C8a2. The Stone Lion. 26.37.
Alion (often a stone lion) helps survive the flood.
Chinese (Shanxi, Henan, Shandong), Manchus.
China - Korea. The Chinese (Shanxi, W. Jixian) [a family lived near the pine forest, and a pair of stone lions stood in front of their gate; the wife became pregnant, but the boy and girl were born only a few hundred years later; the couple were happy and died from laughter; the children were raised by a pair of stone lions; one day a lion warned of a flood; the rain lasted 49 days; the children sailed on lions to a high mountain; the lions told me to go to the pine tree and disappeared; the brother suggested get married; the sister agrees only if they pass the tests; took a needle and stood at one end of the hole, and the brother took the thread and stood at the other end; the brother's thread went into the sister's needle; then they rolled two mountains of millstones fell one on top of the other; then the sister offered to find matching marks on her body; the sister had a mole in her right ulnar fossa, her brother in the left fossa; they got married; the sister had children 49 months and gave birth to 100 children, 49 of them girls; the father gave everyone last names; two boys stayed with their parents; named the mountain a mountain of the Ancestors of Humanity, and the area Jizhou (Happy Area)]: Zhou Yang et al. 1999, No. 10:15-17 (approximately the same No. 10a: 17-18, y. Shouyang); Chinese (Henan, Wu. Wuzhi) [After Pangu separated heaven from earth, his wife gave birth to 9,998 children, followed by twins, a boy and a girl named Fusi and Nuiwa. Their parents loved them the most, and when the other children went to work with Pangu, Fuxi and Nuiwa stayed at home riding the stone lion at the gate of their house. One day, when they came to a stone lion, he told them he was hungry and asked for bread. After breakfast, they had a few cakes left, and they threw them into the lion's mouth. When Pangu and his older children returned home, they started looking for cakes. F. and N. told us how it happened, but the brothers and sisters did not believe it and took the stone lion to the bank of the Yellow River. The next day, Pangu and his older children went back to the field, and F. and Nyu went to return the stone lion. He said it wasn't necessary, but he would be grateful if they continued to feed him bread. They did this for 49 days. Then the wind blew, clouds covered the sky, and everything went dark. The stone lion said that the sky would fall and they would have to jump into its mouth to hide. They did so. Half of the sky fell, and the earth began to flood. Pangu, his wife and 9,998 children died, leaving F. and N. hiding inside the lion. They ate the cakes they had brought him before. After 49 days, the wind subsided, the clouds parted and the sun came out. The lion told me to go outside and said that they were the only two people left, and now they needed to marry. The lion has become a mountain range, Qingfengling, which separates Wuzhi and Wenxian counties. F. and N. became husband and wife and revived humanity, they are called people's grandparents]: Zhou Yang et al. 2001b, No. 7a: 10-11; Chinese (Shandong, St. Cibo) [an old man named Jiang lived in Jiangjiazhuang village with his old woman; one evening a gray-bearded incense seller came and handed over his goods cheaply; the villagers sold everything without remainder; C. asked the old man why he sold their goods so cheaply; the old man laughed and said he was actually immortal and came to warn people that a flood was about to happen, but first decided test people; told the old man to go to the stone lions outside the village temple every morning and evening; as soon as their eyes turn red, they should run south with his family without looking back; Jiang talked about everything his wife, but she did not believe it; C. himself began to go to the stone lions; his fellow villagers did not believe and laughed; one evening C. saw that the eyes of the lions turned red; C. put his wife on his back and ran south; The villagers rolled laughing; Ts ran until he fell to the ground from fatigue; then he looked around and saw that the village was gone; as a result of this flood, the population of China was reduced by half]: Zhou Yang et al. 2007, No. 10:10-11
Amur-Sakhalin. The Manchus [Brother Dou and Sister Eyun lived at the foot of the mountains; the sister is older; the father is gone, the mother is collecting firewood; one day E. and D. climbed the mountain for brushwood, tired, fell asleep, leaning against a stone sculpture of a lion; when they woke up, they found that the food was gone; the same the next day; one day a stone lion appeared to them in a dream: "Wake up soon, misfortune will happen soon! Take everything you can carry and go away"; she and her mother came to the mountain; E. warned her fellow villagers, but they laughed at her; but birds and animals also climbed the mountain; lion: come in; birds, animals, and brother with sister, entered the lion's mouth, but the mother did not have time - her mouth slammed shut; E. and D. found food in the lion's womb; seven days and seven nights later, the lion reopened its mouth, the animals and birds saw the light and ran and flew outside; E. and D. after them; gave each animal and bird a grain to sow them on high mountains that humans cannot reach; the land is green; brother invited sister to marry; sister: "I will take a needle and I'll wait at the top of the mountain, and you take the red thread and stand on the opposite mountain; if you get a thread in a needle, we'll be husband and wife." My brother picked up the thread and thought, "The eye of the needle is so small and we're going to be so far apart, how can I get into it?" Ants, bees, and little birds promised to help; the birds took a thread in their beaks and flew to E., the bees were afraid she would see them helping her brother and circled randomly in front of her, and ants thread a red thread through the eye of the needle; sister: "This is not enough; there are millstones on the mountain; tomorrow you will lower the upper seed from the mountain, and I will lower it, and if they roll down the mountain and join together, we will become husband and wife"; wolves, tigers and leopards promised to help; one seed rolled to the wolf and he pushed him forward, saying, "I almost hit me!" Another seed rolled to the tiger, and the tiger pushed him forward, saying, "I almost crushed me!" Whichever animal the millstones rolled to, everyone pushed them down, and so they found themselves at the foot of the mountain, where a snake wrapped around them and placed their brother's seeds right on top of their sister's grain. Brother: "We should be husband and wife now." The sister said, "Let it be as heaven wants!" ; E. gave birth to ten children, but there were still too few people in the world, so she decided to make them out of clay; now there were too many people to remember everyone, and then they gave them names based on their appearance. When the little men were ready, they put them to dry in the yard, but one day it started raining and the couple hurriedly ran to clean them up. But it started raining too fast, and some figures lost their noses, eyes and ears, and some had broken arms and legs. There have been cripples in the world ever since. It is said that all people in the world have existed ever since]: Chen, Wang 1989:21-24.