G12. A tree is a person. 53.56.62.

A huge tree, on which various fruits ripen and/or has water in its trunk, grows out of a human body or is a transformed person.

Honduras - Panama. Bribri: Bozzoli 1976 [a woman's hair is always wet and salty; Sibu kisses them, blessing the future of the sea; the shaman gives her his rod, tells her not to let go; she lets go, rod turns into a snake, bites a woman, she dies, is buried; a huge tree grows on the grave; S. is afraid that it will break the roof of his house (=peace); tells him to cut down; people work all day, felling the next morning overgrows; their axes break; S. comes to Okoma, sitting down on a bench every time, breaks it, pushes a new one closer; finally asks and receives an ax; people cut down a tree; S. tells Martin Pe ca and the cormorant tie the top of the head to the roots; tells the cannibal to be ready to grab the fruits that will fall; the tree presses the cannibal; turns into water; as it described the circle ( the top of the head is tied to the roots), the sea surrounds the land; the tree has fallen to the north, there are most islands; the open sea is where the trunk was]: 420-421; Bozzoli, Cubero Venegas 1987 [Shibyo gives his sister his a rod; it turns into a snake, bites it, it dies; a giant tree grows out of a corpse; S. sends people to cut it down; after 18 days of work, the axes are broken, they follow others; the old woman collects from the foot of fallen chicks; loggers ask her to support the tree; it falls on it, turns into the sea, the birds into fish; the old woman's movements cause excitement at sea]: 20.

Llanos. Guayabero [a man ate a fetus in the water, became pregnant; his stomach was cut, the boy Naxén came out; he taught people how to farm; he had no cultivated plants before; N. had a sparkling rainbow head ; The sun wanted one; they started fighting; N. left, took all the cultivated plants with him, famine came; N. went to the island to sea, turned into a giant tree with cassava, sweet potato, peach palm tree and other plants (but not corn); told the Forest Dog that he could eat, but forbade giving it to the Sun; the Sun noticed papaya residues in his excrement; spied on the road, sent the Rat, which was not caught up with the Forest Dog, but Lapa (agouti?) I found a tree; they began to cut the trunk with stone axes, the felling overgrown overnight; two months later they asked ants to carry away the chips, now they are white pebbles in the mountains; the trunk was cut, but the tree was cut down behind the vine suspended from the sky, the vine led to N.'s heart; the squirrel cut off the vine; when the tree fell, the tree hit the Squirrel; the tree fell into the sea; the tapirs collected fruits]: Schindler 1977a: 226-228.

NW Amazon. Uitoto: Girard 1958 [Bunaima (the great anaconda) met Na fuey (the first woman associated with the moon), who gave birth to a boy; on the fourth day he turned into a tree, sweet on its branches and bitter cassava, corn, peanuts and other cultivated plants; the mother collected these fruits, other people ate the ground; people found a tree, cut it down; water poured out of the trunk, forming rivers; from the branches they formed edible plants, mainly cassava; var.: Bunaima - The owner of the Forest, Thunder, cuts down a tree with an ax to give people fruit and water]: 74-76; Pereira 1980 (2) [the girl sat on the ground with her legs apart; in a big worm (Glossoscolex giganteux) crawled her vagina, she became pregnant; the spirit of the worm told her to go to the bank of the duct to give birth; a boy was born, she left him covered with a pot; five days later she was there cassava root; from it a tree, bananas and pineapples on it; fruits fell into the water, piranhas ate them; the woman turned into a monkey; Old Bacurau, the mistress of the fire (Nightjar?) , ordered to make cassava cakes; the fire was in her mouth; the mother gave the boy cotton wool, who went up to the old woman, set fire to cotton wool, brought it to his mother; the woman taught people how to fry meat]: 481-482; Preuss 1921, No. 2 [ the girl rejects her suitors; Sikire Buneima (B. - aquatic mythical creatures) imperceptibly fertilizes her when she is sitting on a trough; appears as a young man, leads her under water, sends her back; she gives birth to a boy who turns into a huge tree; all cultivated plants are on its branches, the roots are edible; the woman bakes them under her arms and under her knees, brings them to her parents; people stop eating with crushed stones, white clay and rotten wood, they go to cut down a tree; Nofueni takes a toad axe, but from blows, the liver comes out of her mouth; receives a red parrot axe from her ancestor, knocks down wood; throws chips into the water, they turn into fish; carves a woman out of one sliver, marries Hitome (the Sun); turns into a cat, flies to heaven]: 170-188; Uscategui Mendoza 1954 [ Jiteruime was the first in the world, the first shaman, taught others; his daughter refused all men; she gave birth to her son Menerama in a vessel, covered it with another vessel; told her father, who lifted the lid instead of the child inside is a plant; he planted it, the tallest tree in the world has grown; it has all the fruits and cultivated plants - cassava, bananas, pineapple, coca, etc.]: 228; Yépez 1982 [Aime Huram has a daughter; Jusido Bunaima has a daughter came to chew coca, asked her to be his wife; AH, his wife and daughter went to the site; when they returned, HM became a bird, the daughter asked her to catch it, kept it in the basket; when they came again, the bird was gone, and XM is human; they decided that he took the bird; the next night AH and HB chewed coca again; HB: you have to endure; but AH still went out to urinate; HS: if you don't want coca, tobacco, you can't stand it, you'll eat earth, dry wood; AH Monayaterisai's daughter was sitting on a mat; HB made his way to her from below in the form of a worm, conceived a son Housitofe (cassava); her mother sent M. to bring water in a sieve to sift manioc flour, found a worm, filled it with boiling water; HB in a dream told M. to put the child she would give birth in a pot, cover it with a leaf, make a cake out of the foam that had risen, not show it to her parents; they saw an ant running with with a piece of cassava, we found out that their daughter had cassava; M. told them not to sleep, look after the child; the child grew a manioc tree, pineapples, caimo, aguacate and other fruits on the branches; along with the tree The lake grew, the fruits fell into the water; they were taken out by the Old Rat; Father AH began to look for an ax; a woodpecker axe, a bird axe with a hard beak, an ordinary ax, a toad axe, a piranha axe were not suitable; it was difficult to wake them up his fox uncle; he took a knife, cut off the vine for which the tree was tied to the sky; when the tree fell, the fox injured his throat, the sons of AH smeared the wound with yellow medicine, and since then the foxes have had a yellow throat; foxes as a reward, it is allowed to eat fruits in vegetable gardens; AH collected oil from the water, brought, planted, grew cassava; ritual songs and accessories from the same lake and tree]: 63-69; ocaina [amena virgin Kog (oe) n became pregnant from a snake crawling out of a hole in the ground to her, bringing a lot of food; her mother noticed a hole in the floor, poured boiling water into it, the snake died; in a dream, his spirit tells her to leave her son, whom she is will give birth, in the upper reaches of the ravine; four days later there was a giant tree; on its branches there are sweet and bitter cassava, corn, peanuts and other fruits; the girl ate them, and other people ate the ground; when told them, people cut down a tree, planted fruit; where the tree fell, a spring filled up; as punishment for cutting down, people have been dying ever since]: Girard 1958:133-134, 137 [this is the first woman]; 1961: 130; piapoko [after eating the fetus, a person becomes pregnant, is allowed without pain as a boy; when the grandmother bathes him, the trough is filled with manioc flour; the boy asks to cut off his fingers, sows his phalanges, they grow into cassava; the father does not love his son, so he leaves, taking away all the crops and placing them on the same tree; the tree is found by a night monkey; agouti picks up the pineapple she has dropped, brings people; they cut down the trunk day and night, but Cayman swallows fire; in the morning it turns out that the felling is overgrown; Cayman is killed, fire is taken out of his belly, the trunk is cut; the tree remains hanging behind the vine barbasco (fish poison) attached to the sky; a squirrel cuts it, falls with the tree; a branch with all its fruits falls into the water; Tapira is sent to dive; as he retrieves fruits, people hide them; he discovers deception, hides some of the fruits; current cultivated plants come from those taken away by people]: Wavrin 1937:604-606.