F76. Animals teach love.
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People learn how to make love when they see birds, fish, or animals copulate; animals teach people how to make love or make people want to.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Luba-kasai [during the dry season, God created Kongolo ka Mukanda ("spiral of law") with a human head, body parts of various animals; then created man and woman, animals; even earlier there was a messenger God Maweja and three other spirits; two of them persuaded a man and a woman to eat plants forbidden by God; KM met a woman in front of a man, then told a man to copulate with her (var.: KM is hermaphrodite, copulated with both); God told the Sun, Month, Man, Man's Star to bring beer; put them to sleep; the Sun woke up the next day, a month later; Man and his Star had to wake up; they violated the ban on not drinking beer, became mortal; M. rebelled against God, other spirits, led by his son Tschame and Longbeard, on God's orders, drove the rebels like game, drove them out of heaven; to the west, the four stars of Orion forming a quadrangle - the four great spirits of the summer sky; the three stars of the Orion Belt - a dog (Long-bearded), a hunter (son of the spirit of Tshame), game (M.); M. and other spirits fell into Pleiades side ("lightning grower"); M. - in the lower world in the west; God turned CM into the main marsh serpent, his breath is a rainbow]: Fourche, Morlighem 1973:105-127 in Studstill 1984:127-128; bast [the first man knew how to build huts, the first woman could make pottery; the man came to the knock of an ax, came to the woman, stayed with her; they learned to copulate when they saw mating jackals; a woman gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, who also gave birth to twins, the world was inhabited by humans; people were at odds with each other, the strongest survived]: Theuws 1962:202 in Schoffeleers 1991:353; fang [The god Essamnyamaböge has four sons: Mode (human), gorilla, chimpanzee, snake; he leaves M. and the woman, tells them not to eat ebon fruits, not to copulate; sends a Gorilla, then carry the Chimpanzee they have corn, cassava, peanuts, fire, etc., they stop eating, do not inform them; then the Snake, who persuades M. to eat the forbidden fruit; E. came to the village of M., he and the woman hid behind a banana; E. ordered a woman will give birth, every second child will die]: Tessmann (Die Pangwe, S. 27) in Abrahamsson 1951:11, 94; bafia [a large vulture dropped droppings from the sky, it grew into a poplar, came out of poplar a snake, she told it to rain on the rock, the thunder split, and the Owunu man and the Ambono woman came out from there; A. took fire from the same hole; A. and O. learned sex by looking at the antelope]: Tessmann 1934a: 179; boulsa [Naaven gave people a chicken and a rooster; the rooster showed how to copulate; N. said that the rooster and the chicken are suitable for sacrifices, gave tools for cultivating fields, cultural plants and pets]: Kotlyar 2009, No. 169:122.
West Africa. Dagari [in the forest, a woman sees a boa constrictor copulating with her female; asks her to do the same; when she returns home, she teaches her husband to copulate; gives birth to a child]: Goody 1972:295; boulsa [ God created a woman with a man and a chicken with a rooster; a rooster and a chicken mated, they had chickens, and a woman and a man, although sleeping together, did not know about copulation; finally, the rooster told the woman and she taught the man; when the child was born, the man said that he should beware of chickens and roosters; God corrected: this is wrong, he has made people and chickens no longer understand each other; if a person dies, chicken is slaughtered at a funeral]: Schott 1993:67-75; ashanti [men and women did not feel attracted and had no children; the boa constrictor told them to face each other, sprayed water on their genitals told me to copulate]: Parrinder 1967:50.
(Wed. Western Asia. Old Testament [God settled Adam and Eve in Eden; forbid eating fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil; whoever eats will die; the serpent persuaded E. to taste the fruit, she gave A., both realized their nudity; God He drove them out of Eden, made them leather clothes, told them to work]: Gen. 2-3).
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Miri [Si-Duinye (sun) sculpted a man and a woman; they asked why they were different, S. told them to live together, but they could not get together; the Snake gave sweet fruit to a woman who was ashamed nudity, let the man eat, he also covered himself; S. said that now they would have to work, give birth to children and die; the Snake cut off his arms and legs; although the man and woman wished each other, they still they did not know how to have sexual intercourse; the Apu-Todu bird poked its beak into the genitals of a sleeping woman, the man realized that the couple had children]: Elwin 1958b, No. 5:361-363.
Burma - Indochina. Wa, palaunn [brother and sister were in a pumpkin; the bird (sparrow) agreed to release them if it got other grains; the sister filled her mouth and other depressions with seeds, ordered cover your brother's ears with seeds so as not to become deaf at the sounds of the new world; the bird (or many birds) pecked a hole; helping, the brother rubbed the pumpkin from the inside, the peel became charred, so people are dark, dirty on coal); the birds began to fight for grains, made a fuss, brother and sister almost became deaf, brother ran away; they searched for each other for a long time, walking around the mountain; edible seeds sprouted from their lost seeds pumpkins; then brother and sister met, got married, their descendants settled down; var.: brother and sister forgot about their relationship while still in the pumpkin; the birds showed them how to connect]: Stratanovich 1983:67-68 ; mountain monks of Laos [like Wa; the number of bird liberators is large; Khmu has "the ancestors of a hundred nations" in the pumpkin]: Stratanovich 1983:68.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Semangs [the first man and woman did not know how to have children; they were taught by a monkey]: Skeat, Blagden 1906:218; murut: Wooley 1928, No. 3 [brother and sister escaped after the flood; brother saw how rats or squirrels copulate, got together with his sister; she gave birth to a dog; she brought everything she needed to get fire by friction, showed what to do, the young man lit a fire; the sister gave birth to a chicken, then a son and a daughter ; they gave birth to new people; the chicken finds rice, the dog teaches agriculture], 13 [during a storm, people abuse a dog, a bird, tying burning guns to them; water floods the ground; a woman flees to tree; when the waters have come down, he meets a young man with a girl; this is brother and sister; they see mantok (local squirrels) copulate; later the brother kills a female, finds a cub inside; guessing how to give birth descendants, brother and sister marry]: 261-263, 361-364; East Flores (Sika District) [1) Arndt 1933:72f; at first the land is flat and empty, with only birds; brother and sister have come out of the ground, watching birds and insects, they learned to copulate, gave birth to three children who settled in different places; people come from them; 2) Arndt 1933:67-70l; brother and sister lived on a rock in the middle of the sea; saw how two falcons copulate, they came together]: Walk 1949:93; Solor: Arndt 1938, No. 2:2-3 [first there were two mountains, on one pond, on another spring; there were a Masan Wahane man and a Péni woman Masan Dai; they gave birth to a boy and a girl with the same names; a coconut palm grows, raises brother and sister; water gushes out of the ground, everything is flooded, only brother and sister remain on top of the palm tree; a snake and deer make sure that the palm tree does not fall, the crocodile does not attack the children; when the ground is dry, brother and sister came down, saw grasshoppers mating, then they also got married; they gave birth to twins Demon and Padzi, then two girls; D. wanted to take both for himself, P. did not allow it; D. and P. and their sister wives gave birth to two hostile fratria demon and padzi], 3-4 [escaped during the coconut palm flood brother and sister; every day they threw fruit down; on the eighth day, the nut fell to dry ground and split; the snake, iguana and deer guarded the children; brother and sister saw grasshoppers and snakes mating; joined marriage, they had two sons and two daughters; they became the ancestors of the Fratria demon and padzi].
China - Korea. Chinese (Henan, Wu. Miyan) [there was a flood, all the people drowned, and Pangu and his sister stayed. To revive mankind, the Lord of Heaven commanded them to marry. They refused, and he sent them a heavenly spirit, who commanded them to climb the mountain and roll down the millstones from there. The millstones at the foot of the mountain joined together, and then brother and sister married. That's why we still call our husband and wife brother and sister. Grandma Pangu couldn't get pregnant. Then the Lord of Heaven sent two turtles to earth to show the couple how to mate. After that, Grandma Pangu finally became pregnant, but gave birth to a lump of meat. Grandpa Pangu carried him to the northern mountain and buried him in the ground. After a while, Grandma Pangu became pregnant again (same). This time, Grandpa Pangu took a knife, cut a lump, and a lot of girls jumped out, laughing, talking and calling them father and mother. Grandpa Pangu counted them - it turned out to be exactly a hundred. Grandpa Pangu remembered the first lump of meat, dug it up, cut it, and a lot of boys jumped out of there, also a hundred. He thought that the boys survived because they were guarded by a hundred deities, and to thank them, he built a temple of the Hundred Deities on the northern mountain. This place is now called the village of the Temple of the Hundred Deities. When the children grew up and Pangu's grandparents married them, the number of people began to increase]: Zhou Yang et al. 2001b, No. 4:6-7.
(Wed. Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kumyks: Khalidova 2012, No. 49 [people did not know how to bury the dead; the younger brother killed the elder, the mother carried the body of her son; saw how one raven killed another in a fight, buried him; then the woman she also dug her son's grave; since then people have begun to bury the dead], 51 [Eva gave birth three times: brother and sister in the morning, cousins at noon, second cousins in the evening; by the time the autumn ripened The apple twins were supposed to marry and form three married couples; but one day, a brother born in the morning fell in love with a cousin and his cousin killed him for it; this was the first death, people did not know what to do with the dead; a black raven flew in, descended, buried a nut with its beak; people understood, followed suit]: 69, 70-71).
Taiwan - Philippines. Sazek (same as atayal and paywan) [a man and a woman came out of the stone; when they saw flies copulating, they came together, gave birth to a son, then a daughter; the sister told her brother she would go find for him, his wife told him to come to the rock at the foot of the mountain; on the appointed day, his brother went down the mountain, found a woman by the cliff, did not recognize her sister, because she smeared soot on her face]: Matsumoto 1928:119-120.
Japan. Ryukyu Islands [Chûzanseikan historical work, 1650; Mr. Neba told God Amamiko that there is only water below, and we need to create a place for the gods to live; he went down and saw that the waves of the East Sea connect with the waves of the Western Sea; returned to heaven and lowered the earth, stones, grass, trees, creating numerous islands; at the request of A., Mr. Neba lowered a man to the ground and a woman; they learned to copulate by watching other living beings; a female goddess gave birth to three boys and two girls; the eldest son became the first king, the middle son became the first local elder, the youngest was the first peasant; the eldest daughter was the first princess priestess, the youngest was the first priestess; having risen to heaven for the third time, A. brought the seeds of five cereals from there, organized a festival of heaven, earth and gods; later the gods disappeared, disasters hit the country]: Matsumoto 1928:114-115.
Plains. Arikara [Wolf and his friend come to Spider Old Man and his wife; both ugly, dirty, unable to copulate; Wolf and friend wiped them with grass, made them normal, taught them to copulate, from them people happen]: Dorsey 1904d, #2:12.
(Wed. Mesoamerica Tsotsil [people copulated by inserting a penis under women's arms; God sent St. Peter found out why women don't give birth; he met a woman, showed how to copulate by inserting a penis into her vagina; St. Peter was no longer allowed into heaven (apparently because he didn't just tell you how to copulate, but to demonstrate it himself); he was sent to the lower world to become Master of the Dead]: Stross 1977:2).
NW Amazon. Tariana [people see deer copulate]: Brandão de Amorim 1943:46.
Montagna - Jurua. Chayahuita [Konpanama sent a flood; only one person escaped by climbing the Zapote tree; as the water rose, the tree grew higher; and the mountain on which the tree was located, also grew; it became dark; (hereinafter: there are many people in the tree; they ate fruits); different birds gathered in the same tree; every time the fruit ripens and falls, the water level drops; when they descended to the ground, God sent them two parrots; while men were hunting, they became girls spinning cotton; one of the brothers came back, saw parrots become girls; he spoke to them, they again turned into parrots and flew away; the brother who missed the parrots opened the vessel, a lump of clay falls on his genitals, they became feminine; God taught: when a woman is menstruating, her genitals should be to lay flowers, in 9 months he will have a baby; but the monkey taught me to copulate; God: it will be difficult to give birth now]: Ochoa Siguas 1992:170-173; cachinahua [young man takes a girl's vulva for a wound; people don't know how to treat it; seeing monkeys copulating, he understands why female genitals are needed (the origin of sexual intercourse)]: Ans 1975: No. 12:133-136; 1978, No. 13:175-177; Metraux 1948a: 19; capanahua [worm mink under a grain grater; girl explains her movements to her mother by being bitten by an ant; mother pours boiling water over the worm; woman gives birth to worms and a son; son grows up, sees copulating monkeys; asks his grandmother the names of all parts of her body; when the vulva is named, the boy says monkeys used this part]: Hall Loos, Loos 1980 (2): 49-51.
The Central Andes. Quechua (Cusco District) [from woodpeckers]: Nuñez del Prado 1974:242
Bolivia - Guaporé. Eseeha: Chavarría Mendoza 1984 [people descend from the sky on a rope; once on earth, they forget how to make love; they think that women have a worm in their genitals, throw tar in them; The monkey teaches people]: 35-38; Hissink, Hahn 1988 [people did not know how to make love, they saw Capuchin monkeys do it, they taught them]: 184; chacobo [man conceived children in calebas, hung them Calebasses on the wall of the house, children were gradually born; monkeys showed how to make love; when a man got together with his wife, all the children who came from the Calebas left, the packs were ancestors of the Kayuwawa Indians]: Kelm 1972, No. 12:239; guarazu [people see parrots copulating, they want to do too; Yaneramay brings male and female organs; they are ignored for a long time during the festival; so the genitals have rotted and now have a specific smell]: Riester 1977, No. 13:249.
Southern Amazon. Mehinaku [Kaipura and his friend Tala learned what sex is when they accidentally see fish copulating (a long fish is a man, a fish with a wide mouth is a woman; when fish people have finished copulating, turned into fish); K. and T. taught other people]: Gregor 1985:76-77.