I20B. Belted under the arms. (.27.) .29.33.34.36.
People in the upper world are different from those on earth and are belted below or above the waist.
(Macedonians), Georgians, Kazakhs, Tuvans, Darkhats (or Khalkhas?) , Western Yakuts.
(Wed. The Balkans. Macedonians [God told people to appear; the former were giants, grew out of the ground like mushrooms; if they fell, they crashed; when dragons threw fire arrows in the clouds, giants covered their heads were not afraid; God destroyed them, made dwarfs an inch tall, a beard to an elbow, their bulls were as tall as goats; these dwarfs were eaten by snakes; then God brought out real people and told them girdle to show that they are medium in size]: Ortenzio 2008, No. 2:29-30).
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Georgians (Telavi County, Kakheti) [the inhabitants of the lower world are girded on their hips and the upper world on their chest or neck]: Stepanov 1893:124 (=Virsaladze 1973, No. 10:51).
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Ibraev 1980 [western 1976 from Berkimdai-Ata bucks; seven celestial spheres are inhabited by people girding under their arms...; people on seven underground tiers are belted below the waist]: 44; Chuloshnikov 1924 [the earth rests on a huge fish that swims on water supported by steam and wind; the ground is girded by a dragon (aydagar); on its edge stands a blue bull holding everything on one horn sky; people in the sky wear a belt under their throats, like the people of the earth wear it on their lower back, and underground people on their feet; among the people of the sky there is an old woman of great stature; eats 40 rams, 40 cakes at once, drinks 40 months (leather vessels) of koumiss; she milks her colorful sheep after the rain; then the sheep are seen in the form of a rainbow, a kempir kosak; a killer cak is two rows of sheep tied together to milk, closely with their heads along a rope stretched across the ground]: 242.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans: Dyakonova 1976:274 ["People living in heaven (azar kurbustular) do not look like earthly ones - they are smaller and their belt of clothing is tied to their breasts, they live as if in the air (agaar), not they eat food like they do on the ground. They occasionally get to earth, and then the shaman has to "send" them back"], 276-277 ["People living on heavenly earth (kazarlar or barracks), i.e. in heaven, wear a belt high, at a level armpits, unlike the inhabitants of our land, who are girded at the lower back, and people of "underground" (black adaa) who wear a belt low, at groin level"]; darhats (? informant from Moren, but by birth Khalkhasets; 03.08.11, Somon Moren aimaka Huvsgel, Yarimpiliin Gomb, Khalkhasets, born in 1924, shepherd raised sheep, was born in Ider Somon, lived in Moran all his life) [V antiquities said that there are three lands. People in the lower earth fasten their belts low, the middle ground on the waist, and the upper one on the chest. That's why Arah has half his body because he lives high.
Eastern Siberia. Western Yakuts (Turukhansky Krai) [people living in the sky are belted under their muscles, and those who live under the ground have their belts very low]: Tretyakov 1871:420-421.