Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

H29. The ancestor of foreigners. 40.58.59.64.67.68.70.

A woman converges with an animal. People of hostile people come from or derive their culture from children born, from relatives of a lover, or from the children of a woman's brothers.

The Arctic. Copper [girl does not marry; her relatives tell her to surrender to dogs, take her to the island; she gives birth to European ancestors]: Rasmussen 1932:240-241; caribou [girl rejects suitors; Her father takes her to the island; leaves her with her dog, who becomes her husband; she gives birth to puppies; tells them to overturn her father's kayak, her father drowns; her children become ancestors of Europeans and Indians]: Rasmussen 1930b: 101; polar Eskimos [1) a girl rejects her suitors; her father threatens to marry her dog, drives her out of the house; the dog takes her to the island, brings food in a kayak; she gives birth to puppies and children, tells them to kill them father-dog; they eat it; pairs of her children become the ancestors of Europeans, wolves, savages, giants, dwarfs; the woman returns to her father; 2) the father wants to pass off his daughter as a dog; she runs away to the island, the dog follows her; father sends her food; she sends her born children to the mainland; starves to death]: Kroeber 1899, No. 5:168-169; netsilic [father in anger tells his daughter to marry a dog; his dog in In human form, she sleeps with her, she gets pregnant; her father takes her to the island; she gives birth to puppies, her father brings her and them meat; she asks the children to tear it to pieces; sends her, they become the ancestors of Indians and whites ; she wants to sail away with them, they push her into the water; they cut off her fingers, the stumps turn into walruses and seals; she becomes the mistress of N. ]: Rasmussen 1931:227-228; igloolik [girl rejects suitors; her father tells her to marry a dog; takes her to the island; dog kayaks her meat; she gives birth to children and puppies; father puts her in a boat the dog rocks, he sinks; she tells her children to tear up their father's boat, he manages to return home; her children become Indian and white ancestors; she returns to her father; Stupid comes to pick her up; she discovers that he has ugly eyes; gives birth to him a child; a father comes to pick her up; a silly man sends a storm; a father throws his daughter at sea; she grabs his boat, he cuts off her fingers; they turn into seals, lahtaks, walruses; she becomes the Mistress of Marine Animals; her father and drowned dog come to live with her]: Rasmussen 1930a: 63-66; Baffin's Land [girl rejects suitors, takes the dog is a husband; she gives birth to children with dog legs and puppies; her father takes them all to the island, tells the dog to supply it with food; puts stones in his boat instead of meat, he drowns; the daughter tells the dog children to eat his father's arms and legs; her father sails with her in a boat, throws her overboard, cuts off her fingers; they turn into seals, whales; her father takes her into a boat; her children become Indian ancestors, puppies become European ancestors]: Boas 1888:637; East Greenland (Angmassalik): Thalbitzer 1923, No. 214A [girl rejects suitors; father invites her to marry a dog; she gives birth to one, two, three puppies, then four children; she and her children live on the island; the dog swims across the strait, bringing them meat in leather pants from her father; the father comes to the island, the puppies eat him; the woman sends the children], B [as in (A); the father puts it stones in pants; the dog swims to the island, disappears; children become the ancestors of Europeans (?) , inner tribes, Atapaskan], C [as in A, B; children become ancestors of four races or tribes]: 389-396.

Llanos. Cuiva [female worm gets pregnant by a man; Europeans are emerging]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991b, No. 34-37:62-74.

Guiana. Warrau: Brett 1868 [by Schomburg; people live in the sky; the Okonorote hunter's arrow breaks a hole; people go down to earth; a fat woman gets stuck; on earth, the Great Spirit forbids swim in the lake; brothers Kororoma, Kororomana, Kororomatu, Kororomatitu live near the lake (cf. Kororomanu is the creator god) and their sisters Korobona and Korobonáko; sisters bathe, one is dragged away by a water monster, released by a pregnant woman; she gives birth to a boy and a half-snake; her four brothers chop him into parts; mother buries them, Caribbean grows out of them, attacks warrau]: 389-392; García 1993, No. 89 [Matiaguare tells sisters not to swim in the river; the youngest only pours calebasa water over herself, the eldest climbs into the water; becomes pregnant; despite her big belly, bears a lot of fruit; M. spies on her son (he is a snake below the waist) comes out of her womb, climbs a tree, then comes back; next time kills a snake child with an arrow; worms crawl out of his corpse, turn into Caribbean; his son M. is killed; he finds the Caribbean sleeping in their house, finds the remains of his son, cuts off the ropes of hammocks, the Caribbean falls, some die, some run away into the forest; the house turns into worms, worms into blacks; M. killed many Caribbean people, but they killed his younger brother; then M. made peace with them, they went into the forest]: 276-279; Wilbert 1970, No. 24 [Mária-Guari has two younger sisters; he does not tell them to swim in the river, and in the pond only in his presence; the eldest bathes alone, gets pregnant by a snake; MG sees a snake baby crawl out of her womb climbs a tree, turns into a man, sheds its fruit, then returns to its bosom; MG shot a snake child with a bow; she collects them, each turns into a Caribbean; first they are friends with a warrau; one day their mother kills a Warrau child because they once killed her son; since then, the tribes have been at odds], 25 [the shaman swims every night, others are not allowed in this place, especially women; the girl swam, became pregnant by a snake; bears a lot of fruit from the forest; two men watched a serpent crawl out of her womb, climbed a tree, shed fruit; when he climbed off a tree, they killed him with arrows], 26 [brother does not tell the girl to swim during her period; she broke the ban, became pregnant with the Uamma snake {anaconda?} ; it was the season of cutting Mimusops balata trees to get edible seeds; the girl did not take the ax into the forest, but returned with seeds; her brother watched and saw the Uamma snake crawl out of her womb, sheds the seeds, comes back; the next time the brother brought friends, they cut a snake on the ground; the mother collected pieces, each came the Caribbean; at first they were friends with the Warrau, both tribes sent to each other a child's friend with pieces of game; once an aged Caribbean mother ordered a child to be killed because the Warrau had once killed her lover; in response, the Warrau killed a Caribbean child, and enmity began]: 76-77, 78-79, 80 -81; Caribbean Dominica [Arawak girl Sésé violates the ban on swimming during menstruation; became pregnant by a "dog's head" snake living in the pond; comes ashore every night, the snake goes out out of the water in the guise of a man, they make love; S. gave birth to a boy in his mother's house; every night he goes to the pond to play with his father, then returns to his mother's bosom; brother S. wonders how she, without having cut down a tree with an ax, pulls out Mimusops riedleana seeds; watches S., sees a snake crawl out of her womb, climbs a tree, turns into a man, shakes branches, fruits fall; the next day brother cuts the snake into pieces; S. collected them, covered them with leaves; there are huts in this place, in which the Caribbean; at first they lived peacefully, but then S. tells them to take revenge on the Arawaks]: Delavarde 1938:202-203; carinha (Guyana) [ other Caribbean groups are emerging]: Roth 1915, No. 56:144; Kalinha [are (others?) emerging Caribbean bands]: Magaña 1982:100; trio [a woman has been pregnant for several years, brings baskets of fruit from the forest; her brothers watch her, see her spread her legs, five come out of her vagina little boys grow up, climb a tree to collect fruit for her; an older brother kills a woman and three boys, two remain; grow up; ask their uncle how their mother died; he replies that her ate a jaguar that a tree fell on it, etc.; brothers send flies, they report that there are no fallen trees in the forest, no poisonous snakes, etc.; brothers kill their uncle; turn into flies, then into ancestors of the Caribbean kalinya]: Magaña 1987, No. 80:149; oyana [two sisters take Anaconda as lovers; their brother kills him; each sister gives birth to a boy; they ask their uncle for more and more arrows, give them to their brothers born of Anaconda by other women; uncle gives them the name oyampy, they kill him]: Magaña 1987, No. 51:44; palicur [demon Yumawalí became the girl's lover; she became pregnant, brother followed behind her on the site, saw Yu put his head on the girl's thigh, hung a feather crown on the branch; her brother shot, Yu deflected the arrow, grabbed the crown, ran away; the arrow killed the girl, her brother buried her; On the third or fourth day, worms appeared on the grave; on the fifth day, the brother, in addition to worms, saw many boys with bows and arrows; one said that it was the young man's fault that they were born first as worms, only then do they become boys; boys became Caribbean Galibi, enemies of the Arawak Palicures]: Nimuendaju 1926:107-108.

Central Amazon. Kuruaya [a woman rejects the healer, is bewitched by him, gives birth to fish; they turn into children, go with their mother to the forest; hunt for her; become a Munduruku tribe; invite the Kuruaya to a festival, They quarrel with them there forever]: Nimuendaju 1922:400.

Eastern Amazon. Spiking [the younger brother does not give her sister fish, she catches herself; on the way back she finds, bakes, eats a mutum bird egg; gives birth to boys and girls; they hunt for her, return to her in in the womb; they climb a tree for chestnuts; she tells her brothers that chestnuts have been found on the ground; the younger brother watches, cuts the umbilical cords of the children who have come out of the womb; the pieces turn into inedible fish; the children go away become Munduruku Indians (Karuriá on a thorn); kill their uncle when he visits them; then both tribes begin to feud]: Nimuendaju 1922:399-400; paracana [girl lives with married brothers; in the forest they copulate with a tree branch, brothers find it, break it; the same with a vine; with a deer, brothers kill it, tell their sister that they killed a deer, she calls her lover in vain, sees blood; Same with tapir; same with fish; then she takes her brothers' children away; they sail away, turn into Europeans, greet fathers with guns, fathers realize that children cannot be returned]: Fausto 2002:73-76.

Montagna - Jurua. Marubo: Melatti 1984:110-111 [Sheta Veká met a snake/worm; copulates with him while sitting on the floor; he was getting fruit and fish for the woman; mother noticed; SW's husband and other men killed a snake; a pregnant woman goes to the forest, encourages a jaguar to eat it; gives birth to two twins Wani (Morning Star) and Yawewa (Evening Star); if she wears black, a hood, night, if white, day; meets Topane, the son of a forest woman Shoma Wetas; she ate her children; she had knives in her elbows, but her husband broke them off; only T. of Shom Vets' children escaped; when Sheta Vetsa came to T., mother-in-law and her sister began to eat her children; T. pushed both into a fire pit; T.'s children became creoles], 131-134 [Sheta Veká has a snake lover; mother-in-law found him in the section of the house where his daughter-in-law, father-in-law, sits killed, threw her head away; at this time, the woman's husband killed her human lover on the site; she left, got to Rane Topáne, the son of Shoma Vetsa; gave birth to snakes, poisonous ants, the Morning Star, the Forest Spirit Mincho; after that, RT married her, brought her to his mother's house; that sister Kencho; they ate their first three sons; then RT made a hole, a fire in it, pushed mother and aunt; nocturnal birds, jaguars, night monkeys, the spirits of the dead, mourned her death; the souls of Shoma Vetsa and the boys she ate appeared; Sheta Veká woke her husband up, but he grabbed only the eldest; the rest ran away, they come from them creoles].

Southern Amazon. Kalapalo [the man married his younger sister, his elder rejected him; he cooked snake eggs for her, she ate and became pregnant; went to get bark, and her son from the womb offered to get bark, crawled onto a tree, began to shed its bark, and the tail remained in the woman's womb; the next time he threw fruit from the palm tree to his mother, but he crawled out and his mother killed him; cut off her head, threw him into the river, this is how the electric eel appeared; the body turned into ferocious Kayapo Indians]: Basso 1987:286-291; trumai [suya arise]: Monod Becquelin 1975, No. 57 [girl finds a snake egg, takes it for the egg of the Pakurau bird, carries it on its head; the egg breaks, the contents enter its vagina; she gives birth to a snake; her mother cuts the snake to pieces; they form the Suya Indians, kill everyone except the mother and uncle], 72: 188, 202-204; Murphy, Quain 1955 [no details]: 74; mehinacu [the woman had a huge dirty vagina; while digging cassava, she put a snake egg in the basket without noticing; the snake hatched, descended , penetrated her vagina; her stomach swelled. everyone thought she was pregnant; the snake inside her ate all the food, stuck her head out, ate her excrement; began to crawl out, returning to the woman to sleep; when it was time to give birth, the woman asked her brother to clear the branches of the tree, sat in front of him, the serpent crawled out, climbing the trunk; her brother cut it into pieces. They were the Suya Indians]: Gregor 1985:56-57; kamayura: Münzel 1973 [Karaiba (=Europeans and wild tribes) appear]: 198-203; Seki 2010, No. 3 [returning from the garden, the woman picked up an egg, thought it was a bird, put it in a basket with cassava tubers, the egg broke, the contents fell into the woman's vagina, she became pregnant by a snake; three older brothers scold her, the youngest fourth does not scold her; the woman wants to collect palm fruits, snakes gets out of her vagina, the tail remains in the woman, the snake crawls on the palm tree, sheds fruit, returns to the uterus; the woman tells her younger brother about it; he sees everything for himself; the woman provokes the snake get fruit from a taller palm tree, then from an even taller one; this time only the tip of the tail remains in the vagina, then it comes out; at the sister's request, the brother cuts the snake apart, puts the pieces in four heaps; coming back three days later, sees that pieces have turned into warriors, they make arrows; warriors ask their mother to come; kill her older brothers, leave; (p. 70: these are the ancestors of the Indians living below downstream of Shingu)]: 205-221; Rickbacza [a hostile tribe emerges]: Pereira 1994, No. 7:88-93; paresi [a now-extinct paresi subgroup emerges]: Pereira 1986, No. 2:92-93.

Eastern Brazil. Tshukarramae [a girl wants a caterpillar as a lover, she visits her at night in the guise of a man; a son is born, sucking blood from her mother's vagina and anus; she dies; her brother throws the child into the fire; people set fire to a tree with caterpillars; Europeans come from the survivors]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 28:69-73; kayapo: Wilbert 1978, No. 50 (cuben-cran-kegn) [a lizard in the form of a man comes at night to a girl; parents see him leave in the morning, climb a tree; set fire to a tree; surviving lizards turn into Europeans; a girl gives birth to lizards; her parents kill them; she saves one, runs away; they turn into Europeans], 51 [a lizard turns into a man at night, sleeps with many women in the village; a person sees lizard children coming down from a tree, visiting their mothers; eating, returning; a person sets fire to a tree; lizard children burn, a father lizard escapes; the Juruna Indians come from it]: 152-154; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 25 (shikrin) [coming to the garden, a woman copulates with a snake ; her husband watches her, goes on a hunting expedition; when she returns, she hears children's voices; these are the Gorotire Indians she was born]: 55-56; crash: Wilbert 1978, No. 43 [the woman's son's father remains unknown; Europeans arise]: 126-134; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 31 [the father of a woman's son remains unknown; Europeans arise], 32 [the father of a woman's son is the Sun; Europeans arise], 33 [son's father women are the Sun; Europeans appear], 34 [a woman takes a rattlesnake as a lover; she throws nuts from a tree for it; she becomes pregnant, her son Auke turns into any animal before is born; when he is born, her relatives burn it; her father sees a revived A. on the site of the fire, the owner of all the items owned by Europeans]: 84-86, 87-94, 95-96; apinaye [father The woman's son remains unknown; Europeans arise]: Wilbert 1978, No. 47:146-147; Krenier [the woman's son's father remains unknown; Europeans arise]: Wilbert 1978, No. 45:138-139; apaniecra [the woman's son's father remains unknown; Europeans arise]: Wilbert 1978, No. 46:140-145; framework [the woman's son's father remains unknown; Europeans arise]: Wilbert 1978, No. 44:135- 137; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 35:97-104.