G12A. Plants made from blood droplets .21.23.52.67.
Cultivated plants emerge from blood droplets or flow like blood from cuts on the human or animal body.
Kondas, (bhattra), tepeua, totonaki, lacandons, shinka, yabuti.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Miniong abor [wiyu (spirit) in the form of a mitan (half-wild buffalo) cancer spread his shoulders that blood splashed; the drops fell to the ground and a banana grew in this place; bananas have no seeds because they arose from blood]: Elwin 1958a, No. X.3:196.
South Asia. Conda [no cultivated plants; Bhima Raja and Rani Juriamurti have seven sons; father and sons prepared and plowed two fields; wife advised that the husband kill the middle son and sprinkle him blood in the field; the next day, six sons went to the field with their father, and the middle mother sent them fire; his father killed him and sprinkled blood on the soil; from this blood all types of plants (grain) arose; Bhima Raja and his wife gave them to condams and they spread around the world]: Elwin 1954, No. X.16:164-165; (cf. bhattra [Mahaprabhu forgot to create beans; the chief's three sons are married; when the brothers were not at home, this woman slaughtered venison, accidentally cut off her finger and threw it into the stream; on this A climbing plant grew in the place, with blood stains on its leaves; the woman brought it to her place, so the beans appeared]: Elwin 1954, No. X.1:156).
Mesoamerica Tepehua [the Jews tried to fast to the girl in vain; the carpenter suggested that they take sticks so that leaves could bloom; they could not, but he bloomed, he married a woman; they came to a dirty house with animals; spent the night under a tree; in the morning the owner of the house sees a beautiful dwelling under the tree; he died (from the cold); animals gathered for the beautiful house, there is no fire; possum ran to a woman whose fire, set fire to her tail, brought fire on her tail; since then, the possum has a bald tail; the Jews chased the young man and crucified him; put him as watchmen, but he managed to ascend to heaven By the sun; people turned to the stars, they cut off his ring finger, all plants came out of his blood]: Oropeza Escobar 2007:193-194 (=Williams García 1972:68); Totonaki: Arenas 2000:42-43 [the boy lives with his grandmother, tells her that he wants to be king, to ascend to the east, to go to the west; no one should fall under the drops of his blood, which will drip at noon when they try to kill him; the boy goes east, soon the Sun rises; the grandmother makes sure that blood drops do not fall on anyone; they grew into peppers, melons, sandía, jitomate, pápalo, quelite; the Crocodile came and began to eat pepper; The lizard did not tell him to do this-he would feel bad, and pepper for God's sons]. 75-78 [after the end of the world, those who believed in the gods were taken to heaven, but those who kept less than half of the commandments were returned to earth for new life in the form of animals; Woodpecker and Ant noticed how an unfamiliar variegated bird dropped grain; they tried it, they liked it, it was corn they did not know; they realized that the bird was pulling grain from the rock; there is a small hole in the rock; the Ant is unable to carry a grain from there, the Woodpecker does not climb; the woodpecker has broken through the rock, but is covered with corn, has been injured, and since then he has red feathers; everyone rushed to sort the corn, ignoring the Woodpecker; only he kept the grain for sowing; replied that it was necessary to sow boiled grains, crushing each into four parts; in the end he told the truth to their friend, he to their own, so they learned to grow corn], 82-84 [there was no corn; the Quetzal bird brought a grain from the sky, threw it through a hole into the hollow of a tree; one grain fell to the ground; Ant (hormiga arriera; ants and others were humans, but Quetzal was a real bird) found it, showed Woodpecker, who began to widen the hole, corn fell on him, hurt him, so the woodpeckers had red feathers; The ant began to carry corn without waiting for the Woodpecker to wake up; he was offended; he sowed corn, and the Ant only ate it; the Woodpecker replied to the Ant that the grain must be cooked or ground before sowing; Ant asked the Wind to scatter the Woodpecker's field; the woodpecker told Ant how to sow for promising that the Wind would restore the field; he restored it; but since then, corn plants, unlike bananas, have a lot stems (in the sense of small stems); if the Wind hadn't scattered the field, corn plants would be as large as trees and cobs would grow right on branches (en las puntas de las matas)]; Ichon 1969 (mountain totonaki) [before the young sun rises high, birds hit him with arrows; peppers and fruits come from blood]: 58; Williams García 1979 (coastal Totonaki, Tahin) [the rich old man has a lot mistresses; they say that he will be the Sun, but he is an orphan living with his grandmother; when the Sun was at its zenith, drops of his blood fell to the ground, from which various plants arose; the Sun leaves behind himself to the dog; The month asked her where the owner went; the dog pointed the opposite direction; The month hit her, she became dumb; The month goes where the ash is now cold; when the Sun rose, people turned into stones, idols, some hid in pyramids]: 121-122; lacandons (northern) [there were few women, men cooked themselves; a man saw two girls bathing, their clothes were feathers royal vultures; the next day I caught one of the girls; she agreed to marry him if he was a good husband; told me to leave the feather clothes, her sister would take her away; a year later they they go to their father-in-law, at that time a path led to heaven; there are corn fields; the bald leader tells his son-in-law that after death, his soul will not go to the underworld to Kisin, but here to heaven; the man has become ill treat his wife when she saw her eat carrion, worms; began to spend the night in the field; Xok (watermen, fish owners) began to come to her, she became pregnant; told her husband to open her stomach, there are a dozen Xok children, he is theirs killed; when she dies, she tells her little finger to be cut off, there are pumpkin seeds, she teaches how to grow calebasses; three calebasses have grown, he accidentally cut one, put two under a bench in the kitchen; someone cooks in his absence; he finds two girls, his daughters from a vulture wife; marries a neighbor in exchange for his sister; a man was bitten by a snake, but his soul did not rise to heaven because he did not treat him well wife; his daughters have many children, they are descendants of a vulture woman; vultures should not be killed]: Boremanse 1986:242-246; 1989:91-93; shinka [the sons of thunder saw that corn was in addition in heaven; everyone tried to get it but couldn't; then cumiche gathered the brothers to perform a ritual and they asked the heart of heaven to give them seeds; the spirit of heaven tiwix told them to take three drops of blood from (his) hand (brazo) and let them put them inside the mountain on land that should be (smashed) with lightning; thunders noticed ants carrying grains and asked where they came from; but no one could get inside the mountain; then comí turro took sulfur from the nose {ear?} and made a cheje bird out of it; she found where to strike with lightning; inside the mountain, every drop of blood turned into a grain bin; most of the corn was taken by the older brothers, and cumiche went to only 4 cobs; the plot was cleared and the grain was planted by yellow ants and agouti; only cumiche sprouted corn, and the rest of the brothers (30 in total) did not sprout]: López Ramírez 2007:156-159.
(Wed. Southern Venezuela. Yanomami (northern) [Lizot 1975 (El hombre...): 18; Nosiriwë walked through the forest, crying for what he wanted tobacco; various arimati (first ancestors) gave him successively pati, reshe, But he was not satisfied; finally they gave him tobacco gum; where his saliva dripped, tobacco grew]: Fuentes 1980:77
Bolivia - Guaporé. Yabuti [the woman became pregnant, the husband is dissatisfied because the other child is still small; the woman's hand is stuck in a hollow with honey; the husband left and took the baby away; the woman gave birth; the baby the next day was already brings her water, but she died; vultures flew; her husband returned, threw pupunya (peach palm fruit) at them; urubu asked not to kill them; they put the woman's body parts in a basket, the boy sat on top; when He opened his eyes, found himself in the country of Urubu; there are fields of corn and beans; he trapped the uruba in a trap, ripped off his scalp, now they are bald; they want to kill him; he hid corn and beans in his body, I ran home to my grandmother; hurt my finger, the grains poured instead of blood]: Maldi 1991:257-259.
(Wed. Eastern Brazil. Sherente [Nimuendaju 1944:182; when Waptokwá and Wáirie (i.e. Sun and Moon) were babies, their mothers took them to the property; put the babies on the ground to sleep, went to the forest for buriti fruits; when they missed that a long time had passed, they ran more quickly to the children; milk dripped from their breasts; every drop of the Mother of the Sun grew bitter cassava, and the Mother of the Month grew sweet]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 44:136).