J27B. Water father. .29.34.-.37.
Thebaby is thrown into a lake or river and goes ashore from time to time. In addition to his earthly parents, he has a father (and mother) in the underwater world. He doesn't want to part with them or they want to let him go.
Kabardian, Tuvans, Buryats, Tundra Nenets, Ents, Mansi, Southern Khanty, Western, Baikal and Far Eastern Evenks, Orochi.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kabardian people [the eldest, middle daughter refuse to take off her father's legs, the youngest takes off; shares apples with the elders; the father digs a hole in the apple tree, disguises it with a carpet, the daughters fall through; for them the pit opens at will, 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; khan leaves, sisters replace children with puppies, throw them into the river; the khan orders to put his wife in the skin of a bull, tie him to the gate; the children were taken by Hogouash dogs (PH, the mistress of the river; in Folk Tales 1872:110 - Psykho- Goasha {Y.B.: Goasha is "woman, mistress"; "dogs" are "river"; "ho" - I don't know}); an attached mother sees her children come out of the water, sit on a stone; asks a passing woman to give her torment, does one a cake with breast milk, the other on the water, asks to leave it on a stone; the boy gets a cake with milk, the girl gets a cake on the water; when he finds out that the children have eaten cakes, PH says that they cannot become her children, lets him 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 his brother to get an unusual pigeon; PH teaches you to call sour pears sweet, take two from by himself; 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 refuse; the sisters of the khan's wife persuade his sister to advise his brother get Irish-Irish-Kahn as his wife; PH says that she turns those who come to her into stones; the young man is stony; her sister goes, A. looks around at her third cry, everyone comes to life; a feast; a young man goes to visit Khan Father with the condition that he unties the woman at the gate; evil dogs (these are the puppies thrown up) are friendly with them; the khan returns his wife, ties her sisters to horses; since then, princes and khans have not divorced their wives]: Aliyev 1978, No. 29:238-243, (=Folk Tales 1872:108-114).
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [when the horns of a wild sheep reached the sky and the camel's tail to the ground, the childless Atalbaj Khan asked three wives what they would cook for him when he returned; the eldest promised to make a sable hat, the middle one is a silk Tonn, the youngest is to give birth to a hero with a golden breast; the older wives did not finish what they promised, and the youngest gave birth to a boy who began to grow by leaps and bounds; the eldest the sister persuaded the youngest to give it to her before the khan returned, told the maid to throw the boy into the steppe under the hooves of goats; the goats did not step on the boy, but warmed him up on the cold night; then throw him angry dogs (same; horses (same); then the boy was thrown into White Lake, replaced by a dog; when the khan returned, she bit him; the khan broke his youngest wife's left arm and right leg, gouged out his eye, migrated from humans and a horse; her maid remained with the hansha; the mouse came, the hansha hit her with a rod, breaking her legs and gouging her eyes; the mouse ate the roots and recovered; the hansha did the same and also recovered; the maid said that she saw a wave run to the shore of White Lake, a boy with a golden chest jumped out of the water, sat on a stone and began to play with colorful pebbles; then returned to the lake; hansha went with 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 hanshe managed to escape, only part of his clothes got wet; two months later, the boy forgot about the lake and began to call 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 young man's name be Adygshi and his horse's name be Ak Öle; a mountain of skins of killed animals accumulated near the yurt, while the father's khan was being chased failures; he decided to go to the old parking lot; his wife pretended not to recognize him, told him everything; when he left, the guest promised to "tell the khan everything"; then returned as a khan; the son recognized him only after cutting his finger and telling Khan to lick his blood; Khan broke the eldest khansha's arm and leg, gouged out his eye; told the middle man to be a dishwasher; chained to his son]: Taube 1978, No. 31:146-154; Buryats : Hadahne 1926 [Boho-muya, son of Western Tengri Zayan Sagan, quarreled with Boho-Teli, son of Eastern Tengri Hamhir Bogdo, over who to be a patron blacksmithing; both descended to earth, BM became the dark blue bull Boho Noyon, BT became the colorful Tarlan Eeren Buha; began to chase each other around Lake Baikal; in the possessions Taizhi Khan began to butt; T.'s daughter drove them away, became pregnant from looking (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 sisters- shamans Asykhan (Asuykhan) and Khosykhan (Husykhan) staged a sacrifice for BN, received a boy, giving him the name Bulagat Bukha dear Aldogkon (Iz - Bulagat was found under a bull); he grew up, began to go to the shore of Lake Baikal, met another boy who lived in a coastal gap; A. cunningly got him, gave the name Ehirit Eeren gutar esege erin gaba ehe (Echirit, who has a variegated burbot father, a coastal slit as his mother); the Ekhirit 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]: 32-33; Zhambalova 2000 ["according to one option" (without reference to the source; starting as in Hadahne before "or mooing"); T.'s daughter reports on B. pregnancies ; he mysteriously takes twins out of her womb, puts them on his back, swims across Lake Baikal; he does not recognize one of the boys as his own, puts him in the coastal gap; puts the other in an iron cradle, keeps under his chest in a specially dug hole, allowing him to suck his hair; two childless shamans Asuykhan and Husyykhan made a special sacrifice to B., received a boy, named Bulagat; there is an option according to which B. took one child out of the womb, threw it with horns to the north side of Lake Baikal; after defeating his opponent, he swam there, found the child, and raised shaman A. ; this story is complemented by another {cf. Zabanov 1929:21-23}: Bulagat, a little older, goes to play on the seashore, meets two boys and a girl who are emerging from the waters of Lake Baikal; they are the children of one of the daughters of an Eastern celestial Hormusts; she did not know who became pregnant from, she went down to earth in the form of a goat, gave birth to three children, put them on the shore of Lake Baikal; two shaman sisters learned from Bulagat about these water children, asked B. to bring them; they did not agree to go to him; the shamans put them to sleep on felt, carried them home; on the way one woke up, shouted, Take me, the Milk Sea is the mother and inaccessible rocky mountains - father; waves poured ashore, shamans almost drowned; the girl turned to a seal, went to sea, the boy into a black squirrel, ran to the mountains; the third child was adopted by shaman Husyykhan , gave him the name Echirit; according to another version, his father was burbot, his mother was a coastal gap]: 191-192.
Western Siberia. Nenets: Lehtisalo 1947, 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 going 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 iron ropes off the sledge, from there Deer appear; 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, West. 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 the 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, woman and son live well]: 61-64; Ents [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; pierces an awl into the woman's ear, she dies; she carries it wrapped in grass, cooks it, eats it; 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 an abandoned scraper turns into a mountain, a comb into a 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 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, old man tells me not to take anything at the end of the island; the youngest asks for a toy, grabs a spike, her eye has leaked out, she dies; tells her not to leave her on the edge; on the cape; on the hill; agrees to stay in the den; the eldest stops at a stump, a witch emerges 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 them relatives; an Aenets woman goes to the den, from there two bear cubs and a living younger sister come out; a bear sends two bear-drawn sledges of gifts; a black man sends bears, after kissing them; a witch brings mice, these are her deer, an old man kills them with a kick; an Aenets woman gives birth to a bright boy, a witch a witch; makes the Enets woman leave in an abandoned camp, a witch gives her; takes the boy, throws him into the water; the witch has grown up to help a woman; she wonders why he has been walking on the water for so long; he says that his hand sticks out of the water; the woman comes up , the boy asks to catch him, calls him his mother; the plague floods the water, it is the water father who comes for the boy; an Aenets 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 cast a spike through the fire, pushes her into the fire; her ashes turn into mosquitoes]: Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 13:82-88; Mansi (southern, Kondinsky district) [y Mos-ne son, Por-ne Boy in the Form of a Colorful Puppy (PUG); P. shoved M.'s child into a barrel, flushed it into the water; the PUG leaves P., comes to live with M.; carries food to a 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 escapes; they play more, M. grabs a son, forcibly brings him to himself, he agrees to live with M., not with father from a dugout; son M. and the PUG go to the city where Usyng-Otyr-Oika lives; get rich; W. leaves his wife, comes to M., marries her; P. was torn by horses; PUG took off his dog clothes, became handsome]: Kuzakova 1994:44-47 (=Lukina 1990, No. 130:338-339); Southern Khanty (Irtysh) [three princes come to town; eavesdrop on three girls promising to have children; youngest promises to give birth to a daughter and two sons with stars on the top of their head, sun on their forehead, a month on the back of their heads; princes marry them; the youngest wife's children are born in the absence of a father; older sisters replace them with puppies; at the suggestion of their father-in-law, their mothers broke their arms and legs, tore their nose and mouth, nailed them by the arms and legs in the church, everyone spits on her; the children were thrown into the river, they are raised by the water king, then them an old man and an old woman catch; brothers and sister have grown up; merchants arrive; one of the brothers turns into a dog, goes with merchants to the royal city; overhears the story of aunts about the birch tree from which it falls silver; returns home, brothers get birch root; on the second trip, the young man turns into a dog and then into a gadfly; hears about a reindeer bull with 40 shoots on its horns and the people trade; brothers they get the tip of the bull's horn, the bull came by itself; the third time the dog turned into a gadfly again; aunts say there is a girl who has the sun on the top of the star, the sun is on her forehead, a month on her head; an older brother, then the youngest goes looking for her, disappears; the sister finds a woman, they become sisters, she resurrects her brothers; they all come to the king, the girl talks about what happened; makes her mother healthy, her milk splashes children in their mouths; her sisters were tied to one wild and one humble horse, torn]: Patkanov 1999, No. 4:331-346 (brief retelling in Kim 2006:76).
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; the child went out, took the onion, so the boy; the woman caught it; the boy screams that the burbot fed him his liver; the burbot jumped out of the water and returned it again; the woman told her son everything, he went to look for his father; found began to tell his story; his father left those wives, returned to his son and his mother]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 100:131-132; Baikal Evenks (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; mother first denies that her son had a father; then says he fell off the larch; the son tries, does not die; then tells the truth; the son comes to the mother's sisters, tells her story; men they want to listen, women ask him to be silent; the boy cleans off his dirt, shines like gold; the father maims evil sisters like his wife used to; returns to his wife, she recovers]: Voskoboynikov 1973, No. 24: 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]: Myreyeva 2009:157-161.
Amur-Sakhalin. Orochi [a girl walks on the water, sees seven mergansers on the river; when she returns, she finds a man in the house, he marries her; Pegelikt (Sheared) comes, insists that the woman allow Search in her hair; puts her to sleep, takes tin in her mouth, spits molten tin into her ear, throws the corpse into the forest, puts her clothes on; explains to her husband that her long hair is burned above the hearth; offers to move to the other side of the river; her husband's six younger brothers live there; they don't like their brother's wife, they tell the couple to live separately; they find the woman's corpse, extract tin; she comes to life, husband takes her back, makes P. a maid; the woman gives birth; P. invites her, taking the baby, to sail to the other side for bird cherry; swims away with the child, throws him into the river, tells her husband that the woman is negligent 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 him, out of his skin and bones to make a house; he comes to life; says that all day long he plays with his little nephew coming out of the river; the woman leaves breast milk and food on the shore; the child goes ashore from cradles, 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, an arrow hits his old father's house; 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.