B67. The tree turns into stones.. 43.56.57.59.66.

A fallen tree and (or) a stump from it turn into a mountain (mountain range) or rocks. (Usually, fruits and shoots of various cultivated plants grow on the branches of this tree, see motif G5).

The coast is the Plateau. Halkomel (cowichan) [humans and deer descend from the sky on a giant tree; tell two rats to gnaw through the trunk; the tree falls, the top of its head breaks off to form Galiano Island; there are many deer on it]: Boas 1895, No. 7:53-54.

Llanos. Guayabero: Schindler 1977a: 226-228; Sicuani: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 44-52:191-230.

Southern Venezuela. Piaroa [without details regarding tree cutting]: Boglar 1977, No. 1, 29:232-233, 286; Costanzo 1977:153, 158; Saliva [note 33 to the text on cutting wood with cassava and other cultural plants on branches: Saliva has the same myth about the origin of the mountain range (petrified remains of felled wood)]: Vargas, Kondo & Kondo 1974:201, 206 in Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 52:230; maquiritar: Barandiaran 1966:39-41; Civrieux 1960:185-188; 1980:122-139.

Guiana. Arekuna; taulipan; vapishana.

Montagna - Jurua. Chayahuita [a huge tree obscures the sun; people cannot burn vegetable gardens in the dark; Kumpanama tells Woodpeckers, Parrots, Monkeys to cut down a tree; it falls and turns into the Ungyaku Mountains] : García Tomas 1994 (3): 257.