E16. Oars with an edge. 42.43.58.59.66.69.
When rowing with an oar, the character first tries to push off not with a plane, but with an edge. See motive E15.
NW Coast. Nootka [people first rowed with the flat end of the paddle in their hands and dipping the narrow one into the water; then they learned to row correctly]: Boas 1895, No. XIII.23:128 (=2002:287).
The coast is the Plateau. Twana [a girl has her first period; contrary to the ban, she swims in a lake; a man sits on her clothes; repeats her words until she calls him husband; she lives with him in a lake; her five Brothers come one after another; the husband pierces four with his sharp tail; the fifth turns the stump into a man, the tail gets stuck in him, the young man kills the monster; finds the brothers' hearts in his stomach, revives them; a woman's daughter scratches people's eyes with her nails; Raven women take her away in a boat; row, immersing her oars not with a plane, but with an edge, fly away in crows; Raccoon takes the girl with his second wife]: Adamson 1934:371- 374; upper chehalis [The crow and other women want to swim across the bay, push off with the edge of the oar; the eldest in the boat guesses how to row; everyone falls on their backs from the push; since then, people they can paddle]: Adamson 1934:40.
Guiana. Varrau; lokono [a group of people led by a shaman went for stone axes; traveled for many years, meeting unusual creatures; sail to fish people; the shaman does not tell shoot fish at night, one secretly shoots and eats; in the morning warriors come, say that one of their comrades is missing; they force everyone to drink hot water and spit up; the one who has eaten fish is thrown into a boiling pot; in the other in a place, one of the team sees a dead anteater, comes back, there is no anteater; it turns out that he was just sleeping; elsewhere, locals are trying to row not with a blade, but with the handle of oars; the shaman has turned into bunia (Ostinops sp.) began to scream, with a blade, with a blade; this is how they learned (there is an island on Essequibo where women used to row oars); in Bat Land, a shaman ordered to spend the night in in a sheltered place; one hung a hammock in the forest, with only bones by morning; one violated the ban on touching an empty boat, it took it away; in the village of women, the head of women, an old woman, said that the arrivals would be released after girls are born to them; two or three wives each; rattles at the hammocks, the old woman makes sure that they rattle at night, which means those lying copulate; during the day, women hunted, fished, carried out all male duties; after a few years, those who arrived were allowed to leave; reached the land of stone axes; local people eat axes; returned home with axes; the shaman forbade converging with women; one came together, stayed in this position]: Roth 1915, No. 151-159:220-223; trio.
Montagna â€" Jurua. Shipibo.
Araguaia. Karazha.