Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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F43B. Women are hiding underground .59.68.70.

Leaving men, the women of the ancestral community hide in a hole under the ground.

Oyana, oyampei, vaura, kamayura, suya.

Guiana. Oyana: Magaña 1987, No. 5 [brothers watch their sisters, see their penis name coming out of the ground; brothers tell them this; women take their penis, go underground through a hole in the village square; a parrot tells men about it, but the hole is too narrow for them], 10 [all women in the village copulate with a penis protruding from the ground in the garden; everyone becomes pregnant; men watch them, cut off their penis; when they find out, women hide in a hole in the ground; birds report this to men; they soon stop the persecutor], 20 [a person wakes up screaming a toad; sees a beautiful woman; she warns that she should not be copulated with, he insists; his penis becomes as long as a snake; in the village he becomes the lover of all women; men are going to kill him; women solder men drunk, leave with their lover; it's Month], 80 [When men return to the village, they see that women have gone through a hole in the ground; they follow, but only one manages to cross river; he sees a naked woman in a tree; she agrees to have sex with him, does so repeatedly, exhausting his strength; when he wakes up, the woman is not there]: 34-35, 38, 50; 1989 [women become pregnant, two years later they give birth for months; men watch them; see how they call the penis in the garden; it comes out of the ground, they copulate with it; men call the penis with the same words, cut it apart; women take it their children conceived from the penis, fire and cassava, go through a hole in the ground; men learn about this from a parrot; follow women to the wide river, return; their lover paved the way for women]: 27-28; oyampi [Yaneya leaves; the pregnant wife follows him; the twins from her womb show her the way; ask her to pick flowers; she is bitten by a wasp; she refuses to collect, the twins fall silent; a woman goes to the Jaguars, Jaguariha eats her; the Mayamayali and Wayamakale 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 stays in the vagina; once in the river, it turns into an eel]: Grenada 1982, No. 5:69-72.

Southern Amazon. Vaura: Cruz Mello 1999:154-156 [men went to make animal masks], 156-158 []; Schultz 1966 [fishermen eat all their catch themselves; a man named Kamatipirá told the women that the men want to kill them; ordered three battleships to dig an underground passage, led the women along it; only boys remained in the village; the women built a new village for themselves; K. taught them how to use onions and with arrows; now, during rituals, women perform these dances, compete in wrestling]: 95-99; kamayura [like waura]: Münzel 1973:240-246; Villas Boas 1973 [men go fishing; turn into wild boars and other animals; women wear men's clothes and jewelry; rub themselves with poison, drink poison, turn into mamae perfume; go away, sing, turn the old man into an armadillo; he crawling underground in front of them; taking women from other villages with them; they still go and sing; they don't have the right chest to make it easier to shoot archery; they throw babies into lakes, they turn into fish]: 123-125.

Eastern Brazil. Suya [Yamurekuman tells her husband to do all the women's work; he gives her fried vulture instead of good meat; she turns into fish, takes the rest of the women with her through underground passage; in another world, yamurekuman looks like women; we are in the guise of fish, they teach today's women their ritual songs]: Frikel 1990:38-39.