I32. Baby tree.

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There was or is a tree on which the souls of unborn babies grow, whose leaves have turned into humans, or whose trunk is covered with many female nipples or flowers, from which babies suck milk or juice.

Fon, Anjamatana, Southwestern Australia, Yualarai, (Orokaiva), Andamans, Semangs, Bangga, Vemale, Nogais, Georgians, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Altaians, Nenets, Nganasans, Northern Selkups , Central and Western Yakuts, Dolgans, Tungus (in general), Evenki Orochons, Evenks of the Holy China, Nanai, Ulchi, Orochi, Udege, Negidals, Manchus, Aztecs, Tsotsil, Lacandons, Saliva, Piaroa, (characterbet).

West Africa. Background [Azizã hunter came to the tree where unborn children gather before going to the womb of a future mother; one replies that he will die and return to this tree in the same tree the day she is born, another after the birth of her son, the third at the age of 20, etc.; the girl replies that she will live until she marries, dies when she goes swimming in her husband's house; when she finds out who she will be born to, A. comes to a woman whose children are all stillborn; promises to marry her daughter; this girl stays alive; he marries, she goes swimming, falls dead; he guards her soul on the trail, hits her, makes you return to the body; the girl has come to life]: Herskovits, Herskovits 1958, No. 54:246-247.

Australia. Adnjamatana [the source of the children is two huge maudla Ami (ami - mother) women in the sky in the Wikurutana area; they have been sitting motionless for so long, that have become like gray rocks, their hair almost completely covers their bodies; their huge breasts have lots of baby-sucking spirits (muri); one produces Araru fratria's children, the other Mathuri; when muri becomes too much, some descend to earth on a thread as thin as a web or like butterflies; they can only be seen by sorcerers and old women; they are looking for a pretty, kind fat woman with big breasts to painlessly penetrate her body under her fingernails, then penetrate her uterus; (commentary to the drawing of an old woman in which one of the women and many muri; on the upper right is a Jasminum bush lineare, gum tree at the bottom right, also feed on its flowers and grape-like grapes); until they penetrate, gum tree and Amaruka flowers suck, sleep under tree bark at night]: Mountford, Harvey 1941:156-157; Western tribes of South Australia [children's souls, leaving their birthplace, play by the flowers of mulga trees until they find their mother]: Elin, Oceania II (1) :71 in Mountford, Harvey 1941:157; Yualarai [Wan (raven) suggests that Ball (a month) not make new children, but revive the dead; he refuses; W. invites him to climb a tree to collect caterpillars, makes the tree grow to the sky; B. remains in the sky; he previously refused to marry Sun-Yi; at Yi's direction, the spirits that support the sky at the edges prevent B. from returning to earth; if allowed, Yi will kill a spirit holding in the center of the sky the ends of ropes on which the earth hangs; B. slipped past the spirits, taking the form of an emu; went with his wives to collect caterpillars, leaving the log where he slept and covered it with skin; Brother B . tried to kill him, but only hit a log; when the B. brothers approached, B. turned into an emu again, slipped away from them; B. and the Lizard began to make children, send them to spirits that sent them to earthly mothers; children hid in eucalyptus branches; the woman who passed under them became pregnant; if B. rises late, he makes girls (it takes longer to do them than boys); Van (the raven) turns girls into women]: Parker 1965:49-54.

(Wed. Melanesia. Orokaiva [Buda and her husband Menina are alone; a tree rises above their house; B. sweeps away fallen leaves in the morning; complains of loneliness, wants as many people as leaves; in the morning leaves turn into men and women, B. divides them into tribes]: Williams 1930:156).

Malaysia-Indonesia. Andamans [souls of unborn children live on large ficus trees in the forest]: Radcliffe-Brown 1933:174; Semangs: Evans 1937 (Menik Kaien) [in the world of dead souls suck flowers and eat the fruits of the Mapik tree; one branch is covered with flowers, rice hangs on the other, durian fruits on the third, rambutan on the fourth, etc.; the trunk at the base covers women's breasts, of which souls babies suck milk]: 257-258; Skeat, Blagden 1906 [children's souls sit in a tree near where Kari (riding deity) is located; twins are born if a woman eats a soul bird that had inside an egg]: 217; Schebesta 1957 (Western Negrito) [there is a tree in the other world that contains all kinds of food, as well as flowers that embody the souls of the living and the dead]: 178-179, 182 in Endicott 1979:46-48; vemale (Seram) [woman curses the sun, gives birth to a boy Haumala, he has only half of his body; he comes to the upper world by the Tuwale sun for his other half; T. shows him a tree on which it hangs, sticks the halves together; shows vegetable gardens planted with human bones and hair; Tuniai (Tuwale?) shows bats hanging on a tree; these are people's souls; chooses people's food, D. gives him a human leg; when T. is angry, devours these mice, people die on earth; T. sends H. back to earth tell people not to question the actions of the gods]: DeVries 1927:182-183 in Prager 2005:107-108.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Nogais [at Askar-Tau (Sary-Arka, Sary-Tobe, Kok {kök?} - Baiterek grows (p. 108: it seemed pine); the souls of unborn people are written on it, the fates of people are written on the leaves; its roots connect the earth with water sources and fill Lake Manas with healing water (Togas); layers of the heavenly world depart from the branches; near the Toimadyk River ("insatiable"), the source in the upper world, the mouth in the lower world]: Kapaev 2012:31; Georgians: Virsaladze 1973, No. 199 [in the next world, infants they sit on the branches of a fig tree in the middle of a milk lake; children chirp and sing; when they want to eat, branches approach the surface of the lake, children drink milk]: 270; Janashvili 1893, No. 12 ( Ingiloyans) [in Gori (afterlife), a broad-leaved tree grows on the shore of a milk lake; children sit on it; when they want to eat, the tree leans to the surface of the lake, the children drink milk]: 162.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [at the top of the A'as (tree) live the souls of dead or unborn children in the guise of birds; then they enter our world or the other world; when a person is born, they appear on a tree a leaf with his name falling 40 days before his death]: Khisamitdinova 2011:22.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [west 1976 from Berkindai-Ata Bucks; "In the center of the world stands the Pristine Kok-Tube (blue heavenly mountain), at its top grows the Great Baiterek (Mighty Poplar), four branches each which on each tier covers the entire heavenly vault, penetrating all its levels; its roots penetrate through all levels of the Earth to the Lower Waters;... the rukh (spirit) leaves the body forty days before his death and, turning into a bird (pigeon), he flies to Baiterek, on whose leaves, constantly falling and growing, the names of people are written, finds his own and sits down; jan (soul) in the form of a fly leaves the house of the deceased only Forty days after death;... souls descend to the ground (or rise from the ground) along the Baiterek trunk and, when they enter the wombs of women, give birth to new life; the same in animals and plants "]: Ibraev 1980: 40.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [from the Bai-Kaiyn heavenly birch tree receive sus embryos for children, cattle and animals; a special campaign was held to ask for sus]: Kipchakova 1983:142.

Western Siberia. The Nenets [the beginning of the world river in the south in the "seven-chamber swamp", the mouth in the north near the habitat of Kyzy and his son, the cold "sea of the dead"; in the upper reaches there is a steel dwelling of an old patron woman Ylenta-kota, a village of blacksmiths - her assistants (they forge iron parts for shamanic vestments), a "sea of bloody water" and a "sky tree with buds" that connects the earth, sky and the underworld; it has seven branches on the right, sunny, and seven branches on the left, night side; on the upper branches sit cuckoos, the patroness of childbearing; the hollow contains the souls of unborn people, and seven snakes in seven roots protect the road to the lower world]; Helimsky 1982:400; Nganasans [children (more often toothless people who can't speak yet) meet a juicy tree on their way to the land of the dead, fly around it like a bird, they suck it like a mother; according to other ideas, bird children fly to the Mother Moon]: Gracheva 1976:62; northern Selkups [people's souls come from the roots of the Great Birch, which grows at the source of the World River, fall from there to women (according to Prokofiev 1961:56-61; 1976:113-114; Pelikh 1980:11)]: Napolskikh 1992:10.

Eastern Siberia. Central Yakuts (Toyon-Aryy Island, river. Lena, West-Khangalassky District, Western 1925) [There is a tree in heaven called Iyik-Mas. Its top reaches the ninth sky, and no one can determine its circumference. From the root to the very top, this tree is covered with growths, but there are no clear branches on it. Shamans, shamans and all those who are familiar with witchcraft and magic are born in these tree growths. The strong will be born at the base of the trunk, shamans are born at the root of a tree, in a growth the size of a small mound]: Ksenofontov 1992:41; Western (Vilyui) Yakuts: Popov 1947 [at the birth of a future shaman, spirits steal three souls of a child (he is easily ill at this time) - salgyt kut ("air-soul"), buor kut ("earth-soul"), jij ä kut ("mother-soul"); the great shaman of the upper world is kidnapped by the daughters of shaman Ara Darkhan; larch with 9 hollow holes grows near her home; the lower 3 have moss bedding, the middle 3 have pine needles, the upper 3 have leaves; the souls of the best shamans are brought up in the upper hollows; sq. in the form of a cuckoo (or wader) chick is fed with eagle eggs from one to 9 years old; daughters and sons of AD in the form of eagles teach shaman techniques; if souls do not perceive shamanic training well, they are fattened with colorful hares, double-headed öxökě eagles, colorful fish; a middle-world shaman is brought up in one of three birch holes growing near three northern demonic old women]: 283; 1949 [the souls of baptized babies fly to heaven, where they feed on the fruits of a large oak tree (duck mas); the souls of the unbaptized wandered through earth, feeding on the leftovers of baptized babies]: 321; dolgans: Anisimov 1958 [(citing an oral report by A.A. Popov); there is a family tree, "mother tree", one of the branches of which represents the soul (kut) of a shaman, the rest of the branches are the souls of relatives; at the foot of the tree there is a beast mother who protects this receptacle of souls of members of the family; from this tree a shaman is born; o "Mother Tree" says: "A nursing boiler is a fence - this is where the baby is born - this is the beginning"]: 83-84; Vasiliev in Haekel 1958 [a tree with eight branches grows in front of Aia Toyon's house, on whose souls live in the form of birds; when shamans rise to the sky, they bring souls from there; at the top is God and his wife in the form of a double-headed eagle]: 68; Tungus (in general) [ng& #233; ktar (ngevi) is the world of unborn souls at the foot of the mountain of the upper shamanic world; Omi souls lived on branches, fell to the ground in the form of fluffs and needles]: Vasilevich 1982a: 206; Evenki Orochons [all the territory of Star Cholbon is divided into ancestral areas, where only dry larches grow, many with broken peaks; they are covered with bird nests where omi souls are placed; souls of simple people look like tit chicks; shamanic ones most often look like chicks of migratory birds (eagles, swans, loons, waders, etc.); unborn souls feed on the unborn souls of animals and birds; they are sent to them enekan buga is the mistress of the universe and the human race]: Mazin 1984:11; the Evenks of the Holy China [the Khingan Evenks in the sky have omi (man) and intent (woman) spirits live in the plague and have a tree on which the souls of unborn children sat in the form of birds; the reindeer Evenks of St. China thought that the Omi spirit not only sends the souls of children, but also patronizes them in the future; manegres ( Kumar Evenks) considered umi/omi to be an unmarried feminine spirit; among the Birars, the same spirit was known as omishi or umismi and corresponded in importance Manchu Ongoshi Mom]: Shirokogoroff 1935:128 in Ivanov 1954:234.

Amur - Sakhalin. Manchus [in the Jurchenei State, the village elder Lolo Baldubayan (accordion is "rich") has two favorite young slaves Akhaljin and Bahaljin; a son is born, dies; a second is born, Serguwedei Fyango (SF); at the age of 16, goes hunting, dies unexpectedly; the young widow of the shaman Nisan agrees to return his soul from the afterlife of Khan Yilmun; a young man Nari Fyango beats the drum for her; Doholon ("lame") takes her in a boat across the yellow river; she pays him three bars of soy sauce and three packs of paper; he replies that Mongoldai Nakcu ("maternal uncle") passed by passed carrying the Northern Fleet; at the Red River, the carrier demands five bars of sauce and five packs of paper for the crossing; the good spirit of the heavenly girl carries N.; the eagle carries N. to the house of MN, bypassing the perfume outpost; the eagle - assistant N. grabs the SF playing with gold and silver grandmothers, brings him to N.; pays off the pursuing MN, giving him a dog, a rooster and paper; consistently asks him to add SF 10, 20... 90 years of life; N.'s angry late husband tries to detain her, she tells the eagle to take him to the city of the dead Fendu; N. comes to Omoshi's mother; all people are her grandchildren, grown from roots, released from leaves; she promises to give the Federation Council five sons and three daughters; N. sees beautiful trees in the west; O. replies that they are people with good intentions from the realm of the living; then consistently explains why people suffer , whom N. sees; women who did dirty things in the river are given dirty water; the one pinned to the door gave little silver, took back a lot; the one who rolled down the mountains now carries them to the mountain; not the person who paid for duty is dragged along the ground; the husband, who looked at his parents angrily, his eyes and tongue are pulled out; food wasters are fed mealworms; a naughty son is beaten; he who ate at night is secretly torn from the family hooks; O. tells N. to tell people what he saw; Federation Council comes to life, marries successfully]: Yakhontov 1992:94-129; Nanai, Ulchi, Orochi, Udege, Negidals, Manchus [the vitality of omi/omia in the form of little birds multiplies on the family tree of life; their mistress throws them on the ground, into the womb of women; the closest ideas are the Nanai, Ulchi and Manchus]: Sam 1986:63; Nanais: Lipskaya-Walrond 1925 [in heaven, in the possession of the Omson-Mama female spirit, each genus had its own special giant tree, among the branches of which, in the form of birds, choká lived and the souls of people of this kind multiplied; when a bird moved into a woman's body, she became pregnant; each tree had an equal number of female and male chokás; the male was variegated, the female - gray (some informants said the opposite); if the child dies, the soul returns to the tree, sits on the upper branch, gradually descends as the lower ones are released; maybe again move into the same woman in three years; if she dies again in six; if again, she moves into a woman of a different kind or not in a nanaika]: 6-7; (retelling Ivanov 1954:233-234); Lipsky 1923 [with an old woman Omson is a mother in the sky, trees on which souls multiply in the form of little birds; after moving into a woman's body, they turn into babies (var: they fall out of feathers)]: 41 in Yu. Sem 1990:127; Smolyak 1976 [a tree with children's souls grows in the sun, according to another version, in the sky, in one of its spheres; shamans fly there for the souls of children at the request of infertile women]: 135; Yu.Sam 1990 [1) on There is a lake in the sky with ducks (or other waterfowl); when their wings grow, they sit on the Tondor Moni tree, feed on its buds; male chicks appear on the upper branches, the lower ones are female; with T. they move to family trees, and from there to the wombs of women; 2) (Naikhin village); vitality originates in the roots of a tree in the lower world of the buni; a tree trunk in the middle world, the top with branches is above the outer vault of the upper world; the vitality of the juices rise to the branches, germinate with soul leaves; the wind tears them off, they turn into sparrows and cockerels, and fall into the middle peace in women's wombs; if the baby dies before one year, vitality returns to the tree; with the permission of old woman Omso, the shaman's mother can choose a ripe bird and bring it to the woman]: 127; Sternberg 1933: 480 [a tree of souls is in the sky], 491 [a tree of children's souls, like fledgling ducks, is located in the afterlife of Booni; from there, a shaman brings children's souls, inspires them into women]; Negidals [a tree of souls - larch, supposedly growing on Amguni; fire and a dog are always visible nearby; people saw a skull rolling along the path nearby]: T.Sem 1990:101.

Mesoamerica Aztecs [dead babies sit under a tree with women's nipples sucking milk]: Birhorst 1990:256; tzotsil [the souls of dead babies live in the sky on a tree and suck milk]: Guiteras-Holmes 1961:143; Lamb 1995:270; northern lacandons [women used to find babies under ceiba; the gods decided that it was inconvenient to pick up children in the forest, gave papaya seeds (papaya fruit resembles a shape uterus); (hereinafter biblical borrowing); Ak'inchob prohibited eating melon before he offered it to Khachakyum; husband and wife ate melon at the instigation of Kissin, who took the form of Ak-inchob; women began to give birth , the seed got stuck in the man's throat, his voice became deep and hoarse; A. said people wouldn't see it again]: Cook 2019:126-132, 640; southern lacandons [women found babies at the roots of the ceiba, then under Caprica papaya; one woman breaks the ban on eating watermelons before Our Father; he makes childbirth difficult]: Boremanse 1986:59-61.

Southern Venezuela. Saliva [men and women, Saliva's ancestors, were born as fruits on some trees]: Gumilla 1963, Part 1, Ch. VI: 110; piaroa [Chief Póman-Ichaj went for pebbles for the shamanic rattle; his wife Jiudej Tucusita heard a voice from the top of the ñopa tree created by the evil spirit of Virichaj; threw it at him with a stick; a bird in a crown appeared from the sun's rays; the woman said she threw it not at her; the bird of the sun announced that there would be a flood, ordered P. and H. to put their house on the mountain (P. is marked as righteous, who lit a fire in honor of the sun); chiguire, tapir and otter (they can swim) escaped from the flood; after the flood, the trees are dead, except for chikle and pendare; the sun bird appeared to the couple in a dream, said what would happen as many children as there are fruits on the pendar and the same number of nipples; in the morning, sucking babies hung on the tree; the tree was covered with babies sucking milk from many nipples; V. took two fish from the water and gave them nipples, but forgot to take out the fish's teeth; these children bit their nipples, they came from Caribbean cannibals, other bariva, guajibo, etc.; H. became pregnant from the Sun, gave birth to piaroa; since then, pendare has milk but no nipples]: Baumgartner 1950:66-69 in Wilbert 1963:66-69.

(Wed. Montagna - Jurua. Character [on the mythical wanámei tree, each person has a branch on which their existence depends (que es el símil de su existencia)]: Calífano 1976:36 (approx. 30 ).