C6. Diver.

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Characters dive to the bottom to get an item.

Australia. Gundungurra [The Marsupial Cat pursues the Gu-rang-ach creature, a half-fish half-snake; when it flees, it leaves riverbeds and water beds behind it; the Marsupial Cat sends four birds successively dive to get it; the first two can't reach the bottom, the Dive brings the cub Gu-rang-ach, the Cormorant brings the big pieces of his own body; everyone eats them]: Waterman 1987, No. 1055:47.

Melanesia. San Cristobal [pregnant Saumamaruitaaru and her husband Bworouharimamu find a fruit discarded by the sea; they sail in a boat to find which tree it fell from; swim at the mouth of the river; the husband tells me not to enter behind the tree, run to the boat if it rains mushroom; the wife walks behind the tree; the Warungarae spirit descends from the tree, turns into a woman, gets into a boat instead of her, sails away with B.; S. calls her husband, he is not believes; she removes a necklace of teeth from her neck, successively throws her teeth into the water; every time a certain species of fish appear, S. rejects them, saying that they will leave her in love with prey; agrees swim on a turtle; it emerges from S. in the middle of the sea; dives many times, bringing stones and creating an island from them; if a woman wishes, all kinds of cultivated and useful plants grow on it; the turtle tells make a house out of a piece of her shell, carve fire on another piece; S. gives birth to a son, gives birth to a son, gives birth to the turtle to babysit; she takes him to sea (text breaks off)]: Fox, Drew 1915:180-181 (=Fox 1924:131-133).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: Hermanns 1946-1949:289-290 [Is the blue sky, white airspace turtle authentic or not? Is the yellow earth turtle supernatural or ordinary birth? When the surface of the vast ocean extended to the sky, ist dies der Täuschung Grund], 833 [water first; 1) A turtle pulls a piece of land from the bottom, from which our world grows; 2) Manchushri bodysatva created a monstrous Turtle, let it into the waters; shot it with a golden arrow; fire blazed, blood flowed, bowel movements poured out; the turtle turned over on its back; peace stands on its chest shell]; garo [At first, water is everywhere; Tatara Rabuga sent Nostu Nopantu as a woman to create land by giving some sand; she sat on a spider-woven web, there was no other place; she could not glue the grains of sand into a lump; sent a big crab first, then a small one, both returned before reaching the bottom; the water beetle brought clay from the bottom, NN creates land, TR creates the sun, moon and wind, they dry the earth; Mané land - woman; Tatara-Rabuga gave her a cloud robe, made her hair grow - trees, reeds and grass; created a gibbon (hullock ape) to prevent M. from sleeping and forgetting with loud screams about the obligation to produce all living things; then TR created monkeys and other animals; first created fish from aquatic creatures and then a frog; created rivers and rain to fill them; sent a goddess to earth prepare a place for people to live; the first man and woman created were Sani and Muni, their grandchildren Noro and Mande became Garo ancestors; first humans ate wild roots and fruits, then a couple of dwarfs taught them farming; they gave God pumpkin and God rewarded them by giving them rice]: Playfair 1909:82-84 (=Bertrand 1958:83); kachari [water is everywhere at first; Alow Ilaja tells crabs to dive to the bottom; they scrape silt into a heap to until a mountain of earth shows up above the water; having created land, AI creates a man and a woman; he made their bodies before nightfall, went to rest without having time to put his breath into them; at this time, his five The brothers were found, divided into pieces, and hidden in different places in the forest; the same thing happened the next day; on the third day, AI created two dogs, leaving them to guard the figures; when brothers came, dogs drove them away; these man and woman became the ancestors of humanity]: Soppitt 1885:32; Mishmi [first one water; god Techimdum surfaced, looked around, erected a pillar; white ants crawled along it, carrying particles of earth from the bottom, put them on the water, land appeared; T. put another pole on the four corners of the world, ants climbed on them, land appeared; where they laid more land - mountains; a river flowed from the mountain, filled the lake, it overflowed; brother and sister escaped at the top of the hill; god Drakob extracted fire for them by friction, set fire to the forest; the water dried up, but now everything was burning; brother and sister escaped from the fire behind a wall of banana leaves; got married, gave birth to people, the wife brought and planted the seeds of all plants]: Elwin 1958a, No. 18:21-22 (=1958b: 23-24); zeme [text titled" The birth of spirits"; there was no land, a tarot leaf was floating on the water; Bangklawong fell from the sky, said that if his feet 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 throw grass stems; T. threw the snake and it crawled far; the brothers flew to her mother in the form of crows; when she saw 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; rengma [first there was water everywhere; God sent birds and animals to search for land, no one found it; the crab dived to the bottom, brought dirt on its claws; God placed dirt on the surface of the water, everyone began to compact it, but to no avail; when the wagtail did it, the ground hardened; the wagtail is still shaking its tail]: Mills 1937:267; Kachin [water is everywhere at first; two nats, Mutum man and Muta woman, came down from the clouds, took a handful of earth out of the water, put it on the water]: Macgregor 1887:69 in Elwin 1958b, No. 27:137.

Burma - Indochina. Shans [ants dive into the primary ocean, get land]: Walk 1933:74; (=Hermanns 1946-1949:835, citing W. Schmidt. VI. 230 ff).

South Asia. Ancient India: Elwin 1950 [in Taittiriya Samhita and Taittiriya Brahmana, the creator of Prajapati raises the earth from the waters as a boar]: 136 (note 1); Vassilkov 2011 (=Cornflowers 2006a: 251-253) [in Varāha-kathā, Vishnu Purana, book 1, adhyāya 4 Prajapati Brahma wakes up and sees that the world is covered with water, in the form of a boar, whose body consists of the Vedas, dives into the ocean, emerges, shakes off, the rishis (holy sages) have found refuge among the bristles on his body; the author of the text no longer understands why; in the Mahabharata (book 12, adhyāya 333), the boar emerges, shakes off, with its tusk three lumps of clay fly off - a standard offering to three generations of the dead (fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers); in the early Vedic tradition, the boar is an opponent of the gods and the protagonist of cosmogonic myth, and in the later tradition it gets from the bottom of the sea, the earth turns into land; first it is the size of a pig's patch, then it grows]; tharu [the world is destroyed by a fiery drought, then by the flood; the lord of heaven and his wife copulate in in the form of birds, a drop of blood is placed on the water; 15 months later, the first ancestor Tharu Aklākal Gurubāba appears on the lotus leaf in the form of a pumpkin; the heavenly couple puts vitality into his head, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hands, hair, lower body, he takes on a human form; he creates a Pigeon from his nails, which flies above the waters, finds no ground; G. cuts his thigh, Raini fish comes out of the incision ; she disappears, the pigeon cannot find it, G. tells pigeons to be caught with snare, fried, eaten; he creates a Crab from his nails to get the "immortal earth" from the lower world; he manages to overcome Xeremphis spinosa thorn fence, get the ground; on the way back, the demon grabs it by the shell, the Crab loses its land; G. tells crabs to be caught, baked, eaten; creates 8 other crabs in the same way with everyone the same as the first; creates earthworms; the first three do not overcome the barbed hedge, G. tells them to feed on earth and water; the fourth penetrates thorns, swallows earth; on the way back the demon cuts it into a thousand pieces, but the worm still delivers the earth, which makes the world stable; the first to grow on earth is the sacred herb kus (Poa cynusorides), from which is the first perar tree (Xeremphis) uliginosa); G. curses him, let people eat its fruits; creates a semar tree (Kapok, Bombax ceiba), addressing him as a woman, telling him to go find out how far the earth stretches; it has not been so long returns that G. tells her to hold the sky and the lower world; the same with the pine tree, she's gone even longer, G. tells her to live in the mountains, where her resinous fumes will smell fragrant on Mount Kailash; G. cuts again thigh, his daughter Dharmak Diyeri is born; to contain her, he places four holy manis around the edges of the world, retires himself into the forest as a hermit; D. wants to unite with him, tells the blacksmith to make her a belt, a ring and shoes made of iron to overcome a barbed fence; but G. puts a rope to carry weights, an oil press, a weapon, a pig bristle bridge on his way to him; D. overcomes everything, marries G .; after that G. is called Mahādeo]: Krauskopff 1987:14-16; chero [first water, lotus floats; Bhagawan lived in the lower world, rose to the surface on the Turtle; stayed sitting on the lotus, He told the turtle to get the ground from the bottom; she placed the earth on its shell, but as it rose, the water washed everything away; B. sent the Rat, who also failed to bring land; sent the vulture Garur, who took out the earth in the sky, brought it in his beak; B. threw the earth on four sides, there was a four-sided land mass]: Elwin 1949:4, 7; Oraons [on the advice of the Old Mother, Dharmes created Kingfisher, he dived into the ocean, brought the seed of earth from the lower world; D. made the earth out of it; Sit advised to make human figures out of clay, but D.'s horse trampled on them, fearing that man would harness it; S. advised dogs to drive away the horse; soon people inhabited the land]: Koonathan 1999:144 in Osada 2010; agaria [Bhagavan put a lotus leaf on the water, but it withered in the sun; created a world from lac (?) , but he broke; having rolled the dirt off his chest, created a crow, gave him his milk, sent him to look for land; tired, the Raven fell on the Kakramal Kshattri crab; he dived, found Nal Raja and Nal Rani sleeping; the crab squeezed NR's throat, forcing the earth to regurgitate, brought it to Bhagavan, who created land; to prevent Mother Earth from wobbling, the first agaria placed 12 iron pillars at the four corners of the world]: Elwin 1949, No. 1:27-28; Birkhor [at first there is water everywhere, there is a lotus on the water, the great Sing-bonga spirit came to the surface at the core of the stem, told the Turtle to bring clay from the bottom; turtle: where will I leave the house? S.: take it with you (this is its shell); the water washed away the clay from the turtle's shell; The crab also could not bring it; the leech took it out by swallowing clay; S. squeezed out the clay from it, threw it in four directions, creating land; the land was moist and uneven, S. began to level it, but mountains remained in some places; threw seeds, forests appeared; then S. created a winged horse, and then sculpted the human figure and left it to dry; the horse came and trampled on it, fearing that the man would harness it; then S. made a dog and a new human figure; when the horse came again at night to trample on the man, the dog barked away; the figure dried up and S. her revived, but joints did not bend; S. took his life and made a new man with bent joints]: Roy 1925:398-402; mundari: Roy 1912 [at the beginning there is water everywhere; Sun god Sing-bonga sent the Turtle, Crab, Leech bring clay from the bottom; the Turtle and the Crab could not, the Leech brought it, S. created land out of it; the Swan laid an egg, a boy and a girl, the ancestors of people, hatched from it; the SB taught them how to make beer; After drinking, they got together; gave birth to three sons, they went across the country]: v-vi; Roy 1916:201-214 in Osada 2010 [the earth is covered with water, there are no stars in the sky; the Old Man ("Old One") created aquatic animals; told Crab bring earth from under the water; he dived to the bottom, but while he was rising, the ground was washed away from his claws; the same with the Turtle (the ground was washed away from the surface of the shell; the Earthworm swallows the earth, floats up, regurgitates in the palm of the Old Man; he makes the earth big, creates land and everything on it; sculpts the figure of a man out of clay; before he could put his soul into it, the Horse came, trampled on the figure; the Old Man tried again and This time, the Tiger drove the Horse away without letting it get close to the figure; the Old Man cursed the Horse, people would put iron in its mouth, sit on horseback, hit the rump; the Tiger was rewarded by making him strong, everyone would become be afraid]; van Exem 1982:24-29 in Osada 2010 [{apparently Mundari, because it coincides with the previous text}; first water alone, Haram first created aquatic creatures; told Crab to bring land from the bottom; he took land in claws, but while he was rising, the water washed it away; H. sent the Turtle, which put the earth on its shell, the water washed it away; sent the Worm; he swallowed the earth, regurgitated (disgorged) in H.'s hand; he enlarged it, created it land, animals and plants on it; he sculpted a human figure out of clay; before he had time to revive it, the Horse broke it; H. tried again, and this time the Tiger drove the Horse away, preventing it from approaching the figure; H. cursed the Horse, people will put iron in her mouth, sit on horseback, hit the rump; Tiger rewarded by making him strong, everyone will be afraid of him]; Osada 2010 [author's notes; text A: on the Ganges, at sea we let's create a land, a field; for this purpose they sent Mother Turtle and Mother Crab; the Turtle put the ground on its shell, took the Crab with ticks, but when they rose, the water washed away the earth; they sent Mother Worm, Mother Leech, they drank the earth, spewed it out, urinating, land appeared; they created stone and wood to decorate the earth; they sculpted a human figure out of clay, left it to dry in the sun; they made a winged horse for beauty; a winged horse came from the east, came from the west, they trampled on the figure; they made a male dog named Chaura, a female dog Baura, put them on guard; they drove away a winged horse that came from the east, drove away the one that came from the west; text B is almost identical]; bondo: Elwin 1950:135-136 [Raja's daughter threw a pumpkin seed; her brother took the core out of the pumpkin; it rained, flooded the ground, Brother and sister escaped in a pumpkin; Mahaprabhu sent a wild boar to the lower world to steal land from Kermo; he also took seeds from K. from seven tree species (mango, tamarind, mahua, sago palm, dumal, pipal, banyan); When the boar emerged, the boar shook off the dirt, drops of mud fell on the water, became earth; M. took his brother and sister out of the pumpkin, changed their appearance by sending smallpox on them, they did not recognize each other and got married; from them people happened; (=Elwin 1949, No. 8:32-33)], 136-137 [pregnant Olenikha hears Belka telling her son that there will be a flood; afraid of a man at a watering hole; her son from the womb reminds that there will be a flood anyway; man hears, asks Oleniha to explain what was going on; Mahaprabhu says from Oleniha's womb, telling them to put the children in the pumpkin; the rain flooded the ground with a flood; M. wanted to know if people were left; collected dirt from the body, did A crow, threw a tree trunk into the water so that it could sit down; opened the crab, there was no land there, found soil in the worm's stomach; the pumpkin settled on the ground, brother and sister came out; M. gave them smallpox, they did not recognize each other, got married; M. gave the girl a remedy that caused her period], 141 (tulaguram) [there was only water, a boar lived in it; he raised the ground on his fangs (from the bottom), scattered it over the water, creating land; made the moon and the sun from the stumps of a sago palm tree threw it into the sky; the core turned into stars]; 1954 [water flooded the earth; Mahaprabhu rubbed his arm, turned the mud into a crow, it flew over the waters, did not know where to sit, saw a floating basket containing her brother and sister, came back, said M.; he told her to get land; she brought M. an earthworm, who extracted land {from the bottom?} ; M. scattered the earth in all directions, land arose; he took his brother and sister out of the basket, who refused to marry; then he called Thakurani, she spread smallpox on them, the girl became a scythe, the young man fell ill with leprosy; when they met, they did not know each other and got married; their 12 sons and 12 daughters gave birth to people]: 423-424; sora [Raja Ruhel lived in heaven; the man did not give him up Mother had a place in the bath, she cursed people, the world plunged into the water; she decided to create a new land, rolled dirt off her body, creating a bird, that flew for six months, sat on a cancer claw; one cancer mustache pulled sky, the other was in the lower world with the king of crocodiles; cancer agreed to steal his land, gave it to the bird; Raja Ruhe and his mother mixed the earth with water, threw it on four sides, land arose; the mother of the PP removed from their bodies a man and a woman, they gave birth to humans]: Elwin 1954, No. 14:433-434; baiga: Elwin 1939 [at the beginning it was only water, a lotus leaf floated on it, Bhagavan sat on it, rolled dirt from his hand, made a crow out of it - his daughter Karicag, sent her to search for land; losing her strength, she fell on the back of the great Turtle, Kekramal Chhatri, sitting on the waters, with one leg at the bottom of the sea and the other reached the sky; the Raven calls the Turtle his older brother, the Turtle calls the Raven his younger sister; says that the earth was stolen by the worm Gichnaraja, he is at the bottom of the sea; took the Raven to Logandi Raja; he called 12 Loharsur brothers, 13 Tamesur brothers, 14 Agyasur brothers, they made an iron cage, lowered the Turtle and the Raven to the bottom; the Turtle was frightened of the Worm, hid behind the Crow; the worm itself was frightened when The crow promised to beat him, lied that Dano had land, who would burn those who came; the emboldened Turtle grabbed the Worm by the neck, who regurgitated 21 times; each portion of the land was named differently, starting with his mother- land ending with virgin land (white, red, nice, trembling, rocky, etc.); the turtle pulled the chain, Logundi Raja pulled out the cage, the Turtle tied the ground to the Raven's neck, who brought it Bhagavan; he summoned a virgin, she knocked down the ground in a vessel of leaves for 8 days and 9 nights; B. threw the earth into the waters, it grew, became dry; at first the earth was wet and slippery; B. called the Wind and Bhimsen; The wind dried the earth, but when they stood on one side, the other rose; Bhimsen walked, created mountains, valleys; Nanga Baigin (Nang Baigi's wife) drove four nails into the corners, the ground established (but the earth itself is round, p.330)]: 308-316; Fuchs 1952 [=Fuchs 1960:405-418; Bhagwan has not washed for 12 years, rolled dirt from his armpits and chest, blinded a man and a woman, revived; this is Nanga Baiga and Nanga Baigin; they were ashamed of their nudity, sat in the sea up to their necks, fished, ate raw (there was no fire); the Pandwa brothers and their mother Kotma Ma lived in the middle world; KM complained to B. that there were only rocks; he ordered bring land from the lower world; P. brothers sent the Turtle there, it passed through a crack in the rock; took with them the Wasp, the Alumina Worm, the White Ant and another (the informant forgot); the wasp put the others on wings, carried across the river; the Kakramal crab guards the entrance, one claw on the ground, the other reaches the sky; he sleeps, the Turtle passes, Fertile Soil agrees to go to the middle world, tells him to swallow it; The turtle and its companions have swallowed all types of soil: white clay, red earth, chernozem; returning, the Turtle falls into the seventh trap, convinces Crab that he is his maternal uncle; the owner of the lower world The ancient Serpent (Burha Nang) wakes up; he will give the Earth only if Bhimsen himself comes for it; those who came were placed under a press, the ground was squeezed out of them; they went upstairs; an alumina worm knocked out her former turtle big teeth, collected a piece of earth the size of a grain from them; for this, Bh allowed him to eat up stems in the fields, but not the grain itself; the wasp revived the Soil; the lump was placed in a huge vessel of water, whorl- The KM snake (mother of the Pandavas) began to shoot her down, the earth became huge; Bhimsen brought an alcoholic beverage (the leaves of the tree between the middle and lower worlds fell into the recess, fermented; probably an analogue of catfish), Soil filled the middle world, but was going to return to the lower world if Nanga Baiga did not honor her; Bhagwan breathed Nanga Baige's clothes, he came out of the sea, addressed the ground, "Mother Earth, I bring you My respect, I will honor you"; The soil told him to cut off his sixth finger, which was very long, divided into four parts, and punch it in the form of pegs in the corners of the world]: 608-617; Santals: Abbi 2015 [Only darkness at first; voice from darkness: Is anyone there? another, one of the voices was female; then another; Thakur Jiv (TJ), Thakuraiin Gogo, Saru, Baru, Jiva and Jangar were created, they were all waiting for the light to come out; Thakuraiin Gogo (TG) created Siny Chando and then it was light; but now everyone is waiting for it to be dark; TG created Yinda Chando and darkness is back, darkness and light alternate; Siny means "day" and Yinda means "light"; in TJ's hands, the rest they saw a clay vessel; it blew on it, the clay blurred in the water and the universe drowned; this ocean was Jalaapuri; TG came to the Kolelavka place (in the shape of a boat) to swim; she sculpted mud washed away from her body a human figure and left {two figures?} ; the horse came to drink, trampled on the figure; TG sculpted a new one, but it turned out to be less perfect; asked TJ to revive it; the figure came to life, but in the form of a pair of Hans-Haansil (XX) birds; that's why that TG was doing it in a hurry; XX asked TJ to give them shelter and food; he created a tree in the middle of the water and the birds began to live on it; foam produced by the horse floating on the water, and hair that fell into the water TG gave birth to Saaraanpuri; TG and TJ came to live there; but some of the foam and hair remained in Jaalaapuri and moss appeared there, a plant and grass grew on it, XX made a nest in the grass; from two eggs laid Two figures hatched - the same as TG sculpted and trampled on the horse; when they saw that the figures did not look like them, the parent birds flew away; TJ created a cow and she began to feed everyone with milk; created people named Pilchu HaAram and Pilchu BuraHii; TJ created Marang Buru and he began to hiccup whoever could bring earth from the bottom; (9 creatures are named, but only in santali); Radho BoVar reached the bottom, collected clay in his mouth and I put it on my back, but the water washed everything away; the same with the others; only Kacchim Kuwari and Raaymaat Len om brought (from the bottom) the land and the land was created; TJ created the bull and sent it to the ground; with his help Marang The storm leveled the ground; the first two humans were brought to the ground and they began to live there]; Bodding 1942 [first water; Thakur Jiu created various aquatic creatures (crocodile, crab, shrimp, earthworm, etc.). ); he sculpted two human figures out of clay; when he was about to put his soul into them, the day-horse came down from above and trampled on them; then, taking the material from his chest, T. made two birds Has Hasil, revived them, they flew, but there was no land anywhere, so they returned to T.; he drank water, spat, foam appeared on the water; T. told the birds to sit on it, they swam on it on the waves, but complained that there was no food anywhere; The crocodile agreed to dive, get the ground from the bottom, but it was washed away on the way back; Prawn is the same; Raghop Boar (Buar) fish is the same (it has no scales since); Crab is the same; Earthworm asked the Turtle to be ready; he took the ground from the bottom, placed it on the Turtle's back; T. harrowed it, mountains appeared; foam stuck to the ground; vegetation appeared, two birds laid eggs, of which a boy and a girl were born]: 3-5 (retelling in Osada 2010); Culshow 1949 [water is everywhere; Thakur called on the kings of the sea, but they could not reach the ground from the bottom; the Crab agreed to dive, but on the way to the surface there was water the pieces of land he grabbed make sense; the same is the Turtle; the worm asked to put a golden dish on the Turtle's back, promised to swallow the earth at the bottom and empty his stomach on the dish; he did so, earth turned out to be uneven, T. tried to trim it, the sea flooded the lowlands; T. created two geese from the seeds of the sirom grass, a female and a male, Hans and Hansil (Goose and Gander); they laid two eggs in the grass, from eggs came out people - pilcu Haram and Pilcu Budhi]: 65-66 in Osada 2010; Shrestha 2019 [first water, above it Thakur and his servant Jahereda; Malinburi lived under water; T. told her to make two human figures; she sculpted them out of clay, brought them from the bottom of the sea, put them to dry in the sun; Sinsadom's horse flew in, broke the figures with flapping its wings; M. made new figures, asked T. to revive them; T. sent her for souls, But M. brought not human souls, but bird souls; T. breathed life into them and they flew to heaven; these are the first swans, Hans and Hansini; they have no place to sit, there is water everywhere; they asked T. to give them a place to live; Solehako fish, Katcom cancer, and Lenden worm lived in the water; S. and K. could not lift the ground; L. threw bits of land to the surface, but they sank back to the bottom; T. called Kachik the turtle, told her Lying motionless on the water; L. threw the earth on the turtle shell, an island was formed; T. grew a Kadam tree and Syrom grass there; Hansa and Hansini built a nest of grass; Hansiner laid two eggs the beast Raghopabu ate them; T. sent his servant J. to guard the eggs; a boy and a girl hatched from them; the children grew up, T. created a cow and two calves for them; taught the young man to make a plow and plow the land, that started farming; Maranburu (big mountain) was the guardian of a young man and a girl; taught them how to make an intoxicating drink; they got drunk and got together; M. told them not to worry, let them be husband and wife; they have 7 sons and seven daughters; they quarreled and began to live in different places; the father took his sons with him and the mother of the daughters; the girls and boys met, began to live in pairs; their parents also reconciled and came to live with them; 7 clans went from 7 brothers and sisters]: 567-570; gondas: S. Hyslop to Zograf 1971 [water is everywhere, God was born from lotus; rubbed his hand, made a Raven out of worn mud, ordered land to be brought; The crow saw Crab protruding from the water, leaning against the bottom; sat on Crab's back, the mark remained; because God made his body hard, the Crab agreed to dive, brought an earthworm, which regurgitated the earth; God scattered it across the sea, land arose; Mahadeva and Parvati came out of the abscess on his hand; vegetables grew out of M.'s urine, P. ate them, gave birth to gondas]: 7; Shyam Parmar 1973. Folk Tales of Madhya Pradesh in Kudinova, Kudinov 1995 [god Thakur Dev swam on the surface of the waters on a lotus flower; sent the Raven to search for land; six months later he met the Chakarmal Chatri turtle; she was standing with one foot in the water, head to sky; told the Raven that the underwater worm Gichna Raja had swallowed the earth; the Turtle and the Raven arrived at Logandi Raja, told TD's desire to get the land; he told his Lohasura's twelfth brother to make a braided boat; he made it with the help of one of his younger brothers; the Turtle and the Raven dived off it, the Turtle grabbed the worm by the neck, which regurgitated 21 times; he was the first to give it Dharti Mai (Mother Earth), then Mahamundi Dharti (Big-headed Earth), Pan Dharti (Sinful Earth), Yellow Earth, Black Earth, finally Kumari Dharti (Virgin Land); the Raven took all the land in its beak, pulled the rope, the LR pulled them upstairs; the Raven gave the land to TD, he rolled the ball, placed them on the water, land appeared]: 29-30; maria (Bison-Horn Maria; {diving is not described, but it is implied}) [rain flooded the ground; Gajabhimul placed brother and sister in the pumpkin, the pumpkin stuck to the rock; Mahapurub sent the crow to look for people; a banyan grew out of the rock, the crow sat on him, opened a pumpkin; the children climbed the tree , they drank his juice, it ran out, they began to cry; M. sent the crow to calm them down, but she wanted to kill the children to peck at their corpses, came back and lied that it was all right; the same with the eagle; with the tiger; then sent a monkey; a hot rock burned her ass, arms and legs, the monkey smeared his face to black with charred hands; M. sent a wild boar, ordered her to be smeared in the clay on the turtle's back; a boar shook, clods and splashes of earth formed land; smallpox was sent to brother and sister to prevent them from getting to know each other; after that they got married and had 12 sons and 12 daughters]: Elwin 1949, No. 4:30-31; koya [the earth drowned; Bhima's daughter jumped from the sky into the sea, descended into the lower world; Sesh Nag blew on her, turning her into a wild boar; the boar was lying in the mud, surfaced, shook, and land formed]: Elwin 1954, No. 5:426; Tulaguram [there was only water, a wild boar lived in it; he raised the ground on his fangs (from the bottom), scattered it on the water, creating land; made the moon and the sun from the stumps of a sago palm tree, threw it into the sky; the core turned into stars]: Elwin 1950:141; Sinhalas [at the end of the Kalpa, rain floods the earth; Saman replies to Vishnu that only the Asura king Rahu can revive the land; R. asks V. grow a lotus; descends its stem to the bottom, brings a handful of earth; V. puts it on water, creates land; Surya and Chandra (sun and month) came to illuminate the ground; S. and V. sculpted a brahmana, who sculpted him himself a woman for himself, revived her]: Parker 1910, No. 1:47-49 (=Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 1:28-29).

Malaysia-Indonesia. Semangs (Kintak Bong): Evans 1937:159 [1) a dung beetle brought the ground in powder form from below; the bear rammed it with its paws, otherwise it would have filled the entire space to the sky; another informant later (1935) said that the bear stopped the beetle when the earth rose half the distance to the sky; 2) (according to Schebesta 1927:212); at first there is water everywhere; the dung beetle brings a bag of earth from under the water; earth grows; there would be mountains everywhere, but the bear rammed part of the land, plains appeared], 160 (Kensiu) [(Schebesta 1927:242); The Dung Beetle extracts the land from the swamp, it dries up under the sun, hardens].

The Balkans. Bulgarians: Dragomanov 1892 (Bessarabia) [The devil pulls silt from the bottom of the sea; God makes land out of it, pretends to go to bed; the Devil drags the supposedly sleeping God in different directions (striving for him drown), but the water recedes, the earth grows; God says he has already blessed the earth with the sign of the cross; the offended Devil leaves; God does not know how to stop the earth from growing; sends a bee to sit down On the devil's shoulder, eavesdropping on himself: you just have to create the sign of the cross on four sides, tell the earth to stop growing; God does so, telling bee excrement (i.e. honey) be the sweetest]: 257-259 in Johns 2005:264; Nady 1989 [(Strausz 1892; 1899); God invites Satan to go down to the bottom to reach the ground; before that S. must say, With God and my help; S. puts his name in front twice, can't reach the ground; the third time he speaks correctly, brings earth under his fingernail, God makes land out of it; pretends to fall asleep; S. drags him into the water, but the earth from this grows; so in all directions; more about the creation of man]: 117; Kovachev 1914 [1) water is everywhere; God and the devil were walking in the sky, tired; the devil offered God that he would dive, bring firmament from the bottom so that he could rest; the devil took out a piece of land, it began to grow; the land that was under the devil's claws, God began to crumple his fingers and it began to grow unnoticed; this is how God made a place for and they sat down; the devil wanted to drown God to become the ruler of the world; he began to pull the ground on which God was sitting, the earth became very large, the sky could no longer cover it; then God called everyone for advice animals; on the advice of the hedgehog, he took and pulled a little bit of land to another place, resulting in valleys and mountains; 2) God and the devil discussed how to make the earth; God told the devil to bring sea foam; God loaded foam into the water, made a lump, threw it, it became earth; first it was the size of a round baking sheet, then a threshing floor; in the middle God planted a nut, tied a cradle to it, began to swing, fell asleep; the devil decided throw God into the water and drown God; went to search for the end of the earth, but did not find it; God woke up, asked what he was doing; the devil replied that he was looking for the end of the world; God said he would never find it]: 49 (trans. . K. Rangocheva); Petkanov 1982, No. 1 [there was no sky, no earth, only the Sea of Tiberias; God was walking through the air, saw a swimming duck; this duck was Satanael wrapped in sea foam; And the Lord said to Satanael: "Who you?" - "I'm God." - "What are you going to call me?" - "You are the God of all gods and the Sovereign of all rulers"; if S. hadn't said this to the Lord, he would have removed him from the Sea of Tiberias; the Lord said: "Satanael, dive into the sea and bring me land and flint"; S. did it; God took the earth and sand, scattered it across the sea, said, "Let the land be thick and wide on the sea"; the Macedonians [at first there is water everywhere; God was above the sky, and the hell was below the water; hell saw God, called him a sister, offered to go down; God has nowhere to go down, he asks if there is a little land; hell: yes, but deep; God asked the devil to get land; hell: how much? God: as much as you can get; the devil dived, grabbed the sand with both hands while he emerged, there was only a little bit left under his fingernails; God created earth out of this sand; but it was not big enough, so he asked the line to dive again; after the third time, God made the earth as it is now]: Lafazanovsky 2003:31 in Rakhno 2016:250-251; South Slavic apocrypha (~Bogomily Bulgarians) [before the earth was The Lord of Hosts in three cells (mosquitoes) in the air; he turned away from his heart and gave birth to his beloved son Jesus Christ, and let the Spirit out of his mouth in the form of a dove; and said that the sky should be seventy crystal thousands of myriads of iron pillars and there would be lakes and clouds and stars and light and wind; he would plant paradise in the east; frost in the presence of the Lord, thunder from his voice in the chariot of fire, lightning was a word from his mouth; the sun is from his lower robe, because he... her to his face; and the Lord said, Let there be darkness of the pillars in the air. He said, let the Sea of Tiberias be, the water was salty; and the Lord descended to the Sea of Tiberias and saw Gogol floating on it and asked who he was; he said that he was Satan; the Lord told Satan he descended into the sea, took out land and stone, the Lord broke it by two, gave half of it to Satan with his left hand, hit the stone with a rod, the archangels Michael and Gabriel arose from the sparks and soared up; Satan created made of stone, countless demonic power of the gods; and the Lord said, let there be thirty-three whales on the Sea of Tiberias and on those whales the land]: Badalanova Geller 2011:24; Serbs [(source not specified); the devil steals the sun; God sends the Archangel Michael to return it; M. pretends to be D.'s friend, offers to test who will dive deeper; dives to the bottom, brings a handful of mud; when D. dives, the sea freezes six cubits thick; M. manages to steal the sun]: Abaev 1990:150; Slovenes: Krek 1887:783 in Johns 2005 [God sleeps; when he wakes up, he dives into the primary ocean, brings it under his fingernail a grain of sand from the bottom, it falls on the water, the earth grows]: 264; Trdina 1858:60-61 in Kropej 2012 [there was only God, the sun and the sea; the sun was burning, God dived into the sea, a grain of sand was stuck under his fingernail; when God popped up, a grain of sand fell, remained on the rock, this grain of sand from the bottom of the sea is our world]: 16; Hungarians: Gabor 2007 [at the end of the 19th century, priest Kálmány Lajos recorded in the south Hungary near Szeged; 1) when God created the world, God asked God for the soul of a drunk man; God saw that drunk before death converted to Christianity and did not agree; said he would give his soul if Damn will bring a handful of sand from the bottom of the sea; the devil dived but could not reach the sand; 2) the man had a Ludverts (a legendary bird of Hungarian folklore); on his order, he brought corn money; when a man became rich, he decided to leave Ludverts; a neighbor advised him to send him a handful of sand from the bottom of the sea; Ludverts went and did not return]: 29-30; Nady 1989 [(Bosniák 1969: 462-464); 1) (Chángó settler, Moldavia); God sends the Devil to get the earth from the bottom; while he emerges, water washes the earth from under his fingernails; the third time there is a little left, God creates from this land; D. tries to push God into the water; as the earth grows; then the story of the creation of man; 2) (Sekler, Bukovina); an angel, whom God later gives the name Adam, brings sand from the bottom of the sea ]: 117; Romanians: Beza 1928:121 [God tells the Devil to dive to the bottom of the sea, bring land; The devil took clay, but not in the name of God, but in the name of the Devil, the clay was washed away from his hands; the next time he took it in the name and He brought God and the Devil; God made land out of it, fell asleep; the devil tried to drown God and pull the earth out from under him, but the earth only grew], 122-123 [Romanians consider it a sin to kill a frog or turtle; when there was only water, God told the turtle to dive, bring land from the bottom; the turtle brought land in its mouth, God told the waters to come down]; Birlea 1976:87 in Sudnik, Civian 1982 [in Romanian tradition as a frog appears under the ground]: 150; Johns 2005 [God and Skaraótzki swim in boats; God offers S. to bring land from the bottom for fun; creates land from the bottom; S. drags God into different sides trying to drown it, but the earth grows]: 268; Müller 1857, No. 208 (Transylvania) [(paraphrase in Johns 2005:268); God sends Archangel Gabriel to bring sand from under the water; finds He puts a few grains of sand under his fingernails on the water, creating land; from the bushes, the hedgehog tells God to check that the layer of earth is thick enough; God has checked; this is how the earth turned out]: 162; Murgoci, Murgoci 1929 [ First there is only water, God and the Devil walk on it; seven years later God sends the Devil to dive to get seeds to make earth; the devil takes the earth in his name, washes it out of his hands; when he takes it in the name of God, brings earth under his fingernails; therefore, man belongs to God, and black under his fingernails to the Devil, preparing the deceased for burial, nail dirt must be removed; God took three grains of sand from what the Devil brought, He made them a flat earth; the Devil tried to drown God who had fallen asleep, but by dragging his body, he only stretched the earth in different directions; it became wider than the sky; God sent the Bee to overhear the Devil; he spoke for himself for himself, that you need to squeeze the earth, creating valleys and mountains; when he saw the Bee flying away, the Devil hit it with a whip, almost tearing it in two; she had black bruises]: 135-137; Bukovina (Romanians or Ukrainians; there is no data on the informant's language and circumstances) [water and sky first; God found a piece of foam on which the hell was standing, asked who he was; hell: I won't tell you until you take me into action ( in dein fahrzeug); God promised he said he was hell; offered to create land; God: Dive to the bottom for sand, I'll make it dry; but take it "in the name of God"; hell dived, took sand in both hands and said "in my name"; when I came up, my hands were empty; dived again: "I take it in his name"; he brought a few grains of sand under his fingernails; God threw them into the water and there was land large enough to lie on it; God lay down and fell asleep and the devil began to pull him east to push him into the water, but the land grew; then he pulled to the west, to the other sides; the land grew; God rose to heaven, hell wanted to follow him, heard a sweet singing in honor of God and asked him how he could create as many followers; God: wash your face and hands and spray water behind you; so many devils have appeared that there is no place for angels in heaven; God commanded St. Ilya would drive them away with a thunderstorm; the storm lasted 40 days, the devils understood from heaven to earth; when the angels were already being washed away, God ordered St. Ilya should stop; but the sparks flying from heaven to earth are still visible]: Waldburg 1853:178-179; Gagauz people [God sent Sheitan to the bottom to get the earth, ordered him to read, In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy The Spirit; S. did not read, returned with nothing; the third time said, In the name of the Father, he brought the earth under his fingernails; God put it on his chest, fell asleep; S. grabbed the ground, ran; wherever he ran, land appeared]: Moshkov 1901:4 (=2004:202).

Central Europe. Russian literary tradition (hands. Solovetsky Library; from Palea in the late 16th or early 17th centuries) [God walked on water, saw Gogol's bird; began to ask her, she replied that he was the God of the gods, from the upper ones, and she was from the lower ones; God told her to give it from the lower ones; the bird dived, brought God foam like silt, God made it earth; called the bird Sotonail, made it chief over the heavenly forces; he decides to throne over the stars; God handed over power over heavenly forces to Michael; M. first retreated from S., but God removed S.'s divinity, M. overthrew him from heaven; he fell, fell into the ground, with him part of his strength; others fell to the ground, became demons; still others remain in the air, pretending to be angels]: Porfiriev 1877:87-89; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Vyatskaya, Smolensk, Ryazan, Orlovskaya, Penza, Tambov) [Satan in the form of a bird, she dives to the bottom of the earth]: Kuzmina 1998:142; Russians (Olonetskaya) [Two gogol swam along the upper Okiyan Sea: one white gogol and the other black gogol. And the Lord Almighty himself and Satan sailed with these two gogols. By God's command, with the blessing of the Virgin, Satan summoned a handful of land from the bottom of the sea. From that handful, the Lord created flat places and rolling fields, and Satan made impassable abysses, shilli, and high mountains. And the Lord hit the stone with a hammer - and created the powers of heaven, Satan hit the stone with a hammer - and created his own army. And a great war broke out between the armies: at first Satan's army prevailed, but in the end the power of heaven prevailed. And Michael the Archangel overthrew Satanin's army from heaven, and they fell to earth in different places: who fell into the forests became forest dwellers, who into the water became watermen, who fell into the house as housewives; others fell into baths also became bayenniks, some in the yards became courtyards, and others in Riga became rigachniki]: Rybnikov 1864:191-192; Russians (Vologodskaya) [there were two brothers - a dove and a gogol; they take the earth out of the depths waters; create a man from sand, a woman from bone]: Belova 2004, No. 70:47; Russians (Gorky Region, Makarevo, Western Author 1965) [Satan answers God that the land is at the bottom of the sea; dives in the form of a waterfowl, takes land in his mouth, loses it along the way; for the third time he brings it; God scattered it across the sea, islands and continents have appeared; S. he hid part of the earth behind his cheek, it began to inflate; he threw it behind his back, the northern cold lands arose from it]: Morokhin 1998, No. 455:425; Russians (Saratov Volga Region) [God created heaven and waters, rides on the water on a rock, spat, Titan came out of the abyss; says his name is Titaniel, but you can simply call him Gogol; ready to listen to the order; God tells you to fly to heaven, bring land; he brought it, but hid a pinch by the cheek; God scattered the earth on the water, became dry; to keep it, he created three whales, a stone slab on them, earth on it; God sees Gogol's swollen cheek, tells him to spit out the earth, appeared a land with valleys and mountains; out of envy, Gogol rested, squeezed God's land, it also wrinkled; Gogol claims that this is more beautiful; the man will remember the Lord when he goes uphill, and the jester when he goes downhill; God orders to bring seeds from paradise, gave them to God from his right hand, kept them from his left hand; useful plants grew from those sown by God, useless, prickly, poisonous from those sown by Gogol]: Zavaritsky 1916, No. 1:67-69; Belarusians: Grynblat, Gurski 1983, No. 4 [Damn saw God sow the earth, hid a part in his mouth; God asked what he was eating, Damn swallowed the earth, it began to grow; he began to burp, in these places swamps were formed where devils live], 5 [first there was water everywhere; God sailed in the boat, hell saw what he was going to do; God sowed the land, land appeared from the forest, and that's it; hell swallowed the land, it became grow, he belched her, swamps appeared, overgrown with rakita; the man began to tear his bast, the devil asked what he was doing; the man tied him to the oak; the devil rushed, dragged the oak with him, stayed in the swamps trail], 6 [God was in the air, saw a bubble, the bubble in it answers that he is God, and whoever asked is God above the gods; God offered to get land; the one in the bubble brought it in his hands, and what he took in his mouth hid it; God sowed the earth, it began to grow; so is the hell in his mouth; he belched it, swamps and mountains appeared there], 8 [first there is only water, God swims, sees a bubble, the devil has jumped out of there; God tells him to get it out water; the devil brought it in the hem, God sowed it; part of the land The devil hid behind his cheek, the earth began to grow, he regurgitated it, swamps appeared]: 37-38, 38-39, 40, 41; Russians (Vologda) [there were two brothers - dove and gogol; take the earth out of the depths of water; create a man from sand, a woman from bone]: Belova 2004, No. 70:47; Belarusians (Smolensk) [the sea is everywhere; The devil is in the body of a swan; God promises it free if he gets the earth from the bottom; tells me to say, God bless "; The devil swan dives, takes sand in his mouth, but does not say what they said, the sand has washed away; the third time he says, brings sand , some hides in the mouth; the earth grows, including in the mouth of the Devil, he spits it out, creating swamps]: Dobrovolsky 1891, No. 8:229-300; Ukrainians [southern (Ukrainian) version of the dualistic worlds: Satan dives for the material for creation in a non-ornithomorphic form, saying words, I do not take, but God takes; God puts S. to sleep, at this time he creates land on the waters; the earth increases in As a result of S.'s attempt to drown the sleeping God, he pushes or carries God from shore to shore, but the end of the earth "runs away" further; God sends an angel to take away S.'s valuable object; the sent encourages S. dive to the bottom of the sea, at which time an object (thunder, lightning, heavenly power, robes, a golden crown, a chariot, a board with a record of an agreement with S.) takes away; the northern (Russian) version does not have the characteristics of the southern version]: Kuznetsova 1998:69-70; northern Ukrainians (Kozeletsky u. Chernigov governorate) [There was no earth, no sky, water was everywhere; God was flying above the water; he saw a gun without arms and legs; it was Satanael; God said to him: "Dive into the water and get the earth in my name"; S. dived, said: "Take it, earth, in my name"; the land was not given; S. dived a second time, the situation repeated; the third time S. said: "Take, earth, in the name of God"; the land was given, S. gave it to God; God said that they would now sow; where the earth fell like a hill, there was a mountain; where it was flat, there were even fields; where the earth drowned and did not cover the water, there was a lake; when they sown, God crossed the earth and flew to heaven; this is how the earth appeared]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 96:359-360; Ukrainians (Hutsuls) [at first there is water everywhere; God walked on the water, Alei (Ilya) slept in the clouds; one place on the water was covered with foam, God turned it into Aridnyk (Satan); ordered He dived, he brought clay from the bottom under his fingernail, God made the ground out of it; God lay down to rest; A. tried to push him into the water, but as he dragged him to the edge, the earth grew bigger; When God woke up, God threw A. into the water, which was covered with ice; A. broke through the ice with his head, climbed back to land; after that God called him an enemy, not a friend; Aley woke up, saw the ground, pushed her in fear, valleys and mountains formed; to prevent this from happening again, God chained his hand to the rock; with one hand he can only shake clouds (thunder); only A. had the ability to create and only God could revive creatures; so all creatures belonged to A., God had to steal them from him; their struggle ended with God throwing A. into prison; when they fought, a piece of God's skin was ripped off his hand and fell to the ground; Adam arose from this; one day A. fell off the chain, found A., spat on him, and he became unclean; then God turned A. inside out, the impurity remained inside; when A. slept, God put him next to He had a branch of willow, from which Eve arose; she ate the fruit of the forbidden tree, caused people to sinfully; people multiplied; sinners became devils - helpers to A.; the first people were small and long-bearded ("lectobeards"); after them, giants inhabited the earth; they were evil, God destroyed them by the flood; only Noah and his family escaped; var.: a horn sticking out of the water, two clung to it and did not drown; since then since fewer people will become dwarfs again]: Koenig 1936:369-370; Ukrainians (Kherson, Elizavetinsky U.) [hell was friends with God; hell owned thunder, and God owned the sky; to take possession of thunder, God began to walk on earth; hell did not have water, he asks to teach him how to get land; God tells me to dive, take from the bottom of the earth, hold in your hand and the one that remains at least under your fingernails, scatter it across the water; the devil left his thunder on the rocks and dived; God to the Archangel Gabriel: hurry up the thunder, he's on our land, and what is put on our land is ours; G. hid behind a stone; hell dived, but popped up and looks: did anyone take the thunder, did not take it; the same second time; hell thought that God forgot about the thunder and dived to the bottom; G. grabbed the thunder; seeing that the devil was rising to the surface, God froze the sea; hell only broke through the ice with his head for the third time; chased G., already grabbed his leg and snatched out a piece of meat - now people there is a notch on his foot; God: yes, you hit him with thunder; G. broke off his wings with thunder, now the devils do not fly well; G. gave thunder to God; then God came down, the hell had already created the earth; God wet his finger, splashed a man appeared with water behind him; hell tried it too, but his man does not speak or walk, but is covered with hard skin; then he spat on him; God: you turn him inside out; damn it, drool and the snot is left inside, and that skin is only at his fingertips, it is his nails; God has returned to heaven, and hell has made people; he envies that he has a lot of people, but everything is on earth, and God has few, but in heaven; hell decided to take over the sky himself, and overthrow God from there; God to the archangel, who holds the sky in his arms: shake; devils fell down, where whoever fell, stayed there; now you can't build a hut everywhere; you will build in hell, you'll work all your life; then God came to hell again, he was building something, one hut was very big - hell; hell then had a receipt: after death, all his people; he tore this receipt Christ, when he went to hell; God to hell: show me how to sit in that heat; hell climbed in, closed the doors; God: In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! the exits are completely closed; but one hand of the devil remains free; he asks the other devils to rescue him, or else he will disappear; the elder has come up, and the one sitting in the heat threw him against the rock; so now the eldest devil crooked, and the first one is still sitting, cannot go out; that's where God's friendship with the devil ended]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 1:119-121; Poles: Krzyżanowski 1963, No. 2450.1 (central Poland on the Vistula) [ the devil sent the duck to dive; it brought land to the goiter from the bottom of the sea, but dropped it when she saw a hawk chasing it], 2450.2 (Lodz Voivodeship) [the devil tries to drown God sleeping on a small island; it drags it to the edge, but the earth grows and becomes a continent]: 173; (cf. Poles (Przemysl, 1990; modern record, probably Eastern Slavic influence) [God asked the Devil to get sand; explained he wanted to create land; the devil brought sand in his mouth and under his fingernails; God created dry land; the sand in the Devil's mouth and fingernails also began to grow, and he spit it it it out; swamps and inconveniences arose in these places]: Zowczak 2013:214; Luzhitans [{looks like a falsified version the myth of getting land mentioning all Slavic deities}]: Meschank-Mškank 2006 {without pagination or not on a photocopy}.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays [the dragon Azhdagan-Jelimauz lay in the middle of the sea; Ala-Kaaz ('Scarlet Goose'" nest on its crown; {"ala" in Karachai, as in other Turkic ones, is not "scarlet" ("scarlet" from "al", not in the Karachai dictionary), but "colorful" and then "light", "white", hence Alatau, "Snow Mountains", Tien Shan}) and Kara-Qaz ('Black Goose'); they did not have eggs; in the thousandth year, Jelimouz His legs began to grow, he began to move; the goose, afraid that the dragon would throw them off his back, dived twice before reaching the bottom; the third fell into darkness; reached a bright spot, where the black creature Kara-Poohu advised him to go to his older brother Kaiyr-Khashkhy ("The Angry Lord") for advice to give a gift; the Goose gave her right wing; the Kh sent one-legged Obur-Katyn ("Werewolf Woman") to his older sister, took the left wing; OK sent Erk-Jilan to her older brother, told her to go until the ball made of her hair stopped; ED sent Kart-Chopp to her oldest brother, took the other leg, gave part her skin, she carried the Goose to the goal; "Our father is Kara-Kuzgun ('raven'), and our mother is the Turtle, they were the rulers of the sea surface, but the dragon cut their bellies, deprived them authorities; to pacify the dragon, you must summon Kart-Choppa; to do this, cut off the dragon's gallbladder, cover its middle eye with it; you can cut it off with hair growing on the dragon's crown under yours a nest"; everything was done, the dragon roared in pain, the vaults of heaven opened, an old man in a green robe with a golden staff came out; the geese dived in fear, emerged 9 months later, dirty; Kart-Choppa sat on their nest, scraped off the dirt from the geese feathers, ordered them to make a cake out of it, eat one half, soak the other, lubricate the dragon's back; this caused the dragon's body to rot, and the spine appeared (p.23: that is, the earth arises from the combination of mud taken from the bottom of the ocean with the dragon's skin); KC plunged his staff into the dragon's crown; he screamed, the sky shone; the CC hit the middle eye of the dragon with a three-hepatic stem, it burst, the other two opened; a smelly liquid poured out of the middle, making the sea white; if the dragon's eyes close again, everything will darken; when thunderclouds appear, May Allah save the Dragon from closing his eyes]: Karaketov 1995:64-67; (cf. Ossetians?? [Marr reported, referring to Ossetian folklore, about Satanail-Gogol descending to the bottom of the sea for stone and sand to create the world]: Borgoyakov 1980:272); Nogais (book: T. Akmanbetov. Syntastyn yiluvy ("Warmth of the Monument"), Makhachkala, 2008; recorded by folklorist Tahir Akmanbetov in 1975 from Ozbek Amanbayeva, a resident of the village of Sarysu of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, 1913 birth; informant - storyteller, musician, played ancient melodies on the horn) [at first only the eternal sky is Tangri, his companion Umai, Umai has two birds - Ak-Ku ("white swan") and Kara-Bapiy ("black duck") ; Ak-Ku laid an egg, it consisted of water; Kara-Bapiy swam in the water, but was pulled down, she dived and swam; once she felt silt and sand at the bottom; began to pull them to the surface and built a nest ; continued to put silt and sand around the nest, which made her nose red and long; the nest grew and became dry; Kara-bapiy knew that she could not do anything; when she created the earth in fear punishment, dived into the lower world; she was restless and persistent, which is why she was named Erke Khan]: Kapaev 2012:30, 226; Terek Cossacks (v. Karabulak) [when the Lord created the sky and the sea, he "began to plant the earth"; sent the devil into the sea to bring sand; the devil climbed into the sea, collected sand in both handfuls, and hid one handful for himself the cheekbone to do what the Lord did; when he got out of the sea, he gave the Lord two handfuls; the Lord began to spread sand in all directions; where even one grain of sand fell, the earth began to grow out of it; the sand in the devil's mouth also began to grow; the devil screamed in pain; told the Lord that he wanted to hide some sand from him, and he began to burst his mouth; the Lord told the devil to run and spit until He will not spit out all the sand; the devil did so; mountains appeared where he spit]: Baranov 1899, No. 9:192-193.

Iran - Central Asia. Sheena, Burishi [the world is covered with water, partly frozen; several yats (giants) live under the rule of their lord Yamlo (demon) Gal Singh; want to place the ground above the water; the wolf Bojare Shal lived in the place of Milgamok ("Old Ice"); Happiness was sent to him, the wolf refused to listen to someone who served anyone; then Trust; Garai Patan, a bird living in the snow of the mountains, was brought in the same way; Bojare Shal told him to bring the mouse; ordered Gal Singh to stand in the water as a support; Garai Patan sat on him, spread his wings; the mouse made a hole in the ice, took out the ground, poured birds on the wings; when the wings covered the water, the mouse carried out all the land under water; Ghulam Muhammad 1907:107ff; Francke 1923:8 et al.]: Yettmar 1986:223-224; dardas (yes) [land taken out ( emportstiegen) from the oceans and thrown into the waters (besät)]: Francke 1923:8 in Hermanns 1946-1949:839.

Baltoscandia. Finns: Harva 1938 (? Eastern Finland) [God sends the Devil to the bottom; C. dives in the form of a black-throated loon, brings earth; hides part in his mouth; by God's will, the earth begins to grow; C. spits out the earth, ravines form and other bad places]: 101 in Napolsky 1991:140; Finns or Karelians (eastern Finland): Mansikka 1909:171 [God was on a golden pillar in the middle of the sea; told his reflection to rise to him; the devil has appeared; God asks how the earth can arise; - You have to dive to the bottom three times; God tells the devil to dive three times, the third time he hides part of the earth in his mouth; God tells the earth to grow hidden part is also growing; God agrees to take it out of the devil's mouth, throws it north, where stones and rocks appear (=Kongas 1960:161 referring to Mustakallio, MS, No. 72)], 171-172 [Gogol, Satan sailed by sea asked him to get land from the bottom; he brings land in his beak three times, both began to live on it; God appears, says that part of the land is hidden, pulls out what is hidden from Satan's mouth, throws it north, stones and mountains appear]; Karelians: Yevseyev 1981 [(Salminen 1908); Loon flies over the sea, Satan sends her to dive underground; she dives three times, each time most of the earth is washed away; yet enough for Loon to be able to live on earth; God says that there is not enough land, S. hid part in his mouth; God ordered him to spit it out, he spat north, creating rocks and mountains; S. cut his finger, God spoke to the wound]: 311-312; Mansikka 1909 [Satan and Gogol sail on the sea; S. sends Gogol to the bottom; he brings land three times, S. collects it; God appears, creates the earth's firmament; "hiding the earth"; God does not give the Devil land, he begs for as much space as he needs to stick a stake; mosquitoes and other harmful insects and reptiles come out of this hole]: 171-172 in Napolsky 1991:140; Lutsie (West 1893) [in the forest, the man leaned to the water for a drink; the water grabbed his beard: give what you do not know at home; a son was born at home; grew up, went to the forest, the mother gave 9 cakes with her milk; the devil got involved; the boy consistently throws cakes over his left shoulder; they close the way to the line, he runs to the spring every time to drink; the blacksmith hid the boy; the devil demands to be unlocked; the blacksmith: spill his tongue; grabbed his tongue with hot mites, the hell ran away; the blacksmith gave a horse, tells him not to look at what he met; the young man did not look at the underground dwarfs, at the naked old women, but looked at the girls out of the corner of his eye; the horse was gone; hell tells him to get a princess; gives him ducks, piglets and veal - these gifts are enough; he gave it to a wolf, bear and swan; on a stone a man as tall as a thumb advises to take it with him; a young man comes to the king; king: in the forest 9 years ago I lost 30 stallions; bring and get a princess; bear brought; 30 oxen: wolf brought; princess lost a ring in the sea: get it; swan dives, gets it on the third attempt; the king tells you to go to a hot iron bath; the first person with a finger enters, the bath becomes cold, the tooth does not fall on the tooth; so three times; swim in boiling water; the man with the finger first, the water is warm, wash well; recognize the princess among many girls; she warned: she will stand on her left heel; next time: I'll stand on tiptoes; third time: I won't be among others, I'll carry a bowl across the meadow; the king sends the young, giving money and gold; that's the hell, a grave with burning resin, a rope through it: go, I'll get the horse back; young man: show me how; hell went on the rope, young man cut it with a sword, the devil fell into the resin, only the smoke remained; came home on horseback; wedding; ate and drank, flowed down my lips, didn't get into my mouth]: Annom et al. 2018:215-220; Latvians [(2 options); God sends Satan to dive to the bottom of the sea to get land; he brings sand or silt under his fingernails; God puts it on water, the earth grows]: Puschkaitis 1891-1893 (quoted in Dänhardt) in Walk 1993:68-69; Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2001:44 [God created the island and lay down on it to rest; Damn dragged God to the water, but the island began to grow this way; by God's order, the devil/angel dived into the water to reach it the earth, but did not reach the bottom; he carried the silt only under his fingernails; God extracted the silt from under his fingernails and created an island], 97 [Damn/second God/duck dived to the bottom of the sea and carried sand for God; God sowed sand over water2 - the earth appeared; the devil filled his mouth/hid part of the sand from God; the sand spit out - swamps and swamps formed].

Volga - Perm. Komi: 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 oh mother's body, the body grew, turned into land, the sun appeared from a 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); Sidorov 1924 to Limerov 2016 [Yong was sailing in a boat, spat on the water, looked around - the same person was following him; let's go together; the companion asked to turn him into a loon, to get the land; snatched (from the bottom) a quarter of the land and began to rise, but the sea surface was frozen; breaking the ice, the loon shook the whole earth from his mouth; the same for the second and third times; Finally, the loon spit out three grains of sand, from which Yong created the earth and the useful creatures living on it, and gave his friend only a hole from hammering a stake, from which he removed all harmful things for people a creature]: 15; Sidorov 1924 [Yong (god) spat in the form of a swan, Omöl (devil) appeared from the spit in the form of a loon, which dives and brings earth; Yong creates land; there are seven in the sky tiers, odd created by E., even O.; each sky is one of the colors of the rainbow (the same on Vym, noted by G.A. Startsev); O. asks to give him as much land as he needs to score; out of the hole they come out of the hole insects, reptiles] in Plesovsky 1972:42; Uotila 2006, No. 19 [Noah's wife went to hell; he persuaded her to know when the flood would begin and not to come in from the ark until Noah swore; he said," Come in, damn it," then the hell came in; 30 days later, Noah told the duck to dive, bring land in its beak; she brought it, Noah threw half into the water, land appeared; the beasts and the devil came out of the ark; the hell took the other half of the land, put it in his mouth; the earth began to grow, Noah asked the devil what happened to him]: 87-89; Udmurts: Kralina 1960, No. 1 (written by V.P. Petrov in the Grakhov district, the village of Vuzh Egra) [water everywhere; Inmar He told Satan to dive, get the earth; he took out two handfuls, hid some in his mouth; I. blew the earth into the water, land arose and grew; the earth in Satan's mouth also grew, his mouth burst, mountains and swamps appeared, hummocks; the first people were giants; one put a man in his pocket, brought it to his mother; she said that these people would be smart; and the giants sat by the fire and could not move away, began to coat their feet with clay; when there were many people on earth, I. left them to the next world]: 39-40; Munkácsi 1887 [there was water everywhere, Inmar sailed in a boat, called on Shaitan, ordered him to dive, get everything he found from the bottom; Cancer on the way Sh. says that he has been living in the water for 12 years, but has not seen the bottom; S. reached the bottom, brought sand in his mouth, despite the ban, I. hid it a little; the earth began to grow; seeing Sh.'s swollen cheeks, I. told him to spit out the hidden, mountains and ravines were formed]: 49 in Vladykin 1994:319-320, in Kralina 1960:288-289, in Perevozchikova 1988:15; Yakovlev 1914, No. 1 [water is everywhere, God swims in a stone boat, the Devil sails behind him; God commands The devil gets the earth from the bottom; he brings the earth in handfuls; God commands to bring more; the devil brings twice, hid some in his mouth; God told the earth to grow, cover water; the devil had to spit out the earth, clods became mountains]: 387-388; Marie: Vasiliev 1907 [Kiremet in the form of a drake swam on the water; Yuma told him to get the ground from the bottom; he brought it, hid part in his mouth; Yu blew to the ground, spread it over the water, creating a flat land; K. began to spit out the hidden, creating mountains]: 50; Kaliev 2003 [To the bosom of the primary ocean from his nest - "Ludo Pyzhash" (letters. "duck's nest" - Pleiades) a duck flew in. After laying two eggs, she sat them under her wings. Two drake brothers, Yumo and Yeun, were born from these eggs. Then they alternately dived under the water and pulled land from the ocean floor. The land that Yumo took out formed a flat surface. On the other hand, Eun choked and spit out his saliva along with the ground. This is how mountains, lakes and swamps appeared on earth]: 17-18 (quoted from Yuziev 2016:106; the same text cites Limerov 2016:22 with reference to Kaliev 2004:108); Erzya [Chama-paz (supreme deity) sees Shaitan swimming in the form of a duck; orders Shaitan the Duck dives, brings earth; C. creates the earth's firmament; "concealing the earth"]: Melnikov 1981:53 in Napolsky 1991:140-141; moksha: Oral- poetic creativity of the Mordovian people 1983 [God in the form of a duck dives and brings earth from the bottom, spits it out - land grows; Damn, after watching, repeats God's actions, creates mountains]: 188 in Napolsky 1991:141; Veselovsky 1889 [Vardya-shkai (supreme deity) swims in a boat, meets Satan in the form of Gogol; V. orders Shaitan-Gogol dives unsuccessfully twice, brings land for the third time in the name of God; "hiding the earth"]: 12-13 in Napolsky 1991:141; Mordovians: Devyatkina 2004 [{a brief retelling of all Mordovian texts}]: 25; Sedova 1982 [Cham-paz (sun god) spits, spits turns into a stone, he breaks it, he turns into Shaitan; C. tells you to dive, get the earth from the bottom; S. hid part in his mouth, spit it it out, mountains appeared; C. made a blue sky, S. made clouds, C. told them bring rain; C. made useful animals, S. - predators, snakes, spiders, mosquitoes; C. made a man under the protection of a dog, S. blew cold on her, she was naked, hid in the hay; S. spat on a man, giving him diseases, vices; C. gave man reason, S. sent him to the lower world]: 13-15; Chuvash: Egorov 1995 [{the beginning of the text is a clear reference to the unretold plot of dress outside the ground}; Tură creates the land is flat, it grows; Shuittan spits out the silt hidden in his mouth, creates mountains, ravines, or causes a storm in the ocean before the earth has time to harden; for S. to spit out the silt, T. hits him, from a splash of blood evil spirits have arisen; T. begs for land, agrees to a patch to lean on his staff, makes a hole in the ground, falls into the lower world; diseases and reptiles come out of the hole; T. drives them back; S. clumsily imitates T.; T. makes apples, cow, sheep, S. - potato berries, goat, pig; predatory and harmful animals, reptiles, fish (throwing pebbles into the water); T. made a man, went for his soul, left to guard the dog without hair; S. let the cold go, promised the dog a fur coat, spat on the man; T. turned the man inside out, ordered the dog to eat bones and be beaten]: 117-118; Odyukov 1973 (Zap. YU. Savin, 1952, Teacher Training Institute, Moscow Kanash; translated from Chuvash. A.K. Salmin) [two loons (young and old) took the land from the bottom of the sea, carried it out in their beaks and put it on water; since that time, land has been formed]: 59; Kazan Tatars: Tatar Halyk Izhaty 1987 ( translated by Bakirov, July 2005) [1) in ancient times, nothing but water existed in the world, and the whole world was water; people had not yet appeared, only fish and birds were born; and somehow one of birds, a duck, sank very deep into the water, to the very bottom, and emerged with a lump of silt in its beak; it began to grow; this is how the earth formed]: 232; http://www.alabuga.ru/City/History/TatarMyths/earth.htm [God created the lake by his power and ordered the duck to dive into this lake and collect the silt at the bottom; then God ordered again What do you have inside, spit it it out and scatter it; the duck did so (a manuscript of 1843, written by Sharifulla from Kazan, son of Zharmukhammat; found in 1980 in Mamadinsky District)]; Napolskikh 1993 [in children's songs, proverbs and riddles of Kazan Tatars and Chuvash mention that the land was brought by a duck]: 29; Bashkirs: Barag 1987, No. 1 [water is everywhere, two ducks swim; to lay eggs, they became get silt from under the water; one keeps it under its wing, the other brings more and more pieces; in this mud, the duck made a nest, brought out ducklings, they brought out new ones, the clutched nests formed an island; others have appeared islands, have merged into the ground; since then, pebbles, silt in duck goiter; quail in Napolsky 1993:29-30]: 30-31; Aminev 2005 [written by the author from his mother, Burzyan family, in the Bashkir Trans-Urals; first the water descends duck, pulls silt from the bottom, made a nest on it out of fluff, laid two eggs, began to incubate; two drake brothers were born from eggs, they are cramped, one pushed the other out of this world, he went under water, became azhdaha]: 31.

Turkestan. Karakalpaks [In ancient times, there was no land; instead, everything was covered with empty water. The Suymyryk bird (a mythical bird) began to pull dirt from under the water (1) with its beak to make a nest for itself. All kinds of dust, grass, and algae gathered in the nest for this dirt, and formed a large land. This is where the land was born. 1) "uyyk" in the Karakalpak-Russian dictionary of Baskakov 1958 (30,000 words) translates: 1) swamp, marshy place, quagmire; 2) dirt; (translated by Islam Saparbayev with clarifications and a comment by Ruslan Doutaliev)]: Aimbetov 2014b: 25.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars: Urazaleev 2005:4 (d. Taychi, Tevriz District, Omsk Region) [two ducks swam, one decided to create the earth from silt (var.: from clay); the second dived, brought silt in its beak; the first began to scatter it over the surface of the water, earth appeared; the second, having reached land, became throw pebbles, mountains have appeared], 4-5 (p. Karagay, Vagai District, Tyumen Region) [heavenly horses sailed, where they touched the bottom with their hooves, silt surfaced, and earth formed from it], 5 (d. Atachka, Tarsky District, Omsk Region) [the supreme god Tenri sent his bird Swan (Ak Kosh) to get land from the bottom of the sea; when the land was formed, he settled Satan spirits (var.: Ishay or Yeshey) on it; they did not obey, he drove them into the forests; then he created the first humans out of clay; the swan became a sacred bird]; Chulym Turks [water is everywhere, a loon floats; God: what do you eat? - Earth. - Where is it? - Underwater. - Get it, thank you. Loon brought the earth three times, it turned out to be a cake, God lay down on it; the devil grabbed his leg and threw it into the water; God was on land, a lot of land was formed; the devil grabbed the sleeping God by the legs, pulled him into the water, and the earth expands; dragged until it was dry all around; hell asked for half the earth; God refused; well, at least stick the stake; God allowed, damn stuck the stake and took out mosquitoes, midges; God plugged the hole; did dog; made a man; went after his soul, told the dog to protect the man; the devil asked to miss: I'll feed and shower it with black hair; the dog missed; the devil pierced the navel and did not care; God told the dog serve a person; since then, people have been ill]: Lukina 2004, No. 5.1:97-98; Teleuts [(Vice Missionary You. Postnikov in d. Myyuta, whose population was formed mainly from Bachat migrant teleuts - see below. Potanin 1883:130, note 2; Funk 2004:9); there was only water; Ulgen went down to create the earth; Yerlik volunteered to dive, brought earth from the bottom in his mouth; W. made the earth, it was all from turf; There was a little land left between E.'s teeth; he spit it it out, a hummocked swampy place formed; W. scolded him; he asked for as much land as the end of his stick took; he fell into that the place he asked for; the swallow brought turf in his beak; W. scattered it; made the forest and everything on earth; created the human body from earth, bones from stones; a dog without hair; went to look for a soul for man, left the dog as a watchman; E. appeared, promised to give the dog hair and soul to the man; the dog ate E.'s excrement, overgrown with hair; E. put a pipe in the man's ass, blew, thereby reviving him; W. came, I wondered whether to exterminate people; The Frog persuaded them to leave them as they are]: Potanin 1883, No. 46a: 218-220; Altaians: Radlov 1989 [Tengere Kaira Kan and the man hovered above the water like geese; man flew above T., lost the ability to fly, fell; T. rescued him, told him to dive, get land; the man dived, put part of it in his mouth; the earth began to sink, T. told him to spit it it out, on the ground marsh hummocks formed; T. cursed him, called him Erlik; E. took possession of T.'s people; created evil spirits, settled him in his sky; T. smashed it with a spear, fragments formed mountains; Erlik T. drove him deep under land]: 357-358; Khokholkov 1997 [water is everywhere, Kudai sent fish to search for land, only Pike brought land from the bottom; K. made it lighter than other fish; K. fell asleep, his brother Erlik grabbed a handful of earth ran; the earth continued to happen; where E. jumped, a mountain appeared, where a trough came, the ground became uneven; K. agreed to give E. land the size of the end of his crutch; E. fell into this hole, all reptiles and insects came out of it]: 21-22; Chelkan people (Lebedin Tatars, Otkushtö, 1863) ["At first it was just water and nowhere was land. Then God sent a white swan into the water and ordered him to bring water to heaven in its beak. But when he was diving, a little bit of earth stuck to his beak. The swan blew the ground off its beak, and it fell into the water with small specks of dust and began to swim on its surface. These specks of dust began to grow and expand, and from them became earth. But the ground was smooth and flat. Then God sent a second bird to earth to blow up the ground with its beak, and this made mountains and valleys on the earth. But the trait did not like the beautiful treeless land, and he created a mob with its swamps, where people can hardly live and are very poor. At first, God created a man who lived alone on earth. It was a man. One day, while he was sleeping, the devil touched his chest and a bone began to grow from his thigh, and as she got longer, she fell to the ground and a woman appeared out of it"]: Radlov 1989:211 (the swan diving episode mentioned in Dyrenkova 1929:123); Shors ("Kuznetsk foreigners") [first one water; God often spits on one place, saliva forms a heap, the devil Aina comes out of it, calls him friend; God tells him to dive to get the ground, say, Help, Lord! A. does not say, the earth is washed off his hands twice, but at the bottom he eats it; the third time he brought the earth, God dried it, scattered it, creating land; the earth in A.'s stomach began to grow; God cut it, cleaned it, cured A., went to bed; A. tried to turn the earth over, but only stretched it; begged for a piece of land at least the size of a crutch; fell down, and reptiles and insects, prickly plants came out of the hole, mountains and swamps appeared; God strengthened the land on three whales (ker-palyk); when they change places, earthquakes occur; God created man from clay, went after his soul, left the dog as a watchman; the devil Aina gave the dog hair, for which she let him approach the man, he spit in his mouth; so people have saliva and harkotin in their mouths; God revived the man, told the dog to be his servant]: Shtygashev 1894:1-8; Khakas: Katanov 1907, No. 582 (Kachins) [first it was a duck; having made another friend, she sent her to the bottom of the river for sand; she brings it three times and gives it first; the third time she left part of the sand in her mouth , this part became stones; the first duck scattered the sand, crushed for nine days, the earth grew; the mountains grew after the messenger duck spit the stones out of its mouth; because of this, the first refuses to give it land; agrees to give land the size of a cane; the messenger pierces a hole in the ground, goes into it; the rest sends a swallow for a man's soul, telling the dog to watch and bark at Erlik Khan; E. created winter, gave the dog a fur coat, spat on a man; God poured his soul on the man, made him a wife out of a rib; ordered him to eat red currants at sunrise, but not at sunset; the wife broke the ban and ate, God wrote it down in a book; a woman with a child and a mare with a foal eat grass, a woman has crossed seven slides, a mare over one; God has decided that if people eat grass, they will eat it all; God gives the moon and the sun is Erlik Khan; it's getting dark; God gathers the birds, tells them not to laugh if the Corncrake comes; the head of the birds Stork laughed; the corncrake was offended and left; sent the Owl to overhear that the Corncrake speaks at home; Let Erlik Khan catch the echo of the rocks, his shadow, the tramp of a hundred horses; E. is forced to return the sun and moon because he could not fulfill God's requests; God sent the Swallow to steal Erlik Khan's flint ; she stole, meets Komar on the way back; he says that E. was sent to find out whose blood is sweeter, turns out to be human; The swallow asks him to show his tongue, bites off; the mosquito only buzzes; E. chases the Swallow, tears off her middle tail; she threw half the flint on the rock; the young man was guarding the door to God; Erlik Khan came: what do I eat? God replies that old and old women, and the young man said that trees are rotten; next time: children are young willow branches; young people are dried and hardened trees; for the fourth time E. breaks into God; everything was explained, E. now eats everyone, and the young man was driven to the ground]: 522-527 (=196:154-156; quail in Troyakov 1995:6-7); Radlov 1907:523-524; Sagalaev 1992:39 in Butanayev 2003 [water everywhere; Ah-Khuday decided to create the earth; his younger brother Irlik Khan: there is "live clay" under water; becoming a pike or duck, he reached the bottom, took grains of sand in his mouth and brought them AH, but hid some in his mouth; AH caught three perch (ala pua) and made them float on the surface of the water; scattered grains of sand on their backs, from which flat ground grew; I. spit out hidden grains of sand from his mouth and mountains and abysses appeared; "Let them be out of the blue Say your name, and when you meet mountains and gorges, they will remember me with curses"; earthquakes occur when fish wag their tails; (hereinafter about the creation of cow liver, B48A, and man, H41)]: 109-110; Baikal Buryats [Ehe Burkhan wandered in the darkness; she made a wild duck, which dived into the water, brought dirt in her beak; EB blinded Mother Ulgen's land, created plants on it and animals; from the Sun she gave birth to a daughter, the good Manzan Gourmet, from her then Western deities were born; from the Month she gave birth to the evil Mayas Hara (or Hara Manzan), from her came Eastern deities; on the sunset side, EB created a feminine one, on the sunrise side, a masculine principle; they met, united, the first Pahang man was born, the first woman Tuya was born]: Zhukovskaya 1980:95-96 ( cit source. Sharakshinova 1959:40-47); Balagan Buryats (Khangalov's recording, the same in Khangalov 1960:7-10): Gomboev 1890, No. 1a [=Khangalov 1960:7; there was only water; Burkhan Sombol (so named because became himself) sees an angata bird (arcalic) swimming with 12 children; sends it underground to the bottom; the angata brings red clay on the nose of black earth, red clay in its paws; S. first throws red clay on the water, then black earth; land, grass and trees appear on it; S. blesses the angata bird, You will have many children, swim well on the water and dive (retelling in Zolotarev 1964)], 1b [=Khangalov 1960:8; Burkhan Sombol walks on water, wants to create earth; sees an angir bird (scoter, red duck) swimming on the water; sends it to the bottom to reach the ground; angir dives, but Hashi- Zaghan (scissor fish) tells her to come back, because even she did not see the bottom, threatens to cut it in half; S. sends angir again, tells her to say om mani budma khan; angir brings land, S. makes land out of it, grass and trees grow on it (retelling in Khangalov 1890:7-10)], 1c [=Khangalov 1960:8-10; there is only water everywhere; Shibageni Burkhan, Madari-Burkhan and Esege-Burkhan they saw an angata bird, it was swimming with 12 children; they told it to dive, get black clay, red clay, sand (hara-shoro, ulan-shoro, ilhe); it dived and took it out; they scattered black earth, red clay and sand, created the earth, grass and trees grew on it; then they created man; from red clay, a body, a bone stone, blood from water; made a man and a woman, went to bed; whose candle was the next morning if a flower grows in whose pot, he will revive people and protect them; Shibegani Burhan woke up and saw a candle burning in front of Madari-Burkhan, a flower in his pot; replaced, lay down again, was recognized as the winner; M.: now the people you animated will also steal and quarrel; after that, M. and E. rose to heaven, and S. stayed on earth, revived the two made people; the Burkhans made them covered with hair and the dog naked; Shibegani Burhan went to heaven, left the dog to guard; Shithir came, the dog began to bark, he seduced her by giving her hair and food, spat on people, left; Shibegani-Burhan came back, cursed the dog, telling it to gnaw bones, eat excrement; scraped off people's hair, leaving it on his head, for people held their hands on their heads, so it was not spit on], 1g [=Khangalov 1960:10; Burkhan made the ground flat; Shithyr stood beside him, hiding some land under his heel; when Burkhan finished creating, S. took the hidden one, scattered it, mountains and valleys were formed; explained to the Burkhan that when people descended downhill, they would call, Ay, burkhan; and when they climb, they would remember that Shitkhyrova is a high mountain; thus, they both will be remembered constantly]: 65-66, 66-67, 67-69 (land creation at p. 67), 69; the Buryats (Obusy River, Osinsky District of the Irkutsk Region), there were two planes, the upper and lower ones, the upper one was larger lower; on the bottom there were four happiness (evil); one formed the sea, the second formed a golden willow, the third a human form, the fourth the light of fire; from the human form formed Ehe burhan (Mother Goddess); created a son named Budarga under the golden willow, from willow bark, his friend Anhata Shubuun; Abarga zaga h an created fish in the sea , the sun created from the light of fire; the demon Archang-Shothor came out of the sea foam; he did not reach the earth; the ASH bird brought a handful of clay in its claws from the bottom of the sea, the EB on AZ's back made earth; At night, the demon ASH began to pull the sleepers into the water, but only stretched the ground, which had become large; offered to squeeze the land, so the mountains appeared; began to ask for a share; they agreed to give him enough to put up a cane; insects, snakes, worms, etc. crawled out of the hole; EB created the feminine Ehen Altan Tekto at sunset, and the male Esegen Mungöte Bahana in the east; they searched for each other from the east to west - they could not meet; EMB went from west to east, they met; gave birth to a woman Tuya, a Pahunt man; EB gave birth to 9 sons, 1 daughter; 5 went west, 55 Western Tengrians, 4 east - 40 east; Sister Segang Sabdek Tengri stayed in the middle; Budarga called P. and his family to heaven; Tuya looked around along the way, stayed between heaven and earth; she was sublunar, sunflower queen; P. married his daughter Sesen in heaven, they have 9 sons, 9 daughters; see motive J25 below]: Khadakhne 1926:32-33; Buryats: Sharakshinova 1980:21 (Tangut ulus of Nukut District Irkutsk region) [the land was created by San God; from jewelry he created the Mother's Golden Womb (Ehein Altan Hebeeli) and his father's Golden Loins (Essegein Altan Bahana); from the womb comes radiance, from radiance Mother creates the sun, moon, and Shunguta shubuun bird; she pulls from the bottom of the sea a handful of land from which San God created the earth for 5,000 years], 24 [Esege Malan Tengriy, Oh Kharkhan and Damn Arhan Shuther decided to create land; Arkhan went to the outer sea, dived to the bottom, took out a mouth full of earth; from it they created the earth; it was smooth and flat; A. began to ask for his share (a hectare, half a hectare, a quarter, etc.); to put up a cane, they did not give it; as a result, EM and OH gave land with a small brushwood; A. stuck brushwood into the ground, from reptiles, insects and worms crawled holes; EM plugged a hole with a burning log; A. created ninety devils on earth in the summer, and ninety more were born on the ice in winter; they brought disasters; children of the gods - nine sons and nine daughters, well-aimed shooters, shot one hundred and eighty sons A.], 25 [1) (according to Jamzarano, hand.) created a thousand heavenly Burkhans; in search of land, the Swan flew through the air, and The raven was under water; they saw the Golden Turtle holding the ground in its paws; they told Huhuday Mergen that he shot the Turtle, which overturned, formed a firmament on which it was the earth was created with vegetation; a thousand heavenly burkhans basked on the ground - Ulgen and in the sky - Under; Arhan Shuther began to ask for a part of the earth with a thin vine; stuck the vine into the ground, mosquitoes, flies, gnats and other harmful insects began to crawl out of the hole; 2) the earth was created by God on the four legs of the Golden Turtle, which lies on its back and supports our land], 27 [(Potanin archive) The king of heaven swam on the surface of the ocean; to create solid land, one had to dive into the water, turning into a water bird; Erlik Khan turned to Gagara, dived and carried it from the bottom a handful of land; the Creator turned it into a continent, which was then covered with vegetation and inhabited by animals; E. demanded the right to participate in the management of the land; between the two creators arose a quarrel that, according to some options, ended in a duel or a fight; both concluded a condition that all living creatures must belong to the King of Heaven, and the dead to E.; alternatively, the struggle between the King of Heaven. Heaven and E. still continue; E. has power equal to that of the King of Heaven, is at the head of the kingdom of the dead], 40 [(Upper Lensky Buryats); Esege Malan Tengriy together with Mother Ege Juuren created land from dust particles extracted from the ocean floor, and the rest were scattered across the ocean; when mixed with water, dust particles turned into tiny living creatures; some were stuck in coastal pebbles, grew up, became people]; Mongols [(recorded by your missionary. Postnikov from Khalkhas); water was everywhere, the Ochurmans lived in the sky; decided to make land, looked for a friend, found Chagan-Shukuta; both went down to the water; the Frog that noticed them dived; O. sent ChSH find it in the water; he took out the Frog, put it belly up on the water; O. sat on it, told ChSH to dive, get the ground; he brought an armful of liquid earth from the bottom, said O., If it weren't for me, you wouldn't get it land; the earth immediately fell out of his hands, fell into the water; O. told him to dive again, take the land and carry it on his behalf; O. poured the land he had brought onto the Frog, the earth began to grow, both sat on it, fell asleep; Shulmus grabbed them to throw them into the water, but the earth grew faster than he ran to its edge; he left them; O. and ChS made a man, went looking for a soul, left the dog as a guard; promised find hair for the dog; The devil gave it wool, fed it, lit yarn, blew smoke into the man's nose, reviving him; O. and ChSH put a cup of water; on whoever side he would grow up in the cup, rule the earth; Sh. he also asked for land, got as much as at the end of his stick; stuck worms, snakes, reptiles in the ground, crawled out; the flower grew from O.'s side, but he dozed off and ChSH put it on his edge; O. said that now both people and animals will steal and enmity; went to heaven; he is a real god, and Ulgen was invented by the Kams (shamans)]: Potanin 1883, No. 46b: 220-223; the Mongols [there were water and air, on Buddha Ochirvani in the sky; he decided to create the earth, found Tsagan Shukhert's assistant White Umbrella; told him to turn a turtle swimming in the water over his stomach, dive, bring it from the bottom of the earth, think about it (O.), himself sat on a turtle; the CSH grabbed the ground, but felt that something was interfering; thought that O. should take the land; immediately a handful filled with earth, the CS surfaced; poured the earth on the turtle's stomach instead of a turtle land appeared; both celestials fell asleep; Shulmas went to the edge of the island to drown them, but as he ran to the edge, the earth expanded; O. and the CSH sculpted the people, O. ordered the CSH to make a guard, he sculpted the dog, O. and the CSH went for intelligence for man and hair for the dog; Damn gave the dog hair, said that it would be fed by its owner, a man; lit a thread in front of the man's nose, he came to life from the smoke; O. and TS they argued which of them should rule living beings; decided who would have a flower in a cup of water first; O., but the CSH put it in its cup; O. said that now people would deceive each other , flew to heaven]: Skorodumova 2003:35-37.

Western Siberia. Forest Nenets [at first there is water everywhere; Num sent swans and geese to look for land; they came back, said there was no land anywhere; sent Loon to dive; she returned on the sixth day, said that she was at the bottom there was something, but it did not have enough strength; the Luri bird dived, on the seventh day it emerged with the ground and a stalk of grass in its beak; it was driven by the wind from one bank to the other; N. told the Lury to dive again, she returned seven days later; N. squeezed the ground, making it large enough to build a house; an old man came and asked to let him in, N. reluctantly agreed; in the morning saw that the old man was washing his face at the edge of the earth, but he was really trying to destroy the earth; N. drove him away; made the earth even bigger; let various peoples, animals, trees, rivers, etc. appear; old man came back, asked for at least enough land to stick a stick; N. agreed, the old man went into the hole, said he had deceived N., now he would steal people from him]: Lekhtisalo 1998:8-9; tundra Nenets (Nadym) [God took a piece of land, threw it down on the water, the earth grew; for people to die, God created diseases]: Verbov 1937:19; Tundra Nenets: Labanauskas 1995 [red-throated swam on the water loon and dog; the loon dived, brought blades of grass; the dog asked her to make the ground; the loon grew dry ground out of many blades of grass; the dog met two people in copper clothes, who offered her to have master; they made two brass idols, promised to return in seven days, told them not to give idols to those who came earlier; on the third day a black man came, blew on idols, they became people he called them owners of the dog; people in copper clothes came back, said that now the dog's owners would be mortal; if they (two in copper clothes) made the dog owners, people would not die]: 13-14; Lehtisalo 1998 [Num offers Nga to prepare the ground; he took sand from the water, but it slipped between his fingers; Num took the sand, put the cake on the water; told Nga bring a whale to establish land on it; but the earth continued to move; then he ordered to bring a stone, the earth stopped; this stone was Ural]: 9; Lar 2001 (Yamal): 188-205 [Num and Nga - sons of old woman Puhutz; Nga asks for food, P. says that Noom should make land first; orders to build a plague where she will live underground with old man Wesoko (Iri-Wesoko); Num tells Gagara to dive, she brings sand first from the bottom, then silt, and grass for the third time; Num sculpts the earth, throws it into the water; it is unstable at first; Num puts it on the whale, the earth trembles again; throws it to the ground a stone made of copper, iron and transparent stone; the earth freezes; for his mother, Num makes a red earth, puts a plague; Nga wants land for herself, brothers fight for a long time; reconcile; Num rolls the ball, throws, appears sun; Nga gets the moon; Num sculpts a naked man, he wants to eat; Nga makes hairy people, they fight, Num advises to send them underground; brothers fight, Numu has to agree to they both breathed life into the man; it was warm, the man and the dog walked naked; Nga gave the dog a warm skin, for which she let him see the man, Nga spat on him, sent diseases; the man began to hunt, dress in dog skin; Num told the dog to eat feces, be a servant; taught man to shamanize; went to heaven, gave Nga the underworld], 283-284 [Num made the first man in heaven; water below, he decided create land for man, turned it into a loon, ordered him to dive; the first time the loon brought sand in its beak, silt in the second, a piece of land in the third; Num made the ground, threw it into the water, forgot to return it to the loon human appearance; she cries, one egg always throws one egg into the water's owner; cries for this child]; Tretyakov 1871 [there was a global flood, 7 people escaped in a boat, raised under the sky by water, they were bent under the sky; asked the loon to get the ground; it came up seven days later, brought land with sand and grass; people threw it on the water, asked Numa to build the land; the water came down, the boat landed on the ground; the water was gone altogether; one woman sucked her own breasts, died; another drank her urine, survived; people dug a hole, found water; starved to death, two men and a girl were left; they ate mice; the mammoth has pierced the ground with horns, mountains and ravines have formed; now people find fragments of its horns; under its weight, the earth sank, rivers and lakes have formed; Nua is angry, the mammoth drowned in the lake, now lives underground; one of the men married a girl]: 415-416; tundra Nenets (Yenisei) [water is everywhere; Ermine asks Gagara what to do; she dives, seven weeks later she carried it out in her mouth a pebble and a grain of earth; the ermine told her to sleep, not to look; when she woke up, the earth was all around, mountains, the spirits of earth and sky; Master of heaven; what should I do? Master of the Earth: I will create man; I sculpted a man and a woman out of clay; The master of heaven breathed a soul into the images; XS: How will people live without fire? He took iron out of the ground, XN took flint from the sky, they carved fire; XN created domestic and wild deer]: Popov 1944:85 (quail. Khomich 1976:16-17); tundra Nenets (Taimyr) [Loon and Dog swam on the water; the loon dived, on the third day brought a blade of grass from the bottom; at the request of the Dog, she continued to dive, collected the island, he grew up; a man in iron mittens and bacaries made a man and a woman, went for souls, telling the Dog to protect the creation; a man with a black face came, revived the dolls, left; the first man came back, said that people will now get sick; people have inhabited the land, started building a stepped house; a man in iron mittens and bacaries hit with mittens, people are scattered, they speak different languages]: Nenyang 1997: 21-23; tundra Nenets (Turukhansky Krai) [seven people escaped from the flood in a boat; were lifted under the sky by water, so they could not stand up bent under the sky; asked for a loon to find land; she dived, a few days later she took out some land with sand and grass; throwing it on the water, people asked Nua to arrange land for them; the water began to decline and disappeared altogether; one woman sucked their own breasts, died from this; the other drank her urine, survived; people guessed to dig a hole, found water; began to starve, left a boy and a girl; were fed up with mice; the mammoth turned the mountains and ravines, lakes and rivers formed; Nua was angry, the mammoth drowned, now lives underground; one man made a bow out of wood, the other made an arrow out of mammoth bone, killed a deer; removed the skin with a knife from mammoth bone]: Tretyakov 1871:201-202; Mansi: Dunin-Gorkavich 1911 [water first; God tells the lula (loon) bird to get the land, it did not get it; the little lula emerged three days later, in blood with liquid earth in his beak; the earth began to grow, trees appeared; God created a man ("pyris") and a woman ("ekva"); to find out how big the earth was, pyris sent a crow that was white; until the cauldron was being cooked, the raven flew around the ground and returned; the next day, the crow sent pyris again, he returned only in the evening; he sent it the next day, the raven returned only on the third day and black, because he saw carrion and began to peck at it; since then the raven has been feeding on carrion; because Lula took out the earth, the Voguls do not hit or eat it; pyris himself went to look for the end of the earth, but was tired and returned; made a horse out of wood, but He did not like him; then he forged 7 wings for the horse - the horse flew in circles; forged the eighth wing, flew for a long time, did not find the edge of the earth; when he returned to the yurt, he noticed that the fire was barely smoldering in the dude; he was his I put it out with my foot; the ekwa sitting in the yurt had become an old woman, began to shout: why did I put out the fire of my husband, whom I am waiting for; puff hit her on the floor of the yurt, she became young; people came from pyris and equa divided into clans and tribes]: 41-43; Kazakova 1960 (Berezovsky District) [husband and wife lived on a piece of tundra in the middle of the water; Loon dived, brought a piece of land, attached it to land near the house; a second time brought a larger piece; the earth increased; diving caused the feathers on the top of Loon's head to stir; the couple had a son, Taryg-pes-pygris (Crane Thigh); he brought seven wives: Etpos-ne (Month Woman), Por-ne (Female Witch), Mosh-ne (Good Woman), Hotal-ne (Sun Woman), Vit-Kosai-ne (Woman Mistress of Water), Thief Koshai-NE (Woman - mistress of the forest), Syp-Kosyai-ne (Woman is the mistress of the mountain); then began to live with the same Mos-ne]: 47-48; Lukina 1990, No. 105 (northern Mansi) [an old woman and an old man of the tundra hill live, there is water around; c An iron diver dives in the sky, on the third attempt it brings earth in its beak; when she inhaled it, her throat burst (this place is now a reddish spot); the iron crest (called the second loon) dives, she has the top of the head bursts (there are reddish feathers); the earth grows; the old woman and the old man send a white crow to see if the earth is big; the third time the raven bites the dead, returns black; the old man tells him eat carrion; (then the old woman gives birth to Taryg-Pesch-Nimalya-sov, aka Mir-Susne-Hum, "a man watching the world"; see motif A4; he visits distant worlds, gets wives; the old man is Torum , his wife is Kaltas)], 106 (Zap. A. Balandin, 1937, p. Vejacors on the river. Ob) [(clearly the same text in Rombandeev 2005, No. 1:33-61, a brief retelling in 1991:14); water is everywhere; an old man and an old woman are in the house; an iron loon flew in, dived, popped up, his neck burst, blood under his neck it seemed like a piece of earth in her beak, stuck between the logs of the house, flew up; the same second loon, dives three times, blood on his neck, a piece of earth stuck between the logs; the earth began to grow; the old man three times comes out every time after three days; the third time it is dry everywhere; the old man sends a white crow to fly around the ground three times; he returns after 3, 5, 7 days; the third time he is black, pecking a dead person; the old man told him not to catch a beast from now on, only fish or take blood for himself when a man killed the beast and took meat; a tree grew in the backyards; the old man brought it with roots and branches, and began to scold , cut his hand, the old woman sucked blood, ordered the tree to be carried back; at night the old woman was not there, in the morning the old man found her in a small house, she gave birth to a son there, called Taryg-Pesch-nimala owls; T. hunts; every time He sees a line in the ice-hole; then he sees his reflection, he has a beard, needs a wife; finds a house, took a horse out of the underground barn, washed it from the manure, his mother gave chain mail, a sword, a whip and a saddle; T. jumps to look for a wife, punched an aspen leaf with an arrow; an old woman in the house says that T. pierced a piece of her bed; that Num-Torum, his father let his wife down from the sky, and Paraparsekh stole; gave pike, hawk, mammoth, hare and scissors; T. meets people herding horses; people: we herd horses P.; T.: answer: we herd horses T., otherwise the Fire King following me will burn you with fire; the same is cow shepherds; T. comes to P.'s house, he is not there, a woman tells him to hide in moss; winged P. descends on larch; the woman assures that P. is dead, P. does not believe, flies away; T. pursues with the skin of a hawk; P. became an iron loon in the sea, T. became a pike; P. - hare, T. is another hare; P. is a teal duck, T. shot him with an arrow, burned him in the fire; the horse carried him across the sky through Torum's fire, ordered him to hide in his nostril for this time; Kul is on the way, swallows everyone, the horse tells me to wear mammoth skin, cut off Kul's nose and ears with scissors; Kul: I'll die now; 30 aspens from one root go into girth, strangle people with branches; the horse is gone, T. thinks about that old woman, she appears, breaks aspen, says that the eternal era of human life will come, and with these aspens this would be impossible; the horse tells you to wrap it in birch bark, grab Kirp-Nelp Equa's granddaughter; K. chases, grabs a horse, but only rips off his birch bark, cuts his hands against his sword; T. comes to his wife, with him, clutching his horse's leg, daughter K.; T. now has two wives, all P.'s wealth; in heaven T. comes to the old man, in sledges, the Sun Girl; T . volunteers to take her; looks down, sees people quarreling, thought he would kill everyone, people die; the old man tells them to be resurrected; he resurrected; the same place where the month-old girl (or these girls are daughters of the Sun and the Month?) ; with two wives, T. comes to a place where earth and sky meet; there is a hole, an old man is waiting for ducks, waiting for geese; T. tries to fly like a hawk, falls, dives into the lake with a pike, brings it to the old woman and the old man ducks; an old woman cooks them, does not tell them to break bones, puts bones in a lake with live water, ducks fly out alive; T. sleeps with their daughter; T. returned to earth with all his wives, now 5 wives; then gets another one wife], 107 (zap. A. Cannisto, 1904, b. Konda) [=Kannisto 1951, No. 1:2-9; The Bright Husband Father (Num-Torum) created the world; there is water everywhere, fog; his son, a bright boy (SM), leaves the sky for the middle world; blew his nose, created a tundra hill out of snot; hell comes, tries to break the hill, SM takes two loons with iron beaks out of his pocket, they kill the line; sends them to dive underground; the first emerges seven years later, the second After seven years, shakes off, rocky earth appears; its inhabitants are mortal; SM blows out, a snake worm appears, turns into a man; meets a Ruff woman; they They ask each other what each came from; he is from the snot of the Bright Husband-Father, she is from black earth; she lies down, pulls him towards her, his genitals under his arm; she tears them off and puts them in their place, man and E. copulate; E. tells him to eat two berries from a three-leaf tree, its leathery shell descends; they give birth to a whole genus of girls and boys]: Kannisto 1951, No. 1:2-9], 114a [=Kannisto 1951, No. 3:10-12; Zap. A. Cannisto in 1906 on the river. Pelymka; God pushed the Devil out, thought it was in vain; Damn came back, said he knew that God intended to create man, but there was no black earth; God offered him land; Damn dived, brought God from the bottom to in both hands of black earth, God drew a man and a woman on paper, made them out of the ground, created people; the devil himself tries to make them too, but it turns out to be a lizard, then a beetle, a toad; God left the Dog to guard the people he created, the hell let the frost fall, the dog began to freeze; the devil began to cough, pulled his skin over the Dog for letting him approach people; smeared people with snot and drooling; God twisted people inside out, told them to blow their nose and cough now; told the Dog to stay taut on the Devil's Skin]: 258-259, 272-273, 291-293, 300; Chernetsov 1935 [(a combined version of individual excerpts heard by the author); big and small loon dive to get the ground from the bottom; unsuccessful at first; when they dived together, they got it; they bleed from tension, now the big loon has a red chest, and the small one has a red head]: 23- 24; Eastern Khanty: Kulemzin 2000 [luli the informant translated as "kulik", and the dictionary contains a translation of "small lake loon"; according to one version about the origin of the land, it was raised upstairs luli flood time - red-necked grebe]: 163; Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 9 (b. Yugan; =Lukina 1990, No. 2:63) [the Khanty do not kill Kulik-lyuli, because he took the earth from the bottom on the third attempt; Kon-Iki-pah sent him to dive]: 17; Shatilov 1931 (Vakh river) [water flew over it Loon, Torum sailed on the water; told Loon to dive, she brought silt in her beak; T. made it into a land with mountains, rivers, vegetation, animals]: 100; Nganasans: Dolgikh 1976, No. 4 [Duck asks Loon to dive, find land; she pops up dead on the third day; the Duck brings grass and moss in seven days; says that she has raised the ground], 5 [The Duck and Loon agreed that the Duck will get the earth , and Loon will release the disease with the nose, piercing the sick (Duibu-nguo stabs the loon's nose when he heals); The duck dived, brought black earth; The duck brought moss from nine Syrad, put it on water]: 50, 51; Popov 1984 [the water reached the sky, Loon lay on it; a voice asked her to dive underground; she was frightened, did not dive; Kamenushka dived, surfaced on the fourth day with blades of grass, moss in her mouth; Loon was punished by telling her to nest in the water, lay only two eggs; The stone nests in a dry place, has many chicks; Nguo created the sun, thunder and rain, a month for women calculated the time of birth]: 41-42; Simchenko 1996 (1): 13 [water first; Nguo decided to make land; sent Loon to dive; she reached the bottom on the second attempt, brought grass; the earth covered the water; where- then seven children appeared - ancestors of different peoples], 18-20 [first water, a stone in the middle; two diamads ("having a throat") were arguing about which of them would get the land; a bird flew in, a long nose, a breast red (sandpiper?) ; the diamada did not dive to the bottom, the bird brought grass, moss, earth from the bottom; the Sun came, the bird flew away, the sun was gone, in five days the earth was covered with ice; the bird came back, said that now everyone has The diamada will have five fingers; therefore, it is cold for five days; the Mother Sun has melted the ice; the bird is flying, throwing grass, roots; Mother Earth has become alive; worms have crawled out of it, covered with hair like bears; then the hair fell off, they became like humans, gave birth to children, carved fire out of the flint; they looked like deer; the mother fire began to heat the children (these are stones), they burst; they looked up - the sky was completely rose; how the skin became separated; another says: this is the road to my mother; she threw her eyes, he returned from Mother Moon, said that she told me to collect hair from her head, hair, tie the children, throw it the sides, where they fell, will live; a voice from heaven is for them: we leave you only half of your arms and half of your legs so that only half of the people can destroy; one stone has become the stone that fire gives, the other becomes a stone, what does iron give for fire; one will be Mother Fire, the other will be Fire Father, you will give birth to fire together; a man will get meat, a woman will keep fire; (=1996 (2): 14-17)]; Tretyakov 1871 [(M. Momzikova: Tretyakov talks about "Samoyeds" in general, but the language combinations he uses are more close to the Nganasan language); The following legend tells about the global flood of Samoyeds. There was a great flood; seven people fleeing in the boat were brought under the sky by water, so they could not get up without bending under the sky. When people saw that they were bad, they asked the loon to find some land for them; the loon dived into the water and after seven days carried out several lands along with sand and grass. After throwing all these things into the water, people started asking Nua to arrange land for them. After that, the water began to decline, the trees marked and the boat sank to land]: 201-202; Ents [at first there was water, Nga flew over; told Gagara to dive; Loon dived for a long time, brought it in its beak land; N. made land out of it]: Prokofieva 1953:204 [the shaman remembers; the deceased goes down the river; she is like Ket, but the water is black; young in front, the old man behind; there are many fish; he caught up with the dead, but not decided to go too far; Ivendgai Paya, the owner of the underground land {Tuchkova: Vendygai Paya (Ketian dialect) - "Staraya Paya", SDS 2005:83}, who was the very first to die; everyone goes to her ; she is on the river, but her house is dry; not only human bones, but also dog bones float along the river and bark; there the watchman is a man from a distance, and if you come up, a bear]: Baulo, Tuchkova 2016, No. 4, fragment 3; southern Selkups [recorded by I.N. Gemuev, 1980, an informant shamanil when he was young; "The Earth was the first to sink. God sent a loon, it didn't get anything. Gogol (porya) took out sand. This is our land. God let the snake go, then the bird, the speckles. And earlier - to a hoof. And the speckle frightened the hoof. The hoof began to bite at him, which is why the grouse only has a little white meat, the rest is black. And he let everyone go ahead - he let people go. People got into a fight, he let the snake go to disperse them. He let the dogs go, as he let a naked man go. She's freezing - damn it. - What happened? I'm freezing. Got the hell out of her skin. Now we are sick - we cough. God sent - made a man out of clay, he sits like a man. And the hell spit, I spit. This is what we are rooting for]: Baulo, Tuchkova 2016, No. 4, fragment 3; Northern Selkups Selkup mythology. Tomsk.: Pelikh 1998:67-68 (Nizhnyaya Baikha) [Monga's shaman rose to heaven on a cloud, married Pari-numa's daughter, Pari-numa's daughter; began to transport his earthly family to heaven; dragging sledges through a hole in the sky, dropped his little son; managed to evoke the power of the earth, she kept the boy in the air; he hung for a long time with his arms spread out; dark light came from below the ground, a white glow from the sky; back the boy turned black and his belly white, his hands turned into wings, he became a loon; Pari-num told the loon to dive into the sea and reach the land, promising to restore its human appearance; the loon failed to do so do, remained a bird], 68 [Shaman Monga went to live in heaven; his little son Luchaku turned into a loon, began to live with his father in heaven; Num asked if he wanted to be a man or a bird; L. replied that man; Num told Uro-bo (= Luchak) to get the drowned land from the bottom of the sea, promised to restore its human appearance for it; Uro-bo found land but could not raise it to the surface; then Noom sent a duck; she too I could not lift the ground, but I guessed to break off a piece, bring it to the surface; a large earth grew out of a piece; Urobo remained a bird, loons come from it; the loon still remembers that it used to be was human; trying to talk to people but they don't understand her]; Stepanova 2006 [(p. Ratta, zap. Stepanova); Num said to the loon: "If you fly high and dive deep, and your beak is so long, get the ground from the bottom," and sent her underground under water; Gagara (mo) dived under water, she brought a lump of earth, emerged, flew up, threw a lump of earth from her beak (I wanted to say something upstairs, and the earth fell out of this lump); earth formed from this lump, and people began to live on this land]; chum salmon: Alekseenko 1976 [there was only water; You dived, grabbed the ground (mud) in his mouth, put it by the cheeks; emerged, blew - the earth worked out; Damn spinning, doing nothing; E. dived again, grabbed mud by the cheeks , blew - deciduous, cedar forest grew; E. collected what was crawling, dug a hole, lowered them there, dug a pole so as not to get out; C. sees the pole, decided to pull it out - everything crawling ran across the ground]: 72; Anuchin 1914 [after finding the hero's soul, the great shaman Doha flew back across the sea; Hosadam raised a storm; tired, D. sat on his spirits, which looked like a swan, loon, and others; then ordered the loon to get it a piece of firmament from the bottom; on the third attempt, the loon brought a lump of mud in its beak; D. made an island in the middle of the sea, rested on it, returned home]: 14; Nikolaeva 2006 [at the beginning, the water, the duck swims, dived, I brought some land in my beak, carried the earth, the pieces came together, bushes and trees grew, the sun appeared; then there was no big water, lakes and rivers remained]: 55.

Eastern Siberia. Northwestern Yakuts [all storytellers agree that there used to be no land; then Loon, flying above the water, dived, pulled out several grains of earth in its beak; they created the earth from them ; the most common story is that Gagar was sent by Ayy-Toyon (the White Master, the Supreme Deity) to get the land; after several unsuccessful attempts, Gagar brought him a sand spool in his beak or the silt from which he created the earth; Ayy-Toyon (AT), his antipode Allaraa-Ogonnyor (lower old man; AO) and Ilya the Prophet, take part in one of the stories about the creation of the earth, and in some versions of Christ and Hara Suor (black raven); usually these versions describe a dispute between AT and AO, the latter refuses to participate in the creation, and only after all good forces have been used, AT is forcing its older brother, an evil but less powerful AO, to get a handful of land; according to these reports, AO dived into the water in the form of a loon and delivered AT some land in its beak]: Gurvich 197:191-192; Western Yakuts (Turukhansky Krai) [the mother of God created a white-nosed loon and a long-nosed merganser (i.e. duck), sent them to the bottom under the ground; The merganser was the first to emerge, gave the land that had been brought; then the loon, which, although she had land in her beak, said that it had not reached the bottom; the mother of God cursed the loon, saying that she had given it a "holy name" and she hoped for her, but she did not live up to expectations; she condemned the loon to live on the water and eat rubbish; the merganser was given agility; then the Mother of God made two men and a woman out of sand]: Tretyakov 1871: 421 (quoted in Napolsky 1991:151 with reference to Tretyakov 1871:207); Western and North-Western Yakuts (Vilyuisky Districts and Ugulyatsky Nasleg of the Olenek District) [Allaraa-Ogonnor dived into water below the ground, but took out only a few grains that were stuck under his fingernails; when he emerged, he fell and lost consciousness; at this time Ayyy-Toyon stole these grains of land from him; when Allaraa- Ogonñor woke up and dived into the water again, Ayyy-toyon made earth out of them; rising again from the water with the earth in his hand, Allaraa-Ogonñor was convinced that he had been ahead of him, with annoyance threw his handful of land on land that had already been created; this formed mountains]: Gurvich 1977:192; central (?) Yakuts (no place of recording) [the world consisted of water; God (B.) claimed that the devil (D.) would not be able to reach from the bottom of the sea; D. decided to go down to defeat B. in arguing; three years later he emerged, but saw that the land he had taken from the bottom in both fists was washed away by water; B. noticed that D. had a grain of land under one claw, which he had stolen unnoticed; B. became to mock D. that he could not reach the promised land; D. dived again; taking advantage of this time, B. created a bed-sized land from the stolen grain, lay down on it to rest and fell asleep; when D. he emerged from the water and saw B.'s prank, he gave out a terrible scream, which crumbled in all directions the earth he had taken in his mouth from the bottom of the sea; it formed mountains, irregularities, and generally unsuitable for humans places; then D. sent a bunch of his servants, and everyone together began to pull the land on which B. lay with their iron claws in order to sink it; instead, the land stretched in all directions and formed the present earth; God began to create animals and plants. The devil, imitating him, also began to do such things. God got everything that was useful to man, and the devil had everything that was harmful or useless. When God created everything on earth and man, the devil created fish and blasphemed God's creation by saying that they could not live and stay in the water element. From this blasphemy, God justified himself by the fact that fish cannot live in the air. Realizing that people and animals cannot live without water, God blessed water and fish, so it became possible for humans to eat fish]: Kulakovsky 1979:14-15; northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts [ Christ sends Satan to the bottom, S. dives unsuccessfully twice, the sand in his hand is washed with water; the third time, turning into a swallow, brings earth in his beak; H. creates land; S. hid part land in his mouth; H. hit him on the neck, the silt fell asleep, mountains formed]: Seroshevsky 1896:653; Western Evenks (Podkamenno-Tunguska, Baikit District, Chavida River, Western 1923) [Amaka made water, let the birds go; told Gagara to dive, she took out the sand, but did not give it to A., wanted to make the land herself; then A. sent Gogol, who brought sand, gave it to A.; A. made the land, punished Gagar, pulling her legs out of her stomach and sticking them to her tail so that she could not walk on the ground; he decorated Gogol's head with a long feather]: Osharov 1936a: 15 (=1936b, No. 11:279-280); Western Evenks (Cyrene) [in Two brothers lived in the upper world; the elder told the duck to dive to the bottom of Lake Baikal, get sand; the youngest put a leaf on the sea, the ground on it; the wind crumpled the leaf, mountains turned out; the youngest made a dog and the man, covered him with a strong shell, told the Dog not to give his older brother the keys to the barn where the man was; the elder promised to make the dog a warm skin, received a key from it, ripped off the man's shell, left only on his nails; for this, the youngest left the dog speechless]: Pinegina, Konenkin 1952:49-50; Sym Evenks [at first there was water and two brothers; younger Action made the loon dive and get it from the bottom of the earth; Loon could not do this, for which E. broke her legs (that's why all loons don't walk well); E. Gogol sent, who dived and seized the ground from the bottom with his beak; for this, Exery kissed him on the head (so all the Gogols have white spots on their heads since then); E. put a piece of land on the surface of the water; the land began to grow, but was still so small that action could even rest on it; his older brother was angry with E. ; when he was sleeping, he began to draw the ground from under him, but the land only stretched out and became very large]: Vasilevich 1936:4; 1959:173; Baikal Evenks (northern Transbaikalia, 1951) [water is all around ; in the upper world, two brothers are discussing how to make land; the eldest had a duck; the youngest let it get sand from the bottom of Lake Baikal; the duck brought sand, the youngest put a leaf on the water and the ground {sand} on top; blew the wind, the leaf crumpled, mountains appeared; the youngest made a dog and a man, covered the whole man with a shell - it would be strong; put the man in one barn, the dog in another; went to make rivers, told the dog not give the keys to the older brother; he came and promised the dog a warm, colorful skin; she opened the barn; the older brother tore off the man's shell, left only his fingernails; the younger brother came back, punished the dog , unable to speak]: Pinegina 2019:70-71; Baikal Evenks (equestrian Evenks of the Nerchi-Chita district) [a frog was the creator's assistant; she carried the earth in its paws to the surface of the water, but angry the creator's brother (later, a heavenly shaman) shot her; she turned over, and since then she has paws to support our land in the water (MAE inventory No. 1879); her shamans the image as a symbol of the earth, hung from their suit; the legend of the fire was borrowed from the southern neighbors: the earth grew, burned for a long time, rivers and lakes (Ilimpic, Ayan, Trans-Baikal Evenks)]: Vasilevich 1969:214-215; Far Eastern Evenks (Chumikan from the Okhotsk coast) [seveki (this is the name of the younger brother) sent avases (his own older brother); ordered to bring land for the creation of the (middle) earth {dunne). Awasa, went down, clutched the ground {tukala) with his claws. When I returned, I poured it out before the seweki. He created (our) land (dune) from the spilled out. Seweki built a box, told everyone the avas to get into the box. The Avas said they could fit in. Saveki closed them, left the dog as a guard]: Vasilevich 1959:173; Far Eastern Evenks (Orochons): Mazin 1984:19-20 [there was water and sky, a snake and a frog lived in the water; the sun was shining in the sky, moon, star Cholbon (Venus), enekan bug; the snake was old, tired and cold in the water; asked the frog to get land, strengthen it on the water so that the snake could rest and bask in the sun; Frog dived, took out the ground; when it began to strengthen it, the earth began to sink; at this time a snake swam, the Frog was afraid that the snake would scold her for her helplessness, turned over, began to support her paws land; it has remained to this day; when the land appeared, the Enekan Buga settled the mammoth sali there; the Snake did not like it, it began to expel the mammoth from the ground; they fought until until they fell into the ground; then they reconciled, became guardian spirits in the lower world; the piles of land they twisted during the fight turned into mountains, depressions into rivers and lakes], 20-21 [ at first there was water; two brothers lived, the good Seveki above, and the evil Hargi below; S.'s assistants were Gogol and Loon; Loon dived, took out the land; gradually the earth grew and took modern look]; Evens: Robbeck 2005:206 [water everywhere first; Havky: Can you find clay? goose: no, we'll die from the cold; duck: no, we'll die in the water; the loon dived, brought a piece, H. ordered to keep it in its beak for now, but Arinka stole it; H. sang, clay slipped out of A.'s mouth; X. singing the earth opened (I mean expanded}, streams and mountains appeared], 209-210 [there was a fire on the ground, then it was flooded; deer and people gathered on the high mountain also drowned when the mountain went under water; Mikola asked the loon to dive, she brought some clay in her beak; clay slipped out of the beak, the hell stole it, M. spat at it, the devil fell underground; M. began to sing: a river, a lake, a mountain appear; M.: let there be no mosquitoes; hell: let the mosquitoes stay so that people do not get proud and that there are fewer of them]; Robbeck, Dutkin 1978 [1) the shaman asks for a lump of clay from the bottom; the goose can't, the Loon gets it, the shaman creates land; in the other The Duck plays the role of the demiurge; 2) people sailed on a raft, caught fish, ducks; caught Loon, she promised to get the earth from the bottom; The raven makes her drop a lump into the sea three times; the shaman of the sky helped; 3) The loon pulls out a barely visible speck of dust from the bottom, puts it in the boy's palm; he does not understand how to make the ground out of it; God put a speck of dust on his left palm, it has become squirrels on his stomach; on the edge of the raft, off the hoof deer; from an elk's stomach; grew into an island]: 157.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais: Laufer 1899 [there were three people: Shanwai, Shankoa, Shanka; there were three dives and three swans; three men sent three dives and three swans to dive to get land, stones and sand; the birds were under water for seven days; when they emerged, they carried land, stones, sand brought from the bottom in their beaks; where they flew, land, mountains, plains appeared; outlined riverbeds; when they flew to the sea, Amur flowed; three men made a man Kado and a woman Julcha, Mamilji's maiden; the people multiplied; it was three suns, too hot; K. went east, hid in a hole, shot the first and third suns, shooting at the second, missed; M. drew pictures on the stones while the stones were soft with the heat; decided that there were too many people, died to show them the way to the afterlife world; chipmunk, tumna (?) , the snake sleeps in winter, does not die; the rest are mortal]: 749-750 in Okladnikov 1968:163-164; Sem 1986:31-32 [first was water; the current began to drive foam, it turned into earth, the earth grew], 32 [first there was water; the hadon bird was flying, saw a mamildi bird sitting below; it took the ground from the bottom, took off, dropped, land formed from the land that fell on the water]; Negidals [recorded in the village of In a pan-Siberian version of the cosmogonic myth about a loon that brought a grain of sand from the bottom of the sea, which grew and turned into earth]: Cincius, oral report in T.Sem 1990:92; ulchi [recorded by V.V. Disguised; there was no land; the loon dived for 6 days, on the seventh day it took a piece of firmament from the bottom, it grew and became dry]: Podmaskin 2013:59.

Japan. Kojiki [god Oo-kuninushi promises to present the land (Reed Plain-Middle Country) to the gods if he is served; then god Kusiyatama-no kami became his stolnik, turned into Cormorant , dived to the bottom of the sea, brought clay from the bottom in his beak, and made eighty celestial flat vessels, cut off the algae stalks and made a mortar to get fire, cut off the sargassa stems and a pestle for he made fire, cut out the fire and said {more verses: that he got fire, cooked fish food}; after that, god Takemikazuchi-no kami climbed back to the High Sky Plain and reported that He subdued and pacified the Reed Plain-Middle Country]: Ch. 26:82-84.

SV Asia. The Forest Yukaghirs [two brothers, Christ and Satan, sailed on boats; H. sent S. to the bottom of the earth and punished: "You will take the earth, say: Sorry, Christ! "S. turned into a loon, dived, took the ground, but forgot to say the right words; so the earth woke up between his fingers; then H. and S. began to clean the ground from under S.'s long nails; it turned out to be a mountain lands; H. blew, the mountain crumbled, land and mountains appeared; S. dived under water and did not appear again]: Nikolaeva et al. 1989 (1): 13; Russian Ustye [during the flood, Christ tells Chirka to dive to get Chirka earth; he swam for three years, emerged, carried the earth on his nose, where his mark remained; Christ made land out of it]: Azbelev, Meshchersky 1986, No. 71:213; Markovo: Dyachkov 1992 (originally Chuvanian author) [" according to the legends of pagan foreigners, "two spirits, good and evil, flew over the water; the good tells the evil to turn into a merganser, bring land from the bottom; three days later, the evil emerges, gives land, keeps the seed in mouth, so that, after learning how to make land, make your own; the good makes the earth grow, the part in the mouth also grows, the evil spits it out, creating mountains]: 231; Hakkarainen 2000 [the loon dived, took out the earth from bottom, earth has grown]; Chukchi: Baboshina 1958, No. 19 [The swans agree to marry Kulik, reject the lazy Raven; he hides the Sun in his mouth; the Swan tickles him, laughs, he opens his mouth, releasing the sun; the Swan goes with him, kills him with a sharp stick on the way], 37 [Mitya has husbands Raven and Toporok, Kuikineku's father, Inyanakvut's mother; Raven is lazy, thief, coward, Axe is a good hunter; The raven goes to change the weather, but only eats the meat given to him; The axe shovels the snow with a shovel (in the sky), the blizzard ends; the raven hides the sun in its beak; the mother-in-law takes the form of M., caresses the Raven, he smiles releases the sun; on the way home, mother-in-law pierces it with a stake]: 50-51, 79-103; Bogoras 1928, No. 2 [(same in 1902, No. 4:644); The wolf says that the crow Kurkil eats crap; then K. hides the sun, the moon and stars; rejects deer, agrees to return the stars in exchange for two wives, the Wolf's sisters; wives bandage his tongue, since then the raven has not spoken]: 302-303; Dolitsky 1997, No. 3 [(Zap. P. Skoryk); a woman makes a ball from the sun and moon, fills with stars; when she throws the ball up, it's light when she takes it into the house, it's dark; the man from Inchoun (translated from esk. Insigvik) comes to her, threatening to kill, gets the lights back, people are happy]: 10-11; kereki (Koryak recording, but from Maino-Pylgino, the Kerek settlement center) [The sun cannot get Frost's daughter , the Sokholylan raven brings her; the Sun goes overseas; people ask S. to give the Sun a woman; he gives an ugly woman; for her the Sun agrees to shine only every year for six months; S.'s wife, seeing his impotence, leaves him; S. makes the sun out of a seal, the moon out of wood]: Baboshina 1958, No. 72:178-183; reindeer Koryaks (the text was recorded in Palana, but the narrator M.T. Etneut was born not there, but in a Koryak family- reindeer herders (according to some sources in 1928, according to others in 1929) who lived in the upper reaches of Achaivayama) [First was Yga. They had close people - Cheung (Kuthinyaku's father) and Tonga (Kutkinyaku's mother). And so they gave birth. Ygyn father, Yga mother. And so Yga gave birth, Anotyykinav gave birth to a queen, Anoytyykinav gave birth to the sun king, then Anotykinav Vulhi (night) gave birth. Cheung Tonga gave birth to Kuthinyaka, a boy named Kuthinyaku. Then she gave birth to Mitchgeune Queen. This is his Kuthinyaku sister. And after that, when their children grew up and now they decided to marry. This is how they got married. Ingin has a daughter named Mitta for Kuthinyaka. And Mitchgeune (Kuthinyaku's sister) married the sun. And so they gave birth. Mitchgeune gave birth to stars and the moon. And Father Sun ordered his children to look down, watch what was happening below, everything below is origin, what and what they see, write down, note. Here it is. But Kuthinyaku is their deputy, Ygyn's chief and chief in the Sun, is like his deputy. Chief Ygyn, and he has the Sun's assistants and the chief Sun, is like a deputy. Chief Eugin, and his assistants are Sun and Kuthinyaku. So Kuthinyaku Mitta gave birth to Ememkut, then Dinnyanav gave birth, then Kichimanav gave birth, then Chanyaenav gave birth, then Yvyan gave birth - the last was a boy, so glorious grew up Kuthinyaku's son. Here it is. Then they live, live and live. Then Kuthinyaku goes down. And there was only one sea below, not the sea, but liquid and damp. And a huge, huge forest grew from under the bottom. So Kuthinyaku decided to make animals, insects and birds of all kinds, both small and large. And now they don't have a place to live. This was a primitive forest, a huge forest. While they began to live in trees and in the forest, they had no place to live. They lived, lived and lived in the forest. Then the Sun King and his wife dabbled. They laughed, dabbled, and accidentally the Sun Tsar dropped Mitchgyne's wife (this is fire) down to the bottom of the liquid. And my husband wanted to raise a fire for his wife, but she refused: "I don't need to get up, I feel good here, at the very bottom: then the bottom will be the land, they will grow it on it." And now I stayed at the bottom of the sea (this liquid). And they lived and lived. And the sun said to his wife, "Let me pick you up, or I'm alone back and forth, I'm bored." "No, I don't want to. And you take your sister here Vulha (night), and Woolha's assistant will be with you." And the husband agreed to the Sun King. And then Kuthinyaku says to Mitty (this is her sister by the sun): "Mitty, oh, I'm tired of living in the woods. We need to restructure." Mitty says, "Where is your advisor, the Sun King? Go and go see him. And he'll tell you how to move forward." And Kuthinyaku went to the sun and asked the Sun King, "Why have you come? Why did you come here?" - "But I came here to consult on how we can continue to live. I'm tired of living in the woods. How do we live?" The Sun King says to him: "And you gather your own. Who is brave among them, let him go to the bottom of the sea. There is land there, let whoever can go there bring it." When Kuthinyaku returned, all the animals, birds and insects gathered and began to advise on how to move forward. Kuthinyaku said, "Whoever is brave, let him go to the bottom of the liquid sea." They are silent, they are silent, no one answered. And the crow says, "Who else is going to go down there? Let the whale go. It's big." And now everyone agreed and that's right. The whale is in the middle and is trying to dive down to the bottom of the earth. And no way. It's just circling. It's big, couldn't go down there. I wanted to dive and didn't dive. So since then, he has had a hole at the top, and he lets air out through it. And here we go. And no one could dive: "Oh, I'm tired, tired, I can't, I'm tired." And he sat down and breathes and breathes, tired breathes. Everyone is silent, they are silent all around. So what can you do about it? They are silent. And the tired whale is resting, resting, breathing, her eyes are closed. And suddenly ha-ha (loon. - E. B.) the voice gives: "Let me go for land, for moss." And then everyone started laughing. They fall back laughing. They laugh (That's why they laughed). And then she is small in the middle, and they look at her and then they start laughing and laughing. And they look where she was sitting, they just showed up the bubbles, she's already gone. Bubble bubbles come out on the fly. And so they're silent again, waiting for her to come, where she's gone, where she's gone, where she's little. And we waited a long, long time. Then we saw in the middle, from where she disappeared, and reappeared from that place. He breathes and breathes, his eyes are closed, but there is nothing on his beak, empty. And they started laughing and laughing again. And the fox pees laughing. She turned the fresh sea into a salty sea from scripture. And then again, ha-ha, while they're all around laughing, she's gone again. And we watched again - it was not there. Where did you go, where did you go? And they are silent, they are silent. They wait, wait, wait for him to appear. Then it appears - moss keeps on its beak. And she breathes so wearily, her eyes are red, her legs are like sticks like sticks. And she still has legs like sticks. He distributed all this moss to Kuthinyak and ordered all the animals, birds, insects: "Let's," he says, "get to work. We need to rebuild housing." Ga-ha left Kuthinyaku alone: "Don't do anything, you're tired, rest." And they started doing it all]: Batyanova 1995:219-222.

Subarctic. Koyukon: Jetté 1908-1909 [a girl rejects her suitors; a young man comes to her with his four nephews; makes her fall into the ground; a man and a woman give him theirs a baby girl; the mother of the deceased girl causes a flood; only a young man and a girl escape; he throws a harpoon into a wave, she turns into a mountain, into a new land; the girl grows up immediately; they come from new people; young man - Raven]: 312-313; Attla 1983 [huge animals enter the sea, water floods the ground; the Great Raven tells the Raven to build a raft; animal people flee on a raft; Raven and Seagull fly to on different sides, they do not find land; many dive, but only the Muskrat pulls clay from the bottom, the Beaver helps to put it on the raft; when enough land has been piled up, the land has reappeared; vegetation has appeared; The raven drew channels, the water in them flowing in both directions at the same time; then decided that it would be too easy for people to let the rivers flow only downstream; made a man out of stone; decided that this would be the case live forever and will not be smart enough (his mind would not be right); then he made it out of clay; this man knew how to think, was able to reproduce his own kind; made a woman; first people died and were reborn, but the Raven decided that people should only live once; he was going to marry, others tried to take the woman away from him; then the Raven brought rotten willow, sprayed dust, it turned into mosquitoes (to bite rivals); animal people then became animals]: 129-137 (=Ruppert, Bernet 2001:84-89; narrated in Smelcer 1992:124-125); Rooth 1971 [water covers everything; Muskrat, Otter, Ducks dive, can't reach the ground; Beaver brings sand]: 182, 205; upper pieces [like a koyukon in Smelcer]: Smelcer 1992:124; Kuchin: McKennan 1965 [Giateaquoynt's brother turns into a Wolf; drives an elk into the lake; a big fish (she is the mother of both brothers) swallows it; at night, fish play with Wolf and elk skins; D. sharpens Kingfisher's beak; he says in gratitude to him about his brother's fate; D. hides in a hollow deck on the shore; fish go out to play, fall asleep; he kills them, two are saved; rain begins, the flood begins; D. sails on a raft; sends a crow and another bird, both they come back without finding sushi; ties a rope to the Beaver, asking him to dive; he pops up dead; the same with the other two Beavers; the Muskrat dives several times; the last time D. pulls her out dead, finds earth on its paws; creates land; revives Muskrat; sends the Wolf and Fox to explore the land; the Wolf does not return, the Fox reports that the earth is big]: 103-104; Khan (Eagle) [(=1985:31); during At the flood, the family takes birds and animals on the raft; the man ties Beaver with a rope, sends it to the bottom; he does not dive, sinks; the muskrat pops up dead, the man scrapes the clay from its paws, dries it into dust, scatters; land arises]: Schmitter 1910:21; Upper Tanana [The Raven marries Swans; flies south with her across the sea; gets tired, the swans leave him; he sits on a rock in the middle of the sea; enough big fish child; promises to return if fish pulls stones from the bottom; makes them an island; tells them to bring moss, returns the baby to the fish; moss grows, Alaska appears]: McKennan 1959:190; southern tutchoni [water has flooded the earth; the Raven clings its beak to a star in the sky; sees fire below on the sea surface; Sea Woman (var: she is a female Sea Lion) sits by the fire on a piece of land with a baby in her arms; the Raven takes it away; agrees to return it after the Woman brings a lump of land; she sinks three times and emerges, fearing that the Raven has taken the child; for the fourth time she brings a little firmament; the Raven sends it again, it brings more; The raven returns the child, spreads what it has brought, creates land, it grows]: McClelland 1987:253-254; tagish, internal tlingits [A raven sits on a piece of log swimming in the ocean; kidnaps a Sea Lion child; returns after the Lion brings him sand; scatters sand, creating land]: Cruickshank 1992:44; helmet: Honigmann 1949 [during the flood, Jesus sends the Rat (Muskrat?) get the earth from the bottom; it sinks; the little Duck pulls out, the earth grows; I. sends the Wolf to see if it is big; the Wolf does not return, the earth is big]: 214; Teit 1917a, No. 2 [the earth is covered by water; birds and animals decide to dive; Beaver, Muskrat and others do not reach the bottom; The dive returns after six days; others find clay under his fingernails; create dry land on the surface of the waters; the earth grows]: 441-442; Beaver: Goddard 1916 [water covers the ground; birds dive, only a little jackal manages to bring silt from the bottom under its claws; land emerges from it]: 256-257; Ridington 1981 [Sitting in Heaven puts a cross on the water, tells various animals to dive to get the ground; the muskrat brings some earth under his fingernails; The one sitting in Heaven puts earth in the center of the cross, tells it to grow]: 354; 1988 [ starting in 1981; The Creator sends the dog to find out if the earth is big; it returns with a human bone in its teeth; for this, the Creator turns it into a wolf; the wolf leaves and does not return]: 117-121; 1999 [ everything is covered in water; God swims on the cross, tells animals to dive; the muskrat brings silt from the bottom, God creates land; sends the Dog to see if it is big; the dog brings human bone; God sends the Wolf, he does not return]; hea [Kunyan warns his sister-wife that there will be a flood; builds a raft; people do not believe, they drown; K. tells animals to dive; Muskrat does not dive, Beaver brings to silt; K. makes land out of it; sends the Fox to run in circles, the earth grows; The bittern drinks all the water; the plover pierces its belly; the water pours out, forming lakes and rivers]: Petitot 1886, No. 13:146-149; doghrub, slevi [Chapevi drives his two sons away; it starts to rain, the sea floods the earth; C. makes a raft, tells animals to dive to the bottom; Otter, Beaver, Harelda glacialis duck does not they dive; The muskrat brings the earth on its paws; T. creates land; places the Crow on it, then the Fox; builds a support pole]: Petitot 1886, No. 3:316-319; domushroom [without details; Thunder Bird pulls out land from the bottom of the sea]: Dähnhardt 1907:85; Chipewayan: Birket-Smith 1930:83 [water is gradually flooding the earth, animal people are fleeing on a floating island; Loon, Black Plover, Teal and others divers come back without reaching the bottom; Pintail brings land on its paws; dives again, other birds dive for it, brings more land; land grows], 87 [Bear steals summer, animal people bring heat back; snow melts, water floods the ground; everyone gathers on a high rock; Pintail dives, brings a lump of clay, the earth grows]; Lowie 1912:187 [cold, no animals; people get to the place , where a cloud hangs from the sky; it contains bags of different animals, with warmth; people throw a bag of warmth from the sky, it bursts, the ground is covered with water (probably from melted snow); people send birds from the sky dive underground; only Pintail brings earth from the bottom in its beak and paws; it is sent to dive again; this is how the earth grows], 195 [rain floods the ground; Visákecak makes a boat, asks Duck dive; she brings silt on her paws several times, V. creates land; see motif M28]; Yellowknife [animal people climb into the sky to get heat; a squirrel from the top of the spruce gnaws a hole in the sky, light illuminates the ground; The bear keeps wineskins on the island with rain, snow, good weather, storm, warmth; The deer swims to the island, takes the heat, goes down the rope to the ground; The mouse gnaws a hole in the wineskin to make moccasins to his children; heat spreads, melted snow floods the ground; Grandfather escapes in a boat; first the Eagle, then the Pigeon fly in search of land; they come back; next time they bring a spruce branch; Muskrat, An otter cannot sink to the bottom; a duck brings silt from the bottom; new land is made from it]: Petitot 1886, No. 5:373-378.

NW Coast. The Tlingits [The Raven flies above the waters; the Fish promises to marry him if he makes the ground; the Seal, the Frog agree to bring sand from the bottom, if he gives fur to the Seal, makes the Frog The guardian of the earth's treasures; the seal dives, gets sand-filled frog skin from the Frog; the Raven soars as high as possible, where the wind scatters the sand, the wind carries it around the world, grains of sand fall into the water, islands grow out of them; Fish dries their hair for the first time, becomes the wife of the Raven, they are the ancestors of the Raven family]: Smelcer 1992:7-8; Skidegate [only one a flat rock can be seen in the middle of the sea; the raven flies to the sky, puts on the skin of the chief's daughter's newborn son; walks at night, taking out people's eyes; eats them; thrown down; Chomga emerges, invites him to an underwater house; the old man gives him two pebbles; tells him to bite off a piece from the colorful one, spit on the black one, put it on the water; Queen Charlotte Islands grow out of black, the colorful specks are trees]: Swanton 1905: 110-112; bellacula [(review of parallels to the myth of the flood among the Indians of the Great Lakes region); "I found a story with Ondatra bringing silt from the bottom, molal, chinook and bellacula"]: Boas 1940:440; bellacula [The raven calls the woman to collect the fruits of the wild apple tree, takes her far away; she climbs a tree, drops the fruit down, he immediately swallows them; she scolds him; he cuts off her leg with an ax; her leg falls into deep water; a woman promises her necklace to whoever reaches her leg; The seagull does not dive, Loon brings her leg; a woman sticks it with resin, her leg grows]: McInwraith 1948 (2): 392-393; quakiutl : Boas 1895, No. XVIII.1.6-8. (neveti, tlatlasicoala subgroup) [Minka wants the boat with women to capsize; dives, sealing their genitals with resin; the raccoon asks who can cure women; Mink calls to do so; removes resin by copulating with each of the women; everyone gets pregnant; he sails away with his son in a boat; pretends that his nose insert has fallen into the water, dives; the wife sees that Norka is not looking for an insert, but eats Seehunde, swims away; he asks him to throw his bow and arrows; shoots at the sky, makes a chain of arrows; comes to his father Sun; he asks him to carry a sun disk (this is a nose pendant) instead him; tells you not to stray above and below, otherwise the earth will freeze or burn; The mink descends, the sea is boiling, the forests are burning; the Sun has thrown it to the ground, turning it into a hole; after the fire, only rocks; Omeatl (Raven) sails in the sea in a boat, tells Gagara to reach the ground; she dived and drowned; then sent Podiceps and Duck (Harlekin) to dive, they are drowning too; sent the duck Oidemia Deglandi (humpbacked scoter, duck family), which brings an oak branch from the bottom; O. creates land, mountains, trees, sea sand]: 172-173 (=2002:381-382); Boas 1910, No. 18 [Omean (raven) sends Loon, seal, Hobe duck get the soil and leaves from the bottom; the former emerge before reaching, the Duck brings soil and leaves, the Omeal drags it into the boat; since then there has been soil and leaves; O. painted Kamenushka, Gogol and other birds; he was in a hurry, so he only managed to rub the Crow with coal and the Seagull with clay; the flood began; those who dived became seabirds; those who did not reach the water were land]: 223 -225 (translated to Romanova 1997, No. 55.2:209).

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry: Harmon at Bancroft 1875 [everything is covered with water at first; the muskrat swims in search of food; dives, pulls clay from the bottom, spits on the surface of the water; an island gradually forms and land]: 96; Jenness 1934, No. 8 [seal hunter tells his new wife not to look if she hears dogs chewing; woman watches; sees first wife in Wolverine guise; she bites her in half; husband burns Wolverine by pushing her into an earthen furnace, revives his new wife; one day he brings a white seal, asks his wife to wash the carcass; she enters the water, the marine inhabitants take it away; the husband dives, brings stones to the little ones the fish under which the fish live makes blind geese sighted; Satsan cuts a tree to make the kidnapped woman's fins; the husband tells the wedge to split; repairs; for this S. pours water into the fire; husband takes his wife; S. prevents the pursuers from leaving the house, Geese and Fish put obstacles in their way; the sea floods the earth to the sky; the husband kills his wife with an ax, throws him into the water; the water begins to fall; first Muskrat, then Beaver dive, both repeatedly bringing portions of clay from the bottom; man makes new land out of them]: 141-143; shuswap [Copper kidnaps the wife of the Fisherman Marten (Fisher); the Fisherman brothers and Marten meets Medi's two sisters (Rat and Mouse); they ask them about their normal behavior, kill them, put their skin on; on Marten, the skin does not cover his genitals and face around his eyes; younger sister the dead notice that the Mouse looks strange; at night, the Fisherman's Marten and the Marten cut off Medi's head, throw them into the lake; return home with the wife of the Fishing Marten; Medi's blood drips, the younger sister thinks that he drinks; Copper's people call waterfowl to reach his head; Loon dives and brings his head, Copper revives]: Teit 1909a: 675-677; Thompson [Marten's wife goes to get water; says she wants Salmon as her husband; he invites her to the river; Marten and his brother Ferret go down to Salmon's dugout; Marten asks his wife to put her new husband to sleep; cuts off his head; both brothers and the woman run away, leave cut off head into the river; Swan, Goose, Ducks, Divers can't reach, Loon pulls its head from the bottom; Otter and Wolf revive Salmon]: Teit 1898, No. XVIII: 64-66; Okanagon [Fisherman Marten (Fisher) warns his younger brother Marten not to go in a certain direction; he goes, the woman in the house bends his face to the fire, since then the marten's face has been wrinkled; the fishing marten brings this deer woman her wife; tells her not to swim far into the lake; after giving birth to a son, she swims, climbs a log, it goes under water with her; the brothers meet a boat with two young men, who say that they are servants and the guards of the underwater chief's new wife; the marten fisherman kills them, the brothers put on their clothes, come to the chief; the marten jumps awkwardly into the boat, everyone wonders what's wrong with him; the fishing marten tells his wife not to give The chief sleeps longer; when he falls asleep, his brothers cut off his head, swim away with the woman; the pursuers almost catch up, then they throw their heads; the Turtle, the Frog dive, cannot reach their heads from the bottom; The frog's legs are painted, the turtle's shell is made; now both do not freeze in the water, they reach out their heads; the shell and color remain]: Hill-Tout 1911:158-161; katlamet [Blue Jay sends a girl to marry Puma; she enters the house, sits on one of the beds; Mink, Otter, Raccoon, Lynx, Mouse take turns coming in, bringing trout, salmon, ducks, roots, etc.; Beaver pretends to be a Puma, lies down with the girl; at night she He gropes for branches in his stomach; leaves, stops in a house on the edge of the village; the Beaver sends animals for her; she sends them away; when the Puma comes, he becomes his wife; the Beaver cries, the flood begins; Blue Jay, Mink, Otter dive, do not reach the bottom; The muskrat dives for a long time, the flood ends; when they jump out of boats, animal people lose their tails, hitting them aft; Bear and Grizzly did not return for with their tails, they are now short]: Boas 1901, No. 2:20-25; Puget Sound [brothers are angry that their father-in-law (a bird singing before the rain) does not wash their faces; he washed it, it has begun to rain, and the flood has begun; The muskrat dives, brings some land in its own skin from the day, makes the ground]: Ballard 1929:50 [Muskrat swims on poles], 51 [birds, Beaver, Otter escape with Muskrat on a raft, do not dive to the bottom]; upper chehalis [three options; the thrush girl is forced to wash her face; this causes rain, flood; people escape to the mountain; animals dive, only the Muskrat reaches the bottom, brings land; sprinkles on water, land grows]: Adamson 1934:1-3; Koulitz [mother-in-law asks Thrush to wash his face five times; finally he washes, it starts to rain, many people die during the flood; Thrush with mother-in-law and wife save yourself in the upper reaches of Chehalis, Thrush has become a bird; according to one version, Muskrat dives to the bottom, creates Tiger Lily Mountain to save people]: Wilson 1998:16; tillamook [Beaver does not feed his wife, she leaves; he hides the sun, causes a flood; people want to ransom him with knives and beads, but no one can dive into it; the muskrat dives, gets the sun back, the flood ends; the Beaver takes two knives for themselves and for their daughter; they turn into their tails]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 22:83-84; Takelma [two White Ducks sisters come to marry Puma; Coyote pretends to be Puma, brings them to his house; his mother reveals the truth to them; the girls go to Puma; the Coyote kills the mother, turns the girls into old women; they bathe, regain their former appearance, leave; the Puma follows the girls; they take him in a boat across the sea; not told to look into the water; Puma looks, is swallowed by a sea monster; everyone dives to get his bones; only a Mudcat woman dives, brings bones, revives the Puma in the steam room; Puma with his wives returns home]: Sapir 1909, No. 4:64-70; clickitat [man promises daughter to whoever splits a deer horn; Salmon splits; five Wolf Brothers kill Salmon and his four brothers, take it woman; Salmon's scales remain, they grow into a young Salmon; he kills five Wolves, squeezes five cubs out of the woman's womb, marries her, takes her in a boat; falls asleep in the sun, the wife sees he has larvae, says it; he throws it on a rock in the water; Vulture and Vulture bring it back to Salmon, he agrees to take her back, invites her to the boat; she stumbles, falls into the water; Salmon promises it to whoever gets it from the bottom; all birds and aquatic animals dive, can't reach it; The turtle looks for it at the bottom for five days, pulls it out, takes it as a wife]: Jacobs 1934, No. 21:47-53; yakima [Eagle is son Coyote; two sisters Amushy óy (Monetaria sea shell) and Wuxinshy áy (Abalone shell) live on an island in the sea; their grandmother sends them to marry Eagle; we must go in the morning, but V. insists on going in the evening; the Eagle wants to sleep, hits those who come on the nose, they run away; then finds sea shells where blood has dripped, realizes that these are his girls, follows; old man Heron refuses to stretch his leg like a bridge to the island; five Ducks go looking for the Eagle, see that the Heron insults him, spits on him; Wolf, Grizzly, Hawk, Snake, Salmon come to the rescue; Coyote swims Salmon, sinks; they clean Eagle's clothes, he takes off, kills the Heron; the Lososi brothers make a bridge; V. goes first, Salmon correctly believes that the Eagle does not need it, throws it off, it sinks; A. moves from island to continent; whoever gets V. from the bottom will marry her; no one can, Coyote brags that he got it, but his tail is above the water; the turtle pulls her out; says he does not need a wife, asks for beautiful clothes; he is given ( patterns on his shell); since then, a woman has been following a man, should not be aggressive]: Beavert 1974:3-8; molala, lower ones (?) chinook [(review of parallels to the myth of the flood among the Indians of the Great Lakes region); "I found a story with Ondatra bringing silt from the bottom, molal, chinook and bellacula"]: Boas 1940:440; modoc [first There is only Lake Tule; Kumokuma dives five times, brings a handful of silt from the bottom, creates land; part of the land moves west and north to mountains; draws furrows with his fingers - river valleys; creates all life forms; stays in a cave under the lake]: Marriott, Rachlin 1968:28-29.

The Midwest. Menominee [all birds and Thunders go down to play ball against fish, snakes, otters, land animals, polar underground Bears; Myanyabush watches the game, kills three underground gods with arrows; they fall into the lake. Michigan; the water rises, chases Myanyabush; he climbs to the top of a pine tree on the mountain; tells Beaver and Muskrat to get the earth from the bottom; both emerge dead; on Muskrat's paws, Myanyabush finds some silt, makes it an island; waters descend]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. 6:255-260; chippewa [see M60 motif; Venebozho kills underwater serpent chiefs; water pursues V., he climbs to a tree on the mountain]: Barnouw 1977, No. 1 [asks Otter, then Beaver to dive; both emerge dead, V. revives them; Beaver says he saw the ground; Muskrat brings earth in his mouth and paws; V. throws the ground into the water, it grows; sends Caribou to see if it is big; Caribou returns is small; V. throws more land; this time Caribou does not return], 3 [as in (1); Gagara dives first unsuccessfully, then Otter; The muskrat pops up dead with the ground in its paws; V. revives it; V. sends birds to fly around the earth, making it bigger; the big bird returns, V. says this is not enough; the Eagle returns; Enough]: 38-41, 64-69; Western Swamp Cree: Brightman 1989 (Rock Cree) [Wīsahkīcāhk goes to look for his wolf younger brother; the tracks break off at the pond; Kingfisher says he watches underwater monsters play with Wolf's skin; V. pretends to be a dried tree; monsters can't knock him down; he kills them with spears, takes Wolf's skin, sits on cooked raft, forgets to take the prepared moss; water floods the ground; V. tells Beaver and Otter to dive, get moss; they drown; the muskrat pops up half dead, brings moss in their mouths, V. revives it; squeezes water out of moss, blows on it, creates new land]: 27-28; Clay 1978 (northern Manitoba) [Wesukechak and his brother Wolf live together; Wolf hunts successfully; animals ask the Sea Lion to eliminate the hunter; V. warns not to approach the water, not to jump over the stream; The wolf drives the deer into the water, the Sea Lions kill him; V. repairs Kingfisher's broken beak, gives him a white necklace; for this he says that Sea Lions play with the Wolf's tail; V. rafts to the island, turns into a stump; Sea Lions go ashore to sleep; V. hits them with a spear; the flood begins, the animals climb onto V. ; Muskrat, Beaver dive, do not reach the bottom, the Otter dives, barely alive, V. pulls it out by the rope, some clay on its paw; V. rolls it into a ball, blows it, throws it, land appears; V. sends Wolverine find out if the earth is big, it returns in 20 days; V. blows again, the earth expands, Wolverine runs away and does not return; since then it has been wandering forever; snakes have made riverbeds, the wolf pushed through its paws lake basins, nose of the ground, mountains rose; V. ordered vegetation to appear]: 14-23; Eastern swamp crees: Ellis 1995, No. 7 (west coast hall. James) [during the flood, Weesakechahk lowers Beaver on a rope to get the ground from the bottom, he pops up dead; the same Muskrat, but there is some land under his claw; V. revives the Muskrat, creates land, asks Wolverine run around the earth; she returns three years later; V. says the land is not big enough; next time Wolverine does not return, the land is big; V. went north, leaving piles of stones at the place of overnight stays ( these are his wind barriers); he sits there, Christmas trees have grown on his forehead, partridges nest in his eyebrows; one day two Indians came to him; one asks for a long enough life for the children to become adults; the other wants eternal life, V. turned it into stone]: 35-39; Skinner 1911 (Albany) [Wicágatcak catches a beaver, it scratches its ass, V. breaks the beaver dam, water floods the world; V. does raft; The muskrat is sent to get the earth from the bottom, sinks; the Raven (a) - to bring the earth from afar, returns with an empty beak; V. has some moss; he tells the Wolf to take it in his mouth, run around the raft; earth emerges and grows; The wolf runs so far that it never returns; then see M53 motif]: 83; Eastern Cree [the world is covered with water, animals dive to get the ground from the bottom; the muskrat brings on its tail clay but little clay sinks; Otter fails, Beaver brings enough to form an island; islands grow]: Swindlehurst 1905, No. 1:139; Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [Oh-ma-ma-ma , Mother Earth, gives birth to Visakajak, Wolf and other world spirits; V. knows that the water monster Mishipizhev and his two sons will kill the Wolf; Kingfisher talks about the death of the Wolf, V. paints his throat is red; hides on the beach, shoots monsters; The frog goes to heal them; V. kills her, puts on her skin, cuts M.'s heart, runs away; the flood begins; V. ties the ropes to the Beaver, the Otter, Muskrat; animals dive one by one, emerge dead; clay on Muskrat's paws; V. revives animals, creates land; sends Wolverine to see if it is big; for the third time Wolverine does not return, earth ready; V. puts clay on the turtle's back, makes blacks first, then whites, then Indians; animals get their habits; the raven climbs without waiting in line, for which he eats carrion; The dog wins the competition in running, living with a person for it; dogs are speechless not to be sent messages]: Ray, Stevens 1971:20-26; Northern Solto [see M60 motif; Visekajak kills underwater Puma; other Pumas cause a flood; Visekajak with animals flees on a raft; animals dive to get the ground from the bottom; Beaver, Otter, Muskrat emerge dead; Visekajak finds clay on Muskrat's paws , makes the earth; sends the Raven to see if it is big; she returns twice; the first time the earth is small, then it grows; Visekajak sends the Wolf; he does not return, the earth is big]: Skinner 1911: 173-175; timagami ojibwa [see motif M60; Nenebuk kills the queen of the Giant Lynxes; Lynxes send a flood; N. tells Beaver to reach the ground, he does not dive to the bottom; the muskrat pops up dead with the ground in its paws; N. makes the earth; sends the white crow to see if it is big; he eats dead fish, turns black; the seagull eats a little, the ends of its wings turn black; the owl eats fresh fish , does not return]: Speck 1915d, No. 1:34-38; Ojibwa: Blackwood 1929, No. 2 [the grandmother confesses to Manabazoo that his parents were killed by a snake living on the island; the water around is covered with resin; M. lubricates the boat with fat, sails to the beach, pretends to be a stump; The serpent sends a smaller snake, squeezes the bear, injure the stump, but M. does not move; hits the Snake who has fallen asleep with arrows, returns home; the old woman goes to heal the wounded, M. removes the skin from it, puts it on himself; pierces the tip deeper, the Serpent dies; the rain floods the ground with a flood, M. and the animals flee on the raft; Beaver, Loon, Otter, Muskrat dive consistently, they emerge dead, M. revives them, finds some land in the claw of the Muskrat; M. sends Muskrat for the second time, she brings more; M. creates land, blows on it, it expands, valleys and mountains appear; blows gently - flowers, strong - snowstorm; sends the Wolf to find out if the earth is big, he returns in 10 days, six months, does not return for the third time; sends Eagle, Hawk, Dove, Raven to the east, west, south, north; as long as they fly by, the earth will stretch; creates trees, rivers, lakes, man and woman; goes east, now looks at us]: 323-328; Josselin de Jong 1913, No. 9 [Wolves give The young Wolf is not a nephew; N. does not tell him to jump over the stream; he jumps, finds himself in the river; the Kingfisher tells N. that he was eaten by water Snakes, advises what to do; N. turns into stump; when the Snakes crawl ashore to warm up, hurts the one who killed the nephew; the Frog goes to heal the wounded; N. asks her, kills her, puts on her skin; kills the Snake, not heals him; runs away, taking Wolf's skin; water gushes after; N. escapes on a raft, revives the Wolf; Beaver, Otter, Loon do not reach the bottom, the Muskrat brings the earth in its paws; N. throws the earth into the water, it grows; sends the Wolf see if it is big; the first time he comes back; the second dies before he runs around the earth; it's big]: 12-16; Radin 1914, No. 9 [Nenebozho paints Kingfisher's feathers; for this he reports that water Pumas killed Brother N.; N. turns into a rotten stump; beats Pum who have come out of the water to lie on the beach; water chases N.; he climbs a tree, makes a raft; Otter, Beaver emerge without bringing sand; The muskrat brings earth in his paws and mouth; N. creates land; sends the Raven, he does not return; the Hawk, who reports that the Raven is biting corpses; for this now eats only stolen goods; N. sends Caribou; he reports that the ground is not big enough; N. blows sand from the horn into the water again; tells the Ducks to dance with their eyes closed; see motif M53]: 19-21; Radin, Reagan 1928, No. 2 (southeast Ontario) [Manabozho hurts Minito -Leo, the old frog goes to treat him; without recognizing M., says that Minito is going to catch M.; M. kills her, puts on her skin, comes to the minito, drives an arrow deeper into the body of the wounded, killing him; the water rushes after M., he climbs a tree, makes a raft; tells Beaver, Otter, Muskrat to dive; they float up unconscious one by one; between the fingers of the Muskrat, M. finds bits of land, makes land; sends Mink to see if it is big; the first time he comes back, the second time he doesn't return, so the land is big], 3 (western Ontario) [while Vissekejak is hunting, his younger brother M. disappears; V. gives the Crane a white stripe around his neck; for this he tells how Minito Sea Lions killed M., hung his skin in his doorway; V. turns into a stump on the shore, where the minito go out to warm up, shoots into the shadow of a black minito, injuring him; the water rushes after V., he makes a boat; then in (2); Fox instead of Mink; then the episode with the Frog Healer; V. runs away, carrying M.'s skin and the body of the killed minito; hides in a groundhog's hole], 4 (Minnesota) [Manabozho wounded Puma, who decided to take revenge; Puma's spilled blood flooded the ground; M. managed to make a raft; sends The otter dives, it pops up dead in 4 days, M. revives it; the same, Beaver, surfaced many days later; then the Muskrat, almost a month later, finds particles of earth on the face and under the claws on M.'s paw ; blows on them, they grow into islands, merge into land; M. sends the Raven, the Falcon, the Eagle to find out if the land is big; the Raven returns in seven days, the Falcon in a year, the Eagle does not return; so land great], 5 (Minnesota) [M. lives with his grandmother; Sea Lion lives on an island surrounded by resin; M. covers the boat with grease, floats on tar; during battle, Blue Jay advises M. to shoot at the little finger on his leg the enemy, M. kills the Sea Lion; takes the young Wolf as his comrades, warns not to jump over streams; the Wolf chases the moose, jumps across the stream, it turns into a turbulent stream, carries it away; further as in ( 3), Wolf instead of M., Kingfisher instead of Crane, Minito Snakes; water rises but falls; the episode with the Frog and the Minito Killing; Beaver, Otter, Loon, Muskrat dive; Raven, Dove sent find out if the land is large; the Raven returns after four days, the Dove does not return; now M. lives in the east]: 62, 63-67, 67-70, 70-76; Ojibwa (Sault Ste. Marie, runoff from Lake Upper to Huron) [ Nanabozho called the young wolf his nephew; warned him not to go out on the ice; when he hunted, underwater spirits broke the ice, drowned it; in the summer N. turned into a stump on the shore; the leader of the Mishi spirits Bizi (white puma) sends a horned snake, a yellow bear, a red bear to check if it's not N.; they can't pull out a stump, they say that it's not N.; spirits in the form of animals go ashore, N. hits MB with an arrow, the spirits hide in the lake; N. meets MB's grandmother Frog going to treat him; not recognized by her; learns from her that the spirits are going to fill him with stones; hides, rockfalls do not harm him; with Since then, there are rubble of stones on the ground; spirits send winter (the origin of winter), N. hunts on skis; The frog replies that now the spirits will send the flood; N. finds out how she camlates with a rattle, kills, pulls at her skin, at the entrance to the cave, MB tells two frog guards that she looked like N. because she cried; finishes off MB, driving an arrow into his heart, runs away; escapes from the water on a pine tree, she grows, further cannot; N. tells the Heron to drink water, she drinks part; N. sends Beaver to dive, then Otter, both come dead, N. revives them; Muskrat is the same, but the earth is in its paws; N. blows on it, throws them into the water , a new land appears; Heron lies with a swollen stomach, N. kicks it in the stomach, water pours out]: Kidder 1994:25-29; Ottawa: Chamberlain 1891 [girl lives with her grandmother; gives birth to two sons; the youngest is flint, kills her by going out through her side; the elder Na-nav-bo-ju and his dog (this is a wolf) chases him, chipping off pieces (the origin of flints); where he kills, a rock appears; "god depths" knocks the Wolf down out of jealousy, water monsters gather for a holiday; N. pretends to be a stump, they pull it, they cannot move it, they believe that it is a stump; he kills the "god of the depths"; the flood begins; the Beaver dives, pops up dead; Muskrat too, but there is earth on its paws; N. sends the Raven to fly, the earth dries up]: 204-205; Charencey 1884 [The Great Hare sends the Beaver to dive; he drowns; the Otter dives to the bottom, brings land; the hare creates land] in Danhardt 1907:82; sauk, fox [Visakya and Kshyapatya are sons of the supreme deity; Snakes kill K.; the spirit of the murdered man comes to his brother; he does not let him in , tells them to go west; the dead will go to him; the bird tells V. that two murderer beckons are underground; V. paints her feathers under her eyes red; injures the Serpents with arrows; The toad goes to treat them; V. persuades the Toad to return; he comes under the guise of a Toad Healer, finishes off the wounded; other Snakes first cause a world fire, then a flood; V. escapes in a boat or on top of a pine tree; sends the Pigeon to bring a branch, tells Muskrat to dive, get the earth from the bottom; both complete tasks, but fall or float dead; V. revives them; puts a branch of clay on the water, creates earth]: Andrew 1871:231 in Dähnhardt 1907 [no details; W. tells big fish to bring clay from the bottom, creates the earth]; Jones 1901:226-235; 1907, No. 17 [without episodes of the Toad sent and the world fire; Brothers' mother - Earth (Mother All Earth)]: 337-379; kickapoo [Visaka confronts evil horned underground cougars; they try to freeze him; two birds come one after another warn him, but he continues to sleep in his house; a third comes to peck out his eyes, he drives her away; she tells the cougars that they cannot kill V.; they surround V. with water; he makes a boat, tells the Turtle to dive to the bottom; when it floats up, he scrapes silt from her legs and belly; The dove brings branches; V. makes a lump of branches and dirt, puts it on water, creates land; horned cougars remain hidden underground; Thunders help keep them there; when the world ends, horned cougars will come out and devour everyone]: Latorre, Latorre 1976:261-262; potauatomi: Pokagon 1986 [served as a hunting dog for Nenaw-bo-Zhoo a huge black wolf; aquatic deities lured him to the water by sending a deer, killing him and eating him; the fox told N.; when the aquatic creatures fell asleep on the beach, N. pierced Neben Manito with an arrow; the water poured in, flooded the ground, N. found himself in a boat with birds and animals; sent Beaver, who did not reach the bottom, surfaced dead, N. revived him; the same with Ondatra, but N. found some land on her paw; N. rolled it into a lump, tied the Raven to his neck, told him to fly over the waters; as the Raven flew, the earth dried up]: 242-243; Skinner 1924 [Visakia swims in a boat; Muskrat offers to dive, brings earth from the bottom first in the paws, then in the mouth; the White Muskrat, the Beaver is then also brought; V. makes a pillar from the ground from bottom to surface, creates land; outlines rivers, Muskrat digs them]: 332-333; steppe crees [cm . motive K27, motif L5; two brothers escape from their mother chasing their head; Waimesosiv takes the elder named Vesakaiczak into his boat, leaves the youngest; he turns into the Wolf; brother finds him; tells him not to go to the shore; he comes up; the Kingfisher tells Vesakaychak that the Water Pumas killed the Wolf; Vesakaicak paints him beautifully; turns into a log on On the shore, kills Pum who have come out of the water; the wounded rush into the water; the Toad goes to treat them; he kills the Toad, puts on its skin, finishes off the wounded; the remaining Pumas cause a flood; Otter, Beaver, Muskrat dive, they emerge dead, he revives them; finds a tree leaf under the claw of the Muskrat; he dives again, brings clay from the bottom on his foot; Vesakaicak puts it on the water, makes the earth grow; sends it twice The wolf to find out if it is big; the Wolf returns; sends the Raven, she doesn't return; the earth is big]: Ahenakew 1929:320-327; Steppe Cree: Bloomfield 1930, No. 1 [cf. B3A; Visakechak's younger brother turns into a wolf; Water Pumas and Snakes eat the Wolf; V. injures the Pisces Chief; Frog goes to heal him; V. learns from her normal behavior, kills her, accepts her appearance; shoves an arrow deeper into the Leader's body, he dies; the flood begins]: 16-20; Skinner 1916, No. 1 (1) [see motive F73; Visakecjak meets Volkov, makes the wolf cub his nephew; tells not approach the lake; it comes up, disappears; the Sun tells V. that it was dragged away by underwater Lynxes; V. turns into a stump, then into a tree on the shore, lies in wait for the Lynx; the Sun tells him to shoot in the shade The White Lynx; the wounded Lynx hides in the lake; the old toad goes to heal her; V. kills her, wears her skin, comes to heal the Lynx; instead kills her, runs away, carrying her nephew's skin, revives him; later the flood begins; V. asks Fish on a raft, then Beaver to get the land; they cannot; the muskrat brings the earth from the bottom, pops up dead; V. revives it, blows to the ground, it grows; Deer, others animals run around; Wolf is sent fourth; goes so far north that he becomes too old to return; the earth is big; V. sends his nephew to the Sun], 1 (9) [the flood begins; Visukezhak asks Beaver and Muskrat to dive; after many attempts, Muskdatra brings sand from the bottom; V. creates land]: 341-346, 350; steppe ojibwa: Howard 1965 [underwater cougars resemble cougars, but covered with scales and have bison horns on their heads; they are the masters of all aquatic creatures, as well as snakes; they fight the Thunders forever, are defeated, but return to battle; they killed Wolf, Nanapus' younger brother, who killed several of them; they caused a flood, N. revived the earth from a piece of silt brought from the bottom to the diving animals; then the cougars made peace with N. and taught him the midevivin ceremony]: 4-5; Simms 1906 [ Weese-ke-jak causes a flood, saves a couple of animals in a large boat; tells them to dive underground; The otter sails away; the muskrat brings land, but immediately dives back; V. just grabs it by the tail, it becomes long and naked; Beaver dives, brings land, is awarded beautiful skin and strong teeth]: 340; Skinner 1919, No. 6-8 [Nanny lives with wolves; leaves, taking the youngest as a companion; does not tell him approach the water; The wolf jumps over the stream, which becomes wide, the Horned Snakes drag it under the water; N. finds his trail, turns into a stump on the shore; wounds the three largest snakes with arrows; The old toad woman goes to treat them; N. recognizes her song, kills her, wears her skin; cries when he sees the Wolf's skin hanging; kills snakes, driving arrows deeper into their wounds; grabbing the Wolf's skin, runs, the water behind him; he tries take refuge in the Woodchuck hole, he pours earth into his eyes; N. climbs a pine tree, it grows; he defecates, crap pops up in front of his nose; he asks the Otter, Beaver, Loon, Muskrat to get land; everyone comes up dead, he revives them; silt remains on the Muskrat's paws; N. sends it three more times; scatters silt, creates land; revives the Wolf, sends him to know if the earth is big; the Wolf returns when he reaches middle-aged; next time an old man; N. is happy, turns the Wolf into a wolf]: 283-288.

Northeast. See motif B1; for a complete list of sources from 25 versions of the Huron and Iroquois myth, see Fenton 1962. Montagnier: Greer 2000 (Paul Le Jeune 1634) [lynxes serve as hunting dogs for Mass; they get into the lake, stay there; the bird informs him about it; he goes to return them, the water is from The lakes flood everything; M. sends the Raven to find land, he does not find it; tells the Otter to dive, she does not have enough land; the muskrat brought land from the bottom, M. creates land]: 29; Savard 1979, No. 7 [see motive M53; Mesh takes Wolf as his companion; he says he dreamed that he could not chase the Caribbean by swimming across the lake; M. insists that the Wolf swim; the Wolf disappears; The bird says that lakes during the day stones take the Wolf to the island and pull them back at night; M. rewards the Bird with fish; hides in the hollow of a tree on the island; when the stones fall asleep, hits them with a spear, runs away with the Wolf; the Frog goes to heal wounded stones; M. asks her what she is doing, killing her, pulling her skin; whistles, pouring cold water on the rocks, the stones do not recover, but die; M. meets women, they answer that they sew bags for the bodies of the stones killed by M.; he kills them themselves, gives them to their daughters; they find them inside the body of mothers; inserting the L33 motif, racing with the Boulder; more: the stones began to chase M., the water flooded the island, animals gathered on a raft; M. tells us to dive, Kalan (loup-marin), Orlan (huard) do not dive; two Minks (muskrats? - visons) dive, one brings earth in her mouth, M. blows into her anus, the earth falls out, becomes big; the Eagle flew from one end of the earth to the other; the second time did not reach the edge - the earth became big]: 28-32; Naskapi [during the flood Wolverine sits on the last stones left above the water; asks the Otter to dive, he brings grass and fish; Beaver does not dive; Muskrat brings a mouthful of land; Wolverine blew in her ass - the ground flew out of her mouth, land formed]: Millman 1993:22-23; hurons [1) in the sky Aataensic sees a bear, followed by a dog chasing him into a hole; falls next to water, water dries up; var.: A sick husband A. dreams that it is necessary to cut down a tree from which people obtained their food; A. begins to cut down, the tree immediately falls through, A. falls after; below in the sea, the Turtle puts its back; sends Beaver, who brings it from the bottom of the earth, she grows up; A. was pregnant, had a daughter, who soon gave birth to twins Tawiscaron and Iouskeha; they began to fight; T. beat brother with rose hips, and I. with a moose horn, killed him, flints appeared from his blood; A. - Moon, I. - Sun; 2) (p.43); at first there is water everywhere, there is only a tiny island; the man asks the Fox to dive, she is afraid he throws it into the water; asks "a small animal like a marten" to dive (Muskrat, Norka?) ; the sea turns out to be shallow, the Muskrat hits the bottom, brings land, man creates land]: Brébeuf in Greer 2002:42-44; hurons [woman falls from the sky into the primary ocean; animals and birds they dive to get the earth from the bottom; the toad brings silt in her mouth; the earth grows]: Barbeau 1960, No. 1 [sister lives in heaven with her brothers; plucks all the cobs from their corn at once; for this they throw it down through a hole in the sky; first Geese, then the Turtle support the woman; she sprinkles silt on the Turtle, creating land; finds two twins, good and evil]: 4; Connelley 1899 [daughter of a heavenly leader fell ill; my father told me to dig a huge tree to collect medicine from its roots; a tree and a woman fall into the abyss; two Geese (Swans?) they pick it up; the Little Turtle sprinkles the ground along the edge of the Big Turtle's shell; when it moves, earthquakes occur; a woman comes to her grandmother; she has two twins, Fire and Flint]: 120-123; Hale 1888 [husband throws his pregnant wife to the ground; Loons pick her up in the air, put her on the Turtle's back; she tells the animals to dive; Beaver, Muskrat, Dive can't reach the bottom, some they pop up dead; when the Toad pops up, the Turtle finds some clay in her mouth, gives the woman, who puts clay on the Turtle's shell, the earth grows, the Turtle has been supporting the ground ever since; the twins in The woman's womb is arguing how to be born; the good Tijuskeha (Ioskeha of French sources; "good", "savior") is born normally, the evil Tawiskarong ("flint") comes out of the mother's side, killing her; she is buried; a pumpkin has grown from her head, corn from her breasts, beans and other cultivated plants from her arms and legs; makes snakes, predators, huge mosquitoes, a huge toad that has drunk all the water on the ground; good makes harmless and useful animals; the partridge flies to Taviskarong in search of water; Tijuskeha follows her, rips the Toad's belly, the water pours out; he reduces evil creatures in size; the kind says that he can only be killed with a bag of corn and beans; evil - that he can only be killed with a deer horn; the first to hit the evil, but the good comes to life, kills the evil with the horn; he goes west, becomes the master of the dead ; the good wanted the rivers to flow in both directions, the evil one demanded that only one way]: 180-183; oneida: James Dean (1770s?) in Elm, Antone 2000:157-162 [in a country in heaven, a man asks to dig a tree with the flowers of light, pushes his pregnant wife into a hole, explains that she was unfaithful; there is water below; only the Turtle can support the ground; Mink dives, pops up dead with the ground on its paws and muzzle; Loon lays the ground on the Turtle, the earth grows; a woman gives birth to a daughter; animal people marry her; the mother agrees to Turtle proposal; husband puts two arrows with flint and bark tips crosswise on his wife's belly; two boys quarrel in the womb; younger Tan -lon -ghi -au -wan -goon (hereinafter T., good) wants to go out normally, older Than -wisk -a -law (hereinafter referred to as Th.) - through the mother's side; as a result, she dies; grandmother kills her grandchildren, throws them into the sea; they come back; the grandmother divides her daughter's corpse in half, throws it up; the top turns into the sun, the bottom turns into the moon; Th. has his father's flint, he kills game with them; the grandmother loves him; the old man gives T. corn; says he must kill an evil brother whose body is made of flint, otherwise people will not be able to live on earth; T. pretends to be afraid of beech branches and reeds; Th. replies that he is afraid flints and deer antlers; defeated, runs away, creating ravines and mountains, turning into Rocky Mountains; an evil grandmother tries to destroy people with a flood, snow; causes them all the disasters that people now cause suffer], Frederick Waugh (West 1912-1917) in Elm, Antone 2000:164-168 [brother and sister live in heaven; sister gets pregnant, people believe it's from a brother; he uproots a tree with glowing flowers, push sister into the hole; water below; The turtle agrees to support the ground; The mink dives, pops up dead with the ground on its legs and muzzle; Loon puts the ground on the Turtle, the earth grows; the woman gives birth to a daughter; a stranger takes her as his wife; puts two arrows on her stomach, with a blunt end and a sharp end; disappears; two boys quarrel in the womb; Talohiawago wants to go out normally Davisgal - through her mother's side; as a result, she dies; the grandmother kills her grandchildren, throws them into the lake; they return in the morning; they race to her; T. would win, but his grandmother does not love him, let D. ; their mother would have risen from the grave ten days later, but D. smashed her head with an ax; the old man gives E. corn, T. exchanges flint from his brother for it; T. sees D. picking up a stone, killing someone who comes out bear land; T. releases game, scatters it on the ground; answers D. that he is most afraid of tree buds; he says he is afraid of deer antlers; T. makes the river flow in two directions, D. spoils creation; brothers fight as long as bones remain; T. promises to return at the end of time]; Seneca: Converse 1908 in Turner 1978 [in heaven, the Great Chief pulls out a tree, sends down pregnant woman; birds pick her up without letting her fall into the sea; Beaver dives to get the ground from the bottom, disappears; Duck pops up dead; Muskrat brings clay on its paw; clay is placed on the Turtle, the ground grows up; when the Turtle moves, earthquakes occur; a woman gives birth to twins; an angry one comes out under her arm; she dies giving birth to good things]: 36-38; Cornplanter 1938, No. 1-2 [in heaven, the leader thinks that his wife is pregnant with the Blue Puma or the Fire Dragon (=Meteor); pulls out the Tree of Light, throws his wife into the hole that has formed, throws characters who turn on earth into cultivated plants and animals; birds catch a falling woman; everyone dives to get the ground from the bottom; the Muskrat brings the earth in his mouth; the turtle puts his back; the woman throws the earth around, the ground grows up; a woman gives birth to a daughter; a stranger hangs two arrows over the girl, one of them with a flinttip; a girl gives birth to twins; one of them kills her mother when born through her armpit]: 19-26; Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 74 [in heaven, a woman is instructed in a dream to dig a tree with the flowers of light; people dig it up, it falls into the abyss; the chief tells the woman to throw after her; Loon tells the Osps pick her up; rejects the Horned Serpent's offer to take care of a woman; the Turtle is chosen for this role; animals and birds dive to get the ground, emerge dead; Hell-diver brings some land; her put on the Turtle, Beavers and Ducks make the ground big; a woman gives birth to a daughter; she becomes pregnant by a man who turns out to be a Turtle; gives birth to twins; one comes out of her armpit, killing her mother; his head is flint]: 409-415; Hewitt 1903 [the heavenly leader suspects his wife of infidelity, pushes her into the abyss with her little daughter; she falls on the Turtle; sprinkles the earth he holds on the shell the earth grows; her daughter is pregnant with the Wind; gives birth to twins; the youngest, Warty, goes through her mother's navel, killing her; the eldest comes to his father Wind; he invites him to run around the earth along with his two other sons; then gives him a bag with all the animals; the grandmother secretly eats corn, which she hides among her things; the grandson spies, finds an ear, cooks porridge; brings from the beaver's hunt; the grandmother splashes blood between his legs, says that he is now menstruating; he splashes blood on his grandmother's legs; says that menstruation will not be for men, but for women; grandson: let the menstrual period last as many days as there are spots on the deer's skin; grandmother: as many stripes on the chipmunk's back (four); he agrees]: 221-254; onondaga [like Seneca; Chief's wife gets pregnant from his breath before he can get along; Ducks pick up a falling woman; many can't get the ground from the bottom; the muskrat pops up dead in his mouth; only the Turtle, but not the Otter, can withstand the weight of the earth ; earth grows]: Hewitt 1903:141-182; 1928 [Beaver finds clay in Muskrat's mouth; can't bear the weight of the earth; Fox, Raccoon come to marry Heavenly Woman's daughter, rejected]: 470-486; mohawks: Hewitt 1903 [like onondag in Hewitt 1903; a man hangs an arrowhead over a woman's bed; then she gives birth to Flint and Maple Escape; a woman's mother makes the moon out of her head, the sun from his daughter's body; Escape lies that sedge or grass (cattails) will kill him; Flint says yellow flints and deer rolls are deadly for him; brothers are fighting; Flint is killed, turning into a mountain range]: 255-339; Rustige 1988 [A man dies in heaven for the first time; a girl whose father is unknown goes to his remains; she is watched, heard calling the deceased father; he tells her to go to the chief at the end of the world; the leader likes the way she cooks porridge, he marries her, sends her home for a while; as a result, corn falls from above; the woman becomes pregnant, the leader falls ill; tells the tree to be uprooted, asks the wife looks down, pushes her, immediately recovers himself; ducks pick up the falling one, put the turtle on her back; the woman asks the animals to dive; the Beaver, the Otter emerge dead, the Muskrat brings under silt with a claw; while a woman sleeps, earth emerges from it; a woman gives birth to a daughter; a man comes at night, leaves an arrow near the girl; she conceives twins; good brother Rostock is born normally, angry Flint comes out of the mother's side, killing her; proves to the grandmother that it was Rostock who killed her daughter, who throws the Sprout into the willow thickets; Flint and grandmother hide animals; Sprout finds and opens the door in the rock; monsters are still in the rock; Flint and grandmother hide the sun on the tree on the island; Beaver, Spider, Rabbit, Hawk don't go to take Otter Talker with them; they get the sun, the Rabbit runs away with him, the shine the wool on his stomach whitewashed; the otter talker was hit with an oar, his jaw became short; the sun was thrown into the sky; Flint and Sprout are fighting to create irregularities in the landscape; Flint has been thrown into the lower world, creates evil spirits; grandmother Rostock cuts off her head, makes it a moon]: 3-18; Tuscarora: Cusick 1827 [a woman in the upper world is ready to give birth to twins; at this time she falls down; marine monsters take some land from the bottom, put it on the turtle; when a woman lands on it, the land begins to grow; the good son Enigorio (E.) is born normally, the evil Enigonhahethea (OH) - through the mother's side, killing her; E. turns the mother's head into the sun, the body into the moon; creates plants, animals, people, turns monkeys; E. lies that he can be killed with reeds; OH replies that he can be killed with reeds kill a deer with a horn; brothers fight, E. kills Oh, he falls into the ground, becomes an evil spirit] in Leland 1968:24, in Beauchamp 1922:8-11; Rudes, Crouse 1987 [in the upper world, sister meets brother, gave birth to a girl; brother died, people in heaven had not died before; put in a coffin; the girl stops crying when she comes to her father's coffin; talks to her father; he sends her south to marry the leader; he tells who comes to undress, cook porridge, do not show that she is in pain when hot spray burns her body; cougars lick her rough tongues to blood; the chief spends three nights with her, sends her back to tell her people that corn will fall from the sky at night; they remove roofs, the barns are filled with corn; the woman returns to the leader; he feels unwell; tells them to dig a tree with the flowers of light, confronts his wife down; then healthy again, tells the tree of light to be planted again; below, water, birds and animals first think that the woman is coming from below; the duck sees that she falls from the sky; only The turtle is able to support the ground; only the Beaver brings earth from the bottom in its mouth and paws (the manuscript breaks off)]: 18-36; delaware: Bierhorst 1995, No. 2 [collected 1679; there was only water; the turtle raised her back, the ground dried up; a tree grew in the middle of it; the first man came out of his roots; the first woman from the top of her head when she leaned to the ground], 9 [gathered in the 18th century; survivors of the flood gathered on their backs Turtles; ask Loon to get the ground; he does not dive to the bottom, flies away, returns with the ground in its beak; tells the Turtle where to swim; people land on the ground], 30 [there was a sun-like object in the sky, his name was cornstalk; there was a woman with a child, she fell ill; she thought of recovering by pulling out the stem; everything fell into darkness; people threw her and her child into the hole where she grew up stem; it was picked up by the Hawks, placed on the Turtle's back; Loon dived, brought earth from the bottom], 65 [The Great Spirit created the world, then flooded with a flood (some Mansi (a Delaware subgroup) say it was Nanapush, but others claim that this is the influence of Ojibwa); the Great Spirit sent different animals to dive; Muskdatra brought land from the bottom, placed it on the Turtle's back, the earth grew], 77 [the earth rests on a huge Turtle; when there was only water everywhere, Muskrat began to create land by placing it on the Turtle's back; then the Beavers added land], 187 [zap. 1977; the turtle is the "mother of the earth", for at first it is brought silt from the bottom, from which the Creator made the earth]: 28-29, 30, 34-35, 38, 44, 46, 71-72; Hitakonanu'laxk 1994 [(similar to a summary of versions at different times); Toad was the mistress of water; Toad's battle with the Horned The snake leads to a flood; Nanapush picks up animals, first climbs a tree, then swims on a raft; Loon, Otter, Beaver emerge dead, N. revives them; Muskrat brings silt in his mouth and paws; N. places it on the Turtle's back, the earth grows; N. sends the Wolf to find out if the earth is big; he returns at ever longer intervals, finally disappears altogether; the first man was born from the roots of a tree, the first woman from the top of her head when she leaned to the ground]: 49-51.

Plains. If not otherwise: the character pulls land from the bottom of the sea. Sarsi: Curtis 1976 (18) [The old man gives Muskrat a piece of land, asks him to run around until he grows up; but he does not grow; then tells him to dive; for the fourth time, the Muskrat brings clay from the bottom; Old Man rolls it into a ball, tells Zuika (Charadrius vociferus) to run around, the earth grows; the Old Man creates terrestrial inhabitants; the crow makes from coal, for other materials have come out by that time; the last makes sarsi, turning them into pellets of skin scales]: 180-182; Dzana-gu 1921, No. 3 [the flood flooded the world, the Old Man gathered birds and animals on a raft; sent birds to dive, only a small marsh bird reached the bottom with red rims around her eyes when she dived for the fourth time; surfaced dead, but the Old Man found grains of earth under her claws, revived the bird; told the plover (Charadrius vociferus) to run in circles around the grain the land, it began to grow; the old man told Zuik to run all his life, and then his descendants fled; the land grew, animals and people descended from the raft to land], 4 [a man has a wife and two sons; he combs his wife, paints her face, but every time she goes for brushwood and comes back, her hair is tangled, the paint is blurred, her clothes are dirty; he watches her approach the rotten tree, knocks, says she's here, snakes crawl out, wrap around her body; the husband tells his sons about this, tells them to run, goes to the tree, calls the snakes with the same signal, kills with a stick, throws the bodies into the ravine, one escapes but has lost its tail; the wife finds only one snake, comes back, her husband cuts off her head, she falls into the tipi, the body falls outside, the husband runs away in the opposite direction than the sons; they reached the river, asked for a water monster smuggle them; he invited them to eat his parasites; they were frogs; the brothers snapped seeds from which they had necklaces, the monster was happy, lay down like a bridge, the brothers crossed to the other side; the mother's head set off in pursuit, saw through the frog, spat with disgust, the monster asked her to cross the river, threw it into the water, her head drowned; the brothers saw the raft, put the board from there, offered to take food, the elder stepped, threw him on the fruit, sailed; he shouted to the youngest not to go anywhere, wait for him; he came back, but his brother turned into a wolf; they were hunting together; the wolf rushed for the deer into the river, something dragged him under water; the old man brought his older brother to the river, where there are fish on the shore; they shot at them, wounded the chief; the shaman frog goes, saying that she was called to treat the wounded fish leader; the old man killed him, dressed like him , went down to the fish, found the wolf's skin, revived it, he returned to the shore; the old man told everyone to close their eyes while he healed the leader, killed everyone, returned to the shore; the other fish caused the flood; the old man on The raft tells the animals to dive; only the Muskrat dived, surfaced dead; the Old Man took grains of earth from under his claws and teeth, revived the Muskrat; this is how she dived four times; the old man invited the animals to run around a lump of earth, only the Wolf and the Otter agreed; the earth grew, they came back old, the Old Man rejuvenated them; so three times, after the fourth they did not return, the earth was big]: 5, 6-8; Simms 1904 [two young men from the upper world go down to people; the leader's two daughters fall in love with them; people go to make sisters go beyond two bright stars; kill young men; as punishment, the Creator sends a flood; the old man is saved to the raft, animals and birds with him; he sends animals to dive; the Muskrat is the last to emerge, the old man scrapes off her legs some silt, blows, creates land; sends Zuyk to find out if the earth is big; he returns aged, tired; the earth is big]: 180-182; blacklegs: Fraser 1990 [the leader's daughter with two friends sleeps outside, wants a Star as her husband; in the morning a beautiful man approaches her, takes it to heaven; she gives birth to a child, is happy; her husband does not tell you to dig up a large root crop; she violates the ban, sees her native camp through a hole in the sky, cries; her husband orders to make a rope, sends her back; she comes to her parents, but her son turns into a smoke mushroom; people cut him to pieces; she asks the Morning Star for revenge; he tells her and her parents to make a raft, sends rain that floods the earth in a flood; her father tells Beaver, Duck, other animals and birds to dive to the bottom; no one comes back; the muskrat brings land on its foot; land reappears]: 32-35; Linderman 1995 [rain floods the ground by the flood, the animals ask Napi ("The Old Man") for help, he makes a raft, tells him to dive underground; Loon, Otter, Beaver, Goose, Goose, Goose do not dive to the bottom; Muskrat pops up dead, N. revives her, she says that saw the earth; on the second attempt she gets some land, the third time she brings more; N. creates land, tells the Wolf to check if it is big; he returns six months later, N. says that the earth is small, continues to expand it; the second time the Wolf does not return, the earth is big; N. sculpts from clay, revives the first pair of Chippewa Indians]: 16-21; Maclean 1893 (blood) [during the flood, the Old Man sends one for the other four animals; Fish, Frog, Lizard don't come back; The turtle brings clay in its mouth; the old man puts clay on the water, makes the ground out of it]: 165; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 1 [woman who became wife of the star, gave birth to a child who is a fungus; it was torn apart, for which the heavenly inhabitants sent a flood; during the flood, the Old Man sits on a high mountain with animals; Otter, Beaver, Muskrat, Duck (?) consistently sent to bring earth from the bottom, float up dead, but the Old Man finds some clay on the legs of the Duck; he throws it into the water, land appears; heavenly inhabitants send rain, everything on earth grows]: 19; assiniboine: Clark 1966 [first there is only water, Muskrat pulls the earth from the bottom (the text is not retold; west from the priest is assiniboine, but tells the story of the adventures of seven grovanter warriors)]: 297; Dusenberry 1962 [Inktomi created everything in four steps; blue, black, white, and speckled rocks symbolize these stages of creation; separated the spirits of the day from the spirits of the night; created a man and a woman out of clay, then animals; people began to kill each other, I. chose one, taught me how to make a raft; four days later, the water flooded the ground; I. chose seven waterfowl, ordered them to bring clay from the bottom, they surfaced dead. They got nothing; I. sent a muskrat, a mink, a beaver, a little otter (fisher); they also surfaced dead, but grains of clay were under their claws; I. created land from them; made a woman for a man, and 6 more couples of men and women; these are the ancestors of the seven fires of the Dakota Council {Dakota means assiniboine}]: 71-73; Lowie 1909a, No. 1 [The creator sails in a boat; towards the Muskrat, in the clutches of silt; Creator scatters it on water, makes earth]: 100-101; grovanter: Cooper 1975, No. 3 [The creator of the earth is the only one who knows that there will be a flood; made a raft, hung up on it; stuck to the mountain, told Mud Hen (=Hell Diver), Turtle, Beaver, Muskrat dive underground; they all surfaced dead, but there was little land on the paws of Mud Hen and the Turtle; the Creator threw pinches in different directions, land appeared; sculpted a man out of his ribs created a woman]: 435-436; Kroeber 1907b, No. 1 [water is all around; someone, perhaps Nishant, sent Duck, Otter, Beaver, Turtle to dive underground; only the Turtle brought the Earth; this character scattered it having created land; created mountains, gradually squeezing the earth out of his hand, made rivers and vegetation], 2 [Nishant destroyed the first world by fire, the second by the flood; placed his pipe on three sticks, the pipe and he himself swim on bison cakes; stamped his foot, shouted, water poured out of the ground, it started to rain, everything was flooded, the bison cakes surfaced; the crow stayed flying; N. allows her to sit on the phone; pulls her out of the tube animals and birds, tells them to dive; first the Big Loon, then Little Loon do not reach the bottom; the turtle dives; N. finds some clay in the folds of its skin and on its paws; throws it into the water, land appears; N. sings the earth grows, he sculpts people and animals, revived him by shouting three times; called the world the Turtle, because the Turtle has taken out the earth; the rainbow is a sign that the earth will no longer be covered with water; after that, there will be peace Other]: 59, 59-61; arpahoes: Dorsey 1903 [flood, man walks on water, thinks how to keep his pipe; creates seven poplars, birds have sat on them, reptiles have sailed; Ducks, Kingfisher, Crane and other birds do not reach the bottom; the Creator turns into a Red-headed Duck; he and the Turtle both bring clay from the bottom; the Creator puts it on his pipe, the earth grows; the turtle represents the earth; The creator places black, yellow, red, green colors on four cardinal points (not named); each color and side is associated with one of the four Old Men; throws a poplar core into the water, it pops up - let people's lives be the same; Nihansan throws a pebble, he drowns - let people die]: 191-204; Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 1 [water everywhere; Grandfather saw the Father - a pipe on four sticks; Father called waterfowl; they dive one by one, drown, only the Duck brings clay on its paws; the Father puts clay on the tube, but there is not enough land; the Turtle is called to dive, brings the earth on four legs; the Father dries the earth, creates land, rivers; where more has fallen, there are mountains; the Father creates the Sun and the Moon as the embodiment of a man and a woman; sculpts a man and a woman], 2 [a man, his wife and son swim on a wooden one the pipe; the son wants land; the father collects waterfowl, the Duck is sent to the bottom as the best diver; the duck brings some land on its paws, the father creates land, but the land is too small; the father sends the Turtle, she brings clay on her shell, man creates land by waving a pipe, creating rivers], 3 [there was a pipe on four supports, a man on it; he calls waterfowl, asks them to dive, everyone comes up dead, The duck is the last; then the Turtle calls to dive, brings earth on the shell; the man dries it on a pipe, scatters it, creates land; the earth is in the shape of a turtle; a man sculpts a man and a woman from clay; note: one informant identified the creator with Nihansan (letters. Spider, trickster)], 6 [a fragment of stone falls into the bosom of a woman; she gives birth to a boy named Scala; during the flood, he tells the Raven, Magpie, Jay and other animal people to make a raft of dried mushrooms; mushrooms they get wet, the raft begins to sink; the Rock tells the White-Nosed Duck to reach the ground; it does not dive to the bottom; turns one of its tortoise shell moccasins into a Turtle; the Turtle brings clay from the bottom, rib, reed; Rock creates land, waving its edge in four directions; turns reeds into corn; creates a sky; after that, Nihansan began to live in the sky, became our father; the one who has there were turtle moccasins, threw a cake into the water with a bison, it surfaced - even if man's life was so; N. threw a stone, it drowned - let people die, otherwise there will be too many of them]: 1-2, 3-4, 4-6, 14-17; Crowe: Lowie 1918:14 [everything is covered with water; Old Coyote (=Sun) tells ducks to dive; three types of ducks don't dive to the bottom, Dive brings clay on their paws; The old man makes the ground, mountains, trees], 16 [before Old Coyote makes a boat with a flood; tells two ducks to dive; one cannot reach the bottom three times; the second brings clay in his beak on the fourth attempt; he makes the ground with mountains and rivers], 17 [everything is covered with water ; Old Coyote asks ducks to dive; they bring clay from the bottom four times, he makes the ground], 17-18 [everything is covered in water; four ducks decide to dive; one brings clay to their nostrils, they make the ground; Old Coyote helps them create mountains, rivers]; 1960:195 [everything is covered with water; the Coyote old man sends the Swallow to the bottom, then the Raven, then the Wolf; they do not bring land; sends the Duck; makes land out of the clay she brings; makes a man and a woman out of clay], 198-200 [it rains, a flood floods the ground; Old Coyote calls two ducks, a white one and a black one, asks which of them is better at diving, they say they dive the same way; white the duck dived twice, did not see the bottom; the black one brings earth in its paws; the earth is scattered, land has arisen; the Old Coyote asks the Smart Woman to make rivers for ducks; she draws channels with a cane], 205-209 [in There is only one water in the world; the Coyote old man asks two red-eyed Ducks to dive; one dives, the other stays with the Coyote, measures time - did the diver suffocate? The first Duck brings the spine, it is not good; dives again, brings the earth on its paws; the Coyote blew on it - the land has grown; at the request of the Ducks, the Coyote makes rivers; sculpts people and ducks from clay - first men and males, then women and females]; Simms 1903, No. 1 [all covered in water; The old man asks four ducks which one is braver; one dives, brings earth in its beak; the old man blows in all directions, the earth forms with mountains and rivers; makes a man and a woman, gives them culture]: 281-282; santi (watchpeton) [the world is covered with water; Wakan Tanka (Great Spirit) descends in the form of a rainbow, throws his two ribs, falling into the water, they turn into two horned four-legged water monsters; from the right thigh - a male, from the left thigh - a female; VT teaches them to lead the Witch Doctor's Ritual; monsters command Loon, another poultry (Diver?) , Beaver and Muskrat dive; three emerge dead, VT revives them; Muskrat brings silt on its paws, monsters throw it west, land appears there, all animals have swam there; various groups of animals enter in the home; each appears with its own witch doctor's chants, this is how the Watchpeton society arises; later animals appear to people in dreams, teaching songs and rituals; monsters descend to the lower world; from their wool Witch doctor's herbs appear]: Skinner 1920:273-278 (retelling in DemAllie, Parks 2001:1065); teton (Brule) [The creator splits the ground, water flows from above and below, everything is drowned; he swims on his sacred pipe; the Raven flies, says she has no place to sit; the Creator pulls out all the animals and birds from the pipe storage bag; sends Loon, then the Otter, the Beaver, they do not dive; the Turtle brings earth from the bottom under its shell and on its paws; the Creator puts it on water, creates land; the crow sits down to rest; now there is no water; the Creator cries for the earth and its inhabitants, his tears turn into seas and other water bodies; The Creator sculpts people out of clay; says that he destroyed the first world by fire, by the second by the flood; this one calls the Continent of the Turtles; then there will be the fourth world]: Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:496-499; Dakota (Sioux, band not specified; Dakota identification in Thompson 2000, No. 92:299) [recorded from members of the secret society; Bubble and Monster are twins, sons of the Turtle; the Monster's body was made of stone, he killed his mother at birth; The bubble looked everywhere to kill him; the turtle brought earth in its mouth from under the flood waters, the water bird a blade of grass; it was put on the Turtle, the earth grew; in some stories instead of the Turtle, Muskrat or Coyote; only initiates know that the Turtle is earth and we live on its shell]: Meeker 1901:161-163; Mandan [early Lonely Man tells Ducks to dive; they bring land from the bottom; he scatters it across the water, the earth grows]: Beckwith 1938:1-2 [At the beginning of time, the Creator and the Lonely Man walk on the waters asking the Duck to dive; she brings sand in their beak, from land arises; the Creator takes land south of Missouri, the Lonely Man to the north]; Bowers 1950:347-348 [A lonely Man walks on water, sees a Flower with blood in it; the Flower says PTS - her son; PTS tells two Ducks to dive four times, they bring four pieces of land from the bottom; he scatters it, there is land with trees; OCH picks up his pipe, comes to the First Man (this is the Coyote); they they argue which of them is older; OCH pierces his spear into the ground, symbolizing the two ducks that have brought the earth, and the IF lies down side by side; PTS comes to this place four times; the last time, many years later, the spear is almost fell, only bones from the IF; but the IF revived, proving that it was older; they go together to build the ground; because the PTS tube was two halves, Missouri in the middle of the earth; the OCH created the land north of the river, the IF to south; the land is very flat, and the IF has created irregularities to make it convenient to sneak up on the bison; created bison; PTS livestock are domestic, IF bison are wild], 361-364 [A lonely man walks on the water, sees a flower, decides that he was born from it; someone says, I am your father; PTS meets the First Creator; both ask the Dive to get silt from under the water; PTS gives half of the land brought by the Dive to the First Creator, he creates himself eastern, male, flat side, livestock, PS creates western, female, crossed, bison; they argue who is older; decide that the one who stays dead longer; PTS puts a stick for himself, PS lies down with a coyote; when a few years OCH pity thinks of a long-dead PS and takes out his stick, Coyote is resurrected, proving his seniority]; Maximilian in Will, Spinden 1906 [{good moderately a detailed summary of the cosmogonic myth, similar to Bowers}]: 139-140; mandan, hidatsa [A Lonely Man (Coyote) walks on water, meets the First Creator; both ask Dive ( Mudhen), what he eats; I dive to the bottom behind the mud; it brings silt four times; P.S. makes the land south of Missouri, O.C. makes the land north; they argue which land is better and which is older]: Beckwith 1938: 7-9]; hidatsa [water covers everything; the First Creator tells Dive to get sand from the bottom; makes the ground, creates a Lonely Man, they argue]: Beckwith 1938:15; arikara [two Ducks swim on big lake; Wolf comes from SW, Happy Man (MF, Lucky Man) from the north; Wolf offers to compete to see who can withstand the rain longer; hangs his skin on a stick, MF - different feathers; The wolf loses invites the MF to co-create it; tells the Duck to get dirt from the bottom, she dives, brings it, the Wolf scatters it, land appears, this is a plain north of Missouri, there are bisons on it; the MF also asks the Duck to bring silt from the bottom; it brings more, it throws what it brings south, there is a hilly country south of Missouri; MF says it will be more comfortable for people and buffalo to live in the hills; Missouri has flowed like a border between two lands]: Dorsey 1904d, No. 1:11; Grinnell 1893b [Atíuch ("father") created land and people out of stone; they don't listen to the creator, he sends rain, water floods the earth; the mosquito says he can swim on foam, Duck - what can dive, takes the Mosquito under its wing when it reaches the bottom, the water descends]: 123; iowa [west by Rev. William Hamilton; Ictc ñ'ke swims in a boat; sends the Muskrat to the bottom, she brings some clay in her paws; the bird flies away and returns with a branch; I. rips off its leaves, mixes it with clay, throws it all on the water, creating land]: Dorsey 1892:300 ( mentioned in Boas 1940:439); sheyens: Grinnell 1907-1908 [at the beginning of time, the Creator asks waterfowl to dive; swans, geese, ducks do not reach the bottom; a little duck brings silt in its beak; The creator throws it into the water, land appears]: 170; Marriott, Rachlin 1968 [Maheo creates sky, salt water, light, waterfowl; tells them to dive and get land from the bottom; Goose, Duck, Loon do not dive; Coot brings silt from the bottom in his beak, puts M. in his hand; he makes a lump, creates land; M. is looking for whose back to approve the land; snails, crustaceans, fish are not suitable for this; only Grandmother Turtle in able to hold this weight; this is Mother Earth, she gives birth to plants; from her right and left ribs, M. creates a man and a woman (retelling in Cooper 1996:222)]: 22-26; Arkansas (probably kuapo) [the world is covered in water; a white-clothed god brings bags of tobacco, takes people out of the ground; the world is dark; the Beaver dives to the bottom, brings land; the white Eagle brings a green branch; (without continuation)]: Charencey 1884:284 in Dähnhardt 1909:88.

Southeast USA. Shawnee: Trowbridge 1939 [After the Flood, the Great Spirit tells the Shrimp to dive; it brings some clay from the bottom; the Great Spirit makes the earth]: 60; Voegelin 1936 [1) Eastern Shawnee: Our Grandmother's Grandson pierces the belly of the Big Man with a knife; from there water flows out, floods the ground; grandson and Grandmother escape to the tree; Grandma sends the Shrimp, which brings silt from the bottom; Grandma makes new land; sends Vulture fly and dry the ground with flapping its wings; 2) shoni absinthe: the same, but the grandson violates Grandma's ban on going west; pierces the belly of the Monstrous Fish; Grandma and grandson escape in the boat]: 9-10; yuchi : Gatschet 1893 [The loon dives, does not reach the bottom; the necklace around her neck is pressed into her skin, you can still see; The beaver pops up dead; the shrimp brings clay from the bottom in its claws; the Creator sprinkles it on the water makes the ground; Vulture flies above the still soft ground, flapping its wings; mountains appear]: 279-280; Speck 1909, No. 1 [water everywhere; flying and floating creatures send the Shrimp to get the ground from the bottom; on fourth day The shrimp pops up; the ground becomes big; the Vulture is sent to make it flat; he gets tired, flaps his wings frantically, creating mountains]: 103-104; teal: Duncan 1998 [grandfather and grandson sit on a tiny island; the grandson has no place to play; the grandfather sends various animals to dive to the bottom; the turtle pops up dead with the ground on its paws; the grandfather dries the ground, throws it into the water, the earth grows; the vulture dries her wings flapping, creating valleys and mountains]: 40-43; Mooney 1900, No. 1 [(about the same in Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:105; told at the Chirokee Tribal Convention in 1975, it seems that the story comes from Mooney); At first, water is everywhere, animals are crowded in the upper world of Gălûñ'lăt; the floating beetle Dăyuni's( "Beaver's grandson") goes on exploration; swimming, finds no land, then dives, brings clay, it grows, turns into land; animals send various birds to find out if the earth has dried up; ask the Great Vulture (the ancestor of the present) to dry the earth; he hovers above the ground, it still soft; when he reached the country of the teal, he waved his wings out of fatigue; where he touched the ground, there were valleys, where he raised his wings - mountains; the animals were afraid that the whole world would become mountainous, Vulture was recalled, but the teal country remained mountainous]: 239; Taskegee [water is everywhere; some birds want land as well; Chief Eagle sends Pigeon, he returns without finding land; Shrimp dives, four days later brings silt in its claws from the bottom; the Eagle makes an island; then a few, they merge into land]: Swanton 1924-1925:487 in Edmonds, Clark 1989:284; alamaba, coasati [ at first, water is everywhere; birds and animals swim on a raft; Chief Horned Owl offers to dive; The Beaver does not dive; the Frog returned, frightened by the Sargan fish; The cancer reached the bottom (Sargan decided that it was not real prey); rakes clay with its tail, making it a pillar that rose above the water; the earth grows; the Vulture flies above it; when it raised its wings, mountains appeared, when it lowered it, valleys, when it soared, plains] : Martin 1977:2-3; Chitimacha: Swanton 1907 [during the flood, the Dove (Var.: Cardinal) brings a grain of land; when placed on water, it grows and turns into land]: 286; 1911 [at the beginning of time The creator tells the Shrimp to dive, which brings some land from the bottom, it grows]: 356.

California. Pomo: Barrett 1933, No. 23.1 [rain floods the earth; Falcon flees to the top of the mountain, Coyote and others drown; Falcon sends waterfowl to dive; they bring mud, reeds, silt; from this Falcon makes the mountain taller; there is no fire; two Ducks dive, bring fire in clogged reeds from their flooded homes; bring acorns and tortillas, others fish; water comes down]: 127-128; Clark, Williams 1954:35-47 [Coyote has grandchildren Moon Hawk (LA) and Sun Hawk (XIA); LA is the lord of the world, he is served; Xia is the youngest, hunts; Coyote gives Xia a sling, a stone from which kills many waterfowl, returns to the hunter; warns not to touch anything in the Fireman's dwelling; Xia comes there in the absence of the owner, kills watchmen - rattlesnakes, kills the dragon by throwing it into him fall a stone (the dragon suffocates); takes shell money, puts ash into bags instead; Fire sends fire; Coyote puts his wife Frog, LA and his wife Partridge in a boat, hides in it under earth, tells the ocean to extinguish the world fire; Xia remains to fly above the waters; after 8 days, having lost its last strength, Sits on the back of the Dive, rests; The dive dives, brings drowned trees from the bottom, creates house; Xia cannot eat raw fish; The dive dives to the Skunk Brothers, who have fire; they give fire, tell them not to look back; The dive looks around three times, fearing that either the water has extinguished the fire or the fire will burn his back; for the fourth time he brings fire to XIA; the water is gradually descending, but the world is dark; Xia finds the Coyote; they find the Pigeon Brothers; the elder throws four times from his sling to no avail at the east is a stone; the younger one throws, breaks through the sky, the Sun Sisters return to the world, light is becoming; Coyote replies to XIA that people will die, goes to another world forever; XIA shows him], 99 [ at first there was water everywhere; the Nameless One took the shape of a turtle, it dived to the bottom of the ocean, brought clay, made the earth out of it, earthquakes and storms grew, the Nameless One gave it its current appearance and continues to change]; screw [water at first; waterfowl do not dive to the bottom; the turtle dives with a rope tied to its body; pulls the rope out, pulls the rope, it is pulled to the surface; it is without consciousness, but a little dirt remains on her ears and claws; an island is being made out of it; land grows out of an island]: Dubois, Demetracopoulou 1931, No. 4:287; (cf. yuki (huchny) [water is everywhere, a feather floats, Taikomol emerges from it; he asks Gopher to get the ground; he digs, but the earth is too soft, sinks again; T. creates a Mole, that long works, installs land {gopher was a poor helper; the land he brought up was too soft, and sank back into water; mole made the land stand upapparently, both dig a hole and the land that has arisen is a heap soil thrown out of the hole)}; T. creates mountains, vegetation on it, makes people, birds and animals; they behave incorrectly, T. decides to destroy them by the flood; at this time everyone gathered in a house for dancing; T. hits the Raccoon with a charred stick, since then he has black spots on his head and circles on his tail; one Rabbit got into a fight with another, tore his lip; Vulture wants to be a big man, T. does not allow , he rubs his head into his blood (now red); Jackbird wants to be an Eagle, rubs his shoulder in blood, now she has red wings; after the flood, T. returns animals and birds in their current form; does huchny and yuki from shrub oak, so they grew low and ugly); makes kato from good oak, they are taller; Wailaki is made of cedar, Little Lake pomo is made of pine]: Foster 1944:232-233); patvin: Kroeber 1932a, No. 1 [Falcon, Old Coyote, Turtle watching the flood from the sky; Turtle dives with a rope tied to its leg; emerges; Falcon scrapes dirt from under her fingernails; puts it on water; the earth dries up]: 304-305; Powell 1877 [at first only the ocean, an old turtle swims in it; it dived, brought land from the bottom, created land]: 226; Maidu: Curtis 1976 (14) [Heavenly Chief (NV) sends the Turtle to the bottom; the second time it brings land under its claws; HB puts it on the water, the land grows; the Talking Through the Nose (GN) eats a piece of salmon placed by HB in the river; the river dries up; causes not two deer or badgers, but many at once, cannot catch any; HB calls salmon from a hollow tree, fills the basket; warns not to eat the first fish; GN eats, calls fish from the next trees, frogs and snakes fall from there; HB puts two sticks side by side, by morning they turn into a man and a woman; a woman tickles him, he does not laugh; GN brings ten sticks, HB takes eight of them; the remaining two make two beauties; they tickle GN, he laughs, they become old women; NV creates a rejuvenating lake; Kuksa swims in it, becomes young and beautiful; GN says people must die and hold memorial ceremonies; NV sends a rattlesnake, the bitten son of the GN dies; GN regrets that death has been made irreversible; NV goes inside the mountain, meets the first dead - son GN; sends back the GN himself, because he is alive]: 173-176; Maidu [at first it is dark and only water; a raft sailed from the north, on it the Turtle and the Father-Secret Societies (UTO); then a rope descended from the sky from feathers, followed by the Founder of the Earth (OZ, Earth-Initiative); his face is covered and his body shines like the sun; the turtle asks him to help create land; suggests tying it to a rope and a stone to it for weight; Six years later, the turtle emerged, covered in green silt, but it was washed away and was only slightly under his fingernails; he scraped out his nails with a knife, rolled up the pellets, put it on the stern of the raft; looked twice - nothing; on the third, wrap your arms around; on the fourth, a raft on land, the whole world has appeared; the turtle asks for light; OZ: look east, I will call my sister; the OT began to scream and the sun rose; then it set; OZ: Now I'll call my brother; the month has risen; then he summoned the stars by name; then he grew a tree with 12 different types of acorns; after sitting under the tree for two days, all three went west; and out of the ground Coyote and his rattlesnake dog came out; those who left returned and Oz made different animals out of clay, starting with a deer; mixed red clay with water and sculpted a man and a woman; they were white, black-haired, and beautiful; a woman tickles him, he doesn't laugh; Coyote wanted his hands to be like his paws, but OZ made people's hands like his hands; the first man was Cookes and the first woman was the Morning Star; OZ told Cooks to take people to the lake; during this time K. grew old, but when he plunged, he became younger again; this will be the case with everyone; women put out baskets in the evening, and in the morning they were full of food; Coyote organized a competition in run; the Rattlesnake bit him and he died, the only son of the Coyote; the Coyote threw his body into the lake, but nothing happened; Kuksa dug the first grave and buried the young man; people spoke different languages, only Kuksu understood everything; first Kuks's wife left, then himself; came to the spirits, there was Coyote's son; Coyote came there in his footsteps; Kuks did not let him eat food from the dead; Coyote jumped off the tree to crash to death and see his son; but the spirit house was empty; the Coyote went west and was never seen again]: Dixon 1902, No. 1:39-45; mountain mivoc: Barrett 1919, No. 1 [The frog invites Coyote to create land; Coyote looking for the best diver; Duck, another Duck, Water Snake don't dive; The frog brings two handfuls of sand by itself; the Coyote scatters sand, earth appears]: 4-5; Kroeber 1907a, No. 7 (Pohonichi Miwok) [up People appear everywhere; the Coyote tells the Duck to dive; she brings earth from the bottom in its beak; he sends it to bring seeds; mixes them with earth and water; the mixture swells, turns into earth]: 202; Wilson 1922 [ The Coyote and the Frog (man) sailed on a raft to the east; the Coyote told the Frog to dive and get the ground from the bottom; he took it out, the Coyote created land; the Coyote wanted to make people like him, but the Lizard (male) She did not agree: let her fingers be like hers; they sent a mouse to steal the fire from the people of the Valley; when they were chasing her, the mouse hid the fire in the horse chestnut trees and in the cedars; from there the fire blazed into the sky becoming the sun, and some remained in the trees, from where it was extracted by friction; the Coyote went and stuck two sticks where he wanted people to be, giving names to these areas; told the Lizard and the others turn into animals; the coyote still catches lizards, because then the lizard argued with him; a female star who loved abalone shells turned into stars; and so on all the ancestors]: 91-94; (cf. coastal mivok [the world is covered with water except Mount Sonoma north of San Francisco; the Coyote sails on a long raft of sticks and reeds; throws it into the water with the long side along the north south line; land appears ; the center of the raft was on the mountain; the frog sits next to him, jumping into the water whenever he wanted to grab it; when the water falls, he doesn't have time to jump to the water; she's the wife of the Coyote; he makes people out of feathers]: Merriam 1993:203-205); salinan: Mason 1912 [after the flood, ducks dive, do not reach the bottom; the Eagle puts a load on Kingfisher's back; he pops up dead; the Eagle finds dirt under his claws; makes out her land; Kingfisher revives]: 190; 1918:82 [the sea boils, overflowed its banks, flooded the world with boiling water; all animals gathered on Mount Santa Lucia; the Eagle Chief asks the Duck to dive; on the second attempt he reached the bottom, surfaced dead, but the Eagle took out silt from under his fingernails; rolled four balls, threw it in four directions, the waters came down; in the future, the catastrophe will happen again], 105 [The Old Woman of the Sea wants to destroy the Eagle, brings to the sea pours out in the basket, the flood floods the ground, Mount Santa Lucia remains; the Eagle takes the Puma's mustache, makes a rope, throws a lasso over the basket, the old woman dies, the water stops rising; the pigeon brings clay , The Eagle makes it a new land; turns three alder sticks into a woman and two men; they are lifeless; he revives them in the steam room]; Chukchansi yokutz [the water has covered the whole earth; the Coyote asks the Drake get sand from the bottom; it emerges with grains of sand under his fingernails; the Coyote makes a lump of sand, puts a seed on top, and land grows out of the lump]: Rogers, Gayton 1944, No. 1:192; dumna yokuts [Hawk ( Chicken Hawk) was the son of God; God created four ducks, who began to dive; they answered the Hawk that they were trying to get land; only the smallest one brought sand; the water washed away the sand from her hands, but the Hawk found grains of sand under his fingernails; God told Hawk to go west, throwing over a grain of sand; water retreated to the west (where the ocean is now)]: Gayton, Newman 1940, No. 20:28; yokutz: Gayton, Newman 1940, No. 7 [water is everywhere , only the Eagle and the Puma escaped on the island; they tied ropes to the legs of three ducks, told them to get the ground from the bottom, they surfaced dead; then they tied a rope to the turtle's leg; she brought land under its claws The dove collected grains, gave it to the Eagle; he made land out of it; the Crested Jay, the Blue Jay, the Coyote ran across the ground, planting trees; the Eagle sent the Wolf far north; when the world gets old and sick, he must howl and the world revives], 8 [at first there is only water in the world; the Eagle consistently sends five types of ducks to dive, starting with the smallest one; pulls them by the rope, no one has reached the bottom; then sent The turtle, she had grains of sand under her fingernails; the Eagle bored them in a tobacco mortar, threw them on four sides, 12 days later earth appeared; the Eagle told the Dove to collect the animals; the Bear did not want to go; came , having lost the race to Pigeon; the chief told the animals to go to the areas where they now live], 39 (Wobonuch, Centrall Hills) [the world is covered with water; Tobacco flies through the air from east to west, flops into the water; next time the Falcon Chief and the Crow place a net under the surface of the water, catch Tobacco; in the same way they catch a mortar, a pestle; the Falcon pushes tobacco; placing a net in the air, catches the Night ( The net turns north, west, south; night came from the east, singing, Close your eyes! ); The Falcon rolled the Night into a ball, the Sun rose, it became light; he smeared the Raven at Night, which turned black, had previously been like a Falcon; wild ducks complain that there was nowhere to sit to rest; Falcon called the animals told the Ducks to dive; they came back, saying that there was land, trees, etc. under water; Duck's wife dived to get sand; Falcon and Raven stretched their net on the water to prevent it from trembling {it's not clear whether water or net} , fumigated with tobacco; The duck came up, losing consciousness, bringing sand under her fingernails; The Falcon brought her to life with tobacco; told everyone to leave when he returned 6 days later; put sand and dirt on her knee, the land began to grow from where the Duck dived; after another 6 days, the waters grew, the waters were draining; to watch the world grow, the Falcon flew north east, the Raven flew west; then flew south, near the waters saw a black man's hut, a dog; these people lived on the ground, did not fly; the Falcon taught them how to make porridge from acorns; the messenger (Falcon?) named those who will become shamans and fly away (with Falcon and Raven?) : Coyote, Puma, Wildcat, Fox, Bear, Weasel; also Owl and Skunk; Condor and Eagle; they all became animals; Coyote and Dog stayed on the ground], 40 [Wolf warns his younger brother Coyote not to touch a leather bag full of soil and water; the bag hung on the wall, the Coyote made a hole in it with a stick, the water flooded the world, the Coyote drowned; the wolf made a raft, a net, caught tobacco falling from above, chewed, revived the Coyote, ordered bring the Duck, Duck to dive; she emerged, saying that she had reached the bottom; the Wolf ordered silt to be brought, promising to revive the Duck if it lost consciousness; under the Duck's fingernails, the Wolf found grains of earth, revived the Duck, threw the earth around him, a little land arose; sent the Coyote to find out if the land was big; Coyote returned saying he was small; telling Coyote to close his eyes, scattered the land again; when he returned, Coyote said that the land is great; sent the Coyote to bring the Moose, then the Mountain Sheep; said where to live, first ordered them to make mountains in the west (the Moose went north, the Ram went south, then met); the wolf sent the Coyote to give to all elements of the title's landscape; called on Eagle, and he went to rule the land of the dead; see further motif H34 (Eagle and Coyote argue about the fate of people)]: 20, 20, 38-39, 39-40, 53-59 [summary of 18 texts by yokutz about diving underground]; yokutz: Kroeber 1907a, No. 11 (northern, Gashowu group) [at first there is water everywhere; Beaver, Otter, Dive, Duck, Potikh Duck, do not dive to the bottom; Little Duck grabs sand from the bottom, when he gets up, loses it, stays a little under his fingernails; gives sand to the Falcon, he mixes it with tobacco, gives half to the Crow; both fly north, then parallel to the south, pour pinches of sand; below Earth arises; the Raven flies to create the Coastal Range and the Falcon to the Central Range; the Raven Mountains are first higher, the Falcon swaps them], 15 (Truhohi) [only the mountain rises above the water; the Coyote offers Chief Eagle get the ground; both ask Magpie for advice, who replies that the ground can be reached below; all Ducks dive, pop up dead; under their fingernails, ears, mouth Dive finds some earth; mix with seeds, they make the earth; the Eagle sends the Wolf, who runs around the ground, reports that it is still soft; the Coyote runs on the ground ahead of time, gorges and mountains appear; the Eagle sends the Raven and the Falcon, who report that the earth hardened; animal people diverge in different directions, turn into humans; the eagle flies to heaven, the Coyote follows him], 25 (Wükchamni, central foothills) [just a small island in the waters; A turtle comes to Eagle and Coyote, they tell it to dive; they find some land under their claw, put it on the water, the land grows; they make six human pairs, send them in different directions; people have nothing to eat, they eat the earth, some have already eaten; the Eagle and the Coyote send a dove, which brings a seed; the earth is covered with plants; there is water under the ground and now], 37 [a tree grows out of the water to the sky; the Eagle Chief sits in the nest, Wolf, Coyote, Falcon, Puma, Hawk, Condor; the Eagle tells the Ducks to dive; both float up dead, under the fingernails of one Eagle finds some earth; mixes it with seeds, puts it on water, the earth grows; the Eagle tells Shout to the wolf, the earth disappears; makes the earth anew; the wolf screams, the earth only shakes; they catch the tobacco creature, kill the deer, use tobacco to turn the deer into a woman]: 204-205, 209-211, 218-219, 229- 231; Potts 1892:73-74 in Edmonds, Clark 1989 [The Eagle and the Raven sit on a stump sticking out of the water; they feed the Duck fish; for this, it brings the earth from the bottom; they put the earth in two piles; the water falls down, arises land; part of the Eagle is larger than part of the Raven]: 133-136; Powell 1877 [water is everywhere; where Tulare Lake is now, there was a pole, a hawk and a crow alternately sat on it; they created different birds that catch fish, including a small duck; it dived, surfaced dead, but brought land from the bottom; the hawk and the raven took the land from its beak, made mountains - the hawk the eastern ridge, the raven - the western one; seeing that the mountains, made by a crow, taller, the hawk swapped them, so the Sierra Nevada is higher than the Coastal Range]: 383-384; the monach [Falcon and the Crow swim on a log; the Falcon tells the birds to dive, get the ground; Duck, Coot do not dive; Great Chomga emerges dead; Falcon and Raven revive her; they find grains of sand under her knees, throw them away, from which earth emerges]: Gifford 1923, No. 2:305-306; tubatulabal [rain causes a flood; animal people gather on the mountain; Coyote is looking for a diver; a dive brings some land, then more; places it among the waters]: Voegelin 1935, No. 12:209-211; kawaiisa [1) water is everywhere; animals and birds live in the sky; the Coyote sends them one by one to get the earth from the bottom; he dives only half, almost sinks; the little black waterfowl Potok (Coot?) brings dirt under the fingernails; the earth grows; animals come down to live on it; the Blue Jay plants plants plants, still plants pignons and oaks; 2) rain floods the earth; some ancestors flee to the mountain; the stream dives to the bottom, brings earth under the fingernails; the earth is placed on a tray for a breath, it grows; the ground still lies on this tray; it is flat; the squirrel builds gorges, pours mountains; Blue Jay plants plants]: Zigmond 1980, No. 1:27-28.

Big Pool. Bannock [Our Father, wife and son walk on the ground, behind the fire; Our Father tells us not to look back, the wife looks around, turns into stone; Our Father and his son merge into one character; the flood floods the ground; Our Father swims on the sea foam, calls animals for advice; the Beaver replies that he will not dive to the bottom, suggests his younger brother Muskrat; he dives, emerges dead, Our Father revives him, finds clay under his fingernails; rolls it into a lump, spreads it over the water; creates plants and animals; made the earth turn to the shady and then to the sunny side, winter and summer alternate]: Clark 1966:172-174.

The Great Southwest. Navajo [before the flood, the First Man pours soil from four sacred mountains into a bag; forgets to take the bag with him, sends a bird to dive for it]: O'Bryan 1956 [Kingfisher pulls out a bag from the bottom; seeds are planted into the ground; people rise to the upper world from the stems of grown plants]: 9; Goddard 1933 [the Blue Heron pulls out the bag, since then it has long legs]: 130; series: Herrera Marcos, Moser 2015 [the earth is flat and round, and the sky with lights revolves around it. At first, there was no land. Hant Caai (HC, "creator of the earth") created marine and terrestrial animals, placed them on a reed raft, told them to dive, and bring them from the bottom of the earth. Many tried but failed. The male green sea turtle dived but only scratched his paw against the bottom. HC found some ground under one of its front fins, mixed it with water, rolled the pellets, told it to grow, put it on the water, and the pellets grew and became dry. HC then stuck a few sticks in to make them a home for people. But the ground was soft. HC created the lightest insect, a daddy longlegs, but it also began to sink in soft ground. Then he created Hant Quizin (HQ, "The One Who Made the Earth Solid") and told him to make the earth solid. HQ began to walk on the ground, heat and fire splashed from under his feet, and the ground became firm. There were no trees at first. The first one created by HC was xopinl (Bursera hindsiana). HC then created a man, a woman, and a horse, and placed them under a tree. They were giants xiica coosyatoj ("those who sing"; it is believed that they are not series, but the songs in this language are now partially understood)]: 2; Relatos Guarijíos 1995 [first only sky and sea; sea animals are unsuccessfully trying to get the ground from the bottom; the turtle (caguama) dives, grabs a handful of sand, emerges in a month, almost all the sand has been washed by the water, but a few grains of sand are left; land appears] : 61 (=Olmos Aguilera 2005:139); (chapter about the series in Entre dos Vientos. Mexico, 1990?) [the pelican dives to the bottom, brings silt, and earth emerges from it].

NW Mexico. Varigio [water at first; Tata Dios sang for three days and three nights; took out a handful of sand from the bottom, scattered it, land appeared; sends Pigeon to find out if the land has hardened; returning for the fourth time, he replies that it has hardened; he made three figures - "ash", "clay", "monkey", blew on them, they became ash, the second time; the third they became human; ceniza turned into a white man, barro into Negro, mona - in others (the informant did not remember)]: Gentry 1963:133.

Honduras-Panama. Guatuso [female deity (La de la Cebecera del Aoré) persuades his husband (El de la Cebecera del Nharíne) to destroy people for their misdeeds; God reluctantly agrees after how his wife promises to revive everything; throws stones, filling rivers with them and causing a flood in which people and animals die; a rescued man dives to remove stones; gods help him return, a flood ends]: Constela Umaña 1993, No. 7:51, 148-149.

The Northern Andes. Embera [was a river whose upper reaches were in the sea and its mouth was high on the bank; to change this, God sent a downpour, a flood flooded the earth; one man went where God was; ordered put balsa logs under houses to make houses float; people did not believe it, continued to drink chicha; God left Mount Muharra above the water; man's house swam, he collected cultivated plants in it; swordfish began sawing the mountain; Cormorant, Raven, and Nutria began to dive to kill the fish; Raven, Cormorant did not dive; Nutria grabbed the fish, brought it upstairs; God praised it, let the fish always eat; the water began to descend The iguana stuck her head out; when the water fell to the level of the iguana's tail, God told the boys to jump into the water; some jumped, others were scared, stayed on the mountain; after the flood, the estuary of the river became where now]: Wassen 1933:111-112; yupa [during the flood, twenty couples (first-ancestor animals) escape to the mountain; Woodpecker flies to find out how far the water stretches; reports that water holds a dam of clay; Cayman throws wild boar, tapir, and other animals into the water to see if the water is deep; they all sink; Crab dives, returns after four days; Cayman dives with it The Turtle and the Battleship; the Turtle digs from below, the Battleship from above; the dam is destroyed, the water rushes into the hole and leaves; the sand remaining on the back of the battleship, turtle, caiman is still visible]: Wilbert 1974, No. 3:78.

Guiana. Arekuna [The fox kidnaps the child, gives it to Tapiriha; he grows up, she makes him her husband; he returns to the people; Tapiriha is killed; the father takes his son out of her womb; diving into the water, the boy kills fish; the stork persuaded the boy to bathe at a waterfall where there are many fish; the Water Serpent kills the boy with an arrow; the father asks the birds to kill the snake; most birds and animals cannot dive deep; two birds- a diver is killed by a snake with arrows; along with pieces of skin, a snake receives voices and colors; animals, also applying pieces of skin, get a color, and a deer turns such a piece into its horns; at first, a forest deer had savanna deer antlers and vice versa; they changed because it is difficult for a forest deer to walk with large horns; various types of timbo grow from the bones, blood, and flesh of a killed boy ( vines containing poison for fishing)]: Koch-Grünberg 1924, No. 22:72-75; vapishana [Aguchi wonders, finds out that there will be a flood; puts all cultivated plants in the boat; the boat is raised to the sky with water; the water is falling, the tops of the forest appeared; the birds are diving; the Heron, the Stork do not reach the bottom; Mergulhao and Carara reach, announce it; the sun rises, the earth dries up]: Wirth 1950:171-172; tops [Anike and Inskira went east, came to the old woman; she has corn, bananas, all kinds of fruits; they followed her, came to a tree with yam, corn, bananas, etc.; decided cut down; A. cut down from the west, I. from the east; when the tree fell, the sun took with it; it became dark; the brothers Arepopu and Makauaré said that the sun was at the bottom of the river; another pair of brothers Loriuepaneima and Uomai indicated the direction; these four began to dive, took out pieces of the sun; A. collected them, revived them; the Sun was grateful, promised to give the moon as a reward]: Soares Diniz 1971, No. 5:82.

Western Amazon. Siona, Sekoya: Cipolletti 1988, No. 5 [water floods the world (details and causes of the flood are not specified); God notices bubbles on the water, concludes that there is someone in the water; this is Little Battleship; God asks him to dive, he brings some silt from the bottom on his back; God makes new land out of this silt; steps on it, the earth grows]: 57-58; Vickers 1989 [Lutayo and Rebao are Muhu's wives, they they made chicha; Baina quarreled with M., cut it in half, birds appeared from his blood; L. knocked over the vessels of boiling chicha, chicha flooded the world; B. told L. that he was water, shoved it deeper, pulled it out by the hair; The battleship dived, brought some land, put B. at his feet; B. stepped on this place, the earth reappeared]: 158.

(Wed. SV Amazonia. Letuama [this world came from a handful of lower world land that four Ayas brothers (they're cuñados or Moon brothers) placed on the water that flooded the world]: Palma 1984:51).