I15A. Vertical section .41.46.62.
Out of ignorance or in a hurry, anthropomorphic creatures first have their mouths cut vertically.
Kuchin, blacklegs, baniva, guariquena.
Subarctic. Kuchin [the older brother is jealous of the younger brother; breaks the log, makes a coffin; invites his brother to lie down and try it on; closes the lid, lowers it into the river; takes the coffin to the shore where the Dog Eskimos live (= eagle people); they have no mouth, they feed on the smell of rotten meat; the hero cuts through their mouths; then they cut through each other, some in a hurry make a vertical cut; the hero gets a wife; local people they rip open the bellies of pregnant wives, the hero teaches them how to give birth; hawks are moose for them, the hero easily kills hawks; a dead hawk that falls from a tree has run over several people; the hero is given eagle plumage, he flies in it home, lifts his brother into the air, throws him into the fast; takes him two wives; one of them lubricates his feathers with her milk, his wings weaken; he grabs the beaver, which drags him under water; wives take him in husbands are a piece of resin; it soon falls to pieces]: McKennan 1965:132-136.
Plains. Blacklegs [The old man makes the first women's mouth; first cuts it vertically; dissatisfied with his work; sews and cuts horizontally]: Maclean 1893 (blood): 166; Wissler, Duvall 1908, #3:20.
NW Amazon. Baniva [god wipes his sweat with a leaf of tobacco; his wife touches the leaf, gets pregnant; the fish bites its reproductive hole; the father first cuts Kovai's son's mouth vertically; the mark of This cut has been preserved in people on the upper lip]: Galvão 1959:46; Saake 1968:264; guariquena [Nápiruli was fishing, Mapiríkuli came out of the water, said she wanted to be his wife; pregnant, but does not have a hole to give birth; the fish began to try to do it, two failed, the third did, N. grabbed her tail, the stain remained; the baby was born, disappeared into the water; found the placenta, threw it away, it became a stingray; later a boy came, he had no mouth, first his mouth was cut vertically (since then there is a mark on his lip), then normal; this is Kúwe; he told him to fast before the holiday dabukuri (fruit festival and boys' initiation); young men made a key out of an ant tooth (ants had teeth), bait from wasp larvae, began to catch and fry fish; K. was in the tree, felt smoke; Having risen to the sky, the smoke formed a storm cloud, K. became a cave in which the boys took refuge from the rain, swallowed them; he was in the sky; N. lured him to the ground with alcohol; after drinking, he spewed the dead swallowed, revived him with tobacco; he was pushed into the fire, he rose to the sky with smoke, the sounds of sacred musical instruments were heard; the intestines did not burn down, all kinds of snakes became, ants appeared from his heart, and his hair scorpions and other ants; three bushes grew at the site of the burning, their names are forbidden to women]: González Ñañez 1980, No. 2:148-162.