C10A. Birds cling to the sky, A2211.1. .42.47.50.

During the flood, some birds escape by clinging to the sky with their beaks. Wed. A2211.7 ("In a flood, birds cling to the sky; their tails take on their current color").

Tlingit, tunic, chitimacha, biloxi, choctaw, alabama, koasati, havasupai, western apache, pima, papago.

NW Coast. Tlingits: Veniaminov 1940 (3) [there was no light; a man hides his wife in a box, kills his sister's children out of jealousy; she, on the advice of her mother, swallows sea pebbles, gives birth to Elya, hides him from her brother ; E. kills a forty-like bird, puts on its skin, sticks his nose into the sky, puts a duck skin on his mother; E. opened the box with his uncle's wife, his uncle threw it into the sea, E. came back to the bottom; uncle caused a flood, Uh . stuck his nose into the sky, after the flood fell west on algae, these are Queen Charlotte Islands; picked up chips of gigantic pine in his nose, where he flew, threw it, where it grows]: 38-43; Kamensky 1906 [fir for Only one toyon built dumplings; he kept his wife in a drawer; she was guarded by 8 birds that flew out if someone came into contact with a woman; his sister Kikuhinshi (daughter of Kikuhinshi) had eight sons; out of jealousy, the uncle took everyone to sea, threw them overboard, or hammered them in hollows; K. ran away, took Heron as her husband; she brought her a pebble, she swallowed it (or gave a pebble Killer Whale, or Killer Whale advised me to swallow it); K. gave birth to a son, El (Raven); he opened the box with his uncle's wife; he locked it in the deck, E. broke it; uncle caused a flood, E. put on the skin of a magpie, he clung to the sky with his beak, its tail and wings became wet; put a duck skin on his mother; after the flood, E. fell into the sea on seaweed, the sea otter transported it to land (or E. sank directly to land); picked up cones in his beak and fir chips, distributed fir trees around the world, taught people how to make dumplings]: 71-75 (translated in Kamenskii 1985:59-60); Golder 1907c [jealous keeps his wife in a box, kills his sister's sons; she swallows hot a stone, gives birth to a Raven; he opens the box, copulates with his uncle's wife; he causes a flood; the raven hangs under the sky, with its beak into it; hides spruce chips in its beak; after the flood, a forest grows out of them] : 290-292; De Laguna 1972:844-845 [kills her sister's newborn sons every time; she cries, a man advises her to heat and swallow a pebble; she gives birth to a Yale son (Raven) secretly from her brother; Raven put the mother in the skin of a duck; asks people where the Month keeps his wife, they say what she is hiding in the box; the raven pulls her hair out of her armpits, throws her into a smoke hole, they turn into woodpecker feathers; fly in the face for the Month, he causes a flood in anger; mother Raven swims like a duck, he himself clung to the sky with his beak; after the flood, he came out of the crow's skin, took his mother out of the duck's skin], 848-849 [jealous A month kills her sister's newborn sons, and daughters, just in case; a killer whale tells a woman to swallow a pebble; she heats a pebble, swallows, gives birth to a Raven (some informants: he is a son Killer whales); he pulls the wife of the Month (she is a bird) out of the box, he plucks her (var.: her feathers are under her arms), throws feathers; the Month raises to heaven, causes a flood; The raven saves his mother by placing her in the skin of a duck, and yourself - climbing into the skin of a snipe, clinging to the sky with its beak].

Southeast USA. Tunic [woodpecker clings to the sky, its tail and wings take on their current appearance]: Haas 1950, No. 5:63; Swanton 1911 [woodpecker and dove]: 323; chitimacha [two people during the flood escape in a clay vessel; the woodpecker clings to the sky, the end of the tail remains in muddy water, changes color; when the water begins to fall, he is sent to search for land, returns without finding it; The dove brings a grain of sand; it is placed on water, land grows out of it]: Swanton 1911:357-358; biloxi [during a flood, birds (three types of woodpeckers in particular) cling to the cloud, their tails remain in the water, becoming pointed]: Dorsey, Swanton 1912, No. 15:43-44; choctaw: Mould 2004:73-75 [(Cushman 1899:303-305); it got dark, bison, deer came to people's homes; then the sun rose in the north; Messengers came running with the news of the impending flood; people began to make rafts, but the bears gnawed the ropes of the vine, the rafts fell apart, the people drowned; Penibki (the "boat builder") built a sturdy boat, escaped in it with his family; eagles, hawks and similar birds clutched their claws into the sky; after the flood they returned to earth; a crow appeared, P. sent her to search for land, but she did not pay attention to it; a dove flew in with a leaf in its beak, slowly flew west so P. could follow him; they sailed to the mountain], 75-76 [Swanton 1928b:2 [{about the same in Cushman 1899:285-287, =Swanton 1931:205; birds clinging to the sky are woodpeckers and nuthatches - sapsackers, yellow hammers, woodpeckers}; people stopped complying with laws, obeying chiefs (authorities); while everyone was dancing, it rained, then the flood from the east flooded everything; sapsucker, red head, wood-knocker soar to the sky, but their tails have been soaked in water, since then they have lost some of their feathers there (notched and forked); since then, woodpeckers (red heads), chicks with black heads fly high into the sky at night and their heads turn red there]; screams [the woodpecker clings to the sky, its tail becomes disheveled]: Haas 1950, No. 5:63; alabama , koasati [birds fly to the sky; swallow tail (?) is being forked]: Martin 1977:10.

The Great Southwest. Havasupai [woodpecker clings to the sky]: Smithson, Euler 1994:38; Western Apaches (San Carlos) [woodpecker, turkey clinging to the sky]: Goddard 1918:29; pima [various birds cling to the sky] over the sky; their tails become disheveled]: Russel 1908 [woodpecker's tail gets tough]: 211; Shaw 1968 [tails become disheveled]: 2-3; papago [dark at first; Creator of the Earth (NW) and Yellow Vulture (HS) meets four times in the void, each forcing the other to create peace; the NW took something out of his heart or rolled dirt off his skin, put it in the palm of his hand, from which a green branch grew, greasewood; louse He produced resin on the plant and created earth from this NW; he sang, bored it, it became flat; he placed birds (clouds) and shamans on the ground, on the mountain tops; when the earth spread out, shamans and mountains spread everywhere; the Earth expanded to the dome of Heaven; I'itoi jumped out, said he was the son of Heaven and Earth; he was small, bearded, gray or blond; from the northwest, a Coyote came out from under the bush; the earth swayed, Coyote, I. and JS unsuccessfully confused to fix it; this was done by two Spiders, connecting heaven and earth with a web; all the mountains were inclined to the west, all rivers flowed there; JS flew by, waving wings, gave the mountains a variety of shapes, rivers flowed in different directions; the NW splashed water to the north, west, south, east, the moon and the sun appeared; spit out stars like saliva; created people from his body, she began to fight; he and I. sent a flood; for this purpose, I. created Handsome Man, who became pregnant with all the girls, each gave birth the next morning; the sorcerer made the Handsome Man himself give birth; he left the child, that began to cry, his tears flooded the earth with a flood; NW escaped on a magic rod, I. in a large vessel, Coyote in a reed, JS pierced the sky; some people became birds, clung to the sky with their beaks; others became trees, took root; others with their dog climbed to the top of the mountain, turned into stones there; traces of foam on the water can be seen on them; NW and I. agreed that who will appear after the flood (emerge) the first, the older; the first NW, then I., the last Coyote; but I. made sure that he was considered the eldest; all three began to sculpt new people; those made by the Coyote are shapeless, thrown out of the sea; made by the NW too shapeless, and I.'s people are real; NW and I. began to argue; NW tried to pull the sky down, then fell through the ground, spreading diseases; I.'s people became pima, papago, apache, maricopa; I. did papago taught culture with his people (bow and arrow, house-building, drinking ceremony); I. retired to the cave; people, especially maricopa, kicked a defenseless rattlesnake; I. gave her poison; she bit her maricopa, he died; he was burned (maricopa has been cremated since then); Coyote stole the heart from the funeral fire; a hole in the ground opened, from there water or wind; closed when two were thrown into it boys and two girls; this is how Santa Rosa ceremonies arose; the cannibal stole children, strangled her with smoke in a cave; I. killed an ogre eagle, feathers for witchcraft; the monster sucked everyone into himself; I. gave himself suck, killed the monster, freed the swallowed; I. grew old, began to attack the girls during their maturity ceremony; people killed him three times; on the advice of the Sun, JS managed to kill I. from iron bow (gun); after 4 years I. revived, went west; I. created deer, an evil shaman drove them into a pen; two brothers paid a shaman so that everyone could hunt; JS is scalped, so bald; I. sometimes returns from the underworld]: Underhill 1946:8-12.