F49C. First people don't know how to give birth.
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At the beginning of time, women do not know how to give birth. See motive F49.
Melanesia. Majprat [women did not have genitals; they were copulated through the mouth or ear; to remove the baby, the pregnant woman was fried to death at the stake, then her stomach was ripped open; at the young Karet N'Bejun pregnant sister (his woman; it is clear that he is a sister); he saw a fruit floating along the river, went to look for a tree; filled two bags with fruit from the tree at the source of the river; on the top of his head was the beautiful Ratu, smelled of possum; they came down, she had a possum vagina; showed K. how to use her vagina rather than her mouth; they swam to his house, R. chewed ginger, blew all parts of Sister K.'s body from her head down; fetus her womb did not move up as before, but down, her vagina opened, the baby was born; since then, women have been giving birth, and their vaginas have the smell of possum]: Elmberg 1968, No. 15:263-264; abelam [first pregnant women had their bellies cut, the baby was taken out, the woman died; one day all the people left, the pregnant woman began to have contractions; the skate bar of the men's house turned into a person, he helped the woman give birth; since then since childbirth occurs naturally]: Huber-Greub 1988, no. 8.1.22:290; Buka [Porana taught women how to give birth, they had their bellies ripped open before]: Thur., 417-418 in Wheeler 1926:43; Siuai ( Bougainville) [Orphan (Pana»õa) taught people to wait for the sago to settle in the trough, drain the water, then carry the trough home rather than carry full water; peel nuts from the husks; make slit gongs (they used to beat with a stick against a rock); sleep inside houses, not on top of them; went with my brother's wife to pick nuts, told her to climb a palm tree, looked at her vagina when the woman came down, touched her; she replied that her husband thinks it was a wound and inserts her penis under her arm; P. got along with the woman correctly; her brother noticed blood, the wife replied that P. had cured her wound; her brother took P. to sea, deliberately dropped the coconuts, P. swam after them, brother sailed away; P. got to the island; ash came; P. told ash to collect everything she could find, bake; since then people have been eating cooked food; brother came to see dead P., saw bones animals and birds eaten by them, decided that they were P.'s bones; climbed a tree to look around; P. jumped into his boat, sailed away; brother died on the island; P. married his widow; when the child was ready to be born, people came cut her stomach with knives; P. drove them away, explained that only the umbilical cord should be cut; P. arranged a party, christened the child]: Oliver 1955:43-45.
Micronesia-Polynesia. Tikopia; Hawaii; Mangareva; Tuamotu {probably}.
SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks (Alutors).
The Arctic. Central Yupik.
Subarctic. Tanaina; tanana; taltan.
California. Karok; vilot; hupa.
The Northern Andes. Guajiro.
Llanos. Cuiva; sikuani.
Western Amazon. Waorani; shuar; aguaruna.
Montagna - Jurua. Sharanahua; kachinahua.