Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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E34. Sacred flutes made from the ashes of an ogre. .19.62.

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cannibal has been killed. From his ashes emerge musical instruments that are taboo for women, used in male rituals.

Melanesia. Western Irian [the twins killed the ogre, bamboo grew on his grave; the women heard the wind buzzing in him, made flutes; the men heard, killed women, took flutes for secret rituals, where they are consumed with whistles and gongs]: Gourlay 1972:88.

NW Amazon. A dangerous character is lured with alcohol to a party, thrown into the fire; a palm tree grows out of ashes; sacred horns and flutes are made from it. Bar: Brüzzi 1994:59-60; guariquena [Nápiruli was fishing, Mapiríkuli came out of the water, said she wanted to be his wife; pregnant but did not have a hole to give birth; the fish began to try to do it, two failed, the third did it, N. grabbed her tail, the stain remained; the baby was born, disappeared into the water; found the placenta, threw it away, it became a stingray; later the boy came, he has no mouth, first his mouth has been cut vertically (since then there is a mark on his lip), then normally; this is Kúwe; he told him to fast before the dabukuri festival (fruit festival and the initiation of boys); young men they made a key out of an ant tooth (ants had teeth), bait from wasp larvae, began to catch and fry fish; K. was on a tree, felt smoke; when the smoke rose to the sky, the smoke formed a thundercloud, K. became the cave in which the boys took refuge from the rain, swallowed them; he was in the sky; N. lured him to the ground with alcohol; after drinking, he spewed the dead swallowed, revived them with tobacco; he was pushed into the fire, he went up with smoke to the sky, the sounds of sacred musical instruments were heard; the intestines did not burn, snakes became all kinds of snakes, ants appeared from the heart, scorpions and other ants from the hair; three bushes grew at the site of the burning, their names are forbidden for women]: González Ñañez 1980, No. 2:148-162; tariana: Biocca 1965 [a virgin Coadidop (grandmother of days) lived in emptiness; she made it out of her feet a cigar holder, tobacco from her body, milk from her breasts, put it in a cigar holder, began to smoke and chew coca; on the third attempt, a man came out of the smoke; said that he was thunder, the son of thunder, her grandson, a man, his name Enu, he has omnipotence over the world, must make friends for himself; he made Enu Koana and Enu Pokurano out of tobacco smoke; the fourth Thunder prevents hunger from starting; K. made women Caizaro and Paramano; became 4 thunder and 3 women; K. started women what to do when menstruation occurs, younger Thunder - how to make a ritual hut for girls; created land for women - a circle of rope, dripped inside milk, the earth became; said that they should work because people cannot eat tobacco and coca like the Thunders; the Thunders tried to get pregnant by eating fruits; they could not; they lured the girls to the river; one tried the fetus, became pregnant; unable to give birth, no genitals; one went to the river (the buttock print is visible on the rocks), lost consciousness in pain; thunders in the form of monkeys cut her stomach with a cigar holder, they took the child; he is full of holes; the child - Koe, Yurupari, grew up, taught me to sing and dance; opened up to his mother; when he spoke, I heard the sound of Yurupari instruments; arranged a party , said that the tools are his bones; went up the mountain to a stone house; learned 3 generations of Tarian and Baniva children; forbid eating roasted uazu fruits; one fell into the fire, the children ate it; Yu caused a storm, invited the children to the shelter, this is his ass; the latter brushed his teeth with a cake so that it would not be noticeable that he was eating fruit; Yu believed he did not eat, closed his ass before he entered; Yu took him to his stone house ; the children inside began to rot; Yu: Does belching stink? - No; becoming a parrot, the boy cut a hole in Yu's stone house; when Yu asked again about belching; the boy said that he ate his brothers, flew away; people offer Yu beer, he doesn't drink, He is afraid that he will be killed; 3 old Thunder gave him drink, threw him into the fire; Yu burned the whole earth, but the Thunders escaped in the cave; sent a man to see if the fire went out; he became a cricket (with a black head and legs) , lives in a hole in the ground); the earth has cooled down, everyone has come out; pashiuba grew out of the ashes, sacred instruments were made of it; women are not shown them; where Yu died, there are many poisonous plants] in Brüzzi 1994:111-112 and in S.Hugh-Jones 1979, No. 8:306; Brüzzi 1994:241; baniva: Dominguez Mendez 1986 (curripaco): 149-152; Galvão 1959:46-47; Saake 1968:266; desana: Kumu, Kenhire 1980:118-119; Tatuyo: Bidou 1983:38.