Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

I30. The owner of the dead meets women .18.19.41.50.67.68.

In the world of the dead, its master or mistress copulates with all new arrivals.

Australia. Gunwinggu (West Arnemland) [by the river, the deceased calls the carrier; if it is a man, the carrier delivers an old boat and hits the deceased until he is transported to the other side; if a woman delivers a new boat, gently carries the passenger there, rows slowly; the woman will pay him with her body]: Berndt, Berndt 1964:414; maung [the deceased is waiting to be transported to North Goulborn Island; giant Junbarba (sometimes identified with a shooting star) hears a scream, drives the boat; beats men all the way, and treats women well because they then copulate with him]: Berndt, Berndt 1964: 414-415.

Melanesia. Oz. Kutubu [Tauruabu's wife died; he went to the place where her bones were exhibited, saw a hole in the ground, walked down the aisle; the nettle parted in front of him; the huge gateibu lizard asked if he ate lizards; he replied that he ate, she closed her mouth, he went over her head; if he said, No, she would swallow it, he would have come out from the other end; there was a log trap on the trap, he carefully freed the clamp, the log fell, there was a thunder; when she heard it, the beautiful Berome came up to free her soul (aminterare), saw T. alive; taught her to walk, without looking back at her, past her mother Makorebu, to whom All men go to her father Gaburiniki; M. copulates with all the dead men who have come, G. with women; passing, T. noticed that M.'s huge ears hang, and his breasts are like tapas; in G. souls dance, have fun; sing, Korere (East, Place of the Dead), Korere, Takore (West, Place of the Living), Takore; in the morning G. returns T. to his wife, tells her not to let her work for 37 days; closing their eyes, they find themselves at home; a woman sits for 37 days, inserting her bones back into her body; brought magifono sugarcane with her, ga-dioko bananas, eaten will become immortal; on the 36th day, it remains to put the little finger bone right hand; T. tells his wife to cut off a few palm leaves; she cuts off her boneless little finger, spreads, leaves a pile of bones; T. talks about all people, dies; his body is burned; magifono and ga-dioko disappear; if it were to wait until the 37th day, people would eat them, become immortal]: Williams 1941, No. 16:151-154; the Trobrians [the dead come to the afterworld of Tuma; its owner Topileta meets them; copulates with every woman who comes, and daughter T. copulates with every man who comes; then the deceased comes to the other dead, smells the aromatic grass, forgets the past life, and begins endless sex orgy]: Malinowski 1932:362-363.

Subarctic. Ingalic [The raven lives in a house on the bank of the river that the souls of the dead must cross; his wife's house is nearby; every dead woman spends a night or two with the Raven, and every man spends a night or two with his wife; his wife shakes a stone pillar set by Donato to prop up the ground, causing earthquakes so that more dead would come to her; Raven had a young wife, but fell in love with his mother-in-law; then they did not die and The dead had nowhere to go; the raven dug an underground passage to a distant river, built a plague there, and another one elsewhere; returned; his mother-in-law fell ill and died, his daughter grabbed only emptiness; the Raven led his mother-in-law along underground passage, spent three days with her in my plague; showed her her home; If I want to have sex with you, I'll come to you, or come to me if you want; the dead walk through this tunnel - women to Raven, men to his mother-in-law; beautiful Raven and mother-in-law copulate for two days, and ugly ones only for a day]: Osgood 1959:104-105.

The Great Southwest. Hopi [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 his legs, teaches him what to do here and then; he succeeds go 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 with a potion , a cougar on the roof of a kiva; The spider tells the man not to touch his wife, to calmly watch the Master of the Dead meet in her (he has a huge penis); not to get along with a girl (she was his first girlfriend in his 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 before reaching home; wife flies away owl]: Malotki, Gary 2001, No. 7:55-64.

(Wed. NW Mexico. Opata [the dead approach the lake, the dwarf Butza Uri takes them in a boat to the south coast; there an old Hoatzique woman swallows them and they live without need in her womb; but souls she rejects those who paint their faces (pima in particular) and throws them into the lake]: Johnson 1950:34).

Bolivia - Guaporé. Guarazu [was a man with a huge penis and his sister with a huge vagina; when he met a woman, this man killed her with his penis, and the one who got down with his sister was not satisfied; Muruvysa ordered these two go away; they went through the hole in heaven into the world of the dead; the brother there copulates with all the women who come and his sister copulates with all the men]: Riester 1977, No. 25:269; surui [in the world of the dead The huge Lapoti Woman copulates with all the men who come; the evil ones disappear in her vagina, for the good ones she becomes smaller; accordingly, all women lie on a giant penis Gati (aka Big Testicula, Big Penis); those who misbehaved during their lifetime die, for good women, G.'s penis decreases]: Mindlin 1995, No. 8:139; tupari [like Pauserna; a man with a huge penis; is a woman his sister? After that, the dead don't have sex anymore]: Caspar 1975:195, 199.

Southern Amazon. Paresi [Kamazú, ancestor of paresi kabisha, was eaten by a jaguar; son K. Waikomoné killed a jaguar; W. and his three brothers receive souls rising to heaven; created a son from leaves - the husband of all women rising to heaven]: Metraux 1942:170; kalapalo [all who arrived in heaven souls copulate with Isagifeñú woman]: Basso 1973:58; (cf. Kuikuro [Itsaitsegu (Mother of the Sun) welcomes the souls of the dead; calls her sister Isagifeñú, who expresses her milk, souls drink, become healthy and young; but do not copulate with her]: Carneiro 1977:6, 13, note 11).