B79. Space egg.. 11.-.14.17.20.-.27.29.-.32.34.38.

In the oceans or in the world's abyss, the earth, sky, stars, and creator gods emerge from eggs (eggs) or egg-like ball, shell, etc.

Fang [earth and sky], baule [sea and pumpkin land], mande (Mali) [earth, ancestors], catch-up [earth and sky], fali [earth], Ancient Egypt [sun (and something else?)] , Phoenicians [heaven and earth], Society Islands [creator], Gilbert [earth and sky], Nauru [earth and sky], Tuamotu [earth and sky], Hawaii [earth and sky], Maori [first ancestors], Tibetans [earth, elements], Hrusso [earth, elements] and sky], miri [earth], kachin [sky], hampty [earth and sky], Ancient India [earth and sky], sora [land], (haria [caste]), dayaki [earth and sky], Java [earth and sky], Samal [earth and sky], Ancient China [earth and sky] and sky], Chinese (Shaanxi) [earth and sky], Gansu [earth and sky], Shanxi [earth and sky], Henan [earth and sky], Shandong [earth and sky], Ancient Greece (orphics) [earth and sky], Karachays [earth and sky], ( Ingush [the earth is egg-shaped]), Avesta [earth and sky], Sami [animals, plants, people], Karelians and Finns [earth and sky, stars], Kalevala [earth and sky], Ingrians [stars], Estonians [stars], counselors [probably not known as Ingrians and Estonians], Mordovians [earth and sky], Chuvash [earth and sky], Komi [earth, two creators], Siberian Tatars [earth and sky, stars], Tofalars [earth], Japanese [earth and sky].

Bantu-speaking Africa. Fang [at the beginning is an egg-shaped mushroom; it cracked, the top formed the sky, the bottom of the earth; both parts were connected to form an eggshell, from which the sun, moon, stars, rivers, wild animals, trees, etc., as well as Alonkok's progenitor mother; the lightning was in a special little egg inside the big one; it escaped, became dangerous for A., the lightning was sent to heaven; A. placed it in the sky the sun (illuminate, warm) and the moon (as a measure for women's cycles); A. gave birth to twins Nkombodo and Odangemeko, as well as Maböge and his sister, and those of the great god Nsambe and the woman from whom she descended humans; Nkombodo gave all animals and plants to Maböge and then Nsambe, who gave them names and they ran away except goats and sheep]: Tessmann 1913: Pettersson 1956:97, Kotlyar 2009, No. 31:54; (cf. fang [Mebege and the Diboia spider were between water and sky; D. advised to create earth; M. took the hair from under his arm, added something from his brain, dipped it, took out the pebbles, turned out an egg, put it in sea, told D. to bring the egg when it was hot; he brought it, M. added sperm, the god Zame ye Mebege, his sister Nying Mebege, his brother Nlona Mebege, responsible for evil, came out of the egg; ZM saw a raffia palm tree (leaf) in the sea, transformed it into a cross responsible for the four directions of the world; took hair from under my arm, my brain, made ants and termites, and their bowel movements formed earth; she grew up at sea, hardened; ZM and his sister and brother came out of the egg, set foot on the ground; ZM erected a cross, it became a raffia palm; then created people]: Scheub 2000:147-148).

West Africa. Baule [a peasant planted a pumpkin seed; the vine grew fast, but there was only one pumpkin on it, a huge one day; one day a farmer knocked on a pumpkin with a knife and said: my pumpkin is not ripe yet; the pumpkin took it away from a knife, knocked on him and said: my man is not yet ripe; the same for the second time; on the third, the pumpkin swallowed the peasant, and then all the people and animals in the village; then in other villages; towards him goat; the third blow of the horns split the pumpkin in half; one gave rise to an ocean, and the other gave rise to a land of valleys and mountains]: Paulme 1976:280-281; Mande (Mali) [a pair of twins appeared in the egg, Faro and Pemba; P. came out ahead of time, dragging along part of the placenta from which the earth arose; he copulated with it, because of this (intercourse was incestuous), the earth was unclean; F.'s body was dismembered, in parts trees appeared; the god Mangala revived F., sent to earth in an ark from the placenta, where he also placed the first ancestors of humans, animals and plants]: Scheub 2000:138; catch-up [first Amma (woman- creator) in the shape of an egg; it split into air, earth, fire and water, and east, south, west and north also formed. This attempt at creation failed]: Scheub 2000:17.

Sudan - East Africa. Fali [first two eggs, a turtle and a frog, from which two lands arose, fused together; underneath them is the water that existed before]: Lembezat 196:171-172.

North Africa. Ancient Egypt: Salonen 1969 [in all versions, primary waters first; The Creator (most often named Nun) raises Ta-Tjenen from the bottom of the hill; in Hermopolis, the hill is raised by Thoth, placed on it the egg, the sun hatches from it, soars to the sky; in Heliopolis, the lotus opened in the morning, released sunlight; in the evening it opened again, took the sun for the night]: 118-119; Mathieu 1956 [mentions are found either about an egg made of earth and moisture that appeared on the first hill that rose from the initial chaos (Harris Magic Papyrus, IV, 10-15), or about the egg of the "great Gogotun" (Book of the Dead, ch. IV and VI), demolished to the ground; based on such texts, one can get an idea of the legend that on the original hill there was a nest in which a goose egg appeared sun; in later times, the goose was the personification of the god of the earth Geb]: 78.

Western Asia. The Phoenicians (Sidon) [(Damascus, citing Mocha; Moss, according to Strabo, lived in Sidon before the Trojan War - first the south and north winds were born, then Ulom ("century"); Ulom's offspring were Khusor and the world's egg; H. split the egg, created the sky from its upper half, from the lower earth]: Tsirkin 2000:137, 392.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Gilbert (Nonouti Atoll, Western 1963-1964): Koch 1966:15-19 [at first neither earth nor sky, everything is as if in a shell with Nareau on its bulge; he began to stomp to make the sky and the ground was hard; he saw people lying in the depths of the dark shell, stirred them with a stone tied to a fishing line, they gave their names; he bent their stiff joints with them; raised the sky a little, but it it was still low and flat; N. called Katimoi, who caught a squid, cut off two tentacles, made bait out of them, caught Riki (a giant eel, moray eel) with it; R. began to raise the sky; N. told K. support R. in the middle; ordered the stingray to pierce the muscle of the {world shell} with thorns so that it would no longer close and the sky would remain high; cut off the tip of R.'s tail, which made the current moray eel; N. threw a mother-of-pearl shell, it became the sun, the shell of a sea snail became the moon; N. lives in Samoa, his wife was Thunder, their two sons were lightning], 20-21 [the earth and sky seemed to be closed shell; Nareau cut through east, west, north and south; standing on a bulge, N. spoke, saying the name Riki (big eel, moray eel), the sky split with the earth, people could be seen inside, they began to move; N. told the Nei Aibong woman to catch the Tikutikutaungaunga bird, tied a rope to it, let it go to people, told NA to name their names; after recognizing them, N. became the master of the people; touched them, they became strong; a little they raised the sky; but it was connected to the ground by a muscle, N. told the stingray to pierce it; Ricky did not want to raise the ground, bit a man who came up; N. caught him with a horn, Ricky raised the sky; N. cut off his tail, he fell, became a moray eel, Ricky himself is the Milky Way]; Nauru [Hambrush 1914:273ff; Areop Enap ("big spider") found the tridacna, opened it, told the Riki caterpillar to raise the upper leaf, it turned into the sky; the lower one became earth; he turned the other two shells into the moon and the sun]: Dobbin 2011:200; Tahiti [Ta'aroa was inside the Rumia egg; came out, picked up the upper part of the shell into eggs, making it the sky; at first the sky was close to the ground; the Great Octopus held the earth and sky, its four tentacles supported them on four cardinal points; T. created Atea ("Space"), the goddess of heaven; created the first pair is Tumu-nui ("The Great Foundation") and his wife Paparaharaha ("Rock Base"); by Papa-tuoi ("Thin Earth") A. gave birth to Sky Builders, who built 10 celestial layers; at the very top, god Tane; by Rua-tupua-Nui ("The Source of Great Power") A. gave birth to all heavenly bodies; her third husband Fa'a-Hotu ("Making Fertile"); she changed sex with him, they gave birth to Ru; he raised the Sky, but not enough; then Maui cut off the octopus tentacles that held the world, they fell into the sea, turned into the Australian Islands; called God Tane from heaven; he fixed holes in the sky and raised it to its current height]: Henry 1928:336-344 (paraphrase in Makemson 1941:50-51, 68-69); Society Islands (Raiatea) [1) at first, Tangaroa was inside the egg; he reached out with his hands out and spread the light; looking down, the sand called. stones to themselves, they replied that they would not be able to climb; he went down himself, expanded the world; 2) T. lived in the sink, pushed it from within, the world became big]: Williamson 1933 (1): 19; Tuamotu [inside the world's egg was Te Tumu ("Foundation") and Te Papa ("Earth"); the egg split, forming three terrestrial and ten celestial tiers; TT and TP remained on the lowest tier of the Earth, giving birth to humans, animals, and plants; strongmen stood on each other's shoulders and raised the sky up so that even the tallest palm trees could straighten out; only the Warrior (Aito) and his wife Earth (Fenua) did not want to change the horizontal positions; people multiplied, pierced holes, going first to the second tier, then to the surface of our earth]: Henry 1928:347 (retelling in Makemson 1941:52-53); Hawaii: Beckwith 1970 [father to heaven Wakea and mother earth Papa gave birth to a calebas; V. split her, the sky arose from the upper half thrown into the sky, from the pulp of the sun, from the seeds of the star, from the flesh of the white film, the moon from the ripe white film, from the ripe white film cloud pulp, rain from juice, land and sea from the lower half]: 304-305 (more briefly in Makemson 1941:52); Makemson 1941 [the bird laid an egg on the water; the upper part of the shell became the sky, the lower earth, Hawaiian contents]: 51-52; Tyerman, vol.1:523 in Williamson 1933 (1) [Tangaroa, in the guise of a bird, laid an egg on the surface of primary waters; the egg burst, giving birth to heaven, earth, etc.]: 19; Maori [a bird flew above the waters, dropped an egg, it swam, then split, inside were a boat, a man, an old woman, a boy, a girl, a pig, a dog, a couple of chickens; they got on a boat, sailed to New Zeeland]: Makemson 1941:52.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: Ogneva 1982 [nine eggs came from a pair of heavenly deities, rolled to different countries; an egg with a white shell is the country of lha, the sky, the golden one is the sabdag, the earth, the iron egg is the country demons lud, turquoise - country of lu, crystal - nien, copper - syn, stone - geg spirits, diamond - Chew]: 510; Hermanns 1946-1949 [five appeared from moisture and wind eggs, of which Wind, Fire, Water, Earth, Ether were born; bon ti bse ru says that the nucleus of the five elements came from a huge egg]: 282-283, 833; 1971:161 [bon religion: five came from an egg elements; from the outer shell - Gesterfels {perfume rock?} , connecting heaven and earth; from the inner liquid, the sea; from the denser inner parts, six living beings; from the very middle, a wonderful child who became king Ye smon], 162 [Buddhism: Bodisatwa Avalokiteshvara became a monkey and gave birth to six eggs with the mountain demoness, from which six living beings came out - spirit, non-human, human, beast, devil, hunger spirit]; chrusso (aka) [at first only two eggs, they collided, crashed, from one came the Earth, from the other her husband Heaven; Heaven asked the Earth to shrink so that he could hug her; it shrunk, valleys and mountains appeared; Heaven and Earth gave birth to everyone living things and plants]: Elwin 1958a, No. 9:15-16; Hill Miri [some water penetrated into Chingum-Erum in her sleep, she complained to her husband about the cold, gave birth to an egg 20 days later; it burst, from it Sichi land appeared, big Togle mountains, small Togji hills]: Elwin 1958a, No. 7:15; kachins [fish swam in the ocean, Mutum poured land on it, the female spirit laid an egg on the ground, the lower half of the egg remains on the ground, the upper one has become a heavenly vault; var: the earth is poured on a crab or Shirutru crocodile; when S. tosses and turns, earthquakes occur]: Chesnov 1982:188.

Burma - Indochina. Hampty [first there is water everywhere; Phra put earth on the fish's back, told the female to lay the egg, cut it, put one half on the ground, made the other in the sky; the first man came out of the tree flower and woman; the Rajis came out of the first egg]: Elwin 1958a, No. 11:17.

South Asia. Mahabharata (kn.12), Shatapadha-brahmana (book 11) [the waters created fire, the Golden Egg appeared under the influence of heat, swam in the ocean; Brahma arose from the Golden Embryo; broke the egg, the upper half became Heaven, the lower Earth; between them B. placed air, established the earth among the waters, created the countries of light, marked the beginning of time]: Temkin, Erman 1982, No. 1:15; Rigveda [egg split in two, from the silver part came the earth, from the golden part the sky, from the contents of the mountain, clouds, lightning, the sun]: Dähnhardt 1907:19 in Hellbom 196:67-68; litter (Hill Saora) [the earth is gone under water; Ramma and Bimma lived in the sky, they had a chicken and a rooster; the chicken laid seven eggs; the eighth fell into the sea, crashed, the squirrel spread, became dry; the shell turned into rocks]: Melwin 1954, No. 13:9; (cf. haria [God created heaven and earth, then pava, she laid an egg, it burst, haria came from the shell, the purana (Hindu caste) from the squirrel, and Bhanja (the dominant family in Mayurbhanj) from the yolk )]: Roy, Roy 1937:26 in Kapp 1977:13-14).

Malaysia-Indonesia. Dayaki [was water, and two bird-like spirits, Ara and Iraq, swam on it; they dived, picked up two lumps of firmament from the water, the size and shape of a chicken egg each; from A. created the sky from one, I. created the earth from the other; it turned out that the end of the earth extended beyond the edge of the sky; they squeezed the earth, valleys and mountains appeared; trees and other plants grew on their own; A. and I. had been looking for this for a long time a tree whose sap would resemble blood; when found, they could not turn the tree into a human; then they sculpted a man and woman, the ancestors of the Dayaks, out of clay]: Dunn 1906:16 (paraphrase pointing to the motive diving into Zolotarev 1964:220; Hatt 1949:32; there is no diving motif in the original, lumps of firmament are picked up from the surface or from the water); Java [sky, earth and moon arose from the original egg]: Baumann 1955:59 in Hellbom 1963:70; Sumatra []: Haavio 1952:59 in Hellbom 1963:70.

The Philippines. Samal [a ball floated on the waters; at the request of the supreme deity, it split; half rose and turned into a seven-layer sky; the other remained below, turned into a seven-layer earth]: Eugenio 1994, No. 40:96.

China - Korea. Ancient China (just south?) [at first the world was inside Hun-tun (more of a bag than an egg; "chaos")]: Eberhard 1937, #57:98-99; Chinese (Gansu, Wu. Jingning) [Once upon a time, heaven and earth were in the same chicken egg and everything was dark and dark. A giant named Pangu appeared, sleeping in this egg for several hundred years. One day he yawned, reached out, heard a rumble, and the egg split. He got out of the dark egg and stood as a pillar, and he was ninety thousand or so tall. He saw that there was nothing around him, stamped his foot angrily, and fragments of the shell fell down. He pushed away from them and rose into the void. The fragments of the egg turned into the ground, and the place where it stood turned into the sky. After heaven and earth separated from each other, the earth was white and white. When Pangu saw this, he became upset and cried. His tears became rain and his sobs became thunder. To this day, when thunder comes, raindrops fall from the sky. The air he breathed out turned into wind and clouds. In the end, he died from sobbing, and one of his eyes turned into the sun and the other into the moon. His body fell on eggshell fragments and turned into mountains, blood vessels into rivers, muscles into roads, hair on his head into trees, and bones and teeth into silver lying underground]: Zhou Yang et al. 2001, No. 2:3-4; Chinese (Shaanxi) [there was a large stone egg in the world; it rotated, the stone inside crumbled, turned into soil; a man grew from the soil like a chicken; he lay in a curled pose, and therefore he was called Panren ("curled up man"); he was the first human, so he was popularly called Pangu ("curled up ancient"); when his body was formed, he woke up and found only stone and darkness around him; sculpted an ax out of the ground and began waving it; the stone around it split easily, and the one next did not give in; then P. cried, his tears mixed with breakaway stones and formed mountains; he continued to cry, tears flowed like rain, formed seas; therefore, the sea water was bitter and salty; P. continued to cut the stone, sparks fell, and took off up, turned into stars; one day he hit with all his might, cut off two large stones, they flew up and turned into fireballs - the moon and the sun; the stone egg split and blew through the cracks cold wind; P. strained and began to grow, lifting the upper half of the stone egg, and it turned into a blue sky; while P. grew, the breakaway stones also grew and turned into mountains, and their fragments into yellowness and plains; the sky separated from the ground, P. grew old, he felt lonely, he made many clay men out of yellowland and breathed life into them; one day he injured his hand, and where he dripped it blood, herbs and flowers grew; he was happy and began to water the ground with his blood, but soon died, and his bones turned into trees; when P. raised the Sky, he looked down, saw Mount Jifeng, and stuck it in she has her own ax; the mountain has settled and took its current form with a crevice in the middle]: Zhou Yang et al. 1996, No. 2:4; Chinese (Shanxi, wu. Wenxi) [after many Kalpas, the world's egg split, Pangu came out of it; the top of the shell became the sky, the bottom became the earth; stars appeared in the sky, mountains, rivers, plants and animals on the ground; P. hit himself his face, his nose bleed, he mixed it with clay, sculpted many men and women; when he was in a good mood, he sculpted beautiful ones, when in bad, ugly; put them to dry, combining beautiful ones with beautiful; but it rained, P. raked everyone together, carried them to the cave, the beautiful and the ugly mixed; after 49 times for 49 days, people came to life]: Zhou Yang et al. 1999, No. 1-3; Chinese (Henan, city Jiyuan) [There is another one east of Mount Wangu, on the slope of which is Pangu Monastery. Pangu was born there. P. had neither a father nor a mother; he was born inside a huge chicken egg, and after being formed, he slept there for eighteen thousand years. When I woke up, I felt that his body seemed to be connected. He straightened his arms and legs, the egg crumbled. From P.'s movements, chaos began to fluctuate, the lung rose up, turned into a sky, the heavy one fell, became earth, and there was a small crack between heaven and earth. P. saw that the sky was too close, put his hands on the sky with his hands, began to push him up, growing one zhang every day, and the sky was also one zhang taller. It's been like this for another 18,000 years. P. grew by 90,000 or, and the sky rose by ninety thousand. Hence the saying about the "nine-layer sky". From fatigue, P. became sweaty, exhausted and died. Before I died, I thought that heaven and earth were not enough; there must be sun and moon, mountains and rivers, people and animals. But he had already fallen from fatigue and couldn't create them. Before he died, he said he was leaving his body to the world. When he died, one eye turned into the sun, the other into the moon, his breath into wind and clouds, his voice into thunder, his arms and legs into mountains, his bones into ores, his blood into rivers, his hair into flowers, herbs and trees, his soul - into humans, livestock, birds, animals, insects and fish. The egg shell from which P. came out ended up under the mountain and turned into a shining, smooth folded stone. The carcasses made from it do not allow water to pass through. To honor P., a monastery was built on this site. Option (y. Tongbo): When heaven and earth were not yet separated, P. existed dressed and shod in clouds. Once a ball blocked his way, he split it with an ax. Air came out of the balloon and it began to descend. P. stood on him, fell asleep, and when he woke up several tens of thousands of years later, he found that his cloud clothes and shoes had disappeared, the balloon had turned into the ground, and the sky appeared above the ground. P. became the first person]: Zhou Yang et al. 2001b, No. 1:3-4; Chinese (Shandong, Wu. Liangshan) [heaven and earth were not separated, there were no people; Pangu slept between heaven and earth; grew rapidly in his sleep, reaching ninety thousand in length and width; woke up, opened his eyes and saw darkness; I groped and came across an egg, broke it with one blow, the world changed; heaven and earth split; the squirrel turned into clear sky and white clouds, and the yolk into the ground; P. laughed, and his pores turned into stars, body hairs into forests and grass, eyes into sun and moon, eye sockets into oceans, arms, legs and head into five mountain peaks, bones into mountain ranges, and sweat into rivers; when P. was angry, then he began to breathe intermittently, and his breath turned to wind and rain; sometimes he would stretch out his legs and clap his hands; this was the cause of thunder and lightning, as well as the earthquake]: Zhou Yang et al. 2007, No. 1:3.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece (Orphics): Haavio 1952:54 in Hellbom 1963 [Time gave birth to Chaos and Ether; Chaos laid a sparkling, silver-white egg, from which Phanes was born, who created heaven and earth from shells]: 66-67; Makemson 1941 [Night in the guise of a black bird laid an egg; Eros came from it; the top of the egg became Father Heaven Uranus, the bottom became Mother Earth Gaia, they gave birth to gods]: 52.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Karachays (and apparently the Balkarians) [the world is covered with water; on the water lies a huge monster that looks like a snake; on its back live two twin brothers Erreity (Erre), Teiri and Choppau (Choppey) -Tairi; about their home begins a mountain, the top of which is at the back of the head of a snake (jelke); in the middle of the mountain there is a cave from which a crow flew out and quarreled two brothers over a golden bowl and a huge knife; a bowl and a knife (sword?) the snake fell off the crown; the struggle over objects has been going on for 999 years; Thu, grabbing a knife, sticks it into the crown of ET, from which a white liquid flows out that covers the entire sea; the wounded ET goes into the cave; The raven, grabbing the bowl, he decided to carry it away, but, catching on the mountain, he misses it into the sea; the bowl melts, turns into a monster that looks like a turtle; the turtle laid an egg because (explains the narrator) that THU hit it; a tree has grown on its shell; the egg is snatched by a raven, but when it catches on the crown of the tree, it misses it; the egg breaks against the turtle shell, leaving it 19,000 souls; ET sometimes leaves the cave in guise snake; glaciers appeared from the egg film; in conspiracies and snake spells, it is called Er-Jilan, whose habitat is the underworld]: Karaketov 1995:74-75, 236 [the whole world appeared from a turtle egg]; (cf. Ingush ["The earth was formed before God, it looks like an egg and stands on a board, the board on the sea, and the sea in some "darkness". If God wants, he will lay the whole earth in an egg (the uncertainty of the size of the earth). At first, the ground had a soft, cotton wool surface, so that the foot went deep into the ground. In order for the earth to become stronger, God formed mountains 20 years after the earth appeared"]: Akhriev 1875:8).

Iran - Central Asia. Avesta (Bundakhishn): Braginsky, Lelekov 1980 [The world is created in the shape of an egg, where the earth is like a yolk, the sky is like a shell]: 562; Kryukova 2005 [Avesta's 13th jasht: the sky surrounds the earth from all sides, like a bird-egg]: 124-125; Zoroastrianism: Lukas 1894:228 in Hellbom 1963 (Ninokhired's Sasanian manuscript) [heaven, earth, water, and everything else were like an egg, created by Ahura, Earth like a yolk]: 67; Minokhired XLIV, 8 [heaven, earth, waters, and everything under the sky are arranged like a bird's egg; Akhura Mazda created the sky above and the earth below; the earth is like an egg yolk]: Krappe 1938:255 (then Haavio 1952:56); kafirs (group not specified) [before the sky was one with the earth; the sky rested on the tops of the mountains, as the roof rests on the pillars that support it; Krumai lived on in the sky and streams of water poured from there in the form of rain; when the sky rose and separated from the ground, Krumai descended into the mountain gorges by a ray of sunlight thrown from the sky like a bridge to the top of the big Archie]: Abayeva 1978:117.

Baltoscandia. The Sami [was the head of an old man with wells on the crown; the thunder crushed his hat, streams of water escaped, rising to the sky, flooded the ground; the duck sees a blade of grass syyin in the ocean, that grows into the ground; the duck lays five eggs; of which 1) vegetation, 2) birds (the first duck, then the gray goose, the white swan, the crow, the pyz-kydtsynke bird) and fish, 3) animals, 4) a 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 seashore; after going all over the earth, they meet again; they descended from them human genus]: Czarnoluski 1922:84-85; Estonians: Viidalepp 1980 [the well-known "Creation Song" (Loomine; most popular in central northern Estonia and on the SW coast); the bird appears above the sea in search of a nest; makes a nest in a golden bush; puts three eggs there, incubates three chicks; turns one of the chicks (or one of the eggs) into the sun, the other into the moon, third in the star]: 55-56; Tedre 1969, No. 1 (Haljala) [an apple tree on the mountain, a branch on the apple tree, a flower on the branch, an apple (from) the flower, the wind tore it off, threw it into the water, into the spring, the apple was born blue-mottled a bird flew to our alder, aspen tree, to our pine grove, to our pasture, there are three bushes on our pasture, blue, red and golden, a blue-mottled bird made a nest in golden, laid eggs, sat chicks, made one a month, another a star, the third by the sun (=Laugaste 1998:9-10)], 2 (Jõhvi) [the bird flew around the world, across a large lake, looking for a place to lay eggs, did not find it, rejected a blue bush, a red bush, chose a golden one, bred chicks, made one berries, the other with stones in the field, the third month, the fourth by the sun; the berries are harvested, the stones are used to make beer, the sun counts down the time, the month counts down the clock], 3 (Karuse) [men, women, girls, guess what (the appeal repeats before every next question) is under our yard? - Sea. - What's in the sea? - Island. - What's in the middle of the island? - Apple tree. - The apple tree has 6 branches. - The apple tree has 6 flowers. - The apple is multicolored. The wind blew him into the sea. A colorful bird rose from the sea, flew to our pasture, made a nest at the top of the spruce tree, bred chicks, gave one the lower world, another clouds, the third Morning Star, the fourth North Star, the fifth Big Dipper, sixth month old, seventh Pleiades, now we count the time, we know the hours], 4 (Halliste) [the swallow made a nest in a steam-plowed field, laid three eggs, the first chick became the Morning A star in the lower world, the second by the sun in the world on the surface, the third by a month in the sky]: 13, 14, 14-15, 15; Finns, Karelians [Karelian runes about birds are known (duck, eagle, goose, swallow, etc.) flying over the waters of the primary ocean in search of a place to nest; the bird lays an egg (3 or 7 eggs) on the knee of Väinämöinen, the only inhabitant of the ocean (in Kalevala, on his knee) mother V., air maiden Ilmatar), or to a hill in the middle of the ocean; the egg rolls down the knee (down the hill), breaks; the sky forms from its upper part, the earth from the lower part, the sun from the yolk, the sun from the yolk, and the squirrel for a month , from "colorful parts" - stars; according to Ukhta Karelian runes, three eggs laid by an eagle are swallowed by a pike, but an eagle rips open the belly of a pike; in some runes, the bird itself creates the world, in others by V. (more often he is the creator of the landscape, the relief of the seabed)]: Eichenwald 1982:163-164; Karelians: Evseev 1950, No. 30 [Väinämöini catches salmon with a fishing rod without realizing that it is an underwater maiden Vellamo; she says that she did not go out to be eaten, but to become a wife; V. repents of her lack of guessness; for nine years V. wanders, installing underwater rocks and shallows; raised his knee, the goose demolished he had six eggs, the seventh was iron; his knee became hot, V. straightened his leg, his eggs fell into the sea; the yolk became the sun, the squirrel became a month, the shell fragments were stars], 95 [Lemmingjani tells us not to shoot Väinämönen, otherwise songs will disappear on the ground; shot at the horse, V. fell into the sea, swam there with a log for seven years; the duck was looking for a place to sit, laid an egg on V.'s knee, the lower half became earth, the upper sky, pieces stars, white by the moon, yolk by the sun]: 76-79, 213-214; Ingrians: Kiuru 1990, No. 2 [the swallow flew by 9 seas, found blue, red, yellow hummocks in the middle of the tenth, made a nest, set aside three eggs, the wind flew in, the waves ran in, the eggs fell into the water; the swallow asked the blacksmith to tie her an iron rake with copper teeth; with this rake she took half a protein, made it the sun, and half a yolk - moon; made stars out of crumbs]: 36-37; Kiuru et al. 1974, No. 1 (zap. 1965) [about the same; 47 options in total]: 253-254, 488; Kuusi 1956 in Sarv, Sarv 1979b [the bird finds a hummock in the sea, makes a nest; the wind rolls the egg into the water, takes it out with a rake, makes it heavenly bodies]: 449; counselors (Õgõperä): Ariste 1986:30 [excerpt, No. XIV.14.1; the swallow flew on a summer day, played on a dark night, looked for land to sleep, lay grass, lay eggs, leaves to rest ], 66 [the informant no longer remembered; said that Izhora women sang this way, but the text was in good water], 77 [water versions can be borrowed from Izhora]; Kalevala. Rune 1:35-43. The daughter of the air descends into the sea, where, pregnant with wind and water, she becomes the mother of water; the Duck makes a nest on her lap and lays eggs there; the eggs roll out of the nest, break into pieces, they turn into earth, sky, sun, moon and clouds; the mother of water makes capes, bays, shores, depths and shoals; Väinämöinen is born to the mother of water, rushes along the waves for a long time until it reaches land; ( cf. Veps [western 1943; a duck (sotk - "dive") flies across the sea, sits on a hummock, lays three eggs, hatches three chicks, puts the eldest in a groove, the middle one in a net, the youngest in a sediment; where does she go by yourself? Sing on the roads with a crane, tapping on the swamp]: Sovijärvi, Peltola 1982:64 in Vinokurova 2006:50).

Volga - Perm. Komi-Zyryans: Plesovsky 1972 (Western 1923 in the village. Prondor, P.G. Doronin's list) [the duck is swimming, does not know where to lay its eggs; four are swallowed in the depths, kept the last two under its wing, of which the ducklings Yong and Omöl hatched; the mother asked them to get the lost eggs from the bottom, break them on her body, took off herself, killed herself against the water; E. dived, O. shouted, the water was covered with ice, O. broke the ice with thunder and lightning; E. hit the egg he had brought about the mother's body, the body grew, turned into land, the sun appeared from the broken egg; he brought a second egg, angel assistants came out of it; O. brought two eggs covered with mud; threw one up, arose moon; from the second he made helpers - evil spirits; E. made useful birds and animals, O. - reptiles; E. sculpted Adam's man, blew, revived; O. sculpted a woman, could not revive her, E. revived her; wife gave birth to 12 daughters, killed them herself at the instigation of O.; E. cursed her, she turned into death, her daughters became ill; from A. E. created Eve; O. seduced her, so the offspring were bad; E. made the first heaven, O. higher than the second, E. the third, etc., seven in total; E. destroyed the lower six with thunder and lightning, over O. and his assistants into forests, swamps and rivers; E. asked the demon leader Anthus if he and his army could climb into three pots; threw pots into hell, one crashed, some of the demons remained on the ground]: 39-41 (=Sidorov 1924, 1-2:24; =Limerov 2005, No. 2:17-20); Mordovians: Mainof: 107 in Latin 1933 [Fim-paz, after creating the land from sand brought by Shaitan from the bottom of the sea by his command, lay down to rest under a tree; under under the influence of the grace of his breath, the tree grew; he slept for 30 years, then for another 30 years (climbing a tree); saw an egg on the ground, broke it, a girl came out of it; said that she was a daughter, he replied no, wife; this is the mother goddess of the Mordovian pantheon]: 21; Devyatkina 1998:33 [less common is the story about the creation of the world Ina Narmon (moksh.), Ina Narmun (zrzya), the Great Bird; she lays the World Egg (Ine al, Otsyu al), the world is created from it: the round Earth from the embryo of an egg, from the shell, the heavenly and underground firmament]; Chuvash [CHGI, interpretation of priest Andrei Senchukov: Tură threw seed on the waters, it turned into an egg, fertilized, crashed, producing earth and sky]: Salmin 2004:154.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars [Sky, Earth, Sun, Moon and Stars formed from a duck egg]: Urazaleev 2005:4; tofalars [the first duck flew, sat down, laid an egg, it burst; the liquid formed lake, shell to earth]: Rassadin 1996, No. 7:15.

Japan. Japanese: Nihon-Shoki translated by T. Obayashi, Ôbayashi 1976 [at first earth and sky, yin and yang, were not separated, but were a mass like an egg that had no definite boundaries and contained embryos; the cleaner part rose and soon formed the sky and more became earth, but it took longer; gods were between them; the earth swam on the water, as if a reed had escaped from it, it was Kuni-tokotachi no Mikoto (kami); (then o the appearance of other gods)]: 8; Numazawa 1946:83 in Hellbom 1963 [1) recorded by one of the European Jesuits in the 16th century; the world was a round egg; the wind broke the egg, the white formed the sky, the yolk, and the shell - sea and land; 2) Frobenius without reference to the source: the bull rolled an egg out of the sea, the light and clean rose to the sky, the heavy dark one became the earth]: 69.