I117A. The bat helps you descend .49.50.
Thebat helps the hero to descend to earth from a high cliff.
Northern Payut, South Payut, Ute, Havasupai, Yavapai, Chirikahua, Navajo, Jicarilla, Western Apache, Zunyi.
Big Pool. North Payute (Owens Valley) [the hero rejects Coyote's daughters; he pushes him off a cliff, falls on a narrow ledge; months later he is so thin that the Bat catches him when he jumps down; returns to his family]: Steward 1936, No. 30:407-408; South Payut (Moapa) [a young man lets a bird carry himself to a rock; kills, takes feathers for arrows; the Bat lowers him to the ground; he kills her, returns home]: Lowie 1924, No. 19:187; Utah: Kroeber 1901 (Wintah), No. 6 [Coyote asks Drake to go with his eyes closed; takes his wife, urinates in the eyes of his children; Drake finds himself on a steep cliff; the Bat tells him to jump down, catches him; the Drake kills the Coyote, causing frost; the children born from him are thrown away]: 272-274; Lowie 1924, No. 28 (southern Utah) [Wolf speaks The frost that a dead ram lies on the rock; Frost climbs up, the Coyote cuts off the rope; Takes Frost's wives, she gives birth to a child; the Bat lowers Frost; he kills the Coyote and the baby born], 48 ( southern Utah) [every morning a girl lies down with her legs spread towards the rising sun; she gives birth to twins from the Sun; they go to visit her father; the old bat takes them to the house of the Sun; the wife of the Sun angry; The Sun denies that he had connections with other women, suggests that the boys' father is the Month; quarrels with the Month, knocks out his eye; since then the Month has been dim; the Sun cooks twins in boiling water, they are safe; he recognizes them as his sons; they return to their mother]: 53-54, 76-77.
The Great Southwest. Havasupai [hunters leave the chief on the cliff; at home, the Coyote takes his two wives without feeding them; the Bat lowers the chief, he kills evil tribesmen; jumps into the abyss with his wives; they turning into stars]: Smithson, Euler 1994:69-75; yavapai (northeast) [people lived underground at the bottom of a deep dip; there was a pine tree ("dog-tail tree") wrapped in vines; people they climbed it to earth, their leader is Hanyiko' (Frog); his shaman daughter made him sick; before he died, he ordered him to be burned and watched the stars; when two stars appeared before sunrise to the east are the feathers that adorn his head; in 2 months, 5 stars will appear - this is his right hand; in 3 months it will be cold, his whole body will be visible; the red star will mark 4 months; on his grave corn will grow; when a corpse is burned, everyone surrounds the fire, but the Coyote jumps over the short Badger, grabs it, takes it away, eats the heart; before that, people said that he died four days later will be reborn; Coyote: let him die forever; X. died forever; Coyote agreed; his daughter died, people refused to change their minds; it snowed; people: mountains covered with cornmeal; Coyote: snow; Therefore, snow does not consist of cornmeal; when it rained, the dry tree did not get wet; Coyote: let it get wet; because Coyote took possession of H.'s heart, from the hole from which people came to the ground, water poured in; people put all kinds of seeds and the girl in the hollowed out pine tree trunk, sealed it; after the flood, the girl went out, the others died; she lay down so that water dripped into her vagina, she shone sun; conceived and gave birth to a girl; she grew up, her mother placed her in the same place, but Water and Sun did not want to converge with her daughter; then the mother covered her with her body and the daughter became pregnant; her son Skatakaamcha; his mother took the eagle and fed it to the chicks; he interrupted the partridge's leg; when he fixed it, she spoke about the fate of his mother; S. decided to kill the monstrous bull (bison?) ; The badger dug an underground passage under him, S. stabbed the monster with a hot knife, killed him; put on a blood-filled stomach; the eagle brought it to the nest; the eagles say that the prey is alive, the eagle does not believe; the eagle flew away, the eagle flew in, S. killed her with a hatchet; told the eagles to remain silent; killed the eagle when it returned; threw the eagles out of the nest; made the rock half as low, but no more; The Bat lowered it in the basket ; he opened his eyes, they fell, the Bat was injured, S. cured her; came to his grandmother, who was crying; he threw eagle feathers at her, said he killed both eagles; married; The Wind stole his wife; Spider warns that Wind offers to compete, kills losers; S. beat him in a ball and ring game; won a competition whose hair is longer; Wind stabbed S. 4 times without causing harm; S. killed him with a knife; threw one hand to the east, the other to the south, one leg to the west, the other to the north: let the wind blow from different directions; S. brought his wife back; grandmother: there is a bad Chewasistesikkaamcha; S. came to him into the house, slowly throws food away for fear of being poisoned; killed C. with a knife; Bear's arrow reeds; S. invites him to marry his grandmother; he gave reeds; believes that the best tips are coal ; S. killed him with flint; the tree for the ends of the arrows at the Owl; S. and offered him his grandmother as his wife; she found the heart of the Owl, it was on the sole; S. shot there, killed the Owl; an bow tree in the canyon with converging and diverging walls; S. put a deer horn between them; went east to his father the Sun; the Sun's wife warns that the Sun will try to kill S. in the steam room; but S. is not afraid of the heat; the Sun recognized his son, let him choose a horse; a man at the cliff pushes passers-by with his foot; he grew up with his back to the rock; S. lets a chanterelle first, it dodges; then a rattlesnake, the man is afraid of it; S. disconnected him with an ax from the cliff, threw it into the abyss; below 6-7 women devour the fallen; S. threw that man's stomach into the fire, he burst into the eyes of the women, S. hacked them; there was a boy, he ran to the cave, S. did not I managed to get it, left the snakes to guard, but they fell asleep; the boy left, creating new ones like him; grandmother: you can't handle them]: Gifford 1933a: 349-364; chiricahua [Coyote has a wife and son; another The coyote asks him to climb a rock, she grows to the sky; the impostor takes his wife, gives his son the worst meat; the Bat lowers the hero in the basket; he opens his eyes, the basket falls, but he is unharmed; finds his son; wife carries him in her bag; he kicks the impostor out]: Opler 1942, No. 1:28-31; Navajo [older sister conceives Nyenezgani from the sun's ray, youngest from his water younger brother; brothers are gods of war, visit the Sun, the eldest receives lightning arrows from him; brothers kill monsters; N. goes alone to kill a four-legged monster with deer horns (his father is an antelope horn); Gopher digs an underground passage under the monster, gnaws hair from the skin under his heart, explains that the wool needs to warm the young; N. climbs under the tunnel, kills the monster with a lightning arrow; Gopher gets the skin; N. fills the gut with the blood of a monster, lets itself be carried away by a monstrous bird; it throws it into a nest on the rocks, but it does not break thanks to the pen given by the Spider; tears its gut with blood to make it look like he dead; the chick says that the prey is alive, the bird does not believe; N. asks the chicks how their parents will arrive; Father with thunderstorm and shower (letter with "rain man"), mother with quiet rain ("rain- woman"); N. kills both parents with lightning arrows, turns the older chick into an eagle, the youngest into an owl; the Bat lowers it to the ground in a basket; for this he gives her feathers of monstrous birds, but those turn into all kinds of small birds]: Matthews 1994:116-121; hicarilla [woman conceives from the Sun and from the Waterfall, gives birth to two sons; son of the Sun Jonahaiyin exterminates monsters, son The Cobaciscini Falls stays at home with his mother; the lizard gives D. his clothes, Gopher digs a passage under the monstrous Moose; gnaws at the wool on the skin where the heart is, says he will take it to his children; D. pierces the heart with an arrow; An elk blows up the ground with horns, creating mountains; four spiders of different colors on four sides of the world stop him, he dies; D. makes durable clothes out of Moose skin; huge the eagle takes D. to its nest; the chicks notice that the prey is blinking; D. asks how their parents will arrive; Mother in the afternoon with rain, father before sunset with rain and wind; D. kills adults birds with an elk's horn, turns chicks into ordinary eagles; the Bat lowers D. to the ground in a basket; for this he gives her feathers, tells her not to go to the plain, where there are many birds; she goes, the birds take all the feathers (the origin of their plumage)]: Russel 1898:255-258; Western Apaches: Gould 1921 (Mojave Apaches) [people in the lower world sent a bird to search for another world; it flew C, B, Y, Z; people sent it up they weaved climbing plants, climbed them, reached the upper world; looking down, they saw water rising; this flood was caused by the Frog woman below; people put the girl in a box, a box hit the sky four times; the girl went out on Mount Montezuma, the others drowned; lay down under the waterfall, gave birth to a girl; she also lay down, gave birth to Jesus; his mother was carried away by an eagle; he learned about it from his grandmother; man dug an underground passage for him under a lying bull, under his heart; I. stabbed a hot knife into his heart; smeared himself with blood and brain, allowed the eagles to carry themselves to the mountain; asked the chicks where their mother was sitting and Father, smeared the rock with resin, killed adult eagles, threw off the chicks; the old bat began to lower it in her basket; he opened his eyes, she fell; he cured her fractures]: 319-320; Goodwin 1994, No. 3 (White Mountain) [the grandson consistently asks his grandmother where to get bow tree, arrow reeds, bowstring tendons, arrow feathers; she replies each time that it is far and dangerous; he goes for an onion tree, says to the Bear, Grandma, I will be your wife; The bear laughs, allows you to take it; in front of the reeds there are interpreting rocks; Gopher digs a passage, brings reeds to the young man; the terrible male Antelope (Big Horns) lies on the ground; Gopher digs four underground passages, tells Antelope he needs wool for freezing kids, chews hair under his heart, a young man stabs a knife in it, an antelope plows the passages with a horn, dies; the young man takes his tendons, fills his stomach with blood; lets the Eagle carry himself, is thrown on a rock, blood splashes from the antelope's stomach, the Eagle thinks the young man is dead, does not believe the chicks that he is alive; the young man kills chicks except one; he replies that his brother, then that his sister will arrive with certain types of rain; a young man kills those who have arrived; that his father will arrive with a man's rain; the same; turns a chick into an owl; The female bat lowers the young man in his basket; he opens his eyes ahead of time, she falls, heals; the young man gives her eagle feathers, tells her not to go under the trees; she goes, feathers turned into all kinds of birds; a young man makes arrows; a white feather comes down from the sky, turns into a girl, he marries her]: 12-16; zunyi [the girl does not leave the house, does not look at the young man; rain enters her room, she gives birth to a boy; in a few days he grows up; throwing stones, hunts small game; sees men's bows; mother admits that bow trees and arrow reeds grow in caves in which a terrible bear; a young man goes there; his divine father closes the entrance to the cave four times when the young man wants to enter it, but then decides whether to let him do what he wants; bear to meet him, the young man grabs; he says that his mother is beautiful; the bear himself chose the material for his bow and arrow, taught him how to make a bow; they agreed that the bear would come for his wife in the evening; the young man equipped arrows with obsidian tips; the bear says it's just black coals, allows you to try it for yourself, is pierced with an arrow and killed; the young man hangs his heart near the house; the mother admits that there is terrible lizards whose spit burns; the young man goes to them, but their spits are harmless to him, because he has a divine nature; he himself throws a large piece of salt into the hearth, it explodes, the lizards die, he brings their hearts; the mother confesses that on the path there is a giant pushing those who walk into the abyss with his foot; under the rock his children devour the fallen; the giant straightens his leg, but the young man jumps back; kills him with a club, throws him down, the giant's children ate him; the young man carved the giant's heart; went down to kill his children, leaving two; thus twisted his necks, turning him into a falcon and an owl; the mother admits that there is a huge bison or elk; the gopher made an underground passage under the lying monster, gnawed at the hair where the heart was; the young man pierced his heart with an arrow, the monster plunged his horn into the ground, but the young man ran away; brought home his heart and part of the skin; the mother admits that there is a nest of cannibal eagles at the top of Shuntekia; when he went to the nest, the young man put on a monster-skin hoodie, attached his gut with blood; the eagle brought it to the nest for his chicks, the gut bursts, blood has flowed; the chicks respond that their mother arrives when the shadow of the clouds appears (actually from her wings); the father arrives when it starts to rain (actually dew); the eagle brought a dead girl, a young man killed an eagle with an arrow; an eagle brought a dead young man, a hero killed him with an arrow; killed chicks, took their feathers for feathers or for use during rituals; he cannot go down; the bat grandmother puts him in the basket, does not tell him to open his eyes; he does not like her song and for the fourth time he opened his eyes; they both fell but did not break; the bat leads towards him, she feeds, but she can't see well, she doesn't have berries, but lumps of clay, etc.; she tells me to go home, avoiding sunflowers; first she went around, then went straight; the feathers she took with her turned into summer birds - goldfinches, sparrows, etc.]: Cushing 1901:65-92