Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

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Ethnicities and habitats

B6A. Discarded egg. 21.22.26.

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first-ancestor woman gives birth to several eggs. One or two of them lie unchanged for a long time, they are thrown into the river, believing that they are damaged. However, it is from them that high-status characters emerge (or should have emerged).

Kachari, Zeme, Shans, Miao.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kachari [Arikina, Bangla Raji's wife, laid seven eggs; in her absence, six gods, led by Alow, hatched; went to look for parents, came back, met A.; became reproach God, who they thought was in the seventh egg, for hesitating to be born; they broke the egg, and the evil spirits that now inhabit the earth flew out]: Soppitt 1885:31; zeme [titled "The birth of spirits"; there was no land, a tarot leaf was floating on the water; Bangklawong fell from the sky, saying that if his foot did not touch the water, he would be king; one leg was on the leaf and the other fell into the water; he I realized that it would be a long time before he became king; I asked everyone who could make the earth, but only King Worm (CC) replied that he could do it, but on the condition that every day there were a thousand a person died to be eaten by him; B.: but then there will be no people left; CC: but every day a thousand will be born; went down to the bottom, began to do worm casts (what the worm leaves on the sand or soil, as if a cast of a worm) until the land appeared; the raven (mr., crow, but possibly a crow) leveled it, but when he began to level the hills, he was tired, so there are rocky hills, and there are plains; in a dream, B. came to B. Tingwong and told B. to cut off two fingers, one would make a wife, the other would make a sister; the sister did everything so quickly to return with water before B. could retire with his wife; then B. scattered katsing seeds in the grass and told his sister to collect everything, otherwise she would cut her machete (dao); she completed the task and came in when B. copulated with his wife; she was so excited about the sight that she was about to lay an egg; B. told her to go to the upper reaches of Barak to Tallaurok, taking a machete, a banana and a gibbon with her to lay her eggs there; she laid 8 eggs at the waterfall, left a machete, planted a banana, and told her Guard the gibbon; Katsingpeo was the first to hatch, but got scared and climbed back; the second was Tsiuperai; then K. came out again, they began to argue who was first and in charge; 5 more eggs hatch, one remained intact; T . found a banana and a machete, cut a banana with it, served a banana to everyone, but Gibbon took them quietly for himself; T. hit Gibbon with a machete, bleed his and his brothers' eyes, now they had sight; the brothers decided that the last egg was spoiled, they threw it into the river; they decided to consider the main one who would throw the stone across the river; all the stones fell into the water, but T. accidentally threw the bumblebee and it flew to the other side; then they became throw grass stems; T. threw the snake and it crawled far; the brothers flew to her mother in the form of crows; seeing that there were only 7 of them, she decided that they were not her children; but T. called her mother, said about the eighth egg; the mother explained that whoever hatched from it would be wiser and stronger than the others; a boa constrictor was born from it; to determine who was in charge of the seven, the mother sprayed milk from her breasts; the jet went to K., but turned and fell into T.'s mouth, and from him back to K, and then to the others]: http://www.nagajournal.com/category/arts-literature/folktalesstories/ Nagajournal Oct 27, 2013.

Burma - Indochina. Shany [son of the Sun Shurya (from Sanskrit. Surya, sun) fell in love with the naked daughter Princess Thusandi; the father asked his son to join him; Th. gave birth to three eggs; Ts. sent two parrots to bring her a letter and a Manicopa gem; parrots met others forgot the errand; Taunghtu replaced the letter with bird droppings; when the parrots finally brought it to Th., she was offended, threw two of the three eggs in Ayeyarwady; one swam upstream, picked it up by a gardener. a boy hatched, named Udibwa ("Born from an Egg"); he married the daughter of the ruler Se-lan, the youngest of their two sons became Emperor of China; the eldest was descended from Palaung chiefs; the second egg swam down to Bagan, picked up by the laundress's husband and wife, put him in a gold box, a boy hatched; he became king of Pagan; the princess threw the third egg into the mountains, its fragments turned into rubies]: Ho 1967, No. 75:251-252.

China - Korea. Miao [8 sons were born in Mother Sun's cave from eggs: Thunder, Dragon, Snake, Tiger, 9-headed monster, Boa, Wolf, Monkey; the latter said that the ninth refused to go out; the Sun decided that The ninth egg was spoiled, but the voice from the egg told him not to break it, promised to leave in three days; this son was the best, he is connected to humanity]: Ho 1967, No. 76:253.