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At the beginning of time, two or many men (animal people) have only one woman.

(Truk Islands), Aleuts, Central Yupik, McKenzie Delta, Koyukon, Tanaina, Kuchin, Mohave, (Hopi), Kuiwa, Yanomami, Waiwai, Kashuyana (Arikena), Hishkaryana, Umotin, Kraho, Sherente, xavante, cariri, chamacoco, maca.

(Wed. Micronesia-Polynesia. Truk Islands [a woman from the Mortlock Islands had 80 genitals; none of the men dared to be her partner; the Olofat trickster told her to get ready; sitting in the men's house sent his long penis towards the woman; after inserting it into her, he raised and lowered her above the water until she died; all women from different islands dismantled her genitals piece by piece; from Losap Island they took the biggest vaginas, Oneop Island has the longest clitoris, and Kuttu Island has pubic hair; therefore, the former have the largest vaginas, the latter have the longest clitoris, the latter have the blackest eyebrows and pubic hair and under their arms; and the women from Nama Island got nothing but an empty container; so if you say box in front of them (the English word is used), they are angry because they are unable to receive pleasure]: Mitchell 1973, No. 66:190-191).

The Arctic. The Aleuts (Athinsky Department) [many Ogolguz brothers, water people, lived together; in the morning they went to sea to fish, and in the evening they returned to their drum and found it tidy up; they did not knew what a woman was and did not need her; to find out who was in charge, the brothers left the youngest; he lay down on the floor; saw the woman come in and cook everything; wanted to grab her when she came closer, but fell asleep; rushed to her when she went out, but she pushed him away; the next day his middle brother stayed; he listened to her song and realized that it would be good for someone to take the woman; when brothers They came back, they called the middle brother, but he did not respond; another brother went down to the drum and also disappeared; the elder looked in and saw that the brothers were fighting over a woman; he began to beat them; they all jumped out and, continuing to fight, they rushed into the sea and turned into sea otters (sea beavers), and the woman into a beaver uterus; swam, continuing to fight and chasing the uterus]: Beklemishev 1884:11-12; central Yupik (the hall will be unlocked. St. Michael) [men in the north have no women; in the south there is a single woman; a young man comes to her, marries; the foreman's son comes to steal her; they pull her in different directions, tear her apart; everyone makes up for it half of her pieces are made of wood; a woman who remains in the south with a young man has a wooden top, she is a bad needlewoman, but she dances well; carried north, on the contrary; these features have retained the current descendants of both]: Nelson 1899:479; the McKenzie Delta (a man from Baffin Land heard this in Aklavik) [the only woman Putu ("hole") lived on the island, saw her, married by a Qalaseq hunter; The petty officer saw them making love, pulled the woman towards him, they tore her in half, each finished the missing walrus top or bottom; K.'s wife named Big-Little Vulva gave birth to 600 children; people continued to tear the foreman's wife in half and finish; all these wives remained childless]: Millman 2004:31-32.

Subarctic. Koyukon [everyone starves, husband and wife stay; wife leaves, becomes a forest spirit, steals food; many men catch her, make her wife; people in Codilkakat are her descendants]: Jette 1908- 1909:317-318; tanaina [woman walks away from her unfaithful husband; comes to man; he has a big wife killing new wives by throwing a horn at them; woman throws her horn back, killing her; husband glad; woman comes to ten brothers; they have one wife for all; this is a cannibal with two faces; a woman lives with her youngest brother; a two-faced woman throws her son into boiling water; a woman cuts her to pieces, replaces her in the role brothers' mistresses; runs on mother-in-law's advice; brothers kill each other, turn into wolves; first husband finds a woman, she returns to him]: Vaudrin 1969:96-107; kuchin [men live without women; one has a bag with female genitals; the Raven asks for permission to look there; pretends to be half-blind, asks to open the bag wider, grabs his genitals, throws the young man between his legs; he turns into a woman; all men have sex with her]: McKennan 1965:92

The Great Southwest. Mojave [The First Woman calls all animals to copulate with her; the Opossum comes last; she gives birth to twins with him; their skin is stained like his; see motif J4]: Bourke 1889:186; (cf. Hopi [Navajo take all women and girls away, the Hopis are left without women; Chief Kwan makes a hole in the calebas, all men copulate with a calebasa, and a girl emerges from their seed; at the chief's request, The spider grandmother splits the calebasa, which has become a uterus; the spider raises the girl, the men supply them with meat; the girl grows up; the Hopis attack the Navajo before dawn, bring the women back; when a baby is born, it actually comes from Kwan Kiva]: Malotki 1997, No. 9:131-173).

Llanos. Cuiva [Toad's girl was ugly, and the chiricoa (Aramides cajanea; bird?) pretty; sex with the chiricoa was impossible because her vagina was too tight; then all the men copulated with Toad, she gave birth to Indians]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991b, No. 22:44.

Southern Venezuela. Yanomami: Chagnon 1983 [the first ancestors shot in the stomach of the Month, drops of blood fell to the ground, turned into people; some say that the drops came from both men and women, others say that only men; they collected vines, one fetus became a woman with a big vagina; all men copulated with her; she gave birth to girls, men copulated with them too, so did women appear]: 95; Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 17 (surara, Pakidai, ironaciteri) [(Becher 1974:45-47); Petá's first woman is married to four brothers; introduces the custom of tying the penis with a lace; establishes two types of ritual martial arts], 18 (ironaciteri) [(Becher 1974:18-19); Petá is the first ironaciteri leader, four brothers are married to her; the elder Horonamí, others Uruhí, Totorí, Horema; the village is threatened jaguar, arrows bounce off his body; he took P. to make a wife; in the cave a dead jaguariha, P. gave nipples to two jaguarytes, who immediately grew up; P. brothers came; Jaguariha came to life, thanked P.; began thunderstorm, Jaguar turned into Petá, Jaguariha to Perimbo, jaguars to their two daughters; they were married to two younger brothers]: 50-52, 53-55; Polykrates 1967 [at first there was only the Paríwa tribe, which came out of land; they had no women; the chief made an incision in his ankle, a girl came out; men made her a wife, people multiplied; the chief and his assistant divided people into groups, sent them to different sides; the chief sent an assistant with several families through a post to the other side of the river, where they climbed the Lucuma caimito tree to collect fruits; the fish brought down the bridge, the chief and his men left up the river, and those who climbed the tree turned into birds and monkeys; those who stayed under the tree became other animals living on earth]: 284-285.

Guiana. Kashuyan (Arikena) [the first women were at odds with men; at the festival they gave them sleeping pills, flew to heaven in a tornado; waking up men find the only little girl hiding in the house under a clay pot; they cut it into pieces; everyone puts their part in their hammock; men who have returned from hunting are greeted in the village by new women]: Kruse 1955, No. 35:415; hishkaryana [Turtle's husband and wife went for fruit; the husband told his wife to climb a tree; she ate and grew him; monkeys, eagles, and other animals and birds wanted to copulate with her; the insect split the tree through this gap they took everything out; the husband saw, went home; closed the path to his house, opened the Jaguar house; the mother of the Jaguars hid the woman; the Jaguars had a pet turtle, let the winds blow, the woman spat, she was found, eaten, eggs they gave them to their mother; they were born Mawarye and Woxka; they hunt for an old woman; they hid from the Jaguar in a tree, he followed them, they came down in the form of leaves; the Jaguar understood who was in front of him; the brothers did not have penises, they grew up in the forest; they snatched them out of the ground, took them for themselves; someone stole fish from the top; brothers send sentries; they caught an Otter, copulated with it, almost torturing her to death; she says that there are women; M . caught his wives for himself and his brother; they had a fish in their vagina; while M. went to get a vine to make fish poison, V. injected a penis, the fish bit it off; M. cured his brother; M. slept with his wife on the river bank, it was swallowed by an anaconda; he went out through the anus; brothers broke up]: Derbyshire 1965:54-78; waiwai [Wayam-yenna (turtle people) were like people; husbands called his wife to the forest for fruit; climbed a tree, fell again; wife with contempt stepped on his stomach, so male turtles have a concave shell from below; the wife climbed the tree herself, her husband went home; instead of fruits, there were various kakenau-kworokjam (spirits, previously who lived on earth, now on the second heavenly tier, they have the names of animals, birds, insects); wanted to copulate, the woman covered herself in twigs; the grasshopper split the tree, copulated (he has a sharp ovipositor); the kakenau left, the woman ate the fruit, got down, went home, went from the fork not to the wayam, but to kamara-yenna (jaguar people); their grandmother hides her under a vessel; a giant turtle lived in the house, she told the jaguars about the woman, put her head under the vessel, she spit on her, the jaguars broke the turtle woman's shell, ate her; the old woman was left with two eggs; she found Mawari in one, Wåshi in the other; hid it from jaguars for three years under the vessel; on the advice of the old woman, they made the first bows and arrows (also the first axes, the stone knife, the top); the Jaguars showed M. a Brazilian walnut, he climbed on it, they took away the stairs; M. tears, turning into squirrel; M. and V. did not have penises, they grew up in the forest; they licked them, by morning their penises had grown; the old woman's excrement grew into cassava, they did not like it; then she let herself be burned, from burnt bones a real cassava appeared; they sent a karau bird to the top, there was a catch; it was an otter, the brothers copulated with it in the eye; she told them to catch women in the river; shooting into the water, M. and V. pulled out women's objects (a bag, a mat, a basket, a spindle, etc.); on the fifth time, M. pulled out a woman, the daughter of an anaconda with an anaconda child; he pulled out the second one for V., she had two dogs in her arms, when M. rose to heaven, he bequeathed people keep dogs; V.'s descendants are non-strikers, M. are Indians and Europeans (they are kind); almost all of M.'s children died; he fired arrows into the sky, and his wife took to heaven along a chain of arrows]: Fock 1963:38-42.

Southern Amazon. Umotin [all animal people are married to a single woman; Tapir has a big dick, but others don't let him see the woman; finally, Jaguar allowed, but ordered only the tip to be inserted; Tapir introduced to At the end, the woman died, the Jaguar chased Tapir, since then jaguars have been killing tapirs; animal people quarrel, turning into animals, dispersing]: Schultz 1962, no. z: 257-258.

Eastern Brazil. Crash: [Schultz 1950:144-150; the husband was convinced that his wife was unfaithful; decided to leave, the children went with him; three boys and two girls together with their father became horses, but the average girl could not turn; same in another family, where everyone turned into deer, the youngest girl could not, but turned golden brown; Autxetpirire poisoned fish with poison; father and children became kingfishers to catch fish, climbed the tree, the middle daughter could not; A. asked how to become the same color as the girl; the father said to lie down in the oven, cover it with leaves and earth on top; A. stayed in the oven, everyone left, but the middle girl came back for the forgotten calebass, dug up A.'s penis, began to eat; followed her father's footsteps, A. began to get out of the oven; Cayman volunteered to transport the girl, asked in the middle of the river if she would name she denied, when she was on the shore, called him; hid under Emu's arm, Emu replied to Cayman that she had a pain in her armpit, not to raise her arm; the same with another caiman, the girl became a bird hid in the wasp nest, they did not give her away; her family reached the palm tree, at the top, they told the palm tree to bend down, she climbed in; she spat, giving them to A.; they lowered the rope, let him go, he fell, crashed, became a crab, climbed into a hole; the girl fell behind again, came to Serie's house, next to the Vulture House; climbed a tree by the water; Seriema's daughter came for water, the girl spat, the calebasa slipped out, crashed; so 4 times; The mother series wants to punish her daughter, she talks about a girl on a palm tree; comes to a bird village; hides in a tree at the spring; Vultures, Royal Male Vultures, even Seriema's husband convinced her to go down, raped her using different parts of her body for copulation; she died; each hawk took a piece of her vulva, tied her with amber fibers; made a house out of sticks, each piece on a stick, told them to stretch, the pieces covered the stick, it turned out to be a house; the pieces of her body put on sticks by others dried]: 371-377; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 142 [the husband was convinced that his wife was unfaithful; decided to leave, the children went with him; three boys and two girls became horses with their father, but the average girl could not turn; the same in another family, where they all became deer, the youngest girl could not, but turned golden brown; Autxetpirire poisoned the fish with poison; the father and children became kingfishers to fish, climbed the tree, the middle daughter could not; A. asked how to be the same color as a girl; father said to go to the oven, cover it with leaves and soil; A. stayed in the oven, everyone left, but the middle girl came back for the forgotten calebasa, dug up her penis A., began to eat; followed in her father's footsteps, A. began to get out of the oven; Cayman volunteered to transport the girl, asked in the middle of the river if she would call him frosty; she denied, when she was on the shore, called him; hid under Emu's arm, Emu told Cayman that her armpit hurt, did not raise her arm; the same with another caiman, the girl became a bird, hid in the wasp's nest, they did not betray her; she reached a palm tree, on At the top of her family, they told the palm tree to bend down, she climbed the girl; spat, giving them to A.; they lowered the rope, let him go, he fell, crashed, became a crab, climbed into a hole; the girl fell behind again, came to Seria's house, near the Vulture House; climbed a tree by the water; Seriema's daughter came for water, the girl spat, the calebasa slipped out, crashed; so 4 times; The mother series wants to punish her daughter, she talks about a girl on a palm tree; comes to a bird village; hides in a tree at a spring; Vultures, Male Royal Vultures, even Seriema's husband convinced her to go down, raped her using different parts of her body to copulate; she died; each hawk took a piece of her vulva, tied it with embir fibers; made a stick house, each piece on a stick, told them to stretch, pieces they covered the stick, it turned out to be a house; the pieces of her body put on sticks by others dried up]: 434; sherente [men live without women, practice homosexuality; one becomes pregnant, dies; others see first the source reflects a woman, then they notice her on a tree; they cut her into pieces; each leaves his piece wrapped in leaves in his hut; when they return from hunting, the men send the scout forward; he reports that pieces of flesh have become new women; the cougar got part of the breast, his wife is beautiful; Seriema bandaged his piece tightly, his wife is skinny]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 21:52-53; xavante [ men do not return from hunting for so long that women get tired of waiting for them, turn into bakers, capybaras, old women into chameleons, children into parrots, possums; men notice an old woman in a tree, tell her go down, copulate with her, inserting her penis into all parts of her body; she dies; she is cut to pieces, every man bandages his piece with ambier fibers, leaves it in his bed; coming back from hunting, men send two scouts forward; they report that new women who have emerged from pieces of flesh are cooking food in huts; lie that one hut is empty; its owner gives the meat to another man ; when she finds out that she has been deceived, she cuts off a piece from her caviar, roasts it, gives it to his wife; she does not take it, expels her husband; he turns into a bird in a series, screams plaintively; the wife also becomes a bird; men find traces of bakers - they are ex-women; they are hunted to avenge them for their care]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 162:476-493; kariri [people have only one woman; Tuppart kills her, cuts her to pieces; every man wraps his piece in cotton wool, leaves it in his hut; when men come back from hunting, new women cook]: Martin de Nantes 1706 in Lowie 1946:559

Chaco. Ayoreo: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989b, No. 84 [A butterfly climbs a tree and invites men to get it; Iguana climbs a slippery trunk; they run away from other men, become ancestors Europeans], 313 [a fox woman releases the fish that was inside the tree; animal people want to kill her for it; a vulture raises it to a tree; first a battleship, then all the birds copulate with her there ; since then, people know how to copulate]: 144-145, 375-378; chamacoko [men kill the first women; one hides in a tree; men climb after her and rape her, cut to pieces; leave them in their own huts; returning from fishing, a scout is sent; he lies as if his flesh has rotted; when men enter the village, they see new wives there]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 80, 84, 85, 87 [(Metraux 1943:116); not past The initiation boy was lying sick in his hut; his mother climbed to repair the roof, he saw her genitals, met her; told her about the mystery of Anãpösö (the perfume that frightens women is mummers men); when they found out that the secret was solved, the men killed all the women; one ran away in the form of a deer; the men had to do women's work; the woman who ran away hid in a tree; spat; she was noticed There was a man under the tree; the men climbed the tree but were hampered by their erected penises, they sprayed the whole trunk with sperm; then they climbed from another tree, raped the woman; she told them cut it into pieces; the pieces fell into the sprinkled sperm; each took a piece and brought it to the village; the men went fishing, sent a shaman to find out what was in the village; the shaman was afraid of the jaguars, returned from halfway, said that the pieces had rotted; they sent another, who turned into a bird, saw that the village was full of women and children; but when he returned, he said that vultures ate the meat; the men came and saw children and women; those who took pieces from their hips got fat wives and thin wives from their fingers]: 290-295, 320-337, 348-349; poppies: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 100 [were blind honey pickers; the woman is unhappy, that her husband brings her little honey, goes to the forest, eats blind honey; tells him that she is a woman, offers himself as a wife; he calls his friends; they feel all parts of her body, she calls them; when it comes to the vulva, she says that people sometimes fight because of her vulva; blind people also decide to fight, injure and kill each other; a woman first tells you to fight only with her hands, not with axes made of hard trees, then tells me to stop the fight altogether; the woman became the wife of the nephew she approached first; the blind catch eels with their hands; the blind drank honey, got drunk, fell asleep; the woman smeared it eyes with menstrual blood, the latter was enough for only one eye; blurred eyes saw the light], 101 [the husband does not bring his wife enough honey, she goes to the forest to see the blind intowoolei; eats the honey they they throw them off the tree into calabasses; says she took that she is a woman; she takes the blind to her village; they consistently feel parts of her body, ask them what they are called; when it comes to vulvas, she says that men fight to have access to her; blind people also fight, the woman tells them to fight not with sticks but with fists; when her husbands fell asleep after drinking honey, she smeared her eyes with them menstrual blood; they saw the light, left alone blind, he did not have enough blood; so there are still blind; before they saw the light, the Lizard laughed that they ate eels raw without fire], 102 [ a woman loved honey, always looked for honey collectors; once she found a skillful one, he was blind; he felt her, called others, they had never met a woman before; they felt her genitals, then wanted to fight on sticks, she persuaded them to eat honey better; they ate, fell asleep; she smeared their eyes with her menstrual blood, they saw the light; one blood was not enough, he saw a light in one eye; the blind began to scream, woman used these screams to name the objects that surrounded her in the land of the blind]: 219-223, 223-226, 226-227; (cf. matako [Metraux 1939:49; the first humans did not have women, except for their own mother, who lived far away; they hunted, ate meat in the forest, brought blood to their mother; she poured blood into clay pots separately for each son; a year later, children's voices can be heard from the mother's house; there were 5 girls there; they came from deer blood; this old woman is a tale falcon]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982, No. 20:66-67).