F47. People made of pieces of flesh .19.21.-.23.25.26.46.59.70.72.
The pieces of a creature or lump of living flesh cut into many parts are scattered or dispersed. After that, people emerge from them. Cf. Motive E38A.
Qiang, Moklum, Kachin, Rawang, Zhuang (and other Thais in China and Vietnam), Inanwatan Berau, Arandai Bintuni, Kamoro, Kian, Gamei, Ancient India, Saisya, Miao, Meo, Yao, Namuzi, Lee, Chinese (Hunan, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Gansu), Assiniboine, Kashuyan (Ariquena), Emerillon, Cracho, Sherente, Shawante, Kariri, Chamacoko, Matako.
Melanesia. Inanwatan Berau: Miedema 1997, No. 2.1 [a man converges with a woman, drops of sperm fall on the grass, they are pecked by a cassouariha, gives birth to a boy by Matirete; first he leaves him, then returns; M. grows up, Kazuariha tells her to be killed; first take out her ribs, they turn into knives and fire; M. utters magic words, a multi-room house appears; Kazuariha tells her to be killed, in every room put a couple of pieces of meat; when M. returns, a man and a woman meet him in every room; therefore, Inanwatan people do not eat cassowary meat], 2.2. [a man and a woman from a foreign land passed through the still uninhabited country of Inanwatan; copulated, swallowed fallen drops of sperm by a cassouariha; laid an egg, a boy came out of it; they built a house together; Kazuariha told her to be killed, a couple pieces of her flesh put in each room; they became men and women, they descended from inanwatan; they don't eat cassowary meat], 2.3 [Kazuariha swallowed a man's seed, laid an egg, a boy came out of it; people caught him, he became a brave warrior; all people were killed; Kazuariha told her son to kill her, save her skull; her heart and lungs became the young man's wife, her head his mother-in-law; in each room he put a piece of flesh and a piece of bone, as well as loincloths; stamped on the ground, parts of Kazuariha's body became men and women; put on bandages]: 7-8, 8-9, 9-10; Arandai bintuni: Miedema 1997, No. 15 [a man met a woman; Kazuariha swallowed drops of semen that fell on the grass, gave birth to a boy, told him to cut it into pieces, and new people came out of them] 20.1 [Iboori overheard his two wives agree not to share forest fruits ri with him; he sails away in a boat, picking up his children, turning his wives into two birds, boys into a frog and a goanna lizard; kills cassowary, plucks, cuts; leaves long feathers outside, short feathers in the house; long feathers have turned into all non-papua; short and pieces of meat into local people (Mantiun); lungs became a woman, she left , from her non-native people; her heart turned into two wives for locals (Mantiun men have more wives than others)]: 38, 50-51; kamoro [two boys found a monitor lizard egg, mistook it for a bird, put it in shoulder bag; a monitor lizard grew up, hatched, had wings, ate boys and all the people in the village; a pregnant woman escaped, her son Awámora grew up in a few days; shoots lizards, then birds, wild boar, cassowary, sea turtle, stingray; builds huts, leaving sharp axes, knives, etc.; monitor lizard comes to destroy huts, injures itself, dies; A. cuts its meat into pieces, puts pieces on huts, in the morning next to him and his wife's other men, men beat drums]: Drabbe 1950, No. 21:228-229; kayan: Z'graggen 2012, No. 1 [Weakaupir woman noticed a weakaupir bird lay two eggs; took I wanted to cook them, but insects gnawed holes in her leaf vessel all the time; one day I finally collected water, but saw that the eggs hatched two boys Banigarum (elder) and Masagarum; they grew up, destroyed insects that gnawed holes in the vessel; V. ordered her sons to kill her; they did not want to finally kill the youngest; as the mother ordered, one took the head, the other stomach, put it in their own headboards; they had to pretend to throw her blood towards the forest and throw it out themselves towards the sea; but almost everything fell into the forest, and to the sea only at the bottom of a bamboo vessel; therefore, living There are few kianas on the coast, and there are many forest dwellers; in the morning, children, women, chickens, pigs, dogs, a whole village are nearby; the head and stomach turned into two women - the brothers' wives], 2 [Saviot woman found two eggs Viakaupir birds; hid it under a pot; wanted to cook, but manskanar creatures made holes in the vessel from the ground; saw that two boys Maigaron and Matagaron came out of the eggs; the mother made bows for them; they hunted, grew up; she tells me to bring more trees, makes more and more powerful bows; they waited for and killed manskanar; she tells me to clear the area, kill it, cut it into pieces, put each on your stump, head and stomach in your sleeping bags; pour blood into the forest, but in fact throw it out towards the sea, but almost everything fell into the forest; therefore, there are many people in the forest, but there are few near the shore; in the morning around the village, children, chickens, etc.; a wife is next to each other], 3 [a Saboat woman found two Viakaup eggs; wanted to cook, but the creatures gnawed holes in the vessel; the eggs turned into two Maingarom boys and Matagarom, she made them bows out of increasingly sturdy wood, they killed those evil creatures; she told them to clear the area, kill it, cut it, put a piece on each stump, collect blood in a vessel, pretend to splash out on the forest, put your head and stomach in your sleeping bags; the youngest killed his mother, the blood really splashed into the forest, so there are few people on the shore, and there are many in the forest; in the morning around village and each has a wife], 4 [Weakaupiary found two eggs of a bird that is also from the Weakaup line, wanted to cook, but the creatures pierced the vessel, the eggs turned into two boys; her mother told her kill, take your head and stomach, splash blood as if on the forest; the youngest killed his mother, the blood really fell into the forest; in the morning around the village, the head and stomach turned into brothers' wives]: 438-439, 440- 441, 441-443, 444; gameas: Z'graggen 2012, No. 5 [Wekof woman found two bird eggs, put them under the pot, two boys Masagaro (elder) and Umigaro appeared; their mother made bows for them, told her to be killed, clear the area, put pieces of her body on stumps, let her elder head and her younger stomach put in their sleeping bags; in the morning the village and each brother has a wife; pieces of flesh become human], 6 [woman Taubat, she was attacked and beaten by men in the lower knee of bamboo; one day she picked up two eggs, they turned into two boys, Masagaram (the elder) and Megaram; she made them bows; they killed men who jumped out of bamboo, danced about the murder; her mother told her to be killed, the elder killed her with a club; told her to put pieces of her flesh on stumps in the cleared area, and put her head and stomach separately; in the morning a village with people, both brothers have wives], 7 [Viakaup woman wants to get water, mansgan bamboo men shoot at her; she finds two bird eggs, they turn into two boys , they kill little men; the mother tells her to be killed, put the pieces on the stumps, head and stomach in the holes of the sleeping bags; in the morning the village, and both brothers have wives], 8 [the woman picked up two Viakaup eggs, I forgot, putting them under the pot, they turned into two boys; she was attacked by evil mandangan men; the boys grew up, killed them; her mother tells her to be killed; the brothers cleared the area, planted sweet potatoes, sugar cane, etc., sprinkled them with their mother's blood, pieces of body on stumps, heads and stomachs in their sleeping bags; in the morning the village and each brother's wife; sugar cane leaves and sweet potatoes have since been red from blood]: 445-446, 446-447, 447-448, 448-450; Avar: Z'graggen 2012, No. 9 [Marge went to collect edible leaves and tree mushrooms; boys attacked her with spears, threw her darts; she found two Viaup eggs, left them under the pot, forgot, they hatched two boys Ariror and Gimnor; they grew up in a few days; asked to make them bows; killed those evil boys; she asks to clear the site, kill her, spread pieces of her body on stumps, let the elder take her head, the youngest stomach, put her in their sleeping bags; in the morning the village, next to each of the brothers in his wife], 10 [young men from another village attack a woman Marige; she finds two Viok eggs; the eggs were told not to cook them, but to leave them under the pot; became boys, the elder Gimnor, the younger Arero; asked their mother made them bows and arrows; avenged their mother by killing those strangers; one with crippled legs was left to tell his parents what happened; she asks to clear the site, kill her, spread pieces of her body on stumps, let them put her head and stomach in their sleeping bags; in the morning the village, next to each of her siblings], 11 [people from Bingem came to beat a woman Marige, spoiling her water vessel; she was picking wood mushrooms, found two Viok eggs; two boys hatched, defeated enemies; her mother tells her to be killed; she made out pieces of her flesh, sprayed blood in the cleared area; the elder's heart took for himself, the youngest took the liver; in the morning around the village and next to his wife], 12 [people from another village attacked a woman Morge as she was going to fetch water; man Either the female spirit Wuem (maybe the translator didn't understand: there must be a bird) left two eggs; Morge put them in a jar, they turned into two boys Arero and Dzimnor; they ask them to make spears, the attackers were shot; she orders to clear the site, kill her, lay out the pieces of her body on the site, let the elder take the head, the younger stomach; in the morning around the village, with his brothers in his wife]: 451-454- 456, 456-457, 457-458.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Qiang [9 suns are scorching the ground; older brother and younger sister escaped in the cypress hollow; when the disaster was over, they decided to lower two millstones from the slopes - if they lie on top of each other, they can marry; sister gave birth to a monster, brother cut it to pieces, scattered them; people around the house in the morning]: LaPolla, Huang 1996:252; moklum [the rooster lived in heaven, was chief minister at Rang; Rangsa's son and daughter Yappi; the rooster advised them to marry, the sister gave birth to a ball-shaped ball of meat, dried it, it burst, the pieces scattered, turned into people who settled the world; Rangsa and Yuppie walked around the sky is round the clock, the night was gone; the father told them to walk at different times]: Elwin 1958a, No. 17:50-51; the Kachins [Ningkong wa decides to build a bridge over Ayeyarwady; his 9 brothers are jealous, they say he is brother, then sister, mother, etc. died; he continues to work; when he hears about the death of his father, cries, leaves; finds everyone at home in good health; promises to flood the earth with a flood and burn it with 9 suns; puts orphan brother and sister into the drum; every day they release a rooster, throw a vessel and a needle; 8 times they understand by the sound of a fall that there is water below; on the ninth day, the vessel and needle fall to the ground, the rooster crows; both they come to nata (nats are mythological creatures), hear that he wants to eat them; they run away to another; he hides them under the roof, tells the first one to come in 4 days when the beer is ready; they throw them into his mouth a red-hot iron rod; he rushes under the waterfall, his roar can still be heard; brother and sister give birth to a child, annoys the owner with crying; he kills the child, feeds his parents his heart, cuts his body to pieces, pieces turn into Chinese, Shan, Kachin, Burmese, etc.]: Gilhodes 1908:683-886; rawang [a boy Alang Pung was born with wings, tail and claws; began to take people to the cave and eat them; people invited him to the party, advised him to sit on the roof, lower his tail into the gap between the beams of the floor so that no one would step on him; grabbed him by the tail, killed him; buried them, but in the morning he was not surfaces; so twice; they decided to eat it, dividing it into parts, but not enough for everyone; then they threw the body into the river; it dammed it, the flood began, only a piece of land remained above the water, and a couple of people escaped there; 9 suns went out and dried the earth; two went in different directions, but found no one, got married; God Dameu killed him, dismembered him into small pieces, scattered them, gave the liver to his mother under the guise of animal meat; said she ate; explained that there would be many children, told me to cook food; called people, many came; those who did not get food became forest animals]: LaPolla, Poa 2001:48-65.
Burma - Indochina. Tay Pong, Tay, Hmong, Yao (Tuyen Quang), San Chay (San Chi, Cao Lan), Pu Peo, Giay, etc., but not Vieta [(summary table; marriage result Brother and sister after the flood is the birth of a shapeless piece of flesh, sometimes in the shape of a pumpkin; it is cut into pieces, each of them comes into people)]: Dang Nghiem Van 1993:328-333; Zhuang (Yunnan) [the sky was close to the ground, since then the tops of the bamboo have been crooked as they rested against the sky; the thunder god emitted lightning, blinking his eyes, creating gusts of wind with his wings, kicks were blows of thunder, in his hands an ax and a chisel, he destroyed everything with them; came to visit a man named Bubo; after eating and drinking, he decided that he should collect tax from farmers; B. offered him a choice of tops and roots; he said that he a celestial, so he chose the tops; B. planted a tarot, the thunder got rotten leaves and dry stems; the following year he chose roots, and B. planted rice; the following year, the thunderstorm promised to pick up and tops and roots, but B. planted corn and took the cobs; the thunder told his General Lumeng not to send rain anymore; B. told people to open the locks of the heavenly river, the water irrigated the fields; then the thunder raised the sky higher, leaving only the tree of the sun and moon to communicate; B. led the people to take water from the underground dragon, but he was the thunder's brother and refused; then B. grabbed him by the horns and told him to pluck his beard; the dragon gave him water; but in the third year there was drought again; the thunder sent General Lumang to repair the locks; B. climbed a tree into the sky, pushed L. into the river; one of the warriors, Qigao, warned that the thunder is about to kill people by drought; B. put his sword to the thunder's throat, making it rain; the thunder descended for revenge, slipped on wet mats, caught and tied; B. went to get salt, So that when he killed the thunder, he would pickle his meat; tells his children not to let him go, not to give him a drink, not to give him an ax; the thunder persuaded them (they gave him water with indigo paint, so he turned blue), gained strength flew out; gave his tooth, telling him to plant it: only Fuyi and his sister would be saved during the flood; the thunder opened the locks of the heavenly river, and the dragon released the waters of the underground lake; B. swam in an inverted umbrella; the thunder wanted to hack him with an ax, but B. cut off his legs himself; the thunder was afraid that B. would be in the sky with the waters of the flood; B. fell with his umbrella on the mountain, broke, his heart bounced to heaven and became Venus; F. and his sister escaped in a pumpkin (which grew out of a thunder's tooth); went out when the waters came down; turtle, bamboo: you must get married; brother and sister: if you live, we'll get married; killed a turtle, they cut bamboo, they were reborn; Venera-B. also told them to marry: light fires on two mountains, if the columns of smoke merge, then you can; sister gave birth to a piece of meat; they cut it and scattered it, from people appeared pieces; the thunder attached cock claws to his feet instead of the severed feet; after the dragon's beard was pulled out, two pieces were left: his carp children had them; Qugao became earthen with a worm; when it crawls out, the thunder tries to cut it in half; if worms crawl out, it means a thunderstorm; shamans begin to know the future through turtle shells and bamboo stems]: Miller 1994:137-150
South Asia. Ancient India (Mahabharata) [King Dhritparashtra's wife, Gandhari, received and fed brahman Vyasa. He asked her to choose a gift. I asked for a hundred sons. I conceived from Dhritarashtra. Then I walked with my belly for two years. Upon learning that the king's other wife, Kunti, had given birth to a son, Gandhari ripped her stomach apart in despair and removed a ball-shaped meat ball. Vyasa, a clairvoyant, immediately came to her, listened to her reproaches and said that the promise would come true: you just need to prepare a hundred vessels filled with ghee and water the lump with cold water. Soon the lump split into a hundred parts. They were placed in vessels, held in them for as long as the embryo was in the womb, and 100 Kaurava brothers were born. Duryodhana was born first, then the others]: Kalyanov 2006, Ch. 107:316-318.
Taiwan - Philippines. Saisha [a man who escaped the flood made it to Mount Papakwaka; old Oppehenaboon killed him, cut him to pieces, threw them into the water, from which the ancestors of the Saisya arose]: Chen 2014:431.
China - Korea. Miao of China: Bender et al. 2006 (Guizhou) [Jang Vang and God of Thunder are brothers; JAW has no ox, he asked Thunder for a loan, plowed the field, and then stabbed the ox and ate it; he stuck his tail in the mud, said that the ox had failed; the thunder began to pull and fell into the mud; furiously he rose to heaven and sent rain and hail to drown JAW; he planted a gorlyanka pumpkin, it immediately grew and bore fruit; the flood flooded the ground, a calebass {in which, obviously, JAV} rose to the sky; the thunder sent a goose to find out what it was; the goose came back, said that one mountain was still above the water; the thunder hit the goose, since then he had a bump on its beak; sent a duck, then But Thunder stepped on her beak, flattening it; sent a ram, the same thing, Thunder twisted its horns; the rooster did not dare to tell the truth, said that there was only the sea below; for this Thunder gave him a good beak, which it is convenient to peck grain; the waters have come down, JAV went to the ground, but alone; bamboo prompted him to marry his sister; JAV cut him to pieces in anger, promising to put them together if he did marry his sister; after time decided to marry; made 9 iron cages, put thrushes in them, asked his sister to get them; the cage pinched her hand; promises to release her if her sister agrees to become his wife; sister: let go down two mountains a pair of millstones, if they lie on top of each other, I will marry my brother; the millstones lay down; my sister offered to ride horses, let JAV catch up with her; he jumped over the mountain from the other side and met his sister; she and here disagrees; then he trapped her leg when her sister was breaking rice; she had to agree; she gave birth to a lump of meat, a ball with eyes, without arms, but on legs; JAV furiously chopped it into pieces, from Many people appeared, but they could not speak; the God of Earth came to Thunder, who was silent; and when he left, Thunder said to himself, "We must set fire to bamboo and when it splits miserably, people they will speak; the God of Earth overheard this and handed it to JAV; he burned a bamboo grove, people from different tribes spoke their own tongues]: 160-168; Geddes 1976 (Chuan Miao, Sichuan) [according to Grah'am; two brothers plow the land, according to At night, Ye Seo eliminates all traces of their work; the eldest wants to beat him, the younger asks; YS tells the eldest to make an iron barrel, the youngest a wooden barrel; the iron one drowned, the younger brother in the wooden one escaped with his sister; trials showed that higher powers want brother and sister to marry, sister agreed; gives birth to something like a piece of wood; it was cut, people arose from parts]; Werner 1922 [after the flood A Zie and his sister escaped in a swimming pumpkin; the sister agreed to marry her brother if the two millstones they had lowered from the two mountains lay on top of each other; then if the swords thrown from the two mountains ended up in some with a sheath; the brother put the other two millstones one on top of the other in advance, sheathed the other swords; married his sister; she gave birth to a child without arms and legs; And Zi cut it apart and scattered it; in the morning of these people appeared pieces]: 407-408; meo: Karpov, Tkachev 1958 (North Vietnam) [two brothers were plowing the field, but by morning it had hardened again; in the middle of the night they saw an old man trampling the ground; he says that there is no need to work because there will be a flood; tells one brother to make a drum out of wood, the other from copper, take seeds and pets; the rain flooded the ground with a flood, the copper drum drowned; the younger brother and sister escaped in a wooden one; God told nine dragons to dry the ground; the water came down, but it was still viscous; the Eagle carried brother and sister to a dry place; tore off a piece and let them eat, and they They cut the Eagle off piece by piece; brother and sister threw two rafts, two needles, and two coins into the sky; God put them together, brother and sister got married; sister gave birth to an egg with meat in it; it was cut into pieces they became human]: 256; Geddes 1976:22-23 (Tonkin) [by Savina; after the creation of heaven and man, people have lived on earth for 9,000 years; two brothers notice that all traces of their field work disappear overnight; they find an old man closing his plowed furrows; the eldest wants to kill him, the youngest asks; this is the Master of Heaven, warns of the flood, tells his older brother to make an iron boat, the youngest wooden, take your sister, a couple of animals, seeds; it rains for seven months, the older brother's boat sinks, the younger one floats to the sky; the Master of Heaven sends the Rainbow Dragon to dry the ground; sister first refuses to meet his brother, but after a series of tests proving that this is the will of the higher powers, agrees; gives birth to something like an egg; it is opened, cut into pieces, each piece turns into child, these children are colonizing the earth], 23-24 (Meto, Thailand) [Joser's spirit of heaven sent two spirits to warn people about the flood; those who worked in the field saw weeds grow again in the morning; one person wanted kill these spirits, another asked; they ordered drums to be made; only one man did, put his son and daughter in it during the flood; Joser poked the ground with a long pole to make the water come down, so eat valleys and mountains; told brother and sister to marry; sister gave birth like a bone marrow lump; Joser ordered it to be cut into pieces, scattered in different directions; from these pieces came the Chinese, Tai, Miao and others peoples (or various Miao clans)]; Symonds 2004 (NW Thailand) [brother and sister remained after the flood; Puj and Yawm Saub told them to marry; wife gave birth to a piece of meat; S. ordered to cut it to pieces, they became by various people, including Hmongs]: 31; yao (Guangxi, wu. Yongxian City Luocheng; by Chang Zhenxia, "A study of images on stone sarcophagi from Shapinba", magazine. "Showen Yuekan", vol. 1, No. 10-11. Lu Zhenyu. Beijing: Zhongguo Shehui Shigan, 1962) [before the storm, a boy and a girl watched their father start repairing the roof; the father became angry with the thunder god Lei-gong and placed an iron cage under the roof eaves; L., holding a wooden axe, he went down, flapping his wings; the man stuffed it with his horn into the cage and told the children not to let him drink; L. begged the children to give him a few drops of water; breaking the cage, He pulled out his tooth and ordered it to be planted, and flew away; when he learned of what had happened, his father began to make an iron boat, and the planted tooth grew a gourd pumpkin; when the pumpkin was opened, countless teeth were inside; the children threw them away and climbed inside themselves; a downpour poured in, the water covered the ground; the father sailed in a boat to the iron gate and began to knock; the spirit of heaven ordered the spirit of the waters to drive away the waters; they immediately subsided, the boat fell, crashed, the man crashed too; the children in the pumpkin escaped; the boy's name was Fuxi, the same as Paosi ("pumpkin brother"); the children grew up, the brother invited his sister to marry; she offered to catch up with her; but F. ran the other way and ran out to meet his sister; they got married; the wife gave birth to a lump of meat; they cut it into pieces, began to go up to the sky's gate; the wind blew, unfolded the bundle, pieces of meat fell and became human; the person who fell on a leaf received the surname E ("leaf"), on a tree - Mu ("tree"), etc.]: Yuan Ke 1987:39-43; namuzi [children of a heavenly maiden and an earthly young man (see motive K24) by his behavior angered their mother's heavenly parents, they sent a flood, everyone died except the younger brother and younger sister; the sister offers to marry; the brother hesitates, I agree if they are descended from two slopes two halves of the millstone, when they reach the bottom of the valley, will fold together; they fold; after 11 months, not 9 months, the sister gave birth to a yellow mass like cow manure; my sister told me to go scatter it; in the morning in those places in the family of people; where the brother threw it on the tree, those have the surname "tree", where on the stone, those have "stone" (li, wang); people multiplied again]: Lakhi 2009 (1): 153-165 (=2009 (2): 167); li (Hainan, w . Qiongzhong) [a gorlyanka pumpkin grew on the ground; the mountain became larger; the immortal spirit made a hole in it and placed two clay-sculpted men, brother and sister, as well as clay buffaloes, inside. bulls, pigs, dogs, cats, lizards, mantis and others like them - each creature in pairs; at this time the great flood began, the gorlyanka squash began to swing on the waves; when the flood receded, five appeared in the sky suns and five moons that quickly dried all the water; thanks to the sun and water, the little men and animals in the pumpkin came to life and jumped out; the suns were burning like fire, and in the evening, when the moons came out, it was so bright that I could not open my eyes; then the immortal spirit asked who could get rid of excess suns and moons; the wild boar replied that he had long fangs and could eat them; brother and sister became asked him to do this, but the boar replied that they should then feed him rice sprouts; brother and sister agreed and told him to eat four of the five suns; the boar ate four suns and four moons gnawed, their pieces turned into stars; when he returned, there were no rice sprouts to give him, but his brother and sister allowed him to eat all the rice he saw; so wild boars they often eat rice sown by people; brother and sister went to wander around the world, but could not find people and cried; the heavenly god of thunder heard their crying, came down and asked why they were crying; told them to get married; brother and sister said that they were relatives and if they married, they would be punished by the god of thunder; he replied that he did not intend to punish them; brother and sister did not believe it, and then he decided to show theirs strength; there were peals of thunder, the ground shuddered, rivers overflowed, trees split; the god of thunder laughed if they believed him now, and then they obeyed and married; they a son was born, they could not get enough of him; the god of thunder came again and told him to give the child to him; brother and sister said that the child had not yet been born, but the god of thunder replied that he already knew everything; he promised that he would turn the child into a multitude of people, and then brother and sister would not be sad that there were no people in the world; brother and sister disagreed, and the god of thunder took the boy by force; he cut it into pieces, began to sift them through a sieve; the sifted pieces of meat turned into four boys and four girls; the god of thunder gave them clothes; the first was a shirt and pants, he became Han; for the second cloth it was not enough, the god of thunder gave him two pieces, tied them in front and back to his waist, and he got so-called bag-shaped pants; this boy became a tsisky; the third young man got even less cloth; the god of thunder made a triangular loincloth for him, this young man became Xiaomi Li; the latter got the smallest piece of cloth, this young man became Bende Li; boys married girls, humanity became live from generation to generation]: Zhou 2002, No. 2:3-4; li (Hainan, wu. Baoting) [two brothers: the elder Lao-dan, the youngest is Lao-ding; their wives have been pregnant for three years; an old man with thick eyebrows, big eyes, white hair and a silver beard from Mount Wuzhishan (Mount Five Fingers) told the brothers that a pumpkin should be planted in front of the gate; when it sets the fruit, the children would be born; when the pumpkin stalk reached 10,000 zhans in length, one flower bloomed on it; on the hundredth the day began to produce fruit; wives gave birth to children; the older brother had a boy Lao-xian, the youngest had a girl Hefa; a hundred days later the fetus became the size of a house; a downpour began; water flooded the whole earth; brothers they made a hole in the pumpkin, placed children, a bull, a horse, a pig, a dog, a cat, a rooster and other animals inside; the rat, seeing that they were not going to take it, made its way unnoticed by itself; the brothers repaired it the hole was waxed, so the surface of the pumpkin seemed to be waxy; while the pumpkin was swimming, the children and animals inside ate its pulp; after 10 years, the downpour stopped, the water receded, the pumpkin was on the top of Mount Wuzhishan; then 5 years of drought, and the sun was burning so that ridges and gorges appeared that resembled five fingers; one piece of pulp was left; cat and dog began to argue for him, their enmity continues to this day; the pumpkin has a hard shell; the horse tried to pierce it, broke its horns (now they are gone); the bull broke its teeth; the pig flattened its nose; the rat gnawed the peel; the children told the rooster to get out first; he cried, announcing the dawn; when he heard the rooster scream, brother and sister and animals went out; the top of the mountain was close to the sun, it was hot, brother and sister dug five wells; they wore from there water, from the spilled water, the current five rivers were made; brother and sister built a house; brother built a bunk bed, and sister weaved two mats; brother slept below, sister upstairs; south wind blew his brother's male vibes into his sister's body, she became pregnant; the heavenly spirit decided that brother and sister had indulged in debauchery; sent a crow to report this to Heavenly Lord; he sent the god of thunder into the world; When he saw a pregnant sister sleeping in the same room with her brother, the god of thunder was about to strike with lightning, but the earthly spirit said that there were no other people left; the god of thunder kept his brother and sister alive, but promised killing people for incest; this is how the custom arose that prohibits brothers from entering their sisters' rooms at night; three years later, the sister gave birth to a piece of meat; wrapped it in cloth, put it in front of the altar; 7 days later she unfolded a piece of meat and saw that it came to life; cut it into three parts; wrapped the first part in cotton cloth, put it on a board and let it go down the river; this piece of meat turned into Han, so Han people wear cotton clothes; she wrapped the second part in 4 small pieces of cotton cloth, put it on a wasabi sheet and let another river flow; this piece turned into miao; Miao women wear skirts of 4 pieces of cloth; the woman wrapped the third part in canvas, put it on a coconut palm leaf and let it flow along the third river; this piece turned into whether; so do women know how to weave linen and make clothes out of it; 99 years later, Lao Xian and Hefa grew old; the earthly spirit took them to the underworld and made them the deities of the area responsible for the joys and sorrows of the people of Hainan]: Zhou 2002, No. 6 : 9-11; li (Hainan, w. Qiongzhong) [there were only flood waters and burning mountains; a gorlyanka pumpkin swam along the waves; when the flood receded and the fires went out, a man and a woman got out of the pumpkin; they became husband and wife, ate wild fruits, they made clothes from bark; they had a boy and a girl; when they grew up, brother and sister began to live separately in caves on the tops of two mountains; soon each went in search of parents; for 20 years they found no one; when they met, they did not know each other, they got married; they gave birth to a boneless lump of meat; they cut it into 10 pieces; sister threw it into the river; when they reached the seaside plains, these the pieces turned into people from whom the Han people descended; the other 5 brothers took to the mountains; one piece was eaten by dogs, one piece was pecked by birds, and the remaining three became ancestors; therefore, there are many or few Han Chinese]: Zhou 2002, No. 7:11; Chinese: Eberhard 1937, No. 48 (Hunan, Zhejiang) [brother and sister stay alone in the world; ask an oracle if they should marry; millstones roll down two mountains: they lie down one on top of the other; sister gives birth to a piece of meat or pumpkin; brother cuts it, people appear], 49 (Guangdong, Zhejiang, Hunan) [people come from a chopped piece of meat, pumpkin, egg]: 88-89, 89-90; Riftin 1987b (Sichuan) [Fuxi and his sister Nuiwa were virtuous; one of the immortals learned that the Jade Sovereign would send a shower, flood the ground with a flood; went down under the guise of a beggar, F. and N. sheltered him; he gave they had a basket to sit in when the flood struck; only they escaped; decided to mold new people out of clay; Mother Earth asked them not to dig a hole in it, told them to marry; N. agreed if F. she would catch up with her, ran around the mountain seven times, F. did not catch up; the turtle advised her to run not after her sister, but towards her; N. broke her shell in anger, F. glued it together, the stitches remained; N. said that she would marry F ., if they lower the millstone from the mountain and its millstone lies on it; the millstone lay down, N. became pregnant, gave birth to a piece of meat; F. cut it into a hundred pieces, each became human; they ran away, F. and N. gave them names depending on who got where (if to the river, He, if he climbed a peach, then Tao, etc.]: 358-359 (=2011, No. 1:16-17); Chinese (Shaanxi, w. Mianxian) [The Jade Emperor was busy and forgot to send rain. The sun had been burning on the ground for more than 300 days. Rivers and wells dried up, plants, animals and people were dying from the heat. Sun Wukong decided to go down to earth, saw what was going on there, and reported to the Jade Emperor. He sent SU to Mother Wanma for a pitcher of clean water. She warned SU that if you pour out a drop, it would rain a little, two drops would rain heavily and three drops would rain, and you should not pour out more than three drops. However, SU thought the drought was too severe, so he poured five or six at once. The rain lasted 81 days, and the water flooded the plains and reached the mountain peaks. People, cereals and livestock died. But brother and sister lived at the top of the mountain. Their mother and father worked at the foot of the mountain and were washed away by the flood. The baby's crying reached the ear of Taibo (Venus), a star living at the Southern Gate of Heaven. She looked down, saw the flood and the last people and animals that had taken refuge on that mountain, took two gorlyons from her bosom and blew on them. The pumpkins grew in size and swam to the mountain. Birds and animals climbed into one pumpkin, and brother and sister climbed into the other, taking cereals, as well as chickens, ducks, dogs and pigs with them. After the flood, the pumpkins descended to the top of the mountain, and people and animals sitting there came out of them. Brother and sister have grown up. One day, chickens and ducks started talking and began to convince brother and sister to marry. The brother thought this was Heaven's will, and the sister was embarrassed. She invited her brother to go to the east mountain and plant a pueraria there. She herself will go to the western mountain and plant another pueraria. If the shoots of these plants meet in six months, then marriage is really pleasing to Heaven. Five months later, the shoots of the planted plants descended from the mountains and intertwined with each other. The brother asked his sister again, but she could not make up her mind. After a few days, pigs and dogs began to convince them to marry again, and the sister offered to go up to the southern and northern mountains and lower them down the millstone. If they meet, it means that the marriage is pleasing to Heaven. The millstones joined together, brother and sister got married, and two years later the sister gave birth to a lump of meat. She got angry and cut it into many pieces, carried some to the mountains and threw it to bulls and horses, brought some to the river bank and threw it to fish and prawns, and some hung peaches and plums on the trees, and some of them were brought back home and left to pigs and dogs. These pieces of meat have become human beings. To distinguish them, brother and sister gave each a name: those who were abandoned in the mountains, gave the names Niu (Cow) and Ma (Horse), those who were in the water Yui (Fish) and Xia (Shrimp), and those who were on the trees are Tao (Peach) and Lee (Plum), and those who were brought back home were Zhu (Pig) and Gow (Dog). This is how a hundred surnames appeared]: Zhou Yang et al. 1996, No. 11:13-14; Chinese (Gansu, Wu. Huixian) [In ancient times, elderly spouses lived at the foot of the mountain in front of the river, and there was a vegetable garden planted with pumpkins next to the house. They lived well, but they were sad that they did not have children. One day, a gray-bearded old man came and praised pumpkins, gave his grandfather magic seeds and said that the pumpkin that grows from them cannot be plucked, because when it is ripe, it will fall by itself. The old man planted the seeds and they sprouted a few days later. The old man looked after him diligently, and he quickly had a fetus. In autumn, he collected all the pumpkins except the one that grew from magic seeds, although they had already reached the size of a seed. One evening they heard a strange sound in the garden, went out to see what had happened, and a huge pumpkin rolled at their feet, split in two, and a boy and a girl jumped out, knelt down they began to bow and call the old people mother and father. The old people realized that this was a gift from the heavenly gods, fell to their knees and thanked the sky, and then took the children to their home. Ten years later, when the children grew up, it rained heavily in autumn, the river overflowed its banks, flooded the garden with pumpkins, and then the house itself. The old people put the children in the pumpkin shell from which they came, and they began to swim in it like a boat, and the old people drowned. After 49 days, it stopped raining and the water receded, leaving only these brothers and sister. When they reached marriageable age, the brother offered to marry, but the sister initially refused, but then realized that there were no other options. She suggested doing this: a brother would take a thread and she would take a needle, they would stand on the tops of two mountains, throw a thread and a needle, and if the thread went through the eye of the needle, they would marry. The brother agreed, they did as the sister said, and the thread fell into the eye of the needle. The sister offered another challenge: to climb different mountains and roll millstones from there, and if they met, brother and sister would marry. The brother agreed, they did again as the sister suggested, the millstones met, and then the brother and sister married. A year later, my sister gave birth to an ugly and smelly ball of meat, offered to cut it into a hundred pieces and hang it on trees to scare away wild animals. The brother did as she said, but the next day these 100 pieces of meat turned into 100 boys and girls. The brother and sister decided to name them after the trees on which they were hung: those hanging on the poplar were given the name Yang (poplar), the name Liu (willow) on the willow, and so on. Each of them gave birth to their own children, and this is how a hundred surnames appeared]: Zhou Yang et al. 2001, No. 10b: 11.
Plains. Assiniboine [the girl goes to bed with her brother; he paints her hands, stains her blanket; after identifying her sister, she sails away in a boat; she promises to kill everyone if he does not return; turns into a bird, kills people with lightning, burns her parents; the Hawk grabs her, her brother cuts her to pieces; puts a piece of her flesh in each hearth; new people emerge from them]: Lowie 1909a, No. 11:160-161.
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 met in the village by new women]: Kruse 1955, No. 35:415; emerillon: Renault-Lescure et al. 1987, No. 1 [after the flood, people gathered on a caumou palm tree, no ground can be seen from the top; they regularly threw palm seeds, listening to whether they fall into the water or to the ground; when the seeds became fall to the ground, people tied leaves to their heads, arms and legs, descended to the ground, but became jaguars, bakers and other animals; only one man remained human; found a capuchin monkey in the village ( Cetus apella), tied to an empty pot; brought cassava; when he returned next time, kashiri was ready; the man pretended to leave, found, married a girl; she gave birth to a child the size of little capuchin; asked not to kill her uncle: howler monkeys (Atouatta seniculus) and ateles (arachnids, Ateles panicus); when the husband killed the howler, the child became a monkey, ran into the forest, wife also disappeared; Wilakalo descended from the sky, ordered three hammocks to be hung, killed the anaconda, cut into as many pieces as there were peoples in the land, put the pieces in hammocks, left for a few days; the meat wormed; when a person lay down in a hammock, worms became human; W. told everyone to dive into boiling water, people were frightened, did not, W. bought the spider; the white man swam, turned white; followed by an Indian, the last black man, turned black from dirty water; W. gave the Indian shoes, he did not take it, the European took it, sailed on the ship; Indian shamans W. taught how to make a shamanic maraka rattle; W. told the snake to bite a tree, it bit a man he hit her with a stick; the same with a mosquito, a jaguar; a man threw ash on agami, her back turned white; atele painted her face red uruku, capuchin painted her body, the howler rubbed its roots, turned yellow; the men poured out sperm into calebasses to have children; women did not have genitals; cul jaune pierced the woman, her beak turned red; W. attached a piece of wood to the man, he met the woman]: 129-141; Perret 1933 [ After the flood, God tells you to put pieces of a snake cut into three hammocks. By copulating with them, the only man gives birth to people (emerellon from the chest, Caribbean and blacks from the tail, Europeans from the head)]: 84.
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; kariri [people only have one woman; Tuppart kills her, cuts her to pieces; every man wraps his part in cotton wool, leaves in his hut; when men return from hunting, new women cook]: Martin de Nantes 1706 in Lowie 1946:559.
Chaco. Chamacoco [men kill first women; one hides in a tree; men climb after her and rape her, slaughter her; leave them in their huts; when they return from fishing, they expel a scout; he lies as if the flesh has rotted; when men enter the village, they see new wives there]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 80, 84, 85, 87 [(Metraux 1943:116); an uninitiated boy was lying sick in his hut; mother climbed to repair the roof, he saw her genitals, met her; told her about the mystery of Anãpösö (perfumes that frighten women are mummers); when they learn that the secret has been solved, the men killed all women; one ran away in the form of a deer; men had to do women's work; the woman who ran away hid in a tree; spat; she was noticed by a man under the tree; the men climbed on wood, 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 one 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 afraid of the jaguars, came back halfway, said that the pieces had rotted; sent another He turned into a bird and saw that the village was full of women and children; but when he returned, he said that vultures had eaten the meat; the men came and saw children and women; those who took pieces from their hips got fat wives, and thin fingers]: 290-295, 320-337, 348-349; 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, blood they brought blood to the mother; she poured blood into clay pots separately for each son; a year later, children's voices could be heard from the mother's house; there were 5 girls; they came from the blood of a deer; this old woman is a falcon tale]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982, No. 20:66-67.