C6G. The diver is a boar. 23.
Theearth is brought from the bottom and/or scattered across the water by a boar. See motive C6.
Ancient India, bondo, didaya, maria, condas (koya).
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 Var훮ha-kath훮, Vishnu Purana, book 1, adhy훮ya 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, adhy훮ya 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]; bondo [Raja's daughter threw a pumpkin seed; her brother took the core out of the pumpkin; it started raining 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. of seven tree species (mango, tamarind, mahua, sago palm, dumal, pipal, banyan); when the boar emerged, shook off the dirt, drops of dirt fell on the water, became earth; M. took his brother and sister out of the pumpkin, changed their appearance, sending smallpox on them, they did not recognize each other and got married; people descended from them]: Elwin 1950:135-136; didayas [water covered the earth; Rumrok hung a wild boar in the sky; only he found grains of land on his tail; threw it on the waters, creating land; earth soft at first; R. boring the boar bone, strengthened the ground with this powder; allowed the wild boar to lie in the mud and remain as powerful as earth]: Elwin 1954, No. 3:4; maria (Bison-Horn Maria) [rain flooded ground; Gajabhimul put 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 it, opened a pumpkin; the children climbed the tree, 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 black with charred hands; M. sent a wild boar, ordered her to be smeared in the clay on the turtle's back; the 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; conds ( koya) [the earth drowned; Bhima's daughter jumped from the sky into the sea, descended to 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.