D8. Predator and fire .10.21.35.41.43.47.53.55.63.67.70.72.73.

The first fire (or summer) was stolen from a large predator - a lion or leopard in Africa, a tiger in Asia, a bear in northern Asia and North America, and a jaguar in South America.

SW Africa. Damara [Leo had the fire; the man came, sat down as a guest; grabbed the smut, pushing Leo's child into the fire; while Leo and the Lioness were saving the children, the man ran across the river, placed fire in the wood]: Vedder 1923:20-21 (quail in Frazer 1930:111-112); nama hottentots [people ate raw or dried food; a man noticed smoke from the cave, went in, there was a lion, a man threw firewood into the fire, threw it at the lion with a gun, grabbed the second one, ran across the river; since then, people have fire, but lions do not cross the river]: Schmidt 2001:11-12 in Kotlyar 2009, No. 273:160; Bushmen [the fire was owned by a leopard; a man killed baboon, leopards ran, and the man took the fire away at that time; then he learned to carve it]: Kotlyar 1983, No. 8:29.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Sema [the fire was owned by the Tiger; two women watched him get it by rubbing, told people]: Hutton 1968 [1921]: 42 (retelling in Frazer 1930:105).

Western Siberia. Mansi [according to Gondatti, a polar bear pointed people to use fire]: Karjalainen 1996 (3): 50.

Subarctic. Sleve [winter is not over; animals gather for advice; only the Bear is missing; Lynx, Fox, Wolf, Mouse, Pike, etc. go up to heaven; find two Cubs in the house; learn from them what they keep in their bags rain, wind, fog, heat; Lynx turns into a caribou, Mother Bear rushes after her; beasts steal heat]: Bell 1901, No. 1:26-27; Chipewayan [see motif B42; The bear fails to arrange an eternal night; then he steals summer; The squirrel finds out about it in a dream, leads animal people to the world where the Bear lives; the Mouse gnaws on the paddle in the Bear's boat, the Lynx provokes the Bear to sail in the boat, rowing with all his might; the paddle breaks, the bear falls into the water; animal people carry the ball with warmth inside; the snow melts, the water floods the ground]: Birket-Smith 1930:84-85 [The bear lives in the west; the lynx drives the caribou; the bear swims behind them in the boat; when they give a warm balloon to Pike, she pierces it with her teeth; Bear: Now cold and heat will alternate], 86-87 [The bear lives in the sky; keeps rain, snow, fog in bags, cold; Lynx swims, Bear chases her in a boat]; Yellowknife [animal people climb into the sky for warmth; A squirrel from the top of a spruce tree gnaws a hole in the sky, light illuminates the ground; a bear keeps on an island wineskins 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 for its children; warmth 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, Otter cannot dive to the bottom; Duck brings silt from the bottom; new land is made from it]: Petitot 1886, No. 5:373-378; helmet [only the Bear owns the flint; the little bird asks for permission to warm up; pecks at An insect bear, carries away a flint; birds and animals pass the fire on the baton; The bear stops chasing; the fox breaks the flint on the mountain; since then, the fire in flints and wood]: Teit 1917a, No. 4:443; tsetsot [The bear wears flints to light fire instead of ear pendants, does not give it to anyone; the bird pecks insects at it, carries flints, gives it to people; the bear sees in the dark]: Boas 1896-1897, No. 6:262 .

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [The Grizzly owns the fire; the Fox lights the torch from it, runs away; the Wolf takes the baton, then the Muskrat, who throws fire at the trees; (origin of the Fox coat of arms)]: Jenness 1934, No. 54:239; clackamas [The cougar goes hunting, tells the Raccoon not to let the fire go out; the fire goes out, the Raccoon steals it from the old woman; her five grizzly sons come for fire one by one; four Puma kills with an ax hitting the ankle; the fifth is as strong as iron; they fight in the air, pieces of flesh fall down; the Raccoon burns the Grizzly flesh and the Puma's lungs by mistake; reviving the Puma, he is forced to replace them with a rotten tree]: Jacobs 1958, No. 6:60-67; catlamet [like clackamas; Lynx lets the fire go out five times; the old woman first accuses her vulva of eating the fire; Lynx hits the Grizzly leg with an ax every time helping Puma win]: Boas 1901a, No. 12:90-97.

Southeast USA. Alabama, koasati [the bear owned the fire; once left it on the ground, went to eat acorns; Fire calls for help; Alabama and Koasati found it, kept it]: Martin 1977:8; alabama [The bears owned the fire; it almost went out, asked to be fed; people brought it on a stick from the north, west, south, east, put it on fire, it burned; told the Bears he no longer wanted know them]: Swanton 1929, #5:122.

Honduras-Panama. Eastern Panama (kuna?) : Casimir de Brizuela 1972:61; kuna: Chapin 1989 [Iguana invites Jaguar to watch the fire while the Jaguar sleeps; carries the coal, filling the rest with urine; the Jaguar cannot swim across the river in pursuit of a thief; since then he has been eating meat raw, people have found fire]: 93-94; Wassen 1934b, No. 4 [the fire was owned by the Jaguar, the rest ate the meat raw; they sent a little Iguana to Jaguar; she came in the rain, offered to watch out with fire; when the Jaguar fell asleep, Iguana began to pour urine on the fire, replied that the fire was going out because of the cold; the Jaguar fell asleep again, Iguana hid a spark in the crest, filled the fire, ran across the river; Jaguar left without fire, people got fire]: 8-9.

The Northern Andes. Embera: Nordenskiöld 1929:141; Guajiro: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (1), No. 57:148-149.

Central Amazon. Surui [the Jaguars own fire; Palop sends the long-tailed orobab bird to them; it sticks its tail into the fire when the owners do not look at it; carries away the fire on its tail; sits on trees which are now used to produce friction fire]: Mindlin 1995, No. 21:65-66.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Wari [see motif D4A; an old woman owns fire, gives a little in exchange for fish and game, eats them raw; people try to bake food in the sun, but they only rot; (steal fire), climb vines into the sky; two grandchildren of an old woman hide in a tree hut, shoot birds, throw them down, the old woman eats them raw; they tell one bird to fly away; at this time they go down, fry the bird, eat; they return to the tree, the old woman climbs after them; they turn into woodpeckers, fly to their father in heaven; she climbs the vine into the sky; the grandchildren let the piranha gnaw through the vine; the old woman falls into her fire turns into jaguars, ocelots, jaguarundi, foxes; people throw seeds from the sky, trees grow, people jump on them from the sky, returning to earth]: Conklin 1989:577-583; makurap (Kanoä) [ people came out of the split stone, men have bows and arrows in their hands; first animals are like humans, each species has its own village; Maracana (Propyrrhura maracana Vieill.) brought corn from the village of Jaguars ; they did not want to give, but the Jaguar mother helped; a little bird brought fire from there; the smut burned her beak, it turned red]: Becker-Donner 1963, No. 1:447-448.

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo: Wilbert 1978, No. 62-64:177-189; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 40, 42 (shikrin), 43:125-128, 132-135; Apinaye: Wilbert 1978, No. 60, 61:168-176; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 39 [ The fire was owned by a jaguar (Rópti); people ate raw meat dried in the sun; the man told his wife's younger brother to get a mako parrot from the nest; the parrot is not given, the boy is afraid of it; the sister's husband threw it away stairs, gone; the boy lives in the mako nest for two months; the Jaguar notices his shadow; tells him to drop the mako, eats them, tells the boy to jump, catches him, leads him to the stream to wash, brings him to himself, does not tell him his wife should eat it; she shows the boy's claws; the Jaguar makes him a bow, tells him to shoot his wife if she threatens; the boy shoots, runs home; his father and others have carried the Jaguar fire]: 122 -124; crash: Wilbert 1978, No. 57 [Schultz 1950:72-74; fire only at Pud and Pudleré (Sun and Month), they have risen to heaven; people bake meat in the sun, eat puba wood; sister's husband a 10-year-old boy told him to climb a rock to get a mako parrot from his nest; removed the stairs and left; the boy suffers from dirt in the nest; the Jaguar sees his shadow, tells him to jump, catches, leads him to him, washes, gives him food cooked on fire; his pregnant wife frightens the boy; the Jaguar gives him a bow, tells him to shoot if his wife threatens again; the boy shoots her in the paws, runs home; people they take fire from the Jaguar]: 160-163; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 39 [Melatti 1978:325-327; the fire was owned by a jaguar (Rópti); people ate raw meat dried in the sun; the man told his wife's younger brother get the mako parrot out of the nest; the parrot is not given, the boy is afraid of it; the sister's husband threw away the stairs, left; the boy has been living in the mako nest for two months; the Jaguar notices his shadow; tells him to drop the mako, eats them, tells the boy to jump, catches him, leads him to the stream to wash, brings him to him, does not tell his wife to eat it; she shows the boy's claws; the Jaguar makes him a bow, tells him to shoot his wife if she starts threaten; boy shoots, runs home; his father and others took Jaguar's fire]: 122-124; krenje [Nimuendaju 1914:633-634; a man told his wife's little brother to get parrots out of the hollow- mako; he was frightened, the man threw away the stairs and left; the Jaguar told the boy to throw off the birds, ate them, told them to jump off, picked them up, brought them to him, washed them and combed them; Jaguar's wife threatens the boy, the Jaguar gives a bow tells him to shoot at his wife, but not in the eyes; the boy shot in the paw, ran home; brought people, took all the fire from the Jaguar]: Wilbert 1978, No. 59:166-167; frame camera [Nimuendaju 1946a:243; There was no fire, people dried meat on rocks in the sun; the man told his wife's younger brother to climb the rock to get the macaw parrot chicks; they screamed, the boy was frightened, did not throw off the chicks, man got angry, threw away his pole leaning against the rock, left; the boy is thirsty, the macaws defecate on his head; the Jaguar notices the boy's shadow, tells him to throw off the chicks, eats them, tells them to jump, catches, leads to the river, gives water and washes the boy; at home feeds grilled meat; Jaguar's pregnant wife is furious when she hears the boy crunching meat and grins; the Jaguar gives the boy a bow and arrow; when she grinns again, the boy shoots her in the paw and runs away; comes home; everyone goes to pick up the fire of Jaguar; he is not at home, his wife asks to leave her embers, but the Toad spit on everyone and extinguished; the smoldering log was brought to Relay villages]: Wilbert 1978, No. 58:164-165; Suya: Frikel 1990 [Jaguar owns fire; people let Jaguar touch melted wax; its paws and snout have been sticking, black ever since; people carry fire]: 38; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 37 [birds and animals]: 108-110; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 37:108-110; line [the man led his wife's younger brother to ruin the Arar's nest in the hollow; he climbed to the pole, said that there were no chicks, only eggs, showed a white pebble hidden in his mouth; the man asked him to throw it down, it turned into an egg, it fell to the ground, broke; the man removed pole, left; five days later, Jaguar came; the boy threw him two Arar chicks, jumped, the Jaguar picked him up, took him to him; said that you can't drink from the stream, he belongs to an urub vulture; the other little birds; from the third, the boy got drunk and drank it all; it was the Cayman stream, which scolded the boy; the Jaguar fed the boy grilled meat; when he went to the forest, Jaguar's wife growled at the boy; returning , the Jaguar scolded her; took the boy home, giving her two baskets of roasted meat; gave her onions, told her to climb a tree and shoot Jaguariha if she pursued him; the boy shot him and brought meat to the village; At first he said that the meat was baked in the sun; he admitted to his uncle that it was on fire; everyone went to take his smoldering log from the Jaguar; Mutum and the waterfowl brought it, and Penelope marail picked it up and swallowed it fallen embers, now his throat is red]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 41:129-131; Xavante: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 38:111-124.

Chaco. Matako: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 35-40:96-103; Toba [in a jaguar, fox and other animals]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 74-75:161-162

Southern Brazil. Ofaye: Nimuendaju 1914 [Guinea Pig stole fire from Jaguar; swam across the river with a scum on her head]: 377; Ribeiro 1951, No. 4 [Jaguar's mother owned the fire; Battleship was the first to try to steal, came to warm up; when the old woman fell asleep, took away the coal; she whistled, the Jaguar Son caught up with the Battleship, took the coal; the same with Guinea Pig, Tapir, Monkeys; the last one was prea (Aguti?) , who was ignored; ran away, swam across the river, convinced Jaguar that it was better for him to eat raw meat; he taught Agouti to make fire by friction]: 123-124; Caigua: Schaden 1947b: 110.