F46A. The woman in the tree .59.68.70.72.

Men (animal people) find a woman at the top of a tree and copulate with her there.

Waiwai, Hishkaryana, Cracho, Sherente, Xavante, Rickbacza, Ayoreo, Chamacoco

Guiana. The turtle leaves his wife in the tree; various male animals copulate with her there; she goes down, loses her way home, comes to the jaguars. Wayam-yenna (turtle people) were like people; his wife called his wife to the forest for fruit; climbed a tree, fell again; his wife stepped on his stomach with contempt, so male turtles have a shell concave from below; the wife climbed the tree herself, the husband went home; instead of fruits, there were various kakenau-kworokjam (spirits that used to live on earth, now on the second heavenly tier, they have animal names, birds, insects); wanted to copulate, the woman covered herself with twigs; The grasshopper split the tree, copulated (he has a sharp egg); the kakenau left, the woman ate the fruit, got down, went home, went home, went from the fork not to vayam, but to kamara-yenna (jaguar people); their grandmother hides it under a vessel; there was a giant turtle in the house, she told the jaguars about the woman, put her head under the vessel, she spat on her, the jaguars broke her shell turtle women ate it; left two eggs for the old woman; she found Mawari in one, Wåshi in the other; hid it from jaguars under a vessel for three years; on the advice of the old woman, they made the first bows and arrows (also the first axes, stone knife, top); the Jaguars showed M. a Brazilian walnut, he climbed on it, they took away the stairs; M. tears turned into a squirrel; M. and V. had no penises, they grew up in the forest; they licked them by morning penises grew; the old woman's excrement grew cassava, they didn't like it; then she let herself be burned, a real cassava appeared from the burnt bones; they sent the karau bird to the top, there was a catch; it was an otter, the brothers copulated with her in the eye; she told them to catch women in the river; shooting into the water, M. and V. pulled out women's objects (bag, mat, basket, spindle, etc.); on the fifth time, M. pulled out a woman, a daughter anacondas with an anaconda child; he pulled out the second one for V., she had two dogs in her arms, when M. took to heaven, he bequeathed people to keep dogs; V.'s descendants were non-strikers, M. were Indians and Europeans (they are kind) ; almost all of M.'s children died; he fired arrows into the sky, took his wife to heaven along a chain of arrows]: Fock 1963:38-42; hishkaryana [Turtle's husband and wife went for fruit; the husband told his wife to climb a tree; she ate and grew it; monkeys, eagles, and other animals and birds wanted to have sex with it; an insect split the tree, they took it all out through this gap; the husband saw it, went home; closed the path to his house, opened the Jaguars to the house; the mother of the Jaguars hid the woman; the Jaguars had a pet turtle, the winds blew, the woman spat, she was found, eaten, the eggs were given to their mother; of which Mawarye and Woxka were born; hunt for old women; they hid from the Jaguar in a tree, he behind 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 took them out of the ground, took them for themselves; someone stole fish from the top; brothers send sentries; caught an Otter, copulated with her, almost torturing her to death; she says that there are women; M. caught wives for himself and his brother; they have a fish in their vagina; while M. walked make fish poison for a vine, V. inserted a penis, the fish bit it off; M. cured his brother; M. slept with his wife on the river bank, was swallowed by an anaconda; he went out through the anus; the brothers broke up]: Derbyshire 1965:54-78; ( cf. taruma [the old Turtle boasted that he was good at climbing trees; his wife offered to go to the forest for fruit; the husband could not climb, he fell down; his wife brought him a "turtle ladder" (flat wavy vine), but he did not climb it either; the wife climbed by herself; first she threw her husband delicious mimusops globosa fruits, then tastefully; the tcaun bird began to make love to her, touching the fruit with her foot; the husband guessed by his wife laughed; called all the birds and animals, asked them to kill the woman; at that time she returned home, hid; animals and birds could not find her; the woman spat in her hand, a spit leaked between her fingers, a little turtle noticed him; the woman was dragged out, the Jaguar ate her; two eggs fell out of his mouth through the gap between his teeth; they are preserved in the basket, which are the current turtles]: Farabee 1918:154-156; vapishana [like tarum; differences: the turtle husband first climbs his head forward, then legs forward, each time falls; feels not the taste of fruits, but smells like tobacco (the tkaun "smokes" the leaves, rolling them into a tube to eat); saliva fell on the turtle's back, the deer licked, the shell left a mark; all the animals ate the woman, the Bakers got the eggs, but fell out of his mouth; they decided to cook them, the water did not boil; they thought they were sent by Tumincar himself, buried them in the sand, and turtles were caused by them]: Farabee 1918:156-157).

Southern Amazon. Rickbacza [The turtle and his wife go for fruit; the wife climbs a tree, sheds only unripe fruits for her husband; he creates a tree mushroom around the trunk that prevents him from descending, leaves; at night Night The monkey lowers a vine for her because she allowed her to meet with her; but the Turtle was afraid to go down; the same with two other species of monkeys; the woodpecker met her, smashed the mushroom; the woman returns home , leaves her husband, marries Stork; former and new husband go fishing, Turtle caught nothing; made the fish wooden, Stork's beak stuck, Woodpecker saved him; Turtle woman invited her ex-husband to go for honey; he got up, she cut off the vine; he fell, crashed (traces on the shell)]: Pereira 1994, No. 23:168-170.

Eastern Brazil. Crash: Wilbert 1978, No. 154 [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 became horses with their father, but the average the girl could not transform; the 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 , they climbed a tree to fish, 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 soil 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 whether she would call him disgusting; she denied when she was on the shore, called him; hid under Emu's arm, Emu told Cayman that she had a pain in her armpit, not raise her arm; the same with another caiman, girl became a bird, hid in a wasp nest, they did not give it away; she reached the palm tree, her family was 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, near the Vulture House; climbed a tree by the water; Seriema's daughter came for water, the girl spat, 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 Vultures- men, even Seriema's husband, persuaded 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 it with amber fibers; did a stick house, 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 up]: 371-377; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 142 [girl comes to a bird village; hides in a tree at a spring; men rape her using different parts of her body for copulation; everyone takes a piece of her vulva, bandages her with amber fibers; these pieces turn into new women]: 434; sherente [men live without women, practice homosexuality; one gets pregnant, dies; others first see a woman's reflection in the source, then notice it is in a tree; they cut it into pieces; each leaves a piece wrapped in leaves in their hut; when they return from hunting, the men send a scout forward; he reports that the pieces of flesh have become new women; Puma 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 don't come back from hunting for so long, that women get tired of waiting for them, turn into bakers, capybaras, an old woman into a chameleon, children into parrots, possums; men notice an old woman in a tree, tell her to go down, copulate with her, inserting a penis to all parts of her body; she dies; she is cut to pieces, every man bandages his piece with ambier fibers, leaves her in bed; returning from hunting, men send forward two scouts; they report that new women who have emerged from pieces of flesh cook food in huts; lie as if one hut is empty; its owner gives the meat to another man; when he finds out that they have been deceived, cuts off a piece from her caviar, roasts, gives it to his wife; she does not take it, expels her husband; he turns into a bird to the series, screams plaintively; the wife also becomes a bird; men find traces bakers are ex-women; they hunt them to avenge them for their departure]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 162:476-493.

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], 381 [The owl was seductive, the men were looking to meet her; she disappeared, found her alone in a tree, told the others; she was pulled down, her skirt was torn off, raped; she still screams like an owl; she gave birth to a son, ran away from men]: 144-145, 375-378, 444-445; chamacoco [men kill the first women; one hides in a tree; men climb after her and rape her, they cut them to pieces; leave them in their huts; when they return from fishing, they send a scout; he lies as if the flesh has rotted; when they enter the village, men see new wives there]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 80, 84, 85, 87 [(Metraux 1943:116); an uninitiated 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); when they learn that the secret has been solved, the men killed all women; one ran away in the form of a deer; the men had to do women's work; the woman who ran away hid on a tree; she spat; a man under the tree noticed her; the men climbed the tree, but they were hampered by their erected penises, they sprayed the entire trunk with sperm; then they climbed from another tree raped a woman; she told them to cut her into pieces; the pieces fell into the sprayed semen; 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 frightened by the jaguars, came back 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 the meat had been eaten vultures; 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.