E27. People from blood droplets. .19.20.37.47.57.62.65.
Humans arise from droplets of blood from an injured anthropomorphic creature.
Admiralty Islands, Yatmul, Orokaiva, Tolai, Bining, Lamotrek, Nanai, Yuchi, Yanomami, Tarian, Andoque, Waarochiri Islands.
Melanesia. Admiralty Islands [Hi Asa cleaned the thorns from the pandanus leaf with a sharp shell to make the hut septum (Schirm); cut her finger, collected blood drops into the sink, and closed it; when I came to see if there were two eggs in the shell, from which a man and a woman then hatched; so humans are children of blood]: Meier 1907, No. 5:651-652; yatmul []: Walk 1949:104-105; orokaiva [ The wife (or sister) of the cannibal giant Totoima worked in the garden, cut her finger, wiped the blood with a sugar cane leaf, put it in a pot, and two children (or many boys and girls) appeared there; c With the help of their mother, the children destroyed O., became the ancestors of the Orokaiva; var.: People not eaten by the giant left the shelter, ate parts of his body, depending on this, acquired different dialects]: Williams 1930:155; tolay: Janssen et al. 2012, No. 2 [Kaia drew two human figures on the ground, rubbed his skin, sprinkled blood on the figures, covered them with leaves, To Kabinana (TA) and To Karvuvu (TU) appeared; TA climbed a coconut tree, threw two unripe yellowish coconuts on the ground, they turned into two women; KU did the same thing, but his nuts stuck in the ground, so his women have flattened noses], 3 [ the old woman was collecting shells on the littoral; her hands were scratched, she scratched her left hand and then her right hand with a pandanus leaf, wiped blood drops on the leaves of a coconut palm tree, threw the leaves on a pile of garbage, began to make a fire, but saw two boys in the garbage, hid them from a terrible boar in the cave, gave spears and slings; TA wounded the wild boar with spears, and TU killed their slings with a stone; since then, people have been able to hunt wild boars]: 1, 1-2; bining (New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula) [the old woman collected shells on the littoral; her hands were scratched, she scratched her left hand, then her right hand with a pandanus leaf, wiped off the drops blood on coconut palm leaves, threw the leaves on a pile of garbage to burn later; two boys emerged from the drops of blood, one left-handed and the other right-handed; she taught them how to hunt wild pigs]: Meier 1909:25-27 in Hatt 1949:81.
Micronesia-Polynesia. Lamotrek [Eluelap's daughter named Leboupboup (Ligóubub, Legóupup) descended from the sky, scattered sand and rocks, created islands, created plants and animals; cut the tip of her finger on the right hand, blood drops gave rise to a Yat woman and a Yol man, from which people come from]: Krämer 1937:146.
Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais [brother Hoday and sister Mämendi lived; M. bit a finger, a man and two women appeared from drops of blood, people descended from them; at the request of M., H. kills two out of three suns with arrows; M. sends him to look for a door to the next world (buni), because people on earth are cramped; H. finds a tree with shamanic accessories, collects everything in a bag; they demand that they be released, because they are not alone for him; he opens the bag, accessories are scattered to different people worthy of becoming shamans; now you can bury the dead, take souls to boonies]: Kjgfnby 1922:237 = 239 (=Lopatin 1965:440-441 in Okladnikov 1968: 165).
Southeast USA. Yuchi: Gatschet 1893 [1) the first man and woman emerge from a drop of the Sun's menstrual blood; 2) every morning a sorcerer tries to kill the rising Sun; two men knock his head down with clubs they hang on the cedar; blood drips, people come out of it; cedar wood turns red]: 280-282; Swanton 1929, No. 90 [Mother Sun makes its way above the earth for the first time; a drop of her blood falls to the ground, from it people appear]: 84.
Southern Venezuela. Yanomami: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 15 [character shoots per Month, Blood of the Month drips to the ground], 19 [(Cocco 1972:467-469 (quail in Eguillor García 1984:138-140); Periporewë killed his daughter Purimayoma in the forest because she did not want to live with her husband Amoawë; cut out her ovaries, cooked her and ate her at home; then began to go up to heaven; people shot at him, but only Suhirinariwë hit; drops of blood fell to the ground, of which were Yanomami (only men); P. weakened, descended to the horizon, died; this Month (Peripo) was his spirit; his daughter became cocuyo], 20 [character shoots in the Month, the blood of the Month drips to the ground], 29 (ironaciteri) [(Becher 1974:23-25); Yuri is the chief's elder wife; the monkey licks her period, the chief kills the monkey, beats his wife; son Y. Maraveau wounds his father with a bow; he is finished off by lightning, the monkey comes to life, saves Yu and M. from the flood; further as in (30); Yu and M. in the same hammock], 30 (ironaciteri; Becher 1974:21-23) [slept at In the village, a person leaves a howler monkey (iro, hence the name of the group); Yu. - the chief's daughter from his deceased wife, inseparable from her; two other wives kill a monkey, its ashes are mixed into soup for Yu; lightning kills both women and their sons, it begins to rain, flood; monkey revives, saves Yu and her father; after the flood, the god Pore tells all three to lie in the same hammock; the monkey disappears, Yu becomes pregnant; blood flows from the sky, new people emerge from its drops; Yu gives birth to them leader]: 47-48, 55-58, 59, 69-71, 72-75; Zerries 1958 [A month has descended from the sky there are termites; many shot at him, only Omayali hit; blood flowed, turned into the first men; from an abscess to The first woman came out on Kanabolokoma's leg (Kanaboliwa), gave birth to many children from men; the ending -ma in the name Kanabolokoma is female]: 280.
NW Amazon. Tariana: Brandao de Amorim 1943 [The thunder rattles so loudly that it breaks off a piece of the sky; when it bounces, it hurts it; people emerge from drops of blood]: 45-48; Brüzzi 1994 [1) Büxpó ( Thunder) hurts his leg, drops of blood fall on leaves, turn into people; 2) sprays clouds with his blood; 3) people arise from the blood of his son Kapirikuri]: 68; andoque [Nenefí - chief a mythical character who wins the "talking tree"; his wife and sister at the same time make two balls of sweet cassava starch, puts cassava plants in the fork (it is not clear whether this is a real plant or mythical manioc tree), they turn into male and female harpy eagles; eagles grow up, feed their chick with people; N. eats a chick, makes a house out of stone; The eagle breaks through the roof, slips inside his paw; it was torn off; the eagle takes off, stones, water appear from the pouring blood, Andoque Indians of different ancestral groups (perhaps also some non-andoke)]: Landaburu, Pineda 1981:71-72 (=1984:70-71).
Central Andes. Uarochiri (dep. Lima) [young boys came from quinoa seeds, yauyo from blood that fell from the sky]: Salomon, Uriosto 1991, ch. 24:117.