G2. Mr. Fertility.
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Acharacter who embodies fertility and life disappears or is kidnapped and then returned by request or force. Or a character who deprived people of fertility was destroyed. (Circum-Pacific versions, in which the character does not embody fertility but hides sun, water, or other specific natural values, but does not explicitly mention hunger, are not taken into account).
Dogon, Eve, Sumerians, Babylonians, Ugarit, Phoenicians (?) , Mustang, Pao, Lao, Chinese (Zhejiang), Ancient Greece, Romanians, Hittites, Adygs, Karachays, Balkarians, Lezgins, Eastern Sami (Inari), Priladoga Karelians, Ingrians, Ainu, Coastal Koryaks, Atna, Kuchin, Khan, Kutene, Tillamook, Delaware, Blackfoot, Crowe, Shawnee, Pomo, Vintu, Miwok, Yokutz, Northern Payut (Owens Valley), Western Shoshones, Western Apaches, Hopi, Zunyi, Tiwa (Picuris, Isleta), Western Ceres (Laguna, Akoma), Papago, Huichol, Cora, Tricky, Mixteki, Kekchi, Hikake, Guatuso, Boruca, Puinave, Piapoco, Desana, Dep. Huanuco, Caruas (dep. Ancash), prov. Lucanas (dep. Ayacucho), baure, guarazu, yagani.
West Africa. Dogon [the hunter's son Tinérou, when he laughs, it's raining; the father covered the arrows with poison, left the yard to dry, left for the whole day, telling the boy not to laugh; he broke the ban, arrows soaked, the poison was washed away, the father wanted to beat T., he went into the forest; drought came, everyone was suffering; T. was found in a tree, he refused to go down in response to his father's threats; laughed when he saw his peers, went down to mother, it rained, Father T. broke his leg in the stream of water; T.'s mother asked him to tell the crocodiles to take their father home, they did; the chief crocodile stuck his tongue out, putting it on the wound; Father T. recovered; crocodiles have been without a tongue since then, sacred crocodiles live in the surrounding ponds; the water has come down; Father T. no longer scolded his son and is considered the ancestor of rain charmers]: Mariko 1984:42-45; eve: Spiess 1918, No. 7 [the king fed a huge goat to be buried with his mother if she died; the spider asked for the goat to be given to him and, if his mother dies, to bury it; the spider ate the goat, and the king's mother died soon; the spider sent his son to play the flute and sing: if the spider dies, all crops will disappear; the king let the spider go], 8 [starved the king's goat wandered to the spiders, killed and eaten; the king sent servants, the meat was found in the spider, dragged him to execute; the spider agreed with the children that they would sing in the corners: if the spider dies, there would be a terrible famine; the spider was released]: 125-126, 128.
Western Asia. The Sumerians [the plot is reconstructed from many fragments; Inanna descends into the underworld to light burial herbs and pour a funeral beer to the deceased wife of the mistress of the lower world Ereshkigal; along the way, demons consistently take off all her clothes and jewelry; Ereshkigal turns I. into a corpse and hangs her on the hook; Enki sends the herbs of life and the waters of life; his messengers revive I., but demons do not let her go to the ground and demand a replacement; I. gives his husband, the shepherd Dumuzi; for the first time he turns into a lizard (snake?) and runs away, but he is grabbed again; as a result, D. must be in the underworld for six months and on earth for six months, when his sister Geshtinanna descends into the underworld instead of him]: Afanasyeva 1997:139- 167, 392-399; Babylonia [an analogue of the Sumerian myth of Inanni/Ishtar descending into the lower world]; Ugarit [Motu tells Ba'lu to take everything he needs with him to the afterlife: clouds, wind and rain, and also warriors and daughters. Explains to Ba'lu how to get to the world of the dead (same description as above when Messenger Ba'lu went to see Moth). There is a field before entering the afterlife; Ba'lu discovers a cow there. Ba'lu copulates with a cow many times, she becomes pregnant and gives birth to him a son. Copulation occurs 77 or 88 times. A lacuna. The messengers bring Il the news of Ba'lu's death: he lies dead on the field before entering the afterlife. Ilu cries for Ba'l, asks what will happen to people now, and says that since Ba'lu is dead, he will have to go down to the afterlife himself. Anat searches for Ba'la, finds his corpse on the field before entering the world of the dead, mourns Ba'la. She asks the sun goddess Shapsha to help and put her body on her shoulders; Shapsha helps, Anata drags the corpse to Mount Tsapana. Anata buries Ba'la and organizes a funeral meal. She then goes to Ilu's home and tells Asirat that she can rejoice with her sons because Ba'lu is dead. Ilu says that it is necessary to choose a new king of the gods. Asiratu suggests that it be Astara. Astara takes Ba'lu's throne, but it turns out that his legs do not reach the stand and his head does not reach the top of the seat. Then Astara renounces his tsarist status. Anat comes to Motu and demands that the deceased Ba'la be returned to her. Motu explains that he ate Ba'lu because he could not satisfy his hunger without meeting people. Then Anat stabs Mota with a knife, pierces him with a pitchfork, burns his body, grinds him with millstones, scatters ashes over the field, and birds peck him (Motu's paraphrase below says that she scattered the ashes over the sea) ; {Balu finally revives}]; Phoenicians (?) [West-Semitic Tammuz is an analogue of Dumuzi; Greek Adonis (from Semitic adōnī means "my lord")].
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [the ruler of the deities Lou has three daughters; a son was born; decided to go down to earth to help poor old people; became a goldfish, the old man caught it, the fish asked not to cook it, but to put it in the crack of the pillar, made sacrifices; began to fulfill all wishes, created a palace, reincarnated as a prince; warned not to invite the queen; but the woman invited; when she saw the prince, the queen took him away to himself; then the herbs turned green and the streams flowed; King Lu sent his youngest daughter, she incarnated as a beggar girl, came to the palace, persuaded her brother to return; then in Lou's country, the herbs turned green, the streams they have flowed, and in the country the queen has dried up; seven beggars see three daughters Lou and their brother come out of the lake, then return; this happens on a new moon once a year; told the queen; she asks to be brought to that lake; her husband first tells her to come in a year, then stay isolated for a year, chanting "Om mani padme hum," then studying singing and dancing for a year; then, disguised as a beggar, he takes her to Lou's country; there She sings and dances the best; the prince gets permission from her parents to marry her; their son goes down to earth, and the queen and husband stay in Lou's country forever]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 5:50-57.
Burma - Indochina. Lao [the ill-tempered widow began to grind rice sweeping; pieces scattered to the sky and fell into the forest, where they formed tarot, and small {other} tubers; rice goddess Nang K'osop became angry and disappeared, without her, a famine began for 320 years; finally, the hermit tore her body to pieces, which included black rice, white rice, Annam rice, glutinous rice; wings and tail goddesses became the "mother of rice," her liver and heart became the "heart of rice," or "the beginning of rice"; from her spine, ribs and long bones, the hermit created a pole, and from her abdomen and entrails a flag; her nerves, blood, dark and beautiful eyes, mouth, teeth and head turned into two one-eyed spirits]: Archaimbault 1959:236-241, Terwiel 1994:6-7 in Yamada 2014:467; pao [Natu all obey and rice and fire don't they want; Nat invites them to hide: if they find them, they must obey; the rice hid at the bottom of the sea behind the crushing mountains, and the fire is in bamboo; Nat did not find them; but the sparrow noticed where the rice hid, and the grasshopper went where the fire went; the grasshopper looked so intently that his eyes rolled out; told Natu to cut the bamboo, now people are carving fire out of bamboo; the sparrow found a fish that told me where in the rice is accurate (this fish has a white head, the husk hit its head); the sparrow swam between the crushing mountains; they managed to close, then the sparrow's stomach moved to its back; since then since sparrows believe they can always bite rice]: Zapadova 1977:263-266.
China - Korea. Chinese (Zhejiang, 1979) [In heaven, many dragons were responsible for blowing the wind and pouring rain. When farmers cried out to heaven, dragons flew in, shook their heads, waved their tails, and rained on the ground. Every year, after harvesting, people would dance with dragon lanterns to thank the dragons. The sounds of the gong and the drum went to the sky. The jade emperor became angry and ordered all dragons to be locked in prison, leaving only one old white one who could not blow the wind and rain. Yellow River became shallow, arable land cracked, and crops dried up. Empress Guanin asked the white dragon to give people at least some water. He replied that he could only make a mist. The fog helped and the crops in the fields were ripe. Hearing the sound of gongs and drums again, the Jade Emperor ordered the white dragon to be brought to trial. He went to see Guanin, she advised him to turn into a grain of rice and hid it under his fingernail. It then fell into a head of cabbage in Hangzhou's {bay}. A mother and daughter lived there. Guanin took the image of an old woman, asked for her cabbage, but disappeared and that girl ate the cabbage. She became pregnant and was kicked out of the village. She gave birth to a white dragon, which drank the pond and flew to heaven. Now, this place at the gates of Ganpu City has a Dragon Swamp, where heavy fog is concentrated during the spring festival. This white dragon is looking for its mother, can't find it, cries and leaves]: Zhejiang 1997:359.
The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Persephone]. N.N. Duvakin: More than a dozen authors have evidence about Jasion, but none say that "Demeter's sorrow after Jasion's death was so great that she refused to produce crops; then the gods allowed Jasion to leave Hades every year and return to Demeter to earth," writes M.N. Botvinnik (1980). Here are a few examples of his mention: [Calypso: "So with Yazion Demeter on a triple-plowed novi /She united with love and lies, listening to her heart./Zeus did not know about this for long. /He killed Yazion with lightning white. /You gods also prevent me from staying with the mortal" (trans. IN. Veresaeva)]: Hom. Od. 125-129; ["Plutus Wealth was born Demetra, a great goddess./She met Jasion the hero in love with a passionate love/In a rich district of Crete, three times plowed novi" (trans. IN. Veresaeva)]: Hes. Theog. 969-971; ["The Virgin of Electra... /Chad gave birth, conquered by the cloudy Kronid: /Son of Dardan... /With Eethion... /He once went to the multi-date Demeter on his bed, /Life, however, was rejected by his father immortals and mortals/Eethion Lord, throwing a shiny lightning, /In punishment that he was combined with Demetra with affection and lying. /Brother Dardan..." (per. O. Tsybenko)]: Hes. Cat. Fr. 177 (MW) = 65 (Gasparov); ["After the establishment of this government, the children of Zeus and Elektra, one of Atlanta's daughters, were born in Samothrace <... > After that, Cadmus, the son of Agenor, came here in search of Europe and, after being ordained to the mystery, married Jasion's sister Harmony, who, according to Hellenic myths, was the daughter of Ares. At this wedding, the gods feasted for the first time, and Demeter, who fell in love with Jasion, presented a crop of wheat, Hermes gave a lyre <... > After that, Cadmus, according to the oracle received, founded Thebes in Boeotia, and Jasion married Cybele and became the father of Coribant. After Jasion left for the gods, Dardan, Cybele and Coribant transferred the sacred rituals of the Mother of the Gods to Asia and went together to Phrygia <... > From Jasion, Demeter, according to myths, gave birth to a son Plutus (Wealth), but in fact, she gave wealth - wheat at Harmony's wedding to unite with Jasion" (trans. ABOUT. Tsybenko)]: Diod. Sic. V. 48. 2, 5; 49. 1-2, 4; ["Jasion and Dardan were born from Atlanta's daughter Electra and Zeus. Jasion fell in love with Demeter and wanted to dishonor the goddess, but was killed by Perun" (trans. IN. Borukhovich)]: Apollod. Bibl. III.12. 1; ["Yasion and Dardan, two brothers, lived in Samothrace. After Jasion was struck by lightning for insulting Demeter, Dardan left Samothrace and settled at the foot of Mount Ida" (trans. G. Stratanovsogo)]: Strab. VII. 49; ["Hermipp, author of works on celestial phenomena, says that Ceres had a lover, Jasion, the son of Electra. Many agree with Homer that this is the reason why he was struck by Perun. According to the Cretan mythographer Petelides, they had two sons, Philomel and Plutus, and they say they did not get along with each other" (trans. A. Rubana)]: Hyg. Astr. II.4. 7; ["That Goddess Deo also hugged Jasion/Mortal Husband..." (per. YU. Stuffed cabbage)]: Nonn. Dion. V. 518-519; ["They all also {served Cypride} when Jasion, the roommate of the Generous Demeter, was the first to become a farmer"]: Nonn. Dion. XLVIII. 676-677. The only evidence that reminds me of what Botvinnik wrote at MNM is Ovid's elegy, in which Demeter met Jasia in Crete and, burning with love for him, retired with him to the local forests, while crops outside the island died]; Romanians {after the young man is alive, he comes to the Morning Dawn Fairy, who stops mourning and nature comes to life} [the mighty king on the right He always laughs with his eye and cries with his left; he has three sons; the mighty tall Florea, the dense strong Costan and the younger Petru are tall, but the character is girlish; the older brothers refused, P. agreed to ask his father about his eyes, he got a slap in the face; but he thought his left eye was crying less and his right eye laughing more; and he asked again; both eyes laughed: that three sons were good, but unlikely they will be able to protect themselves from their neighbors; therefore laughter and tears; but if you bring water from the well of the Morning Dawn fairy, I will wet my eyes and both will laugh, for I understand that the sons are brave; F. rode the best horse to the boundaries of his father's possessions; there is a bridge and a three-headed dragon: one jaw in the sky, the other on earth; F. turned, but did not return home a year, month and day later; K. went; the dragon also has three heads; he also turned, but did not return home; P. went, the dragon has 7 heads; the horse stands on its hind legs, P. returned to take another horse; the old nurse: you need the horse your father rode; he replies that the horse has long fallen, and in the stall except for scraps of bridle; the nurse tells you to bring such a piece and hit the pole with it; immediately a beautiful horse appears under the precious saddle; now there is a 12-headed dragon at the bridge; the horse orders to cut off the main one head and flies forward - one day like the wind, the other as a thought; in front of them there is a copper wall, as well as copper trees, bushes and grass; flowers whisper, but the horse forbids them to be plucked; otherwise you will have to fight with Velva; but he tore it off to see her; she has a horse's mane, a deer antler, a bear's face, a ferret's eyes, and the bodies of various creatures; after three days of battle, P. put a bridle over the velva and she turned into a beautiful horse; this is the brother of the horse P., who was bewitched; so they galloped through the copper forest; then silver (still another velva horse); golden (the strongest and youngest of these horses is disgraced ); now they are driving through the frozen country of Saint Sereda, and there is fire around the edges; this is the frost that makes the calf in the womb of the cow freeze and the rocks crumble; when they reach the house of St. Sereda, she gave a box that will show the way home and tell you who is doing what now; P. asks about his father; a box: his eldest sons have taken away his power; now they are traveling through the red-hot land of St. . Thursdays (Joi, Jupiter); rocks began to melt under their hooves; from the cool valleys, where springs and flowers, girls turn to P.; St. Thursday: Next will be the country of St. Fridays, tell her my wishes for good health; it is not cold or hot there; but darkness has descended and Tornado's daughters are in it; Tornadoes guard Friday's house; the horse tells me to throw a copper wreath, the spirits rushed behind the wreath ; a silver wreath showed Friday and she allowed her to enter; Friday is an ancient old woman; when the world arose, she was a child; asks for a mug of water from the spring of the Morning Dawn Fairy on the way back; gave the flute, the sounds of which make them fall asleep; in the morning P. fed his horses with hot coals; Friday: leave one horse here now, and enter the Fairy dismounted; she has a terrible appearance: owl eyes, fox face, claws cats; her gaze deprives her of reason; the Fairy's palace where the earth touches the sky; flowers along the way; neither warm nor cold, eternal twilight; P. sedated the giant watchman and seven-headed dragons with a flute; the milk river is not in sandy or jelly shores, and on shores made of gems and pearls, flows quickly and slowly at the same time; lions with golden skin and iron teeth; beautiful fairies sleep in flowers; P. tied to a sleeper He woke up the giant's fingers, told him to carry him across the river - then we'll fight; but the giant hammered P. into the ground to his knees, and P. to his waist; giant P. to his chest, P. his neck; then a half-bound giant agreed to carry P., standing with both legs on different banks of the river; on the table in front of the fairy's bed, the bread of strength and the wine of youth; he bit off bread and took a sip of wine, kissed Fairy, put a golden wreath on her, and picked water and left; gave water to Friday; Thursday warned not to communicate with people on the way back; gave a handkerchief protecting against lightning, spears and bullets; a knowledgeable box warns: the brothers found out that P. would bring water, they want to kill him; P. does not believe him, broke the box; the brothers met him, asked him to get water from a deep well, left it there, took the Fairy's water and came to their father; the Fairy woke up and sent all the guards they did not find it; they did not find it; the Sun looked for 7 days, but P. was where its rays did not reach; the Fairy ordered darkness to come, and now only the king father, who saw the light from that water, began to see, but everyone else did not; Florea came to see the fairy, but could not say how he got that water; the fairy blinded him; {the same with his middle brother}; The fairy told everyone to come to her so that the winds, flowers, springs, people and giants were all cried; Friday sent tornadoes to look for P.; and only one spring breeze heard P. end up in the well; now there are only bones and ashes; Thursday boiled ashes in the cauldron with the dew of life, it turned out ointment, her bones were rubbed, P. came to life; tells the horse to fly fast like a curse; came to Fairy, kissed; the flowers bloomed, the sun shone, the world came to life again; P. brothers found sight to see him happiness]: Kremnitz 1882, No. 20:237-295.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Hittites [Telepinus became angry at something, put his left boot on his right leg and his right boot on his left leg and left. Then smoke enveloped the sacrifice tables, the cattle stopped multiplying, the country was struck by drought, and the gods at the feast were unable to satisfy their hunger. The sun god sends an eagle for Telepinus, but the eagle can't find it. The god of thunderstorm returns with nothing - he only smashed his hammer against the gates of the city where Telepinus lived. Then Mother Goddess Hannahanna sends a bee. The gods do not believe that such a small creature will be of use, but the bee finds Telepinus sleeping in a clearing and bites. Telepinus jumps up and smashes everything furiously, but goddess Kamrusepa softens his anger. Telepinus, and with it fertility, returns]: Ivanov 1977:53-61, (cf. Ivanov 1977 [The serpent defeated the God of the Storm, took his heart and eyes; then BG married the daughter of a mortal man, Poor; she gave birth to a son, who grew up, married the daughter of the Snake; asked her for her heart and eyes father, brought BG; having regained his former form, BG defeated the Snake; son: Do not feel sorry for me either; BG killed the Snake and his son with him]: 52); (cf. Adygs [as a boy, Uazirmes sees people carrying food for goat-bearded Paco, and their own children are starving; Migazes's mother blesses him to fight Paco, tells him to take his father's horse and sword; but P. ran to heaven, made himself a home out of the web, and caused drought; cattle and crops began to die; on Satan's advice, W. jumped on his horse to heaven, advised P. to look at the ground; when he stuck out head, cut it off; after that it rained for seven days]: Lipkin 1951:338-341; Karachays, Balkarians: Aliyeva 1994, No. 8 [Red Fook lives in the sky in a fortress of eagle wings; lowers to the ground boilers so that sledges fill them with supplies for him; sledges fill cauldrons with stones; on Satánay's advice, Debet forges weapons for Yoryuzmek; he sits on an air wineskin, rises to the sky, cuts off F. head], 9 [red-bearded Red Fook paid tribute; Satánay teaches Yoryuzmek what to do; he catches a hare, hides in a hole in the reeds; Albridge is suitable to catch a hare, Ë. kills her, puts on her skin, hides in Fouk's latrine in her guise, takes away his golden seal; F. runs away to heaven, leaves the sledges without rain; YE. fire a cannon, he suggests F. see how sledges suffer on the ground; cuts off his head; it rains bloody, then clean], 10 [Red Fook placed a tribute on the sledges; frightened of Yoryuzmek, flew to the sky, deprived the earth of rain; Ë. they fired a cannon, in the sky he cut off F.'s head, returned on horse-wind], 11 [Red Fook with eagle wings flew from Yoryuzmek to heaven; the rains stopped, the women stopped giving birth; YE. on jelly top (balloon?) went up to heaven, invited Fuku to look down, cut off his head; Fuka flew to the ground in eagle plumage; it began to rain], 12 [Yorusmek defeats the red-bearded red-bearded Fouc, who runs to heaven, stops the rain; the witch says that YE. must get F.'s ring and make a sword from the fragments of a fallen star; in the sky, YE. defeats F., descends, sits on his back, holds him in a hole; the rivers again flow, but no contentment; abundance appears when YE. cuts off F.'s head], 13 [Fuk was the head of heaven; Yoruzmek rose to him, won, descended on his eagle wings, enclosed him in a hole; someone helped F. escape; E. caught up with F., but he threw him into the river, froze the water; E. offered to cut off his head with his own sword (this sword would kill someone else); but F. only sent a new frost; friends Ë. released him, he found and killed F.], 14 [red-bearded Red Fook takes Yoruzmek's sheep; Satanay tells her husband to kill the albridge living in the reeds, hiding and leaving the hare bait; put on leather albridge, watch for F. in a latrine; YE. cuts off F.'s finger with a seal; F. in eagle robe flew to the heavenly fortress, stops raining; Yorusmek was shot with a cannon, he cut off F.'s head; it rained bloody for half a day, then it started clean; YE. flew to the ground on the wind sent by S. horse; sledges want to give YE. poison poison; S. inserts a copper tube into his throat; poison flows to the floor; sledges they think that drunk YE. urinates, they want to kill him, he cuts their heads; the boy takes YE. to wash on the river; S. says that this hero boy is the son of Ë.], 15 [Red Fook takes tribute from the sledges; Ë The ryusmek drives him away, he leaves, taking away fertility; YE. fishes his head; sledges led by Kaitmyrza decide to destroy Ë.; Satanai tells her husband not to drink poison at the feast; YE. kills those on a feast; a boy enters the house through the chimney, brings out Ë.; Satanay says it is Sosuruk, the son of Ë., born in his absence], 17 [about (14); Fouc's son Jeanparaz dominates with sledges trying to kill Ë at a feast; Ë. cuts off his head]: 311-313, 313-316, 316-318, 318-320, 320-323 [Appendix 2; Uryzmek takes the tribute that the sledges pay to Puku; he runs to heaven in glass palace; delays the rain, women do not give birth; Satana shoots W. with a cannon; in the sky, W. asks P. to look at the ground, cuts off his head; it rains; W. made the head of the sledges], 323 [ Appendix 3 (=Tulchinsky 1903:48-50, Balkarians [sledges pay tribute to Pukk; Oryuzmek promises to tear his head off; P. runs, makes an eagle wing tower between the sky and the clouds, rain and dew into the sky demolished, began to warm the ground; women and sheep stopped giving birth; sledges murmur at O.; he climbed inside the ball and told them to shoot them with a cannon; Satanaya hit the ball with his head, he shot and hit the window Pukka towers; seeing O., P. burst in fear, ears of ears began to spike again, women, goats and sheep gave birth]:? , 324, 324-325, 325-328, 329-330, 332-334; Lezgins [the god of justice Alpan fell in love with the goddess Yar, she gave birth to Yargi Rush (rainbow); Alpan's wife Alpab descended into the underworld, promised to surrender Afat Sedu, if he killed Yar; Albab told demons to scatter pieces of Yar's body in the underworld; after that, the Earth and Sky turned gray, the vegetation withered, and cold came; the supreme god Rag (sun) decided to resurrect Yar; Alpan, flashing with lightning, descended into the underworld, collected and connected Yar's body parts; on the night of March 22, Yar returned, the vegetation on Earth came to life]: Khalidova 2012, No. 187:213-214.
Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami (Inari - northern Finland) [1906 dictionary; Lake Inari has the "Old Man's Island" (i.e. the thunder god Termes), where jettanas (the same as the Jotuns in Edda, "eaters") it tied up and imprisoned in a cave; famine and drought began; T.'s servant frees him, T. rises to heaven and sends rain for 7 weeks to wash off jettanas]: Frog 2011:81; Ingrians [V. Porkka discovered the rune in 1881; it was performed as a ritual song at St. Peter (June 29) or Elijah the Prophet (July 20, Julian calendar); "Ukko (god of thunder and rain), come to visit, give strength to the fields; Who will bring Samps Pellervoinen (from peld, "field") to us? ; a wolf comes, asks SP to get out of bed, he refuses: the wolf killed cattle; the hare: trampled on crops; the wind: plucked leaves and seeds; the sun; SP is happy, comes"]: Kiuru 1990, No. 3:38; Ladoga Karelians [In 1835, K.A. Gotlund recorded a complete rune in the northern Priladozhye; Sampsa Pellervoinen fled to dark Pohjöl to escape punishment for an incestuous act; Ahti does not know who could bring the SP; refuses to send the wolf - he picked up the sheep; "summer day, affectionate guy" went, brought the SP, who brought the seeds of plants and trees and sowed the land with them]: Kiuru 1990:175-176.
Japan. Ainu: Kubodera 1977 in Yamada 2010 [fish and deer disappear; the goddess dances before the god of fish and the god of deer; they laugh, scales and fur fall, the goddess throws them into the water, into the forest, they turn into fish, deer]; Stories of Gods 1981 [(summary); a food-owning god sends hunger; the Divine Owl seeks a suitable messenger; rejects the Raven; sends Soyka, who persuades God bring food back to the world]: 60; Yamada 2010 [fish and deer go missing; God Owl finds out who to send as a messenger to the heavenly gods; Raven, then Soyka don't listen to what he says, sleep, he kills them; Cinclus cincus listens attentively, flies to the god of fish and the god of deer, gives an answer; people are guilty of hitting fish with a rotten stick, the fish swam to the owner, holding a rotten stick in their mouth; people hit deer on the head, threw their heads in the forest, deer came to their owner naked, crying; God Owl reports this to people in their dreams when they sleep; people began to beat fish with sticks decorated with inau chips, began to decorate the inau of dead deer; deer and fish returned to forests and rivers].
SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks [Yinieanyt goes skiing every evening, despite the objections of Father Kikkiniaku (Big Crow) and brother Ememkut; K. cuts off her leg and leaves her alone; she catches a plover, attaches his leg, her leg breaks; then she catches a goose, puts a goose's foot; finds herself in the sky; the Warden explains that he set it all up to pass her off as his own son Cloud; J. gets his leg back; wraps all animals, fish, edible plants in the skin; hunger sets in on earth; throws bear skin down, it turns into a bear, he pursues K.; The bear is killed - there is only grass inside; J. unfolds his skin, life returns; together with her husband she descends to the ground to her father and brothers]: Jochelson 1908, No. 114:303-305.
Subarctic. Atna [people kill the greedy and lying Raven by throwing him off a cliff; the water disappears; the crow is revived, the water comes back]: Smelcer 1997:29-32; kuchin [man kills a lying and greedy The crow, having thrown him off a cliff; the village where he lives disappears; the man revives the Raven by collecting it from pieces; does not find one finger, now the crow has only three fingers; the raven tells the man to jump on the belly of a sleeping fish; a village with all people comes out of the fish]: McKennan 1965:95-96; Khan [The Raven warns Tsa'Wëzhaa (Beaver) that if he kills him, people will be gone; C. and Raven are sleeping at the edge of the cliff, at night C. straightens his legs, the Raven falls, breaks; C. hears people's voices, but the villages are empty and only dead fish on the shore; he collects the Raven from pieces, collected almost everything; the Raven tells him jump on any fish, people reappear]: Mishler 2004, No. 5:152-154.
The coast is the Plateau. Kutene [The Tree Chief spits beads, kills and revives animals with a magic arrow, turns manure into bison, giblets into pemmican; his wife is the chief's eldest daughter; Coyote collides him into the hole, puts on his clothes, comes to his wife under his guise; famine begins in the country; the Tree Chief regains his former appearance, expels the Coyote, abundance returns; at the end of the world they they will meet again, shake hands with each other]: Boas 1918, No. 64:191-213; (cf. tillamook [The beaver does not feed his wife, she leaves; he hides the sun, causes a flood; people want to give him a ransom with knives and beads, but no one can dive to him; the muskrat dives, gets the sun back, the flood ends; Beaver takes two knives for himself and his daughter; they turn into their tails]: Jacobs 1959, No. 22:83-84).
Northeast. Delaware [two boys doubt that Corn is a living creature; then "Corn's heart turned into many small creatures, they flew away"; Mesingw came to tell people what happened an evil deed is done; boys go up to heaven, see Corn covered with scabs, because the grains were roasted without fat; they burn shells as victims, Corn agrees to return]: Bierhorst 1995, NO. 67:44.
Plains. Blacklegs [The bear is kidnapped by the warm wind of the chinook; spring is not coming, people are starving; they go to look for the Bear; an orphan boy puts him to sleep, the Coyote carries the bag of wind, the Partridge manages to open it ; it gets warm; bears have been sleeping in winter ever since and are angry when they wake up]: Fraser 1990:7-9; Crowe [The sun is angry that his earthly wife is sleeping with another or has been abused; hides buffalo; young man creates new ones from old bones; The sun realizes that humans are also powerful, gives them back their livelihoods]: Clark 1966 [a woman is raped, she commits suicide; the Sun hides corn]: 310- 311; Lowie 1918 [wife cheats on the Sun]: 94-102.
Southeast USA. Shawnee [two old women go to the field for corn; one day, a man living with them walks by himself, sees a vagina-shaped cob, copulates; Corn leaves, women find empty bins; a man comes to heaven to Our Grandmother; she succumbs to persuasion, sends Corn back]: Voegelin 1936:7.
California. Pomo [Coyote was so insistent on offering food to his sister Rattlesnake that she bit him; he screamed that he was dying, asked him to be buried in a shallow grave, throwing earth to the waist; his Frog's wife pretended to believe him, but knew that he was jealous of her brother Salamander; after the funeral, the Frog began to call Coyote a bad husband, a lazy person, etc.; Coyote jumps up, wants to beat his wife, she turned into a frog, rode away; after that, the plants stopped bearing fruit, the animals did not multiply; at the request of the Coyote, four Otter Brothers found the Frog, asked her to return; she appeared young beautiful; Coyote promised not to be jealous anymore]: Clark, Williams 1954:65-67; screw [The wind steals Water, the Creator's wife; there is drought on earth; two sons of Water go to the other side of the sky , find a mother; she gives them a basket of inexhaustible water; every drop that falls to the ground gives a spring]: Curtin 1898:51-63; miwok (Yosemite Valley) [Chief Tu-Tok falls in love with Tis-sa (Ti-sa-yak), she runs away; the valley becomes a desert; Tis-sa regains fertility]: Edmonds, Clark 1989:154-156 [(quail with Hutchings 1886:387); Tis-sa asks supreme god stop disaster], 156-158 [(quail with Skinner 1896:259-260); takes Tu-Tok 'ah, fertility returns]; yokutz [animal people want to kill Coyote's son; Month, Thunder , Sun, Night are brothers; Coyote asks them not to leave their homes; it's dark for six months, it's raining; people bring Coyote beads; he asks his brothers to go out again; normalcy is restored]: Kroeber 1907a, No. 39:231-234.
Big Pool. Two groups of ancestors compete on the run; the losers are thrown into the fire; after a long darkness, the birds begin to call on the sun; it dawns, spring comes. North Payute (Owens Valley) [Coyote burns the Sun; Duck sings]: Steward 1936, No. 32:411-415; Western Shoshones [when Coyote and Frog throw a Bear into the fire, it gets dark; birds call the sun is getting brighter; after the Woodpecker calls, the sun rises]: Smith 1993:127-129.
The Great Southwest. Western Apaches (White Mountain) [advice gathered in the house of the Sun to choose a chief; Coyote could not read what was written on paper; Mockingbird spoke well, but only repeating others' words; at Gopher bags behind his cheeks; so all three are rejected; then the gopher stuffed the wind, clouds, rain, plants, grass behind his cheeks, disappeared into an underground hole; the hummingbird found him; Gopher promised to return to earth if his honor would dance for 12 days; I had to agree; life was revived; the Sun and Black Thunder began to argue who grew most of the plants on earth; the Sun grew corn a foot high and it dried up; Thunder grew two feet, but it also turned yellow from thunderstorm and rain; then they began to grow corn together; Sun and Darkness agreed that they would take some people with them every time - the Sun in the evening, Darkness in the morning; that's why people die all the time]: Goodwin 1994, No. 22:121-122; Hopi: Mullett 1993 [it doesn't rain; people leave leaving a boy and girl; a girl makes a hummingbird out of dry the core of the sunflower stem; it comes to life, finds the Plant Owner, brings a grain of corn; finds parents of two children; the Plant Master returns; people return to the village]: 108-117; Titiev 1948 [mountain spirits conquer and captivate the deity of vegetation; it has not rained for four years; husband and wife make hummingbirds out of corn dough; he finds a captive god in a blooming cactus, gives him offerings; god comes back, it's raining]: 40-41; Zunyi [people scattered corn uselessly, the Corn girls decided to leave; they were led by Yellow, followed by Blue, Red, White, Variegated; Black was behind to their pursuers did not find them; Pautiva (the head of Kachin) called them to the village of Kachina to return them to the people; he did not want them to go elsewhere; in Itiwana, a middle place, people collected grain, but it It was sick and useless; the priests sent in search of the Medicine Flower Boys, then the Jimson Weed Boys, but they did not find the Corn Girls; then the twins Gods of War sent a fly; The Kachina women put up freshly brewed pumpkin soup, the fly burned their tongue, and since then they could not speak; they sent arrows, but they found only the wind; the Gods of War invited the priests to look for someone wiser than them; They sent Newekwe, he sits on the Milky Way and sees everything; he told the priests not to eat or drink for four days until he returned; N. threw ash up, the Milky Way appeared, he climbed it, went south, north, east, went down to the west, told the Milky Way to remain as he did when he did when he surrounded people; N. came to P., who gladly returned him the Corn Girls who were in Sacred Lake; N. went ahead, Girls behind him, P. with a calabass of water from Sacred Lake behind them; since then N. has always brought the Corn Girls after Shalako (early winter ceremony after solstices), then P. brings rain]: Hodge 1993:29-32; Tiva: Harrington 1928 (Picouris) [famine sets in; people go southwest; husband and wife abandon their young son and daughter; children they eat the greens that the girl finds in the field; her two Dolls go to the Shell Hat; he lives in a house made of shells; gives the Dolls colorful corn and beans; children leave the grains in the dark the closet, it is filled with grain; a person comes to the village; tells others about the abundance there; people come back; brother and sister drive their parents away]: 343-349; Lummis 1987 (Isleta) [Nah-chu-r ú-chu (Bluish Dawn) promises to marry a girl who grinds corn so finely that the flour sticks to his scoop from the shell; only Moon flour sticks; two Yellow Corns Girls (they are witches) push the moon into a well, cover them with earth; the rains stop, the harvest dies; N. sends animals and birds to search for the moon; Turkey Buzzard finds a mound covered with flowers; N. asks for a flower, the moon respawns from it, fertility returns; the moon collides the hoop, the Corn Girls grab it, turn into snakes]: in Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:298-304; western ceres: Boas 1928a (Laguna) [Player wins and hides rain clouds; Sunny Boy beats Player, pulls out his eyes, frees clouds]: 253; White 1932 (Akoma) [Masewi brothers and Oyoyewi makes rain; that's why they dance at Yatiku's house; she gets tired of it; they go to the underworld for five years, leave a horned toad to guard the entrance; Hummingbird and Swallow they find them flying through the toad's body; Yatik sends them dried berries as a gift; the brothers return]: 150-154 (=Hodge 1993:42-46); papago [friends Tornado and Rain are offended by people and leave; drought begins; a number of animals and birds can't find where the Rain is hiding; hummingbirds find, wake up Rain, persuade them to return]: Rothschild 1912:103-104.
NW Mexico. Huichol [world in cold and dark; White Eagle flies, finds a sleeping Fire; animal people build a temple for him, bring firewood; Snakes decide to steal it; the Red Serpent has turned black; the Fire has woken up, disappeared into the cave; Scorpion, Vulture, Jaguar, Raccoon and others are trying to get it back, burned (black spots on their bodies); The Deer manages to persuade the Fire to return; it teaches people to celebrate, do arrows, burn vegetable gardens, etc.]: Cunningham 1978:23-26; bark [drought begins; hummingbirds go to the Rainland, they kill him (he later comes to life); frog man with his five sons bring rain]: Lumholtz 1903 (1) :514.
Mesoamerica Tricky: Hollenbach 1980, № 8.25 [two Gromov, husband and wife, quarreled, got into a fight; she dusty her grain grater and sprinkled it on his corn; the dust turned into insects, which killed his harvest; the Thunder man goes to the forest, eats wild sweet potatoes; the wife gives the Deer her earwax, tells her husband to put it in the soup; the food becomes bitter; the wife calls her husband to her place to talk, promises to return August 15; comes accompanied by other women; husband mistakenly hugs his wife's sister; turns into a tree, sister into a climbing plant]: 462-463; 1988 [Thunder man lived in the mountains and Thunder Woman on coast; the man's corn did not grow well; the woman helps him, but only the tops of his cobs grow; the harvests are better on the coast; he hit a tree, got stuck for a year; the rains stopped; to the tree a hunter comes, Thunder asks for his ax; weeps, frees himself, it rains; one day Thunder hits the coast, swims, a snake lizard tries to swallow it, he gets stuck in her throat; asks give him his explosives; kills a snake with an explosion; now lives only in heaven]: 15-17; mixteks [God and the Rain God are neighbors, they visit each other; God gives God of Rain luxurious meat dishes, that are only greens; God is dissatisfied, the Rain God says that he is poor, that he will now cause a drought for seven years, and God will also lose abundance; in the fifth year God goes to make peace; they agree when it will rain but the drought continues; God sends a boy to ask him to send rain immediately, but the Rain God only starts a storm after the second messenger arrives]: Chávez 1985:320-322; kekchi [the girl is promised to one first ancestor (they are all mountains), but marries another; her father Shukanep asks the rejected groom to return the dowry, corn; he hides all the corn in the mountain; people- animals are starving; only the Fox is full, he knows where ants carry grains out of the mountain; Woodpecker finds emptiness in the rock, Thunder breaks the rock; Shukanep distributes corn to everyone]: Burkitt 1920:197-227.
Honduras vs Panama. Hikake [The sun is walking, people grab him and put him in jail; his father releases his four brothers into the sky; the water in the rivers boils; the father agrees to remove excess suns in exchange for his release captive]: Chapman 1982, No. 27:112; guatuso [all edible plants]: Constela Umaña 1993, No. 4:132-134; boruca [supreme god Sibú entrusted baskets containing seeds people and animals, god Surá; when he went to his cornfield, the seeds were stolen and eaten by the evil Jáburu; Sura returned, Haburu killed him and burned him, and a cocoa tree and a mountain tree grew on the grave ( Crescentia cujete); Sibu demanded a chocolate drink from H.; H.'s wives roasted the beans, made a drink; Sibu offered the first cup of H.; he drank, swelled and burst; Sibu collected the seeds, resurrected Sura, gave him back a basket of human seeds]: Pittier de Fabrega 1903, No. 1:2-3 (retelling in Alexander 1920:193-194).
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. Desana [Balí bó has all the food; his wife is a howler monkey; the eldest son Doé (Evening Star), the youngest is Abé (Month); the month began to sleep with his wife D.; D. killed him, buried him, I did not tell my father and wife; BB became a japu bird, began to fly over four women, ask for food; heard them kill the Month; BB found it, revived it, but his penis was cut off; made a new one out of wood mushroom" the penis of the moon"; The month entered the house, his brother sang, the Month ran into the forest; all the animals and birds came to cry with BB; all cultivated plants disappeared; BB went south to look for a new wife, left the old one with D.; rejected agouti, a tapira (skinny legs, yellow eyes), stayed with the father of two daughters; he was given a tasteless cake made from forest fruits; he gave them manioc, drawing a circle, created a cassava field; the sisters broke the ban watch DD create everything, cassava got a peel; a weed grew out of the eldest's urine; the eldest gave birth to the Evening Star, the youngest to the Morning Star; BB told Morning to go after D.; he brought him, D. brought cassava people]: Kumu, Kenhiri 1980:141-147; puinawe [Cassava leaves his family, his young children beg him to return]: Cardozo 1968:41-43; piapoko [eating the fruit, man becomes pregnant, is allowed without pain by a boy; when his grandmother bathes him, the trough is filled with manioc flour; the boy asks to cut off his fingers, sows his phalanges, which 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 night monkey finds the tree; Agouti picks up the pineapple it has dropped, brings it to people; they cut down the trunk day and night, but Cayman swallows fire; in the morning it turns out that the thicket is felled; Cayman is killed, fire is taken out of his belly, the trunk is cut; the tree remains hanging behind the Barbasco vine (fish poison) attached to the sky; The squirrel cuts it, falls with the tree; the branch with all the fruits falls into the water; the Tapira is sent to dive; as he gets the fruits, people hide them; he discovers the deception, hides some of the fruit; from Today's cultivated plants are taking place]: Wavrin 1937:604-606.
The Central Andes. Dep. Huanuco [people-birds bring back cultivated plants]: Dominguez Condero 1981:25-26; Caruas (dep. Ancash) [bird people return cultivated plants]: Yauri Montero 196:76-77; prov. Lucanas (dep. Ayacucho) [water monster A maru steals a magic flower, drought begins; Condor soars to die to the top of the mountain; there the Fox tells him how to stop the drought: throw it into the lake the purest man; many are abandoned; when the shepherdess is drowned, a storm begins; drowned people rise to the sky in the form of rain clouds; their tears are rain]: Arguedas, Izquierdo Rios 1947:86-92.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Bure [an anthropomorphic character swallows all cultivated plants; his belly is opened, plants are returned]: Nordenskiöld 1923:132-133; guarazu [people do not obey God, he hides the sun is under the ground, only the moon remains; he was begged to bring the sun back]: Riester 1977, No. 8:237-238.
The Southern Cone. Yagans [when sharing a whale, people do not pay attention to the sparrow; the sparrow makes (it is not specified how) that the sun hides; he is begged to return it; he sings, the sun reappears; Since then, the sparrow has been singing at dawn and does not dawn instantly, but slowly]: Gusinde 1937:1271-1272 (=Wilbert 1977, No. 56:166-167).