H44. Heaven and Earth share children. .13.20.23.25.
Two characters, one connected to the sky or water, and the other to the earth, or to the spirit world and the human world, share the child they have born or the people they created. The sky (Water, Spirit) takes the imperishable part, the Earth (man) takes the perishable part.
Malgashi, Maldives, Cook Islands (southern?) , Ancient India, Igorot, (nabaloi, kankanai), ifugao, saisha.
South Asia. Ancient India (Rigveda) [after giving birth to seven children, Aditi then gave birth to another, or rather twin boys; in the womb, the twin promised to take the kingdom away from the brothers; they achieved that A. threw it away; one of the twins became Indra; the other half was a "dead egg"; on their own initiative or at the mother's request, the brothers decided to keep it; this is Mārtānda ("from a dead egg") The ancestor of the people, Vivaswant, was born from him; or the egg was a lump of flesh that the brothers cut into two halves, alive and dead; the Rikwed version suggests that the mother left Martanda on earth, and she took to heaven with her divine twin]: {look at RV; retelling by Eijirō Dōyama. How to be a hero in ancient India//IACM 12th Annual International Conference, June 1-4, 2018, Tohoku University}; Maldives [carpenter Don Amahadu met a girl in the woods; she agreed to marry him on the condition that he would not ask about her origins and spy on her getting fish out of the pond and cooking food in the kitchen; they have three children and have been living together for 12 years; an old friend came YES, asked me to show his wife; understood everything right away; gave me a potion to expel spirits and advised me to spy on his wife; YES saw her getting scary and pulling out the fish with her teeth, and in the kitchen burns a fire under the cauldron, putting her legs instead of firewood; the wife admitted that she was a spirit, but did not take revenge YES, but only divided the children: she took one for herself, gave the other to her husband, and divided the third in half verticals; the part intended for her husband died immediately, and part of the wife went to sea with her mother and sister as if nothing had happened]: Romero-Frias 2012, No. 57:212-219.
Sudan - East Africa. Malgashi (Betsimisaraka): Abrahamsson 1951:115-116 [Earth-Ratany made a human figure out of wood, asked Nebo-Ralanitra to revive it; after a while R. sent the son of the gods for human; B. agreed to give only the soul, and let the body remain on Earth], 116 [1) the first couple made human figures out of wood and clay; Zanahary's son agreed to revive them, but did not receive payment; therefore, she takes her soul, but the ashes remain; 2) the daughter of heaven Zanahari married earthly Z. (the first man); they made human figures; the wife breathed soul into them; the couple divorced, each took theirs; 3) six Zanahari created the sky to have a place to live; the first three also created the earth to walk; one of them, Ratsivalanorama, was sent to live on earth, but he decided to live in the depths of the earth; created a man and a woman out of clay, could not revive; he was visited by heavenly Z., he asked to revive figures; they agreed, asked him to make birds and animals as well; they dropped a grain of rice, the rice was only in the sky, R. grew it now on earth for people; envious, the heavenly Z. sent it to earth misfortune and death; R. told people he would keep at least what he had done - bodies], 116-117 (prov. Vohémar) [earthly Zanahary made figures of humans and animals out of clay; heavenly Z. made the sun, received animals and birds in exchange; but wanted women, he revived figures in payment for them; but earthly demanded more and people's ability to reproduce.; earthly and heavenly quarreled, heavenly trying to harm, take life]; malgashi (Betsileo) [Andriamanitra created flesh and form, Andriananahary - bones and blood, Ingahina - breathed life into the first human couple; people were told to call on all three gods for help, but they forgot about I., he began to take his gift - life]: Abrahamsson 1951:117; Antanala [Raondiana's first man made figures out of wood and clay, Zanajanahary breathed life into them; they quarreled over who owns the creation, Z. began to take away his gift]: Abrahamsson 1951: 117; Malgashi (Antaimoro): Abrahamsson 1951:117-118 [son of heaven Zanahary came to earth where Matiaho and Irira made human figures; promised to revive them if he got half; went to heaven to his father for blood and life, revived; people began to multiply on their own; son Z. came for his share, but M. asked to wait because I. went somewhere; next time both disappeared; Z. advised his son take away his gift], 118 [the lord of the earth Rahorohoro made human figures; the daughter of the god of heaven put blood and life into them; asked R. to allow him to try (taste) man, R. refused; began to kill people taking the soul and giving R. the body]; the Malgashi (Bara) [1) God came together with the Earth, they have a child; God refused to perform a legal marriage ceremony, so the Earth kept the child for himself; they got into a fight, God metal stones into the Earth, the Earth settled, the child died; God gave the Earth his body, took his soul; 2) God and Earth got married; decided to divide the rights to the inhabitants of the earth, God takes his breath, the Earth takes their bodies; 3) Ndriyanakatakati revived a person on the condition that he would receive a gift from the person who owned the person Ikutuvului; he did not pay, so N. began to take his soul and I.'s body]: Abrahamsson 1951:118; malgashi ( Sakalava) [Zanahart created empty land, returned to heaven; Ratovoantany came out of the earth, sculpted figures of humans and animals out of clay; Z. agreed to revive them, but wanted to take them to heaven; argued with R. agreed that he would take souls and R. would leave their bodies; man dies like wood because he is made of wood]: Abrahamsson 1951:118-119; Malgashi (Sihanaka) [the first man and woman on earth did a boy and a girl made of clay; the woman could not revive them, asked Zanahary; he revived them, the children grew up, got married; Z. came for a reward, the elderly spouses did not give it, he killed them; so did the young; has been killing people ever since]: Abrahamsson 1951:119; malgashi [Earth was God's daughter; playing, made human figures out of clay, God revived them; people multiplied, Earth flourished; God out of envy demanded half of the people, Earth refused; then God began to take their breath away]: Parrinder 1967:59; malgashi [Zatuvu, who had only half the body (vertically), was not created by Zanahari, but grew out of the ground like a plant; he had zebu and sheep that did not eat Zanahari's grass; Zatuvu lit a fire, Zanahari sent an ambassador to find out what was going on, got angry, rained; this is how the seas and lakes appeared ; Zanatuva created a mountain, sat in a cave; Zanahari tells Zatuva to determine who is the cow, who is the heifer (the mother is mooing), where the stick is (threw it, it stuck at the lower end); Zanahari's daughter went to get water, saw Zatuva's reflection, decided that she was her own, upset; next time Zatuva became a fat man, married Zanahari's daughter; made clay figures of people and animals, could not revive them; Zanahari revived them, people ate everything, hunger came; Zatuva recognized Zanahari's superiority, who sent rain and rice; made women give birth; allowed Zatuva to take the bodies of the dead, hide them in the land where he grew up from]: Korneev 1962:70-74.
Micronesia-Polynesia. Cook Islands (southern?) [Vatea and Tonga-iti (Var.: Tangaroa) both claimed to be the father of the first child born to Earth-Papa; cut it; Vatea took the upper half, threw it into the sky, it became the sun; Tonga-iti got the lower half, it stayed on the ground; later, imitating Vatea, he also threw it to the sky; this half had already partially decomposed, blood flowed out of it, so what was thrown became a pale moon]: Dixon 1916:37.
Taiwan - Philippines. Igorot: Eugenio 1994, No. 14 [Kabunian went down to earth, married Bangan, she gave birth to son Kabigat, daughter Daungen and another child; Kabunian returned to heaven, taking a son, leaving his wife a daughter ; to divide the third child, he cut it in half; from one part there was a Bugan girl, stayed on the ground with her mother; from the other, Lumawig's son, went up to his father], 146 [Dumagid went down to the ground, married Dugai, who gave birth to a son Ovug; returning to heaven, warned that his wife would not be able to accompany him because of the heat; people told her to go with her husband, she died; then Dumagid went down for his son; people did not let him go; Dumagit cut it in half, took half to heaven, revived it; half on earth began to decay, Dumagid revived it; what was taken to heaven became a Thunder with a sharp sound, and the second young man Rolling Thunder]: 48, 260-261; (cf. nabaloi [Kabunian got married; other women tied a goat under the house to make him think his wife smelled bad; K. guessed it, went to heaven with his wife; she gave birth; unable to cross a rock; K. cut a child, turned his half into lightning, half of his wife into thunder; sends Lightning and Thunder to the ground to see what people are doing and scolding them]: Moss 1924, No. 6:237-239; translated to Rybkin 1975, No. 14: 46; kankanai [A star steals sugar cane, the owner grabs it; she finds his hidden clothes, flies away; one of their children dies, the mother goes down to the other at night; argues with her husband who he is he gets it; divides him in half, takes one to heaven; the father cannot revive his own, the mother does it herself, tells him to respond to the call of the other half, but his body has already been decomposed, so his voice weak; these two halves are big and small thunder]: Moss 1920:382 in Lessa 196:153-154; (cf. kankanai [Lumawig married an earthly girl; her sisters, out of jealousy, put garlic under their bed; L. returned to heaven, taking his son's head, making her torso; the son became Thunder; to the remaining body stuck her head, it became a Lightning woman, she married Thunder]: Eugenio 1994, No. 148:262); ifugao [Bugan, daughter of the supreme deity, consistently refuses to marry the inhabitants different levels of the sky, including Lightning; goes down to earth, husbands a poor young man, gives birth to a son; people envy her, she decides to return to heaven, but her husband cannot follow her; she cuts their son, takes half of them with him, revives them in the guise of a new boy; what is left on the ground begins to decompose, because the husband is unable to revive it; she turns her rotting head into an owl, her ears into tree mushroom, nose into the shell of a snail living on trees, part of the excrement is the beak of an ido bird, the tongue is in a pip in people's tongue, the heart is in the rainbow, the chest bones are in a poisonous snake, fingers are long shells, hair - worms, larvae, skin - red bird, blood - small bats, liver - breast disease, intestines - animals like hares or rats, hand bones - rotten branches falling on passers-by]: Eugenio 1994, No. 10:33-37; saisha [water woman Kateteru teaches people how to weave; marries a person, gives birth to a son, decides to return; they agree to share the child, throw her head into the water, the body remains with her husband; after 6 days, K. returns to show their son alive, and the body left on earth has decayed]: Macdonald 2005:91.