I27B. Carrier dog. 46.52.53.55.65.
A dog transports a person across the river to another world. See motive I27.
Crowe, Aztecs, Nahua and Mestizos of Mexico, Otomi, Zapotecs, Masatecs, Tsotzil, Lacandons, Jikake, Miskito, Talamanca, Kogi, Yupa, Mestizos of Aritama District, Huaquirca (dep. Ayacucho), Sonko (dep. Cusco), Aymara (dep. Potosi).
Plains. Crowe: McCleary 1997:65-69 [Yellow Greaves climbed into the hole to bait eagles; a rock rolled down and closed the exit; JN asked the mouse for help, she took him down the hole to another world; there's an old man The White Owl gave a single arrow and ordered the monstrous moose to be killed; JN did not eat the soup served - there was a human hand in it; the bullfinch advised me to contact the moles; the mole dug an underground passage under the moose - to where his heart was; JN pierced the moose with an arrow and ran; the elk plowed the ground with a horn, followed him, but fell dead; JN brought the tip of the horn to the old man; he asked to bring the Red-haired head; bullfinch advises to contact an ant woman; JN exchanged bodies with her, brought a louse with her; Red-haired and her mother live on the island; the ant gave a corn pemmican for the dog, she transported it to the island; while the dog was swimming, JN put a pemmican in her mouth; Red-haired's mother suspects deception, but the son lay down with the imaginary ant woman at night; she evaded copulation, and when Red-haired fell asleep, cut him off her head and put a louse in her place; she answered Red-haired's mother, and when her voice weakened, the mother came in, saw her son killed, rushed in pursuit; JN managed to swim across the ant; the stalker came to her forehead was like a spear, she began to hammer a typical rock, inside which there was an ant with JN, but the ant immediately repaired the damage with its saliva; they opened the door slightly, the stalker stuck her head, they slammed the door shut, cutting off their heads; swapped their bodies back, but not their armpits, so women's armpits are more muscular than men's; the ant advises asking the old man for his strength for bringing his head; JN received the power of an owl and a deer; on the way back, JN meets three women who turn into an otter, a deer and an elk, run away; the fourth remains a woman, the wife of JN; she has seven brothers; JN and his wife came to the youngest; when the others came, they teased their son-in-law, throwing their limbs over; JN called an owl, which began to torment the deer, the brothers were in pain, left ZhN alone; the younger brother gave to his bear's son-in-law, since then his wife's relatives have been giving gifts to her husband; everyone has begun to think what to become; - Trees? - They're dying. - Rocks? - They crumble from time to time. - Water? - It dries up. To the stars {Ursa Major}! The younger brother took his pet cougar, this is an asterisk near the handle of the bucket {Alcor}], 69-71 [seven brothers and younger sister live together; the older brothers disappear one by one; the youngest comes to the young man, he reports that his brothers are kept by an old woman, her strength is in her digging stick; the owner of the next house gives the young man yellow, black, blue, red arrows; the young man shoots them, rushes after them; a good old woman gives a pemmican, explains what to do; by the river, a young man feeds a pemmican to a dog that takes it to the other side; he picks up the brothers, they feed the dog again, cross, arrive with the last arrow home; an old stalker puts a digging stick across the river; when it comes to the middle, the brothers turn it over, she falls into the water; the brothers wonder what to turn into so that the old woman does not caught up; each time the sister says that her mother uses the item; trees (for firewood), water (to soak the skins), stones (to make skin scrapers); they decide to become what the ends of the pipes indicate ; - But the stars are falling! - We'll join hands and not fall; they turn into Big Dipper; the star at the handle of the bucket is a sister and a puppy].
Mesoamerica Aztecs; modern Nahuas and mestizos in Mexico; otomi; zapotecs; masatecs; tzotsil; lacandons.
Honduras-Panama. Hikake; miskito; cabecar and/or bribri.
The Northern Andes. Kogi; yupa; mestizos in Aritama district.
The Central Andes. Waquirca (dep. Ayacucho, prov. Andamarca) [the soul of the deceased travels west through the city of dogs and through Mapa Mayo ("A River of Abomination, Mud"), sometimes crossing it on the back of a black dog]: Gose 1994:125 in Bolton 2002:391-392; Sonko, prov. Paucartambo, dep. Cusco [the Yahuar Maya blood river separates our world (kai pacha) from the world of the dead; the soul is transported through it by a black, brown or motley dog; at night, the girl's head flies away; this happens with looking for sexual adventures; when the head returned, found the door closed, clung to the shoulder of a passerby; the headless body died; the girl's dog recognized the mistress's head on the man's shoulder; transported the man across the Blood River, where the head jumped on its body; the dog began to drink from the blood river, transported the man to our world]: Allen 1988:61; Aymara (Kakachaka, dep. Potosi) [black dogs carry the souls of the dead across the river]: Albo in Bastien 1989:81.