I29. To the lower world through an animal's hole.

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The character climbs a hole for an animal and finds himself in the lower world, or digging a deep hole, finds himself in a world inhabited by animals digging holes.

Zulu, Germans (South Tyrol), Vedau, Karen, Nivhi, Orochi, Ainu, Guajiro, Arecuna, Trio, Oyampi, Shuar, Chayahuita, Cachinahua, Takana, (Sinta Larga), Kayapo, Ramkokamekra, Kraho, Apinaye

Bantu-speaking Africa. Zulu [Ntsama climbed down the hole to chase the porcupine; he walked for a long time, crossed the river, saw the light, saw people; he was afraid to approach them, returned; his wife, crying, said that she had already burned all his property; the narrator saw this man as a child, was afraid of him, because he returned from the lower ones]: Snegirev 1937:192-196.

Central Europe. Germans (South Tyrol, Meran) [stepmother tyrants stepson; he herds pigs; every time pigs run away, and by evening they return full, the woman advises them to catch up and see what they are place; he comes to a hole in the ground; a woman invites him to go down; first it is dark, then there is light ahead; he goes out into a bright world, towards three girls: pigs further, go look at them; he sees his own pigs: they buried piglets in piles of wheat; in the evening, the girls tell him to run home after the pigs; washed him, fed him, dressed him, forbidden him to talk about them; at home, the stepmother barely recognized her stepson; scary scolded him, but he did not say anything, and in the morning, after the pigs, he returned to three girls; so every day; once the girls said that the spell imposed on them would disappear in 10 years if the young man did this time will keep them secret; they showed three piles of money: one for him, let him donate one to the church, and give one to the poor; when the stepson saw the money in his stepson's hands, accused him of theft and went to court; Under threat, the young man confessed everything; when he drove the pigs the next day, there was no hole in the ground; and moans and weeps have been heard from the ground since then]: Zingerle, Zingerle 1980:271-278.

Melanesia. Vedau [the narrator heard from the father; the wife died; the husband took the dog, went hunting couscous for a memorial feast; at dusk he hung the dead animals on trees to pick them up later; third the couscous disappeared into the hole; the man followed, came to the land of the dead Ioloa; during the day the dead are piles of bones, when night falls, the spirits take their bones, come to life; the wife hides her husband so that the dead do not kill him; When leaving, the man took local coconuts, wild lemons and odorous herbs, but the dead took them away, he hardly ran away; after him, the dead closed the entrance to Ioloa with a heavy stone; when three days later the husband tried to visit his wife again, he was unable to enter Ioloa; since then, communication with the dead had become impossible]: Ker 1910:81-84.

Burma - Indochina. Karen [Cha Than Pho's widow's son saw a buffalo mole eating rice in the field; chased him with a stick, he disappeared into the hole, the whirlwind sucked C. into it; when he woke up, he saw that he was tied in thin threads, around a finger-sized little man; C. tore his threads easily; the local king said that the mole was on duty and only he could get upstairs, overcoming the wind; the little men fed C. and he helped them in their work; he was given a staff that gave life to the dead at one end and killed at the other; thanks to the staff, they did not die, and the mole, after each revival, grew larger; the mole pushed C. to the ground, and to prevent him from being sucked back, C. told his dog, who was waiting for him, to bring his flute; when C. began to play, the birds flew to listen, sat on the bamboo stalks, they bent, C. grabbed them and got out; the king's daughter died, C. revived her with his staff, received the princess and then the throne]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 171:457-460.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nivkhi: Pevnov 2010, No. 6 [the man's bride died, he married another man, he has children; he wounded a fox, chased her, climbed her hole, the hole is wider, went out into the bright world; the people there are not him they see; he touched the prison, which the old man was slaughtering, he cut himself; the man ate yukola, it seemed tasty; lay down next to the bride, she screamed in pain; they called a shaman; the man was frightened, taking yukola, went back, two big deer chased him, he crawled through the hole to the ground; the jukola brought was rotten; he talked about what he saw and died]: 37-43; Samgi 1974 [man advises to put nets at the mouth; they caught all the fish, hunger began in winter; hunters go into the forest, disappear; that man follows the fox, climbs into the hole, it is wider; he comes to the bright summer world of abundance; the dead do not see him; he goes to bed with a woman, she feels something cold, jumps up; he eats jukola, takes a bunch with him; in our world, the jukola turns to rot; the hole becomes narrow, he will not return to Mlykhovo; he tells people what he saw, dies because he ate yukola in another world and went to bed with a woman; since then it has been known that he is in Mlykh]: 53-59; Ulita 2011 [the old man sees that the dog brought something puppies, followed her to a hole in the ground, went to the river, entered the house, where his dead parents, brother and first wife; no one sees him; tried to hug his wife, she screams that she is sick; when he meets an ermine, a man found himself in the second Mlygvo {g crossed out} below the tier; touched a man, he immediately cut himself with a knife; with an ermine he got to the third tier; there the old man saw him, sent him to the first; the boy's father asks on the ground, tell him where he put two knives before his death; he woke up at home, showed where the knives were, died soon]: 24-25; Orochi [the hunter climbs into the fox hole, enters the afterlife of Booni; local people do not offer him food, the girl does not allow her to have sex with her; he comes back; says he dies because of this]: Bereznitsky 1999, No. 16:150.

Japan. Ainu [the young man chases the bear for a long time, she hides in a hole; he climbs after her, there is light at the end of the cave; he goes out into a world that resembles ours, but more beautiful; ignoring people looking for a bear; ate berries and became a snake; in a dream, the pine goddess advises you to climb up the trunk and rush down; the snake skin falls off, the young man returns to earth; but the pine goddess again appears and reports that after eating the fruits of the lower world, he will not live long on earth; the goddess of the lower world fell in love with him, she took the form of a bear; the young man soon fell ill and died; returned to lower world]: Chamberlain 1888, No. 35:.

The Northern Andes. Guajiro [a man climbed into a hole after the battleship, ended up in the lower world; his wife followed him, they descend from the inhabitants of this world; to remove the child, their women are ripped open; our world rests on their homes; a man who came to the lower world and gave birth to its inhabitants met a golden man wearing a golden hat on a golden mule; it was the Sun; a man asked to be brought to earth ; The sun told me to sit on a mule behind him; then he planted it on a piece of wood in the sea, the man sailed home]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (2), No. 117:837-838.

Guiana. Arekuna: Armellada 1973, No. 51 [the old woman put her pubic hair on the trail, told her son-in-law it was tapir hair, told her to dig a hunting hole; he began to dig and completely plunged into the ground; accepted through the nose, the drug turned into a chikei bird; it was seen by the daughters of the Great Battleship, lured with baked sweet potatoes, brought home, the bird became human again, he began to live with them; decided to visit his mother; the wives asked not to talk about them, but he spilled out; people killed the battleships; they appeared to the hero in a dream; everything was flooded with a flood]: 141-143; Koch-Grünberg 1924, No. 34 [Wadhamaímöng shaman - son-in-law old woman; she asked him to dig a trap hole on the tapir trail; in the morning there was no tapir in the hole, her mother-in-law left her pubic hair on the edge, said it was tapir hair, so he came; V. became dig deeper and made a hole into the lower world; the wind dragged him there, he turned into a bird, sat on a palm tree on the edge of the Great Battleship; the Battleship's daughter brought her home, and at night she dreamed that the bird is a man; V. turned into a man, began to live with the daughter of the Battleship; the Battleship agreed that V. visit relatives, but did not tell him about him; at home he began to sing about his adventures ( now this song is sung while dancing mauari); mother-in-law V.'s sons killed the battleship father-in-law, but V.'s wife managed to escape; V. sent the mother-in-law's son who did not participate in the murder, caused a flood, the villagers turned into spirits]: 112-117; trio: Koelewijn, Riviere 1987, No. 28 [the younger brother climbed the tree for the eagle's chick; the elder threw away the stairs, walked away (for no apparent reason); there is a female chick in the nest; The eagle offers her to his young man as a wife; a year later, the chick grows up, turns into a girl, the young man marries her; the eagles wanted to teach him how to hunt monkeys; he opened his eyes too early, became visible to monkeys, they killed him; (The eagles revived him); now he hunts as usual; began to ask the birds to let him down from the tree; the woodpecker made him a ladder out of mushrooms, he is afraid to go down; the parrot lowered him, planting on a mat like a boat; for this he allowed parrots to eat corn from his field; the young man came to his mother; his brother then told her that the young man had crashed; the younger made a battleship, the elder grabbed him by the tail, the battleship dragged him deep into the hole; came to the surface in an unfamiliar village; local people killed the battleship; the man is bald, thirsty; his descendants are among us, these are water people]: 114-117; Magañ a 1987, No. 2 [a man climbs a tree for the harpy eagle chicks; his brother leaves him (throwing away the stairs?) ; a man marries an eagle's daughter; various vultures try to bring him down to the ground, one bird lowers him; a man makes a battleship; he drags his brother underground; the brother returns dumb; he is an ancestor alien tribe]: 131; oyampi [a man climbs a tree for a harpy eagle chick; his wife's brother asks what the chick is like; like your sister's pubis; he throws a ladder; many birds are not in the power to lower the hero; cassique asks to beat him, cries; a vine grows out of tears, the hero descends; cassique gives a magical battleship; he drags his wife's brothers underground; the hero roasts his wife alive; gives mother-in-law's meat; makes two different birds out of his wife's fat and heart]: Greenland 1982, No. 38:244-247.

Western Amazon. Shuar [the hunter climbs into its hole for the battleship, ends up in a cave; all the battleships are mouthless; he cuts through one mouth, who says he is his father killed by the enemy; other battleships they attack a person, but he returns to the surface, comes home]: Pelizzaro 1990:199-200.

Montagna - Jurua. Chayahuita [through the battleship's hole, a person enters the underworld; there he sees wild pigs in the pen; some run away, enter our world where people hunt them]: García Tomas 1994 (3): 126-127; cachinahua [rivals decided to take the man's wife; asked him to get japó chicks (=spider: corpse family, genus of Oropendola casica) from the tree, cut off the ladder from the vine; the spiders flew in, bringing prey (monkey, turtle, battleship); lowered the man to the ground, gave them food; gave them a good uruku to paint themselves and poisonous for those who left him on the tree; chief spiders told his son to take the man home, gave chicks with him; at home, the man told his wife to take care of the chicks; painted his wife and himself a good uruku, gave others a poisonous one, they died; they remained again they wanted to take the man's wife, they took him to collect bee honey; they offered to put his hand in the hollow, the hand was stuck, the companions left; the wild Indians came, the man shouted that he would kill them, they were frightened, they left; the man managed to free his hand, he returned to his wife; others offered to get the battleship out of the hole, failed the exit; the battleship brought the man to the ground, also gave two types of uruku; the good man painted himself and his wife, the poisonous man gave his rivals, they all died]: Shenipabu Miyui 2000:99-103; pyro [(author's note); the lower world is "Shallow River"; a man chased a herd of bakers, they disappeared into a hole, he's for with them, the hole closed, he came to the lower world; there were bakers in a woman's pen; she scolded a man for causing suffering to bakers without killing them, but only injuring them; took out arrows from his wounds; a month later The Grand Battleship said he was about to go to land; the man begged him to take him with him; at home he talked about what he saw]: Opas 2008:148-149 (Spanish text at p. 338-339), 158 [only the mother has bakers, because they are social, live in herds].

Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana: Hissink, Hahn 1961, No. 220 [the brother of a good hunter's wife does not know how to hunt; he invited him to go down the hole for the battleship, closed the exit; the battleship brought the man to the lower world; wild pigs are his herd; the battleship's wife cooked pork; Idsetti Deha, little men and women, came; the battleship is their master; they have no anuses, they inhaled the smell of cooked food, and so did the Battleship with wife; The battleship hunted like this: he took off his shell, scraped himself with a comb, plunged into a boiling pot, went with the water through the bottom of the cauldron into the forest; killed animals, fried, sent fried food to his wife underground back to pot; the wife taught this and the man, made him a good hunter; ID gave the man a wife; the child, like his mother, did not have an anus; a year later, the Battleship brought the man to the ground, gave two combs - one for him, another for his sister's evil husband; he now asked him to teach him how to hunt; undressed, scraped, rushed into the cauldron, cooked and died; var.1, Ixiamas: the man himself climbed the battleship's hole; for underground people tapiti hares are jaguars; a man kills hares easily; he was given two girls, he refused; taught him how to smoke wasps and set traps on hares; two years later he found his way back and came back; var 2, Tumupasa ( like var. 1, but shorter); var. 3, Tumupasa; about like in var. 2; dwarfs without ass gave man two women; children were born without ass; man dissatisfied, returned to earth; var 4, San Jose; man grabbed The battleship by the tail, which dragged it to the lower world; there is Idsetti Deha, red dwarfs; they only drink broth, urinate, but have no anus; they are unhappy that man stains their land with crap; he clings to battleship, comes back; var. 5, Buenaventura; Battleship was friends with man, brought him underground, where dwarfs are the owners of wild pigs; they only drink broth; he pierces the anuses of some dwarfs, those die; tapiti is a jaguar for them; a man killed him, smoked wasps; eight days later he grabbed the tail of the Battleship, returned to earth], 222 [in the lower world, dwarfs eat the smell of food; two people down the hole battleships have entered there; there are many wild pigs, bakers, tapirs; wasps are the size of hummingbirds, and people and animals die from their bites; animals come to our land on salt marshes; and come back]: 351- 354, 354-355; (cf. synth larga [the man wounded the battleship, he disappeared into the hole, died; the man called his brother, asked him to get the battleship out of the hole, made a fire at the entrance; thinking that his brother was dead, returned to the village and took it wife; brother, although burned, got out; returned, killed brother and wife from the bow, left with his son]: Leonel Queiroz et al. 1988:81-82).

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo (kuben-cran-kegn) [Takakö and O'oimbre went hunting; T. killed a small battleship, O. liked the meat; T. made a basket, it turned into a large battleship; O. after him, he in hole, O. grabbed his tail, he dragged him deeper; T. went home, answers O.'s wife that he had left before him; in the morning T. came to the hole, called, O. shouts that he would not work out, turned into an battleship himself; T. told his wife she cried]: Dreyfus 1963, No. 19:186-187; Wilbert 1978, No. 23 [Banner 1957:50; people descended to earth from heaven; the battleship, the oldest among animals, discovered the earth and then the lower world; two hunters found his hole, one grabbed his tail, the battleship dragged him underground; the other brought people; they managed to descend to a friend, but no one dared to explore the underworld], 105 [Metraux 1960:28; same as Dreyfus, the wife's name is O. Kaprãkudyö]: 95-96, 265; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 18 [the man climbed into the hole for the battleship; failed and fell on the Buriti palm tree (Mauritia flexuosa); when he spat, he was noticed by a boar; man made the leaf long, went down; lived with wild boars, then they were not going to go to the ground and he was with them; jaguars and bees were waiting at the exit, he had to run fast; wild boars brought the man to his house; he told people where the herd, people got a lot of meat]: 48; frame camera [Nimuendaju 1946:247-248; while the wife was in the garden, the husband hunted, began to dig up the battleship's hole, did not get it; the wife asked for it, the husband did not get it the next day he began to dig deeper, fell into the lower world, fell on the crown of a palm tree, did not get off; the battleship, taking the form of a cockroach, fell on a man, ordered him to hold on to the tail, lifted him to the ground, ordered more Battleships can't hunt; but a man told others the battleship was killed]: Wilbert 1978, No. 26:102-103; crash: Wilbert 1978, No. 24 [Schultz 1950:160-162; hunter and wife's brother climb into a hole battleships, fall into the lower world when they fall on a buriti palm tree; tell it to bend down; bakers live in a herd, become bakers themselves, overgrown with wool; bakers take them to the ground in their usual way; in the village they are met by relatives (apparently both hunters are taking human form again); people have found out where the bakers come from and no longer suffered from a lack of meat], 25 [Chiara 1962:350-351; hunter fell into the battleship's hole; fell on a palm tree; the monkey called the bakers, who told the palm tree to bend down; in February, when the bakers appeared, they brought the man to the ground; before, people did not see the bakers, stood on hunt them; when a man told the baker chief that he was going to kill him, he, if the bakers so wished, fell ill and died]: 96-98, 99-101; apinaye [Nimuendaju 1939:175; below our world there is another a beautiful world from where wild pigs come to earth; once a hunter climbed into a hole for a battleship, fell into the lower world; his companion spoke about it in the village; four days later, a shaman brought a man out back down the wild pig road]: Wilbert 1978, #27:104.