Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

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E1E. Stem son. .35.

The son of the first human couple first looks like a small plant that grew out of the ground of a stem.

Mansi, Nganasana.

Western Siberia. Muncie (p. Nyaksimvol, Severnaya Sosva) [an old woman and an old man live on a piece of land; either Numi-Torum threw it from the sky, then he rose from the depths of the water; the north wind is blowing - the earth is leaning into the south sea, blowing the north - to the south; in the seventh year, a yellow-headed sprout grew near the house; the old woman uprooted it, covered it with a handkerchief, the child cried; grew up and asks for permission to take a walk; the old woman tells the old man to watch so that the boy does not fall into the water; the old man entered the house, and when he left, there is no boy; the old woman reproaches the old man, but the son appeared; he was in the sky near the Golden Coast (Kores); he ordered not to go out for 7 days, although they will rumble and noise; after 7 days {big} the earth is ready, but it rotates; the son went to the ZK again, he again tells him to stay at home for 7 days; after that, the ground is surrounded by the TsUral Range, does not swing or rotate] Munk√°csi 1892:33-37 in Lintrop 2019:47-49; nganasany: Long 1976, No. 1 [earth first is bare ice; the first man, all white, finds the first woman; she says she gave birth to worms, birds, all living things; they gave birth to a blade of grass, from which the icy ground gradually became covered with grass; the man is afraid that "something flying" will destroy the child, the earth will not grow; they give birth to a second the child is a hornless deer; the flying man appeared, this is a horned deer, defeated the hornless; he asked the White Man to give him horns; the father made one horn of stone, the other from a mammoth bone; the son of White the man defeated the enemy, he left; the earth became big; many flying flew in, the son of the White Man defeated everyone; the White man and the woman gave birth to many people; the son of the White Man asks to clean him horns; cleaning the stone horn strengthened the earth with stones, it was soft, moving; cleaning the mammoth horn became a mammoth bone; the mouse asks for help, everyone overcomes it; the son of the White Man threw his stone horn, clouds have become out of it, it has snowed; the mouse wants a long winter not to be found under the snow; so it was; the mammoth horn threw it up - it was frost, clear; thunder - the stones above are knocking, lightning - sparks from stones]: 39-44; Popov 1984 [a white man lived in the ice plague; a woman who gave people eyes had a child with a twig of a talnik with one leaf; the woman gave it, the man planted it, watched how growing; the disease came and messed up; the man asked the woman for her second child to guard the first; this is a hornless deer, he asks his father to give him horns to fight worms and reptiles; received one horn from mammoth bone, another stone, destroyed reptiles; the peel of the horns turned into underground mammoths, iron, copper; the branches of the northern horn into the northern red cloud and the aurora; the southern one - into a storm cloud and a snow cloud; people live on the back of this deer; the white old man is Syrade Nguo; the mother of the plant and the deer is Nema Nguo]: 42-43.