E38C. The first humans are dumb .22.26.72.
The first people are dumb and spoke after being hit, laughed, etc.
Khmu, Lolo, Miao, Tereno.
Burma - Indochina. Khmu (northern kammu) [brother and sister chased the bamboo rat in the hole, they began to dig it up; she reported the impending flood, advised me to climb into the hollow tree trunk; people on rafts and boats filled with gold and silver drowned; brother went north to look for a wife, sister went south to look for her husband, found no one, returned; the cuckoo told them to marry; seven days later, the sister gave birth a dead child who became a dry pumpkin; they left it behind the house, heard sounds; the brother burned a hole with an iron rod, lamets came out from there (close to Khmu, but we don't understand the language), then ahem, Thais, Europeans, Chinese; people did not speak; one man told everyone to sit on a dry poplar trunk across the ravine, which broke, everyone hit, laughed and talked; they learned to write; determined which ethnic group is more important (older); the other two versions are almost identical to this one; the second sister is 3 years pregnant and gave birth to a pumpkin]: Lindell et al. 1988:268-278.
China - Korea. Lolo [two brothers cultivate the plot, and in the morning this place is virgin again; they stay on guard, see the old man restore the untouched field with a hoe; the older two want to kill him, the youngest stops them; the old man tells them that there will be a flood; the older brother must make an iron boat, the middle brother must make a bronze boat, the younger one must make a wooden boat, take a couple of all living creatures into it; a boat arrives on the mountain; the animals and birds rejoice, but the Frog asks why the Crow is thoughtful; he replies that the king of heaven will raise water to the sky and the queen of heaven will not disturb him; the beasts send sky Raven, Bee, Snake riding Goose and Frog on another bird; Bee then Snake bites the queen of heaven; Frog known as healer; agrees to cure the queen if her husband promises to give his daughter for Ch'iao-mu-Shih-ch'i (younger brother); he answers vaguely, but the daughter herself expresses a desire to marry a young man; she goes down to the ground, they have three sons, but they are dumb and mischievous; the yellow Sparrow flies to the sky and overhears Moth saying that if three knees of bamboo are burned and they burst noisily, the brothers will speak; Heavenly Mother sends a messenger to grab the Sparrow, but he only tore off his tail; c Since then, sparrows have a short tail; bamboo was burned, the brothers spoke Lolo, Tibetan, Chinese, became the ancestors of nations]: Graham 196:85-88; Miao: Bender et al. 2006 (Guizhou) [Jang Vang and God Thunder is brothers; JAV does not have an ox, he asked Thunder for a loan, plowed the field, and then stabbed the ox and ate it; stuck his tail in the mud, said that the ox had failed; the thunder began to pull and fell into the mud; he was furious rose to heaven and sent rain and hail to drown JV; he planted a gorlyanka pumpkin, which immediately grew and bore fruit; the flood flooded the ground, the calebass {in which, obviously, JAV} floated to the sky; the thunder sent a goose find out what it was; the goose came back, said that one mountain was still above the water; the thunder hit the goose, since then he had a bump on its beak; sent a duck - the same thing, Thunder stepped on its beak, flattening it; sent a ram - the same The thunder twisted his horns; the rooster did not dare to tell the truth, said that there was only the sea below; for this Thunder gave him a good beak that is convenient for pecking grain; the waters came down, JAV came to the ground, but alone; bamboo prompted him to marry his sister; JAV cut him to pieces in anger, promising to put them together if he did marry his sister; after a while he decided to marry; made 9 iron cells, planted thrushes in them , asked my sister to get them; the cage pinched her hand; promises to release her if her sister agrees to marry him; sister: go down a pair of millstones from two mountains, if they lie on top of each other, I will marry my brother; the millstones lay down; the sister offered to ride horses, let JAV catch up with her; he jumped over the mountain from the other side and met his sister; she disagreed here either; then he trapped her leg when her sister was destroying rice; she had to agree; she gave birth to a ball of meat, a ball with eyes, without arms but legs; JAV furiously chopped it into pieces, from which many people arose, but they could not speak; the God of Earth came to Thunder, he is silent; and when he went out, Thunder said to himself, "We must set fire to the bamboo, and when it splits miserably, people will speak; the God of Earth overheard this and handed it to JAV; he burned a bamboo grove people from different tribes spoke their own languages]: 160-168; Schotter 1908 (He-miao) [after the flood, brother and sister rolled millstones from different mountains, they lay on top of each other; when she met her brother, the sister gave birth to a piece of meat , from which three pairs of people descended; but they were dumb; local Noah gathered people and caught fire for the first time by hitting the flint; shocked people cried out, each saying the word "fire" in their own language]: 424 .
Chaco. Tereno [the people taken out of the ground were naked and cold, Orekayuvak√°i (two brothers born from one body cut in half) warmed them by the fire; the people were dumb; the brothers put them in a row and they called lobinho (=cachorro do mato; apparently from the canine family); he could not get them to talk; then they told the Toad to walk back and forth; looking at her, people laughed, each spoke in their own way; brothers divided them into races and languages, settled them on the land, and for this purpose they made them larger]: Baldus 1950:218-219, 223-225.