I7. Cloud Serpent .11.-.13.18.19.21.-.23.25.-.29.33.34.36.-.38.45.-.53.59.62.64.65.67.72.

The reptile produces rain and thunderstorm.

Luba Kasai, Luchazi (Ngangela), Kango Pygmies, Hausa, Didinga, Groot Islandt, Anula, Murngin, Baruya, Tibetans (Amdo), Lepcha, Bhutan, Sherdukpen, Lakher, Nayar, Burmese, Puyuma, Miao, Ancient China, Chinese (including Zhejiang, Fujian), Koreans, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Serbs, Romanians, Poles, Ukrainians (Transcarpathia), Kalmyks, Karachays, Armenians, Dungans, Altaians, Telengits, Tuvans, Southern Tuvans , Buryats, Mongols, Mongols of Ordos, Mongors, Dagurs, Evenki Solons, (Evenki Orochons), Nanai, Udege, Orochi, Negidals, Ainu, Japanese, Mikmak, Pawnee, (Mandan), Yuchi, Chiroki, Chikasaw, Nisenan, Northern Payute, Zunyi, Huichol, Tepehua, Teotihuacán, Nahua of Central Mexico, Popoloka, Triki, Chinanteca, Mixteca, Zapoteca, Mije, Chorti, Boruca, Waiwai, Trio, Tikuna, Jauja, Huancavelica, Aymara (dep. Puno), moseten, spike, matako, toba.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Luba Kasai: Bittremieux 1935 [rainbow - snake in the clouds sending rain]: 241; Studstill 1984 [rainbow - serpent, older brother, rain - little sister]: 80; luchazi (ngangela, band Gonzelo) [the Muchisi snake, the size of a python, attacks swimmers or those who approach the body of water in which it lives; it attacks the human shadow while remaining invisible; the victim loses consciousness but if another person guesses to cut the victim's vein, Muchisi will throw himself on the blood flowing through the earth and the person will survive; the rainbow is Muchisi's spine; if a member of the tribe sees a rainbow in the sky or near a waterfall, she runs away, considering them evidence of Muchisi's presence; thunder is a sign of her anger]: Hauenstein 1960:?.

West Africa. Hausa [Gajjimare, rainbow is the serpentine god of rain and thunderstorm; two-sex, red stripe - man, blue - woman; lives in thunderclouds and in any body of water; other words for rainbow: "water drinker" and "spider bow"]: Tremearne 1913:112.

Sudan-East Africa. Kango pygmies [the rainbow serpent is identified with the creator of Mungu; during a thunderstorm, lightning is its tail]: Abrahamsson 1951:116; diding [Borogheg water creatures are associated with thunder and with lightning, with a rainbow; if B. leaves a river or spring, it dries up]: Kronenberg 1972:140

Australia. Groot Islandt [a huge marsh gecko with a colorful body, mane, mustache streams water and grass into the sky, creating rain clouds; produces thunder for fun]: Mountford 1956: 75 in Mountford 1958:155, in Waterman 1987, No. 2295 (1): 77; Tiwi [giant iridescent colored Maratjis lizards with horns on their heads and beards on their lower jaw live in water bodies; if anyone fits, there is a rumble and gurgling, they send a stream of water into the sky, it rains; one of them then turns into a rainbow, trying to harm that person or anyone else]: Mountford 1958:155; Anula [the snake (the husband of a rainbird) lives in a pond, spits a rainbow, rain clouds into the sky]: Waterman 1987, No. 2295 (2): 77; murngin [two men found, baked and ate snake eggs Buroolo; the snake rose to the sky, turned into a black cloud, it grew, covered the whole sky; lightning (the snake's tongue) hit people's corn huts]: Waterman 1987, No. 2235 (1): 75.

Melanesia. Baruya [people saw a giant python in the garden, killed it, cooked it with taro and vegetables, ate the taro in the evening, and left the meat for tomorrow; the woman who got up first found that her bag was meat gone; the rest have the same; the snake was found whole in the oven; he is consistently asked what he wants - shells and jewelry; tarot; salt; the snake does not move; a woman? the serpent straightened up and looked up at the sky; a decorated woman was brought to him; he gave her a sign to go first, but she invited him to go first; hid a white-hot stone in her bag; going up to heaven, they found themselves in front of a big house; the woman again invited the snake to enter the house first; pressed down the door with a stone and began to descend the column of smoke she had previously climbed; halfway through she turned into Venus (evening and morning); the serpent turned around in the house and hit a stone with its nose; burning and screaming is thunder; the snake's actions also explain the rain and the rainbow]: Godelier 2007:154-155.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [When the crop died from the drought, the young Gaireng left his parents' home to look for work; invited the old man to carry his basket; the dragon flew by, K. fell to the ground in horror; the old man explained that there was no need to be afraid of dragons; they flew through the air; K. saw thunder strike from the tails of two dragons; dragons were driving a wagon with a barrel of water; heavenly young men drew from she was watered with water, the clouds were watered, asked K. to help; he began to draw water, specially watered her father's field; took a star from the sky; returned home; their field brought a rich harvest; the king bought a star from K. for large money]: Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007:182; lepcha [an orphan fell off a cliff, fell into a pigsty on the pig's back; immediately a terrible thunderstorm began, he was thrown back onto the rock; because the pig responsible for thunder, you can't laugh at it; a horse, a dog, a cow, a goat are the same (if you laugh at them, there will be thunder and lightning); but Buddhist altars depict a lightning demon as a dragon with three gems in claws]: Stocks 1925:462-463; Bhutan [in early spring, the pilgrim went to Tibet; fell through somewhere, it was dark around; groped that there was an animal nearby and he had something like nipples; sucked them for two or three months; the taste is incomparable and rather pleasant; once there was thunder; the animal moved; the man grabbed his mane; it was the dragon that carried him to land; at this time, dragons wake up after hibernation and cause thunderstorms and showers]: Choden 1994:172-175; sherdukpen [the hunter with dogs chased the deer, which disappeared into a cave, turned into a dragon took to heaven producing mountains and lightning; the hunter tried to hold him by the tail, but fell with his dogs]: Pandey 1999:127; lakher [thunder produces a boa constrictor; when he climbs a mountain and stands on his tail, Khazangpa calls him to his place; once in the abode of the supreme deity, the boa constrictor gladly hits the floor with its tail, causing thunder]: Parry 1932:498.

South Asia. Nayar [horned monsters {reptiles live in the air?} ; in summer they draw water off the ground, and during the wet season they spit out at Indra's request; the friction of their horns causes lightning]: Iyer 1912:89.

Burma - Indochina. The Burmese [Rain Cloud is a fabulous crocodile of Burmese mythology]: Aoun 1957:91

Taiwan - Philippines. Puyuma [a rain dragon lives in the sky, causing bad weather]: Schröder 1966:287.

China - Korea. Ancient China: Riftin 1982 [moon (dragon) is often depicted as a winged creature, the lord of clouds, clouds, rain, floating in the clouds or floating in the waves and covered with flames; - apparently thunderstorm symbol]: 78; Yanshina 1977 [(Catalog of the Great Deserts of the East); Kui lives in the East Sea at the top of Mount of the Moving Wave; he looks like a bull, with an emerald body, without horns, with one leg; when he enters or leaves the water, the wind rises, it rains; it glows like the sun and the moon, rattles like thunder; the Yellow Ancestor made a drum out of his skin, made sticks out of the bones of the Thunder Animal; The drumbeat is heard at five hundred li]: 114; Chinese (Zhejiang): Zhejiang 1997:359 (1979) [In heaven, many dragons were responsible for blowing the wind and pouring rain. When farmers cried out to heaven, dragons flew in, shook their heads, waved their tails, and rained on the ground. Every year, after harvesting, people would dance with dragon lanterns to thank the dragons. The sounds of the gong and the drum went to the sky. The jade emperor became angry and ordered all dragons to be locked in prison, leaving only one old white one who could not blow the wind and rain. Yellow River became shallow, arable land cracked, and crops dried up. Empress Guanin asked the white dragon to give people at least some water. He replied that he could only make a mist. The fog helped and the crops in the fields were ripe. Hearing the sound of gongs and drums again, the Jade Emperor ordered the white dragon to be brought to trial. He went to see Guanin, she advised him to turn into a grain of rice and hid it under his fingernail. It then fell into a head of cabbage in Hangzhou's {bay}. A mother and daughter lived there. Guanin took the image of an old woman, asked for her cabbage, but disappeared and that girl ate the cabbage. She became pregnant and kicked out of the village. She gave birth to a white dragon, which drank the pond and flew to heaven. Now, this place at the gates of Ganpu City has a Dragon Swamp, where heavy fog is concentrated during the spring festival. This white dragon is looking for its mother, can't find it, cries and leaves], 445-446 (y. Dongyang, 1985, said an illiterate craftsman) [an orphan girl Lou Longyin lived in Louxing Village; she came to the pond for a drink, saw something like an egg in the water, took it and accidentally swallowed it; she became her stomach swelled and lived away from people on the mountain; she was sheltered by a Buddhist nun; after 49 days, L. began to give birth to dragons; the nun killed them as she arrived, but only hit the tenth in the tail, and L. asked him to spare him; a monk from the western mountain, wanting to take advantage of the girl, predicted misfortunes, and in order to avoid them, she should live with him; L. refused, and then the monk said that he lived in the lake the evil dragon and L. should be married to him; L. rushed into the lake herself; the water began to boil, but the monk wrote eight spells on the millstone and ordered the millstones to be thrown into the water, thereby lowering L. to the bottom; learning that a monk from the Temple of West Mountain plunged his mother into Dragon Lake, her dragon son destroyed the temple with wind, thunderstorm, and rain; the monk's body was carried away by the river; the dragon wanted his mother back, but could not move the millstone away; he just looked at her through the hole; L. told her son not to come again because the earth was flooded; the dragon promised to come to Qingming once a year; so after this holiday, usually it rains]: 445-446; Chinese (Fujian) [the summer solstice was a day of "dragon separation", when two dragons in the sky shared the world among themselves and each then rained]: Dzharylgasinova, Kryukov 1989:67; the Chinese [dug up a box with old inscriptions, inside there was a gecko lizard; it was poured with water, it grew up, soared into the sky; the one-horned water dragon began to fight in the air with two dragons; it rained, the ground was covered with hail that destroyed the harvest]: Yuan Mei 1977, No. 435:276-277; Southern China [Tao Qian, "Additional Notes on the Search for Perfume": The girl washed silk on river, became pregnant, gave birth to three fish; put them in a basin, began to feed them; in three days they grew up, became dragons, flew away during a thunderstorm]: Isis 1998:143; Chinese [proverb: dragons clouds and tigers bring wind]: Dennys 1876:108; Miao [the dragon king living in a palace under the lake causes rain; sometimes he passes his daughter off as a poor man to succeed]: Graham 196:71; Chuan miao [the horned dragon's body was in the sky when he stretched his neck, he could reach the sea]: Graham 1954:170-171; Koreans: Ionova 1969 [during a drought, rain is begged for the dragon; in Seoul, they are begged for rain brought at four gates (east - green, south - red, western - white, north - black) and a yellow dragon in the city center; people catch a lizard and promise to let it go if it rains]: 185-186; Choi 1979, No. 130.1 [a poor young man goes to the mountains to commit suicide; a beautiful woman invites him; he visits his parents, they are rich, this beautiful woman sent wealth; on the way back, the old man says that his wife is a centipede gives cigars; a young man lights a cigar, the beauty turns pale, he throws a cigar out the window, it hits the snake's eye, it dies; the beauty explains that she (the centipede) and the big snake competed to see who would become a dragon and fly into the sky; thunder soars into the sky; fertile rain turns barren land into fertile]: 46-47.

The Balkans. Bulgarians: Gura 1997:290 [when the cloud lowers its tail, it rains heavily], 611 [the double-headed eagle is the leader of hail clouds; sometimes a stork, a snake in the same role]; Marinov 2003 [black clouds lead chalas (lamias) {dragons}; when they see them, snakes climb mountains and fight them; they are fire snakes sending fiery lightning arrows; challahs run, try to dodge, try hide near the nests, then lightning kills them]: 51-52; Nenov 2004 [after a storm, a serpent fell from a cloud in the field, a man brought him milk and food for a long time]: 78; Macedonians [Thunder - Elijah the Prophet goes across the sky on a chariot, fighting lamias; if a child is born with wings under his arm, 9 women must weave and sew clothes for him in a day; otherwise the boy will become a snake and the girl a lamia]: Tsenev 2004: 134-136; Serbs (Goracici village, Dragachevo, Western Serbia) [there was a verdict by which they drive away a hail cloud: a woman, lifting her hem high, shouted to the cloud: "Don't go, hello, to alu. Ova moja ala dosta taki ala skipped! (Don't go, ala, to "alu". This "ala" of mine has swallowed enough of these als); Ala is a snake-like bad weather demon who led the clouds]: Marinkovich 1974:159; Romanians: Golant 2008 [Serpent, dragon, invisible creature, bad weather demon: zme u (plural hours) zme i); once came across statements: "The storm is caused by snakes" (Furtu' na e ste provoca' tă de zme& #769; i), "The rainbow is a serpent" (Curcube u e zme u) (Malaya)]: 314; Maclagan 1897 [the sorcerer summons a dragon from the depths of the lake, throws it on him a golden bridle on his head, rides it on the clouds, making them freeze and making hail; they try to treat such sorcerers (Salamonars) to avert hail; after making hail, the sorcerer descends into in a dark cloud, sends the dragon back to the lake]: 238.

Central Europe. Poles [thunderstorms and showers occur because the serpent moves its tail; during a thunderstorm, you can see a tail hanging from the cloud]: Gura 1997:290; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [ the winged bastard shuffling comes from an ordinary strip, leads storms and hail, he is blind himself, he is led by a chickenpox]: Gura 1997:291-292.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Basayev 2004, No. 16 [Dragon Lu-Khan stays in the water all winter; in spring it soars into the air, then some hellish messenger rides it; lightning - Lu-Khan opens his mouth; thunder is evil the spirit whips the dragon and it roars], 17 [Nyamin-Nyamin rides across the sky on Lou's multi-legged dragon, chases a one-legged white demon, shoots arrows at him; to make the dragon run faster, NN ties his horns with iron bars, as needed, tightens them more; thunder is the tramp of the dragon's feet; when his teeth gnash in pain, lightning], 18 [during a thunderstorm, Dragon Lou rushes noisily across the sky, firing fiery arrows for white sky pigeons; power is given to him by a talisman (myrda) in the form of a wand with precious stones; when he loses it, he falls to the ground, looks like a camel and with kind eyes and long neck]: 49; Nogais [carp appears in the sky among the clouds in spring and summer before the rain; portends heavy rains and crops; looks like a snake, but with the head of a deer with branched horns; strengthens wind and the shine of lightning; after the rain it goes to the ground]: Kereytov 1980:125; Karachays [lightning - ot-jylan ("fire serpent"]: Karaketov 1995:19, 68; Armenians: Harutyunyan 2004 [storm, tornado, storm clouds represent vishaps; they live on mountains, in the sky, in large lakes; during a thunderstorm, aged vishaps rise to the sky from high mountains, caves or lakes, and heavenly clouds descend to the ground; vishaps they try to swallow the sun, angels fight them; storm clouds are their fiery bodies, thunder is their scream, lightning is Gabriel Hrestak's arrow, the staff or rod of angels with which they hit the vishaps; they raise Vishapov to the very sun, from whose rays they turn into ashes]: 198; Ganalanyan 1979, No. 838 [vishap embraced the world from the sky to the ground; seeing its tail, he thinks it is another beast and tries it swallow; thunder and lightning]: 269; Marr, Smirnov 1931 [by Manuk Abeghian 1899; during a thunderstorm, the vishapas in heaven want to swallow the whole world, but angels hold them on iron clanging chains; tornado they interpret it as a vishap rising to the sky; vishap grows all the time and when it reaches a thousand years old, it can swallow the whole world; those living in the water can drink all the water of the lake; but at such a dangerous time for us angels drag vishapa closer to the sun, which turns it to ashes; the eclipse is due to a vishap swallowing the sun]: 66.

Turkestan. Dungan [the boy finds a stone in the forest, puts it in a box, which is filled with flour, in his purse with money; the boss sends guards to take away the stone, the boy accidentally swallows it, turns into a dragon, burns the chief's house with lightning]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 26:163-165; Dungans: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 34 (Yunnan) [Ganhan boy ("To Drought") is born after two years of pregnancy; the drought lasts, G. goes to look for the dragon's palace; from behind the door in the cave, the princess's voice tells him to bring a plaque to the dragon; it is given to him in the mosque; G. enters the cave, grabs the pearl of the sleeping dragon, swallows; hits the dragon's horns, breaks the skull; turns into a dragon, takes off, it starts to rain]: 185-188; Shujang Li, Luckert 1994 (Inner Mongolia) [responsible for clouds and the dragon with silver horns sent rain only after receiving offerings; Lalang said that the Dungans did not eat pork and could not serve it to the dragon; he stopped sending rain, hunger began; he was fed stones - hail began; then they fed the iron chain, sticking it on top of the dough like pies; the dragon began to beg for mercy, and since then it has been sending rain]: 103-107.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians: Tyukhteneva 2009 [the dragon is one of Maana's 7 or 12 sons; M. is a manul wild cat; finding that her son has a violent, cruel disposition, she decided to settle him in heaven; when the dragon he is angry, his tears fall to the ground in the form of heavy rain, and lightning and sparks are the result of Uluu's wave of a bronze whip (informant S. Matashev); all summer he flies above the ground; when he pushes off black clouds, thunder and lightning flashes; in places where drops of his sweat fall, illnesses and misfortunes are expected, where drops will fall blood from a bird eaten on the fly will be wars; the dragon winters in the depths of the ocean and in autumn, sinking there, splashes water with its huge wings, flooding people living on the coast (informant Tanko Mongolov, born 1917)]: 68; Holmberg 1927 [lightning and thunder are produced by a (heavenly) dragon, hitting each other by two stones; one in its mouth and the other in its paw; one from Tengeri riding this dragon chases a squirrel]: 440 (reference to Potanin 1883:141, but it's not there); telengites [Ulu produces thunder; he winters on snowy mountains, rises to the sky in summer; lightning comes from his wagging his tail, thunder his voice; lightning hits the tree where the chipmunk hides]: Potanin 1883, No. 2. 20:142; Tuvans: Alekseev et al. 2010, No. 4 [thunder is the cry of a dragon; the thunder subsides when the answer will whistle or scream a person born in the year of the Dragon; if the dragon screams with its entire mouth open, all living beings in the universe will die; therefore, he screams only with his chest; does not scream at the full mouth because he holds 9 jewels in his mouth; when he waves his tail, you can see lightning; there are many dragons in the Upper World, so thunder happens in many places]: 45; Katanov 1907 [the dragon causes lightning when it waves with his tail, thunder is his cry; when Aza enters the tree, Purkhan chases him and splits the tree; the dragon's arrow (fulgurite) looks like a heart; it is useful only in the hands of an experienced shaman; in the hands of a weak shaman dangerous for the patient, for the shaman and his children]: 82; Potanin 1883, No. 2.10 [lu is angry and twists his tail, causing thunder]: 140; Potapov 1969 [thunder is the cry of the dragon Ulu; at this time people run out of their homes, shoot at the sky (the same for Uighurs)]: 292; southern Tuvans [lightning occurs when a luu waves its tail and sometimes touches ertin, which gives him strength, and from this is lightning; it is impossible to see this celestial being; if luu drops ertina to the ground, it will rain a lot, and the luu itself will turn into an amyrga, a huge snake]: Dyakonova 1976:287; Tuvans - Tojins [when the dragon Uluu gets angry and runs across the sky, it produces thunder and lightning]: Alekseev 1980:90; the Buryats [thunder produces lui; it is he who yells at him Tengir Burkhyn (thunder) sits down and rides; in winter, louis (they are numerous) live in the sea, in summer they rise to the sky; Luya has two Erdene stones, one in his mouth and the other in his hand; he makes a thunderstorm with them]: Potanin 1883, No. 2. 13:141; Mongols: Neklyudov 1982a [in The Secret Legend (after Rashidaddin) Thunder produces a dragon (Lu)]: 171; 1982e [mong luu from whale. moons through ancient Uighur. luu is a dragon, water lord and thunder is his roar or gnashing of teeth, lightning hits his tail; in later versions, thunder is his thunder mounts, which he is on winter gives winter to the hosts of water bodies]: 73; Mongolian expedition of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Western August 23, 2007 [The thunder occurs due to the fact that two dragons are fighting with each other; luu used to be a fish, and then rose to heaven; lived in a lake, the sea; the luu waves its tail, and so lightning appears; the falling luu turns into a wet camel]; the Mongols of Ordos ["When he shouted <эти слова>, clouds came down from the sky, the dragon rattled" (lu)]: Mostaert 1937, No. 38 in Solovyova 2014; Dagurs [a girl disguised as a young man asks a young man why it is raining; he replies that under the sun, water turns from springs into steam, rises to the sky and a dragon living in the sky swallows it and then spews it out in the form of rain]: Stuart 1994:151; Mongors [there was no water; God saw a writhing snake, decided that water should pour likewise; sent seven snakes to earth to bring (from the sky) dragon water, for which he made the snake a Buddha]: Stuart, Limusishiden 1994:132.

Eastern Siberia. Evenki Solons [the supreme deity Anduri sends rain, takes care of people and animals; depicts a man holding a bag of food in one hand and a dragon in the other; dragons they control thunder and lightning, help A.]: Sam, Osokina 1986:85; (cf. Evenki Orochons [fish swim in heavenly water, producing thunder, moving their fins, and wind moving their tail]: Harva 1938:206 in Erdész 196:340).

Amur - Sakhalin. The Nanais [the dragon represented thunder and lightning; "When the dragon (mudur) appears in the sky, the devils hide anywhere"]: Shimkevich 1896:127; Udege people: Arsenyev in Podmaskin 1991:55 [Thunder is a snake with legs and wings; sleeps in winter, wakes up in summer, gnashes his teeth, lightning sparkles with rubbing his teeth; Bolsheussuri Udege: rainbow and lightning are daughters of thunder; they track down an evil spirit with the help of a mirror; in summer, thunder sends a swift to the ground, sprinkling the clouds with water; it rains], No. 7 [the muduli sea serpent lives in the river. Bikin; when he drinks, the river is low tide; in summer he climbs to the sky to rest; when he wakes up, there is thunder, lightning flashes, it rains; lightning is the daughter of m; when he flies, a strong wind blows; m. shakes clouds like leaves - it's raining; drops on clouds bring swifts from the ground]: 119-120; Ivanov 1954 [dragons dressed in a shaman's suit depict thunder spirits that small evil spirits fear]: 343; Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010 [Agdi's thunder is a snake with wings, sleeps in a cave in winter; his daughters are Sausalid's rainbow and Agdi Sauni's lightning; help his father track down the evil spirit with mirrors, S. - only during the day, AS - day and night; A. fires fire arrows at evil spirits; Agdi Holoni's swift is his assistant; draws water from rivers with his beak, sprinkles clouds; when water accumulates in them, it rains]: 35; Orochi [asexual Agda's spirit of wind, thunder and lightning is a huge snake with legs and wings spewing flame from its mouth (Arsenyev's archive); during a thunderstorm, Enduri drives evil spirits and throws at them lightning; stone axes were sometimes found in the roots of trees torn out during a thunderstorm, considered A. (Sternberg 1933:410); if people are guilty, A. throws axes at them too]: Bereznitsky 1999:31-32; Podmaskin 2013 [Agdi Azzani is the owner of thunder and lightning, the husband of the mistress of the water element living on the island, managing sea spirits, animals, fish; she comes to his wife in spring, mid-summer and autumn; during a thunderstorm, stones in the shape of Agdi Sukeni's fingers (thunder axes) fall from the sky; they are found in trees split by lightning]: 27-28; Negidals [Thunder (Agda) - heavenly serpent]: T.Sem 1990:93.

Japan. Ainu: Batchelor 1927 [the goddess of fire was sent to earth; a serpent fell in love with her; she invited him to go with her if he could withstand the fire; he came down in the form of lightning; snakes are still descending from heaven to in the form of lightning]: 142; Sternberg 1933 [the heavenly serpent, and then his heavenly offspring, descended to earth in the form of lightning (hence the zigzag as the main form of the Ainu ornament)]: 572; Munro 1963 [Kamui Fuchi - goddess of fire and mistress of the dead; Kinashut Kamui - Thunder/Serpent is associated with her]: 17; Ainu [Thunder is a snake-like creature with a scaly body]: Spevakovsky 1988:64-65; Japanese [put on the body of a snake Thunder; the god of Thunder in ancient Japan is a small child in the form of a snake; the hieroglyph "thunder" includes combinations of "rain" and "rice field"; in the shape of a snake, Thunder falls from the sky to the lower world, irrigating the field]: Andru and Umeda { in Japanese}, Shinto Dictionary 1976:597 in Goreglyad 1992:66.

Northeast. Mikmaq [Thunder - seven rattlesnakes living under a mountain seven miles high; produce thunder by shouting and rattling their tails when they fly across the sky; hunt snakes and frogs; if the snake hides under the tree, a tree is being struck; at this point we see lightning]: Hagar 1897:104-105.

Plains. Pawnee [pawnee called thunder the "hiss of a big snake"]: Spence 1985 [1914]: 112; (cf. mandan [a thunderbird produces a thunderstorm; lightning from its eyes paves the way for rain in the clouds; a turtle living in the clouds produces single thunder]: Will, Spinden 1906:134).

Southeast USA. Yuchi [Thunder rides a black snake over the sea; when it enters and back, thunder sounds; when the snake moves its tail, lightning flashes]: Speck 1909, No. 12:149; chirokee [after dancing, the young man can't catch up with two girls; next time one agrees to marry him; her brother Thunder rides a big snake; when she sticks out her tongue, lightning flashes; his necklace is in the box - rattlesnake; man is afraid to take it, everything disappears, he ends up in the forest; if he hadn't chickened out, he would become a shaman]: Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick 1966, No. 9:392-393; chickasaw [sint-holo horned snakes (" sacred snakes") live in caves along rivers (creeks); usually invisible, but if a boy sees such a snake, he becomes wise; horned snakes call to move from one river to another rain and water rise; their voice is like thunder, but they are harmless to humans and livestock; the hunter saw a horned serpent fight with Thunder, both asked for help, the man shot the snake, ran, followed by thunder; he escaped a stream of water on a hill; the image of a thunderbird is unknown]: Swanton 1928b: 251.

California. Nisenan [Thunder is like a big snake, lives in lakes; during a thunderstorm, you can see him crossing the sky]: Beals 1933:381.

Big Pool. Northern Payutes (?" western numas") [lightning is a red snake with a human head; thunder is its roar]: Powell 1971:243.

The Great Southwest. Zunyi [the horned and feathered serpent lives in the sea and groundwater; can cause rain and make women bathe pregnant]: Hultkrantz 1987:97 in Blust 2000:527.

NW Mexico. Huichol: Dutton 1962 [The mother of East Water is a red snake that appears in the form of lightning, lightning is her rod; sends storms from the east; she owns flowers and pumpkins; the mother of Western Water is a white snake in white cloud; drizzling rain can send at any time of the year; she has corn, deer, crows in her power; the mother of South Water is a blue snake that appears in the pond; she is a pond itself and an aquatic lizard; she is associated with a shaman , when he sings, she owns corn in grain; the mother of Northern Water is a snake; also a spotted fish; she owns corn, pumpkin, beans, flowers, and now also cows, mules, horses, sheep; Young Mother Orlitz - embodies the zenith, is associated with the cult of the sun, sometimes she is the mother of the Sun; the stars are her dress]: 16-18; Lumholtz 1986:39 [mother's rod in the east is a red zipper snake], 70 [(description images on the ritual disc); a snake, aka the wind, on a blue (sky) background, bringing rain clouds from the east; underneath it is a snake living in the ocean with heads at both ends of its body, Mother of the Sea; a row of blue ones, green and red strokes on her back are raindrops; she brings rain from the west], 121 [=snake encircling the earth]; Zingg 1938, No. 3b [Kací wali was born in the sea by behest Nakawé was actually corn; it came to the ant people disguised as a poor girl; ant people were drunk, they didn't give her anything; N. made their fields dry and their fields dry up and their fields H. It was raining; the ant people were fasting, performing the necessary ceremonies; then it rained so heavily that all the ant people drowned; five water snakes came down from the clouds and clung to each other, so that the rain couldn't stop; these snakes fell into the river near H.'s house, turned into fish; they were corn too; the Sun was their father, he allowed them to fly through the air, each in its own direction]: 533-534.

Mesoamerica Tepehua [see motif J4; a young man defeats his father's murderers; tells the crocodile to open its mouth, pulls out his tongue; asks San Pedro to let him and his mother go to heaven?) ; the mother turns into a holy rose; the snake moves, producing thunder, lightning, clouds, rain; the young man waves the crocodile's tongue, causing a stronger thunderstorm; Thunders lead the young man to San Pedro ; he admits that he missed him with his mother; tells him to share his weapon between the Thunders]: Williams García 1972:87-92; wall painting in Teotihuacan [feathered serpent pouring out The open mouth is depicted horizontally by streams of water above 13 flowering plants of different types equipped with 13 different hieroglyphs]: Berrin 1988:138-139; Berrin, Pasztory 1993, pl.50; nahua central Mexico [during a drought, Tecospa residents turn to San Francisco, who asks God to rain over the Milpa Alta area. If he agrees, he tells the Water Serpent to mobilize rain dwarfs. They live in mountain caves, where there are barrels of rain, hail, lightning, clouds, thunder, frost; the serpent says which one to open; before a thunderstorm, you can see it hitting its tail in the clouds]: Madsen 1950:130- 131; willow [the snake lives in the mountains, produces rain, flies through the air, causing tornadoes]: Jäcklein 1974:286; tricks: Hollenbach 1980, No. 10.10 [thunder serpent (possibly feathered serpent) swallows the souls of the dead], 10.11 [the evil Thunder Serpent and the good Thunder are fighting; the Snake wants to fill the world with water, flood the earth with the sea, caused a flood in the past; Thunder drives away with its blows seawater back], 10.13 [The Thunder Serpent produces lightning], 10.14 [in the mountains, a young man pushes an unfaithful bride into a hole; the Thunder Serpent lives there; the girl agrees to eat her food (rats); seven years later, the snake She lets her go with a multicolored feather from her back; the girl sells it, buys food]: 471-472; Longacre 1965 [an unfaithful wife takes her husband to the mountains, pushes him into a hole; for seven years, crows have been bringing him corn, eggs; then a feathered lightning snake arrives, takes him out of the hole, gives his feathers; when a man comes home, lightning will hit his wife and her new husband; a man sells feathers, becomes rich, lives with with their children]: 114-118; Chinantecs [Thunders are animate creatures that appear in the form of lizards, roosters and similar animals; sorcerers can become thunders for the benefit of their villages]: Hernández López 1997:317; mixteks: Dyk 1959 [there is a snake in (every) stream; if angry, it will fly away with rain and wind and the spring will dry; people saw a snake rise into the clouds, flying to another stream]: 172; Monaghan 1995 [rain people appear in the form of lightning, rain snakes in the storm, rain lizards with dew and fog]: 105-109, fig. 6 [snake drawing with feathers on its head flying in a rain cloud], fig. 7 [drawing of a winged snake flying over flowering plants in a rain cloud]; zapotecs {or mixtecs?} [at the top of the mountain lived the old Koshihoki Fire Thunder; it had four closed jugs of clouds, rain, hail, wind; each was watched by a smaller Chintete Thunder (a little lizard); to test his power, K. told Chintete Kosihosaa to open his jug; clouds rose to him, chintete dances among them, making lightning; the same episode with Koshihonis and two others (unnamed) chintetes who open appropriate vessels and produce lightning; when Gobich's sun appears, Koshihoki orders his chintetes to close their vessels and honor the Sun stretch out a rainbow - a snake covered with Quetzal feathers drinking rain]: Cruz 1946:33-35 (English in Flannery, Marcus 198:347); Western Micah [a snake with deer antlers (seven processes each) lives in source; also in clouds, falling from the sky, causing floods]: Beals 1945:94; Toor 1952:508; Miche [lightning and snakes seem to be closely related; when they first began to fly over Coatlan jets, people said they were snakes in the sky because the sound was like thunder]: Hoogshagen 1966:316; chorti: Braakhuis, Hull 2014 [Kumix (see J4 motif) pulls his zipper out of the crocodile's mouth; this is a giant celestial crocodile; during rituals, he is spelled to open its mouth to make it rain; the wider it opens, the more rain]: 456; Girard 1948:76 and 1949:458, 461 in Milbrath 1999 [ The Milky Way is a white snake; its mouth is south, its tail is north]: 40; Fought 1972 [Chikkan snakes are half feathered, half anthropomorphic; sometimes they have four horns on their heads; responsible for most atmospheric phenomena; when one C. calls another from the opposite side of the sky, thunder sounds; in each side of the world at the bottom of the lake lives its own C. (or a pair of both); the northern one in early May (while the sun is at its zenith) brings rain; the rainbow is C.'s body stretching across the sky; C. in their aspect of the rainbow prevents rain]: 388 (also Milbrath 1999:36 , 42; Wisdom 1940:393-397, 410-411); classical Mayans [Dresden Code page depicting a lizard or crocodile type celestial reptile with water flowing from its mouth to the ground]: Códice de Dresde 1998, sheet 74 (54).

Honduras - Panama. Boruca [when a thunderstorm is on the east side of the Dikis River or the Terraba River, it's a big snake moving its tail]: Stone 1949:25.

Guiana. Waiwai [father-in-law sends his son-in-law to kill Aguti; he meets an anaconda with iridescent skin; kills her, removes her skin, brings her to the community home; the skin emits thunder and lightning; people reproduce patterns on it to ornament baskets]: Roe 1989:23-25; trio [after losing a singing competition to Jaguar, the Lizard produces thunder; the Jaguar consistently hides in a hollow, under a rock, in a hole, but thunder blows are destroying his shelters]: Magaña 1987, No. 16:135.

NW Amazon. Chikuna [during a thunderstorm, a woman sees diyo-wayo raise her head and neck above the water, then lower it; when her head touches the water, lightning flashed; this d opened her eyes under the water; this . owns fish in the Amazon and there is a rainbow in the east; a rainbow in the west is a d who owns pottery]: Nimuendaju 1952:120.

The Central Andes. Prov. Jauja (dep. Junin) [the provinces of Jauja and Mantaro are covered with water, inhabited by the dragon Amaru; the rainbow gives birth to a second Amara, they fight, god Tixe destroyed them with lightning; then from the Uari-pukio spring The first couple of people came out, Mama and Taita; before that they were underground for fear of Amaru; Amaru tries to go to heaven but lightning strikes him]: Arguedas, Isquirdo Rios 1947:66; Huanca: Villanes Cairo 1978:52-54 [The country of Huanca was a black lake; the inhabitants of its shores were harvesting poor crops; Viracocha asks the god Tulumaña (Rainbow) to help them; from his chest, T. produces Amala, who has bat wings; he defeats water monsters, but requires people to eat more and more; every year he rejuvenates, shedding his skin like a snake; V. asks T. to destroy A.; T. produces a second A. with darker scales; they fight each other, but both revive; V. creates Thunder (Aulith, Spanish. Rayo) and Wind (Vaiva); A. hide in the depths of the lake; Thunder destroys rocks, Wind drives water out of the lake; A. try to fly to the sky, Wind and Thunder kill them, they turn into rocks; their sons sometimes they climb clouds, produce hail; Thunder and Wind drive them back], 155-156 [a shepherdess miscarries, buries a body in a cave; because of this, Amalu wakes up and tries to climb the clouds and beat the fields hail; cold rain begins; San Santiago (so!) strikes him with lightning, A. crawls back into the cave; the sun shines again; during battles between S. and A., lightning often hits people, but S. revives the dead]; the village of Sacamarca (Huancavelica Dep.) [First Amaru rises out of the waters; he is the son of Rainbow (Chirapa), he has deer antlers on his head, bat wings, short and thick legs; he devours people; Wind and Thunder kill him; after his death floods the lake; some say that A. rises to the sky in the form of a tornado; hail is its excrement]: Galindo 1990:225; Aymara (dep. Puno) [thunder is produced by a bird and a caiman covered in green feathers; a caiman flies on a bird across the sky or over clouds, detonating its weapon]: Mamani, Mendoza 1981:29.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Moseten [spouses want to have an animal at home, find the Nioko worm; her husband feeds him with the hearts of birds, then animals, then people; N. grows, he is transferred to more and more vessels size; its owner is killed; his wife sends N. to look for him; N. raises his head to the sky, finds a corpse; surrounds the village with a ring, kills everyone; revives the owner, they eat the hearts of the dead together; N. helps the owner catches fish by damming the river; rises to the sky, turning into the Milky Way; causes thunder; stars are arrows that pierce his body]: Nordenskiöld 1924:143-144.

Eastern Amazon. Spiking [male and female Pai (water spirits) come out of vessels broken by Marushava, Kunyarima's son; P. asks K. for grass to draw stripes on his shoulders and arms- lightning; K. does not give it, P. finds it himself; when his enemy Otter chases him, he throws lightning at it]: Nimuendaju 1920:1029.

Chaco. Matako: Barabas, Bartolome 1979a [The sun caught fish - sons of the Rainbow (Lewo); these fish are "Rainbow pigeons", very strong, only the Sun could catch them; such a bird was swallowed by a woodpecker]: 130-131; Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 64 [Metraux 1939:36-37; the Sun has two daughters; he ate lewó aquatic creatures that look like caimans; they are rainbows that produce thunderstorms and storms, fly in the sky, causing rain; one of The daughters were met by Woodpecker, a honey miner, and became his wife; Tawkxwax made the woman fall ill and did not go to the forest with her husband; tried to rape her, she ran away to her father; T. took her form; Woodpecker suspects deception, tells the ant to check; the ant bites his imaginary wife into the testicles; T. complains that the ant bit "her" in the leg; the woodpecker kills him, comes to his wife, she already has a child; the Sun tells the Woodpecker bring lewó; he swallowed it; his wife told his father to return it; the sun caught the fish that swallowed her son-in-law, and a woodpecker flew out of her mouth]: 134; toba, matako [the rainbow is a huge snake, sending and stopping rain]: Metraux 1935c: 142; tereno [voropí water spirit lives in trees along river banks, looks like a snake with a man's face; when he smells a person, it sends rain from his lightning strikes the sides; floods occur when angry; people can't stand body hair, so eyebrows and beards and pubic hair are plucked out.]: Oberg 1949:43.