J24. Ground into flour. 52.62.

The powdered hero respawns.

Mesoamerica Baby, the future god of corn. Tepehua: Ask'at'a t'ajin 2005 [the first couple has a restless boy; every time demons who lived in early times lead beautiful horses along the road, he asks them for a price, asks them to sell them; angry, the demons crushed him; a small lightning strikes from the cloud that appears, the boy comes to life; so many times; the mother warns the boy not to tease the demons; finally he is finally killed, mother buries him in the aisle between buildings behind the back wall of the house; after that, a field of beautiful corn grew {it is not said whether it is on the grave or somewhere else}; the mother cut off her cobs to cook xamil; carried the vessel with shamil to the spring to drink food with water; shamil is bitter, she gave it to the fish; the big Turtle picked up one corn seed; it turned into a boy, he thinks the Turtle is his mother, The crocodile is an uncle; when he grew up, he hit the water with a stick, wanting to test his strength and change the world on earth, but he only created a rainbow; he told his uncle that he must have seen badly, grew old, offered to wash it, brush his teeth; when the Crocodile opened his mouth, pulled out his tongue, from those crocodiles without a tongue; using this language, the boy took possession of eternity, hitting him on the water, creating lightning to the sky; hitting the ocean, shaking world; since then, those who do not participate in his thunderstorm have died from his scourge]: 9-13; Williams García 1972 [some characters don't like the musician's performance; they invite him to a party, feed him, offer him more and more portions; he can't anymore; they call him to play ball, kill him with their iron balls; his pregnant wife wants an abortion, the baby from the womb tells her to wait, give birth to him where she is swimming; she gives birth and buries a dead baby; corn grows on his grave; a woman cooks a cake, she is bitter, the woman throws it away; the turtle puts it on her back, the cake turns into a boy; the baby is dirty, since then a picture can be seen on the turtle shell; the turtle makes arrows for him, but tells him not to shoot poor fish; the boy asks the scorpion to take him to his real mother; under the roof of the house finds his father's musical instrument; opponents hear the game again, call the player to their place to subject him to the same tests as his father; he is fed for slaughter, but he asks for a shrew in advance hole in food vessels; while playing, he hits balls, killing opponents; spares three for showing where his father's bones are; revives his father, brings him home, forbids him to open his eyes; a leaf falls, opens his eyes, turns into a deer; his son gives him a handkerchief - a tail; tells the crocodile to open its mouth, pulls out his tongue; asks San Pedro to let him go with his mother (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 divide his weapon between the Thunders]: 87-92; mountain totonaks [see J4 motif; the girl rejects the grooms; the musician turns into a flea, penetrates her, clinging to her clothes; at night she becomes a man; plays the violin; four Thunders hear a game, tell him to shoot him; a woman gives birth to a boy, he dies; she buries him, on the grave corn grows; a woman makes bread from green cobs; it is bitter, she throws it into the river; it is eaten by fish, the Turtle carries a piece on its back; the piece turns into a boy; when it grows up, she leaves it ashore]: Ichon 1969, No. II:64; Huasteca Nahuatl [cut into pieces, baked]: Greco 1989:179-181; Veracruz Nahuatl (town of Mecayapan) [daughter of the devil ( tsitsimilama) became pregnant from a bird dancing around her; when she gave birth, the devil collided the baby, made a balloon, gave it to red ants; three days later, Tamakasti's baby was intact, told ants to fold his body again; he was thrown into a pond, the fish swallowed it, carried it to black ants, he was reborn; the devil threw him into the lake, he swam there in the shape of an egg for three days; his grandmother and mother for a long time they could not catch him with a net; his mother cried, he felt sorry for her, he allowed himself to be caught; his grandmother put him in the deck; after 30 days the deck burst, many different animals came out of it; the boy's father came, the grandmother was spinning; he began to fly a bird around the nanchi tree; the grandmother could no longer weave; ate the ripe fruit; she liked it, she decided that her grandson threw it off for her; big lice began to bite her, she cut off her hair, became bald; the bird threw a ripe fruit on her head for trying to kill it after birth; the next time T. became a cat, stole one of the bananas she baked from her; shot many birds; the grandmother complained that he killed their chickens; he revived them; T.'s grandfather invited his grandmother to eat it; T. told the bat to kill his grandfather; blood dripped from the attic, the grandmother thought it was blood grandson, started drinking; called her husband, found him dead; T. brought water, said that he did not kill his grandfather, because he went to get water; the grandmother wanted to cook T., he threw it into the cauldron himself; he burned the bones along with his grandfather's corpse, the ashes told Toad to throw on the other side of the sea; the Toad reached the shore, where it threw a deck of ashes, it burst, mosquitoes, flies and mosquitoes appeared from the ashes; the lizard also only said that it had carried the deck from ashes; Skunk carried overseas; T. (or someone else?) split the lizard's tongue in half; T. told his mother that he would go to his father; on the way he sat on a stone, he swallowed it; he cut the heart of the stone with a sword; T. came to his father, brought Fox and the musicians; {hereinafter European a tale of matchmaking and marriage trials; T.'s rival - South Wind}]: Law 1957:345-355; mountain camps [crushed, thrown into the water]: Elson 1947:204; Chontal [mother unable to calm down young son, leaves on an ant heap (he still cries, throws him into a ditch in the rain, finally killed, rubbed it on a grain grater, placed it in an eggshell, threw an egg into the lake a childless old woman found it, her husband told me to put it down so that the chicken would hatch, a boy was born the same night; he grew up, was mischievous, came to his real parents, told them who he was, turned them into a couple deer attached to a tail cloth; hit the drum at the holidays; people were tired of his mischief, wanted to shoot him at the party, but he disappeared from sight]: Keller, Gerónimo 2001:111-117; quiche [The rulers of Shibalba tell the brothers Hun-Ahp and Shbalanka to rush into the underground furnace; their bones have been ground and thrown into the water; at the bottom, the young men were born again from powder, first in the form of fish; lords Sheb. try in vain to catch them; the next day, the brothers come to Lord Sheb under the guise of poor old people, cut each other to pieces and resurrect them; Vladyka Sheb ask them to jokingly sacrifice them; brothers kill them but do not resurrect them]: Popol-Vuh 1959:74-77; chorthy (synopsis of several versions) [hero Kumix Angel ("younger angel, younger brother", hereinafter K.) lives with his four elders brothers; he has a cut on his leg; when he bathes, the fish swim to eat his blood and flesh; his brothers rubbed him on a stone, threw him into the water, it foamed like a vine that poisons fish; brothers with they understand with disgust that the fish they eat is fed up with K.'s body; or K. turns into a fish himself; when the brothers leave, K. revives and cries on the shore; the old cannibal woman K'ech'uj takes him home; Var.: She takes the bloody foam on the water for her own miscarriage; K. hunts birds and deer, but K'ech'uj secretly gives the meat to her lover; after learning that K'ech'uj and her partner are not his parents, K. kills both; K. hides in a guitar that the hummingbird took to heaven, meets her mother there; all her property has been taken away by the Bronze King; K. turns the few remaining beans and corn grains into abundant supplies, rebuilds the house built by his uncle San Lorenzo (SL) and where K.'s mother lives; arranges the ritual of feeding his father's brothers, i.e. four-way winds; causes SL with the power of a drum; deceives returns his father's weapons (sword, drum, flute, ring, cloth) owned by a monkey, battleship, crocodile; defeats and kills the Bronze King (sometimes with lightning); hitting the drum and hitting the drum with a sword (thunderstorm), creates a milpa; older brothers create a mountain to also climb into heaven and see their mother; eagles begin to descend from the sky, threatening people's existence; K. destroys the mountain with lightning; The older brothers are told to hide their heads, but they stick them out and are blinded; their tears are a small November rain; K. turns them into frogs - "rain priests" at the four ends of the world; K. finds his father's grave; When he tries to revive it, a flock of partridges distracts him and fails to revive him; according to one version (Girard 1995:404), K. rises to heaven and becomes the sun]: Braakhuis, Hull 2014:452-454.

NW Amazon. Baniva [antagonist of three brothers]: Saake 1968:261; chikuna [stupid brother blew himself, dough thrown into the river]: Nimuendaju 1952:128-129; Rodríguez de Montes 1981, No. 22 : 181-182.