Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

F84. Simulating chastity. 62.68.

A guest or younger brother has sexual intercourse with the owner's wife or older brother. Wanting to demonstrate a long abstinence, the character sprinkles ash on the head of the penis or lubricates it with fruit juice.

NW Amazon. Barasana [Manioc-stick Anaconda (MA) is the half-brother, the father of the current Sun, the son of the Ancient Sun and his wife, the sky; Mako is his younger brother, single; having become a tapir for a while, he left traces; suggested that MA dig a tapir trap hole, MA fell into the underworld on a tree by the river; the Month, the Morning Star, the striped water snake, the big and small otters (they are rowers of the Sun) swim in silence, or they say that the Sun ("MA's mother's son") swims after them; Sun grebe (Heliornis fulica) takes it but leaves it in the water when it blows the winds; the Sun takes it into its boat; tells him to dive for a deck with fish; MA says it's just an anaconda; while the Sun is diving on its own, the Monkeys, the Squirrel, the Otters (they're the Sun's rowers) tell them to remove the substance from the Sun's bag, the Sun was going to burn them MA; plugging the anaconda's mouth and anus , The Sun raised it, poured out fish of all known species; the speckled cooking pot is a poisonous snake; MA only pretended to eat this fish extracted from the anaconda; the Sun releases clouds of fire, MA every time turns into a spider, hides; he releases the substance that he took out of the Sun's bag, he lights up a feather crown, he recognizes him as a brother; the Sun rises to the sky, leaves MA; that turns into a tick, a tapir carries it across the river in her ear; Tapir's wife blows the wind; Ant Bird goes to copulate with her, she complains to her husband; Tapir tells everyone to turn away the foreskin; MA advises Ant Birt sprinkle ash on the head of the penis, Tapir believes he did not copulate; the other participants (Tapir calls them grandchildren) are termites; those who went to clear the path were torn to pieces by a jaguar; in fact, it's a bird termite pecking; MA meets her children, his wife is pregnant with Mako; see motive K1]: S.Hugh-Jones 1979, No. 6A: 287-293; macuna [younger brother is single, wants an older wife; creates a huge a tree with a parrot nest, invites his brother to climb to make feather hats for the holiday; throws away the thin tree that the brother climbed on, goes to live with his wife; the elder upstairs is starving ; asks the anaconda for help; the anaconda replies that he will climb to eat it, but he asks him to climb his tail forward, goes down the anaconda, saves himself; then his younger brother pushes him into the hole, he falls into the lower world, taking the form of cotton wool, he finds himself on a tree branch above the river; looks human again; different types of ducks swim along the river; each replies that her boat is too small, the next one will take it; the last duck is The sun, his boat is like fire; the sailors there are Howler Monkeys and Squirrels; the Sun lights the river, the elder brother turns into a spider, does not burn, the Sun recognizes its virtues; sailed to the Sun's wife; while There is no sun, a person does everything wrong (he collects coca by leaves, cuts trees on the site, and does not let the ax do it himself, eats mojojoy from a palm tree - these are Sun workers); the Sun's wife thinks to send him to earth; Tapiriha tells him to turn into a tick, carries, delivers to small animals; while she sleeps, Tintin copulates with her; she checks all penises to find the culprit; The advice of others, Tintin sprinkles ash on his penis, has not been found; man removes hunters' arrows from the bodies of animals, which he can easily see; they also think he cures them for diseases; with the beginning of summer, everything they went for flying ants, the man realized that he was on a familiar land; children recognize him, they say that his mother is pregnant with his uncle; a man creates a pond with fish, sends his younger brother with other people collect poisoned fish, burn them in a pond with the force received from the Sun]: Århem et al. 2004:521-528; letuama [Tapiriha slept with her legs apart; male animals copulated with her; When she woke up, she complained to her husband; he looked at the penises, but everyone sprinkled them with earth and remained undetected]: Palma 1984:148; chikuna [Dioy hides his wife; his brother Epi hears laughter at night; in the absence of D. dances, showing off her genitals; the woman laughs, E. finds her inside the flute, copulates with her; she becomes pregnant, no longer fits in the flute; E. lubricates her penis fruit juice; frozen latex falls off, D. understands the deception; tries unsuccessfully to get rid of E.; see motive K1]: Nimuendaju 1952:127-128.

Southern Amazon. Paresi [Okiro's husbands were the handsome Toberaré and the ugly Awlomenaré; A. came to Kingfisher; while that was not the case, he got along with his wife Duck, but pretended to be chaste by sprinkling foreskin with ash and hairs tied on Duck's vulva; Kingfisher sees that while bathing, A. washes off dirt from A.'s genitals, believes that he is innocent, feeds fish broth, making A. handsome; rejects at home O., who now wants him, goes to live with his mother; T. also comes to A., copulates with Duck, but refuses to sprinkle ash, tie hairs; A. feeds him with a decoction of worms and rotten fish, turning him into a freak, O. rejected him]: Pereira 1986, No. 50:436-441.