C2A. Woodpecker fire. 64.67.70.71.

Two characters meet a woodpecker and receive an object from him, which causes the ground to ignite. The strong and clever of the two characters is saved, the weak and the stupid are burned or burned.

Urubu, surui, makurap, tupari, apaniekra, ramkokamekra, kraho, apinaye, mashakali.

Eastern Amazon. Urubu [The Sun and the Month ate Fruits; The Month is upset that the Sun's excrement has thin fibers and is rough; the Sun asked the woodpecker for his crest to make himself a hat; that warned him not to drop it to the ground, threw fire, the Sun caught it, made a hat for himself, hid it; he found it, wanted the same; knowing that the Month would drop fire, the Sun covered its hut with a layer of clay; when the woodpecker threw fire to the Month, it dropped it, the ground caught fire, the Month survived the global fire in the centipede hole (the insect Tipula oleracea); the Sun found the bakers who died in the fire; began to fry fatty ones, He gave thin ones for a month; a month asked for a fat man, the Sun threw hot meat into his stomach, he rushed into the river in pain; taking meat, both walked across the bare plain]: Ribeiro 2002:242-245.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Makurap (Kanoä) [during the dry season, the Spider, the Urubu Vulture, and the bird Jacques hunted; the woodpecker flew and dropped the fire, the savannah caught fire; the Spider and Urubu burned down, but Jacques managed to fly to the top wood, waited out the fire]: Becker-Donner 1963, No. 3:450; tupari [Waledad and Wap's first ancestors decided to steal Woodpecker's ax to cut down a tree with edible nuts; Valedad sent a gadfly to bite the Woodpecker, the brothers cut off Woodpecker's feathers so as not to catch up; he set fire to the world in revenge; Vap burned down, Valedad waited out the fire in the Spider's hole, blew, the wind brought Vap to life; instead of the anus, Valedad and Vapa had tail, food spewed through their mouths; Spider's wife and daughters gnaw off their tails, make anal holes; when the tree was cut down, streams of water poured from the sky; Valedad collected nuts, planted]: Caspar 1975:190- 191; surui [Serepti woodpecker hammers a tree with his ax to get honey; Palop sends burning ants to the tree, tells his companion Palop Leregu to carry the dropped ax; in retaliation, S. sets fire savannah; P. hides in the river; blowing and calling him revives a submarine hidden in a termite mine and burnt down]: Mindlin 1995, No. 21 (3): 54-55.

Eastern Brazil. The sun receives a fiery crown from a woodpecker; the Month wants the same one, drops it, the earth lights up. Apaniecra [Pud (sun) asked the Woodpecker to throw off his red hat; the dress was hot, but the Sun caught it, put it on; Pudlêra (a month) wanted the same, but burned, dropped it, the ground caught fire; A month climbed the trees, but the fire followed; the Sun found the Month lying on the ground; his stomach burned, so there were spots on the moon]: Wilbert 1978, No. 4:33-34; frame camera: Wilbert 1978, No. 7 [(=Nimuendaju 1946:243-245); The Sun (Pud) and the Month (Puduvri) did not know about each other; the Month saw traces, reached the hut, the Sun in it; offered to live together; while the Month was sleeping, the Sun came to the Woodpecker, who finished make a shining red headdress out of feathers; the woodpecker agreed to give it, warned him not to drop it to the ground; the Sun caught it, threw it from hand to hand until the dress cooled down, put it on; The month asked himself the same, wanted to catch the hat himself when the Woodpecker threw it off, did not allow him to catch the Sun, because he was afraid that he would take it again for himself; dropped it, the ground caught fire; the sun hid in the wasp nest, which is burning, the Month is in the one that burns; rushed into the battleship's hole, where the smoke finally reached the other side of the river, where the fire did not reach; the Sun found the capybaras, male and female, who died in the fire, asked the Month to choose; he chose the female, she looked fatter, but the Sun spat on her in advance, the meat was lean, and the male meat chosen by the Sun was fat; the Month offered to change, the Sun again spat, got a fat female; The sun fried the liver, threw it on the stomach of the Month, burned it, told him to jump into the water, not to touch the turtle at the bottom; the month touched, the stream took him away, he clung to the branches of the tree inga (mimosa family); burn spots on the stomach of the Month are still visible; The sun left the ax to cut, left; The month heard a sound, called out, the axe stopped cutting; since then, the axes have not worked themselves; The sun killed the Month, covered it with branches; it was reborn, the Sun told him not to peek anymore; buriti palm trees (Maurutua flexuosa) were low, the Sun ate fruit, its bowel movements began red; the Month relieved himself, his bowel movements were black; she covered them with red ones; the Sun was angry but said where and what he ate; when the Month began to eat fruits, the Sun spat to keep them alone the sides were immature; the Month offered to exchange palm trees, the Sun spat - the Month's fruits were again unripe; he threw one into the palm tree, they stretched out to their current height; the Sun dived, emerged with a beautiful boys; the Month with the ugly; the same is the girls; they have dived many times; so now there are people who are beautiful and defective; the Sun and the Month have parted, the Sun took a day despite the protests of the Month]: 58-61; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984, No. 1 [(Crocker MS); The sun ate the fruits of the buriti palm tree (Maurutua flexuosa), its bowel movements turned red; the Sun said that the pau d'arco tree (Tabebuia) ate flowers inpetiginosa, ant tree); The month ate them, but its bowel movements contain whole flowers; in the end, the Sun admitted that it ate, but made the fruits of the ant tree that the Month ate unripe on one side; The month hit the tree, it has become high since then; the Sun and the Month are diving, pulling girls and boys out of the water; the people of the Month are ugly, the Sun is beautiful; the Sun has thrown a stick of wood into the water Mauritian palm tree; said that let the dead revive like a stick that pops up; the Month threw a stone, said they should die like a drowned stone; the Sun told axes and machetes to work by themselves; the Month heard sounds, began to look; the guns stopped and no longer worked on their own; the Sun asked the Woodpecker to throw off his shining fiery headdress; threw it from hand to hand until he cooled down; put it on his head; The Month wanted the same dress, dropped it, the ground caught fire; the Sun hid in a wasp house made of clay, and the Month in a hollow made of straw; then in a hollow, in a battleship's hole; a little bit did not burn; left without a hat; The sun found two capybaras who died in the fire, the Month chose a fat male, but when brought home, the Sun spat, the female was fat; they changed again, but The sun spat again; poured hot fat on the belly of the sleeping Month, said it was by accident; sent it to cool into the river, told him not to touch the turtle at the bottom; He touched the month, the stream carried it away, he hardly clung to tree; the Sun and the Month agreed that when their children (i.e. people) die, they should be buried; the Sun killed the Month, put it at the foot of the tree; the Month came to life, the Sun said that it would be the same with people; Month killed the Sun, buried them in the grave; yet the Sun got out; the Month said that the dead must be buried in the ground so that the Earth could eat them and satiate them; the Sun agreed; both rose to heaven, leaving people with axes and machetes ]: 17-30; crash [Pud (sun) made himself a headdress out of red woodpecker feathers; Pudlere (month) wanted the same; The sun threw it to him from the tree, told him to catch it, prevent him from falling to the ground; along with the headdress was hot coals, the Month dropped, the earth caught fire; The month escaped, hiding in a clay aspen nest]: Wilbert 1978, No. 5:41; Apinaye: Wilbert 1978, No. 6 [Mbud-ti (The Sun) descended to earth , hunted; Mbuduvrí-re (Month) followed, frightened of the Sun, hid; he told him to go out; offered to touch the wasp nest, the Month is bitten, blind; the Sun leads him so that the Month stumbles on trees; carries, hitting overhanging branches, planting it in a hut on a thorny bush; the woodpecker agreed to throw a crown of fiery feathers to the Sun; at night he hides it in a calebass; the Month found it, wanted the same one, I did not dare to grab it, the crown fell to the ground, the earth caught fire; The sun immediately hid in the wasp nest, which does not burn out of clay; the month found solid only on the fourth attempt, was badly burned; all the meat, which the Sun finds, fat; the Month complains, the Sun throws hot capybara meat into his stomach, removes water from the stream; then returns, but the turtle bites the Month to the burned place; The month left its meat, it wormed; The sun cut it, threw it, the pieces became animals with wool; The month came back, took the Sun-fried nandu meat, threw the pieces, they became all commercial birds; The Sun ate buriti palm fruit, his bowel movements turned red; advised the Month to eat the flowers of the pau d'arco tree, the faeces of the Month turned black; when the Month began to eat buriti fruits, the Sun told them to become solid on the one hand; the Month threw fruit into the trunk, all the fruit trees became tall and low; The Month said that now people from afar will understand where the water is, because they will notice tall trees; the Sun brought two parrot chicks, gave one to the Month, taught them to speak; returning from hunting, they find a ready-made dinner; take girls by surprise, get married; The sun leaves a woodpecker, snail and quartz to cut down the forest, the Month heard knock, throw a baton to the sound, the magic workers stopped working; the Sun and the Month grow Lagenaria sp. calebasses, throw them in pairs into the water, they turn into people; after the Month has created four couples of people, the Sun made the next couple of the Month blind and limp; the Month did the same to the last couple of people in the Sun; the Sun made the village, divided the fratria Kol-ti and Kol-re; the leaders from Fratria Kolti , as the Sun commanded; when people got married, the Sun and the Month rose to heaven], 8 [Mehapame (sun) has a Campephilus rubicollis woodpecker feather headdress; Bruburé (month) wanted the same; M. led him into the grove where woodpeckers; the fourth woodpecker agreed to drop his feathers; B. definitely wanted to catch them himself; the feathers were fiery, B. bounced, the feathers fell to the ground, the ground caught fire; M. hid in the wasp nest, which does not burn, but B. was in fuel; managed to jump out, run to M.; after the fire, many dead animals; B. began to beg for meat from M., he threw a hot piece in his stomach, a piece stuck, B. tore it off, rushed to river; M. made the water disappear, B. put wet sand on his stomach; the turtle bit him in the burned place; B. asked M. for mercy; water appeared, but the scars on the moon are still visible]: 51-55, 63-64; (cf. kayapo [Banner 1857:49; The sloth stole the fire, but as he was moving slowly, the trees caught fire; everyone but the shaman and his family died in the fire; the shaman drew a circle of trumpeter feathers and watered it inside sweet potato juice; fire did not penetrate the circle]: Wilbert 1978, No. 41:124).

SE Brazil. Mashakali [The Sun asked the Woodpecker to throw the red feathers off his head from the tree to make them a headdress; the woodpecker ordered him to dig a hole deeper; threw it, the Sun grabbed those on fire feathers, put them out, put on a hat; the Month saw him, wanted the same; when the Sun was gone, the Month began to ask the Woodpecker to give him a hat, dug a hole, grabbed a hat, burned himself, the earth caught fire, the Month rushed ran, became a bumblebee, hid in a hole, then went across the river, the flame went out by the river; a month found the hat left under the tree, but it turned out to be yellow; the Sun said he tried to teach him, but he did not listened]: Popovich 1971:29-59.