F14. Son of a Stone. .15.20.22. (.25.) .26.27.29. (.34.)

The hero was born as a result of a man copulating with a stone, a rock.

Southern Europe. Latins ["Against the Gentiles" by Arnobius the Elder (III-IV centuries): "Timothy, one of the notorious theologians, as well as other scholars, has the following instructions regarding the origin of the Great Mother of Gods and her cult, borrowed from little-known books about antiquities and from mysterious mysteries, as he himself writes and reports. Within Phrygia, he says, there is a rock of unprecedented size called Agdus, so named by the natives of that country. According to the command of the prophetic Themis, Deucalion and Pyrrhus threw stones taken from this [rock] to a land that did not have humans, and from them, along with others, also came and was animated by divine power called the Great Mother. When she was at the very top of the cliff to rest and sleep, Jupiter was ignited with a shameful, unclean passion, and because after a long struggle he could not achieve what he wanted, then, forced to back down, poured his passion onto a rock. From here, the rock conceived, and after numerous preliminary mooing, Agdestis, named after his mother, was born in the tenth month. He had an irresistible strength, an indomitable fierce passion for both sexes, and a tendency to forcibly kidnap, destroy and destroy what his cruelty was aimed at; he paid no attention to gods or people, and was convinced that there was nothing more powerful besides him on earth, sky and stars" (trans. N.M. Drozdova)]: Arnob. Adv. nat. V. 5.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Tuvalu: Kennedt 1931:156 [Tautunu's father was the Sun, mother was stone; (hereinafter his mother Sina)], 158 [Sun's son Faka-afi-ki-te-la was born as a stone (Te Fatu)].

Burma - Indochina. Wa [Po Lön fertilized the stones and came out of them]: Heine-Geldern 1976:38.

(Wed. Taiwan, Taiwan - Philippines. Ami: Matsumoto 1928:123 [brother and sister escaped the flood of boiling water, asked the Sun for permission to marry; after receiving permission, they gave birth to monsters, one became crab, the other became fish; then asked Luna; she replied that brother and sister are not allowed to converge, and to circumvent this ban, they must have sex through a mat; after that, the sister gave birth to a white stone, it grew up and was in it four babies]; Walk 1949 [(retelling the same text as Matsumoto: 123; Shinji Isjii manuscript referring to Fraser); because of the earthquake, hot waters flooded the ground; in a wooden mortar Brother and sister escaped; after the flood, the brother asked the Sun if it was possible to marry his wife, received consent; first there were two miscarriages; one was thrown up the river, the ancestor of the fish appeared; the other was downstream, the ancestor of the crabs appeared; after that, the brother asked the Month if it was possible to marry, he strictly forbidden it; but finding no one else, brother and sister copulated through a mat; the wife gave birth to a stone, which swollen, two pairs of children came out of it, one barefoot (my ancestors), the other wearing shoes (Chinese ancestors)]: 96; atayal: Norbeck 1950, No. 1 [the big stone splits, comes out of it two men and a woman; one man does not like it on earth, he returns to the stone; the one left with the woman thinks how to breed; first, the woman puts her genitals in the wind; nothing happens; then they try to copulate, consistently using the sphincter, nostrils, ears, mouth; the fly sits on the woman's hips; she understands this as an instruction from the gods to use the vagina; becomes pregnant, gives birth to atayal ancestors]: 13-14 (=Ho 1967, No. 52:238-239); http://en.wikipedia.org/wki/Atayal_people [the Pinspkan stone split, three came out of it, one decided to return back; the remaining man and woman lived together, but the man was afraid to approach the woman; then she left, painted black paint on her face and came back disguised as a stranger; they got married, gave birth children; it is believed that this episode dates back to the custom of girls painting black faces].

China - Korea. Ancient China [Yu fought the flood near Mount Huanyuan; he warned his wife Nujiao to bring him food when he heard the sound of a drum; in the absence of his wife, Yu turned black a bear and began to break through the mountain; one stone thrown away accidentally hit the drum; the wife heard its sound, cooked food and came to the mountain; finding Yuya in bear form, she was frightened and ran; Yu ran after her, Nujiao turned into a stone at the foot of Mount Sungaoshan; angry Yu shouted to the stone: "Give me back my son!" ; a piece of stone facing north fell off, and Yuyu showed up a boy named Qi; qi means "split"]: Yuan Ke 1987:175-176, 325.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece ["Description of Hellas" Pausanias (2nd century): "Dima {a city in Achaea} has the temple of Athena and its very ancient statue, and they also have another sanctuary erected in honor of the Mother of Dindimenes & lt; gods > and Attis. I couldn't find out who Attis was, as this is considered a divine secret. The poet Hermesianact, who wrote elegies, says that he was the son of a Phrygian Kalay and that from the moment of birth he was unable to bear children <... > However, people talk about Attis in a different way, but they have a different local tradition. They say that Zeus fell asleep and dropped the seed to the ground and that over time this gave birth to a deity with dual genitals, male and female. The name given to this deity was Agdistis. Frightened by this Agdistis, the gods cut off her male genitals; they grew into an almond tree, and when the fruits ripened, it is said that the daughter of the Sangaria River picked the fruit and put it in herself dress on the chest, this fetus immediately disappeared, and the girl became pregnant. When she gave birth and the boy born was thrown out, the goat began to take care of him <... > These are the most famous tales about Attis" (trans. S.P. Kondratyeva)]: Paus. VII. 17.5; ["On Rivers" by False Plutarch (2nd century): "Near Arax lies Mount Diorff, named after the earthborn Diorff, who is described as follows. Mitra wanted to have a son, but hated femininity and therefore got along with a rock. After becoming pregnant, the stone eventually gave birth to a son named Diorff. When he matured, he argued with Ares which of them was more valiant, was killed and, by the will of the gods, turned into a mountain named after him" (trans. D.O. Torshilova)]: Ps. -Plut. De fluv. XXIII. 4.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. {Review and analysis of sources in Ardzinba 1985}. Ossetians: Abayev et al. 1957 [in the Tarfa Cave, the beautiful woman offers herself to Uryzmagu; he says he is loyal to his wife; the beauty tells him to know only the stone from now on; at night W. fertilizes the stone; through Satan and Khamyts come to the cave for nine months, the rock splits, H. throws the red-hot Soslan into the lake; he is carried away by the young Hurricane Donbetr]: 156-159; Dynnik 1949 [Shatana comes to the river to rinse his clothes ; a shepherd sees her, releases the seed onto the stone; at the time, the shatana asks the men to chop off the excess from the stone, then breaks the jumper herself and extracts Soslan; Kurdalagon hardened him by heating him in the oven and immersing him in wolf milk]: 71-72; Khamitsaeva, Byazirov 1989, No. 42 (Irons, 1880) [Satan washed her pants and put them to dry on a stone; Uastyrji shed his seed on them; upon learning of this, Satan counted the months and, when the time came, cut the stone; Sozyryko left it; he beat Burafarnyg's three sons, cut off their right arms and mustache and took out their right eyes; their mother said: "If you are strong, Sozyryko, kill Yeltagan, tear off his scalp, bring it and make it out of it fur coat collar"; Sozyryko came to E.; he asked about Sozyryko's sledge; Sozyryko replied that if you shoot two bullets in Sozyryko's chest, the bullets would fall in front of her like pears; Yeltagan asked shoot him, Sozyryko did it - the bullets fell like pears; Sozyryko said that if you sharpen your sword and hit Sozyryko on the head, even one and a half hair would not be cut off; E. asked him to hit him like that, Sozyryko did this and did not even cut off one and a half hair; Sozyryko: "In winter, if you dig a hole, let water from Terek go there, you will plant Sozyryko in this hole, for one week and this hole will freeze, then when it freezes, he would knock out [ice] with his head, so he is strong"; E. ordered to do this to himself; when the water froze, Sozyryko asked him if he could pull out the ice with his head; E. pierced the ice with his head, but his shoulders did not pass, and he got stuck; Sozyryko cut off his head, ripped off his skin; took everything in E.'s house to him; told the girls: "Hide my scalp and skin coat with a mustache"; took them the skin off their heads and mustaches, they recognized in they were the skin of their fathers, brothers and husbands; after tailoring their fur coat, they decided to cheat and asked the witch how to do it; she advised me to leave the fur coat without a collar and say that it needed the skin from Mukara's head; the girls did so; S. invited M. to play alchik on his head; M. agreed, S. threw the alchik, millet fell out of it; S.: "This millet needs to be collected"; M. threw his alchik, they fell asleep from it chickens that pecked millet; M. threw the alchik again, a boar jumped out of it; S. left his own, three dogs jumped out, caught up and brought a wild boar; S. let the alchik go, Nart's houses caught fire; M. said that he could not do anything else for them; S. threw the alchik, it began to rain and put out the houses; S. gave M. the right to quit again; M. threw it, three pigeons flew out of his alchik; three hawks flew out of Alchik S. pigeons were caught and killed; S. said that M. was a good husband, ripped the skin off his head and put a potion on his head; M. grew new skin on his head; S. brought the skin home, the girls sewed a collar out of it]: 108- 111; Ossetians: Abayev et al. 1957 (southern) [Gumir raids, captures sledges; Sozyrko frees prisoners, smashes the village of G., cuts off his head; G. manages to send to Balsag with asking him to send his wheel; S. asks Oak, Hazel, Lipa, Hops to stop the wheel; Oak and Hazel refuse, because S. broke their branches into arrows; S. tells pigs to eat acorns, and Hazel to be crooked , fit for axes; Lipa says she is powerless, S. tells her to be barren; Hops holds the wheel, S. rewards him - he will be an intoxicated wander; after knocking down the wheel, S. tells him to cut off B.'s legs; Syrdon, taking the form of an old man, an old woman, a girl, advises only to cut off B.'s ring finger; then B. sends the wheel to harden again to Kurdalagon, and then cut off S.'s legs, because he has a steel body, but his knees remained unhardened; the wheel cuts off S.'s legs; Syrdon begs S. for the horse to report the incident to the sledge, chases the horse himself, mocking S.; the Raven refuses to peck S., for he always provided him with food; S. rewards the Raven, he will always be full; the same Wolf (will be brave), Fox (expensive skin), Hedgehog (gives his mustache for his stubble), Owl (will see at night); Swallow flies to sledges with lime, Syrdon interprets her words as if S. will return with the prey; says Sozyrko that sledges will bury him in a manure heap, cover him with snakes and frogs; sledges solemnly bury S., Batradz promises revenge]: 331-347; Libedinsky 1981 [the shepherd saw Shatana bathing, his seed fell into the stone; S. brought the blacksmith Kurdalagon, who split the stone, the baby was taken out; this is Soslan, he orders to temper it is in she-wolf milk; K. tells him to make a deck where Soslan would fit, but Syrdon advises shortening it by 4 fingers; the ancestor of the dogs Sili drove a pack of wolves behind the fence, helped Uryzmag milk them out , K. heated Soslan, put it in milk; but since the trough was shorter than necessary, his knees remained unhardened and vulnerable]: 85-87; Abkhazians: Inal-ipa 1977, No. 1-2 [Satanei-Guasha noticed a shepherd on the other side of the river and wanted it; hid behind a rock; he let his seed across the river, it fell into the rock; she extracted an embryo from the rock, held it under her clothes, pretended to give birth Sasrikva; he was hardened in a furnace, given molten metal, he grew up right away; his older brothers go camping without him; he asks his mother to cook a hot hominy, puts her hand in a pot of porridge, Satanay is forced to say that his father is a shepherd Nart; Sasrykva sends cold, goes to the giant for fire; he asks the unrecognized S. how S. has fun; tries the fun offered (drinks) boiling water, swallows hot iron); stays in the water for a long time, S. asks his mother to freeze the sea; the giant almost gets up, S. increases the frost, the giant cannot carry the ice; S. cuts off his head with his sword; First tries the removed intestines and veins on trees (they cut the trunks); the giant's brother is buried, S. raises the legs of the deceased, puts them on the wagon; brings fire to the sledges, they recognize S. as brother]: 14-20; Inal- ipa et al. 1988, No. 4 [the shepherd Zartyzhav sees Sataney-Guasha swimming on the other side of the river; he cannot swim across the stream, his seed falls into the stone; SG brings the stone home, the forge Ainar knocks it down outer shell; after 9 months Sasrikva is born; at the same time, the mare gives birth to an Arásh foal]: 26-35; Salakaya 1978, No. 2-6 [five options]: 170-179; 2009, No. 3 (Gudauta district, p. Othara) [The only sister of a hundred sart brothers, Agunda the Beautiful, is wrapped in linen collected from the tithing of the ground, with a whole beech tree as a spindle, with a boulder as a curtain, resting on her head fifteen bales of cloth, goes to the Kuban coast for fifteen days. Spins, then washes the fabric. On the other side, he sees Yerchkheu, a herd of the Giag tribe, lying down, crooked. At noon, the wind rises every day in the Kuban Valley. The wind rises and removes the shaggy eyebrows that cover the herd's face from his face, throwing them over his head. When his eyes open, he sees Gunda the Beautiful standing across the river. He asks if she finds out that she is the sister of the sledge, rushes to her three times, but is thrown away by a wave. Its seed falls on a rock next to which Gunda stands, where the germ of Sasarkva is marked. The herd advises asking Inar the blacksmith to carve the embryo out of stone. She does this, puts the fetus in her bosom, and on the fifteenth day a baby is born saying, "Mother, mother!" His mother is heating water for him to bathe. He advises you to go to Bzow's horse, who appeared next door to him at the same time, and bore him with the bridle he received. Bzow can only feed on steel. His mother lays an iron saddle on him, blesses the horse]: 317-320; Bgazhba 1983 in Hvartsky 1994 [Sataney Guasha whitewashed canvases in the Kuban, undressed, called Erchkheu, who was herding cows on the other side; he was not was able to swim across the river, told S. to stand behind the stone, put his seed into it; a human image appeared on it; E. said that blacksmith Ainar, who had ticks instead of his left hand, would be able to carve him out of the rock, the hammer is right, the leg is an anvil; the year S. kept the stone image warm, from which the fiery red Sasirkva was born; on the same night the horse Bzou was born for him]: 89-91; Shakryl 1961, No. 4 [Satani's sledge mother]: 89-91; Shakryl 1961, No. 4 [Satani's sledge mother Gouache, father - Hnysh. Whoever sees her naked body is immediately fascinated when she bathes, she emanates light. Taking a thousand sheaves of flax, he goes to the Kuban Valley to spin, whiten and make clothes for sledges. He swims, sees his sons bulls on the other side. Among them, sleigh shepherd Zartyzh sleeps. His long, drooping eyebrows reach his feet. When the Kuban wind blows, it throws his eyebrows over his head. Then his broad eyes open. Satani Guasha calls out to Zartyzh. He wakes up with his eyebrows spread and looks. She wants it to her. Zartyzh rushes into the river three times and throws it away three times. He asks Satani Gouache to pick up his scarf and skirt and show himself. He fires his "arrow" in her direction, which flies with thunder and lightning, crashes into a stone, and imprints a human image there. The shepherd advises calling blacksmith Ainar, whose right hand serves as a hammer, his left hand as forceps, and his left leg as an anvil. The blacksmith hollows out this look in three days. Satani Gouachier says that on the day the baby is born, a mare will be necked next door as an Arachia foal, who will start killing people, they will want to kill him, but she should not allow it, because only he can be a riding horse for a newborn baby. Satani Guasha puts the human image under his arm and wears it for twelve months]: 138-145; Kabardian people: Aliyeva et al. 1974, No. 1 [Sataney Guasha washed, shepherd Sosom saw her from the other side of the river, his seed fell into a stone near S.; she brought the stone home, and Sosruko was born of it with a steel body; when the blacksmith Tlepsh hardened him, held him by the mites by the knees, they remained vulnerable], 2 [Satan washed by the river, the shepherd Shokara sprayed seed into it from the other side, it fell into a stone; S. brought it home; 11 months later it began to boil; the blacksmith Tlepsh took the boy Sosruko out of him; when he was hardening, held his legs with ticks], 3 [Satan brought the stone, 9 months later Sosruko was born from it; Tlepsh grabbed his hips with ticks and hardened him, made him weapons and armor]: 189, 189-190, 190-192; Karachays, Balkarians: Aliyeva 1994, No. 32 [Kyun-Biyche saw a shepherd on the other side, hid behind a stone; the shepherd's seed fell into the old stone (granite; large river boulder ); her mistress Kyrs-Biyche, whose sledges were gaining wisdom, ordered the stone to be brought to the fortress; nine months later it split, Sosuruk was born; Kyrs-Biyche rinsed his mouth with the water of mountain streams, it's milk for him], 33 [a silly shepherd named Sozuk had dogs Jeter (catching up) and Tutar (grabbing); when Sozuk played the flute, J. danced for the man, T. for a woman; Sozuk saw Satanai washing on the other side; his seed fell into an old stone; Satanai told him to be brought in, cut; nine months later she took out the boy; it was Sosuruk; she raised him in secret from Öryuzmek], 34 [sledges saw a stone on the river island; it split, a boy appeared; Yoryuzmek swam to the island, brought a boy; he was named Sosuruk; his mother YE. gave him a breast]: 365-366, 366, 366-367 (Appendix 1) [Shepherd Sojuk saw Princess Satanai across the river, leaned against a stone; S. ordered blacksmith Deuet 60 hammers; 60 young men cut a stone with them; S. broke it herself Sosuruko took out the last shell, gave the boy to the genies; they hardened his body like steel, except for his knees]; the Ingush [the girl milked the cows; the young man in love with her sat on a blue stone threw seed into him; the holy woman of the Village of Sata removed Solsa's Nipple from it]: Dalgat 1972:134; Tsaroeva 2016 [There was a forked stone in one place. A young man lay down on him and fell asleep. At this time, his girlfriend passed by. He dreamed that he had intercourse with her, his seed fell into the crack of a stone. When he woke up and got up, a bump formed on the rock. When she was nine months old, she cracked and a child came out. The Gazdievs (or Bazorkins) descended from him]: 252; (cf. Kumyks [hero Bektemir was born of stone; (according to Adzhiev A.M. Long Roads of Song. Makhachkala 1977:78)]: Hajiyev 1991:163); Svans [Satana's three sons agree to guard Bagatvir's golden apple tree; the elders fall asleep, the youngest injures three daughters of heavenly lord Chirkhaili , moistens their scarves with blood; comes to him, treats the girls by mixing their own blood into their milk; receives medium blood, although C. warns that she is the bride of St. George; at night, the elder brother kills the younger, the middle elder, commits suicide; the bride of St. Giorgi asks to let her go to the water, turns into foam, returns to a woman at the mill, gives birth to three sons; they offend the other boys; the old woman says that their grandmother is poor Satana; they ask an adoptive mother bake khachapuri, presses hot khachapuri to her chest, who admits that their fathers killed each other; Kintiz cuts off all three heads, but one (Badrild) lost a tooth and became a woman , a woman with a stone; K. hit the stone with a sword, Soslan fell out of it, K. considers him a son; S. killed K. with his own sword, came to his grandmother; she orders to tie a bell to each fur of the horse; their ringing frightened Yerechhava's horse, S. killed J.; S. descends to the lower world to the devas; does not burn in the fire, is not crushed by a rock, does not cook in boiling water; S. killed the devas by hitting them with their foreheads]: Jidziguri 1973, No. 11:86-92; (cf. . Armenians? [Pseudo-Plutarch (trans. Gan 1884:157) in connection with the Arax River in Armenia: Mitra wanted to have a son, but since he hated women, he put his seed on a rock that became pregnant and after a certain time gave birth to him a son named Diorff; in the prime of his youth, this Diorff was killed by Mars, whom he summoned to compete, and then, by the gods, was turned into a mountain bearing his name]: Dalgat 1972:135); Hurrites (Hurrit myth in Khet translation) [Alalu was king in heaven for nine centuries, Anu was his kravchim; in the tenth century Anu defeated Alala, who fled to the dark land, the descendant of Alal Cumarbi served Ana food; in the tenth century, he began to fight Anu, who rushed up into the sky, K. pulled him down, biting off his masculine power; Anu said that K. was now fraught with the God of the Storm, the Arantsev River and the god Tasmis; K. tried to spit out what is in his mouth, Mount Kantsura has formed; the God of the Storm from the womb K. and Anu are talking about how best the God of the Storm should be born; Anu says that the stone will pierce K.'s skull, the God of the Storm will come out through the skull ; K. tells God Ea that as soon as the baby is born, he will eat it; K. began to eat, a stone in his mouth knocked out his teeth, pierced his skull, now this Cuncunuzzi stone is in the temple; three born from K. the skulls of the gods were received by the Protector Goddess; to defeat the God of the Storm, K. combines ten times with the Rock; the born baby was received by the Goddess of Destiny and the Protector Goddess; K. named him Ullicummi (Ul.); sends a message to the gods Irsirram to place Street on Upelluri's right shoulder (Up.), on which the gods built heaven and earth; stone Street grows on a fathom a day, rises like a rock in the middle of the sea; Ishtar began to sing in front of him; stopped when she found out that Ul did not see or hear; Street grew to heaven, the gods could not defeat him; God Ea comes to Op.; he says he did not know when the gods built Heaven on him and Earth (pp. 138-139), and when they cut Heaven from Earth with a cutter; but now something is hindering him on his right shoulder; Ea tells him to get the saw that they cut off Heaven from Earth (p. 139); (more, apparently, about how The street was sawn off and the Thunderstorm God defeated it)]: Ivanov 1977:114-122, 125-140.

(Wed. Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols [Hajrt har epic from the Aruhangaj region; the hero is born spontaneously from black cliffs; in the Ezen ulaan bodon epic, he is born from white cliffs; among the Khalha Mongols in the Han haranguj epic Asar's hero is born from overhanging rocks; the Khalkh's hero is also born from stone in the heroic story Doloon nasta donžin] Heissig 1993:39-41; Oirats: Vladimirtsov 2003 [episode in epic story: Knight Yergil-Turgul, whose father was the Blue Eternal Sky and his mother was the Coristy Golden Great Land, was born from a patterned black stone that appeared at the crossroads three beams and cracked on its own]: 505, 510; Heissig 1993 [in the Oirats (Gansu, south of Dunhuang, merchants) in the Küder altai epic, the hero says he was born of black stone]: 41).