F97. Forbidden fruit: humans become sexually mature, C621. .11.12.17.19.-.21.23.26.-.28.30.34.-.36.39.40. (.52.)

After eating certain foods, people become sexually mature and/or lose hair or skin on their bodies. Cf. H56 motive (humans become mortal).

Fang, luba-hemba, (chuka, paré), efik, Old Testament, Arabs (Muslim mythology), Banaba (Oshen), Miri, Kachin, Korku, Pardhan, Gondas, (phom), Fataluku, (Toraja), Bagobo, Chinese (Gansu), Hungarians, Russian written tradition, Pamiris, Kalash, Khakas, Altaians, Northern Khanty, Mansi, Northern Yakut reindeer herders, Algomi-Uchur and Amur Evenks, Forest Yukaghirs, Kodiak, ( lacandons).

Bantu-speaking Africa. 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 Chimpanzees take them 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 banana; E. told a woman to give birth, every second child would die]: Tessmann in Abrahamsson 1951:11, 94; luba-hemba [in the forest, the first woman sees Kizimu (a black half-snake, seducer); he gives she has two fruits, tells her to give one to her husband, let him open, dry the contents on her chest, then the woman will do the same with her fetus; the woman opens her fetus, tells her husband about K., but keeps silent about the fetus; when the contents of the fetus were dry, she felt like a woman; the man also met K.; when he learned that the man did not receive the fruit from the woman, K. gave it to him himself; the man felt like a man; because of what happened, men are unfaithful (recherchent les femmes), spouses quarrel]: Colle 1913:523-524; (cf. Chuka (Meru) [Murungu (Ngai, Mwene inya) is the creator; people lived in Mbwa, without clothes, did not work; God created a young man first, then a girl, they gave birth to a child; God forbid eating fruit a certain tree; the snake said that whoever tasted them would find the mind of God; the woman tried, the man refused, but finally agreed, Adam's apple was formed; God punished the snake by flattening it head; sent a mole to tell people that they must be reborn after death; the mole met the hyena, talked about God's commission; the hyena resisted - it would have nothing to eat if people became immortal; threatened the mole to swallow it, he agreed to tell people that death would be final; God punished the mole by telling him to live underground far from heaven; since then, the mole has been getting out of the ground only at night]: Scheub 2000:162; couple [Kyumbi sculpted people out of clay, retired, his place was taken by the sun god Izuwa; K. gave people cattle and cereals, was close; Kiriamage snakes seduced people to eat forbidden K. eggs; K. punished them by starving them, people ate bugs, died, a man and a woman remained, they gave birth to new people; people began to build a tower to the sky to go to war; god K. caused an earthquake, the tower fell, crushed the builders; after that, K. removed the sky from the ground]: Millroth 1965:28).

West Africa. Efik [the supreme god Abasi created man and woman; did not want to have rivals in his affairs, so he did not allow the first couple to go down to earth; Abashi's wife Atai did not agree, sent people to the ground; Abashi forbade them to make love and get food on the land, every day, at the signal, the first couple returned to heaven to eat; the woman violated the ban, cultivated the field, fed her husband, food They thought it tastier than heaven, they slept together; to hide Abashi's pregnancy, her husband replied that the woman was unwell, so she did not go out; but Abashi knew everything; when the woman gave birth to a girl; Athai him reassured: people would not be stronger than him, because she sent them death; parents died, children began to quarrel]: Scheub 2000:3-4.

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, 17; 3, 1-19; Arabs (Muslim mythology) [Adam and Havba in paradise did not eat food, but ate smell like angels; then tasted wheat fruit (it grew on a tree, its grain was the size of a melon); seduce A. and H. A snake and a peacock help Satan; violating Allah's prohibition, A. and H. found themselves on earth; giving birth to a son and daughter every year, H. gave birth to 70 pairs of people, they settled the land]: Gryaznevich, Basilov 1982:184.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Banaba (Ocean) [when heaven and earth were not yet separated, their friction gave birth to Tabakea and his sister Tituabine; Banaba, many islands, appeared on the upper surface of the sky; on B. sister, they have many children, the elder Nakaa; these people did not know sex, T.'s sons lived in the northwest in Bouru, daughters in the southeast; the men had an inexhaustible peak and tree of life Tarakaimaiu (you tear it off one coconut, a new one appears, the same with fish); the women had a Karikibai tree, a "woman tree"; N. warned the brothers not to pick flowers with K., but they were attracted by the aroma, they picked the flower and met with the Woman (played with her); N. found flowers in the hair of men and women, said that they would now die; once again suggested choosing between the Tree of Life and the Woman's Tree; they chose Woman, this tree also called the Tarakaimate Death Tree; N. threw insects on the back of people's heads, they will slowly eat life out of them; took the Tree of Life and the inexhaustible peak, went west, where he catches a net in the sky the souls of the dead; if he likes it, lets him go to the tree of Life; if not, throws them into a pile of teeming souls]: Maude, Maude 1994, No. 8:44-46 (=Grimble 1923, No. 1:370-372, quoted in Anell 1964:15-16).

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 did not know how to have sexual intercourse; the bird Apu-Todu poked its beak into the genitals of a sleeping woman, the man realized that the couple had children]: Elwin 1958b, No. 5:361-363; kachins [first 9 anthropomorphic creatures came down to earth from the sky; they were sinless and sexless; because they ate rice, which was cooked by themselves, they became overweight and could not return to heaven; they found signs of sex; they were forced to work, began commit crimes]: Scott 1918:265; (cf. {most likely a biblical borrowing} phom [God locked the first man and woman in the house, told them not to converge; the serpent came to them, said that if they did not meet, there would be no children; God asked who ordered to break his order, who was the first to violate; cut off the snake's limbs, told the woman to bleed, give birth in agony]: Elwin 1958b, No. 5:361-363).

Burma - Indochina. Wa [two heterosexual people, Yatawm and Yatai, lived on the three hills, who were not attracted to each other; the shan call them Ta-hsek-hi and Ya-hsek khi; the Creator threw pumpkins from the sky, they they ate them, planted seeds, grew new shoots, after 3 years and 7 months they bore fruits the size of a mountain; since then, both creatures and 12 others (it is not specified who they are) have felt attraction; one pumpkin heard the voices of people, the other heard the voices of animals {hereinafter, probably, about humans and animals coming out of pumpkins}]: Ho 1967, No. 70:247-248.

South Asia. Cork [Mula saw that his wife Mulai was dripping blood, collected it in a vessel; at this time, Mahadeo was making people's bodies out of clay; the trees decided that people would cut them, smashed the bodies until M. was nearby; he angrily put the trees with crowns in the ground, with roots outside; made new bodies; when he sprinkled blood from a vessel on them, they came to life; thanks to this blood, people were covered with skin, otherwise they would be naked flesh; Mula buried a blood vessel, a tree grew; when the fruits were ripe, he gave them to Mahadeo's men and women; after that, women got their periods]: Elwin 1949, No. 73:280-281; pardhan: Elwin 1949, No. 32 [the earth trembled at first; Mahadeo went to drive sandalwood nails into it, banning Parvati the seventh herb he had sown; she ate, became pregnant, could not call M.; scraped off the dirt from bodies, created from this tiger, sent him to bring him to her M.; gave birth to many children, M. married them, various groups of people descended from them], 76 [demons attacked the brother, he killed them, their blood entered his body; in the pond where he was swimming, the water became blood; he warned his sister not to enter; but the blood grew a beautiful flower, his sister picked it off, she began her period; "Today is a flower, tomorrow a fruit"] : 48-50, 282; gondas [when brother and sister were on land, they built a house out of bird feathers; they reached marriageable age; where they washed, pokra grass grew; brother did not tell sister to eat salad from such an unclean place, but she ate and got pregnant]: Trench 1919 at Elwin 1949:291.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Fataluku [at first, water mixed with a quagmire, it hardened to form the ground; it gave rise to the nahu worm (rather a centipede; according to another interpretation, "nahu" means "mold"), and all people were born from it and from the other nahu plants, from others other living beings; according to another option, the snake laid seven eggs seven times, and the eagle hatched them; six brothers and sister were born from the first clutch eggs, the others included various animals and plants; six brothers went out in search of food; the sister found the elder Tchenu-Kukuru, stayed with him; found a tuber, ate it with her brother, and then met him , gave birth to seven sons, each living on their own mountain]: Azevedo Gomes 1972:47-48; (cf. toraja (bada) [Ala Tala created the world; the owner of the Wuala spirits claims to be equal with him; they throw spears, A.'s spear flies to infinity, V.'s spear pierces the ground; V. claims power over earth; A. creates people; they are starving, V. teaches them to eat rice; on the seventh day, A. goes down to look at his creation; satisfied that V. gave rice, makes rice the main food for people]: Woensdreght 1925 in Klappert 1999:304-305).

China - Korea. Chinese (Gansu, Wu. Ningxian) [In ancient times, heaven and earth were dirty, and there was nothing in the world. After Pangu separated the sky from the ground and Nuiva patched the sky, a terrible monster came out of the water, covered with long hair. It was male, running fast, drinking from mountain springs and eating wild fruit, and this monster was the first person. The Jade Lord then ordered Shih-shen (God of Peace) to create living beings. He went down to the ground and, pointing to a tree with red fruits, gestured to the man to pick them off. He climbed a tree, ate one of these fruits, but felt his legs limp, fell off the tree and lost consciousness. It turns out that these red fruits are called dope fruits, and they confuse people. Taking advantage of this, Shih-shen pulled out the man's right rib, so men's left shoulder is higher and their right shoulder is lower. After that, he took the magic land from Siwanmu Garden and the wonderful water from the Guanyin jug, and stuck a human figure around his rib. His lower limbs had no bones, but then Baigou-zhengren (The True Man of the White Dog) ran past Shih-shen, and Shih-shen saw that he had four legs, tore off one, attached it to the clay little man, and Baigou-zhenren attached his clay leg. Since then, dogs have always raised their legs when they urinate, because it is made of clay. Shih-shen threw the rest of the clay aside to make birds, and the one that fell to the ground was animals, and they were of different sizes. This is how animals and insects appeared in the water and on the ground. On the first day of the first month according to the ancient calendar, Shih-shen finished his work and buried the clay man in the ground, and seven days later, on the seventh day of the first month, he came to life and crawled out of the ground, and he found himself a woman. Later, in order to celebrate the day on which a person was born, the seventh day of the first month was made the "holiday of the human seven". On this day, people open the gates before dawn so that their "soul" enters them, they need to eat "soul noodles", and in the evening they need to light a fire outside the gate and hang lanterns to illuminate the path for their souls. The main thing is that you should not blow up firecrackers, because it can scare the soul. Shih-shen pointed to the man and woman at the red fruits on the tree and waved his hand, they climbed the tree and ate them, and when they ate, they lowered their heads, saw their bodies, and in shame they climbed back into the tree and refused to go down. It turns out that these were "fruits of intelligence," and those who ate them became conscious and understood what shame was. Shih-shen gave the woman a needle and thread and ordered her to string the leaves on a thread and cover the areas that cause shame. The woman made, as he said, two bandages, and hung one on her shoulders to cover her chest and one to cover her waist. She made the same bandage for the man, and only then did they come down from the tree. At first, humans were no different from animals and also lived in caves, but then wild animals began to devour them, and they asked Shih-shen for help. He gathered people and animals together and told them to go to the spring one by one and drink from it. After that, birds began to speak like birds, animals spoke like animals, and people spoke like human beings. Shih-shen told wild animals that from now on they are not allowed to eat anyone and can only eat meat every seven days. When the animals heard this, they complained that they would starve to death, and Shih-shen replied that if they were hungry, they could suck in air and emit gases. He also told them not to run anywhere and told them to live far away in the mountains and forests. Since then, wolves, lions, tigers and leopards have been living in the mountains, and when they don't have anything to eat, they climb to mountain tops and suck in the air. Because wild animals harmed people, they harbored enmity, and when they saw them, they chased them. They did not have kneecaps, so they ran very fast, and the animals could not escape from them. Then the animals complained to Shih Shen, who took two clay bowls and glued them tightly to the people's knees, so that they turned into kneecaps, so people could no longer catch up with the animals. Since then, people have been growing five cereals for food]: Zhou Yang et al. 2001, No. 9:9-10.

The Balkans. The Hungarians [Eve persuaded Adam to eat the forbidden apple in the garden in the sky where they lived; God drove Adam and Eve to the ground; their bodies were covered in hair; Eve ate some berries, their hair fell out staying only where they are now; Eve also told Adam to eat these berries, for people without hair are more beautiful]: Erdész 1963:58-59.

Central Europe. Russian written tradition (hands. Solovetsky Library; from Palea in the late 16th or early 17th century) [(story on behalf of Eve, whom others ask why their father Adam is sick); God created paradise in the east; Adam and Eve commanded everyone there living beings; God has forbidden them to eat the fruits of the same tree; the devil persuaded the serpent God loved more than all animals to advise Eve to eat the forbidden fruit; she ate it and gave it to Adam; they they saw their nudity, covered them with fig leaves; the angel drove them out of paradise]: Porfiriev 1877:91-92.

Iran - Central Asia. Western Pamir (Shugnan, Bartang, Rushan, etc.) [Jabrayil warned Grandfather Adam and Momo Hawvo to avoid eating wheat, persimmons, apples, grapes that grew in paradise; when YES was walking in the garden, Satan came to the house and told MOH that if they ate wheat and fruit, their minds will develop, and if they continue to eat grass, they will remain like animals; MX ate persimmons (apple, wheat ear), gave YES; after that, all species of animals and birds ceased to understand each other; J. reported to God Muhammad-Ali; he came, called them, they hid, ashamed of their nudity; God left them on Saradeb Island]: Mukhiddinov 1989:8-9; Kalashi [Adam and Havba were innocent while they ate vegetables; after the angel brought them bread, they got to know each other; H. gave birth to seven pairs of twins in a row, three of whom, guilty of treason, became the ancestors of the Kalash; Yezidi legends also say that people's ancestors lost their virginity after eating wheat]: Yettmar 1986:357.

(Wed. Volga - Perm. Comey [Yeon did not tell Adam and Eve to open the tueski; Eva opened it, the mouse jumped out of there; A. and E. could not catch her, they planted another one; Yong noticed the substitution, drove A. and E. out of paradise]: Limerov 2005, No. 57:54).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Altaians [after the first person ate the fruit from the forbidden tree, the horn cover on his body disappeared]: Bächtold-Stäubli 1931-1932:122 in Erdész 1963:62; Khakas ( Kachins) [first there was a duck; having made another friend, she sent her to the bottom of the river for sand; she brings it three times and gives it first; the third time she left part of the sand in her mouth, this part became stones; the first the duck scattered the sand, crushed for nine days, the earth grew; mountains grew after the messenger duck spit stones out of its mouth; because of this, the former refuses to give it land; agrees to give it land the size of a cane; the messenger pierces a hole in the ground, goes into it; the rest sends the swallow for the man's soul, telling the dog to watch and bark at Erlik Khan; E. created winter, gave the dog a fur coat, spat on the man; God poured his soul on man, made him a wife out of a rib; ordered him to eat red currants at sunrise but not at sunset; the wife broke the ban and ate, God wrote it down in a book; a woman with a child and a mare with a foal feeds on grass, a woman has crossed seven slides, a mare over one; God has decided that if people eat grass, they will eat it all; God gives the moon and sun to Erlik Khan; it is being done dark; God gathers birds, tells them not to laugh if the Corncrake comes; the head of the birds, the Stork, laughed; the corncrake was offended and left; sent the Owl to overhear what the Corncrake was saying at home; Let Erlik Khan catch the echo of the rocks, his shadow, the tramp of a hundred horses; E. is forced to return the sun and moon because he could not fulfill God's requests; God sent Swallow to steal Erlik Khan's flint; she stole it, meets on the way back Mosquito; he says that E. was sent to find out whose blood is sweeter, turns out to be human; The swallow asks him to show his tongue, bites off; the mosquito only buzzes; E. chases the Swallow, tears off its middle tail; she threw half the flint on the rock; the young man was watching the door to God; Erlik Khan came: what do I eat? God replies that old and old women, and the young man said that trees are rotten; next time: children are young willow branches; young people are dried and hardened trees; for the fourth time E. breaks into God; everything was explained, E. now eats everyone, and the young man was driven to the ground]: 522-527 (=1963:154-156; quail in Troyakov 1995:6-7); Verbitsky 1893:118.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty [zap. A. Sternberg in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; Num-Torum lived in a house in the air; a drop fell, became Evi's girlfriend ("girl"); they had a son; paper came down from above, picked up the boy to his grandfather; he gave land He told him to return to the NT house, throw the ground down; then the grandfather went down to the NT house himself; the boy told him that the father was taller than the son, and the mother and father began to argue that God was one; the grandfather said that they had no mind; the mother and son went down to the ground in the cradle, but it was liquid, the mother drowned; the boy got up and cried; the mother left the room, said that people would mourn the dead; the boy was lowered again, the ground strengthened, he made a man and a woman, blew, they came to life; NT created cloudberries and lingonberries for them, said that Kul would come, told them not to believe him; K. said that you would not get enough of cloudberries and lingonberries, ordered to eat bird cherry; NT blew on them, they died, he revived them, allowed them to eat raspberries and hare more; K. said that pine nuts should be eaten; after eating a cone, the man and woman saw that they were naked, sinned; NT said they would dress in animal skin; gave winter, people began to die, NT showed how to carve fire out of stone; NT told K. that each of them would take half of the people; K. only with the permission of NT]: Dunin-Gorkavich 1911:38-41 (=Lukina 1990, No. 1:60-63); Mansi (Southern) [Bright Boy (SM), Son of the Bright Husband-Father (Num-Torum) leaves the sky for the middle world; there water is everywhere; blew his nose, created a tundra hill out of his snot; hell comes, tries to break the hill, SM takes two loons with iron beaks out of his pocket, they kill the line; sends them to dive underground; the first emerges seven months later, the second seven years later, shakes off, rocky ground appears; its inhabitants are mortal; SM blows out, a snake worm appears, turns into a man; Ruff meets a woman; they ask each other what each came from; he is from the snot of the Bright Husband-Father, she is from black earth; she lies down, pulls him towards her, he has genitals under his arm; she He tears them off and puts them in their place, the man and E. copulate; E. tells him to eat two berries from a three-leaf tree, the leathery membrane comes off it; they give birth to a whole kind of girls and boys]: Lukina 1990, No. 107:291-293; Mansi: Erdész 1963:61-62 [Munkácsi 1892: ccclii: On the first attempt, the Lord of Heaven created not man but the forest spirit; on the second he created people from larch trees; their bodies were covered in wool; Mr. Neba forbade them to eat blueberries intended for the forest spirit, but people ate, the wool came off their bodies], 62 [Karjalainen 1921:23: After eating forbidden berries, the first man and woman they lost their hair on their bodies, began to suffer from cold and dampness].

Eastern Siberia. Northern Yakut reindeer herders [Ayy-toyon created two woolen creatures, left them in the barn under the protection of a naked watchman; Allaraa-Ogonyor created cold; gave the watchman wool, for which he was allowed into the barn; hungry creatures asked him for food, he gave one berry, the other half a berry; this made the wool come off, the first being became a woman, the second a man; Ayy-toyon turned the watchman into dog, told him to eat garbage]: Gurvich 1977:195-196; Algomi-Uchur Evenks [the man is naked because the Seweki once created him with hair; being covered in hair, he wanted to eat lingonberries; started eating and wool fell off it]: Vasilevich 1959:184; Amur Evenks (genus captuke, western 1974) [little people lived in the Bug sky; squirrel skin was worn like a fur coat; their boy and girl fell to the ground and, after eating blueberries, grew up; copulated; Evenks came from them]: Varlamova 2002:113.

SV Asia. Forest yukaghirs [women and men walked naked, without genitals; a devil named The Invisible persuaded a woman to eat a red berry; as soon as she ate, her nipples appeared; scratched her lower abdomen - "Something also worked out"; the Invisible gave the man a black berry; he ate it right away - "something worked out too"; when Christ learned about what had happened, Christ told the woman that she was now unhappy, and to the man that something bad would happen]: Zhukova 2008:28.

The Arctic. Kodiak [Shilam Shoa, that is, the lord of peace, created the earth and sky, but there was no light; sent his brother and sister to earth, forbidden eating grass; his sister offered to eat herbs, maybe then she would it was light; the brother did not want to, but the sister ate, it became light; both were ashamed, they went in different directions, could not escape, met in the sky; on the steps leading to heaven, they met, fell in love; five children born died; Shilam Shoa promised to sing a song, after which the children would not die; it happened; they returned to earth, gave birth to people]: Holmberg 1985:61.

(Wed. Mesoamerica (European borrowing). Northern lacandons [women used to find babies under ceiba; the gods decided that it was inconvenient to pick up children in the forest, gave papaya seeds (the papaya fruit resembles a uterus); (hereinafter biblical borrowing); Ak'inchob banned eating melon before he offered it to Khachakyum; husband and wife ate melon at the instigation of Kissin, who took the form of Ak-Inchob; women began to give birth, the seed got stuck in the throat men, his voice became deep and hoarse; A. said people would never see him again]: Cook 2019:126-132, 640).