Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

H41. A dog betrays a person.

.11.-.13.18.27.28.32.34.-.37.39.40.66.

Due to the fault of a dog, a person is weak, mortal, and vicious. Usually, the antagonist bribes the dog by giving it warm hair, and it gives him human figures to desecrate.

Luba, Bemba, Kuta, Yaka (Congo), Nyakusa, Safwa, Konde, Mkulwe, Beng, Baule, Akposo, Dagomba, Bulsa, Krachi, Ditammari, Mende, (Bidyogo), Kone (Sierra Leone), Ewe, Akan, Igbo, Ijo , isoko and urhobo, nyangi, bongo, sandave, nandi, (malgashi), Victoria River Downs, Russian written tradition, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Novgorod, Pskov, Vologda, Vyatskaya, Smolenskaya, Yaroslavl, Oryol, Penza, Tambov), Ukrainians, Belarusians, Komi, Udmurts, Mari, Mordovians, Chuvash, Altaians, Teleuts, Kumandins, Shors, Tubals, Chulym Turks, Khakas, Tofalars, Balagan Buryats, Mongols (Khalkha, Inner Mongolia), Tundra and Forest Nenets, Mansi, Eastern Khanty, Southern and Northern Selkups, Kets, Central (?) and northwestern Yakuts, Western Evenks, Kirenian Evenks, Baikal Evenks, Evenki Orochons, (Evenks of China), Evens, Russian Ustye, Negidals, Orochi, Russian Ustye, Yukaghirs, Asian Eskimos, Kashibo.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Luba: Abrahamsson 1951 [Mvidi Mukulu created a man with a woman, sun, moon; another invited him to check if the creations were obedient, try to give them forbidden bananas; the Sun and Moon were sleeping , but the dog guard drove them away; the dog guarding people was sleeping; people were given bananas, they ate; MM made them mortal, ordered them to work, and the Sun and Moon sent them to heaven; every month the Moon for three dies of the day, but then revives]: 39; Scheub 2000 [Life and Death roamed the roads in woven grass clothes; the creator of Kalumbu told the goat and dog to miss Life, Delay Death; the first to go the dog was watching, fell asleep, Death was gone; the next day a goat was guarded, caught a passerby, it turned out to be Life; now Death walks along the roads, and Life detained by a goat cannot save people from it]: 98 (in short in Abrahamsson 1951:38-39); translated into Kotlyar 1975:63 (retelling in Kotlyar 2009, No. 404:253); bemba (or lala) [Nzambi told Chameleon to tell people that they would revive, and A month to die for good; the Chameleon was walking slowly and the Dog heard, ran, said the opposite; the Chameleon brought the right news but it was too late]: Andersson in Abrahamsson 1951:12; uta [Nziame sent to to people the Dog and the Goat; the Goat stopped to graze, the dog came running, said that the man would die forever and the moon would revive; then the Goat came, said the opposite, but it was too late]: Abrahamsson 1951:11-12; yaka (Congo) [Nzambi sent the Dog and the Goat to tell people that the old month will disappear forever, and people will be reborn after death; the Goat began to eat grass along the way; the dog came first, said that people would die forever and the moon would be reborn; then the Goat came, told her correctly, but they no longer believed her]: Abrahamsson 1951:12; Nyangi [God sent the Dog to say that the dead will be reborn in two days; The Frog overheard; while the Dog was varnishing palm oil, the Frog rode, said death was final; the Dog that came later was not listened to]: Abrahamsson 1951:9; safwa [The sheep wanted people to be reborn, the Dog to die for good; whoever reaches man will be the first to be; the Sheep won the first time, but the Dog insisted on a second attempt, threw salt in the Sheep's way, ran until the Sheep licked the salt]: Abrahamsson 1951:21; condés [those who wanted immortality sent the Sheep to God, and those who wanted to die forever sent the Dog; the dog ran first conveyed the request]: Abrahamsson 1951:21; mkulva [people gave bones to the dog, meat to the sheep; old woman Mwawa ordered to change; The dog quickly ate the meat, barked, We will die, we will die, we will die, we will die; Sheep for a long time and messed with bones unsuccessfully, flashed, We'll die and be resurrected; people said the Dog was ahead of her, beat the dog]: Hamberger 1909, No. 4:300 (retelling in Abrahamsson 1951:21); nyakusa [like the other Bantus, the motive for the "false news" is that the Sheep and the Dog are sent, one with the news of eternal life and the other about human mortality]: Wilson 1959:15; (cf. Tanga

[Njambu married Nyangwa-Mbwa; she gave birth to Mbwa ("dog"), he has a human mind; N. took three more sister wives: Majanga kept clean, Inyanji outside the garden, Mamendi promised to give birth to twins; she gave birth to them, but jealous sisters threw the babies to pigs, put two anthills in bed with blood; N. ordered them to be thrown into the forest; M. found the babies, gave it to his mother; the sisters found out about this, killed the babies; the sorcerer advised M. to go to Hunger-for-the hearts-of-people; M. hid under the bed and when he came, carrying the taken from people of life (heart-life; different from "soul"), grabbed two, ran away, invested in the killed children, they came to life again; grew up, brought game from hunting, M. takes it to his father N., but does not allow his wives Majanga and Inyanji even tasted this meat; gathers people, says everything; the wives were drowned, but before that they cursed M. to become a wordless creature]: Nassau 1912, No. 22: 169-173).

West Africa. Baule [Nyamye sent a dog to his brother Anambela to give him to make humans and animals immortal; just in case, he instructed the cat to do the same; the dog found a bone, began to gnaw, the cat overtook her, ran over the rat, but decided to eat it on the way back; the dog came running later than the cat; A. said that since life and death meant so little to them, let everyone be mortal]: Himmelheber 1951b: 30-31 (translated into Himmelheber 1960:97-98); beng [everyone is going to tell Heaven that they want to be reborn, and let the grass with which roofs are covered die forever if it is burned; they sent the Dog, but that she began to gnaw her bones, lingered; the cat was the first to come running, mistakenly asking that the burned grass grow again and people die forever; that's what happened]: Gottlieb 1986:479; snakes: Cardinall 1931:27-28 [=Scheub 2000:263, brief in Abrahamsson 1951:6; the cannibal toucan killed people; Wulbari called his people together for everyone to choose their subjects; the goat said its people are grass, a dog is like people; V. sent a dog to take people the elixir of life to revive those killed by a toucan; she found a bone, began to gnaw, put the elixir aside; the goat passed by, took the elixir, poured it on its own humans are grass; that's why people die forever, and grass is reborn every year], 28-29 [people sent a sheep to Nyame saying they don't want to die; for reliability, they sent a sheep after a while a dog; a sheep came across grass, on which one woman poured salt and began to eat; at this time the dog reached Nyame and said that people wanted to die; on the way back it met a sheep and she explained that the dog was wrong; both returned to N., but he refused to change his mind]; Dagomba [people were slaves, sent a dog to Wuni to ask him to change his position; she stopped to see what she was cooking old woman (it turned out that she was boiling water); the goat heard people's request, came to V., said that people were going to die; when the dog came running, V. refused to change his mind; now people are both mortals and slaves]: Cardinall 1931:29-30 (=Abrahamsson 1951:6-7, =Scheub 2000:264); bulsa [people sent a dog to God to ask them to die and be reborn and the moon to die forever; the dog hesitated to see I was eating on the way; then a goat went, said that people wanted to die forever, and let the moon revive; when the dog made a true request, God replied that it was too late]: Schott 1989:262; akposo [people sent a dog to tell Uwolowu they wanted a resurrection after death; the dog stopped at a brew, and the frog came to W. on its own initiative to say that people wanted to die; since then since people die, but if a frog dies and then thunder is heard, it respawns]: Abrahamsson 1951:7; eve [people sent a sheep to God to ask for eternal life; then they sent a dog with the same request ; the dog overtook the sheep and told God people wanted to be mortal; when the sheep came, God had already made a decision]: Scheub 2000:141; akan [people sent a sheep to Nyame to ask for immortality, then to just in case, a dog; a sheep found a place where a woman threw salt on the grass, stayed to graze; the dog came first, said that people wanted to die forever; met a sheep, which explained that the dog I was mistaken, they both ran back, but N. refused to change his mind]: Scheub 2000:186-187; Igbo: Abrahamsson 1951 [God sends a dog to say that the deceased should be sprinkled with ash, he will be reborn; the dog satisfied its hunger, stayed; God sent a sheep, she also did not come immediately, confused everything, said that the dead should be buried; when the dog that came running gave God's words correctly, they did not believe it]: 7; Beier 1966 [When death appeared, people sent a dog to Chuku to ask if the dead should be reborn; The dog hesitated along the way; The toad overheard, came to C., said people did not want to be reborn after death; C. decided so; when the Dog came, he refused to change his mind]: 56; dithammaribe (bettamaribe) [everyone wants people not to die, only the Chameleon is against; the supreme god Kuyey suggests , so that whoever gets to it first decides the fate of people; decide to send the Dog, but it finds meat in the bushes, stops chewing bones; the Chameleon came first, so people are mortal]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:219-220; mende [Ngewo sent the Dog to say that people should not die, and Toad should; the dog saw the woman cooking, stayed to wait to be fed; The toad came first, humans are now mortal]: Parrinder 1967:54 (=Scheub 2000:174-175); (cf. bidyogo [the chief's daughter promises to marry someone who finds out the names of her clothes; a stray singer tells his dog to dump the girl's clothes in the dust when she washes them on the river; girl shouts for the dog to give it to Nansaba and Nankia; the dog runs to the owner, but on the way he sees a bone, gnaws, forgets the names; runs again, this time remembers, gives it to the owner; the young man sings saying the names of the clothes, he gets a girl]: Nikolnikov 1976:133-136); ijo (kalabari): Dayrell 1910, No. 23 [The creator was sorry that people were dying; he sent the dog to tell the deceased they left him to lie, sprinkled with gold; in a day he would come to life; the dog found a bone near the old woman's house, began to gnaw on it, and then fell asleep; the Creator sent a sheep; she began to pinch the grass, and then forgot that it was accuracy should be said; told the dead to be buried in the ground; when the dog came running and conveyed the Creator's words, she was told that they had already received another order; they did not like the dog, because of it people were mortal]: 81- 82; J. of the African Soc. 18:194 (1906) in Frazer 1926 [people didn't die, one got sick and died, others sent the Dog to ask God what to do; she kept not coming back, people sent the Sheep, she came back say that the deceased should be buried; The dog came, told him to put hot ash on the dead's stomach, he would come to life; but it was too late, so dogs are treated badly]: 192-193 (=Abrahamsson 1951:7); isoko and urhobo [Oghene created humans immortal, old people shed their skin like snakes, became young; the earth overflowed; the dog, as man's companion, wanted people to live forever, and W. expanded the world; the toad wanted the dead to die forever; decided that O. would agree with whoever would come to him first; the dog first overtook the toad but decided to sleep; the toad came first, people became mortal]: Scheub 2000:198-199; kone (Sierra Leone) [God told husband, wife and their child that in old age they would change their skin and rejuvenate; sent new skins with the Dog; others to the Dog animals invited rice and pumpkins to eat; at this time the Snake stole the parcel, distributed skin to snakes; Man and Dog came to God, but it was too late; snakes were punished by driving them out of settlements, people are killing them]: Parrinder 1967:54 (=Scheub 2000:268-269); (cf. serer [the dog died first; it was buried in a termite nest at the foot of the baobab; the dead dog was wrapped in clothes, men shot guns, women cried; Koch saw it, was angry; people began to die]: Tastevin 1934:85 in Abrahamsson 1951:100 (=Kotlyar 2009, No. 485:248).

Sudan-East Africa. Bongo: Andersson in Abrahamsson 1951:13 [1) Nzambi asked people if they wanted to be reborn themselves or the moon when they die; Ambassador Goat and Dog's people say they want to be reborn; Goat stopped to graze; The dog said people wanted to die and let the moon revive; when the Goat came, it was too late; 2) Nzama created the world and people; sent the Goat and the Dog to say people should not to die; The Goat stopped to graze, and the Dog said that people should die and the moon should be reborn; The Goat brought the right news, but late; N. punished both by turning them into animals; 3) Nzama created the sky, the earth and everything on it; brought down the first human couple to earth; sent the Goat with the message of the Sun and the Dog with the message of the Moon (which exactly means the informant did not explain); The dog said that people would to die forever and the Moon to be reborn; the Goat said the opposite, but it was too late], 13-14 [Nzami created humans; Muloghi insisted that some of them die; N. sent the Goat and the Dog; the Goat stopped to graze , The dog told people to die forever and the Moon to be reborn; then the Goat said the opposite, but people did not believe it]; sandava [Sheep to the Dog: people must die and then be reborn; Dog: no, die forever; Dog offers to run to Sixafumbo; Sheep came first, demanded; Dog offered to try again; scattered salt on Sheep's road; that stopped licking salt, the dog ran to Sixafumbo at that time, asked people to die forever; when the Sheep came running and asked them to revive, it was refused; the Sheep offered run again, but the Dog refused; therefore, the sheep is man's friend and the dog is a curse (more precisely, a "club")]: Arnold 1984:156-157; nandi [The dog told people they would die like the moon, but they will revive like the moon only if they give her, the Dog, milk and beer from the same dishes they drink from; people let the Dog drink by pouring it on a bench (as they give to boys who are initiated, circumcision); The dog ordered only the moon to be reborn and people to die]: Hollis 1909:98 (retelling in Abrahamsson 1951:18; in Shaube, 2000:18); (cf. malgashi [woman, cow, dog are children of the same father; God came with a knife to take the woman's daughter as his maid; promised not to kill her if the woman found a replacement; the dog refused to give the puppy, the cow gave one of her two calves; the daughter has recovered; since then, cows have been cared for, but dogs are not]: Parrinder 1967:43-44).

Australia. Victoria River Downs [A month said he would die and be reborn in four days; Dingo said he would die for good; people started doing like Dingo]: Rose 1992:104 in Venbrux 2008:7.

The Balkans. Hungarians [God left the dog to guard the figure of the first man to put his heart into; but the dog missed the line; when he saw a suitable God, it set off to run; God chased, tore off her tail and made a woman out of it; that's why women have a lot of fleas]: Dähnhardt 1907:117.

Central Europe. The Russian written tradition ("Tales, how God created Adam") [God created the first man in eight parts, "and look imachi's eyes from the sun and leave Adam lying alone on earth. But Satan, cursed, will come to Adam and smear him with feces and tinn and ages. And the Lord will come to Adam and put your eyes on the sun, and the sight of his husband is smeared, and the Lord is angry with the devil and began to say: Cursed to the devil! Can't you die? What did you do for this man's dirty trick - his smear? and damn you wake up! And the devil will disappear like lightning, through the earth from the face of the Lord. But the Lord will take Satan's dirty tricks off him and mix him with Adam's tears, and in that create a dog, put up a dog and lead Adam's streaks; and he himself will go to mountainous Jerusalem by Adamlevo's breath. And Satan will come second and rise to Adam, let evil filth, and see a dog lying at Adamlev's feet, and Satan, afraid of Velmi. The dog began to bark evil at the devil; but Satan, who was cursed, took the tree and the leaf of all Adam's man, and gave him 70 ailments." God had mercy on Adam, drove Satan away, and turned all ailments inside human body]: Afanasiev 1994 (3): 61-62; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Shenkursky district) [snot and drooling are given to man at Satan's request by a dog that received hair on her body as a reward]: Efimenko 1874:189; Russians (Kostroma) [God left a woman called Baka, to protect the soul of the deceased; the devil came when it was very cold, promised her a fur coat that was not hot in summer and not cold in winter; for this she let the devil come to her soul and he took her away; God returned and punished a woman, made a dog; she is not allowed to enter church]: Andronikov 1909:19-20; Russians (Orlovskaya) [God created Adam and Evga, let them live in paradise, left the clean Dog to guard paradise from the evil one; he gave the Dog a piece of bread, she missed it, he spat on A. and E. from head to toe; God turned A. and E. inside out, so the saliva is filthy; made the dog an unclean beast, it is naked in its hair, and clean on her gut, it's not a dog's name, but a dog]: Vlasova 1986, No. 41:38; Russians: Kuznetsova 1998 (Novgorod, Pskov, Vologda, Vyatskaya, Smolenskaya, Yaroslavskaya, Penza, Tambov) [God He created the human body, went away, leaving the dog, which was then without hair, to guard it; Satan, having let the cold go, seduces the dog with warm hair to let him near the man; he spat on man; God turned man inside out with unclean people inward]: 99, 160; Morokhov 1998, No. 457 [God created man, the Devil smeared him with snot and mud; God removed dirt, created a dog out of it, ordered man to be protected; The devil was frightened of her and left; (zap. E.T. Solovyov in 1874 in Kazan Gubernia)]: 427; Ukrainians: P.I. [Vanov] 1892 [God made a man out of clay, left the dog to guard, flew to heaven for his soul; the devil let the dog cold go, gave the dog a warm one a fur coat so that she could miss it; spat on a man; God turned the man inside out, then blew his soul]: 89-90; Kuznetsova 1998 (Kharkiv) [God created the human body, walked away, leaving the dog, which was then without hair, guard him; Satan, having let the cold in, seduces the dog with warm hair to let him approach the man; spat on man; God turned man inside out unclean]: 99, 160; Belarusians: Grynblat, Gurski 1983, No. 21 [after the creation of heaven and earth, God decided to create man; created Adam and left because there was not enough material; left Abaka to guard; Satan threatened the "abaca" to let the cold go, gave her a fur coat; for disobedience, the dog is not allowed to enter church, since then they have been called a dog; and the cat is left in the church to catch mice; Satan spat and spoiled the man; advised God will turn a person inside out; if he coughs, he will remember God first, then the devil, otherwise he will not remember]: 46-47; Dobrovolsky 1891, No. 9 [God made man, walked away, told the dog to guard; Damn it cold, gave the dog a fur coat, for which she let him go; so the dog is not allowed to go to church, and the cat is left to catch mice; Satan spat on man, God turned the man inside out]: 230-231.

Volga - Perm. Komi; Udmurts; Mari; Mordovians; Chuvash.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians; Kumandins; Shors; Tubals; Chulym Turks: Lukina 2004, No. 5.1:97-98; Teleuts [(Western Missionary You. Postnikov in d. Myyuta, whose population was formed mainly from Bachat migrant teleuts - see below. Potanin 1883:130, note 2; Funk 2004:9); there was only water; Ulgen went down to create the earth; Yerlik volunteered to dive, brought earth from the bottom in his mouth; W. made the earth, it was all from turf; There was a little land left between E.'s teeth; he spit it it out, a hummocked swampy place formed; W. scolded him; he asked for as much land as the end of his stick took; he fell into that the place he asked for; the swallow brought turf in his beak; W. scattered it; made the forest and everything on earth; created the human body from earth, bones from stones; a dog without hair; went to look for a soul for the man, left the dog as a watchman; E. appeared, promised to give the dog hair and soul to the man; the dog ate E.'s excrement, overgrown with hair; E. put a pipe in the man's ass, blew, thereby reviving him; W. came I wondered whether to exterminate people; the Frog persuaded them to leave them as they are]: Potanin 1883, No. 46a: 218-220; Khakas: Katanov 1963 [first was a duck; having made another friend, sent her for sand to the bottom of the river; it brings it three times and gives it to the first; the third time she left part of the sand in her mouth, this part became stones; the first duck scattered the sand, crushed for nine days, the earth grew; the mountains grew after when the messenger duck spits stones out of her mouth; because of this, the first refuses to give her land; agrees to give her land the size of a cane; the messenger pierces a hole in the ground, goes into it; the remaining sends a swallow for a man's soul, telling the dog to watch and bark at Erlik Khan; E. created winter, gave the dog a fur coat, spat on 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 ate; the woman with the child and the mare and the foal eat grass, the woman has crossed seven slides, the mare over one; God has decided that if humans they will eat grass, they will eat it all; see motive D13]: 155-156; Mindibayeva et al. 2016, No. 1 (Kachins) [a naked man lived on earth without a soul; Thin went for his soul, put a naked dog to the man; when left, Irlik Khan came, the dog did not let him in; he covered her with hair, she let him go to the man; Irlik Khan spat on the man; Khudai returned, could not clean the man, turned him inside out, drooling were inside; Thin breathed soul into the man; then I. began to ask X. for land; he did not give it; for I. to fall behind, H. gave land to stick a stake; I. pulled out the stake, the snakes crept out of this place; so the snakes crept away; so the snakes and other reptile worms spread; giving a soul, H. made man a herbivore; let a mare with a foal and a woman with a child into the steppe; the mare pinched the tops of the herbs, and the woman ate the grass along with the ground; H. sees: after a woman, even the grass will not grow; then H. made the man eat wheat; the ear grew from the very root; the woman baked bread, the child got dirty; she wiped it with pancake pancakes; H. became cut off the ear, but the dog howled - what it would eat; H. felt sorry for her, left the top of the ear - the dog's share; the man knew the time of death; one was supposed to die in the fall, began to make a grass hedge - on his life would be enough; H. decided that this way a man would drink everything, leave nothing for the children; made sure that now man did not know about the time of his death; Irlik Khan sent a mosquito the size of a bull to the ground to find out whose blood tastes better; it turned out to be a person; the mosquito sat down to rest, the swallow asked to show her tongue, tore it off; the mosquito tried to grab it, but only tore off part of its tail, now it is split; the mosquito flew underground, but could not tell Irlik Khan; he got angry, hit him, told him to become a thousand mosquitoes; this is how mosquitoes appeared]: 77-81; Sagalaev 1992:39 in Butanayev 2003 [Ah-Khudai created the body a man made of clay, but did not know where to find his soul; he went to his younger brother Irlik Khan, who played khomys; without noticing the presence of AH, he sang: Even if he was smart, he did not have enough thought. Can't you take a person's soul from the breeze coming from a water source coming out of the ground?" ; hearing the hint, AH went for his soul, instructing the dog and cat to guard the creation; the dog was without hair; I. came up, the dog did not let him in; I. created frost, promised the dog a fur coat, the dog agreed show him a man; the dog ordered not to touch the person with his hands and I. did not touch it, but spit on the person; the cat began to lick mucus, and the dog to cover the person with its body; since then, the cat's mouth has been dirty , and the coat is clean, it can be ironed, and the dog's mouth is clean, but the coat is dirty; AH came back, turned the man inside out, the mucus remained inside in the form of saliva and snot; the dog was set to serve man and depend on it]: 110-111; Tofalars; Balagan Buryats; Mongols (Khalkha, Inner Mongolia).

Western Siberia. Tundra and Forest Nenets; Mansi; Eastern Khanty: Kerezhi 2000 (Surgut, p. Tromagan, western 1992) [the Khanty god made a man and a woman out of material that is now only nails; ordered to have only two children, live until the age of 100; left on business; at this time, the Russian god deceived the dog, which was a watchman, gave people's bodies a modern look; ordered them to have many children; then people will die quickly, the Russian god will eat them; the Khanty god returned, decided to take revenge; went to the city, turned Russian people into ants there; therefore, there are many anthills in the forests; otherwise the Russians would have inhabited the entire land]: 185-186; Lukina 1990, No. 14 (b. Vasyugan, Western 1971) [the man is dead, the dog asks Torum how to revive him; he tells him to put a stone on his feet, rotten on his head; the dog went to obey the order, the devil advised him to do it on the contrary; the man got up, a stone pierced his head, he died altogether; T. told the dog to wear a fur coat and eat human garbage; before that, the dog was a friend to man]: 75; Soldatova 2008, No. 17 (b. Wah, 2008) [a man died, the dog was sent to God; God: put a stone at your feet, rotten on your head; on the way back, Lunh met a dog, told me to say the opposite (a stone to your head); people did so; the man got up, the rotten stuff under his feet crumbled, he fell, hit a stone, finally died; God became angry, told the dog to be covered in hair and eat garbage, and people began to die]: 125; chum salmon: Alekseenko 2001, No. 50 (Surgutikha, Oz. Nalimye, 1960) [when the war ended, few people were left; everyone kept dying; below, "on the stone side," Hosedam lived, killing the people; Big Shaman Dog told people, "Do as I tell them to do. First cut me an iron ring and a hammer with an iron handle, make iron arrows"; people forged for several days, but badly; D. already knew about it; people made a ring, one half of which was copper, the other iron; the hammer handle was also half iron and half copper; D. had to take them after all; he came to H., put an iron ring around her neck, wanted to hit her with a hammer; a hammer flew, the copper melted; D. wanted to hit again, but the ring broke; I had to go back; told people, "I couldn't free you. From now on you will die, you will disappear. She will draw you towards her, since my request was fulfilled badly"; decided: "Well, I will not live here on earth anymore, I will go upstairs"; told people to make an iron refusal and an iron aldon; people He was deceived again - copper was added to the stalk, but more than half of the iron was left; D. took what they did and said: "Whoever wants to escape from the Hosedam, follow me upstairs. Do not take thin things with you, only clean clothes"; he began to rise with the people to heaven, thunder rattled there; they rose, but did not have enough strength; those behind could not walk as if someone had tied them up; it turned out that D.'s wife took her dirty pants with her; D. cut off the rope of her sledges, his wife fell down; moved on, people were tired; thunders and clouds came to meet them; D. cut them with a refusal and a sword, led people on; they shouted that they would starve to death; when they saw the forest, they tried to cut firewood without success - the trees were half iron, half wood; they cut down the wooden half of the forest, moved on; D. continued to fight against the clouds; the last cloud was the strongest, the saber on it - because of people's deception - broke; all people stayed there; those people who stayed on earth died and cried (after all, they did not die before); You heard, sent his son to find out; he came back, said that people were dying because they were crying; E. sent him back to earth, ordered: "Let the people put the dead in the storage shed, let the dead lie there for seven days, then they will come to life"; the son came to people, said: "The father ordered: dig the earth for seven fathoms, put the man down there"; E. found out that the son had deceived people, asked him if he had given people a message; he replied that he had told him; E. went to earth, saw that people were dying and his son deceived him; he was angry: "Well, let it always be like this now!" ; he lowered his son down: "Where you fall, you will be a dog, you will live with handouts from a person, eat his feces"; D. lowered his son with a loon, but people did not understand, they killed; everyone who ate the loon died; the old people warned: why are you driving, this is D. son!] : 113-115; Anuchin 1914 [When a man, an old man, died for the first time, people thought he was sleeping, but when they could not wake him up, they got scared and began to cry; Es sent them a dog (which people had not seen it before) and ordered to tell people not to be afraid, and the old man would be wrapped in herbs and hung from a tree - then he would live again in seven days. The dog deceived people by telling them to bury the old man in the ground. People have been dying ever since. As punishment, Yes ordered the dog to live on earth and eat human bowel movements]: 11-12; Nikolaeva 2006 (pos. Kellogg) [there was no death; then people fainted; You sent the Dog to tell him that the fainted would come to life; the dog confused, ordered the fainted to be buried in the ground; You gave the Dog to slavery to the Ketam, ordered to feed only three times a day]: 81; Porotova 1982 [God heard crying from the ground, sent his son to find out what was going on; he returned, said that man had died for the first time; God ordered him to pass on the deceased was put in a storage shed, he would come to life on the seventh day; God's son told him to be buried in the ground; God turned him into a dog for this, ordered him to live in front of people]: 59-60; Northern Selkups: Pelikh 1998:38-39 ( southern) [=Pelikh 1972:119; the heavenly god Pari-num invited the earth Tomem to become his wife; he came for her only in the fall, when Tomem became the evil Tagam; they have a son Kang; his father sent him to earth to find out why do people cry; he said that the first person died; Pari-num ordered to tell them to put a stone in their feet, a rotten head, a man would rest on a stone, break a rotten thing, stand up; Kahn said on the contrary; the man broke his head against a stone, died again; Pari-num turned Kan into a dog; the dog smelled an ogre bear; he gave it warm hair to let it through], 39 [the first man died; Pari-num sent Kahn to the ground to order the corpse to be hung on a tree, not to bury it; Kahn said on the contrary, the man did not come to life]; Tuchkova 2004:142 (Western 1941 on Baikha) [the dog lived in heaven; God sent her to earth to say people that when a person dies, he should be put on a platform; the dog told the dead to be buried in the ground, and told God that he told them to be put on a platform; God threw the dog on the ground, told him to eat bones], 143 [the dog had wings; a sick man asked her to fly to God to ask how to be treated; the dog confused God's advice, ordered to put under her feet not a stone, but a rotten tree, a stone put it under his head; the man rested his feet on the rotten, it crumbled, he fell, broke his head against a stone; since then people began to die; God deprived the dog of its wings, covered it with hair, ordered him to pick up the abandoned crumb man]; southern Selkups: Pelikh 1972 (Narym) [The dog drove the Vine (Devil) away from the owner; he had skin like a man's nails; another Loz invited the Dog to change his skin, Dog agreed; God, as punishment, told him to eat what a person would leave; The dog no longer barks at Loza, the man does not know when he will come]: 341; Baulo, Tuchkova 2016, No. 4, fragment 3 [recording by I.N. Gemuev, 1980, the informant shamanized when he was young; "The Earth was the first to sink. God sent a loon, it didn't get anything. Gogol (porya) took out sand. This is our land. God let the snake go, then the bird, the speckles. And earlier - to a hoof. And the speckle frightened the hoof. The hoof began to bite at him, which is why the grouse only has a little white meat, the rest is black. And he let everyone go ahead - he let people go. People got into a fight, he let the snake go to disperse them. He let the dogs go, as he let a naked man go. She's freezing - damn it. - What happened? I'm freezing. Got the hell out of her skin. Now we are sick - we cough. God sent - made a man out of clay, he sits like a man. And the hell spit, I spit. This is what we're rooting for].

Eastern Siberia. Central (? ; recorded from a Yakut guide) Yakuts [the creator built a stone house, made statues of people, put a watchman not to let an evil spirit inside; he bribed the watchman with a promise to give him a warm fur coat; when he entered the house, he stained the statues with sewage; the Creator turned the watchman into a dog, turned the statues inside out; since then, the people inside have been full of dirt]: Middendorf 1989:20 (retelling in Ergis 1974: 152, in Holmberg 1927:374); (cf. Sivtsev, Efremov 1990 [The dog serves as God's key holder; opens the forbidden box where the plan of hell lies; after the second time, God deprives her of the ability to speak, takes half of her mind, and tells her to become a friend of man ; A dog kills a Wolf, a Bear with an arrow; a man dodges, she becomes his servant, loses its bow]: 33-34); northwestern Yakuts [Ayy-Toyon created two wool-covered 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; from This wool came down, the first creature became a woman, the second a man; Ayyy-Toyon turned the watchman into a dog, ordered him to eat garbage]: Gurvich 1977:195-196; Western Evenks (b. Katanga) [God (shovoki) cultivated the stone and earth; put it on the board to dry, said that let the person have a strong soul, left the Dog to watch; Satan gave the Dog a caftan, for which she allowed him to people's souls, he spit on them; God returned, cried, people began to die from Satan's spit]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 31:30-31; Western Evenks (Cyrenian); Western Evenks (the place of recording is not indicated) [Christ made a man and a woman, told them and the dog to sit in a high storage shed, not to lower the stairs; he went to get clothes himself; hell Kingit asked to lower the stairs, said he had brought clothes; people did not they let them down, the dog lowered the stairs, Kingit gave her colorful fur clothes, spat on people, so they are now sick; Christ turned people inside out, told the dog that she would be beaten, starved; allowed sisters to marry first so that people could multiply]: Osharov 1936a: 49-51; Western Evenks (Ilimpic, Chirinda, 2007) [A long time ago, a dog knew how to speak like a human being; God made men and women made of clay, sprayed special water - they came to life; one day he went to get water, ordered the dog to protect people; the dog told the evil spirit (hargi), who spat on people's faces; when he found out, God was angry with the dog, said that from now on it would eat scraps and become dumb; if an evil spirit hadn't spit on people, they would not die]: Duvakin 2013; Baikal Evenks (northern Transbaikalia) [God created a man, a woman, and a dog, put him in a storage shed, told no one to lower the stairs, left; Avaasi asked for a ladder, the dog took pity and lowered it; avaasi got up, spat on the man, and a woman, ripped off the dog's skin and put it on; when God returned, he took the dog speechless and told him to bark; he ripped off people's spit on and wrapped it inside; Avaasi drooling causes diseases]: Pinegin 2019:166-167; Baikal Evenks (northern Transbaikalia, 1951) [water is all around; in the upper world, two brothers are discussing how to make land; the eldest had a duck; the youngest let it get sand from the bottom of Lake Baikal; the duck brought sand, the youngest put a leaf on the water and the ground {sand} on top; the wind blew, the leaf crumpled, mountains appeared; the youngest made a dog and a man, covered the whole man with a shell - it will be strong; put a man in one barn, a dog in another; went to make rivers, told the dog not to give the keys to his older brother; he came promising the dog a warm, colorful skin; she opened the barn; the older brother tore off the man shell, left only his fingernails; younger brother returned, punished the dog, depriving him of the ability to speak]: Pinegina 2019:70-71; Baikal Evenks (Olekminsky) [older brother made insects on lower ground, the youngest lived on the upper ground; made people; locking them with a key in the barn, left the Dog to guard; the elder bribed the Dog with woolen clothes, went into the barn, blew on people; the youngest came, sees that people are sick; told them to become bloody, people have recovered; told the dog to be with a person, eat from his prey from hunting]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 32:31; Evenki Orochons; (cf. The Evenks of China [Burkan {from Burkhan} did everything on earth; he made a dog, but it was hairless, naked like people; in the summer, when she was running in the taiga, she was mercilessly bitten by bloodsuckers, which made her her whole body itched, and she screamed and howled in pain; in winter she was very cold, which made her howl loudly all the time; her neighbors, wild animals, were angry at her constant howling; all living animals began to ask for Burkan remove the dog from them; Burkan shrunk it, gave it clothes - wool and advised her to go live with a person who would feed it; the same dogs that found hair but did not want to live with a person became wolves]: Dyakonova 2018:57-58); Evens: Bolshakova, Chaiko 2015 [Khevki made his children out of clay, hid it, left the dog to guard; Arinka (hell) bribed the dog with warm eternal clothes, began to poke at people, say what disease they would suffer from; H. returned, took away the dog's tongue, ordered them to be a watchman; since then the dog has been covered with hair and does not speak]: 23; Limorenko 2008 (Momsky ulus of the Republic of Sakha) [Savki entrusted the dog to protect the newly created person; Satan (arivki or arinka) promised the dog warm skin, made his way past the dog to the man and drew his veins; diseases spread through his veins, so since then a person has been susceptible to illness; for this, Savki punished the dog - it lives on a leash and feeds on garbage]: 19; Chadaeva 1990 [God told the Dog guard the man from the Devil; The dog was without hair; Damn blew on her, froze her, she said where the man was; Damn spit on him, now the man is sick; God gave the Dog hair, ordered him to serve a person, eat his feces]: 124.

Amur - Sakhalin. Negidals; Orochi.

SV Asia. Russian Mouth [human bodies were prepared; Christ went to heart, left the dog without hair as a watchman; Satanael promised her wool, for which she missed it, he spat on the bodies ; Christ returned, put his heart into it, said that now people would be sick; the dog would be beaten, would live in the cold]: Azbelev, Meshchersky 1986, No. 76:214; Yukaghirs (forest, p. The ridiculous Verkhnekolymsky ulus of Yakutia) [Christ decided to create people; made a temple; left, collected what was necessary to make people; locked the temple, and gave the key to the guard dog; when Christ flew away, hell came to the dog; asked for keys again, this time he brought food that made the dog drool; she forgot everything, ran and lost her keys; the hell took them and while the dog was eating, spit and grumbled at people; Christ came, scolded the dog and told it to climb the garbage; then he cleaned people, cleaned some completely, some were left with mud (they are now bad character)]: Zhukova, Prokopyeva 1991, No. 3:146-147.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos [The dog lives in the sky; the owner of the seven heavens, Kiyagniku, sends her to tell people that meat should be eaten every two days; the dog is tired, confused, says meat should be eaten twice a day; sent to live with people on earth as punishment]: Sergeyeva 1968:37-38.

Montagna - Jurua. Kashibo [first, the soul went to heaven for a while after death, then returned to the body, the man came to life; the dog died first; the kashibo waited two days at the corpse, but the dog did not come to life; since then people have not been resurrected and they don't like dogs because "the dog betrayed man"; people from the Kakataibo family call the dog kamu, the same name as the husband of Noköyo, the supreme female deity of the Sun; in Arawak languages it is the same the word means moon]: Tessmann 1930:143.