I22. Crushing rocks, D931.3, D1553.

.13.-.15.17.-.25.27.-.37.39.-.53.55.56.61.-.68.70.72.73.

The character must walk between converging and diverging (rising and falling) rocks, trees, etc. For statistical calculations, I22 also includes all texts with a motive I23 (see below).

Sudan - East Africa. Malgashi (sakalava, western 1971) [the couple already has a son, the wife is ready to give birth to a second one; he says from his womb that his name is "Zatovo not created by God", asks his mother to swallow a razor so that he circumcised himself; his mother was not injured; the father gave 100 bulls to Z., the other 100 to his eldest son; Z. met an old man, exchanged all his bulls for a talisman, went on a journey, leaving an orange tree and banana; if you wither, he fell ill, if they dried up, he died; he climbed the mountain, there was a thunderstorm, he pointed a talisman at it, the thunderstorm stopped; with the help of a talisman he crossed the river (not specified exactly); quicksand the sands converge and diverge, Z. sent a talisman at them, the sands froze and hardened; Z. gives the king of birds, wild boar, fly to get enough; in God's village, the talisman advises Z. to turn into a kingfisher (martin- pecheur); allows God's daughter to take him, turns into a man at night; she is afraid that her father will kill him; Z. replies that he will not be able to kill someone who is not created by God; father notes oddities in daughter's behavior, Z. opens to him; knows about the trap pit in his father-in-law's house, does not fall into it; father-in-law tells 1) to cultivate a huge field (wild boars dig up, weed teals, parrots, sparrows collect grain); 2) recognize the main cow in the herd (the bird shows); 3) recognize the bride among several women (the fly sits in front of her eye, she blinks); on a winged horse, Z. brings his wife to earth; she does not tell him looking at her child, going to get water; she looks, there are twins, a boy and a girl; the wife dies immediately; these children are the ancestors of Europeans and other foreigners in Madagascar]: Lombard 1976:175-205 .

North Africa. Western Sahara [two sisters are married to two brothers; when they leave, they say that if children of different sexes are born, one family should go east and the other west; one sister has a boy Nehry Bugam, they decide to dress him as a girl; NB has grown up, the truth is revealed; NB has grown up, goes looking for his cousin Dayesmus, with him an ostrich, a camel and a horse, a young camel with a camel, a dog and a raven ; snakes pulling the mountains let him pass, the mountains only cut off the tip of the young camel's tail; the NB gives the shepherd a ring to throw into a bowl of milk that the chief's daughter (i.e. D.) will take; the shepherd says that the seven-headed serpent demands girls, the last one is the leader's daughter; the NB tells the snake that he has come to see such a glorious creature, asks for permission to take one of his heads as a keepsake; then the other; the rest cuts off five in battle, hides him under a huge rock; no one else can pick him up, the NB gets D. as his wife; foreign warriors injure the NB, take his wife; animals care for him; he defeats enemies, brings his wife back, the mountains and the snakes miss them again; everything is fine]: Aris, Cladellas 1999:65-73; Mauritanian Arabs [a woman gives birth to boys, but each of the newborns is blown away by the wind; witch doctor promises her a talisman on the condition that when the first surviving child learns the Koran, she will give it to him; the mother deliberately leaves her son's sword in the old parking lot and sends it for it; the camel says that the saber is hiding a ghoul - you have to grab it and the camel will quickly carry the rider away; tells her to kill, in it the foal is half gold, half silver; tells you to sit on it; they stopped under a tree where the green bird brought people; the jewelry eaten is scattered on the ground; after eating, the bird sings; the young man took the jewelry; the sultan will give his daughter to someone who spits from below her face high in the window, only a young man succeeds; he gets the daughter of a sultan, but hides in the guise of a poor bastard; in the guise of a beautiful warrior, he smashes enemies; his wife bandages her wound with a handkerchief; finds out that her lousy husband handsome, but silent about it; the sultan is pregnant, wants to hear the green bird singing; the Sultan's elder sons-in-law do not know how to do this; the young man promises them to get a bird, for which he cuts off each son-in-law on the phalanx little finger; a foal teaches how to lure a bird into a chest with meat; the bird tells the Sultan that it will not sing until he gets Bzougue's daughter; sons-in-law again do not know how to do it; the young man promises to get them a girl, for this, cuts off everyone's earlobe; the bird demands the milk of a lioness who gave birth for the first time, and with her other lionesses; this time the young man cuts off the applicants' legs on the little finger; the young man fed and decorated the lioness's young, she met all the requirements; now Bzougue's daughter asks for water from behind the crushing mountains; the young man cuts off a piece of his sons' nose; the foal tells the ants to give way to the guards grain, pearls for girls, meat for dogs; we interpret the mountains to say that the other mountains diverge much further before the collision - one by sunrise, the other by sunset; the young man gets water, runs away, the mountains are cut off only the tip of the foal's tail; the bird sings, the daughter of Bzougue is happy, everyone praises her sons-in-law; the wife tells the young man that she knows his secret; the young man appears in all its splendor, shows the sultan his severed little fingers, etc.]: Tauzin 1993: 127-142; Berbers in southern Morocco [the poor firewood seller has two sons; he caught a beautiful bird in the forest and brought it home; his wife did not let its children play, but hid it; every day the bird lays an egg, Jew each buys for a hundred mitkals; the husband went on a pilgrimage, and the Jew became his wife's lover; asked to slaughter and cook poultry; returning in the absence of their mother, the boys opened the lid of the cauldron, the youngest Hammed ate the head, and the elder Muhammed ate the bird's heart; unable to find the head and heart, the Jew tells the woman to slaughter the children and take out the contents of their stomachs; she tells the maid to do so; she let the children go brought the head and heart of a dead bird; a Jew: that's not it; the woman drove the maid away and married a Jew; M. went to the right from the fork, came to the locked gates of the city; there the king died, the residents will choose the new king is the one who comes first to the gate in the morning; M. became king; H. went to the left, hired a bagel baker; brought happiness to the house; he has a magic ring; if you turn it, a palace appears; the youngest of the king's seven daughters, saw this, asked her father to marry them; the king called all the men, gave each of the daughters an apple to throw at the chosen one; everyone was abandoned, the youngest is waiting; when the lousy worker was brought baker, she threw an apple at him; the king fell ill; the vizier: let the sons-in-law bring lion's milk in lion's skin, the lion carry it, and the other go ahead; the lousy man turned the ring, told the servant to give it to him white horse, weapons, etc.; promises other sons-in-law to get what they need in exchange for apples received from princesses; brought slaughtered bulls to the king of lions, he gave what he needed; vizier: you need another medicine - water, taken between rocks that open once a year; same (red horse; H. requires sons-in-law to cut off their earlobes); H. managed to take water, the rocks only cut off the horse's tail; third cure: an apple from the garden Rhalia Bint Manssor, living across seven seas; black horse; cut off the phalanges of the little fingers; servant from the ring: only an elderly spirit, who has almost lost his feathers, will take there; he asks to take 7 vessels with with blood and 7 pieces of meat; when he flies, he asks what X. sees the earth; he answers (less and less); the seventh piece slipped out of his hands, H. cut off the flesh from his hand; when he reaches, the spirit teaches how to go through three gates to the sleeping RBM; H. took an apple, left a note that he was here; King H. says that he got everything, tells his sons-in-law to show apples; the king executed six sons-in-law, arranged the wedding of H. with the youngest daughter; the brothers' father returned, but his wife, who became the wife of a Jew, refused to recognize him; he asked King Sidi Mohammed (i.e. his son) to judge them; he called Brother Hammed, each of them told everything; mother and Jew burned]: Stumme 1895, No. 15:119-131; Kabila [the king has three wives, one from Kabylia, the other from Europe, the third Arab, each with a son; brothers led by a son bring a woman from Kabylia the father has beautiful feathers of seven birds; he tells him to bring the birds themselves; the son of a woman from Kabylia kills a cannibal, a lion, passes between the crushing mountains, pulls out living water; promises the brothers to return in a year and one day; a magic cat teaches him to get birds, gives him a magic sword, a young man gets a wife, comes back; brothers want to kill him, a magic saber kills them; at home, the father is afraid of his son's return, kills him ; his wife revives him with live water, he kills his father, reigns]: Arezki 2010:113-114; Arabs of Eastern Algeria: Belarus 1982 [both Sultan's wives are childless; he accidentally heard three girls talking; baker's daughter: if the sultan married me, I would cook couscous for everyone from one grain of wheat; carpenter's daughter: I would weave burnuses from a piece of wool; blacksmith's daughter: I would give birth to two sons ( one temple is silver, the other is gold; the other has teeth made of pearls and diamonds) and a daughter who would shine brighter than the sun; the sultan married the daughter of a blacksmith; when she was about to give birth, two former wives agreed with the midwife Settoute, who replaced the boy with a puppy and let him go to sea in a box; the same year later with the second boy; a year later with the girl; after that, the Sultan ordered his wife to be kept on chains together with dogs, fed like a dog; the children were picked up by a poor fisherman; Gabriel appeared to him and said that God would take care of their food; when he died, the fisherman left the grown children with a powerful amulet: golden bits Baba-Morjan; he should be addressed, "You, who are spirit and wind at the same time"; he took them to their father's town; the evil wives guessed everything, asked S. to help; she came to the girl and said that she did not have enough mares with 10 foals; amulet: she is beyond the 7 seas, her front legs are lightning, her hind legs are winds; you have to drive a golden pile (pieu) in the yard, there will be a mare with foals in the morning; S.: Hadd-Ezzine is missing (ideal beauty); amulet: she is among seven mountains under the protection of seven gulas; you have to sit on one of those foals and slip between the crashing mountains; each gulya needs to shave his beard, comb it, let the mirror look at himself, then they will become your friends; HE first hit the young man off his horse and he lay for 40 days, but then agreed to go with him; wedding, feast; the amulet created all kinds of dishes in abundance; the sultan invited Brothers and sister and HE to yourself; HE: We won't touch food before you call all your wives; the sultan has to bring the dog-kept one, washed and dressed up; HE tells her everything tell; the sultan is happy; the wives were burned, S. was torn by two camels]: 52-64; Scelles-Milles 1963 (Souf) [the king keeps his seven sons in the palace, wanting to protect them from all the bad things in the world; they are given boneless meat, unshelled almonds, skinless watermelons; once a black maid forgot to take out the bones; the young men began to play by throwing the dice at each other, broke the window and saw the outside world; the maid to tell everything about birth, love, death; sent to his father asking him to let them go; the king married his sons; his daughters-in-law annoyed him, he decided to get rid of them; the Jew advised him to influence sick, let the sons bring their wives blood; six wives were killed, and the youngest Ali brought gazelle blood, ran away with his wife; they came to the house of 40 blind gulas; they cooked 40 cakes and 40 servings of meat; Ali quietly took one; the ghuli got into a fight, Ali killed them and threw them into the well; the wife heard a groan, pulled out and hid one guli who had just been wounded; the ghoul advised that Ali be sent for golden rejuvenating apples; the old woman teaches Ali: you have to slip between the crushing mountains; have time to jump over the garden fence (as soon as the wall sees Ali's horse, it will start growing); picking apples, jump away without turning around; Ali a little turned to his voice, the horse's tail was cut off; the old woman told her to give her the rejuvenating apples and his wife to bring the usual ones; the ghoul advised Ali to play chess for a living; Ali let his wife win, believing that it was a joke, but she killed him, put pieces of his body in a bag, attached his horse to the saddle, and told the horse to jump to where he came from; the old woman put the pieces together, but the heart and liver were missing; she sent the cat to the ghoul, she brought her heart and liver; the old woman revived Ali with the juice of rejuvenating apples; he came to the guli under the gul disguised as a dervish, killed him at night, stabbed his wife, returned to the old woman; she turned the cat into beautiful, Ali married her, returned to his father, who gave him the throne]: 313-316.

Southern Europe. Sicilians [someone steals apples from the royal garden; the eldest son guards, falls asleep; the same middle son; the youngest cuts off his hand that stretches through the fences; in the morning the brothers see a well, only the youngest decided to go down; killed the sleeping giant, freeing three princesses; the brothers pick them up on a rope; when the young man should get up, they cut off the rope, but he tied a stone; the younger princess must wait for him a year, a month and a day; the old king is blind with grief, he will be cured by Fata Morgana's water; the brothers went to look, they didn't find it; in the lower world, a horse (this is FM's brother) teaches his younger brother to put an iron rod in gates that open and slam shut; a roll of wet paper into moving scissors; throw half a goat to two lions; FM water is its sweat flowing from a source; near grenades, it is necessary pick three fruits; the young man did everything and also went to the castle, kissed the sleeping FM; FM and the lions are chasing, but the horse tells me to throw grenades; they turn into a river, mountain, mountain of fire; FM returns; young man meets the brothers, they take away a bottle of water, the king sees the light, divides the kingdom between his eldest sons; the youngest is imprisoned with the horse; he orders to beat and cut it; a young man appears - FM brother; younger smashes enemies, forgives brothers, but takes the kingdom for himself; is FM, recognizes the young man as the one who kissed her, marries her brother to the boy's sister]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 36 : 234-242.

Western Asia. The Phoenicians [Nonn of Panopolitan, second half of the 5th century AD, Acts of Dionysus, song 40: In Tyre, Dionysus addresses Hercules Astrochiton in the temple; he appears to him in a star robe; D. asks who founded Tyre; Astrocheton's story: a tribe of earthborn, peers of the world, sleepy; A. tells them to find moving rocks, sacrifice an eagle on them, after which the rocks will stop, and establish a city there; the earthborn do all this; A. gives D. his star attire goodbye]: Zakharova, Torshilov 2003:247.

Australia. Vurageri and neighboring groups [on a rope, the deceased rises to heaven, where totems and ancestors live; crawls through the hole like mythical creatures of the beginning of time; the edges of the hole are continuous move, opening a narrow slit from time to time; the dead sees two guards - a month-old man on one side, a Sunwoman on the other; the long penis of the Month is wrapped around his waist, the Sun's long clitoris blocks the fire, which is a source of warmth and daylight; if the deceased is not afraid, he goes to where the two first ancestors Ngintungintsu and Gunababa begin to question him, but he must be silent; they dance, erect their penises and try to make him laugh with their song; he shouldn't even move an eyebrow; then women dance an erotic dance, but he doesn't have to do anything again react; (shamans talk about similar challenges when visiting the heavenly world); then the deceased meets Bayami and his wife, whose body is like rock crystal]: Berndt, Berndt 1964:413.

Melanesia. Kiwai [a sick woman tells how her soul made it to the world of the dead Adiri; two pillars along the edges of the path collide and disperse every now and then; they let her pass; the dead have all the fruit and food blue, red and white; the woman's late husband told her to return alive; another man also went to Adiri, passing between the pillars; the first dead Sído gave him a girlfriend; if he were with she got together, would forget about home; but he was thinking about returning and S. sent it back]: Landtman 1927:289-290.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Central Carolinas {Truk County?} [the sky is like an inverted cauldron with a jagged edge that constantly rises and falls; meteors are the souls of people flying to the other side of the sky when the edge rises; if a meteor falls a sound is heard, which means that the soul has been crushed and its owner will die]: Goodenough 1953:4; Gilbert [the Tabakea sorcerer is the strongest on the island, and the Bakoa shark is at sea; B. went to the island and saw an old woman who daughters Nei Winaba and Nei Wiriki (the eldest); B. chose the eldest as his wife; T. also came to that woman and married his youngest daughter; the eldest has many children at sea, and the youngest is childless; goes to ask her sister Bakoariki's eldest son for upbringing; it was known that this son would bring misfortune, so he was not cared for; Ney Vinab's path is blocked twice by a palm tree, but the girl says it's T., a palm tree disappears; Ney Vinaba brings the boy ashore, T. tells the spirits to take care of him, he quickly grows up to be a giant; his real mother has come to protect him, because her husband Bakoa and the sharks are going to eat him; Ney Vinaba leads her sister and the Bacoarics along a dangerous road to die; 1) two huge shells, people opened them, they slammed shut, killing people, Bacoarics breaks shells; 2) two in the sea the rocks collide and disperse, the Bakoariki breaks them; 3) a huge squid grabs him, he is powerless, asks Her Viriki to help, she shouts T., he sends the beast Kekenu, he defeats the squid; Bakoa tells Bakoarica to eat and drink a lot, otherwise he will kill her; the beast Keken eats everything in the dark; Bakoa lets in a poisonous centipede, Bakoariki kills her; Bakoa invites his son to dance so that at this time kill, but he sings, making the beast's song huge, he eats all the predatory fish, eats Bakoarica's mother; Bacoariki spared his father and returned to T. with his adoptive mother and Keken; he is disappointed that The Bacoarics didn't kill Bakoa, became a small insect and made Kekena tiny too; sharks still hate humans]: Koch 1966:48-52; Marquise [Kena leaves his wife; she tries to follow him then rushes into the abyss; he marries his cousin; she is killed; K.'s mother helps him descend into the lower world; at the entrance there are interpreting rocks; companion K., holding on to the end of his loincloth, crushed; the mistress of the lower world tells K. to wash and dress his wife, put it in the basket, not open it for 10 days; at first he breaks the ban; the second attempt is successful]: Handy 1930:117-120 (retelling in Blixen 1987: 261-266, in Beckwith 1970:149, in Poignant 1967:64).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans []: Lorimer 1931:109-110; Amdo Tibetans [King Carker tells the forest to converge when Geser goes through it; the gap between trees narrows, G. slips through, only pressed the horse's tail; then the two stones converge and diverge; G. advises them to go far away to get off the run; slips, the stones hit each other, broke]: Potanin 1893:30; lepcha [(local version of "Geser"; see motif L15E); after destroying mung (evil spirit) Ca Shang, who covered the sun with his wings (see motif C19), gye bu (GB) flew his horse to Cong country, where he ruled beautiful su mu mung (SMM); on the way, two mountains that almost reach the sky converging and diverging, many animals and birds are crushed; the horse carries GB over the mountains; su mu ming makes GB become her husband, otherwise he will eat; after putting GB to sleep, sends his horse to fetch water, hanging buckets on nails hammered into the horse's shoulders; gave birth to a son from GB (GB himself continues to sleep); Sacung (S., GB wife), who stayed at home, wrote blood on a handkerchief that hor mu mung (HMM) sent two birds to take it to him; sent a green bird to take the handkerchief to her husband; SMM intercepted the letter, wrote on behalf of GB for S. to agree to HMM's request; then The second, third time; at this time, the HMM warriors killed everyone; the bird told S. who responded to the letters; S. ordered to give the new one only to GB; the bird defecated in GB's mouth, GB woke up, wrote S.; S. hid among the statues; sand was thrown in their faces, the imaginary statue blinked; S. asked his two heavenly aunts to sew her vagina; HMM thinks his penis is too big, tells some to cut it off, but still not enter ; S. years weaving; but GB still isn't; she fumigates her vulva with smoke from chicken and dog excrement, the threads go apart; becomes HMM's wife; since then she has washed only half of her body, weaving a cloth of black and white stripes; GB replaced the vessels with the broth, SMM drinks sleeping pills itself; the GB horse tells him to kill him, turns into the best, tells two SMM horses to cut the tendons; do not turn around when SMM calls; SMM flies next on the drum; throws a knife, but he only hit the GB horse's leg above the hoof, since then the horses have a groove; SMM cut off her son's head, threw it into GB, carried the body back; then the L15E motive]: Siiger 1967, No. 1 : 203-214.

Burma - Indochina. Karen [in the west, two layers of rocks converge and diverge continuously; at sunset, the sun slips between them]: Mason 1865:234; Pao [Natu all obey, but they don't want rice and fire; Nat invites them to hide: if they find them, they must obey; the rice hid at the bottom of the sea behind the crushing mountains, and the fire is in bamboo; Nat did not find them; but the sparrow noticed where the drawing was hiding, and the grasshopper did where the fire went; the grasshopper looked so intently that his eyes rolled out; told Nat to cut the bamboo, now people are carving fire out of bamboo; the sparrow found a fish that told me exactly where it was rice (this fish has a white head, the husk fell on its head); the sparrow swam between the crushing mountains; they managed to close, then the sparrow's stomach moved to its back; since then, sparrows believe that rice can always eat]: Zapadova 1977:263-266; ahem: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 8 [an orphan young man lived with an old man, hunted birds, saw bird girls going down to swim, fell in love with the youngest, who arrived last; the old man advised him to hide her wings; he hid them in the quiver; at first he could not defeat the girl, found strength by chewing on the bethel given by the old man, tied them with this old man with a rope; took the heavenly maiden as his second wife, she gave birth to a child; looking up, she saw her wings hidden under the roof, put them on, flew away, returned to the child, invited her aunt to fly, but she only jumped and fell; flew away altogether; the domestic monkey put a wand in the dog's paw to show the owner which way the wife had flown; the dog had seven tails, it led the owner and the monkey to the river ; the young man put his sword in the jets, the river parted, forming two channels; there are seven of them in total; the dog told me to hold on to its tail, not to laugh, otherwise the tail will come off; the young man and the monkey laugh every time the dog makes an indecent sound, another tail comes off; when there is only one tail left, the dog went home, but the young man and the monkey stayed; the last stream crossed the body of the river dragon lying across the body; came to the Foot of Heaven rock, where the door opens and closes; the monkey began to throw fruits from the tree, the young man threw them into the hole in the rock, the rock stopped; they climbed the rock to the banyan (ficus), there the monkey said that he did not know beyond the road, returned; the young man saw two big birds, one said to the other that she would fly to peck for buffalo meat at the festival in honor of the return of the virgin bird; the young man carved a feather one bird, hid in a hole with his child, the birds flew to the field where buffalo bones were thrown away, the young man went out; there was a river, the women replied that they had come to bathe the bird girl for water; a young man threw bracelets and necklaces into the jug, asked her to pour the jug over the girl's head; she recognized her things; at the party, the young man pinched the child, the wife recognized his son's cry; all three returned to earth, the house was there for it overgrown with vines], 9 [the hunter saw seven parrot girls go down to the pond to swim; hid the youngest's clothes; she agreed to marry him; 10 years later asked for permission for 7 days go to his mother, left the ring and the monkey; 7 days later, the hunter went to look for his wife; the monkey jumped across the river with him; there were crushing rocks along the edges of the path; the young man until then threw sour fruits at them, until they stopped; he came when his wife was being married; threw her ring, it sat on her finger; she rushed to her husband, fell on a knife, died]: 294-298, 299-300; Thais [Prince Chau Nedi I came to the lake, there are 7 peacock girls, he hid his youngest's clothes, brought her into the house with his wife, her name is Namarona; the vizier wanted to pass off his daughter as an emergency, persuaded the neighboring king to attack, the emergency went to war; The vizier spread the rumor that the enemies have won, and the witch N. is to blame; before her execution, she asks for permission to dance in her clothes, flies away; the emergency returned victorious, went to look for his wife; she gave her bracelet to the hermit, ordered him to tell her husband and tell him about the road; the hermit gave a tame monkey as his companions; the snake lay down a bridge over the hot river, even the sword melted in the short; the arrow fired pushed the interpreters apart mountains, travelers managed to slip through; cannibal birds got into the hollow, they ate the monkey, did not notice the emergency; he hid in the feather of one of them, the bird brought him to the kingdom, where the peacock sisters; the emergency threw the ring in the bucket of maid N.; she is happy, but her father offers tests: 1) break the stone that dammed the river with an arrow (the emergency broke; 2) recognize his wife's finger when 7 sisters put their fingers into the holes (on a firefly sat down a finger); Emergency and N. returned home]: Kornev 1963:35-51; Vietnam's white thai [a poor orphan cuts firewood for sale; sees seven heavenly maidens descend to the lake, take off their clothes and wings, bathe; hides the youngest's wings; takes her as his wife; a year later she gives birth to a son; in the absence of his wife, the father calms the crying child by giving him the mother's wings to play; once the mother is left alone as a child, he cried and pointed to where the woodcutter hid his wings; the mother finds them, after a while flies away, giving her son her ring and telling his father to come to her if they want; the husband put her son on back, went to look for his wife; the way through the mouth in the rock, which closes and then opens; The fox advises throwing sour fruits there, the teeth hurt, the movement of the mouth will stop for a while; father and son they pass; on the way a river with nine channels, in which even iron dissolves; a dog with nine tails and nine heads promises to transport if riders do not laugh in the middle of the river; in the middle of each channel the dog makes an indecent sound, father and son laugh, one head and one tail fall off; before the last crossing, a person ties himself and his son with a handkerchief, they reach the shore; since then, all dogs one head and one tail, it used to be nine; the phoenix offers to spend the night under his wing, and in the morning he and his mother will bring them to the place where they celebrate the princess's return from land; the phoenix's mother brought them to the river bordering the sky; the maids collect water to bathe the princess, the husband throws a ring into the jug; the wife recognizes him, tells him to call the visitors; her father suggests 1) tie each of the 300 buffaloes to the pole to which it is always tied; the firefly shows who to tie; 2) sow the grain and harvest it again; the birds collected it, but the king noticed that a few grains were missing; one the bird swallowed them, the king twisted her neck, since then birds of this species have goiter on the back of their heads; 3) find a princess in a palace of one hundred thousand rooms overnight; the rat promises to bring a dry leaf under the right door, but It is eaten halfway by a cat; then a firefly leads to the right room; the king arranges a wedding, then sends the young to earth, where the son-in-law also becomes king]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 11:311-316; (cf. ahem [an orphan serves the ruler; he asks for a massage every time, promising to tell stories of bygone days, but falls asleep and says nothing; the spirits decide to punish the ruler for this , the massage therapist hears this; 1) whips his horse to slip through the gate before the spirits slam them shut; 2) the same before the ruler is crushed by a broken ficus branch; 3) kills three with a sword Boas sent to eat the ruler and his wife; a drop of snake blood drips on the ruler's wife; an orphan licks her, the ruler accuses him of an attempt on her honor, takes him to court; the orphan tells everything; later gets rid of the ruler, takes his wife]: Lindell et al. 1978, No. 13:108-111).

South Asia. Hinduism [the nagas kidnapped Garuda's mother, demanded Amritu's drink of immortality as a ransom; G. flew to the gods, eating an elephant and a huge turtle along the way; scattered them to the sides the gods guarding Amrita and flew up to the bowl; a rotating wheel lined with blades prevented her from taking it; G. turned into a bird, slipped between the blades, carried away the bowl; threw the two dragons guarding it at sand eyes; Indra caught up with G., who promised to return Amrita to him, deceive him; while they were bathing, getting ready to drink a drink, G. took the cup back; snakes became immortality when they licked the grass, on which the bowl stood, their tongues have doubled since then]; Buddhism [The teacher tells the prince to go northwest until he sees two mountains pounding and rumbling against each other, dardara ; the Dardara fortress should be founded there]: Jataki 2003, No. 422:35.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Negrito Malaya {semangs?} [Tapern lives in the sky; a huge snake lies on the path to his house Taperna; makes ornamented mats for him; inside the snake are beautiful female Chinoi (spirit category); C.- a man must slip between mats that close and open; then inject into a snuffbox, the lid of which closes and opens; after that, he can choose a beautiful woman]: Evans 1937:145; Java: Kratz 1973, No. 9 [half man (vertically) goes to the Sun to ask him to give him a full body; the Sun replies that the cloud is more powerful than him, let him turn to it; the cloud sends him to the wind, to the mountain, to the porcupine that digs a hole, to the dog that the porcupine is afraid of, to the man the dog is afraid of; the man says that it is necessary to ask the Lord; the half meets Haji , who has been sitting on a stone all his life and wiping it; he asks to know where in paradise is prepared for him and how many gurias he is entitled to; meets a penitent robber, who asks him to know where hell is He is prepared; a man who cuts bamboo senselessly, he drives Half away; Half wants to pick a pomegranate, but all the pomegranates vied with each other, the Half cannot choose, leaves; two ponds are full, and dry between them, fish jump from one extreme pond to another without noticing the dry one; the Lord shows a place in paradise prepared for the repentant, a place in hell for the haji; scissors at the entrance, who cut a person who enters hell into pieces; two ponds - rich who do not notice the poor; chopping bamboo does useless work; grenades are people who serve rulers; tell you not to go looking around across a long bridge; Half reaches the ground, finds a full body; tells the robber and Hajji what the Lord showed him]: 57-66; Raats 1970:87; Malays [in Malay folklore, the Simlegad motif is jaws or interpreting rocks]: Raats 1970 [to enter heaven, the Semar god must avoid the Symptoms]: 87; Toraja: Adriani 1915 in Bezemer 1904 [(bare- Toraja); when they go to work on the field, the parents tell their son Tandani and his brother to cook for their return; but they play all day every time; finally, the mother did not let the children into the house, pushing T. down the stairs ; the brothers ran away; the mother tried to catch up with them and asked them to come back; T. threw peas behind several times, the mother collected them, wasting time; T. asked for "gaping rocks" {gähnenden Felsen: obviously interpreting rocks} skip them, the rocks missed them; the mother of the rock was cut in half: one half became a goat, the other a pig; the brothers reached the fruit tree; T. climbed upstairs, began to throw fruit to his brother, drive them away a pig who came up; did not know that it was his mother; threw her a fruit with a sharp leaf stalk; the pig swallowed it and died; the brothers came to the old man and the old woman; T. spoke about the killed pig, asked feed his brother; the old man smeared the boy's mouth with blood, took his meat, left his brothers bones; on the way to old man T. quietly put the meat into his basket, and put stones in the old man's basket; at home, the old man became dump the contents into the cauldron - it flows; the old man thinks that the bone has pierced it; so with all the cauldrons; then he noticed that there were stones in the basket; in the morning, the old men with two dogs rushed after the boys; those climbed a tree above the river; the old man noticed their reflection; climbed a tree, saying to his wife: if "hrums" falls, it's me, and if it's "flop", it's T., let the dogs down on him; T.: open your mouth, I'll throw something; old man opened his mouth, T. threw a hot stone at him, the old man fell, his wife thinks it was T., let the dogs down, they bit to death the old man; she climbed herself, hurt herself against thorns and died]: 348-352; Adriani, Kruyt 1950, No. 42 [( Eastern Toraja; not known everywhere, but only in Meerstreek); on the way of the deceased, two heavy stones crashing against each other; if they do not want to miss the soul, they emit thunder and lightning; soul sirih-pinang throws them, manages to slip through while the stones diverge; a barking dog and a scratching cat are waiting on the path; whoever is afraid of them must wait for the heavenly inhabitants to drive the animal away]: 470.

Taiwan - Philippines. Bagobo (Mindanao): Benedict 1913, No. 2 [Lumabat quarreled with his sister (who has become the mistress of the lower world), decides to go to heaven, takes siblings with him; on the way, stones and trees ask where they go; those who answered themselves became stones, trees; as soon as people approach, the edge of the sky begins to clang against the ends of the earth like jaws; L. slipped through, everyone else is shredded, turned into stones sand; L. sees sinners suffering in the sky; Diwata carved his insides, making him God himself (the gods do not feel hungry); when food is needed, just call for food, fish appears; L. became chief God; his brother Wari, who remained on earth, followed, also slipped between the ends of the earth and the sky; but did not want his insides to be taken out, cried when he saw his house and field below; God descends him on rope with dogs and food; tells you not to eat until he reaches the ground; otherwise the dogs will gnaw, he will let go of the rope; as it happened, V. fell on a tree, became a kulago bird (like an owl- barn owl, Aluco candidus), whose cry portends bad things; she has feathers, hair, hair of all birds, animals, people; three dogs from the sky ran to the house of V.'s sister and two brothers; sister and brother got married, they many descendants (retelling beginning in Raats 1970:38, brief in Hatt 1949:79)]: 21-23; Cole 1913 [LumáBet and his people are chasing a deer, they ran around the earth 9 times, finally killed; they went for a sea where the sky constantly rises above the ground and hits it; L. promises that if Sky lets it through, it can eat the last one; the last one trying to run under the edge of the sky is crushed]: 126 -127; Juan Mengengati ("The Birdcatcher") went after the birds, saw four heavenly maidens go down to the pond to swim, hid one of them's clothes, she went with him; one day she found the key from the chest in which he hid her feather clothes; put it on, flew away, leaving her daughter; HM went to look for his wife; the north, the south, some other wind, some bird, the crow replied that they would not be able to get up to the sky; he found a philodendron growing to the sky, climbed it to the moon; she said that on the way to her father, a rock that closes and opens; he slipped; in the golden palace was a wife with her older sisters; her mother told her to go to her husband, advised her to take a skinny horse; on it, XM and his wife left the chase; on the seashore, the horse turned into a coconut palm tree, then into a rock, into grass; returned home safely]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 5:85-93.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece. 1) Phineas advises the Argonauts to first let a dove between the rocks. The rocks cut off the tip of his tail; Argo passed, only the aft figures were damaged. The rocks are frozen because they cannot move after at least one ship has passed between them (Apol.:20) 2) In the story of Odysseus' adventures, the cliffs swim in the sea near Charybdis and Scylla (Myth 2:245); Grimm 1883 [Athen.4,325-6: "Pleiades, like doves, bring Zeus ragweed, but one of them dies every time passing through the Plankts, and Zeus replaces her with a new one]: 728; Moldovans [after the death of his parents, three brothers separate; the youngest spends the night in a tree, hears the devils talking; one sent a pestilence to the cattle, the medicine is acacia seed; the other has sent a drought - you have to plunge a spear between two mountains With pubic swatters, the water will return to the wells; the third sent the disease to the princess - you need to make a worm tincture, give me a drink; the guy cured the cattle, plunged his spear between the crushing mountains, cured the princess, married and received the award; he told the brothers about everything, they climbed the tree, the devils tore them to pieces]: Moldavian tales 1968:361-366; Romanians [young Floria did good to the king of storks, he gave the pen to summon him, promised to help; the king orders to get living and dead water; its source is at the foot of the crushing mountains; the stork king convened his people; only a lame and crooked stork visited the crushing mountains, where he was maimed; he flew there; the swallow tells me to wait until noon when the mountains stop for half an hour; the stork filled two bottles, and when he returned, the mountains cut off his tail feathers; when the stork returned, the others became laugh at his sight; the stork king told them all to lose their tail, since then the storks have not had one]: Gaster 1915, No. 86:263-266; Romanians [the king has three daughters and he must send his son to Red The king; daughters take turns summoning to put on men's clothes and go; in the shoes of a bear, the father frightens the eldest, she turns back; the same with the middle one; the youngest is not afraid; at court, the imaginary young man cooks better royal sons and made by a cook; envious sons tell their father that the young man boasted to bring dates from the bear garden; the horse helps to do this; it is said that the young man promised to bring the stallion out of the herd wild mares in the Sahara; the horse tells him to put buffalo skin on him and give him a loop; fighting a stallion, throws a noose over him and brings him alive and dead water from behind the crushing mountains; the horse says that at noon the mountains stop for a while; the girl has extracted water, but hears a voice behind her: whoever does this will change his sex; get a tour with a star on her forehead; the horse tells me to dig a hole, hide in it, jumping out , cut off the tour's head and sit in a hole until dawn until the tour dies; returning an ex-girlfriend and now a young man tells the Red King that his sons boasted in a burning haystack to sit and fairy tales tell; they burned down and the young man returns to his father and inherits the throne]: Bîrlea 1966:430-431; Greeks: Hahn 1864 (2), No. 69 (Syros) [at night at work, the older sister says she wanted to would marry the royal cook, the middle cook as the treasurer, the youngest as the prince and give birth to him three children, the Sun, the Month and the Morning Star; the prince in disguise stood outside the window and heard and fulfilled the wishes of the sisters; went to war, leaving his wife pregnant; mother-in-law told the midwife to throw her children into the river, replacing her puppy, kitten and mouse; the midwife put the babies in the basket; the shepherd noticed that one goat returns with an empty udder; found three children, raised them, put them in a tower; mother-in-law sent her daughter-in-law to the chicken coop, and the prince no longer asked about his wife; once he saw a tower, a girl in the window, near the tower two young men tame horses; the prince thought that his children should be like that; the mother told the prince that he had seen elves; scolded the midwife, ordered the survivors to be killed; she came disguised as a beggar and told the girl that she was missing a branch that produced music; the brothers went in search; the monk she met explained that two dragons were guarding the branch; at midnight they would fall asleep and should be shot in their mouths; the brothers killed the dragons, brought a branch; when the king saw the young man, the king rejoiced, and the mother again said that they were elves; the midwife persuades the girl to ask the brothers to get an all-seeing mirror; the monk: his 40 dragons are guarded, they take turns sleeping; their brothers killed them all, brought a mirror; midwife: the bird Dikjeretto is missing; when she looks in the mirror, she talks about what all people in the world in the world say in any language; the brothers left their sister on the shirt: if they turn black, they are in trouble; the monk refused to help - why does the girl send her brothers to death out of a whim; they went to the bird and she turned them into stone; the shirts turned black, the sister went to look for the brothers; the monk: you have to undress naked, go to the bird from behind and grab it by the legs; the caught bird told me to go for live water between the crushing rocks; the girl slipped through, the rocks tore off only a piece of her dress; the sister revived the brothers, they all returned, the shepherd had a feast; the prince came, the girl showed him a branch, a mirror and a bird; the prince called them to her place; the bird ordered to take it with you and let the girl invite the prince to try what she cooked: eggplants, and diamonds inside; prince: how eggplants can have diamonds; poultry: how can a woman give birth a puppy, a kitten and a mouse? the bird told me everything; the prince returned his wife from the chicken coop; the midwife was beheaded, the queen was burned]: 47-58; Megas 1970, No. 33 [the tsar sails on a ship, finds himself on a foreign shore, comes to the shepherd; baptizes his newborn son; leaves a ring and a note; it does not tell him to accompany a lame, blind, beardchin; the young man goes to look for the godfather; takes a lame, blind man, but they are slow, he leaves them behind; the beardless offers to let him down to get water into the well; takes after an oath that he will give him a ring and a note, will remain silent to death; the king sends the young man to herd the cows, accepts a deceiver for his son; a young man understands the language of birds and animals, laughs at swallows; the deceiver persuades the king to send him to bring him 1) a Pipiree bird from India; the maid teaches you to fly a flying horse, avoid fire, the young man brings the bird; 2) bring the Gold-haired; the maid explains what to take with him; the horse wakes up the young man, he kills the snake that devoured the eagle's chicks; she first thinks that it was the young man who killed chicks, chicks explain; the eagle gives a feather; the horse tells them not to trample ants, the young man feeds them with grain; the ant gives its wing; the young man saves the fish aground, which gives a bone; he saves bees from the water, feeds honey, they give a sting; the king promises to give his Gold-haired daughter if the young man 1) pulls out a ring thrown into the sea (the fish bring), 2) divides the mixture of different grains (ants perform), 3) brings the water of life; the eagle orders to go to the mountains, fills the young man's golden vessel with water; the king believes, ordering to kill the Moor and revive him; 4) identify the bride among 40 girls (the bee sits on her); the young man brings Gold-haired; beardless tells him to take an apple from the very top, the young man falls, breaks, buries him beardless; the gold-haired revives with living water; the young man is freed from his oath; the beardless tied to a horse's tail]: 83-93; Paton 1901, No. 21 (Lemnos) [when Princess Kyra Florou combs her hair, flowers fall off her lips; when she cries, a storm begins; when she dies, the queen tells son not to leave her sister; the old woman advises her to find a groom; tells her brother that it must be the son of King Rhodope; the monk tells the guardian animals of the three gates to throw at the sheep; ask the one who rises and the descending sword to stop for a moment; not to answer the king's question who he is; the king finds a portrait of CF, promises to send ships for her; her brother warns that her sister will turn into an eel in the sea, will sail away; the CF is washed into a glass box; the old woman is forced to accompany her, throws KF into the sea, is replaced by her ugly daughter; the prince is forced to marry her, but her brother is placed in shackles; A year later, he asks for permission to walk along the seashore; an eel sister wraps around his neck, tells him to kill her, cook her, let the king eat her, bury his bones, a rose bush will grow, the old woman tells him to cut it down, it is necessary to save the trunk; when he comes to the monk, the brother hits the trunk with an ax, the sister revives; combs her hair, falls beads; with this money, the young man builds a new monastery, gives gifts to the king; at the feast, the CF is the king and his son; wedding; the old woman is cut into pieces, scattered across the field with a horse in her saddle bag; the old woman's daughter is sent to the kitchen]: 203-207; Albanians [the king spent the night with a rich Wallachian a shepherd; that night the mistress gave birth; the king ordered the boy to learn tongues and give a cross; when the young man was 15, let him come to him and show him the cross; the young man grew up, went to the king, went down to to the spring; the servant, threatening to throw a stone at him, forced him to change his clothes and status; swear that the young man would not expose him; he promised that he would be released from his oath only by dying and being resurrected; king graciously received the deceiver, and the young man was among the servants; the deceiver pretended to be sick, asked his servant (i.e. young man) to be sent for cabbage, which Luby would be guarded; in a dream, an elder appeared to the young man; ordered him to take 14 measures of honey, 14 milk and come at noon when Luby is not at home; on the way, the young man met that old man; he teaches: clean the walls of the tone in Luby's house, hide, leave honey and milk; Luby will eat and ask show the one who brought such a dish; ask for cabbage; eat three legs, and he, the old man, will give a head of cabbage for the deceiver on the way back; that's what happened; the deceiver pretended to be sick again: get the Beauty of the Earth; the old man tells the king to give him a thousand lambs, rams, a hundred measures of wheat and honey and 10 brooms; we must throw lambs to eagles, wheat to ants, honey to bees, rams to lions, and clean them walls and doors to the chambers of the Beauty of the Earth with brooms; animals will ask what reward the young man would like; ask lions, bees, ants and fur fishing, feather, etc.; if you burn hair, etc.; if you burn hair, etc., the animals will come to help; the Beauty of the Earth asks the guards why they did not stop the young man; guards: you did not feed us like this, did not clean us; she tells the young man to separate the mixture of wheat, barley, rye and land overnight (ants separated); bring live water from behind the rolling mountains (eagles: at noon, the mountains stop for half an hour; they brought a young man who collected water and they brought him back); identify her among the 12 girls (a bee sat on it); the deceiver asks the king to kill the young man, he did it himself; the Beauty of the Earth sent a servant to bring the victim, revived him with living water; the young man was able to tell the king everything; the deceiver was torn apart by four trees; the young man went to visit his parents, leaving the king's wife the robe he had bought for the Beauty of the Earth; ordered not to give it to her until he returned; there were dances and the Beauty of the Earth refused to participate without this garment; the youngest the king's daughter secretly handed it to her; she tells the young man that he will find her after wearing out three pairs of iron shoes; after wearing out his shoes, he stopped in a tavern, where they feed for free: you just have to talk about seen along the way; one man described how he dropped a bottle of water, went down into the ravine and saw 12 girls bathing; the young man went to the ravine, grabbed his wife's clothes and threw it into the fire; the beauty was left with boys forever]: Dozon 1991, No. 12:83-96; Albanians [the sister's three brothers are married to the Sun, Month and South; they decide to visit them; they spend the night three times, each time one brother guards the other's sleep; the eldest killed the lamia, did not tell the brothers about it; the same middle one; the youngest too, but the lamia managed to extinguish the fire with his tail; the young man sees the light in the distance, goes there; on the way he meets the mother of the night, asks her to prolong the darkness ; she promises to do it, but he does not believe it and binds her; when he goes to the light source, he sees a huge cauldron with 12 ears standing on fire; picked it up, lit the torch, and put it in place; 12 robbers are amazed By force: they can only raise the cauldron together; they led the young man to rob the king; after breaking through the wall, they climbed into the stable; the young man stayed outside; raised the alarm, cut off the heads of the robbers as they they got out; left their knife there; on the way back he freed the mother of the night; the king found the dead robbers and the knife; ordered a tavern where food was free, but let everyone tell us that did; the elder and middle brothers told how each killed the lamia, the youngest also about the robbers; the king gave his daughter for him; on the occasion of the royal wedding, they released the prisoners; half of them were iron; the young man persuaded the king to release him too; as soon as the king broke his shackles, the monster swallowed the princess and flew away; the young man asks the king to give iron shoes and a staff, promises to return the princess in a year; comes to sister, whose husband is the Sun; she hid her brother, the Sun senses a man, but promises not to touch her brother-in-law; advises to ask the Month; he sends to the South; the South also does not know where the Iron Man directs to a huge falcon, tells him to come up from behind and threaten to slaughter him if he does not tell him where the Iron Man is; the falcon tells him to cook meat and fix its wings - he is too old; they are flying to a high mountain The young man cut off the last piece of meat from his thigh; when he reached, the falcon regurgitated the piece and grew it back; the wife hid the young man, but the iron man found him, drank blood, and spit out his skin and bones; the falcon saw flew between the crushing mountains, took swallows in his beak of milk, revived the young man with it; he taught his wife to pretend to be dead and ask her husband where his strength is; iron; in a broom; the wife burned a broom, but nothing happened; pretended to be sick again; iron: there is a boar on the mountain, he has a silver fang, a hare in his fang, there are three pigeons in the hare, they are strong; the young man came to the shepherd, began to ask about the boar, he heard, young man began to fight him; boar: I would like to sharpen my fangs racine de gouet; young man: I would have flour, fried fish and wine; the shepherd brought everything, the young man killed the boar, took out pigeons; twisted his heads, the young man came to to the iron man, killed the third, the iron died; the falcon brought the young man and princess to the king; everyone is happy]: Dozon 1991, No. 15:121-134; the Bosnians [when dying, the father tells three sons to extradite their three sisters for the first to come for them; the elders do not go to give their sisters to strangers, the younger Mula-Mustafa gives them away; the brothers go to look for them; they spend the night by the lake, the first night they are guarded by the older brother, from the lake a dragon crawls out, a young man cuts off his head, cuts off his ears, throws his head and body into the lake; on the second night, the same middle brother is a double-headed dragon; in the third MM, a three-headed dragon; when he threw his body into the lake, in a wave the fire is flooded; MM sees fire in the distance, comes to the fire of giants; they will give fire if MM kills the sultan in Istanbul; the giant takes MM to the Sultan's chambers, but MM kills the giant himself, takes the ring Sultan, leaves; the awakened sultan orders to find his savior, to arrange inns where to ask visitors about their adventures; three brothers meet in such a courtyard, they say what happened to them, they recognize each other; the Sultan gives his daughter to MM; after leaving, he tells them not to unlock the room where Atesch Perischa; MM unlocks, AP takes his wife (i.e. the Sultan's daughter); MM goes in search; comes to the tower, where the older sister is married to the king of ravens; the raven sends to the middle sister, she sends the dragon king, the youngest to the king of eagles; the king of eagles convenes eagles, only one old sick can deliver MM to AP, but first it must swim in living water, between rocks that open once a year; MM feeds the eagle with rams, the eagle has time to rejuvenate before the rocks slam shut ; AP comes on a three-legged horse; in his absence, MM negotiates with his wife to find out what AP's life is like; he says he's in a broom, in a tube, in a mug; MM tells his wife to decorate them every time; AP admits that in a three-legged horse; whoever kills a mare coming out of the lake once a year and takes her foal will defeat him; he himself did not kill a mare, but wounded a foal, so he is three-legged; MM killed, took a foal, his wife gave him cow milk, he became a powerful horse; MM killed AP, put his wife on a three-horse, returned with her to the Sultan]: Schütz 1960, No. 4:31-48; Bosnians [in Istanbul, the sultan na the month has forbidden lighting a fire; the servants noticed a light; in the hut three sisters are spinning by candlelight; asking each other what they could do to make the Sultan forgive them; the eldest: I will weld hominy for the whole army; medium: a hundred pieces of cloth to dress the whole army; youngest: I will face a daughter with golden hair and pearl teeth and a son with a golden hand; the sultan ordered the sisters to be brought; the first two failed to fulfill the promise and he sent them home and married the youngest; when she was giving birth, the other wives were afraid that they would be ignored; the elder Badscha told the woman in labor that she should be blindfolded as a custom; changed the children puppies; everyone advised to tear a woman in labor with horses, but one person to wait for the Serbian patriarch; patriarch: bury her waist-deep in manure and starve her; she was buried at the crossroads so that each of those who passed through it spit; B. put the newborns in a chest and lowered them into the river, the miller and his wife found them; a month later they were so beautiful that the pitchforks took them to their mountain castle; the children grew up and realized that they themselves are not pitchforks, but people; they ran away and asked the person they met what was the best place on earth; Istanbul; at the Sultan's palace they went to bed under a fig tree and God built a better palace above them than the Sultan's; B. came and said to the girl% an invincible Moor lives in the plain; if your brother kills him, the sultan will reward him; his brother brought his head; B. there are 5 more Moors there; then 9; the same; on Mount Tman there is a horse Avgar, who is being fattened by a pitchfork; towards a giant: we were 20, but could not take possession of the horse; another giant overheard the pitchfork talking and told us how to catch a horse: leave the wineskin with water at the watering hole; when he saw wineskin, the horse looked around, the young man grabbed him by the neck and tamed him; he gave him three hairs to summon him; B.: in Jordan, a wreath of pitchfork hangs between heaven and earth, and Jordan flows between the mountains of Zmaygodia and Doxan, which constantly beating peaks against each other; the young man summoned the horse A., slipped between the mountains, took a wreath, and on the way back, the mountains snatched a piece of meat from the horse's cereal; B. let your brother get the princess from a tower covered with ducats; it turns the grooms into stones; A.'s horse brought a young man there; the horse roars like thunder, the girl was frightened and did not turn them into stones; greets the young man; asks the pitchfork how they will quickly be able to move her tower, her, the boy and the horse to Istanbul; pitchforks: 3 days; other pitchforks: 2 days; others: in a day; chose them; when they arrived, she tells the young man to wipe the face buried in manure with a handkerchief women; when the sultan sat the guest at the table, he threw a piece to the dog and she died; the sultan called B., ordered to eat a piece, she also died; the young man called the Sultan to his place; on the way home he freed his mother and brought to himself; the Sultan came, everything was clarified; when her mother stood under a wreath from Jordan, her youth and beauty returned to her, but she died of happiness; at weddings, 7 wives who helped B. were tied to horse tails]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905:99-116.

Central Europe. Russians (the place of recording is not specified) [there are two mountains in that kingdom, they diverge once a day, converge again in 2-3 minutes; between those mountains, waters are kept living and living]: Afanasiev 1985, No. 204, Var. 2:459-460 (quoted in Propp. 1986:289); Russians (no place of recording) [in Russian spiritual verses, George met "mountains" and told them to stop]: Sumtsov 1890b:19; Russians ( Terek coast) [the peasant sends three daughters to Velvet Tsarevich, to Barkhatova's mother for a debt; the elders refused, the youngest Vasilisa the Beautiful dressed up as a man, cut her hair, went; arrived, she was given a room; the mother says that she is a woman, but her son is not, a man; if in the morning there is a hump under her shoulders and a log under her back, then a woman, and if on the contrary, a man; VP hears, shook the feather bed; went to bathhouse, the Sun put her horse, he did not let B. in, she managed to wash herself; returned to her father; he asks his daughters what to bring out of town; the eldest: handkerchief, medium: dress, VP: crib with 4 doves; father only from the third trip he brought it; once the cooks did not feed two doves; at night two doves: let's carry the VP to B. Tsarevich, but the other two do not want; the next day they did not feed all the pigeons; they brought the bed with the VP to B. Tsarevich was left there, the bed crumbled, the pigeons flew away; B. Tsarevich took her as his wife; she ring against the wall: until she grows with moss, I will not talk to anyone; sometimes he talks to her husband, no mother-in-law; she gives her a basket and scissors, tells her to go cut her sheep; husband: sent to death, teaches her what to do; sit on a tall stump, leave the basket and scissors, tell the sheep to cut their hair themselves; they came running bears, wolves, foxes and all sorts of animals - cut their hair; the stump has fallen, the VP brought wool; mother-in-law sends her aunt for a bird; the husband teaches what to take with him and what to do; two mountains: let's get together and part, woman let's clamp and clamp it with a sorceress! she threw them on the whetstone; the gate (the same is resin under their heels); the dog in the hallway - meat; the pomelo - tied them with a silk belt; the broom - the same; the cat - threw him two whitefish, he began to eat them; the aunt went underground Sharpen her teeth, the VP grabbed the birdeau and ran, leaving the spits responsible for herself; when the aunt chased, all the guards say that she did not care about them, but the VP took care of them; now the mother-in-law tells me to get it whiten white clay from the fiery river; VP asks a bird with an iron nose to dive; first gives half of the wine taken with it and one and a half white bread, and when the bird takes out the clay, it gives the rest; when she returned, her husband is already marrying yaga baba; VA came, yagu-baba was shot at gate 7, VP lives with her husband]: Balashov 1970, No. 52:177-183; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [widower marries a neighbor; she makes it a condition that he gets rid of the children Ivan and Marika; he takes them to the forest, leaving the deck beating against the tree in the wind as if he were cutting wood; they returned home; next time the father took them on, children stayed in the forest; they bake wild horseradish, go to bed with their heads in different directions; bear, wolf come, are surprised at the outlandish beast, leave; in the morning there is good bread in ash; on sycamore there is a magic shirt, a gun, a saber ; I. gets them, becomes a strongman; breaks into the robber's lair, there is a princess; kills 11 robbers, the 12th pretends to be dead, I. left the body, lets the girl go to her father, leaves; the robber asks M. bring live water, pour it into the keyhole; the door opens, the robber's severed ear grows, M. takes the robber as her husband; to destroy his brother, pretends to be sick, asks for a wolf, then bear meat and other meat; the she-wolf, then the bear and other animals ask them not to kill, gives them a wolf cub, a bear cub, etc.; the robber suggests that M. send his brother to fetch water from a spring between the mountains; in noon they stop, I. took out water; bring flour from mills that grind human bones, open every 12 years; I. picks up flour, manages to jump out, doors slam shut, his animals stayed inside; M. bathes I. in fresh milk, he was confused, she tied him with horsehair, the robber took his shirt with strength; they gouged out I.'s eyes, threw him into the well; people pulled him out; he wandered through the forest, fell his head into the swamp, there was living water, he saw the light; he bought good clothes, changed clothes with his grandfather; he gave him bottles of water, one was young, the other was old; he came to M. and the robber under the guise of beggar; when they fell asleep, he took their shirt, sword, gun; ordered him to be given his pipe; he began to play, the animals escaped from the mill, ran, tore the robber; left M. two barrels to cry, one to cry for him, the other for the robber; in the neighboring kingdom of snakes locked the water; I. killed him, freed the princess, whom the gypsy was carrying the snake, cut off snake tongues, the gypsy cut off a piece from each tongue, demanded that the king's princess as a wife; at home, almost all tears are cried out for the robber; I. shows the king not the tips of his tongues, but the tongues themselves, the animals tore the gypsy, I. took the princess; M. came, poisoned I., locked the animals; those escaped, the Fox brought living water; next time M. locked her verey again, put I. pitchforks in bed; the same; the animals tore M.]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:232-243; Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [tsar he grew old; he dreamed that there was living water that turned old people into eighteen years old; older brothers went in search, took a walk; the youngest was in wooded mountains; the old man was in a hut; "If a pure soul, then let the doors open, and if the unclean one, let them crumble with poppy seeds"; the doors open; old man: there was no pure soul for 300 years; put the prince on a dove and sent him to his brother, who is 600 years old; the same, sent to brother, who is 900 years old; he sends to the princess, she sleeps, the prince took water, lay down with the princess and left a note of who he was and when he came; at the entrance there are sabers that stop only for half a minute; when The prince jumped out, they cut off the heel of his boot; the 900-year-old grandfather went to bed and told the prince to collect all the dust; he did it; the grandfather gave this dust: it would be of great benefit; the 600- and 300-year-old ; they want to hang the prince's brothers, because they owe much, but they have nothing to pay with; the prince volunteered to pay, but there was not enough money, they also wanted to hang him; he woke up some of that dust - it turned out to be money; until the youngest slept, the elders took living water and everything else, and urinated in the youngest's flask; brought water to his father, who was younger; the youngest came - the king only pinched his eyes from that "water"; the princess grew up son, wants to know who his father is; she found a note; the princess sent a letter to send her the child's father; the elder prince came; the boy: walking not on the carpets, but along the edge; he was beaten and kicked out; the same with the middle one; the brothers had to admit that they stole water from the younger one; the youngest is walking on the carpets, showing a mark on the heel of a saber; a wedding; the narrator drank a gorilka there]: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 4:15-24; Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [stepmother tells her husband to take stepdaughter and stepson to the forest; for the first time a girl sprinkles ash; father hangs a piece of wood on a tree, she knocks in the wind as if he is cutting wood and has left; brother and the sister returned on the trail; the second time there was not enough ash, the girl took dust, the wind blew her away; the boy noticed fire from the tree; brother and sister came to the fire, where there were two loaves and two eggs; then they came to the house; there are 24 robbers, 12 come at night, 12 in the afternoon; the boy cuts off everyone's head as they put her through the window; one is only wounded, asked the girl to bandage his head, married him; to get rid of her brother, the sister pretends to be sick: wolf's milk will help; now you need live water; old woman: water beyond the mountains, you have to run back; the old woman tells her to leave living water, and take the one she will give; sister: I need a sea pig; old lady: he is also over the mountains; keeps it, tells his sister to take the simple; sister: let's tie my fingers if you can tear it; came in the robber, chopped the young man into pieces, put it in a bag, threw it into the forest; the old woman's horse picked up the bag and brought it to her; she folded her body, revived it with live water; cooked the pig, let it eat, the young man I felt great strength; the old woman turned him into a bird, he flew to the robber, sat on a tree; the robber climbed to pick the bird, leaving his sword on the ground; the bird flew off, became a young man, he chopped the robber; put a bag on the horse, tied his sister alive behind the horse; the horse dragged her, trampled the robber's remains]: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 91:267-272; Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [Tsarevna gives birth to a son, parents drive her away her hands are cut off, the child is tied to her back. She wants to get drunk at the well, her son asks her to put her hands in the water - she lowers her hands, her hands grow back. They live in an empty forest house. Ivan examines the house, finds a 12-headed snake on 12 chains in the barn ("tied with a bast, but covered with feces"), the snake asks him to drink - buckets of water and blood are next to him, Ivan refuses, forbids his mother enter the barn. In his absence, she comes in, gives water to the snake, he becomes handsome, convinces her to destroy her son - send her for rings, which can be obtained by driving between two shifting mountains. On the way, Ivan enters the hut, where the girl embroiders, she gives her horse so that Ivan can get to the mountains, and by the mountains, the horse orders him to fit into his right ear. Ivan takes out a bandura from there, puts it between the mountains, the mountains stopped playing bandura, picks up his rings. The mother pretends to be sick again, sends her son for snake fat, he gets the girl's horse again, who tells me to hit the snake when he wakes up (?) , she has been "cowardly" for 11 days and dies for 12 days. Ivan cuts out lard, brings his mother, she demands bear milk, he takes the girl's horse again, the horse advises to tie his sword "ear to ear", the bear asks not to kill her, and milks milk for Ivan. The horse jumps 12 miles in one jump, Ivan sees a mother with a dove in the house (a snake turned around), a bird flies out the window, Ivan chases her, his mother asks her son to throw his sword so as not to hurt himself, he listens, a snake takes on his form, kills Ivan, throws bones in the field. He is seen by three mermaids, the girl's sisters from the hut, each of them steps over Ivan's bones, heals, gets up, then speaks (the ability to speak as a stage in returning to life; then it's not clear - something cut off and made the biscuit and ate it). He marries a girl from a hut, kills a snake, puts his mother in front of two buckets - him and a snake - to see who she cries more about - him or a snake. He returns, sees that the bucket is full of snake, leaves his mother]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 158:155-159; Slovaks [mother breastfeeds her son three times for seven years; when she is convinced that he is able to snatch root a beech, says that it is enough - let him take care of it now and provide it with housing; the son found a dragon castle in the forest, broke into it, killed the dragons; in the tenth room, another one is chained to the wall; asks to be released, he was chained by other dragons; the young man refuses, brings his mother to live in this castle; forbids entering the tenth room; she comes in, agrees to release the chained; for this purpose it is necessary bring wine from a barrel in the basement; after each cup, one of the hoops falls down; to get rid of her son, the dragon advises the mother to pretend to be sick, bring an earthen pig; the young man came to St. . For a week; she tells her to sit on her horse named Tatoshik, gives the pig a pig to prick; he screams, the pig will chase him; the second time the pig will not scream for fear of the pig, it can be taken away ; next time, the mother, on the advice of the dragon, asks for living and dead water; The week teaches: the water of life is on the right mountain, it will rise at noon; death is on the left, will rise at midnight; the mountains are almost squeezed out the young man's hands; Week left alive and dead water for themselves, and gave the young man an ordinary one; the dragon offers to send a pelican for the bird; Week: the wind pulls trees from the flapping of the wings of the pelican; the young man brought a pelican, Nedelka kept it for herself, and gave the young man a simple eagle for his mother; bring a golden apple from the dragon garden; A week gives a ring: if you turn and think about it, you will have a hundredfold strength more; the horse carried over the garden wall; apples are guarded by a princess kidnapped by dragons; if stolen, she will be killed; she also gives a ring that multiplies strength by a hundred times; dragon under the apple tree; began to fight, dragon drove the young man into the ground up to his ankles; raven: who will I help? dragon: to me, promises gold; young man: to me, promises the carcasses of all horses grazing in the meadow; the raven jumped the young man with water so that he would not be burned by the heat of the dragon; when the young man turned the second ring, he drove the dragon into the ground up to his shoulders; cut his head; the princess picked an apple for the young man herself; the young man promises to come for her in a year; brought his mother a golden apple; she offered to tie him: is he strong like his father? the young man tore the rope; then tied it with a silk cord: he did not tear it; the dragon cut it to pieces, loaded them on T. and drove him away; T. came to the Week, she revived the young man with dead and living water; but There is no heart: his mother took it out and hung it from the ceiling; a week told me to dress up as a beggar, come to the castle to play the bagpipes and ask for a heart as a reward; the mother began to dance with the dragon; the bagpiper said that he was too old to take the money, but his heart would like; a week washed his heart with living and dead water and told the pelican bird to put his young man in its place; then let the pelican go; turned the young man into a dove: let him fly to find out what his mother is doing; to become human again, you have to think about her; the mother tells the dragon to shoot the pigeon, but he turned into a young man and cut off the dragon his head; he took her mother into the yard, threw up his sword; when he fell, he pierced her heart; the young man came to the king, whose daughter he saved, and married her; if they did not die, they are still alive]: Wenzig 1857:144-156.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians: Inal-IPA 1977 [Sharuan, taking Sasrikva and other sledges as companions, goes to get a girl who feeds only on animal bone marrow; one of her brothers was with the sun, the other with the moon, the third with the wind in the clouds; S. drives between watchsabers moving towards each other; the groom boned to the girl's chest, she followed him; the brothers chased, S. shot them, the girl ordered them to be revived]: 30; Shakryl 1975, No. 37 [the vizier is old, the king asked to send the same intelligent man instead of him; the vizier sends his eldest son, unexpectedly unrecognized attacks, the young man returns; the same goes for the youngest; the daughter wears men's clothes, is not afraid, almost killed her father; the imaginary young man breaks through the gates of the adaua; they suggest choosing one of their three sisters; with the elders he does not sleep; youngest: I know that you are a woman, but you will become a man; tells you to choose the worst horse; the king offers the vizier's "son" to get the heart and liver of a wild boar; "he" carved them from a sleeping boar, he is dead; bring wild deer milk; on the way there are crushing rocks, the girl slipped through, the horse is crushed; she sees a petrified city; one of the petrified ones: the queen is offended by her husband if she says more than three words ( really - phrases), you will also petrify; the girl held her sword; queen: let everyone come to life, 2) women become men, 3) men become women; the vizier's daughter becomes a young man, kills the queen; the horse has come to life, the young man brought milk to the king, married Adaua's daughter, married the other two brothers]: 184-189; Adyghi: Aliyeva 1978, No. 30 [a hairy forest man with an ax sticking out of his chest kidnapped three girls; died ; three brothers married girls; the eldest promises to give birth to a son and daughter every year, the middle one promises to give birth to a daughter with half of her hair white and half of red gold; the youngest promises to give birth to a son every year -backgammon; only the eldest fulfilled her promise; the sisters replaced the children with puppies, lowered them in a chest along the river; the husband locked his wife in the barn; the old people picked up the chest, named the girl Babukh, the boy Cherim; dying, they bequeath a horse for C., a chest of good for B.; C. hunters his father and his brothers, goes to them, the mother recognizes him; the father returns his wife, her sisters are tied to horses; the witch persuades B. to ask get a brother 1) a golden accordion located between the crushing rocks; the rocks only tore off the horse's tail; 2) the sister of seven brothers and an apple tree from her garden; the brothers grab C.; the horse brings B. there, she plays golden accordion, brothers give C. their sister, marry B. alone]: 244-248; Lipkin 1951 [Thagoledge, god of fertility, says he is old, gives millet to sledges, one grain of which is enough to cook a cauldron of pasta; sledges hide seeds in a copper barn; Emynyzh, with the body of a dragon and the face of a giant, broke the barn, took the seeds; Satan tells us who the thief is and how to get to E. (from sunrise across the sky to sunset); Aryksha was the first to go, did not return; Sosruko was the next; Sataney explains that E. settled in the west to devour the sun; at the gate of the fortress E. huge swords converge and disperse; S. cuts them with the sword of sledge blacksmith Tlepsh; the girl kidnapped by E. says that E. went to plow to the top of the mountain, taking a bag of seeds with him; S. jumps up on the mountain, the bag grabs, but E. on a three-legged horse easily catches up with him and takes the bag away; the girl asks E. to tell him where his soul is; he replies that it is in the door frame; S. takes the bag again, E. takes it away again; the girl gilded the frame; E. says that the soul is in the tree; again the same episodes; E. admits that his soul is in a three-legged horse, the son of a mare Tozh, she is from an old woman's herd; S. goes to her, causing frost to during his absence, E. did not have time to finish plowing; on the way he helps the wolf, falcon, fish; broke through tigers, eagles and dogs that attacked him; fell to the old woman's chest; she tells her herd to herd for 3 days; wolf, falcon, fish collect scattered horses; S. receives as a reward a foal that the mare also gave birth at sea; the foal asks to let him go to his mother so that he can drink her milk and become stronger brother; S. takes the bag, E. cannot catch up with him, the foal S. tells his brother to throw E., he threw it into the abyss, E. crashed; S. returned the seeds to the sledges, gave the girl to the sledge]: 59-75; Huth 1987 [ a lonely rider meets Shauai without recognizing him, says he is going to S.; he brings him to his place, changes clothes, receives a guest; the rider asks for huge portions of food for him and his horse; covers the horse with a layer of resin and sand; rushes into the sea; if white foam pops up, S. must grab a horse that jumps out of the water; red one pops up; S. jumps on his horse across the sea; calls; the rider replies that he is lying between the interpreting mountains; S. cuts off the heads of 12 seven-headed wilds ready to cut off the head of the rider; the stallion runs away, brings three 12-headed older brothers killed by others; the rider kills two with arrows; when fighting the latter, the horse cannot bite the rider covered with sand and resin; S. kills him; the rider confesses that he is a girl who avenged the brothers killed by the frosts; washing his eyes with other blood, her parents saw the light; the girl immediately leaves, S. goes to look for her; Satanay says that the girl lives overseas, the path there is guarded by the An-Ak eagle; S. on horseback in the dark (the beauty closes the face is hair, it becomes dark) swims across an impenetrable swamp; the beauty promised to marry someone who can do it; on the way back, An-Ak takes her away; S. pretends to be asleep, An-Ak brings him to his nest, S. kills him with a sword; returns to sledges with his wife]: 40-54; Balkarians (Western 1965) [Three sons often hear from their father: "Persimmon, ah, persimmon!" ; father: you can't find the persimmon you want; sons went for persimmons; at the fork, the elder brother walks along the road where "the walker will be hungry", the middle brother will "wear out", the youngest "will be deadly dangers"; the youngest venerated the Emegenshi's nipples; her husband came; he teaches: you must walk between the crushing rocks; cross the river (Kyzyl-Kan-Cherek, "blood-red river") without looking for a crossing; there are persimmons; under persimmons Emegen sleeps with his head on the beauty's knees; the young man brought a persimmon, the brothers decided to destroy it; threw it into the river, took the persimmon; father: what happened where the persimmon grew; brothers do not know; father: you are not her found; then the youngest son returned; his father: that woman with emegen is your mother; the brothers followed her; that friendly emegen: your mother's kidnapper is the strongest emegen; only his own can be killed with a knife; the older brothers were frightened, the youngest took a knife out of the tree and cut off the head of emegen; mother: Emegen had three prisoners below; the younger brother went down; the brothers picked up the girls and treasures, cut off the rope, picking up the younger one; but he got out; the girls demand from the grooms the jewelry they had; the younger brother comes to the jeweler, gives him their real jewelry; the youngest realizes that the young man is alive; tells confess to the jeweler that he did not make what he brought; but everyone still reconciled]: Malkonduev 2017:331-340; Balkarians (Western 1959) [the wife died, the husband looked for one, did not find it, decided to take the daughter who most resembles her mother; the daughter ran away, climbed an apple tree, ate an apple, became pregnant, gave birth to a son, he grew up quickly; deer ordered him to be killed, a house would appear out of his skin, greyhound dogs from his kidneys, a bridge from the tail, if necessary; across the river, emegen asks a woman to bring him to her place; she does not want to take him as a son, she agrees to take him husband; put her deer tail, emegen crossed the river across the bridge; emegenes taught a woman to pretend to be sick: you need 1) lamb tour meat; young man; 2) water from a rock that opens and closes ( one girl helped to get it); 3) swim in the cauldron (the emegens covered the second, began to cook the young man; the tour hit the upper cauldron, the girl pulled out the young man; the young man killed the emegenes and his mother, married a girl]: Malkonduev 2017:470-472; Ossetians: Britayev, Kaloev 1959:59-63 [The wolf lets the boy go but promises to come for him when he marries; comes for him, the young man runs away, the women in the towers consistently give him a comb (thicket), two loaves (two dogs), a hair (bridge over the lake); a young man goes to bed by the mound, a fanged woman comes out from there; he calls her mother, she does not eat it; he hunts for her; Wolf turns into a young man across the river, promises to marry a woman if she gives him that hair; the wolf crosses, they dig a hole for the young man to fall into her; dogs find her; a woman sends a young man to dance fur coat; the path between the crushing mountains; on the way back, the young man slipped, the dog was gone; they ran around, tore the Wolf when he attacked the young man; the young man returns to his wife], 193-204 [the widower marries the other; sprinkles apples over the pit, the girls fall through; their tears wash the way out; Aldar finds them; the eldest promises to sew clothes for the people from a piece of metaria, the middle one to feed everyone with a plate of flour, the youngest give birth to a boy with a golden crest, a girl with silver curls; when leaving, Aldar gives his pregnant wife a bell; sisters plug his horse's ears; put puppies, leave the twins at the edge of the forest; Aldar tells his wife and puppies to be sewn in cowhide, wipe their feet on her; children grow up with a female; aunts persuade the girl to invite her brother to bring the girl from the Copper Tower; the horse carries the young man between interpreting mountains; after calling the owner of the tower, the young man begins to go into the ground, but when he sees his golden crest, the hostess agrees to marry him; the tower flies over the mountains to the young man's house; the aunts offer get a singing fur coat; a young man drinks water from an acidic river, eats sour apples, gives wheat to crows, meat to wolves, they let it pass; takes Shuba, she asks the guards to stop the thief, they refuse; Aldar comes to his son's castle, everything is explained; Aldar's wife is bathed in a milk lake, her sisters are torn apart by horses]; Dzagurov 1972, No. 33 [comrades reproach the young man: first find your father, and then quarrel with us; he tells his mother to fry corn and clamps her hand; she has to say that her father was kidnapped by a giant, and her father's horse is head over heels in manure; does not believe that the son will be able to raise his father's sword; young man the horse came out, lightly raised his sword, left, the horse showed the way; the young man whipped the decayed corpse of the giant: come to life, but be blind; the lively one says that his wife was stolen by the same giant who took it the young man's father; at night he tries to throw trees and stones at the young man; the young man turns him into a corpse again; the young man found a giant, cut off six heads, told him where his father is, then cut off his seventh head; the paths are crushing mountains, the horse slipped through, only cut off half a tail; the young man's father is a shepherd, cleans his fur coat from lice; the young man brought the giant's ears to his wife; she tells the giant's mother to be afraid; the young man killed her, but she killed him cursed: he will not rest until he gets the daughter of the king of the genies; the horse teaches him to give millet to the birds, drink water from the spring and praise the water, throw a ram to iron-faced wolves; to lubricate the door hinges; the young man found a girl and lives with her for a month; then they loaded all their property on all the felt and galloped away; the young man destroyed the pursuing army, but one warrior killed him with a dagger; the fox began to lick blood, the woman killed him; the fox bought him at the spring, the fox came to life; then the woman revived her murdered husband; he says he was about to marry the daughter of Barastur, the lord of the afterlife; the young man revived with the whip of that giant and gave him his wife kidnapped by a seven-headed giant; the young man returned home to his wife, everything is fine]: 91-99; Libedinsky 1978 [Satana hides from Batrazd that his father Khamyts was killed; Ahsartaggat is sent by the wind to tell B. that H. is killed; he asks S. to fry grains for him and at hand; clamps his hand; S. names the murderers from the Borat family; he kills murderers]: 362-371; Libedinsky 1978 [ when Aisana enters, Soslan's wife does not get up to greet him; every time she says she does not do it because he did not do such a feat; 1) get a tree from dusk to midnight it blooms, and by dawn it hangs with fruits; it is behind the crushing rocks; A.'s horse orders to whip it powerfully, slips between the rocks; on the way back, the rocks cut off three hairs from its tail; A. brings tree; 2) marry Saumaron-Burdzabah; the grooms call out to her, but she does not hear them in her tower, they turn into stone; A. begins to stone, the horse screams louder; S. makes A. the same, marries him marry; at his request, revives other petrified people; they attack A., S. turns them into stone again; 3) bring God's fur coat; A. replies that since the fur coat is not sewn by the hands of Soslan's wife, he will not become her mine]: 251-252; Ingush [the horse tells an aged warrior to give it to a young horseman; a young man comes to the tower; the hostess promises to marry him if he finds out the secret of the noseless Sealima; he will open it to the person who accomplished the feat; the horseman wins, takes a young man as his companions; kills the terrible wolf Berza Kazá ("wolf puppy"); the companion brings the horseman to his castle, where his brother's sick wife; horseman goes for medicine, the horse carries it between the crushing rocks; the horseman takes out a splinter to the lion, he gives medicine - a jug of milk; the beauty has recovered, advised her husband to ask her husband for a saber with a broken end and a gray oath; the husband is S.; he says that he and his seven comrades were chased by a seven-headed serpent, threw a stone, killed his comrades, cut off the tip of his nose; the horseman tells the horse to return to to the same owner, sits on the oath, she becomes a heroic horse; dzhigit comes to the bride; wedding]: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981:86-99 (=Malsagov 1983, No. 20:115-119; similar option or the same in another translation in Tankiev 2003:192-195, the name of the man Sulaim); Kumyks [the dervish took Ibrahim to the top of an egg-shaped rock; he managed to go down to the garden of the daughters of the king of the Jin; for one month a year they must return to their father; when they fly away, they tell him not to look into the same room; he enters there, the garden is even better, three beauties come to swim, throw off their swan robe; I. fell in love with a black woman; when The first girls arrived, the youngest promised to help get it; she teaches her to hide, tie her hair to a tree while she dives, beat her until she resigns herself; I. hides that girl's swan cover, the other two flew away; the black woman is forced to agree to become I.'s wife; he decides to return to his mother; the first girls tell I. to give his mother his wife's swan clothes for storage; while I. is gone, Khan's mother sees black woman in the bath; asks to sing; she agrees if the khan's mother digs up a chest in which the swan outfit is hidden; after receiving it, she flies away; I. calls the first three girls; they explain that his wife and two others - from those genies who do not have men, they kill men; the youngest sends I. to the border of the genie kingdom; then other genies help; I. gets to the giants, they put him in a cage; he runs, meets female warriors, agrees to help alone; in the end he finds himself with those genie who have his wife; he, his wife and the genie girl who helped want to be executed; the guard lets them go; I. s black people return to mother I.]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 17:201-208; Avars: Bulatova 1985:59-66 [the older sister promises to weave cloth for the tsarist army, the middle sister promises to bake bread, the youngest to give birth a son with pearl teeth and a gold-haired daughter; the king overhears, takes the youngest; while the king is at war, the sisters throw their children into the nettle gorge, report that the queen has given birth to a puppy and a kitten; the king orders to sew up shackle her in donkey skin, shackle her to the city gate, spit on her; Doe feeds the children with milk, leaves her in an empty castle, tells the boy to cover her mouth, the girl's hair; the widow catches her in the river golden hair, evil sisters tell this woman to kill the survivors; she advises the girl to ask her brother 1) to bring an apple tree branch that sings and dances; he slips on horseback between the crushing rocks, the tip of the tail is cut off, brings a branch; 2) marry the beautiful Ezenzulhar; he sees petrified horsemen at her castle, calls E., he is stony; his sister has worn out her iron soles and staff; E. looks on her, when she bares her hair, the petrified ones come to life, her brother marries E.; the tsar meets his children, frees his wife, the children take their mother to their castle]; Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1): 87-91 (=Saidov, Dalgat 1965 : 231-239) [about the same name, the name of the beautiful Ajnagukhar; khan ties older sisters, slave, widow to the tails of horses]; Lezgins: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 31 [the Shah has three sons with his first wife, she died, the second gave birth to a daughter; someone eats away the horse's legs; the eldest, middle sons are guarding, they do not notice anything; the youngest cut his finger, sprinkled salt, shot the monster's finger, it turned out to be his sister's finger; the shah decided to kill daughter, sons disagree, leave; the eldest rides along the road "from which they return", the middle one - "I don't know", the youngest - "don't return"; changes his rich clothes for a lion cub; kills one or two, - seven-headed Azhdah, freeing three princesses, promises to pick them up on the way back; comes to the mother of seven Azhdah, makes friends with them; they want to get a golden cockerel and a golden sieve, and get them for a girl; the young man goes to get them; the Azhdaha brothers give a fat tail, a carpet, cotton wool; the young man gave the lion a fat tail, sent it back; laid the carpet on the bridge, which goes down and rises; cotton wool on thorns; on horseback he jumped over the mountains, only cut off the hair from the horse's tail; there were only women in that country; the young man stole a cockerel and a sieve, came back, took three princesses, found brothers; they pushed him into a well; the merchant pulled it out; the queen of the female kingdom came to the brothers, they said that they had obtained a cockerel and a sieve, she killed them; found a young man, made sure that he had obtained the items, became his wife; the young man goes to visit his father, there only the sister; asks if the brother came on horseback about three, two, one horse, on the horse's carcass; she has already eaten them all; the brother has become a dove, the sister is a fox, the dove sat on a tree, noticed a lion cub, he tore the fox to pieces; the dove became a young man, noticed a leaf with a drop of his sister's blood, the leaf became a beetle, the young man threw the beetle to the chicken, which ate it; the young man returned to his wife; feast]: 301-304; Khalilov 1965, No. 47 [Tsar Sultan's three daughters decide replace his son; the eldest, middle, returns from the fields, says she did not see anything; the youngest answers in more detail, stays in a man's dress; the father sends the "son" to marry the daughter of another king; she I agree, but asks the groom to know why the city has become petrified; at the fork, the young man chooses the road with the inscription "you will not return", and not the one where "you will not return soon"; comes to Azhdaha, there is a girl who calls the "young man" brother; Azhdaha does not know about the city, sends a letter to her mother all Azhdah; she says that the city is beyond the mountain, comes to life for a few moments at dawn; at this time the gate rose and fell again, the "young man" managed to slip through, the horse was cut in half; sees a man whose lower part was petrified; his wife went to the robbers at night, he cut off their heads drunk; for this, the wife turned everything is in stone, his husband is half wide; the "young man" finds that woman in the basement, she tells him to change his sex; when he becomes a man, he demands that she spell the city; she does this and the young man immediately kills her; returned, married a princess]: 119-124; Georgians [uncle envies his nephew's strength (this is the son of his older brother); offers to get God's flower; the old woman says that when beautiful B. comes down rocks their hair, flowers at their ends; B. wraps his hair around the young man, throws her to Kajeti (the world of Kaji spirits); the young man's sister goes to look for him; his father tries to stop her, but lets her go, making sure that she is stronger than him; between sea and sky, the castle of a woman from Kageti; the girl takes her as a companion; they stumble upon a maiden who demands to bring a lamp from Kageti, takes a Kaji girl hostage; the gate The Kageti converge and disperse, the young man's sister on horseback slips, only the tip of the horse's tail has been cut off; there are petrified people in the palace, including a brother petrified to the waist; the sister threatens with God's sword, that shatters the petrified; Kazhmi was imprisoned in a tower, her sister took a magic lantern, did not give up the maiden, the girl from Kageti was kidnapped by an earthly girl; a dwarf killed a young man and kidnapped a girl; a young man's sister revived him with live water; the kidnapped pretends to be afraid for the life of a dwarf; he replies that his life is in a broom; she promises to take care of the broom; the dwarf laughs: his life is in fish, that in the sea between the two by the seas; the kidnapped person tells her brother and sister who came to her; the sister caught a fish, a box in it, released three birds, the dwarf died, the brother, sister and girl returned home]: Chikovani 1986:73- 80; Armenians: Nazinyan 1969 [the young man fell in love with the king's daughter, fell ill, recovered, became a hero; the magician teaches him to find a fiery horse, the young man tamed him, slipped between the intelligent mountains, defeated the army devas; freed King Aslan's daughter from Tapagyoza Cave; burned his eye with a spit, I. died; married a liberated woman]: 118-125; Yuzbashev 1892 [the wives of six brothers are depraved, and the seventh is chaste; six accused her of inappropriate behavior; her husband did not understand, went far, hired the king as a shepherd; a horse came out of the sea, bit a foal; he explained that it was the king of the sea who had marked him; the man found colorful feather; the king will reward the one who brings the bird; the man went for it; the mountains were in front; the horse knew when they were stopping and galloped; on the island there is a three-headed giant, with each head one eye; its ring must be reached to get a bird; the horse has taught him to grab a giant's sword with his strength; the giant has given his ring; in the bird garden, the horse tells him to slaughter the giant's horse with him and hide in the carcass; the birds flocked when they saw a pen and a ring; the man grabbed one, brought it to the king; on the way home, the horse teaches how to hide from the miller and finds the miller hiding; the miller by agreement gives a magic tablecloth; at home, in the absence of a man, unfaithful wives tried to use the tablecloth, but stuck to it; the owner tells her to let the sinless go; unfaithful wives remain stuck, brothers they are being killed]: 323-329.

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks [Buyuk Karimov's recording, said Zibog-Bibi Sarymsakova; the padishah and the vizier are childless and are going on a pilgrimage; the elder gave them an apple each, ordered them to name the children Tahir and Zukhra and to betray them in the cradle; the girl was born to a padishah; he wanted an heir, ordered the girl to be executed, to bring a handkerchief soaked in her blood; then regretted it; the nobles confessed that they did not obey the order; The vizier, having learned about the birth of his son, galloped home, fell and crashed; the padishah refused to betray his daughter to an orphan; T. played and hurt the old woman; she ordered him to extort the name of his named bride from his mother; T. he was ill, asked his mother to fry wheat, clutched a handful of hot grains in her palms, her mother agreed to tell me everything; T. found Z. and began to meet her; the padishah found out, ordered T. to be put in the chest, throw it into the river; Z. made sure that the chest was spacious; the daughters of the Rum king noticed it; by lot it went to the youngest; she fell in love with the young man inside; the padishah adopted T. and gave it for him daughter; she is even more beautiful than Z., but T. does not talk to her and puts a dagger on the bed between them; after 40 years she took pity on his wife, spoke to her; her name is Khadicha; the padishah promises a reward to someone who will make T. laugh; father Z. wants to pass her off as Prince Kara-batyr; Z. sends caravans to look for T.; he hears their song - he sang the same song as a child; T. goes with caravans, his wife H. follows; dies of fatigue; at the last moment T. puts her head on his knees; the caravan constantly returns to her grave; only after T.'s farewell song opens a straight path; on the path of the mountain; based on the song by T. one of the mountains cuts in half; the camel manages to slip through, "only the bottom of his tail has pinched off the mountain"; at the crossroads of three roads, T. chooses the shortest one, where the inscription "If you go, you won't come back"; in one city they are thrown into prison; a friend recognizes T. by a song, helps them go free; T. finds Z. in the garden; sister K. sees them; the padishah tells them to cut T. in half, hang pieces on the gate; Z. 50 days in mourning; on the way at T.'s grave, she drops her pearls; while the girls accompanying her pick them up, she comes to T.'s grave and kills herself; the grave opened and accepted it; after learning of the bride's death, K. also killed himself; his his sister orders him to be buried between the graves of lovers; "the oppressors did not leave lovers even after death, they put a black thorn between them"]: Zhirmunsky, Zarifov 1947:295-297; Burishi [rich man picked up a baby in wheat, named Dungpa Miru, he grew up, he was given a wife, but she gives birth to 100 sons with animal heads; while hunting, DM shot a goat, but someone else hit the same goat; they came up two, gave meat for promising to give a son or daughter if born; the name of the person who came up is Fasan Karaski, and he lives in the country of Yal Butot; his wife gave birth to a boy and a calf; DM brought him to FC; parting, the son tells Father will wait 12 months later on the roof with a cauldron: he will fall into him in a raindrop, let his wife drink and he will come back; she became pregnant; son talks to her from her womb; left when she was sleeping; then born the second boy; the first one put it in his mouth, his mother cried out; the first son: if it were not a problem, his whole body would be like iron, and now his armpits were vulnerable; every day, Pangchu's first son weakens, and the second Bumliftan is gaining strength; the name of all hundred sons is Kiseré; the eldest of them Aba Kitung divided land and property between them, and P. received a cemetery, a ford across the river, and a miserable hut; not allowed him to be buried there; when AK wanted to cross, P. did not allow him, replaced his lionheart with a fox; after that P. received as much as everyone else together; the king wants to extradite seven daughters; P. took the form of a lousy one; decided to take the eldest Langa Brumo; gave her a sleeping donkey embryo; she has to agree to marry P. so as not to be disgraced; father and sisters are shocked by her choice; when the other sons-in-law go hunting for the golden bull, P. goes too; LB and her stepmother secretly follow him, see him first take the form of a magnificent king, then hiding his horse up his sleeve, becoming again miserable freak; mocks his sons-in-law; getting into the bull's ear, feeds him poison; dying, the bull says that he was predicted to die at the hands of Kiser; tells him to take the knife out of his ear, cut it him; P. takes the golden tail and hooves; sons-in-law find the skin, bring wool to the king, everyone says that he killed the bull, the king denounces them of lying; P. does not tell his wife that he killed the bull, but gives a nut with its bone brain; when the king and the courtiers taste it, they taste great; P. gives the king a golden tail, hooves, bull horns; asks for one grain and a drop of oil in return, puts a bag, bins the king was devastated; Kiser left his forehead, conquered another country and took another wife there; at this time King Pahardang Gaipo stole his forehead; she said that Bumliftan's armpits were vulnerable; provoked him to raise his hands, The hidden warrior shot, but the arrow did not pierce Bumliftan through and he rode away; but when the arrow was pulled out, he died (you had to drag it through the body forward, then the tip would not remain in the body); Kiser went to return his forehead, the rocks on the way; when he arrived at them, K. fires an arrow, only the tip of the plumage is crushed; slips on the horse, but its tail is clamped; K. wants to cut off the tail, but The rocks promise to let the horse go if K. hits each of the two boys that the LB gave birth to from the kidnapper; K. comes unrecognized to King X.; there everyone pulls K.'s bow; unrecognized K. pulls a bow so that he falls to pieces, they kill everyone but King H. himself; taking his form, he tears the kidnapper to pieces; takes his treasures, the dev-servant carries them; cuts off the heads of King H. When he arrives at the cliffs, he gives them the boys' heads, they let him pass; he reigns with his wife LB]: Lorimer 1935, No. 4:102-179.

Baltoscandia. Scandinavians [giant Suttung hides poetry honey in the rocks of Hnitbjörg (Colliding Cliffs)]: Younger Edda 1970:59; (cf. Lithuanians [an old woman tells a retired soldier that he will be hired by a black master in a glass castle; on the way, an apple tree asks to know why it does not bear fruit (men want to cut it down), two (interpreters?) mountains, how long do they stand guard (they let a soldier in), the river - why there are no fish in it (takes the soldier to the other side); the black master of soldiers has been herding sheep for a year; he says that the river should drown man, mountains - crush a man, gold must be dug from under the apple tree; soldiers shout an answer to the river and mountains from a distance, passing them; digging up gold]: Lyovite 1965:126-129).

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [a person dreams: there is sun in his heads, there is a moon in his legs, a star on his chest; a man went, met a bull, he explained the dream: these are two wives and a son; a man came to the fence and lay down; girl She took the cattle out and told them to go with her; she mistook the man for the son of a vizier with whom she had agreed to flee; they began to live; invited the khan to visit; when she saw the woman, the khan ordered her husband to be killed and brought to him; one of the viziers suggested sending a man for a horse who grazes between the mountains; the journey between the mountains is three days, and the mountains converge every day; the wife gives her horse; as soon as the other horse sees him, he he ran after him; they had time to leave before the mountains collided; the khan pretended to be sick, the vizier ordered a man to be sent to bring ash from the Daughter of the Sun; the wife gives a letter for her; the husband goes to one the old woman, she sends to her older sister, her sister to the oldest, she teaches her to hide in a hole, lure a white horse three times; the UK will get tired of going out to find out what's going on; she'll fall asleep, you have to tie her by the hair whip what lies on the left; then she will not eat, you can show her a letter; SK went with the man, became the second wife; the first gave birth to a son; the khan tells me where his late father put the treasury; wife -SK removed him from the fire, and then returned it, giving him a bag of gold; the khan asked him to be burned, burned down; the man became khan; the dream came true]: Bessonov 1941, No. 27:155-159.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Daurenbekov 1979 [Kazangap boy herds Bay lambs, dreams of the sun above his head, a month from below, two butting lambs at his feet; he rushes to separate them, wakes up; son of bai Asaubay asks to sell his dream, K. decides to leave better; Khan Tausagor's daughters Gulyayim and Gulmahir do not want appointed suitors, decide to flee with poor Sagit, the first is Gulyayim, Gulmahira will join later; accidentally, K. turns out to be instead of S.; the vizier advises the local Khan Asauhan to take Gulyayim, give K. difficult assignments; 1) bring Khan "Suleiman's white medicine"; the wife helps to choose a horse, sends his father's possessions, mountains in front of the palace, Gulmahira calls the peri, they give medicine; A. is already dead, the bird sits on K.'s head, the vizier does not allow K. to be elected khan; the wife sends for her father, he does Khan K., gives him both daughters; each gives birth to a son, K. understands the meaning of sleep; finds Sagita, makes a vizier, marries]: 215-218; Sidelnikov 1952 [Khan's son overheard from the yurt how the elder sister promises weave him a gold carpet, the second feed the people with one egg, the youngest to give birth to a son with a golden head, a daughter with a silver head; the khan's son marries, in his absence, the older sisters tell the witch to replace the children younger puppies, throw babies in a chest into the river; Khan tells his wife and puppies to be left in the desert; a fisherman catches a chest; the boy was named Kudaibergen ("God gave"), the girl Kunslu ("sunny beauty") ; old men are dead; Kud. kills saigas, Khan gets nothing; older wives send a sorceress to persuade Kunsla to ask his brother to get it; 1) self-playing dombra (Zhalmauyz-Kempir here and beyond helps to get); 2) everything showing the mirror; one Simurg chick cries (the dragon will eat Idahar today), the second frowns (tomorrow), the third laughs (last); Kum. kills the dragon, Simurg carries it between the mountains, he takes a mirror, on the way back the mountains tore off Simurg's tail; 3) Tassheelar's daughter as his wife; this is Aislou, taught under water by the late adopted father, a fisherman Kudaibergen; at Kood's house. A. turns a sorceress into a needle; Kud. became friends with his father khan; A. tells the demons to build a canal, a bridge; the khan returns his wife, the sorceress was burned, the older wives were torn apart by horses]: 178-190 (=1971 (1): 33-45).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians: Surazakov 1979 ["Maadai-Kara", see motif L15D; Kogyudey-Mergen goes to kill Kara-Kula, who overwhelmed his parents and all the people, rides on horseback between the crushing rocks and jumps over the boiling sea]: 95-97; 1982 [Maadai-Kara, verses 3088-3097, 3102-3107; two black rocks achylar-jabylar ("opening and closing") are the gateway between heaven and earth; they crush many flying birds, running animals; the hero skips on horseback, only the horse's tail is cut off by rocks]: 113; 1985 [people die from the epidemic; the remaining old man and old woman find a cradle on the birch tree; boy He grows up to be a hero Dyaya-Chapkan; rides with two uncles, overcoming the butting cliffs of Achylar-dyabylar; all three die at the hands of the Möyok Children; the DC horse brings his newborn baby the owner, who wins DM, with the help of the old mother of Altai, resurrects the dead]: 215-216; Teleuts [the sky falls and rises at regular intervals; the shaman must have time to pass with a sacrifice through the base of the sky, otherwise it will be crushed by the sky; at this passage there are piles of bones of animals and birds swat here; the ground beyond the base of the sky is called chin j är , "true earth"]: Dyrenkova 1949:137; Khakas [the place where heaven meets earth is called Achylaro-Umular Chir ("The Earth that Opens and Slams");]: Butanayev 2003:109; South Altai Tuvans [the khan with 12 wives is childless; hears at the yurt how the older sister promises to marry someone from whose hearth ash must be removed three times a day, the middle sister hears who has a mountain of game in front of the yurt, the youngest for the one who traveled for her; marries the youngest; while the husband is hunting, the wife gives birth to twins; 12 wives throw them in a box into the water, put two puppies; the khan sends her into exile overseas; old people catch a box with babies, it does not run out of food; the khan swims across the sea on horseback; the old woman shows him his wife and sons, says that the rest are shulmusikhs; the khan must be cleansed, old woman tells him to fill the bag with stones, he collects stones for three years, the bag is not full; the old woman sends him to bring a needle from the border of earth and sky, where the sky rises and falls down; the khan shows this an old woman has a gold bracelet, the sky rises, he slips; brings a needle, gets a wife and sons, expels 12 wives overseas]: Taube 1994, No. 21:202-205; Turks in Sayano-Altai [sky in the form of a dome covers the ground, constantly touching it with its edges, as if pulsating]: Basilov, Potapov 1982:538; Potapov 1983:102; Buryats [the sky looks like an inverted cauldron, it rises and then falls; Altan-Shagai-Mergyn manages to put an arrow under the edge of the sky and penetrate into the outside world]: Gomboev 1890:18 (translated into Holmberg 1927:308-309); Mongols: Neklyudov 1982a [the sky is constantly rises, then falls]: 172; Potanin 1893 [one of Gesar's two wives was stolen by Rduri; G. meets two crushing stones on the way; says that they do not diverge much; they diverge more, he has time slip through, the stones only cut off the horse's tail; G. kills shepherd R., comes to R.'s house in his clothes, asks the woman on the way how R.'s cattle are being driven; his wife hides G., G. kills R.]: 42-43; Lorimer 1931 [(retelling the German translation of the Mongolian Geser by I.J. Schmidt); a 12-headed giant kidnaps Aralgho Goa; in search of his wife, Geser walks between the crushing mountains, his wife hides him under the floor his room, asks the giant how to kill; G. listens, kills; AG gives food to oblivion, G. forgets his other wife, lives at WG for 9 years]: 112; Dagurs: Bender, Su Huana 1984 [ the boy and his older sister were orphans; when the boy became a young man, his sister was taken away by Sujani Mergen; the old man tells us to look for her in the West; the young man comes to the old woman with his breasts thrown over her back; she says that she is his aunt and his name is now Kuchuni Mergen ("strong hunter"); gives her milk to drink, KM becomes strong; he pours water from a well into a stone tub; a fiery red horse drinks, carries KM; slips through the Sky Scissors, which converge and then diverge, only the horse's tail is slightly cut off; the same is the Straw Cutter of Heaven; the horse teaches you to wrap your head with deer skin, take venison with you; a cloud of crows rushes to the KM, but they cannot peck the skin, they remain pecking the venison he threw; KM hacked the SM, but the horse orders to destroy seven hairs on its right sole, otherwise it will be reborn; KM kills two wives SM, frees sister; she orders to kill SM's third wife, she is preparing to give birth; KM kills a woman in labor and a newborn monster]: 56-68; Stuart et al. 1994 [the official died, leaving his wife and son a horse named Gold ; the boy wins the games of the neighbor's son; the neighbor invites him, like his father, to herd herds on South and North Mountain (the horse teaches him to tame two wild horses); marry the daughter of the Yelendengeir monster; the paths of a pack of crows, the horse teaches them to throw meat; slips through moving scissors, only the tip of the tail is cut off; teaches them to shoot at the middle head of a monster; teaches him to tie him to a poplar - his wife's life is in him a monster; her upper eyelids hang on her face, her lower eyelids down to her breasts; to see, she supports them with sticks; the daughter of monsters helps the young man; when she drops the comb, you can take chopsticks; the mother sleeps, when there is white smoke from her nostrils, she does not sleep, when black; the young man and his wife run, the mother sends two swords, they will return moistened with blood; the girl cuts off her finger, swords her swords with blood; the demoness rushes at I'll chase it myself; the horse fights her at the bottom of the lake: if the black fog rises, the horse wins, if the red one is a demoness; the fog has risen black and red; the horse comes out, says it will die; I must cut off his legs , put his skin on them; in the morning there is a big house on this place; in the house a black dog is chasing a yellow dog, a young man kills a yellow dog; a young man and his wife go out into the yard - there is a live horse there; they return to the mother of the young man, wedding]: 129-130; the Mongors [the 9-headed demon king eats cattle; the Jade Emperor sends his nephew Erlang (Gesarjiawu) to earth; he is born to earth women; the monster finds out about this, sends his general Xiajuaqiang to destroy E.; grown up E. tells his mother to ask S. to swallow it whole; turns into a baby; S. grows in his throat, he suffocates , dies; four brothers of earthly father E. give him power, sheep, horses, a mountain of beggar staffs, he becomes a local ruler, marries; E. sends his wife along with other women to serve monster; breaks the bracelet, he and his wife take their soul mate; E. takes a new wife; the same with her; tells the third to watch the water in the hole on the stone until it dries, he is alive; takes a heroic horse, rides fight the monster; the wife jumps after; E. turns into a 9-headed monster, guesses, answers his wife that no one passed; she gives him clothes every time; returns; E. takes her form, lets him go three arrows, they turn into birds leading his wife home; at night they turn into the clothes that the wife gave to the imaginary monster; she understands her husband's power; the pass guard is E.'s first wife; he defeats her, she recognizes him, gives him a ring, explains what to do; the ring helps to pass between the mountains; E. kills a buffalo standing in the pond, the pond dries up, E. passes; despite the warning of her three magic arrows, E. picks up a pebble; it becomes very heavy; E. sees that a monster servant has come to his wife at home; the arrows fly to find out, return, lying that everything is fine at home; the monster's wife - E.'s second wife; notices half of the bracelet he threw into a bucket of water; teaches E. to take her form, go to the monster's mother on the left (she is blind in her left eye), kill her; his wife hides E.; asks a monster, what will happen if E. comes; the monster hides his wife and son in his stomach and mouth; he cannot be defeated without extinguishing the fire on his chest, without depriving him of his iron boots, without taking a special rope, him tie; E. extinguishes the fire with arrows, the wife sprinkles beans under the monster's feet, E. knocks him down; severed heads grow when the mouse defecates on the stumps; the wife tells the monster to rip open the stomach, he dies; the monster is two brothers; E. takes the form of a monster, comes to his brother, kills him and his wife; E.'s wife wants to keep her son alive from the monster; E. comes back, kills the one he says he will suck his blood, turns into a mosquito; E. returns, meets his father, who recognizes him when he sees a third eye on his head under his hair; after finishing off demons, E. returns to his mother]: Stuart, Limusishiden 1994 : 148-152; sirongolas [{the scan does not contain p. 223}; the old man gave the young man a trap to catch a heavenly maiden on the lake for her gold bracelet; he gave it to Prince Yamantaka; the nobleman advises the king to take her; the king tells me to kill her son; the girl put on the crown she was wearing on the lake, left Ya on the lake, giving her bracelet, and flew away herself; I went to look for her; went to two butting rocks, followed by a spring where she came Y.'s wife's maid; he threw a bracelet into her jug; his wife recognized him, her father allowed her to live with Y.; out of 20 gifts, this is a real Nogon Darikha]: Potanin 1893, No. 30:223-224.

Western Siberia. Northern Mansi: Lukina 1990, No. 105 [see motif A4, B3A; Taryg-Pesch-Nimala Sov (aka Mir-Susne-Hum, "man watching the world") travels to get wives; his aunt says his his wife (whom he does not yet know) was stolen by Paraparsekh; teaches one-eyed people to answer that they are herding blue sheep not P., but T.; the same one-armed ones whose cows are herding; one-legged ones whose end; every time he blows them on eyes, arms, legs, they recover, find lost chens; on horseback, skipping through 30 converging and diverging aspens, he touches, hangs on an aspen; his aunt frees him; in heaven she takes the daughters of the Month and Suns; where the sky hangs, a rock with a hole; covered with an iron advantage; T. slips a pike through it, but the old man catches him in an iron net; tries to kill, but only beats himself and his wife, T. escapes; Goose flies to the southern edge; the southern old woman killed, cooked two teals, T. ate them; she threw the bones into a lake with live water, the teals flew away; T. gets the daughter of the Southern old man and an old woman; migratory geese and ducks - her dowry; wearing T.'s goose skins, she is a swan, flew into our world through a rock with a hole; T. returned home, went to bed with six wives], 106 [about the same]: 258-272, 272-290; Mansi, western (i.e. northern?) Khanty [migratory birds fly to the country of morti-mā (mans.), morta-mex (hunt.); it is separated by a curtain in the form of the edge of the sky; the wind shakes it, only the most dexterous birds can slip under it; an old man and an old woman feed on birds killed by the edge of the sky; bones are thrown into the sea of living water near their home; new birds are born from bones; when they grow old, they bathe and become young]: Karjalainen 1996:25; Eastern Khanty (b. Wah) [the shaman flies on a wonderful bird to the place where Torum lives (Alle Ike, Nagi-Ike - Big, or White Old Man; on the way Torum sesek (God's trap), then seven fishing rods; by order of the bird, the shaman throws meat there every time, they manage to fly]: Shatilov 1931:100, 126-128.

Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [see motive L72; to have children, the old woman turns to ayyi, the old man turns to abaasa; ayyy gives a boy and a girl, the abaas threaten to swallow the old man, makes him give up what is not at home knows; spouses hide their children under the hearth; the abaas eat their spouses, find no children; they grow up, a horse comes down from the sky, takes them away, gives flint, flint, an ax, they must be thrown at the abaasa pursuer; they turn into fire, mountains, sea; abaas remain overseas; the horse tells him to kill by crushing a louse on his head; parts of his body give rise to a city, buildings, property; his kidneys turn into a bear -a dog and a wolf dog; in the absence of the brother, the abaas come, the sister agrees to become his wife, lures his brother's handkerchief, gives it to her husband; the brother hurries, the crushing rocks crush his dogs - the bear and the wolf; the horse brings his brother to the old woman, she gives a bow; the hawk fights the yokshokyu bird; the brother shoots the yokshokyu in the wing; for promising to cure him, he helps open the mountain, freeing the bear and the wolf; they kill abaas]: Popov 1937:208-231; central (?) Yakuts: Basilov, Potapov 1982 [the edges of heaven and earth are knocking against each other (same Potapov 1983:102)]: 539; (cf. Ergis 1974 (no place of recording; probably central; (retelling in Alekseev 1982:682) [the lower edges of the sky hang down circumference like the fringes and silver necklaces of a young daughter-in-law; they rubbing against the raised edges of the earth as if angry stallions are gnawing with a grinding sound {apparently an episode of some olonkho}]: 124); the Sym Evenks (Chirombu) [father, then eldest, middle son left, did not return; the youngest went, saw Epkachan's bloody horns (a one-year-old deer); asks his mother for his father's blacksmith tools, forges an iron bow and arrow; killed E., broke a pine tree that moves and she moves apart, and in the middle there is a woman; the woman suggests jumping where there are awls on the ground; the young man invites her to jump first, but then overtakes her; the same is to run (first from behind, then overtakes); who she will continue to urinate (young man); the place where her hair is scratched; the woman scratched the young man, broke a wooden, bone combs, broke a tooth in an iron tooth, she jumped into her chest, killed her; the young man burned the corpse of E.; the boy's mother she pulled out her lung with joy, died]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 43:52-53; Evenki [Singkoltukon invites Cholbon-Chokulbay to sit down; he falls into the lower world of cannibals; he succeeds To get out, he invites S. to compete at a cliff where earth meets sky; HF is the first to jump between the sky and the sky moves away, only the tip of his horse's tail cut off; when S. jumped on horse, his cut in half]: Sangi 1989:181; Evenks of the Baikal Region [Chagalai-Chakulay and Zherdyshan-Jugikta jump on horseback across the sea; HC jumps on horseback through the cliffs; the railway cannot (first his horse's leg is cut off, then his horse is crushed, on the third attempt he himself); HCH enters the yurt; the woman in the yurt lies down with him, tells him not to open it at night; he hears a woman's voice demanding maid open; opens, beauty tears off her maid's head, copulates with HF]: Titov 1936, No. 1:165-166; Upper Aldan-Zei Evenks [the boy lives with his mother, the Bear took him away; he asks the Bears to move apart to clean themselves before they eat him; runs away; but his mother is already dead; he goes to look for the girl Torganay; the old woman gives him a reindeer; the deer tells him to turn into mice to overcome the thicket; then the scissors move and move apart; the deer tells you to make iron boots, the boy and the deer pass; jump over a place dotted with needle points; birds fly through the fire; pass the place where axes are cut; fish swim across the sea; in a beautiful house, an unpainted woman replies that she is T.; the young man sleeps with her, she has bark under her clothes, he is pierced; the real one beats the worker , gives the young man difficult tasks for sleeping with a worker (guarding animals, birches, bears; she herself tells animals not to run away, birches not to beat, bears not to eat the young man); orders the young man to be killed, washed in his blood; then he becomes the young man's wife]: Vasilevich 1966, No. 14:260-263; Evenks (Far Eastern?) [while Torganay and his brother are hunting, three-headed Kadanay carries his wife by air; the mare gives birth to a heroic horse for T.; he drives T. to a river full of human teeth and bones, teaches him to say that the river is good, the water is decreasing; the horse slips through the cliffs, crushed; T. takes not black, but white foam, lubricates the bones, the horse comes to life; brings him to the rock, turns into a berry meadow; they go down girls, T. sticks a needle to the headscarf of one of them; T. cuts down K.'s two heads; his wife orders to burn three squirrels, K. and his rock house disappear, T. returns his wife home]: Varlamova 2004, No. 5:164-174; Evenks of China [when Altyn Buto was born, his parents were taken away by Dalai-lama-takan with a horn on his head; his father was tied at the main gate, his mother at the side doors, they must open and close them; parents they managed to put AB in a pot of broth; he ate broth, grew up, got out of the cauldron; he learned to hunt himself with onions and arrows, made his clothes out of his skins; chased a half doe (two legs and half body); she said that AB should not shoot at her, but save her parents; we should ask the fir growing near the house, she saw everything; AB knelt down in front of the fir, called her father; fir replied that parents AB 17 years ago, he captured D.; indicated where the cattle, horses, clothes, weapons hidden for AB were; the mare gave birth to a foal with him, he immediately allowed himself to ride; surpassed the rest of the horses; carries AB, stops at the stream; AB hits him; the horse replies that he has not drunk milk since birth, asks for permission to drink water; drinks and grows; next time stops: there is a gate with sickles in front; let AB three times He will whip him and close his eyes; they flew through the gate; in front of the sea, in the middle of the palace; D. noticed those who had arrived at the shore, sent servants; the horse barely woke up to AB, ordered to throw manure at the attackers, AB threw it, After killing the majority, one returned to D.; D. ordered AB to be called to him; AB refused to go in the boat, fired an arrow across the sea, the horse and rider flew over the arrow; D. released AB's parents; they warned his son about AB cunning; AB had a feast, gave AB his daughter to lull his vigilance to lull his vigilance; pretended to be sick; to supposedly cure him, the shamans ordered AB to get the hearts and heads of wild animals; but he easily killed tigers, leopards, bears and snakes; then D. asked to make a coffin for him the size of AB's body; his wife warned him to lie face up in the coffin, not down; AB he lay face down, the servants threw toads and snakes there, they boarded up the lid, threw the coffin into the sea; the wife rides along the shore on horseback, asks if AB hears her, if toads and snakes have harmed him; he first replies that they are eating his legs; then his body; there is a cliff in front, the wife can no longer follow the coffin along the shore, remains on the cliff with her horse and dog; the coffin brought Mangiä to the top; when he discovered it, she saw toads, snakes and a human skeleton; daughter M. wants bones for herself, the father says he will donate them to the spirit; the daughter hid behind the figure of the spirit, said on his behalf that the father should give the bones to his daughter; she let the dog lick them, revived them with an amulet, AB was reborn; first she hid it from her father in a chest; said that man's smell came from bones; then she opened herself to her father, who recognized AB as his son-in-law, gave him an amulet; the wife and AB arrived at the cliff, the second wife revived first, her horse and dog; AB's horse ran himself - he escaped from the stable and hid; AB came to D., began to fight him, but to no avail; the horse explained that D.'s life in three iron files in a helmet in more often than the forest, they are guarded by a hawk; the hawk drove the wind towards him with his wings, but AB hit him in his beak; came to D., broke the files, D. died; AB freed his parents and other prisoners, became ruler]: Bä cker 1988, No. 24:169-182.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nivhi [a person reaches a place where the sky rises evenly above the ground and falls; the wind breaks into the hole, swans fly there in autumn; some are crushed, living nearby an old woman eats them; the man left home young, returned as an old man]: Kreinovich 1929:79-80; Udege people: Arsenyev 1995 (2) [the man decided to go to the ends of the earth and sky; overtook the flying hazel grouse, black hazel grouse, killed them; told the skis to fly like a bullet; saw that the sky hit the ground; when it rises, it becomes lighter and quieter, when it goes down, it becomes dark, the wind increases; stone a half-human half-animal wants to kill him, he hits him with an arrow; pulling out an arrow, breaks his knee; asks the Raven to fly to his house for medicine; returning, the Raven sits on cedar, oak, etc.; in The result is nuts, acorns, blueberries and all other berries and fruits; the person heals, promises the Raven that he will not be killed, that he will always find meat; returns with his wife; their third Manga's child waits three years in the womb for her father to say that the earth is ready; he is born a little ahead of time, so the land is not built in the north, it's winter there; M. goes there]: 169-172 (quail in Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 105:471-473); Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010 [on the back of the Koi bird, which has iron plumage, the shaman takes the souls of the dead to the afterlife; Koi protects the passage beyond the celestial sphere; this is oval a hole surrounded by two rows of sharp rocks; the rocks are constantly moving in the opposite direction; when the hero kills Koi, he divides her meat between people and names them in tune with the name of the parts obtained; the genus that received the larynx becomes the main one; its relatives have the gift of eloquence; if Koi flaps its wings, the wind will begin with thunderstorm and rain; in autumn, Koi's flight generates storms and storms at sea]: 47-48; Orochi: Aurora, Kozminsky 1949 [The North Star is the "mouth of heaven"; there are two opposite rows of rocks, each nine, continuously moving in different directions as knives in a hair clipper; only the most clever shaman can slip between them, becoming a small winged snake]: 329, 333; Aurora, Lebedeva 1966, No. 19 [the hunter lives alone, does not know who his parents are ; goes to travel; breaks weapons against an iron boar, runs away from it; smears fat on the interpreting rocks, fumigates rosemary with smoke; the rocks freeze, it passes between them; two old men hold along the edges of the path a sledgehammer is ready; the hunter feeds them fat, fumigates them with rosemary, they let it through; the old woman gives him a rusty sword; the devil pursuer in the form of a man, not a wild boar, enters the old woman's house; a man cuts him with a sword; hears a woman's voice; you killed me and I wanted to love you; the old woman explains that she is the daughter of the people of the Sun, gives the man an old arrow; then the hero enters the city, performs feats]: 160-168.

SV Asia. Chukchi: Bogoras 1902:1 [the passage in the form of crushing rocks is called the "ultimate limit of the sky", or "the limit of birds"], 55 [a young man comes to a rich house to marry the bride; the door slams shut, crushing the incoming; the young man slips quickly, only a piece of his clothes is cut off]: 608, 666; 1928, No. 24 [Sun, Month, Sky, Sea, Dawn, Darkness, Peace, as well as Atigitki and his cousin came to marry girls whose father is Earth; everyone shows what he can do; The sea drowns everyone, the Sun burns, but everyone is reborn; the Month causes interpreting rocks that press those present; A. and his a cousin turns into stoats, hides in the corner of the room; see motif K27]: 369; Bogoraz 1939 [(=Bogoras 1907:332); in the four corners of the world, the rocks of the sky meet the rocks of the earth, then hitting them, then rising; on their way to their world, migratory birds fly through an opening gap; those flying behind are crushed; the wind creates the movement of the rocks; beyond the edge of the sky is the place where all the animals came from]: 42; Belikov 1982:46-51 [wife disappears, Rorath takes a boat to the rugged cliffs between which birds fly; then the country of Kele; R. catches a stone ball, injures the enemy with it; jumps from a height, pulls out a stone thrown into the sea, wins the run; gets his wife back], 57-65 [the sister of two brothers is kidnapped; a woman looks into the house, tells her older brother that the kidnapper lives overseas; brothers they make a boat, swim between the crushing rocks, only the steering paddle is crushed; the brothers see a man catching a lot of sea animals with a net; the elder hides under carcasses, brought into the house, opens to his sister; the owner tells the brothers to sit on the floor, he jumps; animal bones turn into dangerous animals; brothers do not fall; the owner throws his younger brother against a sharp whale shoulder blade, his head cut off; the elder bounces; throws the owner against the shoulder blade, killing him; puts his heads, reviving the owner and brother; the owner closes the elder in the stone house, sets him on fire; the brother does not burn; closes in the owner's house burns down; brothers and sister fly home in the form of seagulls; contrary to the slave's warning, the youngest bites Navaga along the way, remains a seagull forever]; Sangi 1989 [=Belikov: 57-65]: 430-437; Koryaks [(probably from Jochelson 1905 or 1908); for winter, geese fly to another world through a small hole in the sky or through a gap between rocks; they must fly silently; as soon as the goose feeds a voice, a slit slams shut and a crushed goose falls dead; in another world, Goose (or Bird's) Mother is waiting for geese]: Toivonen 1937:110.

The Arctic. Aleuts (Unalashka) [people disappear; the young man goes to find out the reason; comes to the river, its banks converge and diverge, the river flows with the bones of the dead; the young man throws off the dead man's fat (cadaveric fluid - an ordinary witchcraft), the shores stop, the young man jumps over the river; sees a giant, kills him with an arrow sleeping; comes to his family, where they are concerned where his brother is; a woman puts the young man to bed with his daughter, he changes places, a woman cuts off her daughter's head, drinks blood; a young man runs away, people hide him; a cannibal falls into a trap pit, a young man finishes her off with arrows]: Jochelson 1990, No. 41 : 317-323; Asian Eskimos (Chaplino) [female mice sewed for berries; Mayyrahpak saw them, sharpened a knife, packed them in her kitchen, hung them on a tree and told him to straighten up; went to for themselves; the mice ask the evrazhka to release them; she refuses: they threw stones at her; the same is an ermine; the fox (or rather a fox, but this is a female) agrees; tells to fill the kitchen with shiksha (bushes along with berries); the mice ran away, the fox went to her place, spread the red alder paint, smeared herself and the night pot; M. tells the tree to bend down, first takes the berries by the eyes, then understands the deception, comes to the fox kill her; believes she is dying; agrees to take the pot to the edge of the cliff to empty; the fox follows, pushes M. off the cliff; M. caught on the bird's nest; began to ask the birds to pick it up, but those afraid - heavy; painted the ax; seeing this, the other axes also wanted to be painted; since then they have raised M.; she went south, and the fox went north; jumped on the ice to cross to on the other side; the Maskin guys started shooting at her; the fox first asked to let her go to land, ran away, began to live in a hole; and M. stopped at the crushing rocks; settled inside them; took care of them the son of evil spirits; he, playing with children, killed them; M. herself took the liver of the walruses caught from hunters; the hunters invited pupil M. to hunt, threw the liver on thin ice, the young man failed, following she, he was finished off with harpoons; his liver was handed over to M.; she recognized her son's liver by his lice that fell from it; she cried; sent the wind and carried the hunters into the sea; the old man had a crow as his helper spirit; he came to M., told her to leave the house; the doors behind her closed themselves; the raven to the doors: just try to open - I'll spark; M. could not return to the dugout and left]: Rubtsova, Vakhtin 2019, No. 7:90-106 Asian Eskimos (Sirenics): Menovshchikov 1985, No. 99 [girls and boys play wives and husbands, one did not have a husband, she took an old whale skull; her skull dragged her into the water; her eight brothers follow her birds; birds overtake them twice; on the third, brothers build a kayak that overtakes the fastest birds - stonemasons; birds fly into the passage between the crushing rocks, the rocks bite them with tips, become covered with the blood of birds; only the bars at the stern of the kayak are damaged; in the whale dwelling, the old man offers to compete; after turning off the lights, he throws a whale shovel, but the sister hid the brothers in the pit in advance; the sister creates seagulls from pieces of one of the brothers's tea-skinned kitchen; while the seagulls attack the old man, the brothers take his sister away; the whale chases their boat; the woman consistently takes off her garments, throws a whale; every time he plays with them, falls behind, stops chasing; a woman gives birth to a kitten; he regularly brings whales to people; people from another village kill him]: 238-241; Van Deusen 1999 [girls and young men play wives and husbands on the shore; one is missing a pair, her leg is stuck in the hole in the whale bone, the bone dragged her into the water; her brothers sailed in the boat; parents said that if the birds flew by, they will swim; there are cliffs in front, the birds have flown by, the kayak has passed after them; contrary to the wishes of her sister, who is pregnant with Keith, the brothers take her with them, pass the cliffs again, return ; a woman gives birth to a kitten; he swims in a lake, a year later he is released into the sea; strangers killed him, his whale father drowned their boat; his mother took her son's bones and slept with them]: 138-140; St. Lawrence [boys and girls played, each took a pair, one girl was left without a pair, sat on her skull in her face, said he would be her pair; her skull took her away; her older brother Ayvanga became everyone ask questions; the old man explained that it was necessary to make a boat faster than a duck; A. and his four brothers made boats out of different wood and broke them when they could not overtake the ducks; finally found a suitable tree and swam; there are cliffs ahead, many dead birds and seals in front of them; the boat slipped, only cut off the very stern of the kayak; on the shore there was a man, they promised to give him a knife, he said that the leader had brought a new wife; A. killed him so that he would not report them; through a hole in the dugout, the brothers see the audience, their sister was cooking; met with his sister; the chief asks what the wife is concerned about; she answers that her food was too monotonous, the chief promised to bring other meat; A. went to the old woman, killed her, put on her skin, and the other brothers came to the chief and he offered to fight; the local young men followed the old woman, they carried it, because she usually cannot walk, they wonder why it is so heavy; the leader easily defeats and kills each of the younger brothers; when he is going to kill the youngest, A. takes off the old woman's skin, kills the leader, everyone is happy; A. revives both the brothers and the leader; the competition continues the next day; A. is lowered into the hole, she is covered with burning firewood; in the pit A. hid under the shoulder blade of a whale; to him they lowered the rope, he went out; the leader was subjected to the same test, burned down; the brothers go to the shore, taking his sister and another girl; towards an old man and an old woman, holding human figures and a wand; like they only hit the figure with a stick, one of the brothers falls dead; A. kills the old people themselves, revives the brothers; a whale chases the boat into the sea; the brothers consistently throw the girl's garments, the whale stays late every time; when a girl is naked, they throw her whale herself]: Slwooko 1977:54-60; Nunivak Island [two brothers swim hoping to find suitable wives; two halves of the mountain then they disperse, then they meet with a crash; first one brother in his kayak, then the other manages to swim; in both cases, the stern of the kayak breaks, little round-mouthed people rush to chew chips; brothers they swim to the village, get married]: Lantis 1946, No. 13:281-282; central Yupik [migratory birds, in particular geese, fly south between two crushing mountains; weak birds die]: Gillham 1943:1-16; Bering Strait Inupiate [Vinilinatuk refuses to marry; gives birth to a child, does not tell parents to look at him; while she is away, they look; he has a huge mouth, he bites them to death; V. goes with him, he hunts for her; A. marries a man who has four other children, one of them a girl; the largemouth becomes more and more like a human, although he manages to kill one of named brothers; sister carried away on an ice floe; the largemouth and one of the brothers sail in umiak to the mouth of the sky; she opens and shrinks; only the feed of their boat is crushed; they find a sister; her husband offers to fight; kills her brother, is killed by a largemouth, her brother immediately comes to life; an evil shaman kills people by pointing severed human fingers at them; a largemouth kills him; both brothers and sister return home, following the edge of the sky]: Garber 1940, No. 14:115-114; Northern Alaska Inupiate (Kotzebue) [four brothers disappear one by one; when conceiving a fifth son, the husband carves sparks, falling into the womb of his wife; lets the baby swallow hot stones, making him invulnertok; the young man Kayartuarungnertok goes to avenge his brothers, meets various strange creatures; together with his uncle sails in a boat; two cliffs on the sides of the river collide and diverge; K. swims between them, only the end of the boat's stern is broken; then the log rises above the river and then falls into the water; the boat has time slip under it]: Ostermann 1952:243-244; caribou [Kivioq finds himself on an ice floe, sails to an unknown land; there is an old woman and daughter, he takes his daughter as his wife; mother-in-law kills her by looking for her in her head and piercing her ear, pulls her skin; K. guesses about the substitution, seeing wrinkles on the legs of his imaginary wife; runs away; mother-in-law puts obstacles in his way; he 1) runs away from the bears; 2) runs between the interpreters rocks (the floor of his clothes were cut off); 3) runs along the edge of the boiling pot; 4) copulates with the lower part of the female body blocking the path, passes; 5) jumps over a belt that kills travelers; 6) spends the night in an old woman's house with an iron blade protruding from behind (he puts a flat stone on his chest; the old woman jumps on it, dies pierced by her own blade); 7) escapes in a kayak from a huge oyster; his parents die of joy when he returns]: Rasmussen 1930b: 97-99; netsilic [shaman hunts seals by the ice-hole; A month goes down, invites him to his sleigh, brings him in his sleigh, brings him to heaven in the village of the dead; the walls of the passage to the house of the Month converge and diverge like a chewing mouth; a shaman slips; in another room there is a Sunwoman sitting with a child in her arms, her lamp is hot; a shaman returns home]: Rassmussen 1931:231-232; Baffin's Land [the hunter hides the clothes of four bathing girls; one does not return, takes her as his wife; the other three wear their jackets, fly away geese; Goose wife accidentally stained with whale blood; makes feathers for herself and her son, flies away with him; the husband goes to look for them; passes between the crushing rocks, jumps over a boiling pot, over a fat pot; the human pelvis lets it through after he copulates with him; a man with a hole in his back cuts a tree; the hero pretends not to notice a hole; the man sends him to the birdland in self-propelled kayak; son recognizes his father; in the house, the hero sees an old man next to his wife; both his son and his son fly away like birds; the hero manages to rip his wife's belly, bird eggs fall out]: Boas 1901b, No. 14: 179-182; West Greenland [wife pretends to be dead, man buries her; child sees mother with new husband; man kills her and lover, leaves child, swims across the sea; two icebergs converge and disperse; only the tip of the kayak's stern is damaged; after many years, the man returns to his son; he grew up to be a brave hunter]: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 258:473-476.

Subarctic. Koyukon [the young man lives with his grandmother; sails in a boat down the river; two knives block it, move like scissors; the boat slips; the young man sails to the village, he is offered a competition in fighting; he participates, then runs away, swims back; he is chased by a fiery man; a young man asks his grandmother to bite a dog's ear; spirits are afraid of a dog's howl; a fiery man disappears with a thunder]: Jette 1908-1909:349-351; tanana: De Laguna 1995, No. 5 [Cetitalkani makes a boat out of partridge and birch bark keel bone; sails down the Yukon; gets to various animal people; two rocks collide and disperse; this is Wolverine's trap; C. fires an arrow, she hits a rock a little; swims himself in a boat, caught by a rock by his shirt; pretends to be dead; Wolverine brings him home; one of the children notices that the game has opened her eyes slightly; Wolverine sharpens a knife; C. grabs a stone ax and kills it; Wolverine's children climb a tree, C. kills them; the girl in the menstrual hut was in the forest; climbed to a tree; she extinguished the fire around the trunk with urine; she cannot be killed; wolverines came from her, they steal prey from the barns], 9 [same; C. kills Wolverine and his wife; he has one daughter, she escapes in a tree]: 98-103, 128-129; Rooth 1965 [Wolverine blocks the river with a trap that rises and falls; Noah fires an arrow, the fall of the trap slows down, N. swims in a boat; pretends to be dead; R. brings him home; N. makes R. forget where he put his hatchet for cutting meat; kills R. and his family with it; one girl escapes to tree; wolverines come from it]: 219-220; atna [Lynx came to the Bear; he has two daughters; he insists on calling Lynx son-in-law; Lynx asks where to get material for arrows; 1) poles; Bear sends crashing trees into the forest; Lynx slips between converging trees, brings solid wood; 2) feathers for arrows; on such a cliff; there are two eagles in the nest, their parents flew away to hunt people; the elder eagle promises to tell his parents about the Lynx, who kills him; tells the youngest to say that he fell asleep and fell out of the nest; the Eagle flew in, the Lynx killed him with an arrow; then the Eagle, the same; each of them brought half a man each; the lynx told the eagle to eat partridges and rabbits from now on; brought feathers; 3) a bowstring; there lies a deer as big as a mountain (moose); Lynx asks the Mouse to chew off the wool from the place where heart; she gnaws, tells the Deer that her children are cold; The deer allows it; the Lynx pierces him in this place with an arrow, brings tendons; 4) glue to secure the bowstring; the Bear sends the Lynx to where resin boils to the fir; he brings it without being burned; the Bear offers to hunt bears (these are his daughters), gives arrows with bark tips, but Lynx uses his own to kill the Bear's daughters; he Lynx chases, Lynx hides in the middle of the lake; The bear is great for the Frog to drink it; the Lynx asks Sandpiper (snipe or curlew) to hole the Frog's belly, the water pours out; the bear digs the drain into the lower lake, but Lynx slips, Bear can't catch it]: Tansy 1982:8-14; upper tanana [men live without women; Raven sails in a boat down the river; slips under a torn tree that rises and falls above the stream; reaches the country where vaginas live; they fly like geese; after shooting as much as necessary, the Raven returns home; chooses handsome young men, puts vaginas on them erected penises; rips off penises, turning young men into women]: McKennan 1959:191-192; tagish [people migrate, mother sends daughter for the old dog left at the camp; goes out to meet a young man marries a girl, hunts for her; she wonders where the bones go; sees her husband become a dog, chews on them; kills him with a club; gives birth to five puppies, one of them a female; collecting on the shore of the sink, hears children's voices; leaves his clothes on sticks like a scarecrow, creeps up to the house, burns dog skins, puts on children's pre-prepared clothes; the name of the last boy Lkayakw; brothers come to a woman (Mistress of the Mist?) , she helps them find the monster, gives them a boat, L. sees a mossy log, a self-propelled boat is under the moss; brothers kill the monster, the cliff on the river is its petrified head; fly over it with a billowing, then disappearing fire in the lake; L. touches the feather of a thunderbird, everyone is killed by thunder, except for the shaman, who revives the brothers; they have a lot of meat, L., turning to the forest, calls for a feast; rolls The skull eats all the meat; the brothers hear that they themselves are called to visit (apparently to the Skull); they come, sit on the board, burn, the shaman brother revives them; they swim across the river to their mother and sister; she has her period , she looks at the brothers, they and she turn into rocks on the Stikine River]: McClelland 2007, No. 81:307-402; helmet [Swan leader kidnaps a man's wife; husband leads warriors to a high cold country; they reach a place where the sky hits the ground; they slip through, one of them is covered by the sky; he is sent back in a boat; the wife helps her husband by putting the Swan to sleep; all Swans are killed, one Swan Hunter escapes; on the way back, it turns out that the sky has frozen to the water; shamans and animals are trying to break a hole; Lynx breaks its nose, since then he has been dumb; Laska makes a small hole, others expand it; the expedition returns home]: Teit 1917a, No. 11:453-455; beaver [see motif K27; father-in-law tells Tumashal to bring resin for arrows; she takes resin between crushing trees, T. takes resin wearing stone mittens]: Goddard 1916:235-237; taltan [A swan carries a woman; her husband and friends come to the edge where the sky hits the ground; one of the participants magically slows down, people pass by; they walk across the country of Ducks, then Geese; the weather gets warmer as you approach Swan Land on the other side of the sky; a woman runs away with people; Swans stop chasing when they reach the edge of the sky, because it's getting too cold there; people are coming home]: Teit 1921a, No. 58:336-337.

NW Coast. Eyak [there's a hole at the edge of the earth, sea water rushes into and out; the Raven once approached and fell there]: Birket-Smith, De Lagina 1938:223 (=Johnson 1978:22); the Tlingits [the monster sleeps with his eyes open, awake with their eyes closed; the old man gives four brothers a boat flying with an arrow; they sail in it 1) under a cape that descends periodically from above the water, 2) between colliding heaps of algae (after that, the algae turns into a rock covered with algae), 3) above a fire that periodically comes out of the sea, 4) between dogs rushing to passing from both sides (turning into two rocks), 5) between crushing mountains; cut off the monster's head with a bird's tendon (it tears all other tendons)]: Swanton 1909, No. 31, 92 [see motif M46; two sisters go to Mountain Man; an old mouse woman helps them avoid obstacles on the way; sisters throw pieces of fish to dogs, moss between colliding algae, whetstone between crushing mountains; Mountain Man marries on both sisters]: 103, 283-284; Haida: Bringhurst 2000 [the niece of the main woman in the village was in the ritual hut on the occasion of her first period; the children were playing ball; a pen came down from the sky; one grabbed him, stuck, the others dragged him, dragged everyone into the sky; the girl came out of the hut, blew her nose, wiped her snot under her arm, became pregnant, gave birth to a son; then eight more boys and one girl (from different objects); the feather came down again, the grabbing ones turned into 1) snot, 2) chips, 3) bird down, 4) cedar bast, 5) silt, etc.; the last one in a crabapple tree; when in the ground only one root was left, my sister climbed to the feather, cut it with her fingernail; everyone fell in the guise of people, the bones of those previously carried away too; the youngest spat - everyone came to life; the brothers went, killed the groundhog, entered the house, there the woman, it was her son, she told the doors to close; the youngest jumped ash out the chimney, revived the groundhog, the woman opened the door; after meeting other creatures, four brothers survived; came to the edge of the sky, the gap closes and then opens; two are cut, two have slipped into the sky, saw the Open Beak of the Day]: 181-187 (Sky Penetration Episode: 188-189); Swanton 1905 [Salmon taken a boy in a boat to his country; they return with him; the path lies under the edge of the sky, which rises and falls; the boat is crushed, some of the sailors are saved; the mother recognizes her son in the guise of a salmon by a necklace hanging on him; he cuts off his head, puts his body on the roof, it turns into a human; he becomes a shaman; he kills salmon a year later; it is his own soul, he dies; see motive B45]: 7- 15, 153 [the son of a leader of a distant country takes the daughter of an earthly leader; he sends a slave for her; the sky beats against the ground; the slave throws a harpoon, follows him, slipping under the sky], 332 [a group of brothers goes to deity; runs under the edge of heaven; two cut in half, two alive, coming to Heaven's Beak]; Tsimshian: Barbeau 1961 [see motif A24; world in darkness; Raven or crow skinned son the leader flies to the sky; penetrates a mountain that closes and opens; makes the heavenly leader's daughter pregnant, steals a ball of light, the world becomes light]: 78-82; Barbeau, Beynon 1987 [in the world it was dark (gloomy), there was no sun; the chief came in and saw his wife and lover; he thought it was his nephew; he told his wife that he knew everything; she was shocked and soon died; the coffin was hung from a pole; the chief is surprised that the nephew shows no signs of grief; tells him to watch; people see a woodpecker flying up to the coffin every evening and flying away in the morning; they hear laughter from the coffin; the chief came to see for himself, but cadaveric worms fell on him; the woman gave birth in the coffin, the baby got out; when the coffin was opened, there was a decayed corpse; the chief ordered one of the sisters to take care of the baby as if it were his son; she has her own son of the same age; they grew up like brothers; the chief's son caught two ducks, took off their skins; wearing them, the young men learned to turn into ducks, fly; flew to a leader who had daylight; we must to fly between two mountains that converge and then disperse; the brothers agreed that whoever flies would marry the chief's two daughters; they flew and descended on the lake in front of the chief's house; each of his daughters took one of the ducks that turned into men at night; both gave birth to a son; the eldest Txamsen ("Smart"), the youngest Lugabula ("Lazy"); at this time, the missing boys are grieving at home about their disappearance; two babies were seen on seaweed in the sea; chief: they were the missing; they grew up, one of them took the form of a crow to steal the sun from the leader of heaven; flew to where the chief's daughter was took water, turned into a needle, she swallowed it with water; it was still the same Txamsen; the baby cries, wanted a ball with light to play; once he rolled the ball out of the house, became a grown man, then put on a crow's skin and took the ball away; saw spirit people fishing in the light of torches; they refused to share the fish, T. tore the ball, daylight spread across the world, the sun appeared, the perfume was gone]: 1-5; Boas 1902 [see motif K27; a young man comes to marry the chief's daughter; the door to the house opens and closes, crushing the grooms; a young man sticks a piece of ice into her, she stops]: 129-130; Boas 1912 [starving an aristocrat woman and her daughter were left alone; at night someone came in and slept with her daughter; then, when she touched the fir bark, she fell down and under it were increasingly large animals: a squirrel, a partridge, a porcupine, a beaver, a mountain ram, a black bear, a grizzly; that man appeared (he also often appears nearby as a bird whose scream brings good luck), said that he is sending the game; then the animals fell in two; they built two houses to store meat; the father told him to name his son Asdi-Wâ'l, who became a great hunter; he chases a polar bear, who makes passages through the rock, A. An onion goes through the crack and follows; after the bear, he climbs the stairs to the sky; there is a blooming plain; the bear turns out to be the Evening Star, the daughter of the Sun; she warns that her father killed many of her grooms; father-in-law tells 1) to hunt mountain sheep; the stars think that A. froze in place, but he only left his cloak and hat on the pole; A. entered the house where the mountain sheep were gathered; they beat the rhythm, and shaman kamlal; the shaman and the lamb jumped over his head, and killed the rest A., brought a lot of fat; 2) bring mountain water; it is in a cave, the entrance to which is closed and then opened; the slave was crushed, and A. took out water; the Sun told his daughter to step over the bones of the crushed one and he came to life again; 3) bring firewood; wife: as soon as you touch the tree, the bark would fall and crush; under the tree there is a pile of bones of the dead; the tree fell on the slave, and A. was unharmed; the father-in-law revived the slave again and put the fallen tree; 4) lie on hot stones (The Sun wants to bake and eat his son-in-law); Father A. gave him pieces of ice to put under his arms, A. we are safe in the oven; since then, the Sun and all its people of stars have fallen in love with A.; A. wants to return to his mother, together with his wife, who has 4 baskets of meat, berries, etc., slides to the ground in the sunlight; every day, the wife tells me to bring water, puts a pen into the bucket - the water is clean; once A. met another girl, the water is covered with mucus, the wife returned to her father; he follows her, falls when almost He reaches heaven, breaks, the Sun revives him; he lives with his wife again; they return to earth again; then the wife leaves altogether, and A. marries the leader's daughter; argues her four brothers, claiming that he is a better breadwinner of marine animals than they are land animals; brings four bears, the brothers come back empty-handed, pick up his sister; A. marries another girl, she gives birth to him son; A. hunts walruses better than her four brothers, who leave him on a rock in the middle of the sea; a mouse takes him to an underground walrus house; he heals a wounded walrus; the walrus owner sends him home in a walrus stomach; his wife helps him kill her brothers; he goes hunting in the mountains, turns into stone]: 71-146; Quakiutl: Boas 1910, No. 16 [Kankilah marries the youngest of four daughters Dvananalisa; father-in-law asks to get a hammer that has fallen into a split log, takes out the spacers; splashes blood; K. is unharmed, brings a hammer; turns a rotten deck into a dolphin, he splashes water on his father-in-law, his face swells up; K. and his wife return to his younger brother; he is dead; his wife sprays him with live water, he comes to life], 35 [Kanekelak goes to marry Dzavadalis's daughter; Meets blind geese and ducks, a blind woman; spits in their eyes, they see the light, give him instructions; he breaks the vaginal teeth of D.'s youngest daughter with his finger, marries her; slips through the door, usually pinching grooms; thrown on thorns, turning into an ermine; sent to split (?) wood; D. takes alder juice for blood, fluff for his son-in-law's brains; K. returns with firewood; his father-in-law is carried in a boat, causes a storm, his father-in-law dies, K. revives him]: 195-199, 455-462; 1935 [way to the upper world leads through a slamming door; the boat must speed up so as not to be crushed]: 125; chickpea [see motif J57, motif L38; a young man rises to heaven; rubs the eyes of the blind with his penis women by making them sighted; they teach him to overcome obstacles; the door jambs to the house of the Sun are jaws that close and diverge; a young man slips through the door; marries the daughter of the Sun]: Sapir, Swadesh 1939, No. 21:97-101.

The coast is the Plateau. Woodchuck (Arctomys monax) lives in a house between the rocks; when a guest enters, the rocks crush him; Tlees inserts a spear between them, enters, kills the owner, turns him into woodchuck; The bear offers to compete in pole climbing; kills three T. brothers when they climb; T. kills the Bear; the hare invites him to his house to eat meat; pierces those who come with his (spicy?) with his foot, hitting them in the chest; T. ties a stone to his chest in advance; kills the Hare, makes a hare; The elk stands in the river, swallows boats; T. lets himself be swallowed, makes a fire in the Moose's stomach; cuts off the heart, when the Moose swims to the shore; tells the brothers not to touch it when they start to fresh the carcass; the Eagle takes people away; T. allows himself to be carried away, sprinkles red and white paints, the Eagle takes them for blood and brain; T. kills Orlitz, descends on an eagle's back]: Boas 1895, No. 1:1-4; quarry [see J25 motive; many people died trying to marry Xmandamlkit and Tsabol, daughters of two heavenly chiefs; Son of the Dead wears chikadi leather, his cousin wears woodpecker skin, both fly to heaven; The old mouse woman teaches how to slip between crushing rocks where lightning strikes; Woodpecker's feathers are scorched; I. and Ts come to the source; imaginary birds allow themselves to be caught; tell them to forget that the girls hid them under their clothes; they turn into men at night; parents recognize them as sons-in-law; both are good hunters; their wives go home to earth; heavenly women have a lot of meat in their small handbags; people feast]: Jenness 1934, No. 11:149-154; comox [the old man owns fire, the door of his house is opens, then closes, killing incoming people; The deer puts a chip in his hair, jumps into the house when the door opens, sits by the fire to dry; the sliver lights up, it runs away, brings people fire]: Boas 1895 , No. 8:80-81; clallam: Gunther 1925:131-134 [see J4B, K27 motif; two girls make a boy out of resin; he comes to life, takes one of them as his wife; catches fish at night; before sunrise, his wife calls him home ; once she overslept, he melted in the sun; her two sons make a chain of arrows, climb into the sky to take revenge on the Sun; two daughters of the Sun notice their reflection in the river; take them as husbands; bring them into the house, doors who opens and then slams shut], 135-136 [see motif K19; two are married to stars in the sky; a hot fire is burning in the sky, sisters throw seaweed at it, it gets cooler; sisters they walk between crushing rocks, avoiding other dangers; finding a hole in the sky; weaving a rope from cedar paws, going down to the ground]; Puget Sound: Ballard 1929:66 [The Eagle and its bird-people return from the north after winning the competition; approach the place where the sky hits the ground; put in two thick pillars that still stand], 68-80 [two sisters dig the roots of the fern, stay spend the night on the prairie; one wants a white star, the other a red star; when they wake up, they are in the sky; the white star is old, the red star is young; husbands do not tell you to dig deep roots; the eldest the sister is pregnant, the youngest is sitting by the smoke hole so as not to see her cry because she has an old husband; when the boy has grown up, he dug a hole, from there the wind, the husbands immediately they felt it, but the women managed to close the hole; they weaved the rope and went down with the child; while everyone was swinging on a rope and an old toad woman was watching the child, the salmon stole the boy (this is the next Month); the mother found a rotten tree in the cradle, moistened the diaper, squeezed it five times, a second boy appeared (the future Sun); the yellow woodpecker goes to search for the Month, cannot pass between the crushing rocks; the same is the other woodpecker, raven, osprey; blue jay flew by; The month promised to come later; put a stick between the rocks so that the blue jay could slip back; Married for a month to a woman who is one of the salmon; his son is not wants to let him go; Month: a new generation is coming, and you (i.e. salmon) will be food; The month first made a mistake, told the salmon to go down, only then told them to go up; meets people fighting; What are you doing? - We fight; he turned them into birds and stones; turned little slaves into snipes; fishermen and people in the swamp into two types of ducks; people on the beach into oysters; people know that the Month changes the nature of people they meet, they want it kill; others argue about day and night, some want light and darkness every day, bear wants day and night to last for a year; now the bear sleeps all winter; the deer makes the tip of a spear; Month: what are you doing? - I want to kill the Transformer; Month: If you're a deer, they'll eat you; Norka argues with the Month who is who; Norka could not change the Month, and he turned it into a stick; he's Mink again; The Month cut him - the current minks turned out; four women drag each other by the hair; - We train to pull onions; The month turned them into 4 types of edible plants; made a man on the lake a beaver; carrying salmon - otter; Wild Cat roasts salmon, fell asleep; He ate everything for a month, the leftovers are in his face, now it has stripes, he has become a cat; 5 brothers are playing: fire, fire! It's all on fire; the trail: here, my grandson! but the quiver of the Month is burnt; across the river, old man Echo; only repeats: bring a boat! The month has passed by itself, began to fight Echo; bird: take the Echo giblets that hang on the wall of the dugout; the Echo echoed; the blue heron uses its head as a hammer, because stones and sticks alive; The Month made them with stones and sticks, made the Heron of Herons; The month gathered everyone to determine who should shine during the day and who should shine at night; tried the yellow hammer, but there is little light; the raven, the coyote, woodpecker is dark; hummingbirds are better, but the day is very short; younger brother The sun offered to be the sun for the Month, but it is too hot, the water is boiling; the Sun has begun to shine during the day, the Month at night; the old toad woman is now visible at night on the disc of the Month; the rope on which they swayed was up to the sky; Month: you can climb; but the Rat gnawed it, the Month turned it into a rat; the rocks on the mountain were transformed people; the Indians were relatives Months]: 145; snookually [salmon women stole Blue Jay's grandson; he/a is looking for him to the end of the world; flies between crush rocks, only her/his head is flattened]: Haeberlin 1924, No. 1 [behind the interpreters darkness on the rocks; the grandson found is now an adult man; teaches how to make nets; tells him to stick a fat branch between the rocks on the way back; returns to people himself, leading salmon; since then salmon go up rivers], 2 [the back of Blue Jay's head flattens on the way back when she carries her grandson on her back; her grandson makes rivers], 2a [eternal day behind the crushing rocks]: 372-375; snohomish [cannibal takes the Loon man away; he runs to Thunder and Flint; the door to Flint's house opens and slams all the time, cuts the cannibal to pieces]: Haeberlin 1924, No. 39:437; twana [see motif A5; one of two sisters baby Month; while sisters dig roots, their mother shakes the boy on a swing; two women replace him with a snag; mother sends birds and animals to find him; only Blue Jay slips through a stump that opens and closes (Soyke flattened his head); finds the Month, that returns]: Adamson 1934:374-378; puyallup [see motif A23; creatures from the lower world kidnap the Month-Old Baby; the animals go looking for him, with them the Blue Jay; at the edge of the world, Jay flies into a horizontal slit that closes and opens; only his crest is touched; Jay finds the Month, he returns]: Adamson 1934:356-360; Upper Chehalis: Adamson 1934:14-15 [see motif K27; the chief and his men sail to an unknown land; they are offered competitions; they have to go along the river under five hanging ice floes that go up and down; the boat passes, Blue Jay cuts off the tip of its tail], 161 [see motif A23; Blue Jay makes its way west to find the Month kidnapped in infancy; slips under five barriers that go up and down], 175 [as on p.161; where earth and sky converge, the earth moves up and down; stealing a month-old child, sisters slip through the hole]; lower chehalis (hamptulip) [see motif A5; two salmon girls kidnap a month-old baby; his grandmother and mother squeeze diapers, create his brother's urine; he's scythe and crooked; find out that there is a Chief with two wives; the abyss in front of his house opens and closes; only Blue Jay manages to fly over on the fifth attempt; the Chief promises Soyka to return; coming to abyss, wipes her feet, she closes forever]: Adamson 1934:266-284; colitz [see motif K27; Eagle, Blue Jay and their people sail to another village, fall to an unfamiliar shore; on the opposite side the boat slips twice under a log that goes up and down; it slightly hits the stern]: Adamson 1934:183-184; clackamas [older brother makes boats; sends son to younger brother for fat ; he insults him; the elder sends a wooden seal to drag the hunters' boat into the sea; they come to the seal woman; there is also a bumblebee woman with teeth in her vagina; the hero inserts a stone; his teeth break, a woman menstruates; a helper spirit gives advice on how to win competitions (see motif K27); people come to sturgeon spouses; a wife bakes herself; a vault of heaven hits the ground; a boat on the way home It passes under it five times; the last time only the food is slightly touched; hunters return; people turn into birds and animals]: Jacobs 1958, No. 26:207-226; tillamook [the doors of the house open and slam shut as fast as a woman inside the house speaks; the hero runs in, grabs meat, jumps out; a closed door touches his buttocks a little]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 1:6; yakima [the mother sends two daughters to dig roots; they sleep outside, the youngest Yas-lum-mas wants a red star as her husband, offers her sister Tah Pal-Meadow a bright one; the stars take both to heaven; Y. the husband is old, T. is young; husbands do not tell you to dig deep when collecting roots; T. digs, the wind blows into the resulting hole, husbands feel it; sisters weave a rope from hazel root, go down to ground; T. has a child, the Golden Boy (ZM); a woman from the east comes when a blind grandmother (mother of sisters) rocks the baby; replaces him with a rotten snag; a rope descending from the sky, which served as a swing, immediately breaks; sisters soak and squeeze dada (diapers?) , make them a new boy; Blue Jay gets east to a place where the ground rises and falls; flies through the crack, only the feathers of his crest are touched; ZM is already a man, making arrows, throws flint fragments into Blue Jay; he talks about what happened, ZM removes the fragments from the wounds; the wife leaves their son to watch his father; he leaves his hair responsible for himself, along with the Blue Jay returns home; becomes the Sun, made of diapers brother Month; Europeans descend from ZM's remaining son in the east]: Hines 1992, No. 49:141-146; ne perse [see motif K32; fleeing from danger, a woman safely passes through a crevice that opens and closes]: Phinney 1934:405-406; kutene [to get an onion tree, you have to walk along the path; trees along her sides hit one another; the hero puts a spear between them, the trees freeze forever]: Boas 1918, No. 105-107.

The Midwest. Winnebago [see motif J4; The hare is the youngest of ten brothers; performs feats, his new name is the Red Horn; loses the fight against giants, they kill everyone; after the death of the Red Horn his two sons are born; the eldest is from his wife, the youngest is from a giantess; brothers kill giants, revive their fathers; go with their friends to the ends of the earth, where the sky beats noisily against him; slip into the crack and then back by blowing moose bubbles (it's not clear how this helped); iron men are brought from the outside world, burned to death at the stake]: Radin 1931:143-162; fox [six men go to Visaky ; pass under shooting stars, one is killed; across a chasm that opens and closes, one falls; four reach the goal]: Jones 1907, #16:333-337; Ottawa [five young men and a teenager decides to go to the sun, go east; a European ship transports them across the sea; they come to a place where the sky beats against the ground; Manabozo invites them to fulfill their wishes; two they want eternal life, turned into stone and cedar; two want life longer than usual and military success; two want to hunt enough animals for their parents and relatives to eat; they slip under the sky when he rises; the other two are crushed; the Moon is an elderly woman, the Sun is her brother; he leads guests through the sky, stops at noon, between sunrise and noon, and in the afternoon and at sunset; people go home, meet fathers]: Schoolcraft 1999:144-154; Swamp Cree (Albany) [the ogre eats the family, fattens two little boys to eat later; the eldest makes a hole in the ground with his mother's awl, goes through it, carrying the youngest on his back; squeezing into the hole, the youngest injured his cheek; the elder throws a piece of wood, a rag, a stone, they turn into forest, rose hips, a huge boulder that blocked the hole; Walrus transports brothers across the lake; tells them to warn if Thunder appears; tells them not to shoot arrows into the water, and if they fall into the water, do not get it; when he transports the ogre, warns him not to move or touch a sensitive place on his neck; the cannibal moves, the Walrus throws him into the water, he drowns; the elder's arrow his brother falls into the water; Wemishus invites him to come and pick her up; takes him away in a boat, the youngest stays on the shore, is raised by two polar bears; V. gives his older brother to his daughter's husband; always kills son-in-law; V. leads his son-in-law to collect bird eggs; on the way there are interpreting rocks; the young man slips, V.'s head is crushed, but he makes it whole again; takes his son-in-law to the island to collect birds' eggs, swims away to self-propelled boat; the young man puts on the skin of a seagull, flying over the boat, defecates on V.'s head, flies back before his father-in-law; V. is surprised that grandchildren shoot arrows feathered by seagulls feathers; father-in-law leads him into the winter forest; at night he wants to push his moccasins and knee pads into the fire; the young man replaces them in advance; his father-in-law smears his feet with charcoal, but freezes in the forest, turns into juniper; the young man finds younger brother; reminds of a scar on his cheek, the younger believes that the elder is in front of him; lets go of his bear servants]: Skinner 1911:88-92; Eastern Cree (Quebec, Lac Hameçon) [one of two wives hates another son; asks to bring her a live partridge, puts him under her clothes, scratched, accuses the young man (his name Ayats) of trying to rape her; the father takes him to the island to collect seagull eggs, throws; A. puts on the skin of a seagull, flies above the water, falls on a rock; the water serpent Pisikiv plants him between the horns, tells him to warn if thunderclouds appear, takes him to the shore; A. passes The mouth of the Earth, throwing stones at it; flies to its mother as a bird, takes the form of a human being; fires an arrow, setting fire to the world; those who were kind to him are saved]: Petitot 1886, No. 1:451-459.

Northeast. Seneca: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 18 [see motif L72; older brother turns into an ogre, pursues younger brother and his wife; old woman tells the cliffs to stop when the fugitives pass between them; rocks crush the ogre, he comes to life; spirits destroy the cannibal's flesh and bones with turtle shell hammers], 119 [(=Hewitt 1928:792-819); young man Dehaehyowe leads 28 young volunteers to the sunset suns to get scalps of unknown people; many months go by killing people; a giant half a tree tells them to stop killing or they will die themselves; they agreed; when they reach a big lake , walked across the surface of the waters; on the opposite bank, we saw the sky rise and fall; flocks of pigeons flew in from the world beyond the edge of the sky, then came back; by this time they survived 5; they hid the scalps they carried, four slipped under the edge of the sky, the fifth was crushed; in the country beyond the edge of the sky, the trees are beautiful, their flowers give off a bright light that illuminates the whole country; local people play lacrosse; one plays rude, the chief throws his head into a tree as punishment while playing, his body pierces the trunk, the head is visible from the other side; after the game, the chief releases the offender; each disassembles four visitors, washes their bones, reassembles them, their bodies become strong and light; the hostess of the house (later admits that she is the Moon) weaves a cape out of human hair; as soon as leaves, her dog will unweave everything; later Luna says that every person who dies gets one hair to her; when everyone dies and new hairs stop appearing, she will finish her cape; they come local people (these are Thunders) do not eat food, but the smell (exhalations); the hostess puts corn and pumpkin seeds in the ash, then they germinate and bear fruit; one of the people accidentally lets an arrow into the pond; when they return, the owners smell game; go to this body of water, kill the terrible enemy Great Blue Lizard with lightning; grateful to the people for helping to find it; people see the ground below; there is a thunderstorm, a downpour; people see the Thunders chase and kill a huge horned serpent with lightning; horned snakes live underground; they will come to earth at the end of the world; the heavenly leader tells the Thunders to rest, half of it bodies made of ice; every day (i.e. year) turns one (winter) and then another (summer) half a body; Thunders fight a monster, for people it is a squirrel; people easily kill it, give it skin grateful hostess of the house; one of the visitors agrees to become a thunder named Thaw, or Warm Spring Wind; for this purpose he is crushed in a mortar; people visit the village of the dead, it is impossible to talk to them ; men visit the Sun's house; in spring they go down to earth, but the place where the village was covered with forest; they find a village, only an old woman heard from her grandmother how people followed the path of the Sun as a child; D. and his two satellites tell us what he saw]: 121, 607-632; Parker 1910 [three brothers go to the horizon; the sky beats against the water, producing ebbs and tides; brothers run under the edge of the sky; one is crushed, they they meet his soul in heaven; Haveni breaks the brothers' bodies apart and reassembles them; the Sun is the son of Haveni; two brothers return to earth, they have been gone 50 years old; soon they are killed by lightning]: 474-477; mikmaq: Leland 1968 [Over the plain on the way to the island where Gluscap lives, the wall rises and falls; two snakes are on the sides of the path; the young man goes to Gluscape, asks for a cure for all diseases; Gluscap does not tell you to open the bag along the way; the young man opens, the cure disappears]: 94; Speck 1915b [on the way to the lake where Gluscap lives, two brothers the interpreting rocks must pass; the youngest (see motif J19) breaks the rocks with an oar]: 63; malesite [Thunder kidnaps Gluscap's nephew; he returns the young man, puts sticks in the mouths of two standing on the sides of the trail for dogs that are both converging and diverging mountains]: Mechling 1914, No. 1:19-22; passamaquoddy [two men go to find out what thunder is; there are cliffs in front of them; the first slips, the second is crushed; the first comes to people playing ball; then they put on their wings, fly away; these are Thunderbirds; a person is pushed in a mortar, turning him into a Thunderbird; they say not fly low above trees to avoid dying]: Fewkes 1884:265-266 in Edmonds, Clark 1989:317-318; delaware [there is a place where the sky hits the water as it rises and falls]: Bierhorst 1995, NO. 13:31.

Plains. Assiniboine [woman falsely accuses her stepson of trying to rape her; husband takes her son to the island to collect seagulls eggs, throws it there; Seagull advises killing a seagull, pulling its skin over himself; twice he will meet interpreting rocks (or rather abysses, the hole of which closes and opens), every time he must throw them a fish; the mother shows the young man ulcers on the body, says that her husband is torturing her; the young man tells her to throw another wife's child into the fire; when his father comes out, the young man lowers the sun from the sky beyond the rays, the father dies from the heat]: Lowie 1909a, No. 7a: 150-151; Crowe: Lowie 1918:63 [ravine walls converge, crushing those passing by; the hero slips through the ravine, pierces his arrows, tells the ravine not to move anymore], 79 [= p.63; twins jump over the ravine], 114 [bison mother-in-law demands to bring reeds, growing between moving hills (hills are her knees, reeds are her pubic hair); the swallow brings three times, the fourth time the hills pinch its tail; Corn sprouts from the ground, freeing its tail swallows]; mandan [Coyote goes east, wants to meet the Sun; sees pillars of cloud on which the sky rests, moving up and down]: Beckwith 1938, No. 34:269; Omaha, ponka [the chief's son leads the warriors to heaven; the old man gives him a bag of otter skin and a thunder club; the edge of the sky rises and falls, one of the warriors is crushed under him; in the sky, the hero kills his with a club of four Thunders; returns to earth, revives dead comrades, becomes chief]: Dorsey 1888b: 75-76; Iowa: Skinner 1925, No. 1 [see motif J27; two brothers receive sacred packages from celestial beings; go to the four corners of the earth; each has a gap that opens and then slams; they jump over it on the way back and forth], 9 [see motif F34, L1; while their sister turns into Grizzly kills people, four brothers go to the edge of the world; jump over a crack that opens and closes; four Gromovniks give them sacred scalps; on the way back, brothers kill giants; kill Grizzlies, revive people]: 427-441, 465-468.

Southeast USA. Several men walk to the horizon to go up to heaven from there; the sky moves up and down, hitting the ends of the earth. Shawnee [people go west across four seas; go to heaven under the descending and rising sky; they come to Our Grandmother; she brings them back to the ground in a basket]: Voegelin 1936:5; Yuchi: Speck 1909:97 [four days of souls go east across the rainbow; a huge cloud hits the ends of the earth; some souls are crushed, some are returning to earth, some going to the abode of souls], 144-146 [ four men want to know if death exists, they kill their wives; they go to look for them; before entering the cave, a cloud (= sky) rises and falls; three run under it in the form of a deer, a cougar, a bear, they rise to the cloud on the other side; the fourth is crushed; the old sun woman hides them under her clothes from a monstrous cougar; sows corn, beans, pumpkins, they immediately produce crops; the dead are invisible, they dance; The sun puts four wives in calebasses, gives them to their husbands; they wake up on the ground; one opens the vessel before reaching home, the wife disappears; three return their wives, become leaders]; chirokee: Mooney 1896 [ the sky hits the ground; in the morning the sun slips into the gap that opens, goes west along the underside of the sky, returns east on the outside at night]: 971; 1900, No. 3 [see motif J27; the sky beats on the ground; two brothers slip to the other side, find their parents; they send them west; they are Little People, their voices are a distant thunder], 7 [seven young men go east to a place where stone the sky falls to the ground and then rises; they see the Sun, but it is too bright; one of those who come tries to run through the crack that opens, but is crushed; the rest return home old ]: 246, 255-256; chitimacha [two dozen men go north to the edge of the sky; only six are not crushed (apparently the sky is falling and rising), come to Ru'tnahin; one descends like a squirrel, crashes, the other two, becoming different animals, the same thing; the fourth a spider, the fifth an eagle, and the sixth a dove, brought to earth the gift of K.; who became a spider, could heal everyone, but by then one person had already died ( first death); the eagle taught me how to fish, the dove to sow corn]: Swanton 1911:358; choctaw, chickasaw [(motive is)]: Lankford 2007:227; Alabama: Swanton 1929, No. 21 [woman died , her children are crying, two men followed her, reached a place where the sky rises and falls; one ran as a cougar, the other as a bear; the old woman gave them a scoop, they went to the river, scooping up water splashed on the sides, the waters spread, they dried; the man gave them an ear, told them to throw them at the woman they were coming for, also gave them a bottle; the woman danced, they had a hard time getting into her on the cob, she fell, they put her in a bottle, brought her to the ground; woke up near the house in the morning, heard a scream from the bottle, opened it; the woman said they did not revive it properly, disappeared] , 22 [the woman died leaving her child, two men went to bring her back; the old woman gave them pumpkin to eat, they ate, but the pumpkin did not run out; they came to a place where dwarfs fought ducks and geese; they spent the night from another old woman, she let everyone scoop up water from the rivers and so go; let the bark be tied to her legs to pass the place where the snakes were; another woman gave tobacco, they lit a cigarette, hiding in the clouds of smoke from people who fought; they came to the edge of the sky, he went up and down; one slipped by a cougar, the other as a wild cat; in the sky, a man warned women about the city, they would try to stop them; they they passed without stopping; God gave them a melon, told them not to gnaw the seeds, peeled them again, the melon was reborn; God pulled back the lid, they saw their house below; gave pieces of cobs, they threw them into dancing woman, she fell, they put her in a vessel, closed the lid; woke up at home in the morning; the woman in the vessel moaned, said they killed her; they opened the lid slightly, she disappeared, returned to heaven; they came for it again, God gave it again, they lost it again; if they hadn't turned the lid off, people would come back after death]: 141-142, 142-143; koasati [woman dies, her two The brothers followed her into heaven; the sky fell, one jumped up on it, it rose; then the same with the second brother; the old woman showed them the path; they reached the place where the snakes, tied elm bark to their feet, passed; a man gave them cigarettes, on the way people were fighting on clubs, the brothers lit a cigarette, everything was covered in smoke, they passed; another woman gave a scoop, they went to the river, scooped up and poured some water, the waters split, they were dry, the waters came together again; they came to God (Never-dying), she cut the melon, gave half of them to eat, told them not to bite through the seeds, put the seeds and peel back; pushed something away, they saw the ground in the hole where their home was; on the fourth day they put their sister in a vessel, covered it with a lid, went back (apparently they were immediately on the ground); the sister from the vessel began to say that suffers there; they opened the lid slightly, everything is quiet, the vessel is empty]: Swanton 1929, No. 26:189-190; Alabama, Koasati: Lankford 1987:211-221 in Archer 2000 [four elderly men go look for the end of the world; go west, because after going through the day, the sun is not so hot; they kill a turkey, a bear, instead of them there is a mosquito, a hairy caterpillar; the mountain on the way turns out to be a turtle; with their bast wrapped their legs, the travelers fly with rattlesnakes; by the river they reject the Crocodile, the Turtle, swim on the Horned Serpent, throwing its bones; the stock runs out, the latter is brought to the opposite bank, The serpent swims after her, the riders go ashore; the sky hits the ground; three slip, screaming, I am a Puma, I am a Lynx, I am a Wolf; the fourth did not call himself a beast, distributed; the old woman tells me not to touch people and animals; they touched a horse and a girl, they turned into skeletons; another old woman gives seeds of corn, sweet potato, potatoes, beans, and other cultivated plants; travelers wake up at home, give people plants]: 193-197; Martin 1977 [three brothers; one crushed]: 25; Seminoles [four Seminoles and a colored one go to the eastern horizon; Seminoles move to the sky, and the colored one hesitates, crushed by the sky; Seminoles come to God; two want to become angels; they are boiled, they come to life, they now have wings; two want to come back, wake up at home]: Greenlee 1945:143.

California. Jurok: Elmendorf 1960 [sea waves (strong in winter, weak in summer) causes a vault of heaven to hit its surface; while the sky rises, you can slip under it into the outside space]: 520, approx. 30; Kroeber 1976, No. X13:430; Waterman 1920 [the land is surrounded by an ocean; the sky beats against the sea, causing it to stir; geese have a special round hole through which they flocks fly to another world]: 190-191 (quail in Beck et al. 2001:72-73); pomo [Coyote, Flower's father, sleeps with the Snake, the son's wife; The flower kills him, the wife leaves; The flower marries two sisters- Ducks; they lead him overseas; there is a hole in the rock, chewing jaws in it; Ducks and her husband slip through them, the Flower breaks his jaws with a sling; Father Ducks Thunder demands 1) catch fish (dissatisfied with what his son-in-law brought salmon, you need larger fish); 2) cut down a mammoth tree (son-in-law knocks it down with a sling, the tree presses the dugout); 3) bring a tree for the arrow poles (around the snake, the Turtle brings); 4) bring resin (around grizzly, the bird brings); 5) shoot at each other (The flower kills the father-in-law, he comes to life); 6) swing each other on the swing (at the bottom of the stake, the Flower asks them to part, lands unharmed; The thunder dies on stakes; people he killed before come to life from bones]: Barrett 1933, No. 40:190-193; Williams 1954 [Totolmatha (T.) - Morning Star, her husband Tata, is a hawk; they always swim together in Clear Lake, one day they lingered, dawn came, people began to tease her, they did not love her, for she was from heaven, where the terrible Gilluk (eagle) is an ogre and murderer; T. decided to leave, but Tata followed her; rattles on the way snakes, she sang, they disappeared; at the end of the world there are crushing rocks (the Swinging Gate of the Sun); T. sang, the rocks stopped, they passed; around G.'s house there were mountains of human bones and a lake of blood; T. reduced husband, hidden in a hollow twig; G. brought the murdered man to dinner; when he fell asleep, T. cut off his head with her fingernail; Cheeha praised, took his grandson Tattoo out of the branch; taking the shell money and after burning the village of G., T. and her husband returned; in spring, they celebrate the return of Tata, the sun, i.e. the hawk]: 11-14; screw [see motif K27; split pine stands in front of the Sun's house; first his dogs , then Tulcheherris himself skips, a gap slams shut behind them]: Curtin 1898:134-135; mivok [see J4B motif; a moving rock in the passage leading from our world to the south where they live migratory birds; Falcon and his friend pass the aisle; Falcon's wife Duck had her legs squeezed, since then they have short legs]: Barrett 1919, No. 5:12; Gifford 1917, No. 5 [no details]: 309; Merriam 1993:179-189; coastal mivoks [in the passage from our world to the cold north on the other side of the sky; ducks and geese fly there through this passage for summer]: Merriam 1993:214; Chukchansi yokutz [the edge of the sky hits the ground]: Rogers, Gayton 1944, No. 6 [The Coyote inserts a piece of wood into the crack; decides that it will rot, replaces the bone from the deer's foot; the edge of the sky still rests on this bone], 15 [ The falcon says that if the bow and arrows he throws are not crushed, he will also slip under the edge of the sky; he slips; his wife Duck rushes after him, the sky falls to her feet, and since then they have been flattened] 16 [as in (15), Dove instead of Falcon]: 196, 202; yokutz; Gayton, Newman 1940, No. 3 [wife dies; husband sits on the grave for two days; wife gets up, shakes off, goes west, husband follows her; when he reaches to the water, the wife tells her husband not to follow her, his smell is terrible for her; across the water, the bridge moving up and down turns into fish; the wife crosses, the husband flies to the other side with the help of a talisman; there, a Tipiknits man washes his face, tells him not to agree with his wife in the world of the dead and on the way back, 6 days not to talk about what he saw; invisible birds scream as they try to frighten those who walk so that they fell off the bridge; husband told on the fourth day, bitten by a rattlesnake, died], 6 [wife died, husband sleeps on the grave; on the third night the wife gets up, goes west, disappears in the afternoon; husband waits, wife in the evening reappears, the husband continues to follow her; the wife rubs her face with all sorts of nasty things - insects, blood, urine; the husband does the same; by the river bank, both pass between the crushing rocks; the wife crosses the river along on the bridge, the husband can't; the owner of the dead Tipiknits sends his two daughters after him, they have rattlesnake skirts, they take him across the bridge; give him a drink, give him pine nuts, that's enough to quench hunger; the wife is brought to her husband, T. tells him not to sleep, he falls asleep, wakes up among the heads; these are dead; at night they are people on the way, the husband does not sleep; they are allowed to return; almost reaching home, the husband, having broken ban, goes to bed with his wife, she disappears; he tells his parents what he saw], 146 [the wife is dead, the husband sleeps on the grave; on the third night the woman gets up, goes west; the husband follows her, passes safely between cliffs; a woman crosses a body of water over a shaky bridge; Tipiknitz is the owner of the dead, his two daughters accompany the husband of the deceased; he is given an inexhaustible supply of food; the man sees the dead in disguise shanks; he manages to stay awake; he returns home with his wife, violates the ban on sleeping with her, his wife disappears; her husband's parents were in mourning, he tells them what happened]: 17-18, 19-20, 102; chumash [souls go across the sea; first they enter the Land of Widows, who eat the smell of food and water (see motive I19); then they pass between two moving rocks that flatten the living, are safe for the dead; they pass between two qaq birds that peck their souls; souls put poppy heads into their eye sockets, see again; cross the river by log to the land of the dead Šimilaqša; there they get eyes from blue abalone shells; souls of ancestors who have forgotten the customs of their ancestors fall off the bridge, turning into monstrous turtles, frogs, snakes, fish]: Blackburn 1975, No. 12:99-100; kawaiisa [the entrance to the cave is blocked stones that close and then diverge; a man slips through a hole that opens; two old deer give him some food, but it is impossible to eat it all; under the ground, a person sees many deer and other animals; returns a year later in a different way than the one he got into the mountain; receives a chant to treat the disease; tells his story before three days have passed; killed by a bear]: Zigmond 1980, No. 53B: 177-178; cahuilla [souls of the dead go east between moving hills; evil ones are crushed, turning into rocks, bats, butterflies]: Hooper 1920:321, 342.

The Great Southwest. Navajo [cliffs]: Johly, B'yash 1958 [on the way of twins going to their father the Sun]: 18; Coolidge in Edmonds, Clark 1989 [First Woman conceives one son from the sun's ray, the other from drops of water; replies that their father is the Sun, sends to him sequentially in four directions; admits that the Sun God and the God of Water live in the ocean; the twins are helped by the Spider; the interpreting walls of the gorge they skip them; across the rainbow bridge they cross the Grand Canyon, then the sea; they come to the Turquoise House; their fathers greet them]: 85-89; Haile 1938 [stop moving after the hero inserts between flint club with rocks]: 125; Matthews 1994 [stop moving when they learn that the twins are children of the Sun]: 109-110; O'Bryan 1956 [like Haile; older brother inserts a moose horn between the rocks, they stop move]: 98; hicarilla [Naiyenesgani must get arrow reeds growing in a gorge with moving walls; he pretends to enter the gorge four times; then the walls freeze, N. pulls reed]: Goddard 1911, No. 8:203; Western Apaches (White Mountain): Goddard 1919 [the hero goes to the Sun; the caterpillar helps him pass over the rocks]: 116; Goodwin 1994, No. 3 [grandson consistently asks his grandmother where to get bow trees, arrow reeds, bowstring tendons, arrow feathers; she answers every time that it is far and dangerous; he goes after the bow tree, says to the Bear, Grandma, I will be your wife; The bear laughs, lets you take it; there are cliffs in front of the reeds; Gopher digs a passage, brings reeds to the young man; the terrible male Antelope (Big Horns) lies on the ground; Gopher He digs four underground passages, tells Antelope that he needs hair for the freezing kids, gnaws hair under his heart, the young man stabs in it, the Antelope plows his horn, dies; the young man takes his tendons, fills the stomach with blood; lets the Eagle carry himself away, 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; that 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 the chick into an owl; The Female Bat He 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 walks, the feathers have turned into all kinds of birds; the young man does arrows; a white feather comes down from the sky, turns into a girl, he marries her]: 12-16; Hopi: Fewkes 1895 [a woman conceives twins - A young man (Tuyu, aka P üüko) ñhoya) from the sun's ray and Echo (Palu ñhoya) from a stream of water; brothers destroy monsters (see motif J60); go to visit the Sun Father; the rocks at the entrance to heaven they move, then disperse; an old man sits on a rocky cornice at the abyss into the lower world by the path; collides passers with his legs straightened; the twins bounce, magically make him sit quietly; the same with the other guards are Bear, Puma, Snake; the Sun puts the twins in the oven, they are neurodym, he recognizes them as sons]: 132-137; Mullett 1993 [Spider has two grandchildren: Puukonhoya ("young man") and Palunhoya ("echo"); their father Tawa (The Sun) gave them a lightning weapon; they killed her giant Tcaveyo; decide to go west to see their father; Spider warns of guards on the way to his house, gives her a magic remedy; on the edge of an abyss an old man is sitting, trying to push the twins into the abyss; they spit out the Spider's remedy on him, his legs pressed against his chin, they passed by; they also pacified the snake, the bear and the cougar; the sky is beating against the ground; the twins spat, the rock froze for a second, they slipped through; they came to the turquoise kiva of their father and mother; their mother greeted them; the sun came, threw them into the hot furnace; when opened, they were alive; he recognized them with her children]: 54-61; Malotki, Gary 2001, No. 7 [young wife dies; Owl agrees to take her husband to the border of Maski (the world of the dead); Old Spider gives him deer skin to wrap her legs, here and further teaches what to do; he manages to pass through cacti; he kills a rattlesnake who tried to block the way with an arrow; crossing the river in a boat, he slips between diverging and converging rocks; paralyzes giant Maasaw, a cougar on the roof of a kiva, with a potion; the Spider tells the man not to touch his wife, calmly watch the Master of the Dead meet in her; not to get along with the girl (this was his first girlfriend in life), which he will be offered; a man does everything, gets his wife back; crossing the river, splashes a potion on a horned water snake, he disappears; contrary to the Spider's ban, he converges with his wife, does not when they reach home; the wife flies away an owl]: 55-64; Mullett 1993 [after passing other obstacles, the twins approach a place where the hard walls of the sky converge and then diverge like giant jaws; the twins throw at they don't have a little nahu potion, they hang motionless for a while, the twins slip safely]: 59; Stephens 1929, No. 8 [to penetrate the outside world where the Sun lives, the twins go under (?) a vault of heaven that opens and closes]: 18-19; teva (Santa Clara) [the hero runs between moving stones and knives; knives cut and stones flatten the witch chasing him]: Espinosa 1936a, No. 35:106-107; havasupai: Smithson, Euler 1994:36-39 [people live underground; one of the two brothers planted a vine near the pond, it grew in a spiral; people climbed one in a day turn, after a long time they came to the ground; one girl slept with all the men, but no one married her; turned into a tobacco plant; when they smoked, she became a woman again, laughed left; the women noticed scars on her head; she jumped into the pond, became a frog, the water began to rise; the older brother created the moon, calling it the sun; the younger sent the real sun to the sky; the sky was low, the sun was moving too fast; the younger brother moved the sky sixth; by this time the water in the lower world had risen, poured to the ground; people had placed a girl, water, food, birds in an empty log, animals; the rest of the people drowned; the woodpecker clung to the sky, the water soaked its tail; the water descended, the log fell to the ground at the waterfalls in Little Colorado; the girl put her vagina in the sun, then splashed her vagina waterfall, gave birth to a daughter (var.: she became pregnant by a woodpecker); told her to do what she did, her daughter gave birth to a boy; he grew up; arrow reeds grew behind the rugged rocks; the young man managed to slip through, take reeds, slip back; smeared his clothes with blood, the eagle carried him to his nest; he killed 8 big eagles, 4 eagles; blew, the rock became sand, he went down, bringing feathers for arrows; his father gave him a horse; cut it, put lightning on his son; said that he is water and sun; the father showed him peace; the young man went east, his grandmother went west], 39-40 [1) the walls of the gorge converged and then parted; two young men began to let them into they have arrows, the walls are frozen; 2) the same; the man entered with a log on his head; the walls of the canyon rested against its ends, stopped; 3) two young men live with the old woman; she says that arrows are needed to hunt; arrow reeds in the canyon; young men put juniper logs on their heads, the walls rest against them, stopped], 54; western yavapai: Gifford 1933a: 360 [], 402-412 [people live underground; younger the brother invites the elder to illuminate the world; he makes a disc, smears ocher, hangs it, but the younger one makes a disc of white lime, smears ocher; it becomes light but too hot; the younger brother asks the elder to raise the sky with a reed pole, he did; at night, the elder brother touches the genitals of his two daughters; they hide on the shore under the willow, where he relieves himself, and swallow his bowel movements; he begins to lose strength, tells him to be cremated after death; people sent the Coyote for fire, at which time they lit a fire while standing around; the badger was lower than the others, the Coyote jumped over him, took his heart and ate him; ground should have been laid on a burnt heart, cultivated plants would grow; and that's how only one corn stalk grew; the best cobs went to the Hopi and Navajo, and the worst yavapai; people decided to get out to upper world; the hummingbird found a hole in the sky; under the guidance of their younger brother, they planted a pine tree and a vine that wrapped around it; they climbed up, but the old man and his two granddaughters stayed; when they got to the ground, water poured out of the hole; the flood was caused by the two daughters of the older brother who turned into frogs; people hollowed out a pine tree, put the girl inside and food supplies, sealed it; only the girl escaped, the others drowned; she lay down with her vagina under the rays of the sun and under drops of water, conceived, gave birth to a daughter; she grew up, tried to repeat everything, but the Sun and Water recognized their daughter, conception did not occur; then the mother covered her daughter's body with her body, the Sun and Water did not notice the substitution; the daughter gave birth to a son Matinyaupakaamcha; the eagle took her to its nest and ate it, M. stayed with her grandmother; interrupted the bird's leg with a stone; she: if you'll cure him, I'll say something; when he finds out that the old woman is not his mother, but his grandmother, killed the eagle, on the advice of his grandmother, by heating the tip of his spear; the grandmother sends him to kill the bison (ox); the badger and the gopher dug an underground passage under lying bison; the mouse plucked the hair from where the heart was, explaining that its children were cold; M. pierced the bison from below; he plunged his horn into the underground passage, but M. dodged; made a cape out of the skin, and under it bison blood; allowed the eagle to grab itself; blood gushed, the bison decided that M. was killed; the chicks see that the prey was alive, but the eagle did not believe; when it flew away, M. found out where the eagle would fly; becoming a lizard, smeared with resin the place where the male and female sit; killed the eagle; told the chicks to remain silent, otherwise they would kill; The Bat lowered M. in the basket, ordering them to close their eyes; he opened, they fell, M. broke the Bat's bones, but cured her; M. looked into the grandmother's house through a hole in the roof; called her; grandmother: the wind was whistling; when he saw her grandson, she began to dance with joy; the bald eagle took M. to an island on the lake; there were already many prisoners there; M . ordered the prisoners to eat crushed flint to the eagles and hide, digging an underground passage; the eagles died; the crane stretches its leg across the lake; people cross it like a bridge; children fall into the water, turn into ducks; M. decides to make a bow; the grandmother warns of dangers every time where to look for bow materials; onion wood where the canyon walls converge and diverge; M. shoved between they have a deer horn, took out the material; reeds for arrows owned by Owl; M.: I propose marriage to my grandmother; Owl is glad, he gave reeds himself; when Owl came, M. told his grandmother to find out where his heart was; in the sole legs; M. shot there, killed Owl; grandmother straightened her vulva with an arrow; when M. looked, the arrow broke; where the flint for the tips, sparks fly out; M. covered himself with a turtle shell, took out flint; wood for the front of the arrows owned by the Bear; M. called him to marry his grandmother; said he was making charcoal tips; The bear believed, shot M. with a coal arrow with a tip, and M. killed him with an arrow with a flintlock tip; grandmother: cut the deer in a clearing, not under a tree; M. began to cut under a tree; a naked woman came down from the tree, chased M. to get along with him; the grandmother hid him under the hearth; but the woman began to write there, M. got out; M. made penises out of blue stone, quartz, lava and clay, used every single nose, breaking off the woman's vaginal teeth; she became his wife; she was actually a bear; offered to drive game at him; he hung his clothes on a pole; three or four bears rushed at her, M. killed them, pulled out their fangs and claws; Spider told M. that the Wind took his wife away; let M. compete with him outside, not in his cave; who would chase the ball faster; M. won all the prisoners and the life of the Wind; who has longer hair, M. won again, killed The winds were a club; they spent the night in the Wind Cave; the wife became snakes in front of the entrance, M. jumped over them; M. went to look for his father, the Sun; spent the night with people who wanted to kill him; closed him for the night eyes with pebbles ("glass eyes"), the owners think that he is awake; the wife of the Sun to her husband: your son has come; he wants to test the visitor, invites him to the steam room; M. all gives up a couple and says it's cold, The sun believes he is his son; M. tamed the horse, went home; the Sun and the Cloud began to argue over him; each painted one half of his body; M. returned east to the Sun, and the grandmother went west to the Sun, and the grandmother went west to ocean].

NW Mexico. Huichol [the soul of the deceased reaches the fork; the righteous follow the right path; those who have incest or have sex with non-Huichol follow the left; the left path goes between the cliffs; souls they are frightened, but they pass]: Furst 1967:62-64.

Mesoamerica The Aztecs [souls pass between the cliffs; many die]: Sahagun, vol.3 in Krickeberg 1928:30; the chinantecs [rocks; the Sun and the Month shoot at them, they turn into butterflies]: Bartolomé 1984 [smashed to pieces with arrows]: 14; Weitlaner 1952 [the Sun and Month twins tell the Hummingbird to warn them of the arrival of an old woman; the third time he forgets; the twins killed her; came to we interpret the rocks, crushed them with clay balls; went to the mountain on which the double-headed cannibal eagle sat; the Bat is fed twice; the second time the root of a tree that grew on top of the cliff descends to lands]: 170-174.

Honduras vs Panama. Miskito [see motif H12; the path to the world of the dead is between two pines; they constantly collide and diverge; a woman's soul passes between them; her living husband goes around the pines; the soul crosses the bridge made of human hair; swims in a boat, four toads rowing in it; a woman with gigantic breasts meets her soul]: Conzemius 1932:159; bribri [scissor-like trap (not at the edge of our world)]: Bozzoli, Cubero Venegas 1987:21, 31; Bozzoli, Cubero Venegas, Constenla Umaña 1983:47; Bozzoli, Murillo Chaverri 1984, No. 10 [God (Sibë) punished a hunter who killed too many tapirs; set a trap, the rope cut the hunter in half, the head and the front brought home meat; the hunter stepped on the bridge, it fell, the fallen man turned into a manatee], 13 [the manatee was human killed tapirs; his wife walked under a rope above the path, and the rope went up and down in front of him; he stepped, was cut; did not die]: 11-12, 15; kuna: Keeler 1960 [the soul goes to the fork; a road of flowers to the left, thorns to the right; Piler, who "did a bad thing" to his sister, mother, aunt, followed the left road, but fell into thorns; he was torn by eagles, bitten by snakes, cut by scissors; stopped in front of the city of God, must suffer for a long time; the evil follow this path; the righteous follow the path of thorns, must be able to tame snakes, etc.; in the city of God they are brought to Judge Olowikpalele; he punishes or misses immediately; souls travel in the sky in the Sun's boat]: 238-241; Nordenskiöld 1938 [souls enter the world of the dead between moving scissors]: 445.

The Northern Andes. Nonama [falling axe]: Wassen 1935, no. 6:132; yupa [souls can walk along worm, toad, rock roads; Toad laughs, gives them dirty food; those who eat get on the worm's path, then flies on the road, eaten by worms; those who choose the road of stone must walk between two rocks that do not allow liars to pass]: Villamañan 1982, No. 5:20.

Llanos. Sicuani [a married man dreams of another woman, copulates with her; then meets her in reality, with her newborn baby; he goes under the water with her father; hunts with her brothers , they do not tell him to shoot tapir himself, this is dangerous; to make the dead animals light, you have to put cotton in the ass; along with fish and snakes, a man comes to see their mother, a water woman; in one place below, the scissors open and close, and from above a biting wasp; fish die cut with scissors; a man and his companions take the dead out of this trap, give it; a man brings a water wife and son to their mother; old wife gets angry, new leaves; man comes back to people, dies on the fourth day; aquatic people took his soul to themselves]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 119:413-418.

Western Amazon. Shuar [there was no fire, the food was heated under the arm, which caused ulcers; the fire was owned by Takea; the dead shuars turned into birds, tried to steal fire from his cave, but her door was constant and opened and closed quickly; the Jempe hummingbird got wet, flew in to warm up and dry, T.'s children picked it up; he set fire to his tail, flew out of the cave, spread fire on the trees; now the hummingbird's tail this species is black and forked, burnt out inside]: Pelizzaro 1990 (=1993): 41-42; kandoshi [God tells the young man in a dream that a woman will come to him, let him not be afraid if she is cold when touched; she comes, he hides her under a pile of firewood, does not tell her mother to cut wood there; she cuts and wounds a woman, she has three children with her, they disappear; three Vultures suggest that the young man take him to heaven if he kills they eat their mother; he kills their mother with a spear, they gnaw at the corpse, but they can't lift the young man; the hummingbird puts him on his back, picks up, slips through something like scissors that open and then they close, only the Hummingbird's tail is cut off; the hummingbird tells the man to answer that he has risen to heaven himself; the young man's wife carries cassava, the rope breaks, her sisters go forward; the husband grabs the wife; she is afraid that her his father will kill him; his father produces thunder; throws a young man into the fire, throws a stone at him, spews fire, the young man bounces; his father-in-law recognizes him as his son-in-law; they go together to kill people ima tanga]: Page 1975:55-62.

NW Amazon. Baniva (vakuenai) [Kuwai devours boys who have broken the fast; Inapirrikuli sends Wasp to take edible larvae to heaven for K.; K. must go through the passageway, the doors which they open and close; they squeeze Ose's sides, since then the wasps have a narrow waist; K. agrees to return to the village, gets drunk, dances, pushes him into the fire; a palm tree grows in this place, it is used to make sacred horns and flutes]: Hill 1993, No. 5:65-67; vacuenai [Made of bone got together with her paternal aunt Ámaru; she does not have a hole for the child to come out, SK sends a fish bite it; the placenta turns into a stingray; SK hides the baby, says A. that she only gave birth to a stingray, but she does not believe it; children play Kuwái, placing a buzzing wasp in the vessel and hitting the vessel with a whip; a real K. comes out, teaches boys initiatory rituals; tells them to fast; throws fruits from the tree, the boys bake and eat them, does not eat them alone; it began to rain, K. opened his mouth, three boys entered it like into the cave, he swallowed them; Éeri, who did not break the fast, did not enter; K. regurgitated the remains and flew away; the UK made wooden images of the dead boys; sent Osu-Káalimátu for K. into the "mouth" of heaven; this is a place in the sky that constantly opens and closes; Kaalimatu was almost seen, so the wasp has a narrow waist; when its jaws opened, it flew on; says K. that the UK revived eaten and invites him to smoke tobacco; K. promises to come in two days; says that he can only be killed by fire; all other substances and objects are his body; K. was drunk, pushed into the fire; when K. died, the world became small again; at the site of the burning, a tree grew to the sky and powerful vines; the squirrel cut the trunk in the form of horns and flutes, the UK pushed it, and a pile of sacred instruments formed ; A. took the tools, let them be from women; men processed cassava, and women only collected wild fruits; SK and her relatives, who took the form of little frogs, came to A. hit her with a thunder; the frogs became warriors, killed A.'s women with poisoned arrows, carried away Kuwai's tools; K. revived A., said that the tools had turned into jaguars and other animals and fish; men brought them to the women's home, A. believed that they were really animals (horns and flutes are named after animals); later A. and her women broke in, took away the most important flutes, jaguars, I put it in my vagina; they swim along the river, the UK sets traps, but they bypass them; they eventually reach the sea and both live there in a village at the mouth of the river, performing all the rituals]: Hill 2009:117-134; Barasana: S.Hugh-Jones 1979, No. 4F [the cannibal eagle Rame took the man to the nest to be eaten by the chicks; the man killed the chicks, plucked down to use in shamanic rituals, went down to the ground; Warimi told everything; he tried to kill the eagle with poisoned arrows, but the poison had no effect; V. went to get it from Anaconda Poison; a flock of ibises (Micteria americana) is flying; they carry ants for symbolic exchange of food with his mother-in-law Romi-Kumu; V. calls ibis a nephew (by mother), but he replies that his nephew is flying behind; the same is the next ibis; the third agrees to take V. the flock, although discourages; V. attached feathers and taught to fly; on the way, the cassava area, where vegetation is burned, the flame blocks the road; V. caused rain, the ibises liked it; then on the way strong wind; crushing mountains; V. has overcome these obstacles; when ibises fly into RK's house, Taho Yai (Pouncing Jaguar) kills them and eats them, for him it's game (different kinds of game birds); with his shamanic power V. stopped the trap so that it would no longer fall (on birds); Jaguar is furious: is no one with you? ibises: no one; invisible to Jaguar and RK V.; ibises danced all night, presented RK with parcels of ants in the morning; RK and Jaguar notice that pieces of cassava are missing; ibises deny everything again; they flew away, and B . stayed; when RK swept, she felt like something was clinging to her pubic hair; this hair was a flower-covered vine (Lonchocarpus) that is used to make fish poison; V. became a green bee and drank nectar from those flowers; then began to copulate with RK and entered her body; finding no poison to poison her, he came out of her head as a poisonous lizard; now RK can't stop and continues to have sex with V. is already against his desire; took him to her house and closed the stone door so as not to go out; her father Anaconda Yada was sleeping, but RK woke him up: here's a servant to fan the fire; V. hid upstairs on the pole, and Anaconda Yada looked for it on the floor to eat; called V. to fan the fire, but V. did it from afar; V. climbed to the roof and made a hole; the ray touched Anaconda Yad's body. this is Sarbakan V.; Anaconda Yada fell asleep; as a fly, V. climbed inside Anaconda Yada through his ass, tied a rope around his heart and gallbladder; V. took poison from his gallbladder, and Anaconda Yada screamed from pain: this fool, a bunch of pubic hair, left me (alone) with V., the father of heaven; he covered his anus and mouth, but V. tickled Poison in his nose into the Anacondas and he sneezed it out; getting out through the hole in on the roof, V. became a parrot and flew away; then became an oriole (Icterus chrysocephalus), tied a bag of poison under his neck, so she had a yellow neck; when she flew over the RK garden, she threw a stick at him, but he dodged]: 279-281; Torres Laborde 1969 [see J16 motif; Varimi asked Watsóa Wehéro to throw off his Wansoko fruit; he made a ladder, offered to go up, threw away the stairs, W. did not can go down; in winter, Herons flew in, gave him feathers, taught him to fly; on the way, the trap was like scissors; V. put a log into it, everyone flew by safely; on the site, the fire, V. caused rain, everyone flew by; ducks and other birds flew with them; flew to Romi-Kum; she fed everyone; suspects that someone is with the birds because she ate more than usual; arranges a dabukuri festival; the birds have returned back, and V. stayed with RK; she took him to her father's Rimáhinó (Serpent Venom) house; RK woke him up by touching a hot shard; V. became a flea, R. took it off his back, put it in his mouth; V. jumped out of his nose when R. sneezed, took away the poison; flew as a bird to his grandmother, Menya's wife; began to cook poison, tried it, lost consciousness; at this time the snakes stole it, became poisonous; V. killed from Ramé's cannibal eagle's wind gun; his blood turned into various types of reeds; his feathers were taken for dance costumes, he taught many songs]: 31-45; chikuna [wife dies, husband grieves , one day she sees her in the forest, she tells him to close his eyes, when he opens them, finds himself in the sky; on the way to ta-ë' house, the turtledove screams who has come; T. tells the dead to greet the new, they lead him towards himself; before reaching the turtledove, two horizontal logs move in different directions; the soul asks that "the grandfather open his mouth"; if sinful, the logs move fast, prevent them from passing; a tree from which logs that are not used for fuel; in T.'s house there are two animals with a tapir body and a dolphin's head, one of them licks the soul, cleansing it from sins; if a sinner, they tear it apart; when they see the soul, these animals they swim across the sky river and come back; if thunder is heard in addition to roaring, then they have tore their souls; there is a hornet's nest in the house, they bite someone who looked at the genitals of a person of the opposite sex]: Nimuendaju 1952:110.

Central Amazon. Munduruku [trees, no details]: Ehrenreich 1905:50.

Eastern Amazon. Spiking [trees]: Nimuendaju 1920:1021; urubu: Huxley 1956 [Mair, in the guise of a bird, flies over a rotten fruit; a woman comes out of the fetus, he takes her as his wife; she does not believe that the yams, cassava, etc. planted by her husband ripened on the same day; angry M. leaves; the wife follows in his footsteps, the unborn son from the womb shows the way; after spending the night in the house of the Possum, the woman conceives a second son; Mair's son is offended by his mother, falls silent; the woman comes to Jaguar village; the old woman hides it under a vessel, the Jaguars find it, eat it; the children are thrown into boiling water, they jump out; the grandmother adopts them; the brothers cut trees into the river, they turn into piranhas and crocodiles; an island is made on the river, fruit trees are built on it, a bridge is built to the island; when the Jaguars cross the bridge for fruit, the brothers cut down the bridge, the Jaguars are eaten by aquatic creatures; because the son of the Possum hesitated, two are saved; brothers come to M., who gives them bows and arrows; offended by their mother, the brothers throw them into the forest, they turn into snakes; Mair wants to know if his children are in front of him; 1) take the bait off the hook Anyang'a; Mair's son takes the bait, then pulls the forest to laugh; The son of the Opossum takes the hook in his mouth, is caught, eaten; in the form of an ant, Mair's son collects his bones, revives him; 2) go to Grandfather Wind; there is no such thing at home, Mair's son tickles his wife, husband hears her laughter, blows, a tree falls on the brothers; Opossum's son dies, revives his brother; 3) walk between two converging and diverging grating stones; Son of Mair passes, the Son of the Possum is crushed, revived by his brother; M. realizes that the youngest of the brothers is not his son, tells him to go back between the stones; the Son of Opossum is crushed again; Mair's son rises to heaven in anger, taking the stones with him; they now produce thunder; the son of Opossum goes up to his brother]: 217-220; Ribeiro 2002 [a worm got out of the tree, turned into a woman; she reached a fork; the path to Mair was thorny and overgrown, Mukura is good, she went for a good thing, got pregnant with Mukura {it is further clear that the woman was already pregnant with Maira before}; the woman went out for a walk, she was torn to pieces by a jaguar, Maira's son, and Mukura's son jumped out of the womb, rushed into the river; four days later, Maira's son, 9 years old, Mukura's son, 7 years old, got out of the water; they tried to kill the jaguar machete without success; they jumped into the water again, Maira's son came out 14-year-old, Mukura 10-year-old, but the jaguar could not be killed again; Maira's son created a river, laid a vine as a bridge; the brothers stood at opposite ends, cut off the vine when the jaguar walked along she, prevented him from getting out of the water, was chopped and killed; the hurricane knocked down the forest, lifted the brothers into the air, Mukura's son hit hard; they came to Meira, his son said that they were both his sons; the brothers went along on the road, stones began to fall, Mukura's son was crushed; Maira's son became angry with his father, went on, creating stones in the middle of the river, where he is now unknown; on a full moon, Mair rises to heaven, then descends; when thunder, lightning strikes Maira's land]: 180-182; tupinamba [Maire-ata goes to travel, his wife cannot accompany him due to pregnancy; follows, son from the womb shows the way; she does not give him any fruit, he is angry, falls silent; goes astray, gets to the Possum; at night he conceives his second son; the possum turns into an opossum; the woman comes to Jaguar village; the Jaguar eats it, the twins are thrown into a pile of garbage; one woman picks them up; the twins hunt for her; show the Jaguars an island in the sea, where they will find many fruits; Jaguars sail there; twins cause a storm; Jaguars drown, turn into jaguars and other cats; twins come to MA, he tests them; 1) walk between crush rocks; Opossum's son dies; MA's son revives him , both pass; 2) take the bait off Anien's hook; Possum's son is caught, A. tears him apart; MA's son resurrects him, both take the bait off; MA recognizes them for his sons]: Thevet, 914-915 in Metraux 1932:135-136.

The Central Andes. Prov. Jauja & Concepcion (dep. Ancash) [the father is poor, he throws his children into the abyss, they fall on the ledge of the cliff; the Swallow brings them corn kernels, the Condor carries them across the river; they come to the old woman; she asks the girl to bring water in the basket; the girl returns with an empty basket, the old woman goes by herself; the girl opens the boiling pot, pieces of her brother's body tell her to run; she takes the cauldron with her, runs to the old man; he hides her and a cauldron under a cloth that is woven; an old woman crushed by closed mountains]: Arguedas 1952:230-232; Quebrada de Humahuaca (NW Argentina) [there are cliffs somewhere in the mountains]: Calífano in Cipolletti 1978:65, approx. 47.

Montagna - Jurua. Chayahuita [at the beginning of time, there were very few women on earth; men went to heaven to marry star girls; a little Wichshu hummingbird took one man and told him close your eyes, took me to heaven; you could only enter heaven through a thunder door (pynka, or ya'kuana), which opened and closed; when it opened, the hummingbird flew into he left his burden on the other side; as soon as the door opened again, the wichshu returned to earth; the men stayed in the sky and never went down; they married there]: Shlyakhtinsky 2008.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana: Hissink, Hahn 1961, No. 48 [Beni (South Wind) Udutzi (original ancestor) found several types of cultivated peppers in an abandoned area; turned one into a person, easily won; same with second; made a friend out of wild pepper, he is equal to him, this is Bidutzi (wild pepper) Edutzi; both came to the sorcerer Macanaua (name in Eseeha); he gave his two daughters, ordered 1) to clear the plot, 2) harvest corn by evening, 3) build a house by evening; they do everything instantly; M. locked them in a stone house; all the birds and animals are hammering stone; squirrels gnawed, the brothers are out; the wives went out during this time one for a vampire bat, the other for a melero marten; Beni killed M. with a club; brothers each killed their wife, her husband, children in her womb, two escaped, from them the current vampires, martens; the brothers came to the water, separating our world from the other; the Dzuducu bird carried them, told them not to look down, Bidutzi looked, fell, was swallowed by the Tsrabuna Bacua snake; Beni called the animals, they drank all the water, there were small snakes at the bottom they ask them not to kill; Beni ripped open a big snake, took his brother out; all the midges came out of the snake's womb; the brothers walked along the dry bottom to the end of the world, where the rocks were crushing; slipped into their world; var: coming out of the stone at home, the brothers in the form of pigeons flew to M., sat on a tree above the pond; M.'s daughters saw their reflection, the brothers became human again; the girls married two melero during this time; the brothers killed new husbands and the girls' father, their wives were returned; asked the Woodpecker to move them to the country of edutzi; he carried them, and when he carried the wives, they looked down, fell, became fish], 217 [the woman is seduced by a tapir; the husband hurts both; pursues to the end of the world; sees cliffs crashing in front of him and a red world behind them; a woodpecker helps him return home]: 104-107, 341; chimane: Daillant 1995:163-164 [Dohiti, Micha are brothers; their sister Dobose invites them to heaven to give their third brother Tsun 'a (the sun) a drink to keep him at his zenith and keep people awake; this fails; D. and M. are thrown down balsa raft, it grows, forms the ground; they cry, a vine emerges from their tears; D. descends, M.'s vine breaks, falls, breaks; D. glues it together, but puts his head to the back; D. and M. come to the frog women; D. took one, M. raped everyone at night, they urinate with blood in the morning; M. digs a tunnel east to the edge of the world, now the dead are coming to him; D. pretended to be dead, covered with worms; Frogs threw him into the river; he turned them into frogs, worms into fish; goes looking for M.; along the way he turns people into animals - arachnids, howlers, capuchins; asks parrots for feathers, they give the condition that he does not imitate their voices; D. violates the ban, parrots take their feathers, he falls on a tree, it becomes tall; the caterpillar lowers it, putting it on its back; when the ground is close, he makes her fall, she breaks her back; gets to a place where the sky hits the ground; inserting a log, she slips into Misha's world; steals one of his wives, she is pregnant; meets her on the way people about to kill whoever kidnapped M.'s wife; D. turns them into arrow canes, bamboo, palm trees for making bows and tips; they climb the Manika River; wife gives birth, D. turns her and her child in salt; wants to establish a village in the center of the world, sends birds to explore; they return, reporting that the center is further in the mountains; D. founded a village in the Andes (Var.: La Paz); left it on a rock footprint is a sign that salt is here], 170 [the gap between the vault of heaven and the earth opens and closes]; guarai [by Franciscan José Cardús, 1886; at the fork in the soul of the deceased turns to a narrow left path; the wide right path is for Europeans, nothing is known about it; the soul crosses the first river on the caiman, playing the flute; if it plays badly, the caiman will drown and eat it; on the opposite bank of the second river there is a tree with a box at the top; it bends to this bank and then straightens; the soul jumps into the box; if it misses, it sinks; then on the path lies the Izoiramoi worm; to a good person, he seems gigantic, and as he approaches he decreases to a tiny worm; he seems small to a bad person, and then grabs it between his legs, bites it in half, eats it; then an area of darkness , the soul lights a bunch of straw, passes; this torch must be kept behind your back; if bats will attack in front; when you approach the Tuanandior bottle tree, the soul kicks the root, making itself felt; the soul washes, drinks chicha, walks around the tree, hummingbirds flutter at its flowers; the soul wounds them with arrows, picks up feathers as a gift to Grandfather, releases the hummingbirds; then the path between the two Itacuru rocks; when they they disperse, the soul screams, the rocks stop for a moment, the soul slips; if it does not know what to shout, it is crushed, eaten by insects; it swims across the next river on a raft; if he was bad man, the raft in the middle turns over, the soul sinks; then at the fork, the Vulture looks, and the person who comes has jewelry in his lower lip, nose, ears; if not, indicates the wrong path where the soul dies; then a huge monkey grabs his soul, tickles; if the soul laughs, the monkey will eat it (the guaraya try not to laugh; women often giggle, so they will not get to Grandfather); further to the left of the path is deceptive Iguirar-oriyo tree; voices, screams from under it, there are colorful plants, it's easy to lose your way; you have to pass by with your eyes closed and your ear plugged, otherwise the tree will take you away; then the road becomes flat, around flowers; long-bearded Grandfather greets the soul affectionately, washes, makes him handsome, gives a wife; a man lives a normal life in a village of the dead]: Grubb 1924:187-193; Pierini 1910:707-708; chiriguano: Cipolletti 1978 [rocks; scissors; also alternately billowing and extinguishing flames and a boiling pot]: 55; Nordenskiöld 1938 [scissors]: 445.

Southern Amazon. Kayabi [Kuewma'up is the elder, Me is the younger brother; their father is a month; their mother died in childbirth, her mother threw the twins into the forest, but they are shamans, they are back; she is happy; tells them not to go down the river; the brothers want to kill the mutum bird, which tells us not to shoot, says that their father lives downstream; they come to him; his new wife is old and ugly, but after swimming, she becomes a young beauty; father Brothers Month leaves the ax to cut on the site; K. repeats the trick, M. starts cutting himself {since then has he not cut the ax himself?} ; in the Month, the arrow, which kills monkeys itself, returns in the form of a snake; K. also uses it; M. finds, sees a snake, cuts it in half; The Month finds pieces, turns it into three types of snakes; its top full of fish, K. has only small fish; the month wraps in bark and leaves, turns into fish, people shoot arrows at it, he brings arrows home; K. repeats the trick; M. wrapped badly, he was killed, eaten; his father turned into a cricket, took away a bone, revived M.; took shelter in a tree covered with thorns, lured wild pigs with a flute, killed a pig; the same K.; M. made a shelter between the two trees, one of them is not prickly, the pigs knocked down the shelter, ate M.; his father revived him from a drop of blood; went to another village, crushing stones on the path; he slipped between them, the same on the way back, then But K.; M. crushed, his father revived him]: Pereira 1995, No. 2:28-34; paresis: Pereira 1986, No. 13 [see motif F18A; women who stole sacred flutes reach the place where the edge of heaven beats against the ground; shamans, turning into birds, fly there to another world; one man had sex with his wife before, crushed], 21 [the older brother dies; his soul leads the youngest to the world of the dead; they pass between two moving sharp plates that stop for a moment (the souls of those who have committed incest are dissected); a person remains dead in the world]: 231, 308-311.

Eastern Brazil. Crash [an old man leads his wife's (or sister's husband)'s young brother to look at the amazing; a huge web swings from side to side; the young man slips through the hole with a midge; they see opossums, who eats them, will grow old; yams, who eats, will become a woman; after becoming a bird, a young man flies over a quagmire; fire breaks from the tree trunk every now and then; after becoming a hummingbird, the young man has time to slip through; something like the arrows move up and down; the young man slips back in hummingbird form; both men return home]: Wilbert 1978, No. 161:401-406.

Chaco. Matako: Calífano 1976:30 [to get to the place where Ahatáj is located, a shaman turns into a hummingbird, flies to a garden tree in the middle of a pond, which is sinks, then comes out of the water; in order not to fall, the shaman turns into wax, sticks; when a tree goes under water, becomes a calebasa so that fish do not swallow it; flies to another tree that has different branches (algarroba, palo santo, etc.); then two crossed sticks block the road, they must be avoided by turning into smoke; then a moving prickly cardón (cardo, thistle?) , shamans slip through small holes with birds, reach their goal], 31 [on the way of Akhatah, shamans fly to a tree moving like a tornado in the middle of the reservoir, sit on its branches; when they fly away, the tree thunders with thunder; to another tree in the middle of the reservoir, it rises and sinks, fish that have fallen into the water are eaten; then to the thorny plant, they slip in midges; to the place where the clay is crawled by eels; then in forest, A. shaman enters the house with a deer, A. welcomes]; Metraux 1939 [logs]: 96; toba [traveling, the Sun learns a lot, shamans try to gain this knowledge; near the Sun there is a slippery track, the Sun roasts, cooks, eats slipped ones; a good shaman turns into wax, sticks to the rut, does not slip; then shifting and diverging poles, beams; a good shaman flies between them, turning in a hummingbird; then the net, a good shaman becomes an eel, slips into cells, the young one may get entangled with his thumb; the Sun's house is surrounded by cacti; a shaman in the form of a hummingbird flies through the window, in the image the rodent digs a dig; the Sun receives those who have penetrated it well, cools down so as not to burn them; examines traps; if no one is caught, it weakens because it feeds on shamans; those shamans whose souls are eaten They die by the sun]: Metraux 1935c: 135.

Southern Brazil. Apapokuwa [pond with moving banks]: Nimuendaju 1914:326.