Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

F13. The red penis of primates. 49.56.57.59.69.

Human or monkey genitals acquire their current shape and color as a result of copulation with a girl who had a toothy womb or did not have a vagina.

Big Pool. Valapai [to break the teeth in the sun's daughters' vaginas, the hero puts his penis in a bone case; his teeth can't crack it, but the head of the penis has since turned red]: Kroeber 1935: 274.

Llanos. Sicuani [see motif F6]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 25 [Kúwei goes deep into the forest, whistles, calls the woman Awalibéya ("the core, spirit of the tree"); she agrees to go with him, but At first she can't stand the bright light of the savannah, K. covers her eyes with his clothes; calls monkeys, foxes, agouti, pak and other animals to make her vagina; the monkeys could not, their penis became flat; into the penis The fox K. put in a core made of Brazil walnut wood, so he was able to make a vagina; now the woman's name is Pumenérrua; when she went to get water, she was kidnapped by the fisherman Kúkuli; the monkeys helped Kuwait reached an island in the middle of the sea; there he took the form of an old man with skin disease, began dancing with P.; she suspects that he is K., but he denies; he threw away his scabs in the forest, they turned into two types of edible tree mushrooms and a fish; P. happily hugged K., they sailed away in a boat, he turned Kukuli into a cuckoo duck, her voice looked like barking; the world at that time was as small as a small hill; they swam back and forth, making him big; more about the kidnapping of K.'s wife by a vulture], 28 [Furna (aka Kuwai) makes his wife out of clay, she melts in the rain; from wax, melts in the sun; from a fragrant laurel tree - good; her name is Pumeneruva; she does not have a vagina; at the festival, F. asks the monkeys to do it; they fail; the maicero monkey flattened her penis, leaving a tiny ledge; then the Fox was turned into a bone in his penis, he managed to pierce P.; Vulture sends Duck to kidnap P., F, returns her], 39 [while Furnaminali was playing the flute, the young Farah stole his wife , she contracted gonorrhea from him; F. carved his new wife out of a sassafras tree, but she had a vagina and could not eat; F. called the animals to help; the monkey only broke his penis, now it is short; only The fox managed to pierce the woman; F. conceives a son from his mother-in-law; more about the spread of fish, about the emergence of European things]: 115-120, 178-181.

Southern Venezuela. The male monkey is the first to try to marry the hero's wife, who has a toothy womb; the monkey's penis is bitten. Makiritare [monkey and opossum]: Civrieux 1959:113; 1960:109; Yanomami: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 192 [(Cocco 1972:469-474); Jaguar Ira ate Poapoama, gave the baby from the womb to his grandmother Mamokori-yoma, who raised Omawë; his older brother was Yoawë; when fishing, he sees two girls in the river; the next day O. saw one girl, grabbed it, brought it home; she is the daughter of a water man Rahara-riwë monsters (like a cassava push-up bag); O. took her to the site, to the seiba, told her to pull out the root, make a cassava; his wife did not eat, said that the real cassava was not like that; gave birth to a beautiful girl; asked Yarimi-riwë to marry her; her vagina bit his penis, there was a fish; he turned into a monkey; O.'s wife took him and YE. to her father, to the station, showed a real cassava; at this time, her father sent a huge wave at them; O. and YE. turned into crickets, hid under the roof of a house where air remained; both his wife O. and his wife returned home; decided to take revenge on R. ; agreed in the Sun to dry the pond; for the first time, the dry season had come; O. plunged his spear into the ground, the water poured out, everyone got drunk; some of the water rose to the sky, now pours out in the form of rain; shamans they threw an old woman into the water, the flood was over; O. ate dead fish, where he threw bones, rivers appeared; O. stole the daughter of a morokoto fish; then left with his family, his descendants are Europeans], 193 [(Lizot MS); Omawë and his Yoawë's older brother, turning into various birds, caught the daughter of the water monster Rahararitawë (at first Ë. saw her, could not catch her); at home their son-in-law wanted to be the first to have sex with her; she had the fish's vagina, his penis was bitten off, he became a monkey, the bite mark is still visible now; the brothers took out the fish, had sex; they wanted her to rub the roots of the seiba; she said that her father had the real cassava; they They came to him, he brought them cassava himself, flooded everything, they escaped as crickets; after planting cassava, they made the sun dry all the water; aquatic creatures are dying, thirsty], 194 [(Finkers 1986: 30-32); starts like (193); a woman calls Ë. when he tries to lure her in the guise of different birds; wants to catch O., who has become a beautiful bird; he becomes human, grabs and carries her away; son-in-law Oh . wanted to be the first to have sex, was bitten by a fish, ran away (apparently became a monkey); the brothers took out the fish, had sex; the woman says that Seiba is not a cassava, went to her father for the real; he came with her the wave covered everything, the brothers escaped as crickets; O. told the Sun to dry all the water; this is how the brothers found cassava], 195 [(Lizot, MS); Yoawë (older, bad) and Omawë (younger, good) fish, E. is the first to notice the daughter of a water monster; she slips out of his hands; O. catches, invites the monkeys to copulate first, their penises are bitten off; piranhas are visible in the vagina, O. pulled them out; when Ë. copulates, a loud sound is heard; O. says it will not be like this, copulates quietly; marries a woman]: 377-384, 385-388, 389-391, 392-394.

Guiana. Wapishana [João hooks piranha, wants her to be his wife, she becomes a woman; his younger brother Pedro discovers that someone has made soup; gets naked, rocking her penis; the hidden woman laughs, he finds her; she tells her to pour fish poison into her nostrils first; he doesn't listen, his penis is bitten off; deer, tapir, agouti refuse, monkey agrees to change his penis with him, now her penis seems to have been bitten off by a piranha; P. brings blood-sucking insects with him to the festival, since then they have been biting people]: Wirth 1950:168-170; oyampy [ Yaneya leaves; the pregnant wife follows him; the twins from her womb show her the way; ask her to pick flowers; she gets bitten by a wasp; she refuses to collect, the twins fall silent; the woman goes to the Jaguars, Jaguariha eats it; Mayamayali and Vayamakale twins (is poppy a monkey?) jump on a tree; Jaguariha calls them back; A dove hunting talks about his mother's death; M. and Y. lure the Jaguars to the bridge, create piranhas in the river; V. cuts off the vine ahead of time, two jaguars they save themselves, the rest are eaten by piranhas; M. almost revives his mother, V. hugs her ahead of time, she falls apart; by the sea, their father cuts down a tree, chips turn into fish; the father tests his sons, M. does not He withstands; the father tells him that he is not his son, but the Monkey; makes a parrot out of his skin, monkeys out of flesh; in the morning the father rises to heaven; M. makes a woman out of wood; V. appears again, despite warning makes love to a woman; she turns into a hard tree, his penis becomes long, he wears it in a basket; comes to the village; while men sleep, he dances with all women; they go into a hole, disappear underground; a parrot and a monkey remain in the village; while men hunt, they take off their feathers and skins, cook; V. comes out of the hole; one woman cuts off his long penis; a piece remains in the vagina; once in the river, it turns into an eel; (apparently, the monkey's genital shape is explained by this episode]: Grenada 1982, No. 5:69-72.

Araguaia. Karazha: Baldus 1953:213-214 [The Sun Old Man has two daughters; Abobädäri and his brother want to marry them; the Sun demands 1) bring tobacco; he leaves stick to their hands, wives have given the remedy , tobacco fell; The sun scolded the daughters; 2) bring fish; the river is full of piranhas; the bird picked up piranhas, brought it to the brothers, they gave them to their father-in-law (piranhas are fish of the Sun); 3) get resin for rubbing; around wood; the resinous tree is surrounded by fire; brothers ask for birds, they brought water, flooded the fire, the brothers brought resin; A. does not dare to sleep with the daughters of the Sun, they may have piranhas in their bosom; brother suggests turn to the Howler Monkey; he shows how to copulate; A. drags him by the forelock, thinking that's enough; since then, monkeys have a bare forehead; brothers sleep with their wives, leave them; turn into fish pirarucu; storks Jabiru shoot arrows at fish; A. is unharmed, has a firm body, brother is soft, killed, eaten], 214-215 [the main character's name is Idianakatú; 1) bring live piranhas; the brothers are smeared with sticky with the milky sap of the mangabeira tree, dived, piranhas stuck to them; 2) bring resin; The sun hoped that it would burn them and disfigure them, making them unattractive to his daughters; I. asked God Inoschiu & #228;, and he is swallows to fill the fire; so swallows fly low above the water; the sun inserts daughters into the bosom of piranhas; brother is bitten; I. asks the Monkey to have sex first; since then, monkeys have red the penis and testicles are half bitten off; I. asks the Gill for a branch of the timbo vine, inserts it into vaginas, piranhas die; alone is left, causes women to menstruate; wives tell their husbands that trees are more beautiful than them; the insulted brothers leave; the bird Sarakura invented the boat, the brothers asked for it; they row with an oar handle; Miriti's pigeon explains to row with an oar; I. kills trees with arrows; brothers turn into pirarucu fish (the origin of these fish); both variants are also in Baldus 1937a: 226-228]; tapirape [moon Tamparava, sister of the sun Ancherico, married tapirape's ancestor Anchopeteri; she has piranha in her womb, her husband washes her genitals with fish poison; still afraid of being bitten, asks the Monkey to have sex with her first; then copulates himself]: Wagley 1977:179.