E5E. The two-headed man does not go to the ground .19.22.24.46.72.
People or animals come out of the ground or come down from the sky. The two-headed next one gets stuck in the hole or is not allowed to go out.
Majprat, my, ma, sre, banar, tetum, mandan, angaite.
Melanesia. Majprat: Elmberg 1968, No. 30 [Marik and Serefré chased the opossum, heard a noise in the mango trunk; S. cut a hole, people began to leave; Saréfi was the first to leave, to whom S.'s axe cut his head to blood; a two-headed man was the last to try to get out, but was driven back], 40 [Sesa people came out of the mango trunk; at night, a man and a dog heard a noise from a tree, opened the barrel with an ax; Sarombó sat above everyone else, the ax slipped over his head, he became bald; when people came out, he appeared two-headed, and below the other monsters, but the man closed the hole and pushed the double-headed back; their totem bird Urep also flew with humans]: 269, 274-275.
Burma - Indochina. Mine [when other nations have long lived on the surface of the earth, my ancestors were still underground; decided to come to the surface through the hole with their pets; beauties began to dress up, were left behind everyone; but a two-headed buffalo got stuck in the hole, where he died, blocking the exit forever; so there are few beautiful women among mine]: Besnard 1907:87; ma , sre, banar [people came out of the Brah Ting underworld through a hole in the ground; a huge buffalo with two heads stuck in it; turned into a rock still visible today; {meaning is the text mine or something else?}] : Chesnov 1982e: 206.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Tetum [at first only a tiny island in the waters; God wished, a man fell on him from the sky; asked for a friend; a two-headed man began to crawl out of a hole in the ground ; the first man got scared, threw a stone on him; then a normal woman came out; this couple asked for the earth to be made bigger, God dried part of the sea; created the sun, the moon, and three morning stars, midnight and evening; humans and animals began to argue whether there should be constant light or whether light and darkness should alternate; the crow screamed, "Night 7 then Day 7", berliku, "Night 1", then Day; people have multiplied]: Vroklage 1952:141.
Plains. Mandan [see motif K27; Bisonicha mother-in-law opens a hole in the ground; bisons come to the ground; son-in-law does not let those with two heads (on two separate necks) in]: Beckwith 1938, No. 4:76.
Chaco. Angaite [people rope-descended from heaven to earth; the parrot accidentally cut the rope with its beak; the rest tried to resume their descent (on a new rope?) , but a man with a second head on his side got stuck in a hole and the descent stopped]: Cordeu 1973, No. 2:201.