C6A. The diver is a turtle/frog.
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The desired object is brought from the bottom (or from the lower world) or destroyed by a turtle, toad/frog or battleship. See motive C6.
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 [water first; 1) The turtle pulls a piece of land from the bottom, from which our world grows; 2) the Manchushri bodysatwa created a monstrous Turtle, let it into the water; shot it with a golden arrow; fire blazed, blood flowed, bowel movements spilled out; the turtle turned over on its back; peace stands on its chest shell]: Hermann 1946-1949:833.
South Asia. Gondas [Turtle and Raven]; baiga [Turtle and Raven]; bhumia [mother of five Pandava Brothers Kotma complains to the heavenly god Bhagavan that there are only rocks on earth; B. suggests Pandava descends into the underworld of the serpent king Burha Nang; the turtle king Kichhul descends along a crack in the ground, with him an earthen wasp, an earthworm, and a white ant; the wasp sent everyone to the other side of the river; the king of the serpent has set seven traps, next to the Kakramal crab; one of his claws is in the underworld, the other reaches the sky; the crab is sleeping, Kichhul and his companions pass; Mother Earth agrees to go upstairs, hides in Kichkhul's mouth; K.'s satellites swallowed white clay, red clay, black soil; leaving, K. gets entangled in a trap; K. and his satellites put them under the press, squeeze the ground out of them; several grains are stuck in K. between the teeth; the Earthworm cut them off with a knife, found grains; the wasp brings Mother Earth back to life; Kotma's son Bhimsen makes a whorl out of Python, wrapped a Stone Serpent around, Kotma began to knock down the ground in a stone cauldron; an intoxicating drink must be poured onto the ground; it is in the hollow of a tree, it is driven into kegs by two Blue Starlings; they give Bhimsen plenty to drink, give them a jug of drink; it is poured onto the ground , she overlaps the edge of the cauldron, spreads on the ground; Nanga-Baiga becomes her husband; cuts off her sixth finger, nails four pieces at four ends of the earth]: Fuchs 1970:16-22.
The Balkans. Romanians [a toad or a frog acts as a diver behind the ground].
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Baikal Buryats [the land is found in the paws of a Turtle killed in the water; the Turtle supports the land]; the Mongols [The frog does not reach the land, but the first to dive, and the land is established on it ].
Eastern Siberia. Evenki - Orochons [the snake tells the frog to get the earth from the bottom; the frog brings it, strengthens it, and still holds it]; equestrian Evenks of the Nerchi-Chita district [the creator's assistant was a frog; she she carried the earth in her paws to the surface of the water, but the creator's evil brother shot it; it turned over, and since then she began to support the ground with her paws].
NW Coast. The Tlingits [The seal dives, receives sand from the Frog; the Raven makes the Frog the Keeper of the Earth's Treasures].
The coast is the Plateau. Clickitat [Turtle pulls a woman from the bottom]; yakima [Turtle pulls a woman from the bottom]; okanagon [Turtle and Frog pull the leader's head from the bottom]).
The Midwest. Kickapoo [turtle].
Northeast. Hurons [woman swims on a turtle; toad dives]; delawares [turtle].
Southeast USA. Chirokee [turtle].
Plains. A turtle. Blacklegs; grovantre; arapaho; teton.
California. Usually a turtle. Pomo [at first there is 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 current species and continues to change]: Clark, Williams 1954:99; screw; patvin: Kroeber 1932a, No. 1 [Falcon, Old Coyote, Turtle from the sky watching the flood; Turtle dives, tying a rope to leg; emerges; Falcon scrapes dirt from under her fingernails; puts it on the water; the earth dries up]: 304-305; Powell 1877 [at first it's just the ocean, an old turtle swims in it; it dived, brought land from the bottom created land]: 226; Maidu [at first it is dark and only water; a raft sailed from the north, carrying the Turtle and the Father-Secret Societies (UTO); then a rope of feathers descended from the sky, along which the Founder of the Earth (OZ, Earth-Initiate); his face is covered and his body shines like the sun; the turtle asks him to help create land; offers to tie it to a rope and a stone to it for weight; after 6 years, the turtle emerged, covered green silt, but it was washed away and remained only slightly under his fingernails; he scraped out of his nails with a knife, rolled up the pellets, put it on the stern of the raft; looked twice - nothing; on the third - wrap his hands around; the fourth is 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 will call my brother; the month rose; then called the stars by their names; then he grew a tree with 12 different types of acorns; after sitting under a tree for two days, all three went west; and Coyote and his dog came out of the ground rattlesnake; the departed 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; 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 bring it people to the lake; during this time K. grew old, but after plunging, he became younger again; this will be the case with everyone; women put out baskets in the evening, and in the morning they are full of food; Coyote organized a running competition; Rattlesnake He was bitten and died, the only son of the Coyote; the Coyote threw his body into the lake, but nothing happened; Kuksu dug the first grave and buried the young man; people spoke different languages, only Kuksa understood everything; Cooks's wife left first, then he himself; Coyote's son came to the spirits; Coyote came there in his footsteps; Cooks did not let him eat food from the dead; Coyote jumped off the tree to crash to death and see son; but the spirit house was empty; the Coyote went west and was never seen again]: Dixon 1902, No. 1:39-45; mountain mivok: Barrett 1919, No. 1 [The frog invites Coyote to create land; Coyote is looking for the best diver; Duck, another Duck, Water Serpent don't dive; The frog brings two handfuls of sand by itself; the Coyote throws sand, earth arises]: 4-5; Wilson 1922 [Coyote and Frog (man) sailed on a raft in the east; the Coyote told the Frog to dive and get the earth from the bottom; he took it out, the Coyote created land; the Coyote wanted to make people like him, but the Lizard (man) did not agree: let them have fingers like her; they sent a mouse to steal 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 is extracted by friction; Coyote went and stuck two sticks where he wanted people to be, naming these areas; told the Lizard and others to turn into animals; the coyote still catches lizards, for then the lizard argued with him; a female star who loved abalone shells turned into stars; and so all the ancestors]: 91-94; yokutz.
The Great Southwest. A turtle. Seri.
The Northern Andes. Yupa [turtle, battleship, caiman].
Western Amazon. Siona, Sekoya [battleship].