H43aa. Braided figures. .14.28.31.-.36.39.
Having created the human body, the creator leaves. At this time, his opponent spat on a figure that had not yet come to life, smeared it with mud
, etc. Algerian Arabs, Russians (Novgorod, Pskov, Vyatskaya, Smolensk, Orlovskaya, Penza, Tambov), Ukrainians (Chernigov, Volyn, Hutsulshchina, Kherson, Chernigov), Belarusians, Lithuanians, Setu, Mari, Mordovians, Chuvash, Komi, Udmurts, Kazakhs (northern Kazakhstan), Chulym Turks, Kumandins, Tubals, Shors, Khakas, Tofalars, Balagan Buryats, Mongols (Inner Mongolia), Mansi, Southern Selkups, Tundra Nenets, Central (?) Yakuts, Western Evenks (Ilimpic, Turin, Podkameno-Tunguska), Baikal Evenks (northern Transbaikalia), Evens, Russkoe Ustye, Yukaghirs.
North Africa. The Arabs of Algeria (Tiaret Plateau) [when man was expelled from paradise, it was an intangible spirit; God made man out of clay; Satan came down to earth to see what shape God would give man; The man looked so disgusting to him that he spat at him; the spit hit where the navel is now; when the angels brought the person's (soul) to place it in the body, they saw a stain on the body; one of them scraped off the soiled clay from this place and threw it aside; the dent remained in this place; God turned the discarded piece into a dog; because the dog was made of saliva The devil, Muslims consider it unclean, but since it is also from a part of the person's body, the dog is his best friend; angels began to infiltrate the soul from their feet; when it reached his knees, man tried The angels prevented him from rising; the same when the soul reached the waist; and only when the soul reached the head did the angels allow a person to stand up; impatience is a characteristic feature of man]: Aceval 2005:10-11.
Central Europe. Russians: Vlasova 1986, No. 41 (Orel Gubernia) [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, and 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 animal, it is covered by its hair and clean in its gut, it is not called a dog, but a dog]: 38; Kuznetsova 1998 (Novgorod, Pskov, Vyatskaya, Smolenskaya, Orlovskaya, Penza, Tambov) [God created the human body, walked away, leaving the dog, which was then without hair, to guard it; Satan, having let the cold go, seduces the dog warm with wool so that she could let him near man; spit on man; God turned man inside out unclean inside]: 99, 159; Morokhov 1998, No. 457 [God created man, the Devil smeared him with snot and mud; God removed the dirt, made it a dog, ordered him to protect man; the devil was afraid of her and left; (zap. E.T. Solovyov in 1874 in Kazan Gubernia)]: 427; Russians (Novgorod, Pskov, Vyatskaya, Smolensk), Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina, Volyn, Chernigov, Poltava, Kharkiv) [God creates the first person; Satan spits on him, covers him with his snot, saliva and mud]: Belova et al. 2019:364; Kuzmina 1998 (Kharkiv, Chernigov, Volyn, Hutsulshchyna): 99, 159; Belarusians: Belova et al. 2019 (Mogilevskaya) [God creates the first man; Satan spits on him, covers him with his snot, saliva and mud]: 364; Dobrovolsky 1891, No. 9 (Smolenskaya) [God made man, departed, told the dog to guard; The devil brought the 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 a person inside out]: 230-231; Ukrainians (Kherson, Elizavetinsky u.) [hell was friends with God; hell owned thunder, and God owned the sky; to take possession of thunder, God began to walk on earth; hell did not have water, he asks to teach him how to get land; God tells me to dive, take from the bottom of the earth, hold in your hand and the one that remains at least under your fingernails, scatter it across the water; the devil left his thunder on the rocks and dived; God to the Archangel Gabriel: hurry up the thunder, he's on our land, and what is put on our land is ours; G. hid behind a stone; hell dived, but popped up and looks: did anyone take the thunder, did not take it; the same second time; hell thought that God forgot about the thunder and dived to the bottom; G. grabbed the thunder; seeing that the devil was rising to the surface, God froze the sea; hell only broke through the ice with his head for the third time; chased G., already grabbed his leg and snatched out a piece of meat - now people there is a notch on his foot; God: yes, you hit him with thunder; G. broke off his wings with thunder, now the devils do not fly well; G. gave thunder to God; then God came down, the hell had already created the earth; God wet his finger, splashed a man appeared with water behind him; hell tried it too, but his man does not speak or walk, but is covered with hard skin; then he spat on him; God: you turn him inside out; hell He twisted it, drooling and snot remained inside, and that skin was only at his fingertips, it was his nails; God returned to heaven, and hell made people; he envies that he has a lot of people, but everything is on earth, and God has few but in heaven; hell decided to take possession of the sky himself, and overthrow God from there; God to the archangel, who holds the sky in his arms: shake; devils fell down, where whoever fell, stayed there; now a hut is not possible everywhere build; you will build it on the hell, you will work all your life; then God came to hell again, he is building something, one hut is very big - hell; hell then had a receipt: after death, all his people; Christ broke this receipt when he went to hell; God to hell: show me how to sit in that heat; hell climbed in, closed the doors; God: In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! the exits are completely closed; but one hand of the devil remains free; he asks the other devils to rescue him, or else he will disappear; the elder has come up, and the one sitting in the heat threw him against the rock; so now the eldest devil crooked, and the first one is still sitting, cannot go out; that's where God's friendship with the devil ended]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 1:119-121; Ukrainians [God made a man out of clay, left the dog to guard, flew to heaven behind his soul; The devil let the cold go, gave the dog a warm fur coat to let it through; spat on man; God turned the man inside out, then blew his soul]: P.I. [vanov] 1892:89-90; Ukrainians (Hutsuls) [at first there is water everywhere; God walked on the water, Aleya (Ilya) slept in the clouds; one place on the water was covered with foam, God turned it into Aridnyk (Satan); told him to dive, he brought it under his fingernail clay from the bottom, God made the earth out of it; God lay down to rest; A. tried to push it into the water, but as he dragged it to the edge, the earth grew larger; when God woke up, God threw A. into the water, that covered with ice; A. broke through the ice with his head, climbed back to land; after that, God called him an enemy, not a friend; Alei woke up, saw the ground, pushed it in fear, valleys and mountains formed; It did not happen again, God chained his hand to a rock; with one hand he can only shake clouds (thunder); only A. had the ability to create, and only God could revive creatures; therefore, all creatures belonged to A., God had to steal them from him; their struggle ended with God throwing A. into jail; when they were fighting, a piece of God's skin was ripped off his hand and fell to the ground; from this came Adam; one day A. fell off the chain, found A., spat on him, and he became unclean; then God turned A. inside out, the impurity remained inside; when A. was sleeping, God put a willow branch next to him, and Eve arose from it; she ate the fruit of the forbidden tree, caused people to be sinful; people multiplied; sinners became devils - helpers to A.; the first people were small and long-bearded ("lectobeards"); after them the land was inhabited by giants; they were evil, God destroyed them by the flood; only Noah and his family escaped; var.: a horn sticking out of the water, two clung to it and did not drown; since then, fewer people will become dwarfs again ]: Koenig 1936:369-370; Ukrainians (Kherson) []: Yastrebov 1894, No. 1:119-121.
Baltoscandia. Seth [after God created man, hell came and spat on him, so God had to turn man inside out]: Eisen 1926:100 in Masing 1998:64; Lithuanians [ The devil spat/pierced a person sculpted by himself/God; that's why people get sick]: Kerbelite 2001:76.
Volga - Perm. Komi: Konakov 1999 [=Konakov et al. 2004:272; originally, people had a strong corneum instead of skin, now left only on their nails; parents left the child under supervision dogs; Omöl, seducing the dog with warm hair, gained access to it to the child and smeared it with his snot and saliva; after that, the horn coating remained only on the nails]: 43; Konakov et al. 2004 [Jen put the dog to protect an unfinished man; Ome gave it a warm fur coat, which allowed him to approach the human figure, O. smeared it with drooling]: 271-272; Nalimov 1907 [Yong created the first man as a helpless child; Mistletoe tried to harm him; Yong put the Dog as a guard; O. began to caress her, promising a fur coat as a gift; she missed caressing the man; O. smeared him his saliva; the man became drooling, snotty; Yong ordered the man to give the dog as much bread as it could fit on its nose; many options, all similar]: 20; Konakov 1999 [=Konakov et al. 2004 : 272; initially, humans had a strong horn coating instead of skin, now left only on their nails; parents left the child under the supervision of the dog; Omöl, seducing the dog with warm hair, got access to the child and smeared him with his snot and saliva; after that, the horn coating remained only on his nails]: 43; Fokos-Fuchs 1951, No. 25.1 [the peasant hired a dog to babysit; the devil promised her a fur coat , if he lets him examine the child; spat on the child, turned it inside out, gave the dog a fur coat; the owner came back, drove the dog into the yard; the child used to have hard skin, now it remains only on his nails]: 210-211 (= Limerov 2005, No. 52:51, =Rochev 1984, No. 107:114, =Rochev 2006:156); Udmurts [Inmar blinded a man, went to heaven for his soul; Shaitan bribed a dog guard by giving wool for protection from cold weather, spat on a person; I. turned the person inside out, so all the diseases are inside; and the dog serves the person faithfully]: Vladykin 1994:321-322; Perevozchikova 1988:39; marie : Akzorin 1991, No. 7 [Humo created man, left the naked dog to guard; Udey caught up with the cold, promised the dog a fur coat if it let him go to the man; spit on him; because of this, man there are various diseases]: 38; Anonymous 1858 [Yuma created the human body, went to another place to create the soul, left the dog as a watchman; the dog was without hair; Keremet produced cold, gave the dog wool, that let him into the body; K. K. laughed at the man, putting the embryo of all diseases]: 210; Vasiliev 1907 [Yuma blinded the man, went to heaven for his soul; Kiremet spat on his body, Yu could not clean it, turned it inside out]: 50-51; Vereshchagin 1996 [(based on V. Bekhterev 1880); Keremet swam in the form of a drake, Humo told him to get land from the bottom; K. brought land, but hid some in his mouth; Yu covered the water with earth, and K. spit out the hidden, creating mountains and bare rocks; Yu. hit the stone with a hammer, the sparks turned into angels (shukchias); the sparks from K.'s blows turned into evil spirits; Yu left the black dog to guard the human body, went behind his soul; K. sent cold, bribed the dog warm hair, spat on the human body, making it sinful]: 134; Mordovians: Veselovsky in Kuznetsova 1998 [Cham Pas made a man out of clay, left to create a soul, putting the dog to guard the body ; Shaitan let the dog fall, offered to dress the dog with hair if it allowed him to see a person ; spat on a man, this caused illnesses; began to blow his bad breath into him; Emergency Sh drove the dog away, told the dog to always wear unclean hair, turned the man inside out, breathed his breath into the man; now man is prone to both evil and good]: 101; Devyatkina 1998:169 [Shkai blinded a man made of clay, put the dog to guard, went to breathe himself; the devil bribed the dog with hair, spat on the man; Shkai turned the spit places inward, they turned into diseases], 297-298 [in Shkabavaz's absence Shaitan comes to the gates of paradise, deceiving the dog, penetrates there, spits on a person, except for the fingertips and toes; before that, the skin was horny; Shkabavaz failed to cleanse spitting, he turned the man's skin inside out]; Sedova 1982 [Cham-paz (sun god) spits, the spit turns into stone, it breaks it, it turns into Shaitan; C. tells you to dive, get the ground from bottom; S. hid part in his mouth, spit it out, mountains appeared; C. made a blue sky, S. - clouds, C. ordered them to bring rain; C. made useful animals, S. - predators, snakes, spiders, mosquitoes; C. made a man under the protection of a dog, S. blew cold on her, she was naked, hid in the hay; S. spat on a man, giving him diseases, vices; C. gave man reason, S. sent him to the lower world]: 13-15; Chuvash [Tură ; makes the land flat, it grows; Shuittan spits out the silt hidden in his mouth, creates mountains, ravines, or causes a storm in the ocean before the earth has time to harden; for S. to spit out the silt, T. hits him, from blood splashes have arisen evil spirits; T. begs for earth, agrees to a patch to lean on his staff, makes a hole in the ground, falls into the lower world; diseases, reptiles come out of the hole; T. drives them back ; S. clumsily imitates T.; T. makes apples, cow, sheep, S. - potato berries, goat, pig; predatory and harmful animals, reptiles, fish (throwing pebbles into the water); T. made a man, went for his soul, left the dog without hair to guard; S. let the cold go, promised the dog a fur coat, spat on the man; T. turned the man inside out, ordered the dog to eat bones and be beaten]: Egorov 1995:117-118.
Turkestan. Kazakhs ("Siberian Kyrgyz") ["Akmola Regional Gazette, 1890; God created the human body from clay, followed his soul, leaving the dog as a guard; Damn, the dog did not let him in; C. made it cold, the dog was gone, C. spat on a person (hence sins, torments, illnesses); God returned, put his soul into it, scolded the Devil, left diseases and sins because they are necessary; awarded the dog with a warm fur coat]: Ivanovsky 1891: 250; (cf. Kondybay 2005 [source in Kazakh; in a Kazakh fairy tale, a motley mare made a man from clay, and a dog helped her]: 203).
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Chulym Turks [water is everywhere, loon is swimming; God: what do you eat? - Earth. - Where is it? - Underwater. - Get it, thank you. Loon brought the earth three times, it turned out to be a cake, God lay down on it; the devil grabbed his leg and threw it into the water; God was on land, a lot of land was formed; the devil grabbed the sleeping God by the legs, pulled him into the water, and the earth expands; dragged until it was dry all around; hell asked for half the earth; God refused; well, at least stick the stake; God allowed, damn stuck the stake and took out mosquitoes, midges; God plugged the hole; did dog; made a man; went after his soul, told the dog to protect the man; the devil asked to miss: I'll feed and shower it with black hair; the dog missed; the devil pierced the navel and did not care; God told the dog serve humans; since then, people have been ill]: Lukina 2004, No. 5.1:97-98; Kumandins [The Creator made a human body, went after his soul, left the Dog and the Cat to guard; the Demon bribed the Dog by giving it warm skin, spat on a man; The cat did not let the Demon pass, he spat in her mouth, she fell silent; the Creator had to turn the man out; the dog had a filthy skin, but a clean mouth, the cat had a filthy skin, but a clean mouth, the cat had vice versa]: Khokholkov 1997:16-17; tubalars [Poyana created a man, went for his soul to Kuday, ordered the dog to watch; Erlik promised to give her golden hair, she gave it to him man, he spit on him; K. could not clean it out, turned it inside out, made the dog filthy]: Radlov 1989:221; Shors: Khlopina 1978 [Ulgen created luminaries, smooth land, rivers; Erlik - mountains; W. created man, went to look for a soul, left a naked dog to guard; E. gave it wool so as not to freeze in winter, for which she let him join the creation; E. smeared the man with mud; W. returned without finding a soul; agreed that the soul would breathe in E., it would belong to him; E. breathed his soul through his mouth through the hollow stalk of angelica; W. agreed to give E . the land on which his staff rests; snakes and insects crawled out of the hole; E. fell into it, lives in the lower world; W. got fire, dispersed reptiles with smoke]: 71-72; Shtygashev 1894 ("Kuznetsk foreigners") [ First, one water; God often spits in one place, saliva forms a heap, the devil Aina comes out of it, calls him a friend; God tells him to dive to get the earth, say, Help, Lord! A. does not say, the earth is washed off his hands twice, but at the bottom he eats it; the third time he brought the earth, God dried it, scattered it, creating land; the earth in A.'s stomach began to grow; God cut it, cleaned it, cured A., went to bed; A. tried to turn the earth over, but only stretched it; begged for a piece of land at least the size of a crutch; fell down, and reptiles and insects, prickly plants came out of the hole, mountains and swamps appeared; God strengthened the land on three whales (ker-palyk); when they change places, earthquakes occur; God created man from clay, went after his soul, left the dog as a watchman; the devil Aina gave the dog hair, for which she let him near the man, he spit in his mouth; so people have saliva and harkotin in their mouths; God revived the man, told the dog to be his servant]: 1-8; Khakas: Katanov 1963 [first it was a duck; having made another friend, she sent her to the bottom of the river for sand; she brings it three times and gives it 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; mountains grew after the messenger duck spit the stones out of its mouth; because of this, the first refuses to give it land; agrees give land the size of a cane; the messenger pierces a hole in the ground, goes into it; the rest sends a swallow for the human soul, telling the dog to watch and bark at Erlik Khan; E. created winter, gave the dog a fur coat, spat on a 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; a woman with a child and a mare and a foal eat grass, a woman crossed seven slides, a mare over one; God decided that if people eat grass, they will eat it all; see motive D13]: 155-156; Mindibayeva et al. 2016, No. 1 (Kachins) [on earth a naked man lived without a soul; Khudai went for his soul, put a naked dog to the man; when he left, Irlik Khan came, the dog did not let him in; he covered it with hair, she let him go to the man; Irlik Khan spat man; Thin returned, failed to cleanse the man, turned him inside out, drooling inside; Thin breathed soul into the man; then I. began to ask X. for land; he did not give; that I. fell behind, H. gave the ground to stick the stake; I. pulled out the stake, the snakes crept out of this place; so snakes and other reptile worms spread; giving a soul, H. made man a herbivore; let a mare with a foal into the steppe and a woman with a child; a mare pinched the tops of the grass, and the woman ate the grass along with the ground; H. sees: after a woman, even grass will not grow; then H. made man eat wheat; the ear grew from the very beginning root; the woman was baking bread, the child was dirty; she wiped it with pancake pancakes; H. began to cut off the ear, but the dog howled what she would eat; H. felt sorry for her, left the top of the ear - the dog's share; man knew the time of death; one was supposed to die in the fall, began to make a grass hedge - enough for his life; H. decided that this way a person would drink everything, leave nothing for the children; made it so that now man about He does not know 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 that a person had a mosquito to rest, the swallow asked to show her tongue, tore it off; The mosquito tried to grab her, but only tore off part of its tail, now it is split; the mosquito flew underground, but could not tell Irlik Khan anything; he got angry, hit him, told him to become a thousand mosquitoes; this is how mosquitoes appeared]: 77-81; Radlov 1907:523-524; Sagalaev 1992:39 in Butanayev 2003 [Ah-Khudai created a human body out of clay, but did not know where to find a soul; went to his younger brother Irlik Khan, who he played Khomys; not 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 [when the earth thawed and dried, the burkhan made a man out of grass; his eyes remained unmade, the burkhan left the naked dog to guard the creation, went to look eyes; Aza spat on the dog, it was covered with hair; spat on the man, left; the burkhan found a man covered in snot, turned it inside out]: Rassadin 1996, No. 8:16; Balagan Buryats (Khangalov's recording): Gomboev 1890, No. 1c [=Khangalov 1960:8-10; there is only water everywhere; Shibegani-Burkhan, Madari Burkhan and Esege-Burkhan saw an angata bird, it swam with 12 children; they ordered she dive, get black clay, red clay, sand (hara-shoro, ulan-shoro, ilhe); she dived, took it out; they scattered black earth, red clay and sand on the water, created the land, grew grass on it and trees; then they created man; from red clay a body, from bone stone, blood from water; made a man and a woman, went to bed; whose candle would burn the next morning, in whose pot a flower would grow, would revive people and will patronize them; Shibegani-Burkhan woke up, saw that a candle was burning in front of Madari-Burkhan, a flower in his pot; changed, lay down again, was recognized as the winner; M.: Now the people you revived will also steal and quarrel; after that, M. and E. took to heaven, and S. stayed on earth, revived the two people they had done; the Burkhans made them covered in hair, and the dog naked; Shibegani Burhan went up to heaven, left the dog to guard; Shithir came, the dog started barking, he seduced her by giving her wool and food, spitting on people, left; Shibegani -Burkhan came back, cursed the dog, telling it to gnaw bones, eat excrement; scraped off people's hair, leaving it on his head, for people held their hands on their heads, so it was not spit on]: 65 -66, 66-67, 67-69 (the creation of land on p.67); the Mongols (Inner Mongolia) [God went down to earth, made clay a man and a woman; their figures were covered with hair; went to heaven for revive the figures with sacred water, leaving the Dog and Cat to guard; the Devil gave the Cat milk, the Dog meat, they missed it, he urinated on the figures; God came back, told the Cat to lick the figures ; the hair came down and God covered the Dog's skin with it, which was overgrown with hair; the man's hair remained on his head (this part of the Devil's urine did not stain), in the groin and under his arms (the Cat did not reach there) ; so a cat's mouth and dog hair are filthy; if people were revived according to God's plan by water brought in, they would be immortal]: Nassen-Bayer, Stuart 1992:324-325.
Western Siberia. Nenets: Golovnev 1995 [(4 options); Num Vesako (Old Man) made a man and a dog out of sand; went to bring them clothes, ordered the Dog to protect the person; Nga Sesako gave the Dog clothes, she did not bark, he spat on a man, now the man is sick; Num Vesako told the Dog to serve a person]: 399-400; Kuleshevsky 1868 (the area between the Gulf of Ob and the Tazovskaya Bay) [Num created a man and a dog, both naked, the man did not feel the frost, the dog guarded him; the devil let the frost in especially severe, the dog agreed to let the Devil see the man for being the devil covered her with a fur coat; the devil spat on the man, who became blistered, fell ill with smallpox; the dog stopped guarding, began to chase the beast; to comfort the man, Num gave him a woman since then since people have begun to multiply]: 116-117; Lar 2001 (Yamal) [Num and Nga are the sons of old woman Puhutz; Nga asks for food, P. says that let Num make the land first; orders to build a plague, where she will live underground with old man Vesoko (Iri-Vesoko); Num tells Gagara to dive, who brings sand from the bottom, then silt, and grass for the third time; Num sculpts the ground, throws it into the water; she is unstable at first; Num puts it on a whale, the earth trembles again; throws a stone of copper, iron and transparent stone behind the ground; the earth freezes; for his mother, Num makes red earth, puts a plague; Nga wants land for themselves, brothers fight for a long time; reconcile; Num rolls a ball, throws, the sun appears; Nga gets a moon; Num sculpts a naked man, he wants to eat; Nga makes hairy people, they fight, Num advises to send them underground; the brothers fight, Numu has to agree that they both breathe life into the person; it was warm, the man and the dog walked naked; Nga gave the dog warm skin, for that let him go to the man, Nga spat on him, sent illnesses; the man began to hunt, dress in the skin of a dog; Num told the dog to eat feces, to be a servant; taught the man to shamanize; left to heaven, Nga gave the underworld]: 188-205; the southern Selkups [recorded by I.N. Gemuev, 1980, an 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]: Baulo, Tuchkova 2016, No. 4, fragment 3; Mansi [Damn brings black earth to God to make people; he tries to make them too, but he turns out to be a lizard, a beetle, a toad; God left the Dog to guard the people he created, it froze; the devil began to cough, pulled his skin over the Dog for letting him near people; smeared people with snot and drooling; God turned people around inside out, told them to blow their nose and cough now; told the dog to stay taut on Devil's skin]: Lukina 1990, No. 114B: 300.
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); Western Evenks (Ilimpic, Chirinda, 2007) [A long time ago, a dog could speak like a human being; God made men and women out 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 God found out, he became angry with the dog and said that from now on, she will eat leftovers and become dumb; if the evil spirit hadn't spit on people, they would not die]: Duvakin 2013; Western Evenks (Turin) [hazel grouse was a giant; Heveki did people; the hazel grouse fluttered, frightened H.; he was making a man at that time; in fear he dropped the image on the ground; when the statue fell, the elder brother H. smeared him with a snot, said, Let them drool, snot, perceive diseases; H. got angry with hazel grouse, divided its meat between other birds; if hazel grouse hadn't frightened H., people would not fall or die]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 33:32 (=1959:178); Western Evenks ( Podkamennaya Tunguska, river. 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; Baikal Evenks (northern Transbaikalia) [God created man, put the woman and the dog in the 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 a man and a woman, ripped off the dog skin and put it on; when God returned, he took the dog speechless and told him to bark; ripped off the spit on people and wrapped them inside; avaasi drooling causes diseases]: Pinegina 2019:166-167; Evens [God told the Dog to guard the man from the Devil; the dog was without hair; Damn it blew on it, froze it, she said where the man was; Damn spit on him, now the man is sick; God gave the Dog hair, ordered to serve a person, eat his feces]: Chadaeva 1990:124;
Holy 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.