b75b1. The sounds of the era of creation: the voice of a wife or mother-in-law.. 35.42.43.63.
The character shoves his mother-in-law or wife into the hollow, she turns into a creak of trees or an echo.
Yugi, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Quarry, Maue.
Western Siberia. Yugi [Hassynget lives with a blind mother, hunts for her; the chard comes, picks him up, leaves her daughter to the woman; H. hunts for the hell, she eats everything; he comes to his mother's house, throws meat into her pot; the woman says someone threw the crap, the hell's daughter, no, meat! H. goes back to hell, says his bow is broken; she says copper is needed here; they put a pot {a crucible full of copper?} to a big fire, H. pushes the devil into the fire, she burns; he comes to his mother; in winter he goes with the devil's daughter into the forest; at night he pours half-eaten soup into her pimas, the pimas freeze; H. runs away, knocks on every tree; the devil's daughter chases, throws one, then the second breast to hit H. in the heart, but freezes in the tree (erfror an einem Baumstamm); the crackling of trees in the cold is the devil crackles; H. returned to his mother; came to see the tree - there is a growth on it]: Werner 1997, No. 21:289-273.
NW coast. The Tlingits [enemies kill all a woman's relatives; various animals offer themselves to be her daughter's husband, she rejects them; accepts the offer of the son of the Sun; he pulls a branch out of the tree, puts her mother-in-law in the hole, puts the branch back in, turns her mother-in-law into an echo]: Swanton 1909, No. 31:125; (cf. eyak [as a result of the war between Alders and another group of people who were killed, left with a woman and daughter; animals consistently come to marry their daughter (Frog, Bird, Snipe, Blue Jay, Magpie, Malinovka, Kingfisher, Goose, Fox, Brown Bear, Black Bear, Wolverine, Goat), the mother asks each time how the groom intends to get food, rejects him; accepts the Sun's offer; he gives a woman a stick, tells her to put her on her head if he starts fire; a woman's daughter gives birth to eight sons from the Sun; the sun makes them adults; the wife wants a daughter, the Sun creates her from the end of the bow; consistently lowers her sons in the basket, everyone asks to lift him back, for spears are aimed at him on the ground; the daughter says that these are just the tops of trees, she is not afraid of them, because she is made of wood; in the fog, the children of the Sun are building a fortification on the ground, Chief Alder suspects bad things; the youngest of the sons of the Sun and his sister remained in hiding, seven went out to fight with Alders, half were shot, but also half of them are killed (then they came to life); the younger brother calls his father, he causes fever, all Alders die; contrary to the warning of the elders, the youngest says he wants to kill a colored animal, chases across the sky for an animal that is colored like a cloud; brothers return to heaven; specks on alder bark are wounds caused by the sons of the Sun]: Johnson 1978:40-43); Hyda (Skidgate) [man cuts off his head to his wife's lover, hangs on the door; this young man is the son of the leader of a neighboring village; the chief sends a slave for fire, he notices his head; the leader's warriors kill everyone, the girl remains with her mother; various animals and the birds come to marry her; the son of Togo-someone in the shining sky is accepted; the son-in-law climbs a steep mountain, tells his mother-in-law not to look; she looks, he slides down; he pulls a branch out of the tree, shoves mother-in-law into a hole, turns twigs into a creak]: Swanton 1905:341-343; Haida (Masset) [enemies killed the people of the village, left mother and daughter; Deer, Grizzly, Wolf, Marten, Eagle, Bird, more one bird asks them to marry her daughter; the mother asks what each will feed her, refuses; agrees when she hears a voice from heaven; from there the basket comes down, the daughter rises in it; the mother every morning finds some food in front of her house; one day, 9 boys and a girl, grandchildren of an old woman, descend from the sky in a basket; when they return, the grandmother tries to climb into the basket with them, a voice from the sky forbids; grandchildren get up, her son-in-law puts her grandmother in a tree, the creaking of trees her voice; a woman and her sons descend to the ground again; sons kill the murderers of their mother's brothers by firing arrows that gnaw through their throats enemies return to their master like caresses; brothers become village leaders]: Swanton 1908a, No. 77:728-741; Tsimshian [like Hyde (Skidgate); son of Heaven takes his wife and mother-in-law under his arms, rises to the sky, tells you not to open your eyes; mother-in-law opens, they fall]: Boas 1902:221-224.
The coast is the Plateau. Quarry: Jenness 1934, No. 42 [a man cuts off his wife's lover's head, puts her on a spear at the entrance to the house; the lover is a neighboring chief, his slave notices his head; relatives of the deceased destroy village, girl and mother are saved; mother rejects the matchmaking of Rabbit, Caribou, Bear, Grizzly; gives her daughter to the Sun when he shows that she can turn the earth upside down; the Sun rises to the sky carrying his wife with his mother-in-law, but the burden is heavy; he leaves his mother-in-law in the forest, pulling the branch out and shoving it into the hole in the trunk; when the wind shakes the trees, you can hear her happy laugh uh; see motive J1], 47 [enemies of all they kill; the remaining woman cries; tears fall into her bosom, she gives birth to two sons and a lame daughter; the celestial descends, explains that the children are from him; they destroy enemies and monsters; the father raises them up everyone to the sky, but the wife breaks the prohibition to open her eyes, they fall; then her husband shoves her into a tree (as in (42); the creaking of trees is her laughter]: 215-218, 229-231.
Central Amazon. Maue [see J4A motif; Harpy Eagle wears the son of monkeys; he cries, wants fish; The eagle suspects his wife has a lover bringing fish; sends a fly to watch her, kills her lover - Soko's bird, chases his son away; tells his wife to put her hand in the hollow to catch a rat; the hand gets stuck, the wife turns into a creak of trees]: Ugge 1991, No. 2:130-146.