I22A. The sky beats against the ground, F791.

.20.25.34.-.37.39.41.-.48.50.66.68.

The vault of heaven constantly hits the ground like the lid of a boiling pot.

Central Carolinas, Bagobos, Buryats, Mongols, Teleuts, Khakas, South Altai Tuvans, Mansi, Northern (?) Khanty, central (?) Yakuts, {Baikal?} Evenks, Nivhi, Udege, Chukchi, Helmet, Tagish, Taltan, Hyda, Puget Sound, Clackamas, Winnebago, Fox (?) , Ottawa, Seneca, Delaware, Mandan, Omaha and Ponca, Shawnee, Yuchi, Chiroki, Chitimacha, Alabama, Koasati, Seminole, Yurok, Chukchansi Yokutz, Hopi, (mohave), chimane, paresi.

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, so the soul has been crushed and its owner will die]: Goodenough 1953:4.

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 [=1916:135-138; LumáBet and his people are chasing a deer, they ran around the earth 9 times, finally killed deer; L. ordered his father to be killed, revived every time; he grew younger and smaller every time, eventually became a child; L. and his men went overseas, where the sky constantly rises above the ground and then hits her; L. promises that if Heaven lets him through, it can eat the last one; the last one trying to run under the edge of the sky is crushed; L.'s son went to look for his father; the bees took him to heaven to father; of those who came with L. to heaven, one refused to have the celestials take his insides out of him and he became immortal, asked him to be returned home; he was lowered upside down on a chain and leaves of grass; reaching land, it turned into an owl]: 126-127.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Teleuts [the sky falls and rises at regular intervals; the shaman must have time to pass with the victim 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 land"]: Dyrenkova 1949:137; Khakas [place of contact heaven and earth is called Achylaro-Umular chir ("The Land that Opens and Slams Closing");]: Butanayev 2003:109; South Altai Tuvans [Khan with 12 wives is childless; hears at the yurt like an older sister promises to marry someone from whose hearth ash must be removed three times a day, the middle one is who has a mountain of game in front of the yurt, the youngest for the one who traveled for it; marries the youngest; while the husband is hunting, the wife gives birth to twins; 12 wives throw them in a box in the water, put two puppies; the khan sends her into exile overseas; old men catch a box with babies, it does not run out of food; the khan swims on horseback sea; the old woman shows him his wife and sons, says that the rest are shulmusikhs; the khan must be cleansed, the 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; Khan shows the old woman's gold bracelet, the sky rises, he slips; brings a needle, gets wife and sons, expels 12 wives overseas]: Taube 1994, No. 21:202-205; Turks in Sayano-Altai [the sky in the form of a dome covers the earth, constantly touching it with its edges, as if pulsating]: Basilov, Potapov 1982:538; Potapov 1983:102; Buryats: Gomboev 1890 [the sky looks like an inverted cauldron, it rises and falls; Altan-Shagay-Mergyn manages to put an arrow under the edge of the sky and penetrate into outside world; (translated to Holmberg 1927:308-309)]: 18; Nanzatov et al. 2008 (Alar Buryats) [(Batorov, archive); the sky has the shape of an overturned cauldron; constantly falling and rising, it claps the ground]: 126; Dugarov 1990 [in his old age, Tsar Bogdor has a son, Khan-Khuzhir, the upper body is golden, the bottom is silver; brother B. Zoton-Hara tames his horse for him; XX goes to marry Gonok-Gohon-duhe, daughter of Guli Khan (GH); wanting to test the groom's insight, the bride gives poison, XX does not drink; GH demands 1) defeat the 58-headed mangadhai; that comes out of the sea, his dog, mutter and kite sense danger, he kills them in anger, XX hits him with an arrow; 2) bring the dog Gunir; XX comes up when she sleeps, puts on a collar, leads, GH is terrified, XX lets the dog go, it promises to help; 3) the feather of the Han-Heregde bird; its chicks say that a 25-headed snake will come out of the sea to eat them; XX turns into a birch tree by the sea; the snake comes out, XX becomes human again, a snake hits all heads with an arrow; a drop of blood the size of a tick chases him, catches up, XX dies; the dog Gunir comes running, swallows XX, spews out a living, and dies from poison; the bird gives a feather, GH is terrified, the feather remains with XX; 4) Naral-Garel's liver, which has edible oil; on the way XX, he sees Khokhodoy-Mergen, who fought NG, and now has only the upper half of his body and below is only the bone; XX turns into a poor veal shepherd, comes to NG; he sends him to bring a knife that remains under XM's body (he himself is afraid to approach it for fear of this knife); XM gives knife, XX cuts through NG for them, takes their liver, revives XM oil, he flies to heaven, promises to help; 5) get back from the heavenly Esege-Malan-Tengir what GH has sacrificed to him over the years; then lightning destroyed GH, the ashes were scattered by the wind; XX takes the bride, goes to her father, falls asleep; the monster stole half of the subjects and cattle, flew away; XX woke up from the bride's tear, fired an arrow and jumped after him; the sky beats on the ground, cutting the swallows in half; the XX slips, only the horse's tail is cut off; the servants in the palace answer that the hostess returned with an arrow in her back, died, her four sons went to bury her; XX won and killed them, took everything; four younger brothers were looking for him; XX they fired an arrow: if brothers read his name on it, if strangers, an arrow hit them; they caught arrow; everything is fine]: 223-244; Mongols: Neklyudov 1982a [the sky is constantly rising and falling]: 172; Potanin 1893 [one of Gesar's two wives was stolen by Rduri; on the way G. meets two interpreting stones; says that they do not diverge much; they diverge more, he manages to slip through, the stones have only cut off the horse's tail; G. kills shepherd R., comes to R.'s house in his clothes, on the way asks a woman how R.'s cattle are driven; his wife hides G., G. kills R.]: 42-43.

Western Siberia. Muncie, 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 Siberia. Central (?) Yakuts: Basilov, Potapov 1982 [the edges of heaven and earth knock on each other (same Potapov 1983:102)]: 539; Ergis 1974 (no place of recording; probably central) [the lower edges of heaven hang over circles down like fringes and silver necklaces of a young female daughter-in-law; they rub against the raised edges of the earth as if angry stallions are gnawing {apparently an episode of some olonkho}]: 124 (retelling in Alekseev 1982:682); Evenks {Baikal?} [Singkoltukon invites Cholbon-Chokulbay to sit down; he falls into the lower world of cannibals; he manages to escape, he invites S. to compete at a cliff where earth meets sky; HF He is the first to jump between the sky moving away, only the tip of his horse's tail cut off; when S. jumped on horse, he was cut in half]: Sanghi 1989:181.

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 old man]: Kreinovich 1929:79-80; the Udege people [the man decided to go to the ends of the earth and the 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 gets dark, the wind gets worse; the stone 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; when he returns, the Raven sits on cedar, oak, etc.; as a result, nuts appear, acorns, blueberries and all other berries and fruits; man recovers, promises the Raven that he will not be killed, that he will always find meat; returns with his wife; their third Manga child is three years old waits in the womb for her father to say that the land is ready; it is born a little ahead of time, so the land is not built in the north, it's winter there; M. goes there]: Arsenyev 1995 (2): 169-172 (quail in Lebedeva et al. 1998, 105:471-473).

SV Asia. Chukchi: Bogoras 1902 [the passage in the form of interpreting rocks is called the "limit of the sky", or "the limit of birds"]: 1:608; Bogoraz 1939 [(=Bogoras 1907:332); at the four corners of the world the rocks of the sky meet the rocks of the earth, hitting them and then rising; on the way to their world, migratory birds fly through the opening gap; those flying behind are crushed; the movement of the rocks creates the wind; the corner of the sky is the place where all the animals came from]: 42.

(Wed. The Arctic. Central Yupik (South Norton Bay) ["curious stories of people reaching the horizon, where their kayak got stuck between heaven and earth and drowned"]: Edmonds 1966:71).

Subarctic. Helmet [the leader of the Swans kidnaps a man's wife; the husband leads the warriors to a high cold country; they reach a place where the sky beats on the ground; they slip through, one of them is touched by the sky; he is sent away in the boat back; 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 try to punch a hole; Lynx breaks his nose, he's been dumb ever since; Laska makes a small hole, others widen it; the expedition returns home]: Teit 1917a, No. 11:453-455; tagish [someone kidnaps the hunter's wife, that breaks branches along the way, then throws pieces of his fur coat; the husband follows these tracks; on the lake, the kidnapper takes the woman in a boat, the husband follows the shore; they reach the place where the sky beats against the water; the kidnapper with the woman slips, the husband returns home, gathers a detachment, they sail in a boat, they also slip to the other side of the horizon; they come to two old women, who say that a strange woman passed by, who has a femur (local people are deprived of this bone); these women are mothers of two (sic!) kidnappers; one says that her son leaves before dawn, the other says that she is after dawn; the kidnapped woman secretly brings people food (pretends that the rope on her ax has broken, goes to the sleigh to get another, there is dried meat there); the kidnappers do not believe that something is wrong; at dawn, people kill everyone from the earth and return home]: McClelland 2007, No. 93:423-426; taltan [The swan takes a woman; her husband with friends come to the land where the sky hits the ground; one of the participants magically slows down, people pass; go through 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 to the edge of the sky because it's getting too cold for them; people are returning home]: Teit 1921a, No. 58:336- 337.

NW coast. Hyda: Bringhurst 2000 [the niece of the main woman in the village was in the ritual hut for her first period; the children were playing ball; a pen came down from the sky; one grabbed him, stuck, the rest were for 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 various objects); The feather came down again, the grabbing ones turned into 1) snot, 2) chips, 3), 3) bird down, 4) cedar bast, 5) silt, etc.; the last one in the crabapple tree; when only one root was left in the ground, sister she climbed to the pen, cut it with her fingernail; everyone fell in the guise of people, the bones of the previously carried away too; the youngest spat - everyone came to life; the brothers went, killed the groundhog, entered the house, there was a woman, it was her son, she told the doors to close; the youngest jumped ash through 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, then it opens; two cut, two slipped into the sky, saw the Open Beak of the Day]: 181-187 (Sky Breaking Episode: 188-189); Swanton 1905a (Skidgate) [Salmon take the boy in a boat to their 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 escape; the mother recognizes her son in the form of salmon by hanging on it with a necklace; cuts off his head, puts his body on the roof, he becomes a human; he becomes a shaman; he kills salmon a year later; it is his own soul, he dies; see motif B45; (the sky beats against the ground, p .11)]: 7-15, 153 [the son of a leader of a distant country takes the daughter of an earthly leader; he sends a slave after her; the sky beats on the ground; the slave throws a harpoon, follows him, slipping under the sky], 332 [group of brothers goes to the deity; runs under the edge of the sky; two cut in half, two are alive, coming to the Beak-Heaven]; 1905b [the sky is constantly beating against the ground, and the clouds, hitting the mountains, produce a characteristic sound other than thunder strikes]: 12.

The coast is the Plateau. Puget Sound: Ballard 1929:66 [The eagle and its bird-men return from the north after winning the competition; approach the place where the sky beats against the ground; insert two thick pillars that still standing], 71-73 [like Clark]; Clark 1953 [Month-old kidnapped; Blue Jay finds him beyond the ends of the earth; flies there under the edge of the firmament that hits the ground]: 145; clackamas [senior the brother makes boats; sends his son to the youngest 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 the vagina; the hero inserts a stone; teeth break, the woman menstruates; the helper spirit gives advice on how to win competitions (see motif K27); people come to sturgeon spouses; the wife bakes herself; heavenly the vault hits the ground; on its way home, the boat passes under it five times; the last time only the food is slightly touched; hunters return; humans turn into birds and animals]: Jacobs 1958, No. 26:207-226.

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 people are brought from the outside world, burned to death at the stake]: Radin 1931:143-162; (cf. Fox [six men go to Visakah; walk under shooting stars, one is killed; across a chasm that opens and closes, one falls; four reach the goal]: Jones 1907, No. 16:333-337); Ottawa [five young men and a teenager decide to go to the sun, head 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 want eternal life, turned into stone and cedar; two want a life longer than usual and military success; two want to hunt as many animals as they need food for their parents and relatives; they slip under the sky when it 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 noon and sunset; people go home, meet fathers]: Schoolcraft 1999:144-154.

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 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 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 lacros; 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 of 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 drive 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; (cf. 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 Gluscap, asks the 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 must avoid interpreting rocks; the younger one (see motif J19) breaks the rocks with an oar]: 63); delaware [there is a place where the sky hits the water, rising and falling]: Bierhorst 1995, No. 13:31.

Plains. Mandan [Coyote goes east, wants to meet the Sun; sees cloud pillars on which the sky rests, moving up and down]: Beckwith 1938, No. 34:269; Omaha, Ponca [ the chief's son leads the warriors to heaven; the old man gives him a bag of otter skin and a club that produces thunder; the edge of the sky rises and falls, one of the warriors is crushed under him; in the sky, the hero kills with his club four Thunders; returns to earth, revives his fallen comrades, becomes a chief]: Dorsey 1888b: 75-76; (cf. Iowa: Skinner 1925, No. 1 [see motif J27; two brothers receive sacred bundles from celestial beings; go to the four corners of the earth; in each crevice, opening and slamming; they are hers jump back and forth on the way], 9 [see motif F34, L1; while their sister turns into a Grizzly, kills people, four brothers go to the edge of the world; jump over a crack that opens and then closes; four Groomers 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); an eagle taught me to fish, a dove to sow corn]: Swanton 1911:358 (=1907:287); choctaw, chickasaw [(motive is)]: Lankford 2007:227; Alabama: Swanton 1929, No. 21 [ the woman died, her children were crying, two men went after 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 scooped up, 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 difficulty hit her on the cob, she fell, they put her in a bottle, brought her to the ground; in the morning they woke up near the house, heard a scream from the bottle, opened it; the woman said they did not revive her properly so she disappeared], 22 [the woman died leaving the 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 with another old woman, she let everyone scoop 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 clouds of smoke from people who were fighting; 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 of a city of women, those they will try to stop them; 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 his house below; gave pieces on the cobs, they threw them at the dancing woman, she fell, they put her in a vessel, closed the lid; they woke up at home in the morning; the woman in the vessel moaned, saying that they had killed her; they opened the lid, she disappeared, returned to heaven; they came for her 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 [ a woman dies, her two brothers follow her to heaven; the sky fell, one jumped on it, it rose; then the same with her second brother; the old woman showed them the path; they reached the place where the snakes were tied to elm bark at their feet, passed; the 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 them a scoop, they went to the river, scooped up and poured a little the waters, the waters separated, they dried, 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 together 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); sister from the vessel began to say she was suffering there; they opened the lid slightly, everything was quiet, the vessel was empty]: Swanton 1929, No. 26:189-190; Alabama, Koasati: Lankford 1987:211-221 in Archer 2000 [four elderly men go to search for the end of the world; they go west, because after going through the day, the sun is not so hot; they kill a turkey, a bear, instead of them a mosquito, a hairy caterpillar; a mountain on the way turns out to be a turtle; with their legs wrapped in their bast, travelers pass the forest 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 on the opposite bank, the Serpent swims after her, the riders go ashore; the sky beats against 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, crushed; the old woman tells us not to touch people and animals; they touched the horse and the girl, they turned into skeletons; another old woman gives seeds of corn, yam, 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 cross into the sky and the colored one is hesitated, crushed by the sky; the Seminoles come to God; two want to become angels; they are boiled, they come to life, now they have wings; two want to go 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); Chukchansi yokutz [the edge of heaven beats against the ground]: Rogers, Gayton 1944, No. 6 [Coyote inserts a piece of wood into the crack; decides he is will rot, replace deer legs with bone; the edge of the sky still rests on this bone], 15 [The falcon says that if the bow and arrows he threw 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, since then they have been flattened], 16 [as in (15), Dove instead of Falcon]: 196, 202.

The Great Southwest. Hopi: Mullett 1993 [after passing other obstacles, the twins approach a place where the solid walls of the sky converge and then diverge like giant jaws; the twins throw some nahu potion at them , 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; (cf. mojave [Ammaya is sky male; Amata is a woman earth; they all spawned - Matavilya, Mastambo, humans, plants; it was overseas in the dark land of Pi'in (not etymologized or mentioned in in other cases); Matavilla was the first; reached our country, turning 4 times, followed by all people; in Pi'in Heaven and Earth continue to copulate now - Sky descends to Earth and then rises]: Kroeber 1972:5).

Bolivia - Guaporé. Chimane: Daillant 1995:163-164 [Dohichi, Micha are brothers; their sister Dobose invites them to heaven to drink their third brother Tsung 'ah (the sun) to leave him in zenith and prevent people from sleeping; it fails; D. and M. throw a balsa raft down, it grows, forms the ground; they cry, a vine emerges from their tears; D. goes down, M.'s vine breaks, he falls, breaks; D. sticks it together, but puts his head to the ass; 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; the Frogs threw him into the river; he turned them into frogs, worms into fish; goes looking for M.; on the way he turns people into animals - arachnids, howlers, capuchins; asks parrots for feathers, they give on the condition that he does not imitate their voices; D. violates the ban, parrots take feathers, he falls on a tree, it is done tall; the caterpillar lowers it, putting it on its back; when the ground is near, it makes it fall, it breaks its back; gets to the place where the sky hits the ground; inserting a log, slips into the world Mishá; steals one of his wives, she is pregnant; meets people on the way about to kill the one who kidnapped M.'s wife; D. turns them into arrow canes, bamboo, palm trees for making bows and tips; they climb the Maniki River; the wife gives birth, D. turns her and the baby into salt; wants to establish a village in the center of the world, sends birds to explore; they return, reporting that the center further in the mountains; D. founded a village in the Andes (Var.: La Paz); left a footprint on a stone, a sign that salt is here], 170 [the gap between the sky and the earth opens and then slams].

Southern Amazon. Paresis [see motif F18A; women who steal sacred flutes reach a place where the edge of heaven beats against the ground; shamans, turning into birds, fly there to another world; one person copulates before This with his wife, crushed]: Pereira 1986, No. 13:231.