from her brother's skin to her sister's skin, and vice versa, they were passionate about each other, got married; Assanga went to West looking for another wife, met only an old woman with one eye, one nostril, half mouth, one hand, one chest, one leg, married her; she gave birth to 1) stone, 2) thunder Haklum, 3) god Sakatung's death (he went underground, shakes it), 4) water god Khawai (Abuja), 5) rainmaker Chakmao, lightning daughter Halia]: 112-114.

Burma - Indochina. Zyaray [childless husband and wife have lots of rice, vegetables, etc.; they ask Heaven to give them children; the wife gives birth to seven twin brothers, who eat all the supplies; the wife sends her husband to destroy the children on stone scree, then knock down a tree on them; they escape; parents defecate in containers of rice and vegetables that the returning children take; when they see that they are not needed, the brothers turn into Rain, Wind, Clouds, Heat, Thunder, etc.]: Dournes 1982:158.

The Central Andes. Brothers turn into wind, hail and frost. Wanka [an old woman sends her three sons across the river to work in the fields; they have fun telling their mother that they worked hard every time; they live in a hut, take wives; they leave them when they run out of food; brothers are starving; they come to their mother, demand meat; she cuts off the flesh from their buttocks, gives them an animal under the guise of meat; when they put it in their mouths, the ground shudders; the mother tells them that they ate; turns them into Frost (senior), Hail, Wind; god Huallallo turns mother into fertile land]: Villanes Cairo 1978:113-117; Aymara (dep. Puno): Albó, Layme 1992 [a woman sends her three grandchildren to plant potatoes; they do nothing; when it comes time to harvest, they tell her grandmother to dig potatoes on the best plot; the owner beats them a woman, tells her the truth; she blames her grandchildren; the eldest turns into hail, the middle one turns into frost, the youngest into the wind]: 63-65; Lopez, Sayritupa Asqui 1990 [widow sends three sons to process potato field; they just play, tell their mother every night that they are tired of working; when to harvest, they say that their field is the best; mother digs potatoes in the best field, its owner scolds her, explains that her field is the worst; her mother beats her sons, pulls out her elder's hair, breaks her middle leg, knocks out the youngest's eye; for several days she does not feed her sons; the elder turns into the wind, medium in hail, younger in frost; they destroy crops in neighboring fields]: 63-67; Mendoza 1981, No. 1 [the widow sends her two sons to work in the fields; they only play, each time they lie to their mothers that worked; they refuse to go to harvest, saying they are tired; they send the mother to a better field; the neighbor accuses her of stealing, explains what happened; the mother returns in tears; the sons decide to take revenge people for her tears, the eldest turns into hail, the youngest turns into frost]: 49-52; aymara (no recording) [the widow's three sons do not work; their mother digs potatoes in the neighbor's field, thinking that this is her; the owner punishes her; she cuts off and cooks a piece of her own flesh, feeds her sons with soup; they take revenge on their neighbors for their mother, turning into wind (older brother), hail (medium), frost (younger)]: Ochoa Villanueva 1975 in Souffez 1985b: 173.