E35. Membranes on the fingers.
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The first people or creatures created by the Creator's competitor were not finished, not entirely anthropomorphic (they resembled larvae, had membranes on their fingers, etc.).
Kumbi, Boviri, Arunta, etc. (South East Australia, Tasmania?) , lake area Air, Dieri, Yuin, Marind-Anim, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Wa, Dayaki, Nias, Ngada, Nganasana, Evenki (Upper Aldan), Paiwan, Choctaw, Avoel, Cahuilla, Maricopa, Hopi, Zunyi, Tewa (Hano), Kogi, Sekoya, tupari, paresi.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Kumbi [two men and two women lived in the sky, all half a man vertically, had a tail; Liova (associated with the sun) told his daughter Mwezi (moon) to send them to earth. to multiply; M. said that humans are imperfect, L. made them what they are now, people have multiplied on earth]: Millroth 1965:189 (=Janssens 1926:554).
West Africa. Boviri [along with humans, tailed creatures came out of the ground, but were exterminated, or remained underground, or their tails were cut off and turned into humans]: Debrunner 1969:556.
Australia. Arunta and other groups as far as Tasmania [when the primary sea retreated north, two creatures in the western sky saw Inapertwa east along the sea's edge; they were unfinished people; creatures began to carve men and women out of them with knives; first their hands, then their fingers, then their toes and toes, nostrils, mouth, eyes]: Spencer & Gillen 1899:388, Strelov 1907:3 et al. Dixon 1916:272-273; Lake Eyre District [Paralina's first ancestor (Mura-mura) saw four shapeless creatures; straightened their dicks, separated his fingers, made a nose, mouth, eyes, ears]: Howitt 1904:476; Dieri [the ground opened in the middle of Lake Perigundy, from there totems came out one after another; they were shapeless, had no senses, lay on the dunes on the shore until they turned into people, parted in different directions]: Howitt 1904:476; Yuin [were humanoid creatures; Emu-Wren turned them into men and women, separated them, separated their legs, arms, fingers, etc.]: Howitt 1904:485.
Melanesia. Marind-anim: Wirtz, Neverman 1981, No. 63 [(=Permyakov 1970, No. 1:48-49); dog dema raked up the sand, bamboo creatures began to emerge from the ground with hands attached to their bodies and membranes on their fingers, without eyes, mouths and ears; the stork helped get them out, they were placed in the fire, holes were cut in their faces; their membranes were cut, pieces of skin turned into leeches; these creatures became human; they came out of one hole marind-anim, from the other, strangers], 1 [the dog dema dug a hole, it was filled with water, and bamboo creatures swam in it; as in (63)]: 145-147, 195-196.
Micronesia-Polynesia. Fiji [the golden plover dug through the coastal mud and found smelly worms; she did not eat them, but threw them away; worms became human under the sun; the gods from Tonga took them as slaves]: Richter-Gravier 2019 (1): 120; Samoa [the supreme god Tagaloa sent his daughter Sina in the form of a tuli bird from heaven to earth; water is everywhere, but a bird has found a small rock; every time she flew to it, the rock was getting bigger; T. gave the bird some land and a creeping plant; its fallen leaves turned into worms, and its worms turned into men and women]: Richter-Gravier 2019 (1): 118-119; Tonga [Tama-pouli-alamafoa, Tagaloa-eiki and Tagaloa-tufuga asked Tagaloa-atulogologologogo to descend from the sky to see if there is earth; in the form of a bird, he split the root of a creeping plant; he found himself there a worm that T. tore in half; each half turned into a man, and the third came from the remains of the worm's flesh on the bird's beak; according to another version, the bird was digging in the sand, found a creeping plant; from Worms appeared on its rotten leaves, which then turned into humans]: Richter-Gravier 2019 (1): 119-120 (=2019 (2): 6); Tokelau [dead fish washed ashore with larvae; bird pecked fish; this is where two larvae grew and turned into men; they found wives in Samoa]: Richter-Gravier 2019 (1): 120 (=2019 (2): 6).
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Dhammai [Shuzanghu met Zumiang-Nui, who gave birth to a Sky Boy and a Earth Girl; they had no place, they fell down and were swallowed by the Phangnalomang worm; when Z. had a second child, S. made a platform for him; M. wanted to swallow it too, but was trapped; S. cut it, extracted Heaven and Earth; they married, gave birth to two mountain gods; after that, Heaven and Earth were divided; In the course of this, the Earth gave birth to two more children in the form of frogs; they got married, had a son and a daughter; they were like humans but covered in hair; they had three sons]: Elwin 1958a, No. 5:13-14; Mishmi ( Kaman) [Khrane created humans, taught them agriculture and cattle breeding, asked why they only hunt; people replied that their fingers were fused; K. separated their fingers from each other with a sword]: Elwin 1058b, No. 11 : 121-122.
Burma - Indochina. Wa: Obayashi 1966:44 [Scott, Hardman 1900 (1): 496-497; the first wa Ya Htawn and Ya Htai lived in a lake on the mountain as tadpoles; after becoming frogs, they began to live on the mountain, then became anthropomorphic cannibals, settled in a cave; while they ate the meat of wild and domestic animals, remained childless; once they ate a man, brought his skull to their cave; then gave birth to many cannibal people; 9 sons became ancestors of the Wa family; hunted for heads; at first their tongue looked like frog croaking, then became human], 45-46 [Prestre 1946:176-178; in the sacred a couple of tadpoles lived in the lake, they grew up, became anthropomorphic cannibals, lived in a cave, remained childless for a long time; finally, the husband killed the man, ate his meat with his wife, and placed his head on a stone in front of the cave; after that, the wife began to give birth].
Malaysia-Indonesia. Dayaki, Nias [the first creatures, gods or humans, had bodies without arms and legs]: Dixon 1916:164; ngada [the first ngada, brother and sister, came out of the earth like earthworms, but then they had faces, arms and legs; the heat of the sun made their bodies firm and at first soft; at first they were deaf and dumb and did not know how to do anything; they came to the village, they had mouths and eyes]: Arndt 1937:347.
Taiwan - Philippines. Bilaan [after creating the world, one of the gods proposed to populate it; others decided to make humans out of wax; but the wax by the fire melted; then Melu and Finuweigh made figures out of clay; making nostrils, F. turned the figure upside down; M. said that this way people would drown, rain would pour into their noses; F. refused to change his plan, but when he turned away, M. gave his nose its current position; traces of hasty prints his fingers are still visible; var: clay figures were revived by flogging]: Cole 1913:137 in Dixon 1916:175; blaan [Tasu Weh first made all people male and female genitals, penis on one knee, vagina on the other; people had sex all the time; Fiu Weh said it wasn't good, TW refused to change his creation; FW did other people who either have a penis or vagina]: Eugenio 1994, No. 187:313; tboli [the supreme god d'Wata and his sons dug holes for the pillars of the house; from the excavated land, his wives Hyu We and Sedek We sculpted human figures; H. did the right thing, and S. the nostrils were open upwards, and the genitals were on the knees; S. began to destroy the rice, hit the sky with a pestle, it moved away from the ground; S. and H. quarreled, H. hit the figures sculpted by S., their noses and genitals hit where they are now; H. wanted to place the figures on the moon so that they would always be children; S. wanted to place them on a stone to be hard as stone; H. disagreed, turned away, then S. put it on banana; so people multiply like bananas and die; D. revived the figures by blowing on them]: Eugenio 1994, No. 182:307-308; manuva [Manama created the world, asked Diwata Panayangan to cover the rocks with soil; that sent bees and wasps, they found soil in (underground?) the world of Ogassi, brought it; M. created mountains, sea, rivers; sculpted human figures out of the ground; due to O.'s intervention, some nostrils were open upwards, they drowned in the rain; M. went to look how to breathe life into figures; at this time O. laughed at them with knotty abaca fibers; therefore, human life is short]: Eugenio 1994, No. 184:310; paywan: Egli 1989, No. 4 [Sun an egg was laid, the first man hatched; after the flood, only brother and sister escaped, got married, they have two children with eyes on their feet; the children got married, their children have eyes on their knees; they also got married , their children have eyes, where it is now], 51 [a huge horned snake gave birth to a boy and a girl; they got married, their children had no noses; the noseless got married, they already had normal children]: 31, 119-120; Ho 1967, No. 93 [during the flood, brother and sister escaped, clinging to the grass; excrement fell out of the worm cut in half, formed a mountain; brother and sister married, but their first children were blind, freaks; the following became less ugly, and the latter were born healthy and normal; therefore, incest is now banned]: 267-268.
Western Siberia. Nganasans [first there was water, a stone in the middle; two diamadas ("with a throat") were arguing about which of them would get the land; a bird flew in, the nose was long, the breast was red (sandpiper?) ; the diamada did not dive to the bottom, the bird brought grass, moss, earth from the bottom; the Sun came, the bird flew away, the sun was gone, in five days the earth was covered with ice; the bird came back, said that now everyone has The diamada will have five fingers; therefore, it is cold for five days; the Mother Sun has melted the ice; the bird is flying, throwing grass, roots; Mother Earth has become alive; worms have crawled out of it, covered with hair like bears; then the hair fell off, they became like humans, gave birth to children, carved fire out of the flint; they were females, looking like deer]: Simchenko 1996 (2): 14-17.
Eastern Siberia. Evenks (Upper Aldan; West from Shaman M.P. Kulbertinova) [Robbeck et al., MS; at first only water and sky; winged ones flew and sat on the crests of the waves; then a creature without a head appeared; the headless had eyes on their chest, their mouths just below their eyes, put their hands, food in their mouths; there were many headless people, no one knows where they lived; apparently, they lived on pile decks or on rocks; a friend said friend: they decided to dig rivers; the water began to decrease, land appeared; they made large rivers, seas; rivers carried stones with the flow; headless: let it be called "stones", when there are many people, everything they will give names to what they have done; the earth has dried up, vegetation has appeared; headless: now real people will begin to appear, they will begin to come from somewhere, they must be born from something; the headless lived the same way as people: when it snowed, they made skis for themselves, they knew everything about everything; once huge shiny winged ants flew to that land; headless: they would make real people those with heads will appear, start hunting like us; ants are divorced very much, tall - in the middle, thin in the waist; later they turned into huge people; headless: beware of these loggerheads necessary; and those with headless heads were also afraid]: Dyakonova 2014:67-68.
Southeast USA. Avoel [those coming out of the ground must be silent; one person screams, the hole closes; those left underground are half-fish]: Haas 1950, No. 2:21; choctaw: Mould 2004:67-68 [( Catlin 1841:128); the people of the current Crawfish band lived in a deep dark cave underground, resembled shrimp, walked on all fours, did not speak or understand the language; to enter the cave and get out of it, it was necessary to overcome a layer of clay; when these shrimp people got out to bask in the sun, the choctaws tried to talk to them; one day they caught them by surprise, the shrimp people went through a crack in the stone, they smoked them outside, taught them to speak and walk on two legs, cut their claws on their legs, plucked wool on their bodies, accepted them; the rest still live underground]; Cushman? (http://www/earthbow/com/native/choctaw/spider.htm) [when the first people come out of the ground, they are like cocoons; the Great Spirit sends someone to unfold them, to straighten their dicks; Someone in the east owns the fire, see D4A motif].
California. Cahuilla: Hooper 1920 [Darkness spawns two eggs, from which Mukat and Tumayowit come out; quarrel over who first heard the noise coming from the Darkness; M. pulls hot coal out of his heart to light their pipes; brothers climb two pillars up, reach the ground, M. makes it strong; creates dark and T. bright people; T. people have faces in front and back, their feet are directed to both sides, women's breasts on the chest and back, on the fingers of the membrane; M. says that he worked in a hurry; M. creates normal people; T. wants people to live forever or be resurrected the next day, M. objects because the land will overflow; both agree that the harvest will ripen not in 40 months, but in 4 months; T. finally quarrels with M. and falls into the ground, taking the people he created; M. does not give Heaven and Earth follow him; where he held the sky with his palm, her print remained; after that, the sky became crooked; so the Sun stops at noon, reaching its highest point; T's people left at the ground, M. made it normal, but forgot the duck, so it has membranes]: 317-321.
The Great Southwest. Maricopa [water floods the world; Cucumat and Isasipas (hereinafter also Sipas) sink to the bottom; I. pops up first, answers K., that he kept his eyes open; K. goes blind from salt water; both swim on a log, gradually the water descends, but around the swamp; one of them digs a hole, pulls out sand, scatters it, the earth dries up; I. rolls his hair into a ball, puts it in the eastern sky, making the sun; making the moon out of the nail; placing it on different sides of the world, it slides off; when it remains in the sky to the west; throwing sand into the sky, creates stars; I. and K. make people out of clay, K. webbed fingers; I. and K. argue whose creations are better; K. falls into the ground in anger, breaks what he has created, throws fragments into the sea, resulting in ducks, beavers and other webbed creatures with his paws; failing, I. pulled the sky with him; left a hole in the ground, blood (i.e. illness) flowed from it; I. covered the hole with his foot, but left a small stream to prevent people from becoming too much numerous; they are now sometimes ill; see motive B1 below]: Spier 1937:345-352; (cf. yuma [The creator and his companion live at the bottom of the sea; rise to the surface, the satellite opens his eyes, goes blind; he's a Blind Old Man; the creator makes an island; both make people; the Blind Old Man makes freaks, The creator throws them back into the sea; the Blind Old Man jumps after them, diseases arise from the splashes of water]: Harrington 1908:328-329); hopi [people were underground in the form of ants; having penetrated into another place, turned into other creatures; in another they became human but had tails; women refused to marry men, men went across the river; in the first year, both women and men were rich the harvest, but women were getting smaller every year, on the fourth they asked men to give them corn, etc., but they refused; the flood began to approach; women began to build the tower believing that they smarter than men, but the tower fell; the men planted a pine tree, it grew to the sky, but did not break through it; then the reeds, it grew up and pierced; Badger was the first to climb, returned, saying that it was dark and nothing could be seen; The magpie flew to the ground, saw a light in the distance, Masauwü was sitting there, did not have time to put on his mask; people began to go out; two young men placed the Pleiades, Orion, and the Ursa Major in the sky; the Coyote decided that they would never finish their work, threw the rest of the stars at random; two young men created the moon from a wedding veil, then the sun from the skin of a fox, a parrot's tail; but the sun did not move; Coyote said the sun requires the death of a person to move; a girl has died, the sun has reached the top of the sky, has stopped; the leader's son has died, it has gone down; in the morning, at noon and in the evening, someone must die every day; the girl, then the woman died, returned on the fourth day; Coyote said that they must die forever, otherwise people would be afraid of death; he died and was not reborn, followed by others; after the flood, the earth was soft; the twins built canyons with lightning to drain water]: Parsons 1939:236; Zunyi: Bunzel 1932 [The sun sends its two sons to bring people to the ground; they put a lightning arrow in the bow- rainbow, shoot down, go down to the fourth underworld; light a fire; see people with membranes, tails, horns; lead them to the ground]: 584-593; Cushing 1896 [the first ancestors were black as caves, from whom they came out, their skin was scaly and cold, their eyes were like an owl, their ears were like a bat, their toes had membranes, their tails behind them (short in children, long in adults); they moved on on all fours; when they saw the Morning Star, they mistook it for the sun; but it was only his older brother; when the Sun itself rose, the people fell on their backs, covering their eyes with their hands; then they stood on their feet, covering ugly bodies]: 383-384; Marriott, Rachlin 1968 [the first people to come out of the lower world are Áshiwi; they have membranes on their fingers, bare tails, moss covers their bodies, one ear underneath them and the other they cover themselves; the gods cut off their tails and ears, told them to swim, they became normal people; other peoples came out after the Zunya, the last Apache and Navajo; people do not want the sorcerer and witch to come out; they they say that otherwise it will not rain; they are allowed to kill a young man and a girl; after a man's rain, a young man rises alive from the grave, after a woman's rain, a girl; sorcerers sow corn, it ripens in the evening; bitter like pepper; it was eaten by a crow, an owl, a coyote, it became sweet; but these animals and birds have been stealing crops since then]: 96-99; Stevenson 1904 [The sun and moon were above, and Shi'wanni and his wife Shi'wanno'c Kia in Many A'shiwi have given birth to the lowest tier of the world; they step on each other's feet in the dark; the Sun sent their sons Kow'wituna and Wats'usi to them, they extracted fire by friction; for people to rise, they placed pine, fir in the second world from below, aspen in the third world; A'shiwi, who rose into our world, had tails and long ears; their tails and ears were cut off, washed, they became zunyas; the same with other peoples, following]: 25-29; teva (Hano) [in the lowest world, people were black ants; when they rose to the second, they became tailed creatures; in the third world they became human; in the first world it was dark, in the second light dawned a little, the third world was like the moon; further like var.1; the Bear gives tongues; Mockingbird explains that people must die regularly to keep the sun moving]: Parsons 1926, No. 1, Vol. 2:172-175; (Western?) Apache [a yellow and white disc appeared in the dark, with the Creator (Living Above) on it; his gaze spread light; he wiped the sweat off his face, rubbed his hands, and the Parentless Girl appeared on the cloud; asked where he came from; he replied that from the east, where is the light; asked Where is the earth, he asked Where is the sky; the Creator wiped his sweat and rubbed his hands twice more, the Sun God and the Little Boy appeared; then created Tarantula, the constellation Ursa Major, the Wind, the Lightning Worker; all the gods wiped off their sweat, the Creator rubbed his hands, fell a ball the size of a bean, became earth; the Creator, followed by the first three gods he created, kicked him, he grew up; Tarantula stretched four threads from the ground in different directions, stretched the ground; the Creator rubbed his chest, rubbed his fingers, created a Hummingbird, ordered him to fly in four directions for reconnaissance; the Hummingbird returned, saying that the earth is beautiful and the water is in the west; the earth continued to swing; to secure it, the Creator made four pillars (like the threads, they are of different colors: black, blue, yellow, white), put it under in four directions of the world; the earth froze; the Creator sent the Lightning Worker, who found two girls and a young man in a turquoise shell, they had no eyes, ears, mouths, noses, hair, teeth, fingers; they were placed in the steam room, sang witch doctors, they became normal people; the Creator made the young man the leader of heaven, the girl the guardian of the land and the harvest; called the second girl Pollen, responsible for the treatment people; the Creator sent the Dove, who came back four days later, said that the water on the other side of the earth would flood the earth; the Parentless Girl put everyone in a ball, 12 days later they came out; flowing down water created valleys and mountains; the Creator and his assistants waited out the flood in the sky; when the creation was finished, the gods took to heaven in a column of smoke]: Curtis 1976 (1): 23-35 in Edmonds, Clark 1989:101-104.
The Northern Andes. Kogi [1) there was a small house in the primary sea, where worm-like people lived, without faces, eyes, legs; dicks gradually formed, starting with legs, last tongue; came to life; the first person was Sei-hukúkui; he flew like a vulture, asked Mother Eluitsáma to make land; she brought a man and his wife from heaven; they have two sons and a daughter; all Indians are from them; 2) first people are like worms, Mother gave birth to them while masturbating with her heel]: Reichel-Dolmatoff 1985 (2) :26.
Western Amazon. Sekoya [A month saw people with a tail crawl out of a hole in the ground in the forest; different tribes came out, the Month tore off their tails, their tails turned into various monkeys; a woman who has her period, hesitated; the month turned it into a deer, and those who came after her remained underground]: Casanova Velasquez 1990:92-97; whitoto: Farabee 1922 [there was no sun and moon; from a hole in the ground monkeys came out, then some became humans]: 145; Girard 1958 [the first humans were no different from monkeys; Figueroni's mother cut off their tails at night, turned them into humans; at dawn she stopped doing it the rest became monkeys]: 78; Pereira 1980 (2) [it was night first; Caba sees tailed people coming out of a hole in the ground; cuts off their tails; those who come out after sunrise become monkeys]: 480; Rojas 1986:106-107 [the first humans came out of the ground, released by Jitoma (The Sun); they went out at night, the wasp cut off their tails; those who came out after sunrise were left with tails, turned into monkeys], [humans they came out of the ground at night, had tails; the spider cut off their tails; after sunrise, they stopped cutting off, these people became monkeys], 115 [the first people came out of the ground, their tails were cut off; out They didn't cut the sun off after sunrise, they became monkeys; Taife also wanted to go out, but did not crawl into the hole; other taife (evil spirits) came out; some people remained underground, their screams could be heard]; San Román 1986 [ those who come to earth turn into people at night, stay with tails during the day, they are monkeys]: 113, 115.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Tupari [corn and peanuts disappear from the garden of two shamans Eroite and Tova-Pot; E. follows the trail, finds a hole in the ground covered with a stone; lifts it up, from there kinno climbs ; they have horns, membranes on their fingers, boar fangs; E. and T. make people out of k, give them breath and speech, teach them singing and music, cotton and tobacco farming, weaving; tribes disperse, tupari remain where they came out; E. is tired of holding the stone, part of K. has remained underground; they feed only on palm fruits, they starve; when the tupari are extinct, they will come out, they will live on the ground; Europeans have come out recently, so fair-skinned]: Caspar 1975:195.
Southern Amazon. Paresi: Pereira 1986, No. 2 [Wasaré and his siblings were inside the rock; Enoharé lived outside the stone with his wife Zorotiro and two children, a boy and a girl; the children heard inside stone the sound of sacred flutes; their father made a hole in the stone with a wooden sword, saw people inside; Urubu turned into a mueu, flew out, found out about the world, returned; W. tells Aguti to expand the hole, but he broke a tooth; tells different woodpeckers that each receives the peculiarities of their plumage as a reward; people came out, Sister W. got stuck because she had thick hips and stomach; the man with a toothache came out, although W. told him not to go out; so did people with other diseases; then Nare's men came out with sacred flutes and rattles; in stone they played with a stone ball, giving it their heads; now they rolled, went where will lead; Marten ate honey in the hollow, he was walled up there; his cuñado Ahoray saved him; everyone was set on fire, Marten violated the ban on looking back, everything burned down - there was savannah; where cuñado went - there was a forest-steppe; people W. they hid from the fire in the battleship's hole; a piece of bark (a crease of skin) grew to Tapir behind the fire; there was no water, Aguti found the spring, hid it; Tapir came in, the spring turned into a large lake; people settled; W. sent Kaxie to become the sun by giving a crown of feathers; when the sun rose, people cut off their tails, shaved off their body hair, cut off the membranes on their legs and arms; the sun first shone round the clock; Dictyra sp.: stars needed to make it night; W. attached eagle feathers to the bodies of seven sons, turned them into Pleiades; other sons to Mars, the Evening Star, Aries, the Morning Star]: 34-69; Metraux 1942 [stone Maisö made land and several rivers that flowed from her vagina; gave birth to the first Uazale paresi; he was hairy, with a tail, membranes between his arms and legs; wanted to kill his children, they ran into the forest, accidentally set it on fire and burned; two boys' penises gave rise to red and black corn, the girl's vulva and ribs to julías, her navel to sweet potato, and her anus to cacahuates]: 169.