I115. Orion and the Pleiades. (.10.-.14.17.-.24.27.31.32.38.-.40. .46. (.48.) .50.55.57.-.59.61.66.68.72.)

Orion and the Pleiades appear in the same story.

SW Africa. The Hottentots [The Pleiades are Orion's wives, who put him out because he missed and did not catch the game]: Sicard 1966:44.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Como [Mokúphé constellation of five stars - head, two arms, two legs; near Orion in the constellation Hare; next to his wife (three stars); when M. is on the horizon in the evening, it's time to clear for sowing plot; in front of it, the Pleiades is a "machete basket"; Ursa Major is Abálu-bálu; in structuring the year, the Ursa Major is less important than Mokúphé and the Pleiades]: Mahieu 1973:3, 6, 9 ; luba-kasai [during the dry season, God created Kongolo ka Mukanda ("spiral of law") with a human head, body parts of various animals; then created man and woman, animals; even earlier there was a messenger God Maweja and three other spirits; two of them persuaded a man and a woman to eat plants forbidden by God; KM met a woman in front of a man, then told a man to copulate with her (var.: KM is hermaphrodite, copulated with both); God told the Sun, Month, Man, Man's Star to bring beer; put them to sleep; the Sun woke up the next day, a month later; Man and his Star had to wake up; they violated the ban on not drinking beer, became mortal; M. rebelled against God, other spirits, led by his son Tschame and Longbeard, on God's orders, drove the rebels like game, drove them out of heaven; in the west, the four stars of Orion forming a quadrangle - the four great spirits of the summer sky; the three stars of the Orion Belt are a dog (Long-bearded), a hunter (son of the Tshame spirit, identified with Jesus), game (M.); M. and other spirits fell towards the Pleiades ("lightning grower"); M. - in the lower world in the west; God turned CM into the main swamp serpent, his breath was a rainbow; Orion has not been seen for three months in the midst of a dry season]: Fourche, Morlighem 1973:105-127 in Studstill 1984:127-129; bena-lulua [Kadifuke made himself, lived on earth; Tshauke, daughter of Fidi Mukulu, went down to him, returned to heaven; K. rose to her on a column of smoke from the fire; FM promises to give her daughter if K. catches the Sun, Moon, Pleiades, Muntu (also a constellation), Orion, Behemoth, Elephant; The Bat gives K. a snare made of iron wire, K. catches them The Sun and the Moon, you have to pull them with all your might; then he catches them, puts them in the bag of the Pleiades, Muntu, Orion; catches the Behemoth and the Elephant with huge hooks; gets a wife, goes down with her to the ground; FM takes the sun under own management]: Frobenius 1983:133-136 (retelling in Luomala 1940:44).

West Africa. Dark [Spieth: "Koklovino is a constellation in which small stars are chickens and the big one is their mother; it is to the left and far from Dzeretsia; D. is holding a stretched bow aimed on a hen with chickens; D. is a large constellation (gröβte Stern); it determines the time of field work; he is represented by a man with two legs, two arms, and a genitals; a tattoo on his belt depicting three men; he has a stretched bow; the constellation (Stern) comes once a year immediately after yam sowing; rises in the east, sets in the west; when above all, then yams are sown; when the constellation disappears, it starts to rain; it is said that "D. stepped his foot into the water"; if D. is seen first by snakes at sunrise, in the coming year people will die of diseases; if monkeys, the year will be peaceful" ]: Hirschberg 1929:326-327; baule [the brightest stars are Buffalo Stars because they have enough light to hunt buffaloes; Orion's Belt - Niamye Oil Palm, Pleiades - Chicken with Chickens ; these stars are considered older, all others are younger]: Himmelheber 1951b:19 (translated to Himmelheber 1960:233-234, Kotlyar 2009, No. 115:104-105).

Sudan - East Africa. Cuff [Orion is Seto's cultural hero with his hands up, looking at the Pleiades, a group of girls he wants to master and who will later become his wives; Orion's Belt is his penis; neighbors the gang cuff is also called Orion Seto]: Sicard 1966:44; sandave [the time to cultivate the land is determined by the moon and stars; they mean the Pleiades (Wiya) and the "Pleiades Man" (Wiya maxae - Belt and the Sword of Orion)]: Ten Raa 1969:43; the tiger [Kema (Pleiades) and her son Ali (aka Edris - Aldebaran) had goats (Hyades); they were stolen; some say they stole Qeren (two stars of the Dragon constellation), others that Orion (Aslam; whole, not just the stars of the Orion Belt); Ali found thieves and brought back the goats; these are stars between the Pleiades and Aldebaran (Hyades)]: Littmann 1910, No. 45:61; (cf. Masai [three stars of the Orion Belt - three widows chased by three old men - Orion's Sword]: Norton 1909:306).

North Africa. The Tuaregs [Orion is the "guide"; Orion's sword is his genital organ, Rigel is one of his legs, his left and right arms are Betelgeuse and Bellatrix; the Pleiades ("daughters of the night") are Aldebaran's wives and Orion; six women, and the seventh star is a boy from whom Orion took an eye in payment for a portion of Boerhavia spp grain. ]: Bernus, AG-Sidiyene 1989:145.

Western Europe. The French [Pleiades - 7 kings who went to worship Jesus, Orion's Belt - 3 kings; seven walked slowly, chatting, choosing the path, three quickly and straight, came earlier; so the Pleiades stand up earlier, but they come later than Orion]: Kabakova 1999, No. 21:35.

Western Asia. The Old Testament [the Pleiades are mentioned with Orion in three places in the Bible]: Andrew 1893:365.

Australia. Tiwi [Orion is a group of dingoes chasing the Wallaby-Pleiades]: Mountford 1958:177; northeast South Australia [The Pleiades are beautiful sisters, their bodies are covered in icicles; go to the west prepare a parking lot for husbands, their husbands are Orion; during the season when they drop icicles, the ground freezes]: Mountford, Roberts 1972:38 in Waterman 1987, No. 300:35; Yualarai [seven Pleiade Sisters beautiful, their bodies shine with icicles; Berei-Berei (Orion's Belt and Sword) watch them find and collect honey; old Varunna kidnapped two girls, tried to melt their icicles, but only extinguished fire; they returned to heaven to their sisters, but V.'s fire made them dimmer than others; BB died of grief, they also rose to heaven; at night they dance to the Pleiades; once a year, the Pleiades throw ice on the ground; piece ice is pressed against the children's noses, a bone or straw is inserted into the nose; a relative of the Pleiades laughed watching the two sisters run away from V.; he still laughs, he is the Laughing Star (Venus); when there is thunder in winter, it's the Pleiades swimming]: Parker 1965:123-125; the Kamilaroi [a group of men drove a group of women to the top of a pine tree; Bhaiami (The Creator) helped them climb into heaven, they became Pleiades; male leader -Orion, he has a belt and a boomerang]: Greenway 1878 in Waterman 1987, No. 260:34; Southwestern Australia [like a Camilaroa]: Ridley 1875:141 in Waterman 1987, No. 260:34; Wilman [Degindie and his wife, Two teenage sons, younger kids, and a girl named Wardah, whom he raises as his sons' future wife, meets Kar Kar men; they hunt together, but then KK wants to take W.; D. and that's it, whoever is with him fight back, but he and his sons die; the wind raises them to the sky; D. and his sons are the three stars of the Orion Belt; in the same place (some stars) KK; wife D., W. and the children go to their former territory; the wind begins, children are covered with skin, the wind takes everyone to heaven, they turn into the Pleiades; wife D. and W. are brighter stars, children are dim]: Hassell 1934:236-238; Anyamatana [Pleiades women they camp for husbands, their husbands set up Orion; they have a bag like a kangaroo; their bodies and bags are filled with white crystals; in winter they fall to the ground from their bags, through their eyes, nose and vulva; at the same time, two heavenly people open the door to the sky so that shamans can do them (i.e. Pleiades?) see]: Mountford 1939:103-104 in Waterman 1987, No. 300:35; pitjanjara [the old man pursues seven sisters; they create a male teeth-pulling ceremony along the way; the old man outlines with his spear sacred points on the ground; creates a ring of steep cliffs around the runaway; girls jump into a pond, the old man drowns them there; the girls are the Pleiades, the old man is Orion]: Waterman 1987, No. 270:34; plains of Womma {apparently Adelaide District} [Orion is the kangaroo hunters who are courted by the fair maidens of the Pleiades]: Bonwick 1870:189.

Melanesia. Ngaimbom [the old woman warned the children that adults were going to eat them; two older sisters became butterflies, attached a rope to the clouds, came back; the children got up, became Pleiades, two the elders were the last to rise, taking a bunch of bananas with them - they became Orion; people tried to kill the old woman, she became a bird]: Höltker 1965, No. 6:105-106; kiwai [Tagai quarreled with sons, began to kill them and throw them into heaven; they turned into Antares, Vega, Altair, Achernar, Pleiades, Orion, Koijugubu (Capella, Sirius and Canopus); turned the woman who came up into the Morning A star; a shark to Ursa Major; he himself is the Southern Cross]: Landtman 1977, No. 98:269-271; the Torres Strait Islands [The Pleiades are united into one constellation with Orion, which determines the planting time of yams ]: Haddon et al., p.195 in Andrew 1893:366; Maphora [Pleiades (sarmuri) - wife of Orion (kokori)]: Beccari 1876 (Geographic Mag. II:212 in Andrew 1878:108; Isles d'Entrecasteau [Pleiades - six men, married in pairs to three women - three stars of the Orion Belt; wife names Sugarcane Thief, Thief Banana leaves, Tarot thief; polyandry is not really known]: Jenness, Ballantine 1920:161.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Rotuma [two sisters suffer from the arbitrariness of their husbands; the eldest offers to become stars, becomes the Pleiades (Little Eyes of Heaven); the youngest becomes part of the Orion constellation, rather in total with the Belt ("Heavenly Fan")]: Polinskaya 1986, No. 5:54-55.

Tibet - St. India. The Tibetans Amdo (Tanguts) [the red star Gachari was jealous of his wife (Pleiades) of Orion and put a stone on his back; this constellation in the middle has since been broken]: Potanin 1893:327; miri [Orion's belt - young man or boy chasing pleiade girls across the sky]: Hutton 1925:114.

Burma - Indochina. Karen: Marshall, p.53 in Hutton 1925 [three stars of the Orion Belt married the Pleiades]: 124; Mason 1865 [The Pleiades are a "big house", i.e. a family of originally seven, later six left; The elder and younger brothers married two sisters from this family; while the husbands were fishing, Orion stole the wives; the brothers ran to scream, the elder threw the dart, but the youngest accidentally found himself behind him, he pushed the dart, which hit the sisters' house, partially knocking it down; Orion thought that the chase was behind, left the kidnapped, went swimming; the brothers took their wives, returned home, fixed it]: 235-236.

South Asia. Bengalis [like Miri: Orion's Belt is a young man chasing Pleiades]: Hutton 1925:123.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Mentawai: Loeb 1929, No. 12 [husband says children will be a burden; puts seven sons in a barrel, anchores into the sea; cuts the boa constrictor, throws pieces into the sea, they wriggle, waves them imitate, the sea is worried, the barrel is anchored; Sikombut finds it, raises seven boys, the eighth comes out of a slaughtered pig at a party; the brothers are unbearable, they kill guests, kill their brother foster father; their adoptive father asks them to climb a tree, causes the wind, the tree throws them to a distant village; they return, their father assures that he did not want to get rid of them; they secretly make a military boat, they sail away; the father throws a harpoon at it to pull it back by the tench; the eighth brother sends the rat to gnaw the tench seven times; the eighth rat has worn its teeth, but the brothers send it against the father scorpion; sail away; S. goes to the moon, he is the Month; three brothers have wives left, they follow in an unfinished boat; brothers throw a pig's jaw at her, the boat goes off course; everyone in the sky: a boat brothers (probably the Pleiades), a rat, a scorpion, a brothers' wife's boat (three stars of the Orion Belt), then the Morning Star rises]: 149-162; Schefold 1988 [eight brothers turn into the Pleiades (balubalu, "eight- eight"); three of them were married, their wives followed them but could not catch them, these are the three stars of the Orion Belt; the Pleiades threw them the lower jaw of a pig (Aldebaran and Hyades); the brothers' boat is a constellation Triangle]: 72; then luoyang (loinang?) [Pleiades - "Many People", Orion Belt - "Three People"]: Kruyt 1931:413 in Maaβ 1933:298; Western Toraja [Kawatuna: Seven Children - Pleiades, One of Them Turned Rice; Sigi: Wife turned into rice, husband into Orion's Belt; Koro: A galaxy woman told her son to prepare fields on seven hills, started rolling on the slopes, rice grew]: Kruyt 1938 (4): 4-5 in Mabuchi 1969:38.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Pindar's Nemean Songs (c. 522 - ca. 443 BC): "Where the Pleiades took place - /Orion will also walk on your heels" (trans. M.L. Gasparova)]: Pind. Nem. II. 11-12; [fragment of Pindar's praises about Orion: "... He is chasing Playona, and the dog is with him..." (per. M.L. Gasparova); Pleion is the mother of the pleiades]: Pind. Fr. 74; Andrew 1893 [Pindar: Pleion, the mother of the Pleiades, went with them to Boeotia; there Orion fell in love with them, they ran away from him for five years, after which Zeus turned them into doves (Pelei ah) and then into the stars]: 364; Slovenes [Vlaite (Pleiades) stole a girl from the Turks, whom they drove with a batog (Orion Belt)]: Mladenova 2006:81.

Baltoscandia. The Sami [Kalla-parnek are the sons of the Sun's daughter, who invented skis, domesticated deer; they are now in the sky; among them Orion, Sirius, etc.; the Big Dipper is their bow, the Pleiades are their pantry, Cassiopeia - stalked deer, Jupiter - Moose, Venus - motley vazhenka]: Billson 1918:180

Volga - Perm. Marie [brother's wife tortures the girl with work; sends her for water late at night; in the dark she takes a sieve instead of a bucket; begins to freeze, sings about her bitter orphanhood; the owner of the moon descends, takes her home; Orion is her rocker, the sieve is the Pleiades]: Aktsorin 1991, No. 37.

(Wed. Amur - Sakhalin. Negidals [group of stars - Seven women running away from their scary husband; one star behind is her husband; chased his wives and fell behind them]: Khasanova, Pevnov 2003, No. 9:57; retelling in Podmaskin 2013 [possibly the husband is Orion]: 126).

Japan. Ainu [1) were six hard-working sisters; when their father was picked up by a bear and their mother left grieving and did not return, they became lazy; they lived in the mountains in spring and summer, begged in autumn and winter; god of heaven became angry, turned them into the Pleiades arwan nochiu ("idle stars"), showing up during winter storms and spending time underground in warm spring; 2) the stars of the Orion Belt are three hard-working young men who lived near these sisters; young men and they were advised to work harder; tried to grab them, but the sisters sailed away in the boat; when the god of heaven turned the girls into stars, he did the same to the boys, making them a good example for people]: Nokiri 1973:188-196 {per. X. Yamada}.
SV Asia. Chukchi [Orion is a archery with a humpback; Orion's belt is his back, the Sword is the genital organ; Leo is Krivospinnik's wife, who was jealous of the Pleiades and hit him with a cutting board, which caused him his back became hunchback; after a fight he kicked his wife out; the Pleiades are a "group of women" (six); Krivospinnik tried to marry one of them, but they drove him away because of his too big organ; he became shoot them, they ran away; Aldebaran is an arrow that did not reach women; Kolyma Chukchi say that the arrow is stuck in the net (small stars) that the Pleiades cover (=Bogoras 1907:308-309)]: Bogoraz 1939:24; Koryaks [Pleiades are a group of deer aimed at by the skillful shooter Rultejet (Orion)]: Bogoraz 1939:28-29; itelmen [children of the female Elthehenay ask for a fairy tale; that replies that old woman Ivlikelhen will tell; I. sings, trying to put E. to sleep and then eat; she digs a dig from home, runs away with her children; the youngest knot stays, lives with I.; contrary to the ban, unties the bags, all birds and animals fly away and scatter from them; I. chases the knot; she turns herself into a woman caught by an ermine into a baby; I. does not recognize her, stays overnight; the knot cuts off the back of I.'s pants, pierces star holes in them, covers I.'s face, I. sees the Big Dipper, the Pleiades, Orion, thinks it's still night; the hat falls, I. continues to pursue; the cuckoo Kekukemtalkhan carries the knot in a boat across the river, marries her; says I. that she crossed after drinking water in the river; I. drinks, bursts; when he learns that his wife eats crap, the Cuckoo kills her]: Jochelson 1961, No. 9: 71-74 (translated into Menovshchikov 1974, No. 201:583-586).

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos (relocated from Providence and Cape Whelen to Fr. Wrangel) [Ursa Major - reindeer, Pleiades - girls, Orion - hunter, Gemini - bow, Cassiopeia - bear trail, Cepheus - half tambourine]: Ushakov 2001:172.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [see motive K47; the chief's daughter gives birth to puppies - four (or three) males and a female; people abandon her; the mother hears children's voices; leaves her torches burning by the river, finds her sons, leaves her sons behind dog skins into the fire; daughter Upitz manages to pull her own, remains a dog; brothers bring a lot of meat and fish; people come back; one day the game disappears; the youngest gives the old woman rotten instead of fat; She says: Let the Caribou take you to the sky where you belong; the dog sister drives the caribou up the mountain, they all end up in the sky; the brothers turn into the four stars of the Big Dipper bucket; in front of them W., even further away from the Caribou, turned into the Pleiades; a bright star below B. Bears - fallen luggage when brothers tried to make a rope out of their belts and go down to the ground; (Var. from the Fraser River: three brothers continue to chase the caribou in the sky; Blue Jay teaches them to tie belts, go down; tells you not to look if they hear a noise; they look, everyone turns into stars; Orion's Belt is the remnants of their meal; when she sees new stars, the mother of the children commits suicide)]: Jenness 1934, No. 7: 137-141.

Plains. Osage [Sun, Morning Star, Ursa Major, North Star, Sirius - Grandfathers, Moon, Evening Star, Double Star, Pleiades, Orion-Grandma's Belt]: La Flesche 1928:74

(Wed. California. Jokutz [six young women picked wild bulbs; their husbands went hunting for a cougar, each time they came back with nothing; scolded wives who smelled of onions; wives decided to run away, alone pregnant, sat on a rock, water poured from her nose, the woman turned into stone; her mother-in-law showed her daughters-in-law porridge to lure them, but they ran to heaven; husbands chase them (Taurus stars, identification is unreliable) but can't catch up]: Gayton, Newman 1940, No. 15:26).

The Great Southwest. Zunyi [see motif K15, K27, K30; Knif-wings kidnap a young man's wife; a young man comes for her; Knife wings offer challenges: 1) plucking trees with one hand (gaffers gnaw their roots for a young man) ; 2) sit in a burning fire (Knife wings burn in his changed shirt, the young man remains alive in the ice); the young man cuts the kidnapper's corpse into pieces, throws them into the sky, creating stars (head: star, next to the sun (Evening?) ; one leg: Morning Star; arms: Pleiades; lungs: all small stars; hips: Orion's Belt)]: Parsons 1930, No. 6:24-32; Western ceres (Akoma) [Player steals rains, people; tells you to guess with four times that are in two vessels; the Sunny Young Man calls beads, butterflies, pebbles, Pleiades; then ants, bumblebees, wasps, Orion; the last answers in each series are correct; The player releases the Pleiades flying away west, agrees to be killed; Sunny Young takes out his eyes with a flintlock knife, throws him south, they turn into stars (it is not specified which ones)]: Boas 1928a: 76-82, 253-254 [summary]; eastern keres (Sia) [animal people rise to earth from the lower world; Mother (one of the two primordial sisters) gives Scarab a bag; he looks into it, stars dot the sky in disarray; Mother in punishment blinds Scarab; remaining stars make Ursa Major, Orion, Pleiades]: Stevenson 1894:37; teva (Hano) [women decide they can live alone; stay in the village, men go across the river; every year men harvest more abundant and women poorer crops; the flood begins, women try unsuccessfully to build a tower to the sky; men plant a pine tree, it grows to the sky , but does not break through it; the reeds pierce; first the Badger, then the rest climb into the upper world; half of the women failed to get up, drowned; the Mockingbird gives its tongues to speak; in In the lower world, people had tails, now they have been lost; it is dark around; two young men (Son of the Sun and Son of Ooting Water), together with the Coyote, are instructed to place stars in the sky; young men place the Pleiades, the Great The Bear, Orion, the Morning Star, some others; the Coyote gets tired of this job, he throws the remaining stars in disarray; young men put a month in the sky made of a wedding cape and the sun out bison skins, white fox skins, and parrot's tail; the sun doesn't move; Coyote: someone must die; the girl dies, the sun moves until noon, stops again; now the young man dies; Coyote explains that every day a person must die in the morning, at noon and in the evening, then the sun will move; first the dead will return on the fifth day; Coyote says it is wrong, dies and does not return; a widower looks into the hole people came out of, sees his dead wife and Coyote below]: Parsons 1926, No. 1, var.1:169-172; Navajo: Maryboy, Begay 2010 [Orion is a man, follows Pleiades]: 5; Tozzer 1908 [Orion is a dancing god (it is not clear who exactly); Pleiades and Hyades are feathers on his head]: 29-32.

The Northern Andes. Guajiro [evil monkey spirits look at a young woman, she dies; her husband buries her, seeks death, leaves, telling his four children he will return with the Pleiades season; went to Mars (or Venus); when he reached the sea, he met a man, told him that he was the son of Iiwa (Pleiades) and Spica's grandson; the bird offers to report about him to the stars; the Pleiades tell Orion, the man's maternal uncle, about him; The Pleiades, Altair, and other stars lift a person beyond the clouds; the Pleiades ask him to go to his mother's house, Earth; makes his body like their body, without joints; advises him to meet with girls , they turn into calebasses; young men turn out to be corncobs; a man wants to go home, stars put him on a cloud; Orion, other stars, and Rain raise his dead wife to heaven, leaving him on the ground cultivated fields with a rich harvest]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (2), No. 67:661-673.

Southern Venezuela. Makiritare [Kuamachi (Evening Star) and his grandfather Mahanama decide to take revenge on the Stars for killing K.'s mother; lure the Stars with their leader named Wlaha (Pleiades) to trees for fruit; M. says that he will weave baskets to put fruits in them; K. climbs a tree, drops the fruit; water floods the forest; M. with his baskets and K. jump into the boat; M. throws baskets into the water, they turn into an anaconda, caimans, piranhas; devour many Stars, whom K. knocks down trees with arrows; V. shoots into the sky, making a chain of arrows, climbs there with the remaining Stars; Mönettä, scorpion, became Big Bear; Ihette (Orion Belt) climbed slowly, bleeding and dragging his leg bitten off by a caiman; Amaduwakadi became the Morning Star; sloth, tapir and others also climbed into the sky; so that demons they also did not climb into the sky, K. climbed by himself, Ioroko, the creation of the Orosha antagonist, climbed after him; K. asked Cancer to cut the stairs, he hesitated, then piranha had a snack, I. fell to the ground; there is a vine in the forests - remains of that staircase]: Civrieux 1960:179-180; 1980:110-116; panaré [Pleiades - Orion's wife, their son Sirius]: Dumont 1976:94 (quoted in Magaña 1989a: 214).

Guiana. Warrau [Nohi-Abassi climbs a tree to watch for animals at the watering hole; the cannibal Nakhokoboni comes; takes two fish out of the river, immediately eats one, puts the other in basket; next time NA's younger brother asks for permission to climb the tree and him; the cannibal sees its reflection, catches it in the water; her movements make her younger brother laugh; the cannibal sends ants the brothers have to go down; she kills the youngest, brings the oldest home; her two daughters like him, the youngest becomes his wife; she hides a crocodile or shark under the boat so that they can eat her mother; the spouses run away, the eldest daughter pursues them; they climb a tree, the pursuer manages to cut off ON her leg; the leg turns into the spirit of the Maam bird (Tinamu sp.) and into the Orion Belt; the wife in the Pleiades, the NA himself in Hyades]: Roth 1915, No. 210:263-265; Wilbert 1970, No. 188:431-433; caryfuna [among six brothers, the youngest to Bahama (Scorpio, Aquarius, part of Capricorn), following Abedim (Belt Oriona), next Sirigo (Pleiades); E. marries; catches fish, it is always bitten in half; he ties the hook with wire; pulls out a shark, cuts it to pieces; his wife says he killed her mother; chases him into a shark; he runs away; she bites off B.'s leg]: Taylor 1951, appendix 2:153; akawai or kariña of Guyana [Wawaya (wawa means sister, or wife) takes Tapir as a lover; he promises to take her to where heaven meets earth; her husband Serikoai (sirikio means star) climbs a tree for fruit; when begins to descend, she cuts off his leg with an ax; his mother cares for him; he walks east on crutches in the footsteps of lovers; kills Tapir with an arrow, cuts off his head; V. and Tapir's spirit run to heaven, S. behind them; V. turns into the Pleiades, Tapir's head into Hyades (Aldebaran - eye), S. into Orion]: Brett 1880:191-200; Roth 1915, No. 211:265-266; oyana [two friends dance all night, jump into a hole, ascend to heaven; one becomes Hyades (head) and Orion (legs); the other becomes Pleiades]: Magaña 1987, No. 105:55 (same on p. 78-79).

Western Amazon. Siona, Sekoya [Baira creates land after the flood, helps people get out of the ground, kills his father-in-law, who turns into Tapir; B. goes to heaven, tells his nephews chase Tapir; they follow the trail of Tapir's excrement, it's getting fresher; Cayman carries them across the river, bites off their younger brother's leg; they kill Cayman with an ax, reach out their leg; the Pleiades brothers , axe - Orion Belt, Hyades - Cayman's jaw, Milky Way - Tapir Trail]: Vickers 1989:161-167.

Montagna - Jurua. Shipibo [an old man (this is Tapir) makes a boat under a guava tree; children, sitting on a tree, throw fruits at him; the old man kicks him with his foot, the tree grows huge; children turn into ants, they go down on leaves, then become human again; follow the old man's trail, asking for directions from the genip trees; find more and more fresh tapir droppings; one became an ant, climbed the tapir in the ass, cut his heart ; the tapir died; one turned into a pot, meat was cooked in it; everyone tasted it, but only the strongest one could withstand the fever; they had to cross the river; the man sent a boat - a caimana; sitting on his back, brothers they thought what to become, they chose birds; one decided to become a panguana bird; on the coast, the Cayman bit off both his legs; Panguana is part of Orion, without legs; all turned into Pleiades, Hyades, Orion Belt]: Roe 1982, No. 7:62-63; Ashaninka [only two constellations stand out - the Pleiades (Mašíkinti) and Orion (Porínkari); M. was the first to take ayahuasca with his family on a balsa raft went up to heaven; P. was the husband of sister M., did not believe that it was possible to climb, did not observe all the rituals, could not take off; P. lowered his rope (and, obviously, he climbed it); then Porcupine climbed and Sloth, hesitated (Porcupine picked up his arrows), the rope was cut off, they fell, turned into a porcupine and a sloth]: Weiss 1975:397.

Southern Amazon. Paresi [Énore tells various stars how to move and where to stay; gave each of the Pleiades stars clothes to keep them warm; one of the three stars of the Orion Belt is the character who broke the other hand, it still hangs (Orion's Sword?)] : Pereira 1987, No. 84:545-547

Chaco. Toba (Argentina) [(by Lehmann-Nitsche 1925:195-196); during a global fire, those who rose to heaven escaped and became stars: three old women (Orion Belt), a group of boys (Pleiades, Dapitshí ), three children (Orion's sword), a woman Morning Star, a woman Evening Star, Nandu, followed and in front of him by a dog chasing him (Centaur); Coal Bags are two mortars taken by women; after the old man who came out became a caiman, the old woman became an anteater, and others became animals; only one man retained his human appearance; a woman was lowered from the sky, but the rope was cut too much close to the ground, so the woman (and all the Indians after her) turned out to be ugly]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 1:25-26; toba [Pleiades is a man {obviously Dapichí} sending cold, as well like Orion's Belt - "Woman's Grandmother"]: Metraux 1935c: 137.