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Heroes (one, two, or one out of two), while still babies or foetuses, disappear or are thrown (often into the water). To bring them back to the human world, they are lured, persuaded, or (with difficulty) caught.

Vatut, Susure, Vedau, Admiralty Islands, New Hebrides {conditionally: central Vanuatu}, Maevo, Rotuma, Tuvalu, Oraons, Adygs, Ossetians, Turkmens, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Uighurs, Tuvans , Altaians, Buryats (Ekhirit-Bulagats, Chita), Mongols (Khalkha), Nenets, (Ents), Nganasans, Mansi, Southern and Northern Selkups, Western Evenks (Yerbogachen), Baikal (Baunt), Far Eastern ( probably Uchurian), Orochi, Nanai, Itelmen, Tsimshian, Quarry, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Modoc, Winnebago, Menominee, North Cree, Western Ojibwa, Chippewa, (Kickapoo), Sauk and Fox, Seneca, Mikmak, Sarsi, blacklegs, grovantre, crowe, hidatsa, omaha and ponca, iowa, arapaho, arikara, pawnee, kiowa-apache, wichita, chirokee, caddo, natchez, screams, alabama and koasati, northern shoshones, lipan, hicarilla, (tiva), nahuatl Veracruz, Masateki, Triki, Makiritare, Wapishana, Oyampi, Canelo, Shuar, Aguaruna, Baniva (?) , tarian, bare, tucano, barasana, kabiyari, macuna, desana, maku, (yagua), katawishi, maue, amuesha, cachinahua, characterbet, chiriguano, camayura.

Melanesia. Cotton wool: Fischer 1963, No. 12a [parents are dead, a girl and a little brother see smoke, come into the house; the owner has a daughter; at night the owner puts a hot stone on the boy's belly, he dies; daughter the owner hoped that the boy would grow up to become her husband; both girls set fire to the house, the murderer burned down; the boy's corpse was brought to the water; he turned into tadpoles, frogs, frogs into boys and girls; they play on the beach, throw themselves into the water when they approach; girls leave shoelaces and bags for girls, bows and arrows for boys on the shore; they catch two boys, persuade them go to live elsewhere; they persuade others; boys and girls got married, two became husbands to those girls], 12b [an evil spirit ate the mother, took her form, asked the children which way their father ate and ate and him, a girl and his little brother, hid in the trunk of a banana; they come to the house of the spirit; his son marries her; the spirit puts a hot stone on the boy, he dies; the son of the spirit and his wife burn him in the house; the boy's corpse is brought to the swampy shore; he turns into tadpoles, those into frogs, those into boys and girls; the boy makes bows and arrows for the boys, his wife makes bags for the girls; everyone comes to live to land, got married]: 145-147, 147-150; sushi [Suburten sent his wife Mamilup to the garden with his nephew Teome; M. could not seduce T.; T. hears coconuts coming down at night , become girls, sing; sending T. home, S. tells us to take two green coconuts into the boat; along the way they turn into a good wife and a bad wife; a bad one, Mehue, T. tries to kill; nailed her with pegs under the tree, piercing her limbs and chest; her stomach is swollen, T. is preparing to pick up her son, but son Kuluhob and the snake Dolak were born in his absence; K. freed his mother, they left; D. sailed away by ship, gave birth to many snakes, they became Europeans; a good wife gave birth to a son Manup; K. and M. meet each other in the forest, shooting at one bird; T. asks M. to bring K. to the village; he runs away every time; men cannot catch him, an old woman catches him; K. is brought into the house for initiation, along with other boys he receives a loincloth; girls choose husbands; K. is the last to come out, all the girls they throw the chosen ones, choose K.; other young men are jealous, do nasty things to him; jumping from palm tree to palm tree, K. went to his mother M.; she gave him food in a red bowl, he became a cassowary, a bowl - red throat; (hereinafter K. is a man again, swims away to the whites, brings cargo goods)]: Lehner 1975, No. 3:746-752; Vedau [pregnant Garawada goes with her mother-in-law to the forest for fruit; climbs a tree; mother-in-law is unhappy that G. eats ripe fruits and throws green fruits to her; says that it is enough, tells her to go down; when G. goes down to the fork, her mother-in-law tells the branches to close, leaves; G. cannot move; gives birth to a boy, he falls to the ground; sucks wild ginger stalks dabedabe; he is going to go to people, his mother teaches him to sing "I sucked dabedabe shoots, my mother Garavad"; he forgets the words comes back, learns his song again; comes to boys throwing darts at their targets; throws his own, but misses, but hurts another boy's arm; boys run away in fear, talk about what happened in the village; the boy's uncle hides in ambush, grabs him; from his song he understands that he is a nephew; men free G., but she runs away to the sea, turns into a crab; boy stays in the village with his uncle]: Ker 1910:21-25; Admiralty Islands (Papitalai) [the little boy and his older sister are children of Saminrop and Saminkap; the boy asks for food, every time his mother sends him to the man's house to his father, the father to his mother's family home; his sister takes him by boat; he sees a pandanus on the shore, asks his sister to pick the fruit, the sister replies that it is a demon tree, the boy insists; pandanus grabs a girl, she can't get down; a boy cries, a hermit cancer takes him into his hole; a young man from Yap frees the girl, takes her home; Hi Koakal (also a kind of hermit cancer) and demoness Hi Mbuisir ("wide vagina") live together; HC notices the baby's tracks next to the crab tracks, grabs the boy, asks him not to make noise so that XM does not know anything; XM says her house is leaking; HC covers it with dry leaves, XM falls asleep, HC sets fire to the house, XM burns down; children meet their abusive parents, give them excrement and urine]: Meier 1908, No. 5:662-666; Maevo [parents have 9 children; after bathing, they notice the tenth, he is very handsome; disappears; the children deny everything, but the mother spies, sees him coming out of the stone; the father catches him with a net; tells other children do not offend him; they offer to throw the boar's fang; the boy warns that the fang will break; others force him to throw, scold him for his broken fang; he jumps into the water, hides in the rock; the father is in vain calls him; kills other children]: Coombe 1911:38-40; New Hebrides {island not specified, conditionally central Vanuatu) [cannibal Taso killed Qatu's pregnant sister, abandoned the corpse; born to on a dead mother, the twins ate shoots, drank rainwater; found an uncle's pig, took the food he brought her; K. caught them, taught them how to hunt; they said that if a bunch bananas will ripen from above, T. is killed, and if from below, T. killed them; hiding in the men's house, they threw hot stones at T. who entered, avenging his mother]: Jonker 1903:251 in Dixon 1916:132-133.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Rotuma [two sisters on earth, the eldest Lou; Tonga was underground, where the couple had a son, Mafi; he went to earth, married Lou; they have sons Moea Motua, Moea Langon, who miscarried for the third time ; Marie-ki-Langi's woman came down from the sky to steal blood, called the wea bird (quail) for help, she chirped, it rained, washed away the blood; MKL and wea took the child to heaven, called Moea Tiktic; MKL sends him to steal food from his real mother; one day warns that his father has ambushed him; he catches MK, the couple are happy; MT watches his father, sees him lift the stone, disappeared under him; MT descends the tree trunk, throws fruit at his father; his father sends him 1) for bananas, they are guarded by a huge kalae bird, MT breaks her wings with a stick, her father is not happy; 2) behind fire to his parents; grandfather throws MT, he falls to his feet; MT throws up his grandfather, he falls flat; gives a whole burning log; 3) behind the roots of the cava, they are guarded by two huge ants, MT runs until they get tired brings cava; returns to land with his father; catches fish with his brothers, pulls Tonga to the surface with his grandfather and grandmother's house; they themselves are carried away by the current; the brothers are looking for other people, finding only Tupu-a-Rosi; he doesn't know their names; when he becomes a spider, he begins to descend on Moea Motua's head; the brothers scream, Moea Motua, see who wants to attack you! Same with My Langon and My Tiktik; TaR tells the birds to shout their brothers' names when they approach, disappears from home every time; for the third time, the brothers tell the birds to shout their own names, they find Tar ; they catch fish, TAR turns into a big fish, tears their net; the third time they grab it, kill it, recognize it by its tattoo, take over the country]: Churchward 1937:489-496 (trans. Permyakov 1970, No. 95:207-217); Tuvalu (Niutao Atoll): Koch 1966 [Chief Tokalalanga has Tapulei's wife; he sent her to wash a wooden bowl; on the shore of Sinaloi told her the chief did not love her, advised me to sit in a bowl and sail away; Tapulei sailed to the island, gave birth to twins; S. took the form of T., began to live with the chief; to pretend that she was pregnant, S. swallowed stones and then coconut shells; the twins sailed in a boat to their father's island; they were caught in the morning when they were dazzled by the rising sun; the chief tells them to bake them in an earthen oven to eat; but when everything went to buy firewood, the twins told their father their story; she threw S. into the oven and returned her ex-wife]: 79-80.

South Asia. Oraons [brother wants to marry his two sisters; they run away; they are thirsty in the forest, ask the tree to bend down, it takes them to the sky to the lake; the younger sister throws her ring, which has dried up the lake is filled with water; after getting drunk, the youngest demands the ring back; the eldest goes deeper into the water, throws her a ring, drowns; the youngest climbs a tree, cries, tears drip on the raja, he marries her; leaves her a flute, she blows aimlessly, the Raja says she will never return to the sound; six childless wives throw the new wife's child into the lake, replace her with a broom; the Raja expels the woman in labor; under the older sister nurses the boy with water; the last one turns into a flower on the shore, the boy sits in a flower, is not given to the vizier, the raja, and six wives; the aunt tells the boy to give the flower only to his own mother; Raja washes and dresses his expelled wife, boy approaches her; Raja buries six wives under the doorstep, returns his wife and son]: Elwin 1944, No. 7:386-389; (cf. Hill Saora [Ramma and Bimma have three wives, only the youngest gave birth; the older ones put a kitten, left the baby to the cows; the cow ate him, he fell into the river with her manure, became Labosum; R. and B. their youngest wife was driven away; L. recognized his mother, shouted, but did not want to go ashore; R. and B. found out what was going on and returned his wife]: Elwin 1954, No. 17:482-483).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygs [the eldest, middle daughters refuse to take off their father's legs, the youngest takes off; shares apples with the elders; the father digs a hole near the apple tree, masks them with a carpet, the daughters fail; if they wish the pit opens, food appears; the eldest promises the khan to prepare clothes for one hundred riders, the middle one to feed 50, the youngest to give birth to a son and daughter, half white gold, the other yellow; the khan leaves, sisters replace children with puppies, throw them into the river; khan orders his wife to be put in the skin of a bull, tied to the gate; the children were taken by hogouache dogs (PH, the mistress of the river); an attached mother sees her children come out water, sit on a stone; asks a passing woman to give her flour, makes one cake with breast milk, the other on water, asks to leave it on a stone; the boy gets a cake with milk, the girl gets a cake with milk, the girl on the water; Upon learning that the children ate cakes, PH says that they cannot become her children, lets her go ashore; the poor man finds a home in the forest, the sisters of the khan's wife do not tell him; they persuade his sister to ask brother to get an unusual pigeon; PH teaches to call sour pears sweet, take two with you; call the muddy river transparent, praise the sands; the young man grabs the pigeon, the owner orders to keep the kidnapper, the sands, the river , the pear refuses; the sisters of the khan's wife persuade her sister to advise her brother to marry Irish-Irish-Kahn; PH says that she turns those who come to her into stones; the young man is stony; the sister goes to her the third shout of A. looks around, everyone comes to life; the feast; the young man goes to visit Khan Father on the condition that he unties the woman at the gate; angry dogs (these are those puppies thrown up) are friendly with him; the khan returns his wife, her She ties sisters to horses; since then, princes and khans have not divorced their wives]: Aliyeva 1978, No. 29:238-243; Ossetians: Abayev et al. 1957:156-159 [in Tarfa Cave, the beautiful woman offers herself to Uryzmagu; he says he is loyal to his wife; the beauty tells him to know only the stone from now on; at night W. fertilizes the stone; nine months later Satan and Khamyts come to the cave, the rock splits, H. throws red-hot Soslan into the lake; he is carried away by the young Urag Donbetr], 189-194 [young Batradz and his peer shepherd see the fire-eyed Soslan and son Juandon Urag coming out of the sea; they are invited to play with them ; the players are joined by the sons of the Month, Afsati (animal owner), Falwar (patron saint of goats and sheep), Uatsil; S. and W. win the shooting, take away the hats of B. and other boys; Syrdon advises them turn to Satan; she advises shaving Uryzmag on the shore with his left hand with the blunt side of the razor; S. comes out of the sea to teach him how to shave; he is slightly wounded in the head with a razor, after which he cannot return to sea more; everyone in the village of sledges welcomes S.]; Libedinsky 1978 [(a brief retelling of the main episode in Tuite 1998:329); Khamyts meets a hunter boy of incredible strength; the one of Bycent's family, relatives of the Donbettyrs, they live underground, the entrance is through an anthill; H. comes to Bycent with sledges for the boy's promised bride Bytsenon; this is a frog; at X. she is at home at night turns into a girl; contrary to B.'s ban, H. brings her in his pocket to a sledge meeting; Syrdon laughs at him; B. cannot tolerate ridicule, returns to his world, blowing the conceived child into a tumor on H.'s back; when Satán cuts a tumor, the red-hot steel baby Batradz jumps out, jumps into the sea; he is raised by the Donbettyrs; when the Nart boys play in winter, B. leaves under the ice, beats them, taking all the alchiki; S. teaches how to catch B.; Uryzmaga is shaved on the seashore; B. spies, wants to be shaved too; after his hair is thrown into the sea, he goes with sledges, settles in with his father H.; easily defeats young men in archery; performs feats; only God kills him]: 294-303; Miller 1881, No. 10 [Rostov Khan had a mistress, he went to her on a wind horse; his wife sat quietly behind her husband, killed her rival; when she died, she asked to take the child out; R. took a child named Amiran out of her stomach, threw it into the water; R. fell ill with grief; he had sons Badri and Russia; they were fishing; a pretty boy jumped out of the water and began to play on the sea surface; R. taught his sons to catch him; let one sit on the shore and the other shave him not along but across; you have to touch the boy's head with a razor when he approaches to teach him how to shave that's right; when A. was caught, he was locked behind 7 iron doors so that he would not hear the noise of the enemies in charge of the house - Voyugov and Gumirov; he heard and cut down enemies; only Avtsaron Pascondi remained; his 6 A. cut down the heads, but the seventh remained and the AP flew to heaven; together with his brothers A. went to fight the snake Zariag-Kalm; let himself be swallowed, cut from the inside, came out all shabby; did not receive a field from the brothers, which he wanted, and left; Woyugi and Gumirs became rulers again; the brothers put on copper shoes, took iron staffs, went to look for A.; returned, but on the way back, the AP took the brothers to heaven; A. killed the sea the bull, climbed into his skin; AP took the skin with A. inside to the sky; persuaded the brothers to tell AP that they were dreaming: A. tore off his head; he rushed at them, and A. killed him; the brothers descended to the ground by rope ; A. again forced Voyugov and Gumirov to pay tribute]: 145-147.

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [a pregnant woman dies; a boy is born in a grave, goes outside to play; people try in vain to catch him; they leave a grandmother and a doll at the grave; the child takes the money, so it's not a girl , and the boy; leave a saddle smeared with glue; he sits down and sticks; seeing people, he tries to return to the grave, but the adhering saddle gets stuck; he is caught, given the name Gyor-Ogly (Son of the Grave)]: Lebedev 1954, #1:115.

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [when leaving, bai asks four wives what they will prepare for his return; 1) every day I will shoot a sparrow with 40 ribs, feed him meat to a hundred servants; 2) I will sew sandboots; 3) I will sew mittens made of lice skin; 4) I will face two sons with golden heads, pearl teeth, silver hair; all fulfilled their promises; before returning, the bai replaced the babies with a black puppy, his mother with Forty servants sent them to the forest, the children were thrown under the feet of mares; the youngest wife comes to breastfeed the puppy, finds a mare that feeds her babies; returned the children, lets the puppy go; the babies have been dumped the cows - the same; geese - the same; thrown into the water; bai ordered his youngest wife to break her arm and leg, gouge out his eye, lock him in a deaf log house with the puppy; the puppy got out, the man cut a hole in the log house, the puppy brought the man to the bay, he talks about the log house; the eldest wife: this is not a miracle, near the lake a mare is screwing at every step, drinking on the lake at a watering hole; a black puppy asks his mother to make a halter, brings a mare, followed by a herd; everything repeats itself; the second wife: diamonds and yakhonts are at the top of the mountain; the puppy asks his mother for a tablecloth, brings gems; the third time the traveler cut through the door in the log house; the third wife: two boys in the river, go out to play on the sand; mother's puppy: give me a nightmare, four horns of milk: goat, cow, mare, their own; the boys began to play the nightmare when they drank mother's milk, fell asleep; the puppy brings them to their mother, the bay is invited to visit, he understood everything; the eldest wife was offered 9 mares or 9 arb firewood; she likes mares more, her hair is tied to them, where the earth is she touched her back, there were mountain ranges, where the hair was marsh grass hummocks, where the back was lakes; the second wife chose firewood, it was burned; the third was tied to the tails of 9 mares]: Barag 1989, No. 70:336-343.

Turkestan. Uighurs [a shepherd's pregnant wife dies; a new shepherd notices that a goat goes to the cemetery every day; watches her, she bleats, a child comes out of the grave, sucks milk; the old man advises leave a lamb grandmother and a doll at the grave; the child grabs his grandmother; next time the shepherd and the old man throw a carpet over him; when the young man grows up, he does any job overnight; the question whether he did it himself answers, I don't know; the seven-headed dragon demands the eldest of the khan's three daughters; the old man gives the young man a horse, he kills the dragon; the Khan's commander takes the feat for himself, marries; the same with another dragon and middle daughter, she marries a herald; Khan promises a younger one and a throne to whoever cures him from illness; two sons-in-law come to the magic garden for grass, receive it from a young man, not knowing that this is the one who lives with an old man; the young man gives his seal on both his thigh; the khan recovers; the eight-headed dragon is given his youngest daughter; the young man kills the dragon, sends the girl home; through For several years, she sees her ring on the finger of a young man who sleeps in a stable; demands that all suitors go in front of her, chooses a poor groom; they are accommodated in a stable, they have a son; at the feast, a young man shows the three rings that the khan's three daughters gave him after killing dragons, shows his seals on his sons-in-law, wears appropriate clothes; the khan gives him the throne]: Kabirov, Shakhmatov 1951:133-152.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans: Potanin 1883, No. 84 (Buren-Gol River) [old Tyumendey saw felt floating along the river; it turned into Dzhelbag, grabbed the old man by the beard; let him go when he promised three of his own daughters; the old man and the old woman gave their daughters buckets without a bottom, sent them to pick berries, migrated; after filling the holes in the buckets, the girls picked berries; they saw a stranger in the yurt, realized that it was J.; went out into the yard, ran away; threw a comb (turned into a forest), a bar (into a rock); J. cut the road with an ax; a beaver by the river asks the girls what his tail, ribs, teeth are; they praise him, he carries them; J. says they worms; Beaver tells him to pick up stones, drops him in the middle of the river, J. drowned; Beaver told his sisters to climb three spruce trees; three fellows passed by, married them; older sisters promise to sew clothes, cover; the youngest is to give birth to a boy with a golden head and a silver neck; the elders throw the boy into the lake, replace him with a mole; he bites his returning husband; the husband breaks his wife's arms and legs, gouging out eyes; she is left alone; she consistently maims three rats that treat their paws and eyes with grass; a woman is treated with the same grass, recovers; cannot lure her son out of the lake; catches for the third time, leaving a bow and arrow on the shore; gives his milk, tears drips into his eyes, he recognizes her as his mother; his name is Yer-Saru; seven geese are flying, and when they scream, his mother cuts herself off ear, nose, lip; E. shoots, arrow returns with a human finger; E. meets a khan's shepherd named Buzakai Tarakay, who refuses to marry E. his daughter; E. kills him, accepts him his appearance; the khan orders to catch a calf, E. cannot, the khan beats him; tells him to kill the cows, the cow is not given, E. says, "Milk", the milk is milked by itself; the khan orders him to lick the soles of his boots, went to bed; E. smeared them with sour cream, the dogs licked them; gives seven daughters to Jety-tas (Seven Bald), but the youngest marries the imaginary B. (i.e. E.); she is more beautiful, only there is no index finger; E. 1) brings a mountain goat's father-in-law, whose outer meat is bitter, the inner meat is sweet (and the second time vice versa); 2) brings three horses Tengri Khan (follows them into the sky along the rainbow); 3) Khan orders to bring a foal, which Khan Garida steals from him every year; E. knocks off the tails of the foal with an arrow and Khan-Garide hides; The Jetytas tell the Khan that they have knocked off their tails; Khan Garide asks E. not to kill him, gives the entire herd of foals and carries his fluff as a sign that he has been killed; the Jetytas are digging a hole, E. falls into it; his horse brings Mengu-kyz, who makes a rope out of her braids, pulls E. out; he returns to Khan in his true heroic appearance, shows his hidden tails; whose an arrow fired into the sky will kill the shooter, falling, that liar; the Jetytas are killed with their arrows; E. and his wife visit their mother; the horse kicked her and killed her; she was buried], 181 [(Kyzyl district; recorded by Shishmarev, who know "Mongolian and Soyot" languages; probably Tuvans, not Soyots in the Irkutsk region); Arolbai-Ego Khan is increasingly returning without a horse; the eldest wife promises to sew a robe and boots, the youngest - to give birth to an assistant hero; the eldest orders to replace the boy born with a puppy, throw the boy to horses, camels, rams; they feel sorry for him every time; then to Lake Altyn-Kul; the husband broke the younger arm, leg, gouged out her eye; she stayed with the old maid; they were attacked by a lame foal; the woman broke her mouse's leg, the bird's wing; they were cured with grass, the woman was also cured; her son came out of the lake play; the old woman fails to catch him for a long time; then he is lured into a bag full of grandmas; the son admits his mother when splashes of her milk fall into his mouth; he hunts for bigger ones animals; mother and old woman warn not to hunt iron deer, which AE never defeated, left his knife in it; the boy kills him with an arrow into an uniron-covered spot on his forehead; cuts meat with his father's knife, makes a huge yurt out of their skin; AE sends people to an old nomadic; only two decide to come up, find a yurt the size of a mountain; the young man sends his father his knife with them; he flies like a bird, finds out that his father will recognize him when he has a name, a heroic horse and a weapon; his mother calls him Hirek-Kirves, the blacksmith Tolon-Aryk-Darkhan gives everything she needs; tells his mother to insert a lamb's eye instead of being gouged out; HC arrives hawk, hears that the father would like him to marry the daughter of the three-headed Killed Hormozd; he kills UH, brings his wife; the father tells him to get the fangs of the monster, his father's lost sword, a net from the bottom of the sea, his great-grandfather's fur coat from the underworld; his wife gives advice on how to do the first assignments; Erlik gives a fur coat (dahu), says that as soon as AE receives it, he himself will come to him with his wife; the son receives all the inheritance, becomes khan]: 341-348, 600-618; Taube 1978, No. 31 [when the horns of a wild sheep reached the sky and the camel's tail to the ground, the childless Khan Atalbaj asked three wives what they would cook for him when he returned; the eldest promised to make a sable hat, the middle one a silk Tonn, the youngest to give birth to a gold-breasted hero; the older wives did not finish promised, and the youngest gave birth to a boy who began to grow by leaps and bounds; the older sister persuaded the youngest to give it to her before the khan returned, told the maid to throw the boy into the steppe under her hooves goats; goats did not step on the boy, but warmed him up on the cold night; then throw it to evil dogs (same; horses (same); then the boy was thrown into White Lake, replaced by a dog; when the khan returned, she was his bit; the khan broke his youngest wife's left arm and right leg, gouged out her eye, migrated with people and a horse; her maid remained with the khansha; a mouse came, hansha hit her with a rod, breaking her legs and gouging her eyes; mouse ate roots and recovered; khansha did the same and also recovered; the maid said that she saw a wave run into the shore of White Lake, a gold-breasted boy jumped out of the water, sat on a stone and began to play with colorful pebbles; then returned to the lake; hansha went with the maid; waited for the boy to come out, rushed to him; he shouted "Oh, my Father Lake, oh, my Mother Lake, ran to the water, but his mother managed to grab him; the water came after him, but the hansha managed to escape, only part of his clothes got wet; two months later, the boy forgot about the lake and called hanshu his mother; he grew up and his mother told him her story; he hunted successfully, his mother sewed him a sable hat and a silk Tonn; the maid suggested that the boy's name be Adygshi and his horse's name Ak Öle; next to the yurt a mountain of skins of killed animals accumulated, and Khan's father was failing at that time; he decided to go to the old parking lot; his wife pretended not to recognize him, told everything; when he left, the guest promised" tell the khan everything"; then he returned as a khan; the son recognized him only after he cut his finger and told the khan to lick his blood; the khan broke the eldest hansha's arm and leg, gouged out his eye; ordered the middle one to be dishwasher; chained to his son]: 146-154; Altaians [father sends three daughters for berries, holes in the youngest's tuyaski; while they found the hole, filled the tuyas, evening came; the girls came to the hut seven-headed Tielven; he sends them for skewer branches, they bring them unusable ones; he goes by himself, they run away; they tell Beaver that his back is round, his teeth are white; he drinks the lake, they cross to the other side; T. says that his back is flat, his teeth are yellow; the Beaver orders to make a raft out of reeds, to rock in the middle of the river; T. drowned; the girls climbed the fir; after urinating, they pretended to be three passers-by merchants; one promises the future husband to sew clothes from lice skins, the second to bake a thousand pies from one wheat, the third to give birth to a gold-headed son; husband and wife leave their husband's newborn mother; she throws the baby into the sea, lures the puppy; the mother exposes her breasts, says, shyut smoyut (My Milk River), eventually lures her son out of the water; the grandmother is tied to to an immense stallion]: Kandarakova 1988:125-127; Buryats: Zabanov 1929:21-23 [Bukha-noyon-babay, turning to a dark gray poroz, holds an iron cradle under his chest; two shamans Asukhan and Husykhan sacrifices him, receives a cradle, A. adopted a child, named Balagat; Harmusta is one of the Eastern Tengriyas; his daughter does not know who became pregnant from, went down to earth, gave birth to two She left her sons and daughter on the shore of Lake Baikal; these children come out of the water to play with B.; A. gives him food and an intoxicating drink, all four fall asleep in a nightmare; the shamanic sisters carry her, on the way one boy screams, Take me the milky sea, my mother and the rocky mountains-father; the waves poured ashore; the girl became a seal, swam away, one boy became a squirrel, ran away to the mountains; the rest was adopted by Khusykhan, named Ekhirit, from him came the Verkholensky, Olkhon, Lena Buryats; from Bulagat - Tunkinsky, Alar, Balagan, Kitoi, Kudinsky and other Baikal regions], 23-24 [turning to the Bukha-Noyon- Babay swam to the south side of Lake Baikal to Taizhi-Khan to butt with a colorful porosity; becoming a man, he spent the nights with the khan's daughter; Khan drove the porozov away; B. took the child out of the womb, threw his horns at the northern side of Lake Baikal, defeated his opponent, let the child suck hair on his belly; shaman Asukhan took the boy, called Bulagat, who goes to play with another coming out of the waters of Lake Baikal ; shaman Khusykhan made a bon from her milk, asked B. to give it to a friend, who fell asleep, H. adopted him, called him Ekhirit; before that, E. raised a colorful burbot, and the coastal gap served a cradle, which is why they are called his father and mother; bulagats and echirites come from B. and E.], 24-27 [from western Tabyat Taban-Tengria, a gray Hoho-buh poros was conceived, knocked down a variegated porosity from the herd of Taizhi- khan; Hoho-bukha swam across Lake Baikal, Hun-Taizhi with his army behind him, HB made his image out of stone, HT fired arrows at him; Hb found a child at the front end of the arrow (where the tip is attached); daughter of HT became pregnant when the light of the sun could be seen through the crack of the yurt; the shaman Asukhan took the boy Bulgan-hara from under the porch, said that she had given birth; he began to play with the boy who had sailed in a barrel that crashed on the shore Baikal; A. gave food, that boy fell asleep on felt, A. took it; he screamed, Milk Sea, save me! Father, save the sky! A. was drawn waist-deep into the water, but went out, named the boy Ekhirit; Buryat births take place from Bulagat and Ekhirit], 27-28 [Hun-Taizhi's daughter sees a blue poroz who came from the south of Lake Baikal butting with colorful; drove the blue, became pregnant; hid the child, lowered it into the sea in a box; stepping over the bull's yoke, became pregnant again, left the box with the boy on the seashore; the children of HT's daughter, coming out of the water, played with children; the childless shaman Asukhan left her felt and food; the children fell asleep, she took them, named Bulagat and Ekhirit; they are the birthplace of Buryat]; Khadakhne 1926 [Western Tengries won Eastern, their leader was overthrown to the ground; 70 evil spirits appeared from its back; (more about the struggle of two bulls, etc., I have Zhukovskaya's paraphrase, but with the clarification of the episodes); Boho-muya, son Western Tengri Zayan Sagana, quarreled with Boho-Teli, son of Eastern Tengri Hamhir Bogdo, over who to be the patron saint of blacksmithing; both descended to earth, BM became a dark blue bull Boho Noyon, BT became a colorful Tarlan Eeren Buha; they began to run around Lake Baikal; they began to butt in the possessions of Taizhi-Khan; T.'s daughter drove them away, became pregnant from sight ( or mooing) BN; gave birth to a boy; BN recognized him as his son, placed him in an iron cradle on the mountain, fed him, guarded him; two shaman sisters Asykhan (Asuykhan) and Hosykhan (Husykhan) ) they arranged a sacrifice for the BN, received a boy, giving him the name Bulagat Bukha expensive aldogkon ("Bulagat Found from Under the Bull"); he grew up and began to go to the shore of Lake Baikal, met another boy who was coming out of the water to play with him; A. told BB to arrange food for the boy, grabbed him from behind; he calls his parents colorful burbot and coastal gap; his name is Ekhirit Eeren]: 32-35 (retelling Zhukovskaya 1980; 97 with comm.: [Ekhirite version is a variant of the twin myth according to which Echirit and Bulagat are twins, sons of Bukha-Noyon, ancestors of the Bulugat and Ekhirite tribes; the series of myths about Bukha-Noyon is widespread among the Buryats of the Baikal region, Transbaikalia and the Tunkinskaya Valley, there are options)}; Buryats (Chita) [the old Sholmos woman wants to eat a rich man, he asks him to eat his daughter better; he will leave three goldmoney at the camp, his daughter will return for them; a seemingly bad horse volunteers to take the girl; teaches: he turns into a calf, rubs against the yurt, you have to ask for money, then the old woman will ask you to drive the calf away, you have to jump on it; the goby becomes a horse again, takes the girl away; they live by sandalwood with 12 branches; the girl has a gold file, he gives food; the khan takes her third wife; leaves; the eldest promises to prepare a sable hat for his return, the middle one - a silk robe, the youngest - to give birth to a son with golden breasts, silver ass; older wives threw the newborn into the hole, then the dogs, under the feet of the herd, under the feet of the camels, he is unharmed; threw him into the sea; replaced with a puppy; the khan orders to break the youngest hands, throw by the sea; she sees wounded birds eating grass, recovering; eating too, hands intact; a boy comes out of the water to play; a woman grabs him, he says that his father is a cliff, the mother is a seal; she gives him her milk; leads him to that sandalwood; the son comes to his father, tells everything; the khan returns his youngest wife, makes the elders as garbage and dung cleaners]: Barannikova and others 1993, No. 4:85-91; (cf. Buryats (Khorinsky) [sister sends younger brother to marry; wife mistook sister for another wife, knocked over Araku, the guests left; the wife tells her husband to kill his sister, he cuts off his sister's hands in the forest; She is married by a khan's son, she is a mukhur Khatun (a handless princess); in her husband's absence, she gives birth to two boys with a gold eagle and a silver eagle in their forehead; her husband's father sends a letter, his brother's sister replaces that a woman gave birth to two puppies; the same on the way back, kill all three; the khan did not kill, but drove them away; the mother began to breastfeed her sons by the river, they went into the water; the hermit promised that they they will be found; the mother met her sons, they brought her hands, thrown by her brother into the river; the hands were given to the lords of the waters; the boys came to tell stories at their father's house; the villain woman was torn by horses, she turned into a gadfly, still stings]: Rudnev 1914:437-448); {cf. a hint of a possible Mongolian version in Potanin 1881, No. 19e [two khans fought among themselves, exterminated all the people; only one woman remained; she met a bull in the field and lived with him two children, which the Mongolian people multiplied], 20 [(Khalkhas; the story is inconsistent); two girls were born from flowers; the lake separated them from the blue calf (Huhu-bukha); the tiger lived behind the calf, protected it; going to mountains for food, hung a bell on him; one of the girls came to the calf; he was frightened, ran, a tiger ran to the ringing of the bell, threw the girl into the lake; with another girl, the bull killed his four-legged son; he was left to graze in the hole of one gorge; a mare grazed in the hole in the next one; the son of a girl and a bull ate as much a day as a mare at seven days; so his front legs were cut off, and he became eat not grass, but meat]: 162, 163}; Mongols (khalha) [Sherisen-Gan's son went to an old woman who has a lot of goodness but only one cow (sarlyk, i.e. female yak); this old woman was a shulmus; said that her cow had silver and gold in her manure; S. exchanged this cow for 50 others, but there was no gold; the old woman said that the cow should be beaten with an iron pestle, but that only maimed her; Sh. sent soldiers to kill the old woman; they saw that the old woman was cooking a whole cow in the cauldron and interfering with her copper nose; the khan and the people migrated, but the cow recovered and came to live with the tigress; she gave birth to a son Bamba Shita , and her son's cow named Dauldzuk; one day the cow did not come; the tigress told her son that she was eaten by wolves; he went with her to this place, saw only tiger tracks and pushed his mother off the cliff; BS and D. left to wander, BS hung a bell around D.'s neck; we walked on opposite sides of the mountain, the sound of the bell suddenly disappeared; BS came, but the calf had already been killed and cut; B. then also died; two poplars grew up - golden and silver; Hara Nidun Taiji placed a bet there; the maid saw two boys in a blue and yellow fur coat playing with poplars in the morning, and then hiding in poplars; Taiji ordered to tear out the poplars, the temple under them, and the boys there; he gave them to his wife; BS went east, but D. stayed; he was not allowed to eat and he followed his brother; came to the palace made of iron, cast iron and glass; there a woman, says that men are lions and tigers; they ran away, the lion and the tiger are chasing; D. threw the wooden ball he had previously received from the llama, the ball became a rock to the sky; they stayed at the foot, D. called the woman his mother; she did not tell her to come in when he was combing his hair; he came in, his hair fell down the river; the woman locked them in an iron box, told them to hide it; D. lowered the box down the river; Sharisyn Khan found it, understood that Tengri Khurmusten Khan's daughter lives in the upper reaches; he decided to marry her son (the text ends)]: Potanin 1883:237-241; the Mongols [the tiger cub and the buffalo became friends; the buffalo was killed by hunters, the tiger cub died of grief; where their bones were buried, two trees grew; the boys Altan-gu and Mungung-gu began to emerge from them; the khan's warriors managed to capture them and sent them to herd them herds; A. was summoned to the palace, M. was ordered to bring the tenth daughter of the Khan of the Black Palace, Oyun; she is distinguished by three golden hair in a spit; on the way, M. gives him three bags of money to the poor, receives instead, whip, meat, coal; M. takes O. for himself, kills his pursuers with a whip and coal (they burn); the wind brought O. Khan's golden hair, who took M.'s wife; A. found a brother; to swim across the ditch around him palace, they made a raft; the fish swallowed it; they threw the coal, the water boiled, the fish died; the brothers killed the nine-headed mangas, returned O.]: Potanin? (definitely not 1881 or 1883): 219-229 (about the same as Bennigsen 1912:33-42; west in Dunsurun, Khalha).

Western Siberia. Nenets: Lehtisalo 1957, No. 51 (western from a woman in Obdorsk/Salekhard) [(=Labanauskas 2001:155-163); the youngest of seven brothers asks his sister to sew a quiver; the quiver is ready, the young man says he suitable for the oldest brother; this is how the sister sews six quivers, the seventh for the youngest; when they go hunting for seven days, the brothers do not tell their sister to leave the house; on the seventh day, the sister goes out and sees them leaving in seven directions the tracks of brothers who have become animals: a lion, a wolverine, a wolverine, a polar bear, an ermine, a sable, a brown bear (younger brother); comes to the den, two bears bring her in; a woman speaks the girl that her younger brother is angry hides her; in the morning tells her to follow the path in the middle of the talnik, but the girl walks along the hill; sits on a stump, the witch Parnee appears from it; takes her clothes, scratches her face; a girl wears even more beautiful clothes from a bag given by her bear brother's wife; a witch sits on a sledge drawn by white, a girl with black deer, husbands their siblings , come to their father; he sends them to their relatives; a witch falls into a hole; a girl comes to her bear brother, who takes off his bear skin, gives iron sledges pulled by mammoths; sister's husband must kiss mammoths; on the way back, a witch catches up with a girl, mice are drawn into her sledge; goods brought on mammoths filled the house; mice bit the hands of the witch's husband, the old men handed them over; the girl gives birth to a son, a witch gives birth to a half-dog, puts a girl, hides her son under the chips behind the plague; seals the girl's eyes with glue; a birch tree grows from under the chips, the witch pulls her out, throws her into the lake, saying Water is your father, water is your mother; at the request of the witch, they left the blind, they migrated themselves; the husband slaughtered two deer for the blind; the half-dog brings game to his mother; admits that it is not he who kills her, but the one who comes out of the lake is a boy; the two of them grab a water boy; at the request of his mother, he descends a half-dog into the ice-hole to the owner of the water instead of himself; washes his mother's eyes; she knocks down iron ropes from sledge, deer come from there; a young man goes to look for his father, tells a fairy tale (his story), he recognizes his son; a witch arrives, a woman feeds her meat and needles, she dies]: 147-165; Nenyang 1997 ( Taimyr, Western Labanauskas) [seven brothers have an older sister; the youngest asks to sew a quiver, is satisfied, tells them not to go out for seven days while the brothers are hunting; on the seventh day, the sister follows the brothers' footsteps to the birch tree; traces of her seven animals, the youngest left as a bear; she follows his footsteps to the den; the Bear's wife says that she is to blame, leaving the day before the deadline, tells him to leave, walk along the lowland; the sister walks along the hill, sits down on a stump, from there a witch in clothes jumps out of the bark, makes him change clothes; takes a man with white deer, a girl takes what is dark; gives birth to a boy, the witch hides him under the chips, replaces a half-dog, seals the woman's eyes; a birch tree grows from under the chips, the witch throws her into the lake, says that the water is his father, the water is his mother; tells her to migrate; the woman raises a half-dog, real the child lives in water; A half-dog grabs a child who has come out of the water, calls a woman to help; ice floes crawl into the plague; a boy out of the water advises giving the owner of the lake a Half-Dog instead of himself; they drown him, a woman and her son live well]: 61-64; (cf. Entsy [a witch and a woman live in the same plague, the woman has two girls; the witch calls to go to tear the grass, suggests looking in her head; she pierces an awl into the woman's ear, she dies; she carries it wrapped in grass, cooks, eats; the eldest daughter notices her mother's hair; the girls leave their glasses in bed for themselves, the eldest takes a thimble, a comb, a scraper; they run away, the abandoned scraper turns into a mountain, a comb into the forest, a thimble into an iron hill; the eldest tells the old man that his head is white as ripe grass, his face is like the sun, his back is straight like the ice of a lake; the old man sent them; the witch says that his head is like tangled bars, his face is like the place where the stone was taken out, his back is like stone and clay; he throws the witch into the river, she drowned; sending the girls, the old man tells me not to take anything at the end of the island; the youngest asks a toy, a spike grabs, her eye leaked out, she died; tells her not to leave it on the edge; on the cape; on the hill; agrees to stay in the den; the eldest stops at the stump, a witch appears from it; they go together; a witch sits on the sledge of a man with white deer, a girl with black deer; the brothers' father asks her daughters-in-law to visit their relatives; an Aenets woman goes to the den, from there two go out a bear cub and a living little sister again; a bear sends two bear-drawn sledges of gifts; a black man sends bears by kissing them; a witch brings mice, these are her deer, the old man kills them with a kick; an Aenets woman gives birth to a bright boy, a witch a witch; makes an Enets woman leave in an abandoned camp, gives her a witch; takes the boy, throws her into the water; the witch has grown up , helps a woman; she wonders why he has been walking on the water for so long; he says that his hand is sticking out of the water; the woman comes up, the boy asks to catch him, calls him mom; the plague water fills, this water father comes for the boy; an Anetian woman gives him a witch, the water goes away; the father comes for his wife and son; the brothers' father makes a fire, asks the witch to give him a spike through fire pushes into a fire; its ashes turn into mosquitoes]: Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 13:82-88); Nganasans (Awam, West 1962) [The man has a beautiful wife, she has a boy, and a big ugly Shige-kopto, her daughter; S. glued the eyes of his beautiful wife, threw the boy into the lake for Byda-yama, accused the blind woman; the husband and S. left; daughter S. sees a bird, that arrow knocks trees on firewood, throws meat from the tree; next time a blind woman comes, grabs the bird by the leg, gives her breast, the bird turns into her son; Bydy- Nyama says she is ashamed that she took the boy, gives him two girls for it; the boy immediately grows up, shamanite, puts his mother and father in the fire, splits their skulls, puts his father in seventh heaven (he manages craft, making utensils), the mother will be with Moo-nyama, she will keep the children; the young man Dyaiba-Nguo himself goes to eighth heaven; S. throws them into the water, if the shamans are in the water, she catches them]: Simchenko 1996:56-59; Mansi: Lukina 1990, No. 130 [Mos-ne has a son, Por-ne has a Boy in the Form of a Motley Puppy (PUG); P. shoved M.'s child into the barrel, lowered it into the water; the PUG leaves P., comes to live with M.; carries food to the dugout by the river; explains M. that an old man and an old woman live there, they have a son, he plays with him; this is M.'s son; the PUG almost grabbed him, he escaped; they play more, M. grabs his son, forcibly brings him to himself, he agrees to live with M., and not with his father from the dugout; M.'s son and the PUG go to the city where Ushing-Oyr-Oika lives; get rich; W. leaves wives, comes to M., marries her; P. was torn by horses; the PUG took off his dog clothes, became handsome]: 338-339 (=Kazakova 1994:44-47); the Northern Selkups [Natanka ("girl") and Tomnanka ("frog" + two diminutive suffixes) live in the same camp; T. calls N. to collect grass for insoles, kills N., pierces her ear with a blade of grass (sliver); daughter N. notices a sledge sticking out from under the tire, his mother's leg; spies on T. cutting the corpse, promises his children to eat N.'s children; N. plugs the chimney with a rag (so that T. thinks it's still night), leaves, carries his younger brother in a box; he dies pricked with an awl or drill; N. buries his brother, pulls a stump to light a fire, a new T. jumps out from under him; she steals all N.'s things, but she tells them to return; T. follows skiing from wooden bowls; N. and T. come to the camp, marry two men; T. replaces newborn N. with a puppy; T.'s husband leaves her, migrates with T. and her husband; puppy (knot) T. helps her hunt for the beast; plays with a boy coming out of the water; he is the son of N.; they get to know each other when a stream of T.'s milk enters his mouth; the boy builds a giant plague; T. comes with her husband and husband N .; N. forgives him, telling him to wash himself 7 times; T. is brutally killed; var. (western 1999, Turukhan): T. kidnaps son N., keeps him; the narrator believes this is a Ket fairy tale]: Tuchkova 2004:208-209; Southern Selkups [the widow has two daughters, the Volkhov marries one for her own a woman does not give her son; dies, leaving the eldest comb, the younger ring, teaches what to do; sisters run, throw a comb, a mountain with rose hips appears; an old woman transports sisters across the river; a wolf with her son is lucky on a log; they turned over, drowned; the old woman tells her deer veins to spin, throws her deer into the stove; a conscientious sister has deer, the other does not; the old woman tells one (who?) stay; both leave, the old woman makes the eldest come back, gives the sledge, tells the youngest to be planted in it when they reach the ringing birch tree; the sister disappears, returning to the old woman; the girl comes to the village lives with an old man and an old woman; she is married; she is pregnant; during childbirth, her mother-in-law covers her eyes with bread, throws the child into the ice-hole, brings a puppy; the same for the second time; tells her son to leave the woman (with puppies) in the forest; she chews a ring, a house appears; dogs run to the river, tell me how two boys come out of the ice-hole, they play with them; the woman has a leg ache, she asks the dogs to take her to the ice-hole, lure the boys away from the water; her leg has recovered, she takes her sons; her husband arrives, she tells him everything; he tears his mother with horses; a bump in the swamp is her head]: Pelikh 1972:351-352 .

Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks (Yerbogachen) [the man has three wives; one promises to sew a caftan for him by his return, the other boots, the third to give birth to a son; this happened, but the other wife blindfolded the woman in labor, threw the child into the river, replaced it with a puppy; the husband killed the puppy, broke his wife's arm, migrated with two wives; in the spring, the one left noticed a trail on the shore; left a bow and scraper to lure the child out; the child went out, took the onion, so the boy; the woman caught him; the boy screams that the burbot fed him his liver; the burbot jumped out of the water and returned back to the river; the woman told her son everything, he went to look for his father; found it, began to tell his story; the father left those wives, returned to his son and his mother]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 100:131-132; Baikal Evenks: Voskoboynikov 1958 (Bount, i.e. Buryatia) [the older sister finds a face, marries the Raven; the middle sister is a feather, an Owl; the youngest is a hunting knife, for a hunter, promises to give birth to a son with a golden back of the head; two sisters envy the youngest, they throw her son into the river, put the puppy; the husband orders his wife to be cut off; the mother of the sisters sees a boy with a golden head coming out of the river , lures her bow ashore, catches; he grows up, meets a mother, she suffers from hard work; the father recognizes his son, drives away his older wives]: 104-107; 1973, No. 24 (Kachugsky District of the Irkutsk Region) [three sisters are married to three men; the first promises to sew mittens, the second boots, the third to give birth to a golden child; two replace the child with a puppy, the child is thrown into the river; the husband cuts off his wife's leg, arm, and one chest; throws one; woman sees a boy coming out of the river; lures him with breast milk, bread, small onions, leaving them farther from the shore; grabs him; fish scream that they fed him caviar and liver; the mother first denies that the son had a father; then says that he fell from the larch; the son tries, does not die; then tells the truth; the son comes to his mother's sisters, tells her story; men want to listen, women ask him to be silent; the boy cleans off the dirt, shines like gold; the father maims evil sisters like his wife used to; returns to his wife, she recovers]: 111- 114; Far Eastern Evenks (probably Uchursky) [three sisters are coming; one found a wing, the other a button, the third a knife; an eagle flew in, took the first one, the raven the second, the guy the third; she promises to give birth to a strong boy; his older sisters stole him, drowned him, replaced him with a puppy; the husband left his wife; that child was taken by burbot {apparently a female; there is no gender category in Altai languages}; mother noticed traces in the water child; found and caught him; burbot (iha): I will take him away, I fed him with my liver; but the woman did not give it back; the boy's father came, his wife told him everything; the son became a hero, they migrated away]: Myreeva 2009:157-161.

Amur-Sakhalin. Orochi [a girl walks on the water, sees seven merganser ducks on the river; when she returns, she finds a man in the house, he marries her; Pegelikt (Sheared) comes, insists that the woman allowed her to search in her hair; puts her to sleep, takes tin in her mouth, spits molten tin in her ear, throws the corpse into the forest, puts her clothes on; explains to her husband that her long hair is burned over hearth; offers to move to the other side of the river; her husband's six younger brothers live there; they do not like their brother's wife, they tell the couple to live separately; they find the woman's corpse, extract tin; she comes to life , the husband takes her back, makes P. a maid; the woman gives birth; P. invites her, taking the baby, to swim to the other side for bird cherry; swims away with the child, throws him into the river, tells her husband that the woman negligence drowned the child; the husband beats his wife, leaves her alone across the river; six brothers leave; The mouse heals the woman, the Goat calls her sister, takes out utensils, lights a fire, catches fish; tells him to kill, from skins and bones to make a house; comes to life himself; says that he plays all day with his little nephew coming out of the river; the woman leaves breast milk and food on the shore; the baby goes out ashore from the cradle, his mother grabs him; he does not recognize her; the Whales explain that they are only his caregivers, not his parents; the goat leaves; the boy hunts, shoots across the river, the arrow hits the house his old father; the boy tells his story; at the woman's request, the husband kills P., brings her eyes, the woman pierces and burns them; six brothers return]: Aurora, Lebedeva 1966, No. 13:139- 142; the Nanai [Baksu-Batur's wife is Simfuni beautiful; he goes hunting, she is trying in vain to detain him; the underground old man Tundurhan hero defeated and took her away; she gave birth to three boys in a boat, T. throws everyone into the river; the last is a Lerenchu hero, promises to return; the elder brother sucks catfish caviar, the middle brother sucks pike, L. sucks Kaluga milk; all three live inside Kaluga; the beauty saw them they run out of the mouth of dead Kaluga, brought her home, breastfed her; L. put her hands in hot buckwheat porridge; she admitted that they are S.-beautiful's children, went to her copper mountain, asks Gagdanchu mó boat (=Tundurhan) kill boys; G. and L. fight for a long time; the bird threw a silver ball, a gold ball; inside a child; L. tore off his arms, legs, head - G.'s limbs and head came off; brothers they go to look for their father, the bird says that he is fighting the Sankau hero; on the hill, the sky covers the poplar, the sun covers the talnik with three shoots, between them a snake, in it the spirit of his father's life is gray and white eggs; two girls killed the snake, gave the eggs to L.; he threw gray eggs in the forehead of the old man, he died, took the white one with him; returned home; three brothers - three at home, all married; father - one house; lived richly]: Sunik 1958, No. 2:122-126.

SV Asia. Itelmen: Lukashkina 1991 [Kutkha Akovac's mother invites him to marry Iyanoch; they come to marry; a son is born, I. is pregnant again; they return to K.'s house; mother I . warns not to stop if a child cries; K. violates the ban, goes to fetch water for the child; terrible Kacham tells I. to take off his clothes, puts on, kills I., buries him in the snow; Kutkh Kacham brings home; in the spring a boy comes out of I.'s womb; takes flies in his mouth, they buzz, I. wakes up; the boy hunts with onions, comes to Kutha's house twice when it's empty, lying on his skins, takes crush and meat, brings it to his mother; Kuth decides to guard the thief; the boy explains who he is, talks about I. and Kacham; Kuth heats stones, burns Kacham on them , ripping off her clothes; everyone comes to I., who says she can't leave the hut because she is half naked; Kuth gives her her clothes]: 84-90; Menovshchikov 1974, No. 177 [The mouse lures Kutha to him, not gives a drink until he agrees to give her youngest daughter Nyaa for her son; she does not know how to live with mice, she is expelled with her young son and daughter; she dies; children steal food from K., make a fire in the mother's ears, use her mouth as a cauldron; K. finds and catches them; the shaman revives N.; K. does not like grandchildren, N. leaves with them]: 527-532; Jochelson 1951, No. 38 [Legizna comes to the pregnant wife Ememkut 'a Sinanevt kills her, hangs her on the rafter, puts on her clothes, ties a cauldron to her stomach as if she is pregnant; in the spring, S.'s body thaws, falls, her baby goes out, revives her mother; secretly comes to father's house, collects crumbs of food for his mother; L. and E. notice his traces; E. watches for him, catches him; he brings him to S.; E. drives L.; she comes to her grandmother, pretends that her son-in-law has come and eats the food offered by the grandmother itself]: 250-252.

NW Coast. Tsimshian [the leader's wife has a lover; she pretends to be dying; she is left in a coffin in a tree; her husband spends two days under a tree; larvae fall out of the coffin; she makes them with a knife wooden spoon; every night a lover comes, knocks, says Let me in, spirit; a woman gets pregnant; the chief is informed of what is happening, he sends his nephew to kill lovers; a woman's son sucks dead mother's intestines; grows up in a coffin; picks up arrows that children fire; the chief's nephews find and catch him]: Boas 1902 [he grows up, gets the sun; see motif A26]: 7-10; 1916 , No. 29 [it burns when it goes to heat resin from fir trees]: 214-216.

The coast is the Plateau. Chilkotin [the little boy does not sleep, cries; someone calls him from the street, promises to give him food; he goes out, there is an Owl, takes the boy in the basket; feeds him at home, gives a necklace of shells dentarium; parents found their son when Owl was not at home, set fire to his house, took the boy away; the owl chased, on the bridge the boy put goat's horns on his fingers, spread them out, the Owl was frightened, fell into the water, returned ; the boy gave people dentistry, since then these shells became known; the mother sent her son to swim, he went reluctantly, disappeared under water; in winter he began to break women's buckets when they took water into the ice-hole; two sisters went to get water with beautiful buckets; when the boy grabbed the first bucket, the second took it by the hand; the sisters brought it into the house, put it by the fire; it was covered in mucus; in winter people can't find a tree to ski; the boy can hardly get up, brings an armful of material, tells one of his sisters to rub it in the house, many skis appear; he asks everyone to hit him in the arrow; the Raven gives an arrow with a leather tip; in the forest, the boy removes a layer of dirt and mucus like a shirt, becomes a strong handsome man; kills a deer with each arrow, and a coyote with the arrow of the Raven; entering the village, again puts on slimy skin; the Raven watches the boy, finds hidden skin, tears and throws it away; the boy repairs it; next time the Raven sees the young man in all its splendor; he retains this appearance, takes two sisters for wife]: Farrand 1900, No. 22:36-37; quarry [pregnant dies, buried; husband cries at the grave; sees a boy come out of her in spring, picks flowers, hides again; his father makes bows and arrows, lays it out, forcing his son to move further away from the grave; shamans grab and heal the boy; he asks to pour hot resin on him and his cousin (or rather not uk.); now both are really alive; many people died trying to marry Ixmandamlkit and Tsabol, the daughters of two heavenly leaders; the Son of the Dead wears chikadi skin, the brother wears woodpecker skin, both flying to heaven; An old mouse woman teaches how to slip between crushing rocks where lightning strikes; Woodpecker feathers are scorched; I. and C. come to the spring; imaginary birds allow themselves to be caught; tell them to forget that the girls hid them near themselves under their clothes; they turn into men at night; parents recognize them as sons-in-law; both are good hunters; they return home to earth with their wives; heavenly women have a lot of meat in their small bags; people they feast]: Jenness 1934, No. 11:149-154; shuswap [The old grizzly woman lives alone; makes her daughter out of resin, she melts in the sun; from stone she sinks; from clay - dissolves in water; from wood - the girl stays live; she is kidnapped by the Trout Man; her children come to play at her grandmother Grizzly's house; hide in the river as she approaches; she leaves the digger with her clothes and basket on it, sneaks up to the house, splashes a potion on the children; the boy remains human, the girl turns into a dog; the name of the young man Chickady; one day he hits a dog; she admits that she is his sister, runs away to mountains; his grandmother warns him not to climb a tree for a stuck arrow; he climbs, finds himself in the sky; meets his grandmother's husband (or father); he tells him how to get a wife; see motive K27]: Teit 1909a, No. 28:691-696; modoc [red-haired Tekevas has a husband and five brothers; the eldest is married, his youngest mother hides from her; T. finds out about him when he finds his hair; makes her accompany her to her house. arranges an overnight stay in the woods, lies down with him; he leaves a deck instead, runs to his brothers; the old spider raises his brothers to the sky in the basket, does not tell him to look down; the younger one looks, the basket falls into the house set on fire to T.; the mother pulls her sons' hearts out of the fire, they turn into mountains (the youngest's heart is in St. Shasta); the mother finds the corpse of her daughter-in-law, next to her two living babies; turns them into one boy; he notices that he has a double shadow, fires an arrow, chipping off his younger brother; secretly raises him, asking his grandmother for things and food as if for herself; she notices that now he has only one head; he confesses, brings his brother; the brothers want to kill the duck, she tells them about the fate of their parents; T. swims on the lake in the form of a monstrous duck; brothers cut off her head, turn it into a duck whose meat is inedible; the grandmother is angry at them, they go through the hearth, she follows them under the ground; they go west; the Duck is their other aunt, she has bloating on her head; they press him down, since then birds and animals do not carry cubs on their heads; they kill the Snake, the Duck's husband; they turn it alive pebbles into ordinary pebbles; the younger brother would like to serve the Month, the elder would like to serve the Sun; a one-legged man pursues them; they kill him, turn into two stars that appear in the sky in the spring]: Curtin 1912:95- 117.

The Midwest. Winnebago [twins enter the old woman's womb, born again; mother dies in childbirth; father puts dead baby in a stump; boys play together; father lures, catches Wild (domestication by elk-bladders); warns brothers not to go to the lake in the south; they kill leeches, snakes, toad sucking bears; father runs away; brothers send father to a village in the east, where he finds his wife; brothers visit parents, bring them food; they killed all evil creatures; their father is fire]: Radin 1954 in Lankford 2007:94-95; menominee: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II.7 [when the cannibal Mowäki ^u looks into the house, a woman tells two children that it is their father's uncle; grateful M. helps his imaginary nephew by throwing hot stones into a spring; from boiling water a bear comes out with cubs, M. kills bears; the family gives him one of their sons, M. makes him big overnight; another exactly the same giant comes, they start fighting; the first M. asks to help the man, he hits the second with a club, M. finishes him off, leaves; in the absence of her husband, another M. comes, kills his wife; every time a person finds a mess in the house; hides, sees how from a log the boy goes out to play with the older children; M. threw the woman's uterus into the log, she dried up to the baby inside like skin; the father persuades him to stay; he goes to live with people himself; children come to him, kill people easily and revive people], II.8 [a giant comes and kills a woman, throws his entrails into a hollow stump; the father pulls out and raises one of the twins; the other is raised mice; he goes out to play with his brother, hides from his father; father catches him; brothers kill monsters; the giant comes, cooks them, they are unharmed; kill him with boiling water, avenging his mother; go down to underground gods, killing a horned serpent guard; four underground gods allow them to stay with them]: 332-337, 337-342; Western swamps (? - "northern") Cree [husband tells the pregnant wife, in his absence, to hide their son under the cane on the floor; the cannibal Toosh comes, pulls out the woman's uterus, throws it into the bushes; the mouse raises the baby; the husband kills the ogre; the eldest boy loses his arrows, the Mouse takes them for his pupil; the boy persuades his brother to return home; their father goes to the lake; brothers kill two in the lake lynxes are brought to their father; he cries, lets many lynxes on them; they kill them and him; the youngest consistently marries and rejects Olenikha, Black Bear, Porcupine, Soyka; marries Bobrikha, lives with her in the river, returns; her older brother kills Bobrikha, gives her meat to his youngest; after eating, he turns into a beaver]: Bell 1897:2-8; Western Ojibwa (chippewa) [hunter with his wife and baby their son lives alone; Windigo comes, eats prey, brings killed people, but does not touch the owners; says goodbye he gives two arrows that do not know a miss; the other V. pulls out a woman in the absence of a hunter entrails, devours the body; the hunter buries the remains of his wife in the hollow; the boy plays, his arrows are picked up by another coming out of the hollow; asks his father not to talk about him; he has arisen from the remains of the victim; the father hears two voices, catches the Wild; tells them not to go to one, then to another lake; the boys go; the first one climbs the mountain into the Thunderbird's nest, bring two chicks, lightning shines from their eyes; in another lake they catch the Horned Serpent, they also bring them home; they feed the Snake to the Chicks; the Father turns into Autumn Thunder, raised to heaven by the Chicks]: Schoolcraft 1999:183-190; Western Ojibwa [ a pregnant woman goes to get water, Puma kills her, throws her insides on a stump; her elder son shoots an arrow, she disappears; he finds his wild brother taking his arrows; he is afraid of them father; finally agrees to stay; teaches brother to play, cutting off his head and putting it back; brothers kill Puma, put their skin on their father's bed; father is scared, leaves]: Radin 1914, No. 45:81-83; sauk, fox [a man with a second person on the back of his head comes and kills a woman, rips her stomach open; the father throws the youngest twin under a log, he is raised by an old rat woman; he comes to play with brother; brother and father grab him; brothers destroy monsters]: Lasley 1902:176-178; (cf. kickapoo [a woman takes the Bear as a lover; her husband kills him and her; finds a baby in the womb of his wife, throws him into the hollow; he goes out, steals his brother's arrows; brother finds him, they become friends ; Thrown out becomes a baby, the brother brings him to his father; they leave the father]: Jones 1915, No. 9:67-75, 135-138).

Northeast. Seneca: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 34 [a woman dies giving birth to a premature baby; her husband leaves him in a hollow; he comes to play with his five-year-old brother while the father is away; looks like chipmunk; father notices traces, is surprised that food supplies are rapidly depleted; turning into a stump with mice, he catches the Discarded One; gives him a club, he destroys trees, calms down, agrees to live with his father and brother; father warns sons not to go in one direction or another; they break the ban; in the north, the Discarded one kills frogs that threaten his father; in the west he climbs a tree into the Thunder's nest, kills a male, a female, two cubs; in the north he breaks a stone giant with a log, comes home riding his dog; on SW, a dice player kills losers; Thrown out wins , cuts off the player's head, saves people; in the east he wins the ball game, taking the side of the wolf and bear genera against the families of an eagle, a turtle, a beaver; the father agrees to become the leader of that country], 57 [uncle kills nephew's wives; he leaves marks in all directions from their house, sends his last wife in an arrow to his invisible brother, runs there himself; uncle chases them; nephew throws at the other side is a sink, the banks converge, the fugitives jump over the pond, the banks diverge again; while the nephew is hunting, the uncle comes to the shore; reading the woman's mind, he also throws the sink, crosses the pond; cuts off a woman's head, takes twins out of her womb; leaves her head, chest, twins in a hollow, takes the rest of the meat, leaves; the nephew brings prey from hunting, she disappears; notices little ones boys pulling meat; they feed their mother, who has become an ogre skull; the father slams the door of the house behind the twins, tames them; his dogs carry the twins west, he runs south himself; a flying skull chases him; his uncles and aunts fight the skull; they pour boiling fat on it, kill it; his nephew, twins, dogs come to the boy's sister and her grandmother; live in peace]: 176-180, 285-296; (cf. oneida [brother and sister live in heaven; sister gets pregnant, people believe it is from a brother; he will uproot a tree with glowing flowers, push his sister into the hole; there is water below; the turtle agrees support the ground; The mink dives, pops up dead with the ground on its legs and face; Loon puts the ground on the Turtle, the earth grows; a woman gives birth to a daughter; a stranger takes her as his wife; puts a cross on her stomach two arrows crosswise - blunt and sharp; disappears; two boys quarrel in the womb; Talohiavago wants to go out normally, Daviesgal wants to go out normally; as a result, she dies; grandmother kills her grandchildren, throws them into the lake; they come back in the morning; they race to her; T. would win, but his grandmother does not love him, let D. grab herself; their mother would have risen from the grave ten days later, but D. smashed her his head with an ax; the old man gives E. corn, T. exchanges flint from his brother for it; T. sees D. picking up a stone, killing a bear coming out of the ground; T. releases game, scatters it on the ground; answers D. , who is most afraid of tree buds; he says he is afraid of deer antlers; T. makes the river flow in two directions, D. spoils creation; brothers fight as long as they have only bones left; T. promises return at the end of time]: Waugh in Elm, Antone 2000:164-168); mikmaq: Parsons 1925, No. 1 [husband's father comes to his daughter-in-law, pierces her heart with a burning sliver, rips open her stomach, throws it away the entrails into the river, carries the body, eats him; her six-year-old son lures him ashore; he returns to the river if he sees his father; the father catches him, gives him blue feathers jays; the older brother says that the father told the grandfather to kill their mother; they burn the father in the house; the one found in the intestines pushes his bones, they turn into mosquitoes; the brothers pour boiling fat on the grandfather, give it to the grandmother fry his heart, kill her with an ax; brothers kill a bull frog that has swallowed all the water; water pours out of his belly; brothers go north to withstand the cold sent by Ice and the North; they come back; turn into stones]: 56-59; Rand 1894, No. 8 []: 140-162; Speck 1915b [a woman has a 6-year-old son, she is pregnant again; her husband tells his father to kill her; the old man tells the woman to bend down, burns her heart with a stick, throws his entrails into the water, takes his body to eat; the boy tries to catch his little brother in the water; finally, brings him home; when his grandfather appears, he returns to the water every time; the old man catches him, gives him blue jay feathers; the older brother tells how their father told their grandfather to kill their mother; they burn their father in the house; found in the intestines (NC) pushes his bones, they turn into mosquitoes; brothers pour boiling fat on their grandfather, let his grandmother fry his heart, kill her with an ax; go to kill other giants; Grandma Marten says that the Ox Frog took all the water, gives for the girl; NC sends Marten, he brings dirty water; NK goes by himself, kills the Frog with an ax, sends girls home, breaks blood vessels, the rivers fill up again; the brothers come to the Porcupine breeds hot fire; brother dies, NC complains about the cold, Porcupine dies from the heat, NC revives his brother; interpreting rocks crush passers, NC breaks them with an oar; on the lake, geese are Gluscap's guards; NC tells them keep silent; NK and G. both have time to smoke a pipe; NK withstands the cold and wind; G. gives an inexhaustible piece of fur, NK's brother becomes a fur merchant; NK marries; his mother-in-law takes him to the island to collect seagull eggs, throws him there; seagulls bring him back; at night his mother-in-law lies down with him, tries to poison him with her gases; he made a hole in the blanket with a knife; threw it into the hole, at the bottom of her turtle always devours her sons-in-law; NK got out, kill him]: 61-64; Wallis, Wallis 1955, No. 18 [Djenu cannibals killed everyone, the captive was given to the chief; she gave birth to a boy; tired of her husband, he told his father that he could do whatever he wanted with her; the old man came into her teepee, pierced her with a hot iron bar, told her grandson to throw the child from her womb into the river; it was Kitpusiagana; he was raised by the Turtle; he went ashore to play with his brother; for the fourth time his father caught him in a teepee; K. stopped crying when he received the feathers of birds; his older brother spoke about his mother; they built a huge teepee, the entrance floor cannot be moved away by an ordinary person; they burned him in it father; K. bored a bone, turned it into gadflies, mosquitoes, sand fleas; K. killed his grandfather with an arrow; his heart fed his grandmother, cut off her head]: 338-341; Whitehead 1988 [a woman marries her son Kukwes (giant- cannibal); for her and her son, he hunts animals, for himself and his parents - people; does not tell her to touch the bear's stomach; the son hits the stomach with an arrow, the liquid drips, K.'s strength melts; he allows his father to eat his wife; the old man heats his iron staff, stabs his daughter-in-law, gutts, throws the baby out of her womb into the river; the turtle raises him, he goes out to play with his brother; he asks his father to make two bows, two arrows, etc.; they make a mess in the house, the family is forced to confess to his father; the father makes jewelry from bird tails; The family grabs the River's house, keeps it, the father comes running; first The river throws his tails into the fire, then smiles; the father falls asleep, the brothers burned him in the house; the bones are crushed, they turn into flies, mosquitoes, sand fleas; because they were pushed on the doorstep, insects enter the house through the entrance; River beats the birch tree with a spruce paw, since then there are traces on the bark; brothers put their grandfather to sleep, look for insects, cover him with fat, burn him, let his wife eat his liver, kill her with an ax; Bull frog hides all the water in his house in birch bark buckets, gives it in exchange for women; the River kills the Frog, breaks blood vessels, the water fills the rivers; the brothers sail in the boat, the River kills giants; the porcupine drowns it's so hot that Domashny dies; while the River is wrapped in a blanket, the Porcupine dies herself, the River revives her brother; Kluskap's house is guarded by geese, the River tells them to remain silent; K. causes frost, Homemade dies, revives him on the river morning; Domashny gets a growing beaver skin from K., becomes a merchant; Riverside marries Skunsiha's daughter; she takes him to collect bird eggs, leaves him on the island; seagulls they bring him home; his mother-in-law tells her to sleep with her, tries to strangle her with his gases, he makes a hole in the blanket; she throws him into a hole, at the bottom the Turtle devours his sons-in-law; the river gets out; meets the walker on bent legs, kills, makes a door out of it, brings the corpse to relatives; snakes and frogs fall from their faces; both brothers return to the island, turn into two stones]: 140-154.

Plains. Unless otherwise: a pregnant wife is killed in her husband's absence; he removes a baby from her womb or finds it at home; the second child or child, who becomes a boy, is thrown into the river; the brothers play together, but The River Boy returns to the water every time his father comes; his father and brother catch him; he agrees to live with people. Sarsi: Curtis 1976 (18) [The husband does not tell the pregnant wife to look out of the tipi if she hears something; the wife pierces the hole with an awl, peeks; the old man comes in; refuses to eat food, offered on a tray made of wood, a dried stomach, a bark; on a woman's blanket (that's better!) , on her moccasin (even better), greed (more!) , wearing her dress (very close! ); when she puts food on her bare stomach, the person eats the offer with her flesh, pulls two babies out of her womb, throws one into the stream, the other beyond the floor of the tipi; the corpse's face puts in a fire, it wrinkles as if laughing; he leaves the corpse facing the entrance; the husband first thinks the wife is laughing, then crying; notices the prints of small legs on the ash; leaves his blanket on the hill for disguises, he flies up in the form of a pen; hears one boy calling another to come out of the river to play; next time the father grabs Domashny, the River slips away; convinces Domashny to lure the River ashore, he also grabs; brothers shoot arrows up above the mother's body, she comes to life; the father does not tell me to go in certain directions; the brothers go, defeat monsters; 1) the bison; 2) the bear; 3) the old man , the mother who killed them (Domashny is looking for him in his head, protecting his stomach with a flat stone; the old man cannot bite into him, Rechnoy kills him with an arrow); 4) a living hill draws in and swallows people; brothers find skeletons inside; cut off Hill's heart, make a hole in his side; revive the swallowed ones, go out with them; 5) The house tries to grab the Eagle's feather, the Eagle takes him away; the old woman finds the baby lying on eagle feathers; only her youngest son agrees that she bring the foundling into the house; he is called Zillunna ("lousy"). The chief promises to give his two daughters to the one who gets two silver foxes; C. preys; the old woman is ashamed to offer the leader Ts as his son-in-law, for the third time she says that he got the fox; the older sister refuses to marry C., the youngest goes out; only C. turns bison cakes into bison, gets bison; creates beautiful clothes for herself and his wife; the older sister turns into a mole out of envy, digs a hole under the sleeping C., he falls, she defecates on him; the old Wolf calls the animals, they tear off C.; the Wolf adopts C., she is killed, C. returns to his wife; tells the Wolves to execute her older sister; the Wolves tore her apart, Wolverine took the vulva and climbed the tree]: 136-140; Dzana-gu 1921, No. 26 [when going hunting, the husband tells his pregnant wife not to look out when she hears the sound of a bell; she looks out, the man comes in, refuses to eat from the plate, from the moccasins, from the greaves, from the dress, eats from her belly, tears it up, pulls out twins, throws one into the river, the other behind the floor tipi, leaves, leaving the corpse standing; the husband mourns his wife, notices small traces, leaves a bow and arrows, goes to hill, sees a boy; next time he leaves his cape on the hill, he comes closer unnoticed; the boy, thrown next to the tipi, shouts to the man thrown into the river that his father is far away on the hill, he goes out the family grabs him, calls his father; all three live together; the brothers shoot arrows, tell his mother to beware, she comes to life; the father does not tell him to go to the river where their mother is murdered; the brothers go, that a person suggests looking for parasites from him, one brother ties a person's hair to willows, the other puts a stone on his stomach; a person jumps up, wants to dig into his stomach, breaks his teeth, stays tied for hair; father warns not to go where the bear, bison, brothers kill them; do not go to the cave, they go, they are drawn in by the wind, they see the heart, it is an absorber monster, skeletons inside; brothers tie knives to their heads, dance, bounce, cut the monster's heart, return to their father]: 32-34; blacklegs [husband warns his wife not to look at the monster who asks Where to enter? she looks, enters - without legs, her insides can be seen through her body; the woman offers him food on various pieces of her clothes, he agrees to eat on her stomach; rips it open, throws one The baby in the ash is Chief Ash (Z.), the second to the outside, this is the Chief Stuck in the Back (S.); each time the hunter finds things scattered; both boys play his arrows; the father leaves while turning in a stick; grabs both boys, recognized by them; Z. tries to revive his mother by throwing arrows over her; S. revives, saying that the boiling pot will now tip over; the father does not tell me to roll on the hoop is east; the brothers roll, the hoop rolls into the old woman's house; she tries to strangle the brothers with smoke, they scatter the smoke with a pen, return home; the father does not tell them to shoot west; their arrow hits the beavers ; brothers live with beavers, forget about home; father sticks arrows in a row on the shore; boys come out of the water to collect them, their father grabs them, they recognize them; the father does not tell you to shoot at one bird; they shoot, arrow gets stuck in a tree; Z. climbs after her, disappears somewhere in the sky, his clothes and shoes fall down; S. turns into a crying baby, picked up by an old woman, she calls him Fat Tummy (J.); he finds former appearance; the chief promises to give one of his three daughters for the one to shoot the partridge; J. shot, the arrow crow (V.) changed arrows, marries the eldest, J. the younger sister; 2) who will catch in traps a black fox; J. catches, V. puts it in his own, gets his middle sister; J. gives himself, his wife, a great look; turns bison cakes into bison, kills them; the snow on his leggings turns in cherries, snow on V.'s leggings just melts]: Josselin de Jong 1914:38-52; grovantre [despite her husband's warning, a woman opens the door to a blind old man; serves him food in various vessels; then in his moccasin, in his gaiters, in her underwear; as she undresses, the old man says: This is closer; predicts a great future for her sons; rips her belly open; throws her stomach twins to poles on opposite sides of the door; the father catches one, who helps him catch the other; sons revive the mother; the storm takes one to the old woman; he marries the chief's daughter; travels killing monsters; returns to his wife]: Cooper 1975, No. 10:462-482; crowe [see motif J27; guest leaves the woman's corpse standing outside the home; throws one baby behind the partition, the other in river; father raises Domestic Boy; brothers play together, but River Boy returns to the water every time his father comes; father and brother catch him; he ceases to be wild when he loses their sharp teeth; brothers kill dangerous creatures, revive their mother]: Lowie 1918:74-85, 85-94, 94-98; hidatsa [Coyote's sister is pregnant; her brother does not tell me to open the door; Headless Monster asks where the door is, the sister opens; he says he eats by putting hot fat on the pregnant woman's belly; she only slightly heats the fat; he keeps the fat on fire with his bare hand, puts it on her stomach; she dies, gives birth twins; he throws one into the center of the house, the other into the stream; the brother puts his sister's corpse on the funeral platform; the Coyote makes the Domestic Young Man; the River grows accordingly; goes out to play with his brother, steals meat ; they grab the River, keep him in the steam room until his sharp fangs disappear; he regurgitates swallowed frogs, etc.; brothers revive his mother; throw a hot stone into the Headless's mouth, he explodes; a woman kills with her basket; brothers ask her to point the basket at the birds, they fall dead; they point them themselves at the woman, killing her; celestials fear that the River will become too powerful; the Long Hand takes him to heaven, ties him to a pole; his brother turns himself and him into spiders, they run away; the Long Hand closes a hole in the sky, the brothers cut his hand with an ax (hand - Orion, scar - Orion's Belt); hanging on a pole, Rechnoy learned ritual songs, now taught people; sent his mother to heaven to return the hatchet taken from there]: Beckwith 1938:30-43; Omaha and Ponca [ the hunter warns his wife not to look at the guest; when Two-Face comes for the fourth time, the woman turns around, falls dead; he takes twins out of her belly, throws one into the house, the other into the forest; He is raised by the Mice; his father and brother bring him home; the Wild Boy kills snakes, brings their tails; comes to the Old Woman, she asks her to carry; gets off his back only after she is beaten with a stone hammer; the Wild Boy climbs a tree, throws four chicks out of the Thunderbird's nest; the tree grows; the Domestic Boy hits the trunk with a hammer, the tree becomes low again; the father of the twins revives the snakes, tells the Old Woman to be taken back to her ravine, return the thunder chicks to the nest]: Dorsey 1888b: 76-77; 1890:215-219; iowa [a person does not tell a pregnant wife to look at a guest if he comes in his absence; for the fourth time she looks, sees his second face on the back of his head and sharp bones sticking out of her elbows; he kills her with them; her husband pulls the twins out of her stomach; Dora leaves; Waredua puts him on a log; he is raised by the Mice; V. comes to play with D.; one day he forgets to say forget, D. talks about their games to his father; together they catch V. , cut off a lock of his hair, he becomes less wild; each time his father warns not to go to a certain place; V. goes, D. has to go with him; father is dissatisfied; 1), 2) brothers catch, fry, they bring leeches, snakes; 3) let the monster U-e (giant female genital organ) swallow themselves; cover their bodies with flint, W. blows away flints; in W. V. finds a flint flake under the foreskin, turns the scale into a knife, cuts off W.'s heart, makes a hole in his side; brothers and swallowed people and animals go out; 4) brothers find their grandmother; V. carries it to back, she sticks; her father tells her to be taken back to the rock, where she gets off herself; 5) The swan takes D., then brings her; V. punishes the swans by making their necks crooked; 6) tells D. to cut, cook and serve him under the guise of raccoon meat by the Horned Water Pumam; comes to life, splashes boiling water on Pum; brothers kill them; 7) get four dwarfs out of the nest in the tree; this is Thunder (produces thunder with flapping wings), Lightning ( blinks his eyes), 3) Rain, 4) Little God; their grandfather arrives in a thundercloud; D. hides under a piece of flint, V. becomes a wren; they return dwarfs to the nest; 8) go to the land of giants, crossing the sea across a bridge of Swans that form a chain; kill giants (like Horned Pumas); 9) also kill spirits with flat sharp heads; 10) as well as Sharp Elbows (one of which killed their mother); get sacred bundles from celestial beings; go to the four corners of the earth; each has a gap, opening and slamming; they jump over it; in the east - the Dove, in the west - the Wolf, in the south - the Bear; the father The brothers flee to the underworld through a hole from a column on which they hang a cauldron at the hearth; tells the local leader to cover the eyes of his sons with wax; Mice eat wax; brothers catch but let go father; V. goes to the Sun, D. goes to the Month, their father to the motionless (Polyarnaya?) star]: Skinner 1925, No. 1:427-441; arpahoe [husband tells his wife not to look out of the tipi and not respond to strangers; the third time she pierces a hole with an awl to see who is calling her; a man enters in a tipi; she offers him meat in a wooden jar, then on her outerwear; he says he doesn't eat out of it; she takes off her dress or moccasin, he replies that it's closer; undresses, puts meat on his body; he eats meat, rips open her stomach, throws one boy at the door, the other into the stream; father scatters arrows; brothers play with them, he catches Domashny; catches Domashny with his help and tames the boy from the stream; brothers revive his mother in the steam room; they come to her murderer, untangle his hair, under it you can see his brain; they put a hot stone in his head, he dies; they kill monstrous bison; Thunderbird and its chicks are killed, its feathers are brought; see motif K27]: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 139-142:341-387; arikara [Parks recorded 3 versions of the myth of River and Domestic, here excerpts from one version, Parks 1991:146-147; an old woman with fiery moccasins sets fire to the steppe, the villagers burn; the husband returns from hunting, finds his dead wife, pulls a live baby out of her belly, the latter throws into the river; five years later, he and his son Drinks Brains Soup (Domashny) discover that Long Teeth (River), which has arisen from the last, lives nearby; they can hardly lure him out, they file their teeth, he regurgitates what he ate in the river; the brothers, contrary to their father's warning, embark on adventures: they kill a fiery woman and her granddaughters, a dangerous bison, thunderbirds ("big red birds"); once they slept on a hill, the Long Hand grabbed Rechnoy, dragged him into the sky; Domashny noticed a hole in the sky, turned into an arrow, flew into the sky; saw how the village was dancing around Rechnoy , who is laughing on the platform; Domashny cut the ropes, carried his brother to the hole, they flew to the ground; Long Hand reached for them, but Domashny cut off his hand; since then there has been an image in the sky hands made of stars; Park 1991:474-484 has no episodes with fire moccasins and Long Arm; Park 1991:793-800 Long Arm is Star Spouse (see K19b motif); he pulls a woman back with his with a long arm; a woman and her friend (who did not go to heaven) both give birth to a son; an old woman raises a local boy, catches Long Teeth, forcing him to regurgitate shells, etc.; a local boy (Drinks Brains) revives the mother, then both boys embark on adventures; Long Hand drags him to the sky, roasts his son; Drinks Brains in the form of an arrow flies into the sky, saves Long Teeth, cutting off many hands; turning the hand into a constellation is not said]: Lankford 2007:26-27, 233-234; Pawnee (skidi) [upon return, the hunter finds the village burned, the pregnant wife is dead; pulls it out of it the son's womb, throws the last child into the river; when the father is gone, the last boy comes out of the water to play with his brother; carries arrows under water; the father tells his son to tie a bison bubble to his head; he cannot dive, his father catches him, knocks out his sharp teeth with a stone; brothers kill a monstrous lizard, puff out its skin, drag it along with them on a rope, scaring his father; make a dangerous bear tame; a witch kills a domestic young man; the Last Brother revives him, kills the witch; they scare her father with her scarecrow; they flee from the buffalo to become birds; the Last Brother has flint given by the Thunderbird; he kills with it the elk that killed their mother]: Dorsey 1904b, No. 25:88-94; Kiova-Apache [the hunter returns without prey; the youngest son, going to get water in the morning, finds recently killed animals, increasingly large (rabbit, then deer, etc.); brings a wolf, a bear, a wild cat, a cougar; they become companions of his father, mother, brother, himself; now his name is Lucky; the stone monster Nistkre fattens this family to eat; they run away with a piece of meat in charge; N. catches up with everyone in turn, defeats protective animals, kills everyone; Lucky's sister remains; the Thunder Man hides her in the rock, breaks with lightning N.; takes the girl as his wife; ex-wife The sun is jealous; the husband tells the pregnant wife in his absence not to answer her or look at her; the woman violates the ban, the Sun kills her, taken out from the womb of twins, he throws one into the ashes of the hearth, the other into the river; the husband revives his wife by shooting four arrows of different colors on four sides of the tipi (see motif I9); finds the Fiery Boy in the ash; his Brother Water Boy comes out of the river to play with him; Fiery asks his father to make a second bow; the father teaches how to catch his brother; his long nails are cut off, he forgets his river grandfather; every time a father does not tell his sons to go a certain direction; they go, kill monsters; a stream whose banks diverge when people want to cross it; a tree whose branches fall on people; Deer, Bison stop killing people, now people hunt them; a woman plays with people, pushes them off a cliff (brothers win, push her back); shoot Thunderbird, breaking its wing (now Thunder doesn't kill so many people); the brothers go for the hoop, he falls on a tipi, whose owner tries to kill the brothers with smoke, cook, bake; they are unharmed, they kill him; they go to the Tornado, he takes them away]: McAllister 1949, No. 6: 30-44; wichita [the son of one chief marries another's daughter; they are expelled, they live alone; the husband warns his wife not to look at who comes; every day while her husband is away, a two-faced monster comes eat meat; the wife watches, he kills her, takes the boy out of the womb, throws her last into the river; the man raises his son, makes arrows for him; the boy from the river comes when his father is gone, wins arrows from his brother; the father tells his son to tie the boy from the river by the hair; he agrees to stay on the ground, brings arrows from the water; the brothers come to the Spider; she tries to cook them; the boy from the river sits in boiling water, scalds the Spider to death; climbs into the Thunderbird's nest, throws out two out of four chicks; the bird cuts off his limbs, they grow; the lungs of two-faced monsters hang on wall in their cave; Boy from the river pierces them with an arrow, monsters die; Headless makes them play ball, kills losers; boy from the river smashes his ball, wins by playing with his ball, kills Headless; brothers go to the lake for a hoop, they are swallowed by a huge fish; father thinks they are dead, rises to heaven, becomes a star; they kill fish with a bowstring, go out through its ass; shoot at a star, blood is dripping; they themselves rise to the sky, flying on two arrows fired]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 12:88-102.

Southeast USA. Chiroki [son of Kana 'ti ("lucky hunting") and his wife Selu ("corn") is playing with someone by the river; says that a boy comes out of the water saying he is cruel mother threw him into the water; S. realizes that he came from blood when she washed meat; parents ask their son to grab Wild, run up; he can't get used to home for a long time; Wild turns into a feather, sits on K.'s shoulder, finds out where K. gets his arrow reeds, how he kills deer by pulling them out of a hole in the mountain; brothers release deer and other commercial animals and birds, The wild hits the last deer, since then the deer tail has been lifted up; K. breaks vessels with mosquitoes, bugs, fleas, lice, they have bitten brothers; since then it is difficult to hunt; brothers watch the mother; she rubs her stomach, corn is pouring in, her armpits are beans; the brothers want to kill their mother; she tells her body to be dragged seven times in a circle; corn will grow; they have cleared only seven small areas, so corn is not grows everywhere; K. sees his wife's head, goes to the Wolves, sends them to "play ball" against the brothers; they lure Wolves into the palisade, kill them with arrows; rolling the hoop at sunrise, the brothers find K.; he warns them of dangers; they are not touched by the cougar; cannibals try to cook them, they destroy them with lightning; the sky hits the ground; they slip to the other side, find K. and S.; they send them to the west; they are Little People, their voices are distant thunder]: Mooney 1900, No. 3:242-248; caddo [while the husband is hunting, the wife goes to fetch water, disappears; a boy with a long nose comes to play with her son, says he is his older brother; runs away as soon as his father approaches; for the sixth time, father and son catch a wild boy, cut off his long nose, making him more obedient; contrary to the father's prohibition, brothers they hunt monstrous squirrels; the youngest is swallowed, the elder throws hot stones into the hollow, removes the brother from the squirrel's womb, revives; the brothers play with the hoop, he rolls, they follow; the pecan tree grows to the sky; first the eldest, then the youngest, go up to heaven, gain strength; everyone's bones fall to the ground, the other revives him by firing an arrow and screaming that it falls; the younger voice is thunder the elder's tongue is lightning; the brothers find the old man who hid their hoop; kill him and his people; find the mother's bones, revive them by throwing an arrow up; return with her to their father; after the death of their parents go up to heaven, now live in the clouds]: Dorsey 1905, No. 17:31-36; Natchez: Swanton 1929, No. 5 [every time strange creatures dance outside the house; a woman goes out, they eat her; husband finds a drop of blood, a boy grows out of it; the second comes from the afterbirth; he is wild; the father catches him, hangs him in the chimney, he no longer runs away from people], 6 [the boy asks his father to do him more arrows; confesses to playing with another; together with his father they catch Wild; father warns of dangers; brothers transport an old woman across the river; she attaches to their backs; they are with they hardly take it off with boiling water; make a pipe out of her nose; they bathe where the leeches are, they crush them; watch the father let the deer out of the hole in the mountain, kill them; they release all the deer and other game; father brings people to kill brothers; they place a row of Ducks, then a row of Geese, Cranes, Quails for protection, fill empty reeds with bumblebees, hornets, wasps; they sting the attackers to death; father brothers turn into a crow]: 222-226, 227-230; screams [two sisters go looking for the Beaded Spitting (PB); The rabbit pretends to be him, pulls out some beads from the vultures, puts them in his mouth; sleeps with one of sisters; sisters leave, get to Gopher, who eats their provisions; the closer the house of the Killing Turkey PB), the more feathers lie on the road; the owner tests the girls, telling them to bring water with a sieve; with which the Rabbit combined, the water pours out, the other turns into beads; sends the first PB, takes the second as his wife; she is pregnant; he calls her from the other side of the river, asking her to fit a boat for him; from a distance sees the figure of a woman in the house; she does not bring a boat, PB swims, hits her imaginary wife, she disappears; it was Kolowa, who ate his real wife; in his wife's torn womb, PB finds a living baby, the last one throws him into the thickets; the son has grown up, asks him to make two bows; the father spies on how the second boy, who has arisen from the last, comes out to play with him; the father turns into an arrow, a ball of grass, a feather, Thrown away recognizes him every time; finally caught, tamed, his name is Fatcasigo (Not-doing-right); his father warns not to respond if someone asks to transport him from the other side of the river, it will not be him, but Kolova, the mother who ate them; the old woman calls, F. insists that they transport her; the old woman asks F. to take her on her back, shouts "Kolowai, Kolowai", refuses to get off; F. hits her, sticks with his hands, legs and head; the brother also hits and sticks; the father soaks them with hot water, K. flies away; the father does not tell them to get two eggs off the tree, F. persuades his brother to pick them up; the storm immediately takes them away father, he comes back; lightning begins to sound around, brothers get off the tree; brothers spy on their father, see a corral in which he keeps bears, deer and all animals; release them; father sends buy them tobacco to a character named Long Nails; A crocodile transports them across the lake, teaches them how to grab tobacco and run; transports them back, Long Nails do not have time to catch up; F. offers to fill the house stinging insects; brothers place watchmen who should warn them of their father's approach; these are the Blue Crane, Wild Goose, Pelican, Partridges; those closest when they scream, the brothers release insects, they bit their father to death; brothers turn him into a Crow; F. goes west, his brother goes east; when you see a red cloud in the west, it's F., when it's in the east, it's his brother]: Swanton 1929, No. 2:2-7; Alabama and Koasati [When going hunting, the father leaves his son to play arrows; they disappear; the boy says that another man comes, they play arrows and the Lost The boy always wins; the next time the Lost enters the house, his father catches him; three days later he agrees to live with people; from across the river, an old cripple asks him to be transported; the father does not tells you to do this; the lost one builds a boat, takes the old man on his back; he refuses to get off in the boat, in the house; the father pours boiling water on him, the old man rushes under the house; he has lived there ever since]: Martin 1977:69-71.

Big Pool. Northern shoshones [the hunter knows that a guest will come in his absence; tells the pregnant wife to put food on his stomach; she puts it on the ground, the guest refuses to eat; the same on his feet; on his stomach; when he eats food, the woman falls dead; he pulls twins out of her womb (these are the world's first twins), throws one into the water, the other at the entrance to the dwelling; when the father comes, Domashny turns into young man; thrown out goes ashore to scratch his brother's face; his face is yellow; his father catches him with his arms and legs tied, drags him into the house, he agrees to live with him and his brother; brothers they see an unburied mother, they revive it; their father does not tell them to drive the hoop south; they drive, it falls into the water, turns into a water bison, they kill him with an arrow; some people enclose travelers inside a rock; brothers cause rain to destroy the rock, go out; the giant orders to bring willow branches for the arrow poles, they are guarded by bears; brothers disperse bears, bring poles; put white stones on the mountains, now on the mountains are snowing; twin parents die of old age; option b: water bison swallows the Discarded; man kills bison, Discarded alive; bird takes brothers to the island; Discarded kills her with an obsidian knife; the Bird's mother gives the young men her son's wings to fly off the island; brothers come to Owls who have no mouth; Thrown out cuts their mouths, now they can eat; brothers return to his mother]: Lowie 1909b, No. 24:280-283.

The Great Southwest. Lipan [The Changing Woman gives birth to the Enemy Slayer (aka Son of Water) and the Wise; I.V. was hidden under the hearth, the Wise was thrown into the water, his mother forgot about him; goes out to play with I.V., every time takes his arrows; his mother asks I.V. to catch the Wise; they have difficulty taming him; brothers exterminate monsters]: Opler 1940, No. 2a: 22-25; hicarilla [while the husband is hunting, the man with He comes to his pregnant wife with a patchy body, rips his stomach open, buries one baby in the hearth, throws the other into the stream; the husband takes his wife's corpse to the cave, finds Domashny, who grows up quickly; the father hears the son talking to another boy who asks his brother to get his father's arrows; the father tells Domashny to grab and hold the Discarded One; he looks like a frog, he has long claws on arms and legs; father cuts them off; if he hesitated, the boy would turn into a spotted frog; brothers shoot up above the mother's corpse, tell her to run away, she comes to life; they go away, their bodies torn to shreds by a hurricane; an old woman finds a bloody leaf, puts it in a pot to cook, a boy jumps out; while the grandmother is gone, he kills the Rattlesnake with an arrow; the old woman grieves, it was her husband; the boy leaves, receives eagle clothes from the big Eagle; both go up to the upper world; there the young man meets his grandmother and other people in the form of eagles; eagles are attacked by bumblebees and hornets, many are killed; a young man kills attackers, brings his grandmother their scalps; flies back to the ground, returns plumage; shoots an eagle, Coyote replaces his arrow with his arrow; the young man returns to his parents; marries, and his sister lives with them wives; Spotted kills him while hunting, puts on his clothes, comes to his wife and her sister; they make a fire, he is hot, they see that it is not his husband, rip his belly open; people find a cave where they live Pyatnisty's wife, children and other relatives, cover with grass and brushwood, burn all demons]: Opler 1938, No. VIIIa: 374-381; (cf. tiva (Isleta) [a virgin gives birth to two boys; people tell them to be thrown into the spring; she leaves only the older one; calls Wind, Sun, Month as potential fathers; men gather together, the baby must identify the father; he crawls towards the sun; both he and his brother thrown into the spring grow up; brother comes to him, offers to go to their father Sun; mother and other people they don't want to let them in; the spider shows them the way; the Sun tests them in the oven, makes them his helpers; the rainbow is a bow in the elder's hand; the younger one has a rainbow sky at sunset]: Parsons 1932c, No. 14:392-403) .

Mesoamerica Nahuatl Veracruz: González Cruz 1984:211; Law 1957 [the devil's daughter (tsitsimilama) became pregnant by a bird dancing around her; when she gave birth, the devil hit the baby, made a balloon, gave it to the red ants; three days later, Tamakasti's baby was intact, told the ants to fold his body again; he was thrown into the pond, the fish swallowed it, carried it to the 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 could not catch him with a net for a long time; his mother cried, he felt sorry for her, he allowed himself to be caught; his grandmother put him in 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; her liked it, she decided that her grandson threw it off for her; she was bitten by big lice, she cut off her hair, became bald; the bird threw a ripe fruit on her head for trying to kill him after birth; next time T. became a cat, stole one of the bananas she baked from her; he shot many birds; his grandmother complained that he killed their chickens; he revived them; grandfather T. offered his grandmother to eat him; T. ordered the bat to kill his grandfather; blood dripped from the attic, the grandmother decided that it was her grandson's blood, began to drink; called her husband, found him dead; T. brought water, said that he did not kill his grandfather, because he went for with water; the grandmother wanted to cook T., he threw it into the cauldron himself; burned the bones with his grandfather's corpse, told the Toad to throw the ashes on the other side of the sea; the Toad reached the shore, threw a deck with ashes, it burst mosquitoes, flies and mosquitoes appeared from the ashes; the Lizard also only said that she had carried the deck with 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; then European a tale of matchmaking and marriage trials; rival T. - South Wind]: 345-355; Masateks [an old woman goes to the river to wash corn; fish steal particles; an old woman watches a parcel of corn, finds there are two eggs, she puts them in cotton wool at home; they are born from the brothers Sun and the Month; in the absence of the old woman they throw everything; she is angry, they turn into young men; they cannot throw the ball into the sky, the old woman throws, wins, locks her brothers to eat them; the Sun runs away, the Month is eaten; the Sun turns into a dog, asks him to throw his bones; there is no head, she is hidden under the roof; he asks for birds sing to distract the attention of the old woman and her husband; blows her head away, restores the Month; to revive it, one of the animals must become his heart; the deer and others pass by, do not respond to the Sun's request; The rabbit is the last, the Sun puts it in the Month, that comes to life]: Johnson, Johnson 1939:218-220; tricks [twins are born to a girl (or a married woman but not from a husband); they are thrown away to ants, they alive; then thrown into the river; they are caught by the old woman Ga'ah, tells her deer husband that she gave birth to them; the deer lives in the forest, she carries tortillas; when she leaves, the twins jump out of the cradle play; birds warn them when G. returns; once the birds overslept G.'s appearance, the twins no longer take the form of babies; they don't believe that the Deer is their father, they kill him, they stuff the scarecrow with wasps; the opossum is sent to bring fire (see the D4A motif), they roast the meat of the Deer, they give it G.; the frog tells her what she ate, she doesn't believe it, hits her, now the frog's skin is wrinkled; G. is angry that the Deer is silent, hits it with a stick, bitten by wasps; drives the twins out of the house; the snake is going to eat the world, the twins throw hot stones into its mouth; they send a fly to check if the snake is dead; the fly defecates in her left eye; the younger brother takes a brighter right eye, the older one takes his left eye; the brothers go, the younger one is thirsty; the older one gets water as soon as the younger one agrees to change eyes; G. comes to the twins; they put her to sleep and rape her, putting stones on his penises; they run to heaven, the eldest becomes the Sun, the youngest becomes the Month; he swallows the rabbit, which is now visible on him; the birds wake up G., she in blood; throws after the twins the parts of her loom (turning into the Taurus constellation) and sandals (huaraches, turning into the Pleiades); G. herself becomes the spirit of a steam bath]: García Alvarez 1973 in Bartolomé 1984:17, roughly the same in Hollenbach 1980, no. 8.26-8.37:463-468.

Southern Venezuela. Makiritare [Mahanama and his wife have a pregnant daughter; she went for fetuses; Jaguar's men shot and ate her; among them were the Anteater, the Lizard, the Oriole, they were all Stars; a baby from the belly fell into the river, swam away; Sardine, then Perch, Stingray swallowed it, it grew in their stomach; began to go ashore, steal peppers at site M., return to Stingray's stomach; M. leaves the Caracara bird as a watchman, catches a boy; he says he is his grandson Kuamachi; promises to avenge his mother's death; kills an Anteater; meets Jaguar's daughter; Jaguar invites his son-in-law to hunt Paku to attack at him as a jaguar; K. makes a trap, kills Jaguar, kills his father; Jaguar's son indicates which of the skulls belongs to K.'s mother; K. brings it to his grandfather]: Civrieux 1980:103-108.

Guiana. Vapishana [the wife of the Sun lost her husband's trail, did not follow the right path, but along the left path; she came to the house of the old toad; she asks her to look in her head, not to bite through the lice; the woman saw it out, died; Toad she hid the corpse on the platform under the basket; her sons (or pupils) came - Jaguar, Puma, Ocelot and others; found the corpse, ate it, and gave the old woman twins extracted from the womb (João and Pedro, according to other texts, Duidi and Mauáre); they can't be cooked; they jumped out of her mouth, and when they swallowed them, out of her ass; she thought they were dead, put them to rot in a large vessel; they They come out secretly, steal food; she waited, said let them live; they hide in mocó; she hid the mocó, they stopped hiding, they immediately became adult boys; they wanted to kill the bird, she said that it was not her, but the Toad, who killed their mother; the brothers sent the old woman to the site prepared for burning, set it on fire; sweet potatoes, pumpkins, jerimú, melancias grew from its ashes]: Wirth 1950, No. 1:167 -168; oyampy [see J9 motif; Yaneia leaves; pregnant wife follows him; twins from her womb show her the way; ask her to pick flowers; she is bitten by a wasp; she refuses to collect, twins stop talking; a woman goes to the Jaguars, Jaguariha eats her; the Mayamayali and Wayamakale twins (is poppy a monkey?) jump on a tree; Jaguariha calls them back; A dove hunting talks about his mother's death; M. and Y. lure the Jaguars to the bridge, create piranhas in the river; V. cuts off the vine ahead of time, two Jaguars are saved, the rest are eaten by piranhas; M. almost revives his mother, V. hugs her ahead of time, she falls apart; by the sea, their father cuts down a tree, chips turn into fish; the father tests his sons, M. does not He withstands; the father tells him that he is not his son, but the Monkey; makes a parrot out of his skin, monkeys out of flesh; in the morning the father rises to heaven]: Grenada 1982, No. 5:69-72.

Western Amazon. Canelo [cannibal Inti Runa (Sun??) devours a pregnant woman, takes a baby out of her womb, he jumps into the water; grows up by himself, hunts flies; IR found him, took him, fired arrows; the birds said that IR killed his mother; he found his mother's skull; revived the birds he shot; at the site he turned IR's mother into a deer, killed him, fed her meat; killed him with a spear while he ate his head]: Coloma et al. 1986:89-93; shuar: Barrueco 1988 [Cere (monkey) climbs a vine into heaven, brings a woman, Atsuta; Ivia takes her as his wife; she always brings a lot of fish; I. watches her, discovers that Anaconda gives her fish; out of jealousy, I. kills his wife, gutts; his (second) wife finds two eggs inside; the Duck takes them away, from which the Sun brothers Etsa and the Month of Nantu appear; they eat all the peppers with Heron gardens; she sends them to steal from I.; I. leaves two insects as guards, catches thieves; E. takes E. as a grandson (N. is no longer mentioned); E. invents a wind gun, kills birds; Dove advises it is better to kill the mother's murderer; E. sees I. and his wife playing with his mother's skull and eye, his eye sheds tears; E. kills I.B.'s wife cuts off her head and limbs, turns her body into a deer, feeds I.; kills him with a spear, burns him; tobacco grows in this place; I. comes to life, but can't kill E.]: 36-41; Pelizzaro 1993 [Ivianch (Ivia) ate the hiwaro family, married the most beautiful girl; then killed her, her children Etza (sun) and Yanguami (star) were fed by the water goddess Tsungi (sometimes in the form of an anaconda); I. climbed the vine into the sky, became a star; E. began to steal pepper from Yi's site, who caught him and adopted; E. caught a lot of game for I.; was going to kill the totora bird with a wind gun, who said that I. killed E.'s mother, made a flute out of his skull, used his eyes to paint vessels; E. killed the current I.'s wife, the corpse became a deer; E. cut off and dismembered the head, cooked the meat, ate it with I.; seeing the head in E.'s hands, I. turned it into a tobacco plant; E. was released from it; E. gave I. sarbakan, He told the birds to pretend to be dead; I. picked them up, they came to life, raised him to the sky, promised to marry a huge woman who turned out to be a rock; then I. was immersed in the waters of the river, his right hand was bound by a vine, with the left, he can catch some fish]: 44 (briefly in 1961, No. 12:8, paraphrased in Forno 1970:42-44); aguaruna [the bird takes the embryo; the antagonist catches the hero when he comes to steal pepper from his vegetable gardens]: Akutz Nugkai et al. 1977 (1) [A predator (el Carnívoro) killed a pregnant woman, gutted it, washed the meat in the river, found an egg in her stomach, put it on a stone to bake it later, the goose took it to into his nest down the river; a boy came out of the egg, raised his goose; the boy began to come to the site of the murdered mother, ate hot pepper there; the boy was radiant, he was the sun; the Predator's wife I noticed that on their site (they considered him their own) someone was eating all the pepper; the predator waited for the boy, called him a son, brought him to him; made him a small sarbakan; wanted to shoot flies that stuck to his body A predator, and fell into each one without injuring the Predator; the Predator offered to build a house, asked for a pole hole to go down to deepen it, lowered the pole from above and threw earth at the hole; the Sun got out through the hollow core of the pillar; both pretended that nothing had happened; the Sun became a young man, the Predator gave him a big sarbakan on the condition that he would bring him all the game; the Sun brought birds, the Predator brought them barely roasted, devoured raw; made rattling pendants in his ears for the Sun to hear him approach; left alone, he played the flute from his mother's skull; the Sun destroyed all the birds, the dove remained; asked to shoot bird feathers from the sarbakan, the birds were reborn; the dove told me everything; ordered to fasten the pendants so as not to make noise, come quietly and see what the Predator was doing; he tried hide the skull, the skull rolled under the Sun's feet, tears are dripping from his eyes; the Sun has created a tree whose fruits are loved by deer; the predator ordered him to go hunting tomorrow; the Sun made him a spear out of bad wood, bewitched to avoid hitting the target, and the Predator made a good spear for the Sun; since the Sun hit the target, he was the one who went hunting; let the Predator send his wife to the site for cassava; the Sun turned her into a deer, killed, but the head was human; The sun told the digger stick to be responsible for it; brought home a deer without a head; The predator eats meat, the Sun pretends to call "its mother", answers the digger stick; The Sun sent The predator to swim, brought his wife's head, cursed all objects to rot immediately; when he saw his head, the Predator wanted to kill the Sun, but everything he picked up fell to dust; the Sun pierced with a spear The predator, nailing it to the ground; a vine grew and tied it; the Predator's back took root; a flower grew out of the penis, hummingbirds flocked to it, the Predator caught them and ate them; once almost ate a man, the Sun decided to move it to the end of the world; the toucan and woodpecker cut off the roots, lifted the Predator into the air; the Sun created a fruit tree, many birds rushed to it; the Sun told the Predator about the tree, who did not resisted, he sucked the guts of the gathered birds; he did not want to fly, but the birds carried him; they screamed "like a balsa" (i.e. light) and he "like a rock"; at the edge of the world downstream, the Predator could grab and eat only fish, he caught it all; then the Sun left him only one hand free; he turned into a tree, and the three women promised to him in red, cream and gray clothes (they are actually birds) turned into leaves; At certain times of the year, the leaves dry out, and the wind brings birds from the lower reaches of the river; these birds bring the souls of the dead to the Predator, but they themselves say they hunt monkeys; when birds arrive, many people die; when corpses are smoked, birds are driven away]: 135-169; Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1979 (1), No. 1 [Ajáim went to the site, met a pregnant woman, killed her, gutted it by the river, found an egg in his stomach, put it on a stone; duck (sem. Phalacrocoracidae) took him away; Etsa (the sun) was born from him; one day he got out of the water, came to site A. and began to eat hot pepper, which was sweet to him; A. sent a snake to find out who was on the site; E. he ran away from the snake, but then A. caught him, brought him to his place; E. began to live with him; A. tied seed bells to him; when E. grew up, A. made him a small sarbakan; E. shot flies, then A. sent him to bird hunting; E. brought them, A. ate them; made a big sarbakan for E.; E. soon shot all the birds, the hummingbirds were the last; the dove tells me not to shoot, says that A. killed E.'s mother; from her head made a vessel (rather a wind instrument), blows into it; E. crept up and saw that it was; his mother's skull rolled up at E.'s feet, tears were dripping from his eyes; E. calls A. into the forest: there is a fruit tree to which deer walk; E. throws his spears more accurately; tells A. to send his wife to the site; he killed her himself, turned her into a deer, only a human head; E. cut her off, and ordered his wife A.'s digging stick to be responsible for her; A. ate a deer, and when he returned from bathing, E. gave him his wife's head; A. grabbed his spear, but it turned out to be rotten, and E. pierced A. with his spear; a flower grew out of A.'s penis, and hummingbirds began to flock to him, A. them caught and ate; to take A. to take A. to where he could not eat, E. called for help from a pauhil, a toucan, a woodpecker and a peacock (Pipile cumanensis, sem. Cracidae); at first A. shouted: as heavy as a stone, the birds could not lift it; then he was promised two women and A. began to scream: light, light; he was placed on the island, but he ate all the fish; this place called Tunkín; left one hand on the ground - same, fishing with one hand; you can still hear his screams when he is hungry; the Leistes militaris (Pexites militaris) bird fumigates sick people or the dead and brings A. to eat; A. sings, birds flock to him, sitting on trees]: 39-45.

NW Amazon. Baniva [victim's sister (=antagonist's wife) throws a flute from the victim's bone into the river, has difficulty catching it; puts tobacco seeds in three holes in the flute, appears three boys]: Saake 1968:261; Tariana: Brüzzi 1994 [there were few first ancestors on the river island; then they became jaguars, spirits; one young man raped a girl; they decided to kill him; when everyone became falcons to catch flying ants (saúva), everyone attacked him; he tried to escape by becoming different creatures and objects: a bird (like a swallow), a tree with large roots, a macaw parrot, a monkey; when he became a monkey, others became jaguars and ate it; an old man and an old woman lived on the other island; the old woman sent her husband to get a piece; the old man got his little fingers, in it three bones; the little finger fell into the river and became three fish P otamorrhaphis guianensis; others accused the old man of saving a piece, but the old man convinced them he was innocent; the old woman she caught fish, peppered them, but they became crickets; the old woman put them in a pot, put them on the fire, but they became boys; the old woman began to raise them; they threw pepper into the old man's eyes; he took they went to the site to burn them, but they jumped out of the fire unharmed; left a turtle on the path, the old man came across and fell; scolds the old woman - because of her these unbearable boys; the old woman took them to the station; there women pick unripe fruits, they turn into agouti; brothers climbed a tree, an old woman sent ants, brothers fell, died, came to life; the old woman died from a spider bite, they revived her; turned into beautiful birds, girls for birds, birds are young men again, get along with girls; the relationship went on, one said; jaguar people try to kill their brothers, but they easily turn into anyone elusive, they do not drink poisoned kashiri; the opossum killed the inamba but ate the harpy eagle; the victim's relatives sent brothers to kill the harpy eagle: let them decorate it with feathers if they want to become shamans; they caught eagles in strong nets, became shamans; dabucuru needed fish; one brother became a woman, the Big Serpent came to meet her, the other two killed him; the brothers cut the body into pieces, from fish appeared (p. 125-126); brothers went out and returned, increasing in number; they answered the jaguars that their names were Bitter Jaguar, Broken Teeth, etc.; they tried to bite - bitterly, their teeth were breaking and etc.; it is not clear which of the audience were the real three brothers; the brothers went to heaven to steal Thunder's sword (lightning is its shine); Thunder gave a fake; while Thunder was sleeping, they replaced its real one with a fake club; from the lightning of Thunder, the brothers fell apart and came to life, and killed him with their lightning; revived; this lightning killed all the jaguars, but also the old woman; climbed to the uppermost tier of the sky]: 114-134; Moreira, Moreira 1994 [Yaipihkana people beat Diroá {os Diroá - two or more of them} to death; traveled from one place to another, various characters from among J. ate D. {an insect is mentioned; no further animal species have been identified}; no one should have thrown away even a part of D.'s bodies; grandfather D. Yatoem also ate, threw a bone, she went horsefly, fell into the water, turned into fish; there was a thunder; I said it meant they would die; grandfather did not admit that he left it; Grandma D. I caught the fish, put them in a bag of pepper, began to smoke, but they were alive; they were mischievous, my grandfather threw them into the river with the pestle, they came back; my grandfather could not do anything with them; my grandmother tried them burn, they don't burn; they went to clear the area, the grandfather sent poisonous spiders, one bit, D. {the brothers' name is also Diroa as in the previous incarnation} pretended to die, immediately came to life; the grandfather sent ants, D. drove them away; equipped the axes with piranha and jaguar teeth, and the trees immediately fell from the blows ; cleared the whole plot; his grandfather set him on fire, D. hid inside the tree, the grandfather is sure they burned down, returned home, D. is already there; continued to be mischievous; went to kill those who ate their fathers; met Wahto, he made a paddle to kill D., did not recognize D., replied that he was waiting for D. to hit them with an oar; they asked them to show how he would hit; they hit him themselves, killed him; then the same with the Bat, Battleship and others {not identified}; Ya'koro said that he and his children did not eat D., D. did not kill him; both D. sailed in a boat with his grandfather, although he did not want to take them; threw the hook, pulled out the anaconda, cut them apart, they turned into different fish (so several times in different places); brought fish for the dabukuri festival; at the festival, one D. came out, two identical ones came back; two came out, four returned; etc., it became many D.; Y. women began to disappear one by one; D.'s jewelry was made from the claws and fangs of predators, these jewelry devoured women; the old woman tried to bite D., but they were like steel, or bitter, or other unpleasant taste; in exchange for the fish brought by D. Y. gave them the meat of birds and animals; D. spruce, threw a seed, it turned into an animal or bird of the appropriate species, which began rushing inside the little one; so when something bad happens, animals and birds come close to the house; D. went to heaven to Grandfather Thunder for a club to kill Y., but he gave a weak one; D. tried wild boars , they were only stunned; he put a good Thunder under his head; D. put him to sleep, changed his club; I put the birds to guard, D. they were sedated, killed all I. with a lightning and thunder strike]: 26-32; bar [tapir takes away The female stingray brings up the baby; after leaving the river, the boy steals pepper from the garden of the murdered mother's father, stays with him]: Pereira 1980 (1): 251-252; tucano? [like Tarian but without the grasshopper episode]: Brüzzi 1994:211-212; Barasana: Folklor 1974:77-79; S.Hugh-Jones 1979, No. 4D: 277; Torres Laborde 1969 [The month of Muyhu, Mení's son, at night comes to her sister (her name is Méneri -Ya, Mya), she became pregnant; spread black paint, smeared his face; identified him in the morning; since then there have been spots on the moon; a month drowned in shame; his body has rotted shore; the Bat ate his flesh, since then he became an ogre; Mení sent a shaman owl to look for his son, he did not find him (owls have big eyes since then); three Adyába brothers (creators) found Muihu's bones; they told the ants to put them together, stuck them with tobacco leaves, creating a new body; Muihu came to life, but fell apart again when middle A. said that M. slept with ME; A. revived him again; I did not recognize him; from him a monkey with him, he asked ME to get her kaimo fruit from the top of the tree to eat; made the tree tall, I stayed in the upper world; the mochilero bird looked for it, saw a reflection; I was bitten by a wasp, mochilero killed the wasp, brought ME water, a anklet; weaved a rope out of sweet potato to go down; the rope broke off, MYA fell, returned home; Muihu told her to bring water, but the filled vessel dried immediately; while she was trying to fill it, Meni and Muihu left; at the fork in Menya he left a vessel decorated with turkey feathers that looked like a man; Meni told him to show ME the right way if I came crying, and false if laughing; I laughed while she was far away, and when she went to the vessel, she cried; the vessel showed the way to the Jaguars; I came to the Opossumicha; she asked her to lie in her son's hammock, but he smelled badly, I went further; the Jaguars had their mother Oako, Menya's sister; the Jaguars returned from work on the site, carrying axes; the Jaguar saw Mya hiding in a vessel in the mirror; she spat out of disgust; the youngest of the Jaguars agreed to dance with her; starting with his fingers, he ate her; the giblets were given to her mother; she carried them to the river, the boy Warimí Sué jumped from the womb into the water; the Jaguars tried to catch him; he became a frog; they ate a frog, but he actually went down the river to where Menya's sons live; bathed with them; the boys didn't know who he was; he didn't go into the house; painted or ate butterflies; them fathers told them to lure V.; the big girl was buried in the sand, others wrote from above; butterflies flew; V. began to paint, the girl grabbed him; V. became a little boy, began to cry; Menya thought it was the child of his eldest daughter; they passed it from one daughter to another, but V. stopped crying only on his youngest's lap; he was blown, painted with red paint (since then they have been doing this with babies); V. quickly grew into a ten-year-old boy; Meni told him that his mother had eaten jaguars; V. came to Maloka Jaguars, became a baby again; the jaguar who ate Mya touched V., licked his finger, it turned out bitterly; V. saw this Jaguar regurgitate his mother's blood; V. turned the Jaguars into different animals (tapir, paka, etc.), since then they have been eating each other; the Jaguars played a sounding calebasa made from a head mother V., her voice is heard, My son; V. put a log in his hammock, the Jaguar ate it; in the morning, the Jaguars played me again with my skull, V. threw him into the forest; told the water gauges to collect the nut husks miriti palm trees, threw it into the water, it turned into piranhas; Tapira, with whom he went to collect miriti, V. pushed it into the water, the piranhas ate it; V. made a bridge, the Jaguars walked along it, V. swung it, the Jaguars fell, piranhas ate them; the one who ate MIA held one paw above the water, was left with one leg; the Jaguar V. burned the house; then see motif K1]: 31-45; Kabiyari [Keri (Month), son of Jejechu, began to come to his Sister Meneriyo; she smeared his face with a genip to find out who his lover was; in the morning, the Month could not wash himself, died; he was resurrected from his bones; when asked if he knew that M. was a sister, he broke up again, restored again; M. climbed a tree, it grew to the sky, she went down a rope; she got to the Jaguars; their grandmother hid it under the roof; the Jaguars returned from the site, found M. because she looked down; the grandmother took her giblets, found the boy Mujnuyi in them (a name common to several brothers in other texts, see motif B7); he slipped into the water, became a fish; at the mouth of the river he began to play on the beach with his daughters Jejechu; they buried one in the sand, hands out, wrote, butterflies flew, M. came to play with them, the girl grabbed him; he immediately became a baby; grew up in five days, shot flies, then birds, asks how her mother died; J. replies that she was bitten by a snake (M. lets herself be bitten, alive); burned down, fell from a tree, ate a jaguar, drowned; every time M. shows that this is not the case; now he has a name Pitche; he comes to the Chawine Jaguars who killed his mother; finds his mother's head; the jaguars licked his head, it's bitter (the pitchi tree on his head is bitter); P. placed his mother's head on the other side rivers, made a bridge there; the jaguar stepped on it, it collapsed, the fish ate them, one escaped, his heel was bitten off; then see motif K1]: Correa 1989, No. 3:53-67; macuna: Trupp 1977 [jaguars eat a woman; baby Ri Hako Makö jumps from her womb into the river, caught by the Umawadö sisters, the rainbow snake; he kills jaguars; W. heals the escaped jaguar, tries to kill R.; 1) sets fire the vegetation cut down on the site, sending R. there, turns into a fish, jumps into the water; 2) orders Thunder's daughter to be brought; W. finds Thunder sleeping, replaces Thunder's club with his own, kills Thunder, with his comes to W. as a daughter.]: 50-56; desana [jaguars eat a young man; his grandfather gets a leg bone, throws it into the lake; the bone turns into two fish, the old woman can hardly catch them, brings them home; at night, fish turn into crickets, gnaw through the ropes of hammocks; one day they turn into young men, an old woman asks them to help her knead pottery; brings them to the site, sets fire, but they do not burn; she did this to temper them]: Kumu, Kenhiri 1980:171-172; maku [the youngest of the two Idn Kamni walks along the river after the holiday; the old woman washes her grandchildren, says the jaguars ate all IK's relatives; then But they say the Bushmeister (IC paints him), an old deer; IC comes to the jaguars, they cooked it, ate it, throw his hard finger into the river; it is swallowed by fish; the old deer woman catches it; leaves the contents of the fish stomach in the basket; two IK brothers come out from there; the old deer tells the younger woman that he will also die; he tells the spider to bite her; he climbs a tree, sees the Jaguar garden ( grandmother did not want him to see); younger IC steals cassava from the Jaguar garden; meets Jaguar girls, copulates with them, they get pregnant; IC goes to heaven, gets a lightning club from Thunder, tries to wild boars, they run away; he goes to Thunder again, gets the real one; at a party where the Jaguars wanted to eat him, he destroyed them with a lightning club; the old deer looked, her head was torn off, she became A large battleship; IK attributed the right bones of the Jaguars to Thunder, the left bones to the desan]: Silverwood-Cope 1972, No. 4:221-227; (cf. Yagua: Chaumeil 1983 [After the Month met his sister, people became drunk at the festival, turned into herons and flew away; the sister of the Month went to look for them; asked about the path of Herons's ancestors, who were a little she was not killed; Aguti ordered at the fork to turn not where the parrot's feathers were, but the pineapple peel; on that way she would reach her uncle; she did not understand, turned where the feathers were and got to the Jaguars; the old woman hid it under the roof; Jaguar came, she dropped something, he began to copulate with her; the second Jaguar ate it; the grandmother took the embryo, he jumped into the water; the woman's uncle's sons swim, they see it; he lit it the fire, rushed into it, became the Sun; one of his uncle's sons rushed after him and became the Evening Star]: 193-194).

Central Amazon. Katawishi (Lake Teffe) [the wife of the black jaguar Yuwaruna tried to seduce her husband's brothers; they killed her on the shore, the boy from the womb rushed into the river; one of her three unmarried sisters saw her husband by the water a boy who combed his moths; could not catch him; the father asked his daughters to bury him in the sand, leaving his hands full; grabbed him, the boy cried; does not listen to soothing songs; falls silent when the Owl sings, When you grow up, you will avenge the mother killed by the jaguars; the grandfather hides from his grandson where his uncles are; the grandson pulls out his grandfather's gray hair, makes a rope, she reaches for grandfather, he finds out that his uncle is not far away; his uncle sets fire to the house, cuts off his sleeping grandfather's head, cooks; when the daughters of the victim open the pot, the boy kills them with a club; some uncles did not burn; the boy did the bridge over the river, said that he could not escape the flood on the mountain on the other side; the uncles went, the boy brought down the bridge, they drowned; said that he would rise to the sky, he was the Rainbow; whoever does not want to die must answer; people slept at midnight, answered a lizard, a snake, a spider, a cockroach, a scorpion, a crab, a tree that sheds its bark every year; humans do not shed their skin and die]: Tastevin 1925:188-190; maue [Harpy Eagle wears monkeys to his son; he cries, wants fish; the eagle suspects that his wife has a lover who brings fish; sends a fly to watch her, kills his lover, the bird Soko, drives his son away; tells his wife to stick it catch a rat hand in a hollow; the hand gets stuck, the wife turns into the creaking of trees; the Eagle asks Aram to eat the corpse, take the twins out of the victim's womb; eat Soko's son too, and give him his son (Eagle) mother; she washes the baby in the river, he slips away, becoming a fish; the brothers of the killed offer Eagle to pick up a log in the middle of the water; it breaks, the Eagle falls into the water, he is killed by the Big Turtle; the grandmother asks the sisters of the murdered child to catch his grandson; he asks the grandmother who killed his father; answer, Wind, then Hot Summer; he scratches his aunts, who say that their father killed his father; he finds feathers, later his father's leg on the ceremony site; trains to pick up logs and stones; pulls the Turtle out of the water; Toucan, then the Dove, can't penetrate its shell, the Woodpecker pierces; these birds dyed with her blood; Jaguar and fish also color]: Ugge 1991, No. 2:130-146.

Montagna - Jurua. Amouesha: Santos-Granero 1991, No. 3 [During the ancient Yompor Pret sun, women gave birth to rotten trees, lizards, or hairy monkeys; the priest ordered that brother and sister be raised in a special home; When she went to get water, the sister found two flowers, hid them on her body, became pregnant; the priest admitted that this was due to the will of the supreme god, not from her brother; the mother of the Patonell jaguars killed her; twins from her womb they threw themselves into the water, they were raised by fish (catfish, Loricariidae); they play, no one can catch them; the lizard said he would catch them, but they ridiculed him; he left, the priest told him to be called back, he agreed for the fifth time; the twins were caught, but they did not grow up; P. said she would raise them, she had a lot of meat; they always dirty themselves, P. washed them; tells them not to touch her cassava beer; everyone Once they find them drunk, they say that their sister bee is preparing the drink; one day P.'s sons returned without prey, offered to cook the twins; they gave P. a drink themselves, cooked it, scattered parts of her body in different places; hid under the roof; body parts respond to jaguars from different sides, tell them to eat brew like twins; brothers shouted to them what they were eating; Puma and Ocelot did not eat, understood; jaguars were found in the cauldron mother's head; set fire to the house, the twins jumped across the lake, made a bridge of vines; the jaguars walked along it, they brought it down, one pregnant jaguariha escaped; the twins became adults, went up to heaven, brother became the Sun, sister became the Moon], 3a [excerpt: Sister went to get water, Patonell ate it, the twins jumped into the water; became Sun and Moon]: 54-57, 258-259; Tello 1923a [were Yatash's brother and sister Yachur, lizards (all creatures were then either jaguars or lizards); after going for the fruits, Yachur found flowers, hid them in her bosom; when she returned home, a thunderstorm began; after a lightning strike, the flowers disappeared, and Yachur conceived; after the thunderstorm, a rainbow appeared decorated with those flowers; everyone decided that Yachur was pregnant with her brother, they wanted to kill Yatasha; the old kuraka said he was pregnant with lightning, would give birth to the Sun and the Month; on the way to Yachur met the Patonille jaguariha at the spring; she ate her; water flowed out of Yachur's stomach, formed a river; the twins born swam along it, hid under water; Yatash is accused of not tracking behind his sister; he found out where the Sun and the Month hid; everyone tries to catch the twins without success, only Yatasha succeeds; P. takes them up; they annoy her with their pranks; she boils water to cook them; asks me to look in my head so that the boys do not run away; P. fell asleep, the brothers threw it into the cauldron, cut it, scattered the pieces, hid themselves on the roof, already young men; jaguars- relatives met for a meal, the name is P., the pieces answer from different sides; the jaguars find the boys, set fire to the hut, they run across the river; the jaguars are building a bridge, the brothers brought it down, almost all the jaguars drowned]: 128-130 (retelling in Kühne 1967:311-314); Kashinahua: Ans 1975 [Thunder strikes a pregnant woman with lightning and takes her to heaven; a baby from her womb falls into the water, is raised by Cancer, fed with palm seeds; a woman's brother can hardly catch her nephew with a net; he stops crying when he is given the same seeds to eat; a boy goes up to heaven with a rope thrown; kills Thunder, putting sedge leaves in his chicha; kills his three children; with the fourth he goes down to the ground; Gromenok cries, it starts to rain; he is thrown into the river, he returns to heaven, takes his father's place; a woman Thunder's wife refuses to go down to the ground]: 88-93; Shenipabu Miyui 2000 [a woman was sailing along the river in a boat, lightning struck her in the stomach, a boy born fell into the water; cancer raised him; the woman's brother I noticed a tribesman on the shore, told him in the village; people surrounded him, one crept up unnoticed, covering his head with foam floating on the water; the captured boy resisted, the crayfish tried To recapture him, but the boy was taken to the village; he hardly got used to human food; he decided to find his mother, he was told that she was in heaven; his uncle threw a rope there, the young man got up and found his mother (she is Lightning's wife) and her five children; he turned into a bat wash, hid under a roof, killed Lightning with a poisoned weapon; contrary to his mother's requests, killed Lightning's daughters, brought the youngest with him to the ground; it rained, people threw what was brought into the river, young Lightning returned to heaven]: 71-73; Tastevin 1926 [as in Ans; a boy comes out of the river to play the flute and sing; when people approach, he dives; one person hides among foam, grabs it; in the sky, a young man also kills Thunder's wife]: 169-170; characterbet [a man climbs an Aviruk tree (rubber), throws fruit to his wife; hears her laughter; she becomes pregnant because of the spirit of the tree, she goes to live in his village; her relatives come there for the party and she decides to return with them; they warn them not to follow them, because the village of Jaguars is on the way; the woman goes, the Jaguars they eat it, throw the uterus into the river; the fish take care of the baby; the brother of the victim sees the uterus, but no one can catch it; the mother of the killed succeeds; the boy Marinka demands only the fruit of the aviruk tree, quickly turns into a young man; kills many different animals, thinking that they are to blame for the death of his mother; the grandmother agrees to say that the Jaguars are to blame; M. makes a club, capable of splitting stones; kills almost all Jaguars, but one escapes and there are many jaguars again; people are afraid, wondering what to do; Turn into a tree? - They'll cut it down; Hide under the ground? - Will they trample; Hide in the rocks or the river? - They will find it; the boy offers to go to heaven; everyone is happy and in a hurry tramples on him, he turns into tobacco; the sky falls lower, M. and people climb there; M. throws an ax to his grandmother, but falls into her, she turns into curasso, sings before the storm; M. - Thunder, wielding his club in the sky; those in the sky are kurudneri spirits descending to people during rituals]: Gray 1996:118-128.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Chiriguano [see motif J5; at the festival, the Battleship digs a hole under a girl sitting on the ground, making her pregnant; she comes to the Battleship's hole, leaves her baby in it; he is no longer It is given to her; she is taken away and dazzled by the Double-Headed Jaguar; her father catches her grandson with a net, raises her; a young man beats a Jaguar, restores his mother's sight]: Nordenskiöld 1912:271-273.

Southern Amazon. Camayura: Seki 2008, No. 2 [Mawutsini has five daughters; they warn not to go after the bark from which the fibers are made of the bowstring, the tree belongs to jaguars; M. went, the jaguars heard a noise, let's go to search; when leaving, M. came across the leader of the Jaguars; he had to promise him daughters as wives; they refused - Jaguar's mother would eat them; M. carved five girls out of tree trunks; hair from bast, not good; then he took black from a black bird; pebble teeth, I didn't like it, black; then the seeds are white; belts made of buriti palm leaves (Mauritia flexuosa), so now women's belts made of these leaves; two trees refused to let the bark do uluri {covers the pubis?} , said that they would only be used to build houses, the third agreed; M. asked the fruits of the vine to deflorize the girls; the fruits were like a penis, but without a head, because they broke; then the fruits the other vine was successful; he gave each a comb, the sisters went; one climbed to cut off the buriti palm shoot, it fell with a sharp end up; the others sent a horsefly, the bite caused the girl to lose her balance, fell with her vagina to escape, died; others ask for directions from the stork Jaburu (Jabiru mycteria Ciconidae), then the Tuiuiu stork (Mycteria americana Ciconidae), each copulates with one of the girls; the White Heron just pointed out that he did not want to copulate so as not to get his feathers dirty; then Martin the Fisherman threw his necklace on his back; the girl stained his back with sperm, wiping his hands, so his back is now speckled; the battleship ran after his penis, the girls left during this time, then he masturbated using the marks they had left; the older sister did not want the fourth went further with them; bewitched, she forgot her comb, came back for it; began to scream, call her sisters, turned into the forest spirit "queen of the forest"; Tapir copulated with his third sister, his penis huge, she died, his sisters hit him on the coccyx; climbed a tree above the lake near the jaguar village; they were playing ball (people learned this game from them); two women came to swim, saw the reflection, decided that they are so beautiful; the sisters sent horseflies, the women dropped the calebasses twice; they noticed the sisters; they rejected the first jaguar that came, went with the second, one sister says that the groom is not him, his ass is red; he does not have cassava in his house; in the morning, the Jaguar chief referred to a sore eye, did not go hunting, returned to the village, brought the girls to his place, he had good food; the first jaguar {ocelot?} and his sister gave his mother a drink with thorns, they hoarsened, turned into jaguars, ran into the forest; while Jaguar and his elder wife were on the site, the younger pregnant woman looked for lice from her mother-in-law, spit out her hair, she decided that her daughter-in-law disdained her with lice, killed her, went to the forest; the sister asked Ant to take the children out of the deceased's womb; he pulled her out behind her head, so people have two dents on their skulls; the mother was buried in the middle villages, premature babies were placed in calebasa, hung it; Jaguar and his wife see traces - children secretly go out; children do not take abandoned women's items, they take arrows, which means boys; Jaguar and his wife did the appearance that they are leaving, waiting for them, caught the boys, called their parents, called them Orphans; the brothers hunt, count the fingers of the killed Pakis, the kutias are 4, which means not our grandfather; the lizard is five fingers, so you can't eat; The battleship called himself grandfather, gave the brothers the names Tapea Kana and Tapea Jaú (terms for turning the road); but Cicada gave the names Kwat and Jay ("sun" and "month"); brothers steal peanuts from the Partridge field (that's why people eat peanuts); she finds them, talks about their mother's fate; brothers turn her into a partridge, let her sing at the end of the rainy season (this time New Year); aunt she showed where she buried her sister; the brothers opened it up, began to call, the mother responded, but her voice became weaker, stopped; if earlier, they would revive it; but now we are dying forever; the brothers told the wasp to bury the corpse again; they found Jaguariha, she began to play with them, Quat hit her and killed her; the Jaguar father and the deer were moved to the Milky Way (α and β Centauri); they made arrows, turned them into people, they destroyed the inhabitants jaguar villages; became the Sun and Month]: 151-187; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973 [Mavutsinim's daughters warn him not to go to the jaguar village for bow fiber; he went, M. climbed a tree, The jaguars surrounded him, he had to promise his daughters to the chief of the jaguars; they refused, fearing Jaguar's mother; M. singing turned 8 felled trees into girls; made hair from buriti palm fibers - too light, then I asked the bird to be black; the teeth are first from shells, they are dark, then from mangab seeds; good, but now my teeth hurt; made fiber belts, bamboo genitals, told the vine have sex with girls; 5 out of 8 agreed to go to Jaguar; one forgot the comb, went back, got lost, became an elf of the wood; the stork agreed to show the way when they met him; they painted his neck to make him ugly; one climbed a tree to make a new belt, fell on a broken shoot, died; Tapir agreed to show the way if they met him; he has a big dick, the first died, the other two left, climbed a tree near the shore where the Jaguar was supposed to come; the black bird heard them laugh, said Jaguar, who started shooting whistling arrows, the girls were not caught, the Jaguar thought that they did not come to him; they caught Wolf's arrows, who said they were looking for him; when they went with him, they caused the wind, saw that his buttocks were red under his hair; his mother said that he only ate fruit; the girls went to Jaguar; he fired arrows, they caught them; the wolf and his mother turned into animals; the youngest is ready to give birth; the mother-in-law asks to look for her in her head; the girl accidentally took her hair in her mouth, spat mother-in-law decided that out of disgust, she killed her daughter-in-law, ran into the forest; the mother was buried, the ants took the two boys out, put them in the basket; while the Jaguar was on the site, the brothers got out, eating fish; the Jaguar put they did not take the rags, they took the bow and arrows; the Jaguar realized that they were boys; asked them not to hide; the brothers were stealing peanuts from the Partridge field; she said that their mother was dead; Jaguar and sister they confirmed the victim, they also cried; the brothers called the mother, she responded, they dug up the grave, but there was a corpse; decided that this would always be the case (death is final); the brothers killed the grandmother; the grasshopper named the brothers Kuát (Sun) and Iae (Month); Jaguar wanted to make his sons jaguars; they turned bamboo into wild Indians, they killed the people of the Jaguar; the Jaguar and his wife went to heaven; the brothers came to their grandfather, did mother's memorial ceremony]: 57-67.