J4. The death of my father.

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Heroes avenge the death (capture) of their father, uncle or grandfather, but not their mother or both parents.

Mongo, (Sakho), Malgashi, Ancient Egypt, Iraqi Arabs, Jibbali, Vedau, Motu, Uliti, Tuvalu, Tahiti, Maori, Tibetans, Amdo Tibetans, Mustang, Northern India, Oraons, Tingyan, Paiwan, Chinese, Koreans, French, Karachays, Balkarians, Adygs, Kabardian, Ossetians, Ingush, Nogais, Aguls, Megrelians, Scandinavians, Kalevala, Salars, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Tofalars, Tubalars, Altaians, Khakas, Buryats (north of the Angara), Dagurs, Nenets, Northern Khanty, Mansi, Northern Selkups, Nganasans, Kets, Ilimpic Evenks, Sym Evenks, Dolgans, Nanai, Ulchi, Udege, Tundra Yukaghirs, Northern Alaska Inupiate (Noatak), Thompson, Lillouette, Quinolt, Comox (Chatloltk), Clallam, Cowlitz, Lower Chinook, Vasco, Vishram, Clackamas, Flethead, (Kalispel), Tillamook, Alsea, Cous, Kalapuya, Takelma, Winnebago, Seneca, Tuscarora, Malesit, Iowa, Wichita, Shasta, Wappo, Achomavi, Miwok, Chukchansi Yokutz, Serrano, Northern Payute (Owens Valley), Western Shoshones, Chemewevi, Utah, Havasupai, Pima, Papago, Yuma, maricopa, kiliwa, tiva, western apaches (San Carlos), diegueño (ipay), tarasca, otomi, tepehua, totonaki, Veracruz Nahuatl, Chontal, Quiche, Chorti, Cimila, Embera, Yanomami, Yanomam, Coreguaje, Maihuna, Aguaruna, Carijona, Andoque, Uitoto, Okaina, Yagua, Desana, Letuama, Yukuna, Cubeo, Baniwa, Vakuenai, Tariana, Bare, Chikuna, Maue, Manao (?) , arua, huamachuco, kashibo, tacana, guarazu, moseten, kamayura, trumay, rikbakza, paresi, nambikwara, iranche, sherente, chamacoco, maka, matako, yagani.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Mongo [see motive J56; young man Ilelangonda (aka Ilele) rejects brides, goes to look for a wife; Mbombe promises to marry someone who will defeat her in combat while standing in a puddle of oil; always wins; I. defeats her; on the way home, M. does everything better than he does; he presses great mushrooms, she picks them up; the porcupine runs away from his trap, he sends M. with dogs; she catches a porcupine, which turns into an antelope, runs away; catches an antelope, it turns into a leopard; M. screams, I. comes running, throws a spear at M., she throws a leopard net at I., I. runs away from the leopard, giving names to everyone she meets in forest living creatures; comes running to a village of women; there is only one old man; I. must find out the names of the women, otherwise he will be killed; is going to relieve himself in the trash, sees an old woman in a pile of dirt and garbage; she was the chief of women, but thrown away when a young female leader appeared; advises what to do; I. holes in the fish dam; the woman who noticed this calls everyone else by name; I. remembers names; during the meal, I. calls all the women; M. comes, easily calls all women by name, eats all the food, retires with I., they return to the village, M. is pregnant, wants to eat only safu nuts; them brings a bird, M. sings him a love song; then I. goes for nuts; they are in Chief Sausau's village; every time I. climbs a tree, enemies surround him, but he jumps off easily; the turtle makes a hunting hole, I. attacks a stake, only the Turtle manages to dismember his body; signs left at home indicate the death of I. (the horn is filled with blood, etc.); M. does not cry because he is just giving birth; first all insects, then birds, then people of different genera and ethnic groups, then Entonto; his older brother Lianja from the womb says that the road is dirty, refuses to be born normally, comes out of his mother's thigh with his sister Nsongo, immediately an adult; Lianja sends his insect brothers against Sausau, then humans, attacks are repulsed; Entonto kills S.'s son, S. kills Entonto; S.'s spears do not harm Lianja, L. cuts off S.'s head; at the request of his sister Nsongo (she loves S.) revives, makes him a slave; revives his army; commands cut down a tree with nuts; axes don't take it; Lianja tells them to moisten them, cut down the tree]: Belcher 2005:204-214.

Sudan - East Africa. Malgashi (sakalava) [pregnant woman wants to eat kiridi liver; husband: if I don't come back in a month, kiridi ate me; he struggles to overcome deserts and rivers with crocodiles by shooting at k. missed, he swallowed it; a boy was born, grew up quickly, friends tell him about his father's fate, his mother confirmed; he took a gun, went to kill k.; cuts the monster's belly with an ax, from there his voice: be careful, son; swallowed people and animals come out; blood turned into a lake, bones into birds, flesh into clay and soil, wool into plants and herbs; people who came out formed a village, made the young man a leader]: Haring 1982, No. 1.3.07:134; (cf. sakho [the father is poor but wise; promises his son to become an eagle; the son tells him not to do foolish things; but the father made wings from rags, climbed a tree, crashed to death; the son went to travel, married in another country; his wife gave birth to a cat; his wife's relatives killed her husband; the cat came to the king, complained, told everything; the king ordered the father and uncle of the victim's wife to be hanged]: Reinisch 1889, No. 17:146-148).

North Africa. Ancient Egypt [Heliopolis version; Osiris is the eldest son of the god of the earth Geb and the goddess of heaven Nut; king of Egypt, taught people agriculture and gardening, as well as magic; his brother wishing rule for himself and receive Osiris's sister Isis; arranged a feast, invited everyone to go to the chest (whoever is in time, he will give it to him); the chest was made to O.'s standards; when O. lay down, S.'s servants clogged the lid, they threw the chest into the river; the chest was carried by the current to Phoenicia; the tree grew, enclosing the chest in its trunk; the local king made a column of the palace out of wood; I. came to Phoenicia and began to take care of the little one to the king's son, placing him in the fire to make him immortal; the boy's mother saw, screamed, and the spell broke; frightened I., the Phoenician queen gave her a column; taking out the chest from it, I. screamed the queen's child died from this cry; in Egypt, I. hid the chest in reeds; S. found him, cut O.'s corpse into pieces; I. and her sister Nephthys collected them; the phallus was eaten by lepidot fish (so the Egyptians do not eat it; Cancer 1993:99); I. made a clay phallus; becoming a female kite, conceived the son of Horus from the deceased Osiris; the sisters embalmed O.'s body - this is the first mummy; I. gave birth to H., hid it in the swamps; he was bitten by a snake ( perhaps S. in the guise of a snake), but God Toth neutralized the poison; in order to gain magical powers, I. needs to know the secret name of God Ra; she sent a snake to sting Ra and cured it only when he told her his name; S. began to fight with O., pulled out his eye and cut him apart; He found parts, united, returned to Choir; this is a symbol of power, life - Waajet's Eye; T. let the dead O. swallow the Eye; O. resurrects, but must become king of the afterlife; like O., the dead are resurrected in the afterlife, and nature is on earth every year; H. overthrows Seth many times, but he manages to heal his wounds; who to give the Eye of Waget (i.e. who to give the Eye of Waget (i.e. who to be king of Egypt), decides nine gods; the great goddess Nate (wars, hunting, mother of crocodiles) decided in favor of H.; but Ra doubts H.'s abilities, insulted, stops the trial; Hathor appears before his father naked, he forgets the grudge; S. threatens to take up arms against the gods; agrees that the trial continues, but without I.; the gods gather on the island, prohibit the carrier Anti from transporting women; I. accepts the appearance of an old woman, bribes the carrier with a golden ring; the gods beat Anti; since then, in villages where Anti is revered, it is forbidden to have gold; Choir and Seth fight as hippos; I. throws a harpoon, accidentally gets into the Choir; the second time she comes to S.; she feels sorry for Seth, she unhooks the harpoon; The choir furiously cuts off his mother's head (she was soon reborn); S. finds Hora, pulls his eyes out of them lotuses germinate; Hathor pours gazelle milk into Hora's eye sockets, who sees the light; Seth pretends to make peace with Choir, tries to rape him himself; Choir collects Seth's seed in the palm of his hand, shows I.; she cuts off her son's desecrated hand, pours Choir seed over the salad; Seth eats lettuce; at the call of the gods, Seth's seed responds from the swamp, and Choir's seed from Seth's womb; the seed came out on Seth's forehead in the form of a golden disc; The choir put this disc on his head like a crown; Seth offers a competition on stone rooks; the choir makes a rook out of wood, covers it with plaster; Seth's stone rook sinks, but Seth in the form of the hippopotamus was also drowned by Horus's boat; the gods decide to ask O.'s opinion; he writes from the underworld that he will steal the heart of anyone who does evil; the gods award Egypt to Horus; Ra takes Seth to rattle in the sky; var. : Seth gets Lower Egypt, Choir to Upper, but under the rule of Horus, the whole country is then united; Var. : Choir, Anubis, and Toth tied Seth up and turned him into the seat on which Osiris sits; var. : The gods burned Seth, Anubis carved his sign in his skin; the demons rushed to avenge Seth, but Anubis (=Choir) cut off their heads; their blood gave rise to a red mineral; var. : Seth hid a box with two Wajet Okes inside; Anubis = Choir in the form of a snake stole it; vines sprouted from Wajet]: Mathieu 1956:95-119; Machintsev 1993:59-99; Cancer 2006:.

Western Europe. The French (Gascony) [(Bladé 1886); the king is going to hand over the throne to his son, who must marry; the queen is afraid that she will cease to be the mistress of the castle; has managed to poison the king; his prick He comes to his son three times and reports this; the son sends the bride to the monastery, wanders; comes to his mother; she is going to poison him too, but he makes her drink poison herself; leaves for no one knows where]: Lopyreva 1959, No. 59:284-289.

Western Asia. Iraqi Arabs (Shiites of the Lower Euphrates) []: Campbell 1950:71-109; jibbali [the elder brother, the sultan, his younger killed and buried him; the son of Mektub remained; his uncle gave him an inferior camel, ordered clean up; M. has his father's sword; he comes to another city, heals a camel, finds two friends; goes back, kills the slave who guarded the city; then the second; with a sword comes to his uncle, the dates of the poor camel, tells you to clean; done by the Sultan]: Müller 1907, No. 21:96-101.

Melanesia. Vedau [twins Kototabe and Kelokelo are training with a sling; other boys say they should not throw stones at them but at the Manubada hawk who killed their father; the twins mother confesses that this is so; the brothers leave their mother a dracaena branch - if it wilts, they are in trouble; they load slings and batons into the boat, swim to M.'s nest; when M. dives, the brothers jump to the sides and dive, M. pierces the boat, gets stuck in it; the brothers kill him with batons; seeing the dracaena branch swaying like the wind, the mother of the twins dances happily; M.'s body was divided between tribes; people in the mountains received head: now when they're shot, they dodge with their heads bent; people on the shore got a side, they dodge away from flying arrows]: Ker 1910:61-63; motu [giant Tauni-kapi-kapi devours people; villagers sail away in boats; the husband of a pregnant woman did not have time to make a boat, T. swallowed it; there is no place for a woman in other boats, she hides in a cave; gives birth to a son; he grows up, extremely strong; on a huge tree he builds platforms one above the other with a supply of spears and stones; at the very top he makes a fire; as the giant climbs the tree, the young man throws spears and stones at it from ever higher platforms; tells his mother to light a fire; pierces the giant's eye with a spear, throws a burning platform into his mouth; a burnt giant who swallows stones falls, breaks; so the young man avenged his father's death; married a giant's daughter; becomes the chief of returning people, taking many wives]: Romilly 1889:120-127.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Ulithi (West Carolina) [the island's chief in a blood-colored sea is an eel with a man's head; his servants are cannibals with varying numbers of heads; his sister lures victims to Fr. Fais tells the girl that her parents do not love her, since they have not yet taken her to an island in the bloody sea; her parents are taking her, their unloved son was given up earlier; Eel ordered her father to be killed and fried (his name is his name Yol), make a mother (Yath) a slave; the son finds out that the father is dead, cuts a tree to make a boat; the spirit lives on the tree, he restores what was cut down three times; after learning what was going on, the spirit gives the young man a model of the boat, that brings him to Eel Island; he kills the multi-headed guards, the Eel, and the rest of the inhabitants with a stick; spares his mother who secretly fed him; revives his father, returns his parents to Fais]: Lessa 1980, No. 52:89-91; Tuvalu (Niutao Atoll) [Tangatakatoa is the son of a crab; met Falineolangi, they got married, they have sons Punga and Sena; F. warned T. not to be angry while fishing, even if fish will bite off the forest, but T. violated the ban; birds immediately flew in, forming a ladder, F. climbed it to heaven; T. died of grief; the brothers grew up, P. went to the village to look for his wife, did not find it; S. in the last hut met an ugly and dirty girl, promised to marry her; told her to come when he heard a faint scream; first P. shouted loudly, all the beauties of the village came running, P. married; S. shouted softly, came only an ugly girl; her mother bought her in five lagoons and she became beautiful; S. realized that P. was going to kill him out of envy; warned his wife that if the waves turned red, he was dead; the widow gave birth boys Kalisisi and Tofaki; P. killed all wives and took the wife of his murdered brother; the brothers grew up, sailed in a boat on the sea, T. died of thirst, K. tied his body to a log so that the fish would not eat it; the boat docked to the island of the dead; black and white clouds reply that they did not see S., red says that K. recognizes his father among the other dead by a dark mole on his head, tells him to grab him from behind and not let him go until S. will not stop resisting; S. found T., but he has no eyes; S. told all the fish to open their mouths, saw his brother's eyes in the moray eel's mouth; moray eel agreed to return them for promising that S. would make her big eyes; S. put his eyes in, he came to life; all three returned home, P. ran unknown where]: 83-86; Tahiti [Rata's father and father's brothers were swallowed by a huge oyster (clam); because father and uncles R. are already trees have been cut down on the shore, R. is looking for a huge tree in the mountains; with his people he cuts it, cleans branches, pulls the trunk off the mountain; when the workers leave, the elves revive the tree; so twice; on for the third time, R. grabs Tuoi and the craftsman Fefera, lets go for promising to make a boat; they make it; R. is accompanied by four strong warriors on the way; they kill an oyster, take out his father's bones and a living one mother (she was swallowed shortly before R.'s departure), other monsters are being killed]: Henry 1928:468-495 (retelling in Beckwith 1970:266); Tuamotu [when Rata's clay boat is left behind (or, on the contrary, ahead of everyone else, other children say that his father's head was swallowed by a bird and his bodies were eaten by a tridacna; that his mother was buried on her shoulders in the ground to stay alive and serve as a meal stand Chief Puna's wife; R. asks his grandmother to talk about his father; she replies that his father is in a pole at home; R. digs and does not find it; that she herself is his father and mother; R. does not believe; then reports that the Matutu bird, owned by Puna, took his father away, bit off his head, and R.'s mother became a food holder for P.'s wife (or daughter), or she was captured to sacrifice at the altar; R. cuts a tree to make a boat, it is being reborn; he waits for two of the best craftsmen, boat makers, feeds them, they make him a boat; P. sends sea gods (double-leaf, fish, coral rock) to meet them, R. pierces them with a spear; kills the bird M.; in the house of P. R. tricked into filling his basket with crabs, taking them out of P.'s people's baskets; killing P.'s people and himself, taking P.'s daughter]: Henry 1928:495-515 (retelling in Beckwith 1970:267-268); Maori: Beckwith 1970 : 265 [Rata learns that his father has been killed and his bones (eyes) are taken away at sunrise; he cuts down a tree to make a boat, by morning it is unharmed; finds three little people taking the form of forest insects and birds; they ask him to put a fern on a stump; in the morning the boat is ready; R. sails, kills his father's killer], 265-266 [(more in Steinen 1933:332-333); Rata learns from his mother that his father has been killed; cuts down a tree to make boat, tree is being restored; ancestors living in the forest did this; R. puts a fern on a stump, the boat is ready, R. and his companions kill monsters, take revenge], 272 [two children want to save the kidnapped cannibal father; they cut down a tree to make a boat; at the behest of Tane, the tree is reborn]; Reed 1999, No. 7 [Rata, Tawhaki's grandson, came with his warriors to Matuku's house, who killed his father Wahieroa; hung a hinge over the door, he tightened it, cut off his arms and head, which turned into a bittern; the old woman said that his father's bones were taken far away; R. cuts down a tree to make a boat, at night birds and insects restore it, apply it chips back; reproach R. for cutting down the god of the forest; they make a boat for him themselves; R. sails on it to where Ponaturi lives, they play with his father's bones; takes bones; in battle, some of R.'s warriors die, but he revives them; all P. are killed]: 79-85.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [a fat man is missing, the youngest of three sons goes in search; meets a monster, says he is his brother; brings a yak, says he did not eat fatter meat; the monster replies that the father of three sons he ate was fatter; the young man reports this to his brothers; the elders beat the monster; the youngest comes to him again, asks for a sturdy chest to put the offenders in it; climbs inside, testing for strength; asks the monster to climb, because it is stronger; closes the lid, the monster is unable to get out]: Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007:160; Tibetans [the king fears that the rich the merchant will want to take his place; tells the Lame Minister to bring the merchant and the merchant to deliver the sea dragon treasure; he asks for what he needs, including a soothsayer parrot and 500 people, goes to sailing, black and white dragons appear, sink the ship; the wife of the deceased gives birth to a son, secretly brings him up, does not say who his father is; he learned about the father from an old woman, gave her necklaces; the king saw them, made the old woman confess where they came from, told the Lame Minister to deliver the young man; he threatened to kill his mother, the young man comes out of hiding, receives the same task from the king as his father; the fairy promises his mother that the son will return, reports a magical curse; thanks to him, the dragons did not sink the ship, the young man went down to the sea dragon, the princess gave him a treasure; with his help he made a dying mother young and healthy; the king orders to bring a golden pot with a silver spoon from the Rakshasa; the guardian of the Rakshasa country swallows the young man, but is forced to regurgitate, from now on she becomes kind; the Rakshasa queen also swallows it; in terrible pain, asks which end he wants to go from; the young man says that he is the incarnation of Buddha and it is not appropriate for him to go out from behind; the queen belched him, gave him treasures; the young man He sits in a golden pot, he brings it to his mother; the king also wants to fly and visit the Rakshasa country; the young man throws the Rakshasa king to be eaten, he takes the throne himself]: Yao 1986:192-213; Mustang: Kretschmar 1985, No. 16 [the king from the upper reaches and the king from the lower reaches met hunting, agreed to marry children when their wives give birth; the king from the upper reaches is poor, he has a son and the other has a daughter; wild yak Gala Rinchen carried the king away from the upper reaches; he managed to write on the saddle: if the son is worthy, let him take revenge, and if not, let him become a shepherd; the son read, the mother and uncle deny; a man with a bag of wheat came , the young man quietly made a hole, picked up wheat, fried it, called his mother, held her hand, she had to tell about the death of the boy's father; the same with his uncle (a bag of peas); uncle and mother tell me to find his father first the horse; no one can tame him, the prince tamed him; met the king Yaks, suggested: break his right horn, the horse will tear off its right ear, I will break my right thumb; the horse held his ear, the prince bent his finger, yak really broke his horn; then broke his left one, the prince killed him with an arrow; sent three servants to dismember the carcass; they found in the yak's stomach a gold necklace, a knife, a bow and an arrow of the king, they brought only meat to the prince; their prince beat, they got everything back; the prince comes to marry the promised princess, the daughter of the king of the lower reaches of the valley; her three brothers are organizing a groom competition; 1) whose pair of birds will fly together (prince in advance I met the princess at the well; at night she explained how to win: catch two native birds on the roof, they will fly together, and the others will fly on different sides); 2) cover the whole kingdom with cloth (the princess gives a piece fabrics, it grows); 3) ride around the kingdom on horseback with three saddles (everyone hit, the prince galloped four times); 4) eat a whole ram, skin, drink lots of beer; princess: just bite off - you will win); the prince got a wife, took him home; the brothers decided to kill him; the youngest came at night, called his sister, asked which side of the bed she was sleeping on; she lied; he shot, killed not the prince, but his sister; hundreds of people can't lift their bodies, only the prince succeeds; he took the body to the pass, came back, saw smoke, thought someone had lit a funeral fire; when he came there, the princess was alive, said that the owner sent her back to the dead; they hugged each other and died, the birds sprinkled them with water, they came to life again; they smeared oil on the heads of the birds, since then there have been white feathers; the couple forgave the brothers, lived well], 26 [ the demon killed the father, took the boy's mother and uncle to him, who lives with the old woman; after learning about the fate of his parents, he goes to take revenge; the old woman tells him to fall to the demoness's chest and call her mother; therefore, she does not ate a young man, sends him to her husband, tells him to put his right finger in his mouth; he did not eat the young man, says that the demon's mother is on one side of the river, the uncle is on the other; the demon ties the uncle for the night , and during the day he plays a game with him, goes to his mother at night; uncle, then his mother hides the young man under the cauldron, on top of a braided line for scrubbing grain, on it three stones; the demon throws an amulet, which points to a hole under a plain, and there are three mountains on it; the demon thinks the amulet is useless; the demon's soul is in a staff and in a partridge; the young man broke his staff, tore off the head of the partridge, the demon broke in half, lost his head; the young man freed his uncle, waving his white yak tail to his mother; brought him to the demon's palace, where his mother; they unlocked all the rooms, including gold, silver, turquoise; one room could hardly find a rusty key; in it women were alive and the dead, hungry, eat their own knees; the young man waved his yak tail, the old women are younger; he goes to visit the old woman with whom he lived; frees a snake tied to a tree, then a bird, others animals; rejuvenated the old woman; she says that his fiancée is in the house across the river; bamboo on both banks of the river bent, forming a bridge, the young man crossed it; saw a heavenly fairy through the window, 7 days later she opened the door; he needed a flower; the fairy told her to be killed, flowers would grow out of blood; he killed her, collected flowers, then revived it with a yak tail; the old people who received flowers were younger; everything is fine], 28 [old woman, Lhawa Döndrub, who sheltered the boy, said that the demon killed his father and took his mother away; he goes to take revenge; another old woman tells the demoness to fall to her chest and call her mother; she tells her to shove big the demon's fingers in his mouth, then he will not eat it; he tells him to go only during the day, the young man's mother is across the river; the demon senses that his wife's son has come, advises him to pretend to be sick, send his son 1) for the tigress's milk; After shooting at the tiger, LD shot him off a goiter, a grateful tiger gave him milk and a medium tiger cub to boot; 2) behind Garuda's pen; LD killed a snake that was about to eat Garuda's four chicks; she gives a feather and one a chick; 3) a golden pen from the demon brother's forehead; the tiger jumped on his chest, Garuda grabbed the pen, the demon shouted that he would go; they brought him in, LD killed his mother and her demon husband; went to look for the bride; from the king three daughters, LD chose the youngest when they came for water, but the king did not give it up; Garuda found the heavenly fairy's home, LD married her; they planted two trees: if someone was in trouble, it would dry up; while LD was hunting, an old woman came to the fairy to watch the dogs and cattle; she guessed that the LD's life in a golden dagger threw it into the fire, LD fell dead; then the old woman invited the fairy to feed the fish rice, drowned it; Garuda I saw that the trees had dried up, a friendly demon (who had a pen on his forehead) threw the amulet, found out that the old woman was to blame; she was tied, nailed to a tree, the remnants of the golden dagger were taken out of the hearth; everything good {no details}]: 105-110, 154-157, 165-168.

South Asia. North India, Mirzapur, Hindi [the king has seven sons; he died, the eldest reigned; the younger has a gold-haired rani; the yogi came to beg; refuses to take it from the servant, then from princes and the king, agrees to take her from the younger wound; turns her into a dog, then into a rider, takes her to him; when she leaves, separates the body from the head; the head is under the ceiling, the body sleeps on the bed; the king with brothers come in the absence of yoga; the old woman turns them into flies; the yogi comes back, senses the person; leaves again; the old woman helps to connect the body and head of the wound, they run, but the yogi makes them come back and everyone kills, but Rani remains the same; the wife of one of the brothers gave birth to a son; the other boys laugh: he has neither a father nor an uncle; the mother talks about everything; he comes to an old woman, she connects her body and rani's head; the young man tells Rani to find out what yoga's life is; first the yogi replies that his life is on fire, then gives other answers; finally reports that there are forests beyond the 7 seas, guarded by a couple of tigers and 900 witches; in sandalwood in the forest, with a golden cage with a diamond parrot on it; the young man called tigers and witches uncles and aunts, they missed him; he explained that the yogi sent him for a parrot and they gave it to him; a young man tore off the parrot's legs, the yoga's legs immediately came off; ordered his father, uncle and everyone else to be revived; the yogi revived, then the young man killed the parrot; connected the aunt's body and head; everything is fine]: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 501:135 -136; Oraons [gaur (a type of bull) killed a man by lifting him to his horns; his son grew up; firing an arrow, smashed jugs on the heads of seven girls who came for water; they scolded him without a father; mother told how his father died; the boy made many arrows, came to the pond; when the jackal came to drink, did not let him drink, told him to bring the 16-horned deer; did not let the chital antelope go; she told the gaura, he rushed at the boy, could not care; the boy shot him and killed him; found his father's corpse on his horns; began to cry; in the sky, Mahadeo and Parvati hear crying, go down, revive the boy's father]: Elwin 1944, No. 1.11: 39-40.

Taiwan - Philippines. Tingian [Aponibolinaen says he wants oranges from Gavigaven's garden (he has six heads); her husband Aponitolau asks, she calls a different garden each time; he bears fruit, tears it up; after hearing the truth, Aponitalau goes to G.; all the omens are bad; the spider leader carries him across the rampart to the village of G.; G. demands to eat the buffalo carcass (ants, flies eat); G. offers to climb for fruit, the tree has knife branches, A. is cut; before death he sends home a spear with strung fruits; the wife gives birth to a son Kanag; K. goes to G., all the omens are good; G. throws an ax, K. stands at him; blows down five G. heads with a spear; revives his father from the remains, who is unable to cut off the sixth head, K. cuts it off himself]: Rybkin 1975, No. 37:93-102; payvan [Puł ałuyałuyan went to fight against the Tjuavudas people who robbed and killed; he was killed, his body and head were put on stakes; his son Simidalu grew up and asked his mother about his father; she did not want to tell, but other people told; S. went and killed many C.; found his father's bones; told them to unite; grow flesh; come to life; son and father both returned, surrounded by five rainbows and issuing victorious ones screams]: Whitehorn, Earle 2003, #5:59.

China - Korea. The Chinese [boas lived on Mount Changbaishan; Liu Yong-jun ("Liu Forever Beautiful") asks his mother about her father; she replies that his grandfather, five of his brothers, killed them, and their king and queen remained; grandfather hit the male boa boa with an arrow, but the female managed to spray poison on him, revived her husband; when he died, the grandfather told his son to fight with Boas only after he learned to fire two arrows at the same time; the son trains, not can shoot two arrows, dies like a grandfather; Liu has learned to fire two arrows; he is warned of the dangers of Birch (in the guise of an old man), Raven (old woman), Vine (guy), boy (ginseng root, who is guarded by Boas), Frog, Bird; he does not drink water from the river (poison), does not lie down on a wicker bed in a cave (it is made of snakes), on a board on a bare tree (tree is a snake, a fork is a mouth, a board is a tongue); he sleeps on Fish's back in the river; hits both Snakes with two arrows at once; gets ginseng, snake eyes (pearls); boas have turned into two mountain ranges, scree stones turn red because of their blood]: Riftin 1972:279-293 (1993:342-356); Koreans: Cho 2001, No. 93 [the famous hunter is missing; his son is laughed at by other children; mother admits that his father was eaten by a tiger; tells her son first practice archery; an old woman in the mountains says the same; becoming accurate, a young man meets an old man, notices his tiger fangs, kills; meets an old woman, a young woman, a young man; everyone replies that he is in a hurry, because her or his husband, father-in-law, wife was killed; these are tigers, a young man is killing them; an old huge tiger swallowed him; inside a living princess; together they cut a way out; while they slaughter, Tiger turns to the Bear Witch Doctor, who advises him to eat fruit, drink water; the young man and the princess eat it; the tiger dies, they go out; they return home; wedding]: 160-165; Kontsevich 1982b [from Hamdalpha, king Yongseong Country ("dragon fortress", possibly Jeju Island), the queen of the land of women gave birth to an egg after seven years of pregnancy; H. ordered it to be placed in a casket, let it go to sea with her servants, and jewelry; an old woman finds a chest on the shore, a boy finds himself in it, he becomes the founder of the state of Silla]: 459.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays: Aleinikov 1883, No. 1 [Achi's 6 adult sons died at the hands of Khubun; A. stole a herd of H., H. overtook him and killed him; Achi Nasyran's brother drove up to the Kuban, but could not cross; from his wife Achi was born a boy, and two years later he is already playing with others; they say that his father is not avenged; they teach him to make his mother tell me everything: ask for hot halva and hold her hand; the mother confesses; says that his father had left heavy weapons and three horses; Acimez tamed the horse, took up arms, crossed the Kuban; N. approached with fear, Achimez convinced him that he was Achi's son; stole the herd of H.; began to fight with H., pretended to lose consciousness; H. brought him to his home; at night, Achimez cut off his head, took his young wife, returned to his homeland, becoming ruler]: 139-144; Stamboliev 1896, No. 10 [ 10-year-old Yetsemei offends the other boys; the mother of one of them says that it is better for him to try his hand at Cuba, his father's killer; E. asks his mother to hand hot roasted corn, clamps his hand, forcing him to tell the truth; mother shows where a horse stands in the tower behind the iron doors; E. tames him; meets his father's sister, hijacks and hands her herds K.; K. comes on a six-legged horse; four for days they shoot at each other, every night K.'s wife takes bullets out of him, heals him; K. brings the killed E.; his wife revives him, says that in the twentieth chest there is a knife that can kill K.; E. cuts him off head, takes his wife; on the way back, the sledge Sosruk demands a woman for himself; E. dies in battle]: 76-88; Balkarians [The Gezokhovs had 60 horsemen, they died of illness, a pregnant woman, his wife remained one of the Gezokhovs; gave birth to a boy named Sozar; Aksak-Temir raised him; S. asked if his father had any property and weapons left; he showed his weapon and gave a bridle; she should be called, father's the herd will come running, and the horse that comes first should be saddled; the foal came running, instantly grew up, became a heroic horse; the horse teaches that if you steal the end of Elijah, lightning will kill the Nart prince Temir-Chokka, that S. will carry out blood feud for his father; the horse jumped over the bridge, and S. shot down an eagle with an arrow that flew to inform Elijah; horse: in Eliya's herd there is a white stallion with a golden tail; he, a horse, will fight with him, and if he overcomes, we must ride him; S. managed to tie a copper trough to the tail of his new horse; after that, lightning killed Temir-Chokka; S. healed richly]: Tulchinsky 1903:53-56; Adygs: Aliyeva et al. 1974 (Temirgoyevtsy) [Khymysh marries a girl from the Ispov family; she promises to leave him if he calls her a little misfortune; once she hesitated to cook, Khamysh broke his promise, the Spanish daughter left, gave birth to Pataraz; Pshi Maruk killed Khamysh; the sledges took P., gave birth to Zhokoyan; fearing that the blood of the swamps and sledges, the elders, who combined the blood, would destroy sledges, they advise to destroy P.; J. leaves him, the shepherds pick him up; P. grows up, accidentally meets M., he, without recognizing P., says that he went to temper a sword blunted by Khamysh's body; P. asks to let him look on the sword; the horse does not allow P. to take the sword by the blade; P. takes the handle, kills M.]: 275-278; Huth 1987 (shapsugi) [Tlegutse-jache kills Yashche, takes his land; kills his six sons who have come to take revenge; them mother gives birth to Ashamez, hides it from people; he goes out to play, gets into a fight with another boy, his mother advises him to take revenge for his father; A. asks his mother to cook hot porridge, puts her hand in the porridge, forcing him talk about her father; she shows the cellar where Y.'s weapons, armor and horse are hidden; A. steals T.'s herds along with sledges; A.'s arrows bounce off T.'s shell, T.'s arrows injure A.; he pretends to be dead; thrown overnight in the stable; T.'s wife cares for him, gives him T.'s sword, he kills them T.]: 33-40; Kabardian people [having reached the Volga, the sledge sends Nesrenzhak for young Ashemez; he is still a boy; the other the boy he almost killed because of the alchikov tells him that it would be better for him to avenge his father; the murderer knows his mother; A. pretended to be sick, asked his mother to fry barley, clenched her hands in which he was hot barley, making me say how his father died]: Lopatinsky 1891b: 51-58; Ossetians: Dzagurov 1972, No. 33 [comrades reproach the young man: first find your father, and then quarrel with us; he tells his mother fry corn and clamps her hand; she has to say that her father was kidnapped by a giant, and her father's horse is head over heels in manure; she does not believe that her son will be able to raise his father's sword; the young man came out the horse, easily raises his sword, leaves, the horse shows the way; the young man whips the giant's decayed corpse: come to life, but be blind; the lively one says that his wife was stolen by the same giant who took the boy's father; at night tries to throw trees and stones at the young man; the young man turns him back into a corpse; the young man finds a giant, cut off six heads, told him where his father is, then cut off his seventh head; on the way there are mountains, the horse slipped through, only cut off the half-tail; the young man's father is a shepherd, cleaning his fur coat for lice; the young man brought the giant's ears to his wife; she tells the giant's mother to be afraid; the young man killed her, but she cursed him: he will not be peace until the daughter of the king of genies gets; the horse teaches to give the birds millet, drink from the spring and praise the water, throw a ram to iron-faced wolves; lubricate the door hinges; the young man found the girl and lives with her for a month; then they loaded all their property on all the felt and galloped away; the young man destroyed the pursuing army, but one warrior killed him with a dagger; the fox licked the blood, the woman killed him; the fox bought him In the source, the fox came to life; then the woman revived her murdered husband; he says that he was about to marry the daughter of Barastur, the lord of the afterlife; the young man again whipped that giant and gave him him Wife kidnapped by a seven-headed giant; the young man returned to his wife's home, everything is fine]: 91-99; Liberinsky 1978 [Satana hides from Batrazd that his father Khamyts was killed; Akhsartaggat is sent the wind to tell B. that H. is killed; he asks S. to fry grains for him and at hand; clamps his hand; S. calls murderers from the Borat family; he kills murderers]: 362-371; Ingush [nart father is killed by a seven-headed sea wampal; when he dies, the father does not tell his son about this until his 15th birthday; at the age of 12, the son asks his mother to give him roasted wheat, clamps her hand, she confesses, explains how to get it out of the dungeon a heroic horse (sitting on others, the young man breaks their backs); the young man is accompanied by a prince; when a young man descends into the sea to fight with the Vampals, the prince leaves, taking the horse; the young man kills the Vampals from one to seven-headed; it is not blood that flows out, but snakes, cockroaches and other insects come out (the origin of evil spirits); at home, a young man rescues his mother from the chicken coop, kills the prince, marries his daughter]: Malsagov 1983, No. 13:87-91 (also see note 7 on p. 327: Sarmak - serpent, dragon, sometimes polyheaded); Nogai: Nogai 1979, No. 22 [the old man raised the bull, threw the ground; decided he was strong, went to fight Elmavyz Shylpuvyr Shylpyk; shepherds offer to cut and cut the skin into pieces, the old man cannot; the same applies to herds, shepherds; the mother of the SHSH tries to hide the old man, but the SHSH killed him; the wife of the murdered man gave birth to sons named Alsuvdir and Soyun-Ali; they play with children, break someone's arm, their mother advises them to break the arm of their father's killer; they ask their mother to fry corn, put her hand on a hot pot , she is forced to talk about her father; on the way they carry out the tasks of shepherds, etc.; they easily kill ShSH and his friend; SA goes home kindly, and A. comes to the shepherd, asks; he herds the khan's herds, living on the other side of the sea; says, "Break up, sea!" , goes over, then says, "Close up, sea!" ; licks the feet of the khan's three daughters with his tongue; A. kills the shepherd, puts on his clothes, comes under his guise, strokes the girls' feet with a cow's tongue; one day asks the girls for a comb, only the youngest gives it; A. puts her golden hair in the comb, returns the comb; the youngest falls in love with A.; the gardener gives Khan's eldest daughter rotten apples, the middle daughter is half rotten, the youngest is good; the wise men say that It's time to marry the daughters (the eldest has already faded); the khan tells his daughters to throw an apple at the grooms; the elders throw khans at the sons, the youngest at the shepherd; A. tells us who he is; wedding; A.'s mother is blind by tears, and when I saw him again, I saw the light]: 116-120; Plaeva 2015 (Kuban only) [first published in 1940 in the newspaper; retelling about Kapaev 2004:474-476; Crimean Khan Kuba became a guest of Ashshy Batyr; after a feast, a herd took him away in the morning; A. chased, but was killed; after the death of her husband, his pregnant wife gave birth to Ashamai; from the children he had beaten in alchiki, he learned about the death of his father; asked his mother for a handful of hot fried corn, clenched her hand, she had to tell about her father; in his father's armor and on his horse, Ashamay went to K.; after a three-day fight, he pretended to be dead; K. dragged him on an arcana, left in the yard; K.'s wife washed his body and Ashamay recovered; K. dreams that Ashamay took out his sword and cut off his head; his wife calms down, but when the couple fell asleep, Ashamay took out K.'s sword, cut off his head, blood leaked into a wineskin, lay down with his wife; in the morning tells her to follow him; the wife did not immediately realize that it was not her husband; at home, Ashamay gave his mother K.'s head, blood and jewelry, married his enemy's widow]: 39-41; aguly [Rustam killed gazelle while hunting; a man came up and said that instead of taking prey from poor people like him, R. should have brought the head of his grandfather, which is in Boloy's fortress deva; R. gave the gazelle to the poor man, asked his father, who confirmed that Grandfather R.'s head was in the Deva fortress on an island at sea; R. went there with the merchants; he was told to wait until morning when the guards will leave; R. took his head, handed it to the merchants, stole the White Maiden from the elephant, killed him; R. Rahsh died of tension; after interrupting everyone who was in the fortress, R. returned home]: Maysak 2014, No. D4.3:67-77; the Megrels [Marganiev's three brothers are leaving successively, each telling him to wait for him for 3 years; not come back; the youngest's wife gave birth to a son, Jimsha; he grew up, threw a stone into a woman's jug and smashed it; woman: would you know better where your father and uncles were; mother and aunts denied everything; D. broke the jug again women, she repeated what she had said; the mother had to let D. go; he caught up, took the Black Horseman as his companion; he still strives to steal cattle and return; they reached the Lom-Tariel herd; there are black, white and red horses, they try to escape, but the evil stallion does not let them in; D. slaughtered the stallion, then three brothers, drove them away by a herd, then sheep and oxen; gave everything to Black, keeping only his father's horses and uncle; Black gave him his daughter, D. promised to come in 3 years; killed other suitors at races; wedding; after Black's death, D. inherited his kingdom; three apples fell from the sky: one to the audience, the other to me, the third one passing silently]: Gachava et al. 1890:16-22.

Baltoscandia. Scandinavians [King Horwendil of Denmark married Rorik's daughter Geruda; they have a son, Amled; brother H. Fengo killed him out of envy and married G.; she allegedly suffered from H.'s arbitrariness; in order not to arouse his uncle's suspicion, A. pretended to be insane; but not everyone believed it; they decided to slip a woman into him, but this is not helped to understand whether A. was ill or just pretending; one of F.'s close associates offered to hide in straw and overhear A.'s conversation with her mother when they were alone; A., still imitating madness, killed who hid, cut him to pieces, poured it all into pigs; then he reproached his mother for betraying her late husband; they began to look for F.'s close associate, A. said that pigs ate him, no one believed him; then F. sent A. with two companions to the King of Britain; A. found a request from the satellites to kill A., replaced him with a request to kill the companions themselves; did not eat anything at King A.'s feast; said that the bread was splattered blood, drink tastes like iron, meat smells like corpses and a crypt, the king has the eyes of a slave, and the queen has the manners of a servant; when he learned this, the king began to find out; it turned out that the bread was grown on the site of an old battle; the pigs ate the robber's rotting corpse; the water for the drink came from a well containing rusty swords (or that the mead was made from honey from bees that ate the fat of the dead); the king's mother admitted that he born to a slave, and the Queen's mother was a maid; appreciated A.'s wisdom, the King of Britain gave him his daughter, and hanged his companions; returning to Denmark, unrecognized A. watered wine to everyone at the feast; fell asleep; A. threw heavy curtains on them and burned down the palace; when he entered F., swapped his swords; A.'s sword was jammed with a nail in his sheath, F. could not pull it out, A. hacked him]: Saxon Grammar 2017 (1): III.3.6:106-116; Kalevala, runes 31-36 [31. The woman has three sons. Of these, Untamo stayed at home, and Kallervo went to Karelia. They quarreled with fish over nets, and Untamo killed his brother and his warriors. A pregnant woman from all over the family survived, and her son Cullervo is born captive in Untamola. He's been thinking about revenge since he was a baby. They try to destroy him: they throw him into the sea in a barrel (swims out), burn him in the fire (whole), hang him on an oak tree (alive). He was allowed to watch the baby, and he killed him. They let him clear the field, he knocked down the entire forest and bewitched the field to prevent barley from growing on it. They let them weave a wattle fence - he made an impassable fence out of logs. They let me thresh - the rye turned to dust. Untamo then sold it to Ilmarinen (Var.: just a merchant; {the connection with Ilmarinen was invented by Lönrot; according to the logic of the story, the woman must be related to Untamo}). 32. Ilmarinen's wife appoints Cullervo as a shepherd and angrily bakes a stone in his bread. Cullervo breaks a knife against him. This is the only thing he inherited from his relatives, and he is terribly angry. On the advice of the crow, Cullervo drives the cows into the swamp, brings home a herd of wolves and bears, which tear the owner to pieces. Kullervo runs away from Ilmarinen, learns from an old woman that his father, mother, brother and sister are alive, and finds them on the border of Lapland. His mother thought he was dead. Cullervo is of little use at work. Dad sends him to take him to file. On the way back, he meets his sister, who disappeared as a child after going for berries and seduces her without getting to know her. Realizing that she is together with her brother, the sister rushes into the waterfall. Cullervo's mother forbids killing herself. He decides to take revenge on Untamo 36. Cullervo kills everyone in Untamo. When he returns, he finds an empty house and only a black dog. He comes to the place where he seduced his sister, stabs himself with a sword].

Turkestan. Salary (Ujirem, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [General Wuusyn killed his sister's husband; she gave birth to a son; his children teased him: "You are a child who does not have a father!" ; the boy asked his mother about his father, who replied that the father was dead; the boy heated sand in the spoon and locked the door; the mother came and told him to open the door; the boy opened her slightly and asked for her hand; when the mother she put her hand through the door, put hot sand on her hand and asked her where her father had gone; her mother admitted that V. had killed her father; the horse that the boy's father rode and the sword he fought with said that they will help take revenge; the boy came to V.'s house, demanded that his father's soul be returned; V. went to the steppe with his army; the boy sat in the saddle, picked up his sword and closed his eyes; the horse and sword destroyed the army; the boy tied V.'s hair to his horse's tail; V. was torn to pieces; the boy returned home and killed his mother]: Tenishev 1964, No. 5:14-15.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [before his death, Father Myoge Bayan-Dalay (DB) sent him for Lama Koldu-Burgan; he came and began to read sacred books, but the camp was surrounded by enemies - brothers Ak-Khan and Kadyn-Kara; BD's horse tells him to aim higher, because the brothers will jump, but the DB did not listen, the arrow flew by; he himself did not jump, was killed; his pregnant wife Sai-Kuu fled to the steppe, gave birth to a son Kara-Kogel; through He has been walking and talking for three days; asks his mother about animals, from small to large, easily kills them with stones; his mother taught them how to bow and shoot; KK brought 6 bears at once; his mother does not tell me to go to sacred mountain; he went, the mountain is moving, it is a giant maral that eats the forest like grass; KK hit a vulnerable place on the forehead where animal hair is; ripped open the belly of the maral, and many people came out alive from there ( this episode on p. 102); KK made a home out of the skin of this maral; the mother sent the KK to meet his grandfather Aldyn-Aas; he is going to marry Manchyn-Ege Khan's daughter; people without an ear; without an arm; without a leg; they say they were attacked by two eagles; two birds of Han-Hereti; two lions; this was when they went to Mancheung-ege-Khan; AA gives the DB a name that the mother only vaguely said: Kara-Kogel riding a horse Arzylan-Kyskyl; this horse has no cracks between its ribs; AA remains with KK's mother, and is sent to Mynchyn-Ege-Khan; DB's father married her to him at one time, gave him steel bars and scissors; to cross the sea, KK fired an arrow, it scattered the passage between the waters; the khan of the competition, the winner will get his daughter; the son of the moon, the son of the sky, the son of the sun participate; the KK arrow passed through the needle eye, through the hole of the shoulder blade, set fire to a bunch of firewood, etc., but he threw a lasso over it and returned it; compete to run from a place where heaven meets the ground; the strongmen sent fairies instead of them; they gave KK a drink - he fell poisoned dead; the horse ran away, pushed the jug away, the winds revived the KK, he overtook the old women, dragged those who wanted to hold him with hooks; jumps, those old women on horseback, the horse tells me not to look back; AA turned around, saw his mother's chest, fell to her, fell poisoned; the horse woke him up, he overtook the old women; to fight the strongman for 90 days; in winter only hoarfrost creaked under his feet, in summer the dew rustled; AA his overcame and buried him in a hole; fighting a strongman from which sparks fall; AA beat him with an icy fur coat, threw him into the sea; defeat a bull, AA threw a bull for a stone scree; fighting three bears; in winter frost creaked under their feet, the dew rustled in the summer; all three KK threw against the rocks; these strongmen are from the lower world, they licked the arrow, vowing not to attack again; horse: they will demand me for the bride, don't give me up iron fetters; but Malchin-ege Khan took the horse along with his fetters; they gave the KK a drink at the feast, he was attacked by heroes; the KK shouted: Earth is my mother, Heaven is my father, where are you? Stones fell from the sky, destroyed half of the Khan's squad; his wife brought the KK to her, and in the morning he called out again to Earth and Heaven, asking them to be benevolent; the sun shone, half of those killed came to life; broken The KK melted the bronze bowl and poured it again; the KK horse almost died of thirst and hunger, but the khan's little son let him go and gave him water; the horse was offended by the KK for giving it along with the fetters, but then forgave him him; after visiting his looted camp, KK saw the remains of a long-dead man; this is his father; KK smeared his bones with drugs, the body revived; hit the whip with a golden handle and jumped over - man got up, but could not speak; from the book, Sudur KK learned that the magic mouse had carried the vocal cords across 7 layers of earth, 9 layers of dust; KK became an ermine, caught up, killed the mouse, returned the ligaments, put it in his father's mouth; The DB came to life, but the KK told him to look after the house, and went to take revenge; learned from the shepherds that life was hard under the new owners; invited Ak-Khan and Kadyn-Kara to shoot at each other the way they shot with his father; their arrow bounced off the KK's chest and crumbled, his arrow pierced both at once; the KK returned the people to their original place of nomadic]: Grebnev 1960:87-141; South Altai Tuvans [Burgan Burush buried his only son; sees how old Erlik and three mangys are going to tear the corpse apart; hides from them behind their daughter-in-law who has just given birth; mangys decide to chase BB first; daughter-in-law raises son in a hole in the yurt floor; the boy wins the shooting, others say that he should not wonder, since the mangys ate his father and are chasing his grandfather; the boy asks his mother to fry wheat, puts his mother's hands in the hot cauldron; she talks about her father and grandfather; becoming a falcon, the young man soars to the sky, learns from the Wind that the mangys have cut off BB's escape path; kills mangys and old woman Erlik with arrows; satisfied BB turned into smoke flew to Gurmust Haan]: Taube 1994, No. 32:242-244; Tofalars [the hunter disappears; his son Ulugen grows up, wants to kill an owl; she tells him about his father, teaches him what to do; W. comes to valley of flowers; at night a girl tells him to go to the yellow stripe at dawn, then he will see it; W. grabs the strip immediately, it is a woman's sash; if he waited until dawn, he would be blind with beauty girls are like other hunters; he threatens to tear the sash; the girl returns Father W. and the other bewitched; they were 77 flowers; when they turned into people, they are blind; W. burns the sash, smears blind eyes ash, they see the light; the girl loses her witchcraft power, W. marries her]: Sherkhunaev 1975:272-277 (quail in Sangi 1989:136-140); tubals (black Tatars; zap. Adrianov): Potanin 1883, No. 109 [Karatti Khan Star, Kara Gula threatens war; Karatta Khan's wife gave birth, he hid the child under the roots of a birch tree; KG takes everyone to the full, the old man and the old woman remain, they find the child, he grew up, went to look for his father, his name was Tastarakai, he took the form of a bald shepherdess; the blue bull said that the soul of KG is in three quails, in a golden box, in the stomach of a maral; a maral rose to heaven, a bull with T. too (the bull became a star, T. became a mouse); T. cut his stomach, opened the box, brought quails; KG is sick, T. said that he was a doctor, he was let in, he looked heroic, killed KG; T. came to his father and mother, the people gave him the name Kan-Uletey], 174 [Aksar-Atty Altyn-Tana has no children; goes to Kara-Muke Kara-dor-Atta to take away his wife; cannot wear a heavy chain mail; killed, Kara-Muke comes to kill his son; the more he hits the baby against the stone, the faster he grows; this is Altyn-Chobe, he throws the father's murderer to his wife in his bosom; the mother gives him his father's horse; (more a long story about his marriage and exploits)], 182 (recorded in p. Uybat, father of an informant from Kuznetskaya Chernya) [the old man's three daughters do not want to let their father look for the missing herd; he goes, drives a herd, the mare does not want to go across the lake; he sifts the sand from the bottom through beard; the mare passes, the big dog grabs his beard; he is forced to promise her a daughter; the youngest agrees, the dog is taking her overseas; in the barn, the girl finds decapitated female bodies and heads heroes; the dog turns out to be Kan-mergen; they visit the sisters' husbands; KM gets drunk, beheaded; his son Kumus-Irgek grows up quickly, kills his uncle, revives his father; (more about him heroic matchmaking)]: 371-373, 566-577, 618-622; Altaians [Altai-Buuchay stayed hunting for seven (or thirty) years; his wife (together with her daughter or husband's sister) sends a letter on the wings of a duck in a camp of two khans; during a wedding feast, A. returns; women help her new husbands kill him: peas are poured under her husband's feet, flour (or her husband is a mare's last, khans - pine cones); A. dies, his son is killed or maimed (mother cuts off the baby's legs with sheep scissors); they are resurrected by loyal animals (horse, hunting dogs, falcons); A. offers traitors choose a scraper or nulliparous mare as a gift; accordingly, it rips off their skin, cuts them apart or tears them with horses]: Suruzakov 1961 in Lipetsk 1983:67; Khakas: Balter 1958:38-44 [Mool Khan s The army is at war on Ochen Maatura and his shepherds; OM dies in battle; his wife Kunari hides in a cave, gives birth to twins Syb and Sygda; brothers grow up, kill a bear on the other side of the rocks, Mool Khan found out about them; sent a son with an army, the brothers killed the army, the son fled; Mool Khan calls his brothers to his place, offers to compete who shoots more animals; brothers shoot beaks and claws of birds of prey and animals, Mool Khan's hunters are shamed; Mool Khan tells the warriors to attack the brothers, they win; Mool Khan runs, the brothers take his cattle; Mool Khan later tried to attack the brothers; they still live por], 74-78 [Chathan invented a stringed instrument, began to play, people and animals listened; the one-eyed Aina heard sounds, came from behind the mountain, killed C., took the instrument, stole herds; C.'s grandson grew up, began to kill birds, came to the house of the seven Ainu near the cave; held out an arrow, put a cow's breast on it, took it away; the Aina counted the bones, did not find the bones from the brisket, realized that C.'s grandson had grown up; he was in this I overheard for time; when he returned home, dug a trap hole in front of the house, began to play his grandfather's instrument {it's not said how he returned it}; Aina came, fell into a hole, died; C.'s grandson started playing, the cave opened, herds came out of it, C.'s grandson brought them back; the instrument is now called "chatkhan"]; Dagurs: Bender, Su Huana 1984:31-43 [Angar Mergen wins the competition; hears the old man asks why he won't release his father; asks his mother to tell me everything; she explains that on his way back from a fur hunt, AM's father met a 9-headed mangie named Yeladengayar and his relatives; they everyone was killed, AM's father was captured; one man ran away, said he also died; the mother shows where his grandfather's sword and spear are in the pantry; AM rides, wins along the way, captivates mangie; learns from him that Y. has a wife and three children; kills Y., frees father, kills wife and sons Y.], 92-102 [younger brother falls ill and dies; the elder met a monster in the forest who let him go for promising to bring him human eyes; he blinded his brother's widow, brought her eyes; placed his little nephew and niece in a hut; the servant takes care of them; the uncle orders the children to be left in the forest, but the house has already been prepared there; the servant reports the flying horse on which the father rode summons the horse, burning the stems of wormwood; with a horse a weapon; for the first time a boy (his name Hareladi Mergen) cannot pull a bow, hold the horse; after two years he becomes strong, finds his father's horse and weapon; the uncle's wife overhears the servant's conversation with the blinded; the uncle goes to XM, calls to hunt, kills by shooting in the back; the sister turns into a hare; the horse tells her to go the lake where three heavenly fairies fly; we must steal their feather clothes, bring them to him, the horse; the fairies find the murdered young man, guess everything, revive him; they bring them to their house; the hare whispers, that she is his sister, tells fairies who have a kinder heart to be tested; when leaving, XM consistently leaves the hare with the older, middle, younger fairies; the hare spoils their sewn; the first two scold and beat her, the third says that the seam on the boots was bad, strokes and cares for the hare; XM marries the younger fairy; the wife gives XM magic wands, turns it into a golden hornet so that he can regain his mother's eyes; XM flies into the monster's ear, climbs into his chest, stings his heart; when he gets outside, finds a pantry full of human eyes; takes his mother's eyes away, restores her vision; the uncle asks XM to get the snake in The East Sea and a wild boar in the Northern Mountains; in the form of a hornet, XM climbs inside a boar (and, apparently, a snake), they are powerless to do anything, he leads them, ties them to the gate; uncle and wife go out alone ate a boar, another snake; XM lives well with his family]; Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 8 (Western: Bayandaevsky District, Irkutsk Region) [Mangadhai won and killed Borhon Tulay; his wife ran to give birth in talnik, gave birth to twins, left them with breast milk shangi; mangadhai took her away; the boys grew up, the horse told them who they; one of the brothers went to the mangadhai; the horse shows where the father's bones are, the young man placed them inside the mountain; the horse says that the soul of a mangadhai is in 13 quails; young man 10 killed at once, three when he sees a mangadhai, that died; in the mangadhaya house, the young man's mother holds a mangadhai's wife in her arms to urinate; the young man tells her to be abandoned; she has fallen down, promises that the mangadhai will tear out the woman's eye and break her arm; the mother recognizes her son's horse; they return home with mangadhai goods]: 143-147; Eliasov 1959 (no place of recording) []: 152-173; (cf. The Mongols [Khan Shaazgai hunted, caught only two wild boars; the servants went into the yurt, asked the hostess to allow them to fry; they watched her make birds out of paper and let them fly; at this time, meat it burned down; the hostess baked two boars from the dough, which was enough for a whole army; the next time the khan caught a lot of game, but there was not enough meat; ordered him to be brought to a woman, took his husband Azhindai as his wife put it in a chest, loaded it on a horse, let the horse go; the boy born asks his mother why he is called Ahindai Mergen's son; finds his father, pacifies his camel, horse and dogs, gives him broth, revives; wife comes to them; khan chases; A. runs first, son after him, mother by son, they rise to heaven, turn into three bright stars that seem to run after each other {in the test -" Pleiades", but clearly the Orion Belt}]: Skorodumova 2003:22-26).

Western Siberia. The Nenets [Han Hadengoth and seven Soho brothers kill owner Yabt Salam; his young daughter and son stay with their grandmother; XX takes his daughter, promises to kill her son; the girl takes her brother, runs on the ice floes across the strait; they enter house XX, his mother quietly gives them meat; they enter the house of seven Soho brothers who participated in the murder of their father; their sister helps them, gives them their father's bow; S. returns, boy kills them with onions; wins and kills XX.; children find mother; boy marries sister S.]: Kupriyanova 1960, No. 16:140-146; Northern Khanty (Malaya Ob) [seven stone-eyed heroes come; each of the seven sons of old Lampaska, old man Wampaska, asks his father for his shell; he does not give, his son dies, his scalp is thrown on a tree; the younger daughter-in-law gives birth to a boy, he quickly He grows up, notices scalps on a tree, goes to take revenge; on the way he hits a bear who has come out to meet him three times; he turns into his grandfather, offers a shell, the young man rejects him; then he gives a ball of thread; When he comes to the sea, the young man throws a ball, crosses the bridge to the other side; stone-eyed heroes promise him a sister as a wife, lock him in a stone house, set it on fire; the young man's heavenly father lowers his shell and a sword, a young man kills heroes, throws their scalps on a tree, brings his wife home]: Lukina 1990, No. 35:136-141; Mansi: Popova 2001, No. 3 [hero White Pine Nut Kernel (BYA) marries Russian; she persuades him to go to the Ob for fish; in the parking lot she pretends that the child is crying because his father is wearing chain mail; sews up the bottom of the removed chain mail, spoils the arrow and bow; the Russian hero attacks, BYU cannot put on chain mail, shoot; killed; his scalp is hung on larch on an island up the river; his mother offers to kill the baby, the Russian assures that the boy will consider him his father; the boy is strong, in the game, he hurts and kills other children; they ask where his strong hand was when his father was killed; he asks his stepfather to make him a boat, sails to the island, finds, buries his father's bones and scalp; brother He notices the victim from the shore, hardly catches the arcana, admits his nephew; they all sail together to the boy's mother; he kills his stepfather with an arrow, tells his mother to be tied by the braids to the boat; they swim until the body women do not fall apart]: 21-37; Chernetsov 1935 [it is not said that the wife is Russian; without catching her nephew with an arcana; stepfather is killed by BYA's brother; a woman is nailed to the bottom of a boat, trampled]: 112-118; northern Selkups (recorded and processed by E. Smorgunova, 1991) [Pyunokos drowned a woman in her husband's lake, took her for himself; she begged her not to kill her newborn son, to leave the cradle under the tree; orders that raindrops become milk for him, so that he turned around and wrapped himself, got off the cradle and climbed back; the boy grew up, became a pike, swam to his mother; the mother tells me to open his mouth: if drops of her milk fall into him, then it is her son; son tells her daughter P. to put a needle bed in bed; the needles will start stabbing, the girl will cry; I must tell P. that she is crying because she wants to know where the heart and liver are P; P.: on the island of the storage shed on the pole, they are there; the woman removed the needle bed, the girl stopped crying; the boy overheard, swam to the storage shed with a pike; there is a chest on the storage shed, there is a second hare in it; the boy ripped the hare, took out his heart and liver; P. feels himself is getting worse; the boy squeezed his heart, P. died; they burned the dugout with his daughter P.; the boy caught his father's bones from the lake, boiled in a cauldron for two days, and the third father came to life]: Stepanova 2017, № II-47-49; nganasany [Dyaiku is small but bearded, lives with his grandmother; he hunts mice; his grandmother eats fat, he hits her, she says that the copper-red killed his father; he comes to seven red-haired boats, holes in their boats, offers race, the first one drowns, six swim to save him, also drowned; D. crawls up to the old woman, when she urinates, she decides that she gave birth to him; D. asks her cannibal husband what can destroy him; he admits that fire; at night D. burns him and his wife; comes to the shaman, pushes her into the fire; she was the mother of the red and burned; sets fire to the deer, they run away; D. leaves, the man gives he has a piece of inexhaustible meat; he comes to his mother, puts a plague in the middle of the water, climbs upstairs; the old woman tells her to give her pieces of meat when the guest comes; the guest comes, sits next to D.; he sticks his hand down , the old woman does not react; the guest left, D. saw that the old woman drowned; D. sailed away, his boat froze, then D.'s testicles freeze to the ice, come off; he goes for new ones to Kou Kopto, Kicheda- copto (Sun Girl, Moon Girl); stays in the sky, becoming Ngo]: Simchenko 1996:30-37; Kets: Alekseenko 2001, No. 111 [Yurak kills Ostyak, takes his wife and two young sons; one of them asks his mother why his face doesn't look like her husband's? ; the old woman tells him the truth, he tells his mother that he will kill Yurak; finds a tree on which the Yuraks hung his father's scalp; meets his father's friend, receives a bow and arrows from him; kills Yurak, his mother keeps alive]: 205-208; Dulzon 1962-1964, No. 8 [enemies killed a man, his wife buried a corpse; raised her son Nyunam; he asks if he had a father; she first denies, then tells truth: N. asks the older, then middle, younger uncle to make him a bow; the youngest makes an iron bow, it does not break; N. kills the murderer of his father and all his people; returns to his mother; she died, but he is hers revived, she was younger]: 160-162.

Eastern Siberia. Ilympic Evenks [Damage learned that Ungkovul was stronger than him, came to fight, won when Ungkovul's hair accidentally caught on a tree; the shaman said that Damage could be defeated by killing a bird in Which is his soul; Damage has two hearts, his bone marrow is liquid; the old father hid his son Uron; he grows up, asks his grandfather about his mother and father; finds his father's murderers by tags in the trees, takes revenge; returns to grandfather]: Kombagir 1980a: 55; Sym Evenks (Chirombu) [father, then eldest, middle son left, did not return; the youngest went, saw Epkachan's bloody horns (one-year-old deer); asks mother's father's blacksmith tools, forges an iron bow and arrow; killed E., broke a pine tree that moves and moves apart, and in the middle a woman; a woman offers to jump where on the ground as if awl; the young man invites her to jump first, but then overtakes her; the same is to run (first from behind, then overtakes); who will urinate next (young man); the place where her hair scratches; the woman began to scratch the young man, broke a wooden, bone comb, broke a tooth in an iron one, she jumped into her chest, killed her; the young man burned E.'s corpse; the young man's mother pulled out her lung with joy, died]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 43:52-53; dolgans [the man has a wife and a young son; the man is surprised why the fire was cracking; Lyypyrdan came at night, killed a man, and his wife and child ran away; the boy grew up and began to hunt partridges; the mother does not say who his father; L. came one day; the mother says that the bow is her son, too light for him, and the son plays ball with a big stone; L.: let my son come to me tomorrow for my name day; the young man comes and threatens to kill everyone, L. gives him a daughter; one day he hears two people telling a story about L.'s murder of a man's father; comes to L., shoots his son-in-law with tendons on his legs, who asks him to finish off; kills L., takes him away property]: Efremov 2000, No. 36:343-347.

Amur-Sakhalin. Nanais: Lopatin 1916:90-92 [a man complains to Margó that Sagdi-Muhá stole his wife; M. fights against the fact that the Duck tells him to spit in a speck on SM's forehead, he dies; M. takes his wives and daughter; the Duck tells him to kill the hero Alha Mukhan, his father's murderer; during the battle, he throws M. the egg in which AM lives; M. breaks the egg on the enemy's forehead, takes his daughters and wives] , 92-99 [Mergé lives in his brother, he was killed by a tiger; the Kite tells him to go to the shaman; she revives his brother, explains that Kite is M.'s sister, orders revenge on their father's murderer; M. consistently comes to the murderer's relatives, finally to himself; a Kite or an old woman helps defeat them every time; finally finds his father's coffin, revives his father]; Lopatin 1933, No. 1 [Margo enters the forest hut, there is a baby in her cradle; he screams, scratches; M. tells him to come to him; M.'s house on a rock above the blood river; after M. leaves, the baby gets up, comes to M.'s house; M.'s wife tells me to go to her mother- giantess Maiza-mama, there is a fairly large bed; M.-M. waited for him to lie in the cradle for 30 years; after sucking her chest, the baby becomes the hero of Alhoo; M.'s wife tells A. that M. fell into the giant's net Moohan, who roasts it over the fire; she sends A. to a giant in an iron bird; tells him not to sit on the tops of trees; A. tears up an iron net in which two ducks are caught; these are two shamans; A. decides spending the night on the top of a tree, falls into the giant's net; he wants to hack him, but misses, cutting the net; A. splits his head with his iron beak; a protector spirit (Juli) comes out of the fire reproaches A. that he did not listen to M.'s wife, lost time; he himself flies in an iron bird to save M.; A. swims under the ice to the giant's village with salmon, frees the aged M., kills residents; with a gadfly Flies to a tree under which bones; Dergeri arrives carrying Ker-Alda's kidnapped sister; A. saves her, but D. flies away; A. arrives at the old woman's house, lies down with her, in the morning she is a young beauty; A. arrives to D.'s house, kills him and one of his three daughters; kills the giant Gochenda, who fought the smaller giant Nandada and would soon kill him; marries daughter N.; flies to Dergeri, who was rescued from his clutches Dienda girl, marries her; with her brother Kichalda kills two of the three giants who killed his father; the soul of the third in a special object, A.'s first wife, in the form of a duck, finds him, brings him, A. kills giant; A. and K. marries his daughters; kills a few more giants, takes more wives; he is now a great shaman], 4 [Mergo defeats many enemies, kills his father's killer; a helper bird brings two the eggs in which the enemy's soul, M. breaks them; raises his father from the grave, revives him; takes the wives and property of the defeated]: 202-210, 215-221; Medvedev 1992 [The owner of the Taiga ruined the camp, He put the eldest and his wife in a cage, took him away; did not notice the baby in the cradle; he grew up to become Mergan; the hunter tells him about the fate of the camp; M. goes to take revenge; M. easily fought off the wolves, entered the house old woman; at night she tries to slaughter him, M. is alert; in the morning she promises to make him invulnerable, offers to plunge into the cauldron; he ties her belt to her belt, jumps over the cauldron, the old woman falls into the cauldron, from there the flame; M. burned down her house; sees a giant dragging the girl, shot him; promises to marry the girl, puts her on an arrow, sends an arrow to her parents; enters a poor hut in which an old man and a boy; the old man says that HT's death is overseas; M.'s father is chained to the bottom of the sea, guarded by guards on 12 boats, and M.'s mother is in the dungeon; the rescued girl and her mother arrive as ducks; they promise to find the death of the Master of the Taiga; M. fights HT, gets tired; at this time, the ducks throw off the birch bark box, in which Erdeni is a freak; M. tears off his arms, legs, and head - the members of the HT also fall off; kills HT's wife, opens the dungeon and carries out his mother, frees other prisoners; kills the chief of the guards at sea, frees his father; feast]: 132-141; Sunik 1958, No. 2 [Baksu-Batur's wife - Simfuni- beautiful; he goes hunting, she tries 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 each into the river; the last is Laranchu- hero, promises to return; elder brother sucks catfish caviar, middle brother sucks pike caviar, L. sucks Kaluga milk; all three live inside Kaluga; the beauty saw them run out of the mouth of dead Kaluga, brought it to her, breastfed; L. put her hands in hot buckwheat porridge; she admitted that they were S.-beautiful's children, went to her copper mountain, asked Gagdanchu Molodets (=Tundurhan) to kill the boys; G. and L. for a long time fights; 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; the brothers go to look for his father, the bird says he is fighting with Sankau is a hero; on the hill, the sky is covered by a poplar, the sun covers a talnik with three processes, a snake between them, in it the spirit of father's life is gray and white eggs; two girls killed the snake, gave the eggs to L.; he He threw gray in the forehead of the old man, he died, took white with him; returned home; three brothers - three at home, all married; father - one house; lived richly]: 122-126; ulchi [Geentheus has a pregnant wife; he wants to go see Selamage, who feeds on iron; his wife sews boots, each half of a moose skin, they are big for him; on the way he meets an old woman, he cannot support her with one hand like her rock, another pour millet; cannot swallow the tubers from old man Kanda-Maf; S.'s mother chews hot iron, spits in his face, scorches him; S. freshens the bear faster than G.; sticks him in needles in his tongue, carries crows to scare; born son G. asks his mother about his father; boots are just right for him, on the way to S. performs all tasks (spits iron in the face of S.'s mother, etc.); competes with S. on the run on the edges of the sabers, the spikes; S. dies, G.'s son finds, frees his father, brings him home]: Aurora 1981, No. 2:130; the Udege people {probably one original source, but in different editions}: Mozhaev 1955 [ Geenta decides to fight giant Solomky; his arrow does not fly over seven passes, but for one; he cannot kick off the willow rides, as the fisherman offers him; S.'s mother puts it in his mouth a hot poker, he is burned; cannot eat a bear faster than S.; S. sews up G.'s lips, hangs a bell from his nose, puts him in a barn; the hunter tells his son G. that his father was killed by S.; the son performs all tasks, spits in the old woman's face with a hot iron, she turns into a stump; fights S., throws him off a cliff; brings her father home in a bag]: 37-42; Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951 [at Geentey pregnant wife; he wants to go see Salamage eating iron; his wife sews boots, each half of her moose skin, they are big for him; on the way he meets an old woman, he can't, like her, Prop up the rock with one hand, pour millet with the other; cannot swallow the tubers of old Kanda-Mafa; S.'s mother chews hot iron, spits in his face, scorches him; S. freshens the bear faster, than G.; sticks needles into his tongue, takes crows to hang to scare; G.'s born son asks his mother about his father; boots are just right for him, on the way to S. performs all tasks (spits iron in the face of S.'s mother, etc.); competes with S. running along the edges of sabers, horns; S. dies, son G. finds, frees his father, brings home]: 392-398 (Quail in Sanghi 1989:264-269).

SV Asia. Tundra Yukaghirs [Umchagen goes to visit his wife's parents, her brothers kill him; W. asks his mother why his father has not returned for a long time, she replies, I don't know; W. He comes to his uncles, sees them playing with his father's skull; they invite the young man to sleep on the blanket on which his father slept, bring water to his pot, eat from his plate; he defies cunning ( details are not a decree.); pushing off the ground with a spear, jumps over enemies, running home; uncles come for him; he offers to ride down the mountain, pierces nails into trees; uncles stumble upon them, die; mother cries, he kills her; becomes a good hunter, gets married]: Gogolev et al. 1975:195-196.

The Arctic. Northern Alaska Inupiat (Noatak) [boy lives with his grandmother; growing up, he notices hunting gear hanging on the wall; a rich man tells a young man to bring the head of a polar bear; he brings it, rich man she does not eat it; tells me to bring the man's head; the grandmother says that so rich man killed the boy's father, it is his hunting gear that hangs on the wall; the young man goes over the mountain, sees people; everyone shouts that The young man's head is his; everyone runs after him, but falls one by one; the head of the last fallen young man brings to the rich man, tells him to eat it; the rich man dies]: Hall 1975, No. PM41:215-217.

The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [a man marries a Grizzly and a Black Bear; each gives birth to three or four sons; a jealous Grizzly asks her husband to help carry the dug up roots; says he has a lot in his head kills insects by biting the neck; calls the Black Bear to look for a husband, kills in the same way; the youngest son of the Black Bear notices that the Grizzly roasts first their father's genitals, then their mother's breasts; Grizzly tells his children to drown the Black Bear's sons, who drown them themselves; the Skylark tells her that she is eating her fried baby; the Black Bears run away, climb a tree; ask the Grizzly to open their mouths; not her younger brother is thrown at her, but an old branch with ants; the Bear cubs's grandfather carries them across the river in a boat; tells the Grizzly to sit at the bottom of the boat to plug the hole; the fish eat her insides; the Coyote finds her corpse, roasts meat]: Teit 1898, No. XXII: 69-71; lillouette [like Thompson; both wives give birth to four daughters]: Teit 1912b, No. 19:322-323; quinolt [young man catches fish, someone cleans those he catches salmon; he hides, sees a woman coming out of the forest; takes her as his wife; she does not laugh or open her face; Blue Jay makes her laugh; she throws away the veil; she has the face of a monster, pieces of man between teeth; those who hear her laugh fall dead; she devours them, hides the genitals of her eaten husband in the basket; gives birth to twin sons; they find their father's genitals, see an empty village; they set fire to their house, they run away, they climb a tree; the mother rushes in pursuit; they ask her to wrap her around the trunk, tell the bark to fall on her, the mother is killed; the brothers travel further, exterminating monsters]: Farrand 1902, No. 1:81-82; comox (chatloltk) [Tar fish at night, his wife calls him home at dawn; one day he lingers, he melts in the sun; his two sons make a chain of arrows, climb into the sky, kill the Sun with arrows; the youngest becomes the Month, the oldest becomes the Sun]: Boas 1895, No. 2:64-65; clallam [two girls make a boy out of resin; he comes to life, takes one of them as his wife; catches fish at night; wife before sunrise calls him home; once she overslept, he melted in the sun; her two sons force a hunter to tell them about their father's fate; they make a chain of arrows, climb into heaven to take revenge on the Sun; restore sight to two blind old Otter and Blue Jay; they show them the way to the Sun; two daughters of the Sun notice their reflection in the river; take them as husbands; lead them into a house whose doors open and slam shut; the Sun requires 1) shoot ducks (sons-in-law bring ducks); 2) withstand a hot fire (sons-in-law throw shells into the flame, the heat subsides); 3) bring berries; brothers bring a basket of berries, the Sun eats them, bursts; first the younger brother is going to become the Sun, the eldest Month; they smear menstrual blood on their faces; the older brother weakens because of this, the youngest is not; only he can become the Month and determine women's regulations and timing pregnant; the elder becomes the Sun]: Gunther 1925:131-134; koulitz [The cloud takes Samtik's wife (Səmtic; fox?) ; he goes looking for her, the Cloud cuts off his head; in the sky, two sisters Cloud nail their heads to their boat; son S. and brother S. A fishing marten (fisher) step on Lark's leg; he reports that there are grass steps to heaven in the prairie; an uncle and nephew kill the Clouds sisters, put on their clothes; negotiate with the kidnapped, she tells her husband that she does not feel well, she will spend the night with the girls; they set fire to the house, the Cloud burns down, they bring widow S. back to the ground, bring his head; the widow gives birth to a girl; she bites her mother's chest , scratches the children's eye 5 times, returns to heaven; she is weaker than her father - only the shadow of a cloud]: Adamson 1934, No. 15:196-198; lower chinook: Boas 1894a, No. 1 [the girl is taken away by the Bear; she gives birth to a son and daughter; her four brothers take turns coming to the Bear's house; his son asks to remove his lice, kills young men; the younger fifth brother does not shoot at the pheasant on the way, does not enter the bear house; together with the Bear's daughter burns the Bear and his son in their house; the Bear's wife revives the brothers; dives into the lake, turns into a monster; the Bear's daughter is married by the Chief of the Blue Jay; she never laughs; promises laugh if he gets on all fours in the forest; laughs, devours all men; her husband's legs below the knees disappear; she keeps him in a basket; gives birth to two sons; does not tell them to go down the river; they go They find the bones of people who were regurgitated by their mother; they found a basket with their father; he says that their mother has become a monster; brothers turn her into a dog, put their father under water; they go on a journey; they see a double-headed swan on the lake (perhaps a swan with heads at both ends of the body}; the younger one shoots, swims to the bird, disappears; the elder throws hot stones into the lake; the water boils away; he rips open bellies to all monsters; in the latter he finds a brother holding a swan; revives him; a man is dancing with an oar, while fish jump into his boat; brothers taught him how to catch with a net; another person shoots at it rains because his house has no roof; his brothers taught him how to make a roof; they wash dirt off his skin, mold people out of it, blow on them, people have come to life; a man sharpens knives, promises to kill those who fix things; brothers turned him into a deer with knives tied to his head, these are horns; a woman throws people into the abyss on sharp flints; brothers throw her, cut her body to pieces, throw them in different directions; Indians, those who live where their legs fall have strong legs; those who live where their hair has fallen have long hair; etc.], 2 [a person does all the difficult tasks of his father-in-law Thunder; loses to others shooting competition; his hair is cut off, hung in the chimney; his children come with their metas and arrows; win; turn the local leader into a sturgeon, his messenger into a blue jay; revive his father], 4 [the chief's daughter agrees to marry the one who breaks the moose horn; the salmon breaks, its ulcers disappear, he becomes handsome; the Coyote kills him with an arrow, people eat it; one egg falls into the crack of the rock; The crow takes care of her; the egg turns into a trout, then a boy; the crow reports that the Coyote and Badger killed his father and his mother took the Wolves; the young man kills them all, takes his father's bow]: 17-21, 35-36 , 77-83; Vasco: Hines 1996, No. 15A [five Wolf Brothers and five Brothers of the Cold Wind are fighting against the Salmon; with the Coyote Wolves; they fight on the ice, all the Salmon are killed, it's cold; Coyote sees that took the wrong side; one egg remained in the crevice of the rock, it was washed into the water, little Salmon (=Wind Chinook) found his grandmother; she told how his father was killed; he trains strength by swimming in the cold water; the grandmother's sister is a slave to the SV of the Winds, their limp sister relieves the slave's hair in the morning; with his breath, young Salmon melted the ice on the slave, hit the limp on the bare ass with a rosehip branch; killed all the Winds in a duel, only the limp escaped, so winter happens; during the battle, the former slave pours oil under her feet; the Coyote led the people against the Wolves, drove them into the mountains], 15B [when five The Cold Winds brothers fight, their lame little sister pours water under her feet to make the enemy slide on the ice; five Winds Chinook live with Eagle; Eagle's son died in a duel with Cold Winds, the Chinook brothers also died; a limp pours cold water on the elderly (parents of the killed) for laughter; Eagle's pregnant wife went to her parents, gave birth to a boy; the young Eagle defeated the Winds (during the battle, the grandmother Pours fish oil under his feet and water under his feet); Coyote cut off the loser's heads; two rocks are visible - the sister of the Cold Winds and the Coyote guarding her]: 65-78, 79-84; Vishram: Hines 1991, No. 7 [five Wolves and five Cold Winds brothers defeat Chief Salmon, killing all his men; one egg remains in the crevice of the rock; the Coyote first supports the Wolves, then repents; born from an egg salmon comes to its grandmother, becomes a boy, trains strength; he is a warm Chinook Wind; comes to the Cold Winds; Grandma Salmon's sister is their slave, the crippled sister of the Cold Winds in the morning recovers to her hair; Salmon tells her aunt to beat the torturer with a rose hip branch; defeats and kills the Cold Winds, only their sister escapes; so winter still happens, but not so harsh; Wolves go to the mountains], 36 [The chief invites to play dice, cuts off the heads of the loser; Eagle has a wife Cricket and Gorlink, each with a son; the Eagle goes to play; the Chief sends Blue Jay, Whitefish, Crab, Rabbit to find out who came; Eagle's gaze maimed the first three (almost blind, burnt mouth, etc.); Rabbit sends a message; Eagle loses to Rabbit, Chief cuts off Eagle's head; Coyote takes Eagle's wives; Cricket believes that this is Orel, Gorlinka does not; two old women tell the Young Eagle how his father died; the Young won, cut off the Leader's head; since then, the losers have not been killed; the Young Eagle removed his father's head from the pole, put it to his body, painted it five times, he came to life; the resurrected Eagle told Coyote to climb the tree to the nest; there were no birds there; the Coyote tree turned into a rock]: 73-87, 135-140; clackamas : Jacobs 1958, No. 5 [5 wolves want to kill Coyote Salmon's grandson (Steelhead, a passing form of rainbow trout) and take his wife; Coyote agrees; he was eaten, but one egg fell into the water (probably then males were caviar); Coyote comes to Skunk, pretends to mourn; two Crows grow Salmon from eggs in larger vessels; from the fifth he comes out; {by name he is salmon, practically - man}; Crows tell him that Wolves killed his father and captured his mother; a young man comes to Coyote, shakes him out of his skin, turns Coyote into a coyote, Skunk into a skunk; dried up a spring from which wolves drank, created another at their wife's feet; Wolves drown in him; he swims with his wife in a boat, sleeps, his wife is on oars, he tells him not to wake him up; she sees larvae on him, wakes him up, he threw her on a rock, from her skin and bones remain; Crows argue who will eat their heads and who cheeks; Salmon asks the Vultures to let her go back, pours water, she comes to life], 13 [Fire's grandson has two wives, both one has a son; one returns to his brother; the husband follows her, plays with his brother (disc game), loses; he cuts off his ears and hair, hangs him in the chimney; the victim's children train their shamanic power; now they can look; they take grizzly hair, come to enemies; win, burn players with their eyes (they turn into shrimp, blue jay); turn wool into grizzlies, they devour enemies; brothers spare two old women who have sheltered them and their father; they bring their father home, Grandfather Fire revives him; they come to two girls; they do not know that one of them is their maternal aunt; local people kill them; mother turns into the Sun, brothers into stars; the leader who killed the leader sees two stars near the sun, the one who killed an ordinary person]: 42-51, 114-130; flethead [five Warm Winds brothers killed by five Cold Winds brothers; son of the youngest those killed learn to swim in cold water, raise mountains; defeats Cold Winds; snow melts; in spring, the winner goes further north]: Edmonds, Clark 1989:26-28; (cf. kalispel [there are people on one side of the river, animals on the other; they cause people to compete; swim in cold water and then lie in the snow; the otter makes the air and water colder; finally, the man died; then the young man came, like a puppy's skin on his shoulders; at night the young man died of the cold; but in the morning the puppy reappeared; went into every house, he was allowed to gnaw people's bones, but he did not gnaw them, but collected; went into a house where there were only women; one gave the puppy gum from behind her cheek, and then took it away; he bit off her cheek; having collected all the bones, the puppy carried them across the river and revived his friend; he came to his wife, this the chief's daughter; she first thought she was a stranger, but then formed; the man {not clear: lively or taking the form of a puppy} threw dog skin over his shoulders and began to compete with an otter again; all colder and colder, the otter froze to death; people swam to the other side and killed some animals as they used to kill people; then the man and beaver each sat in the cauldron, under every fire; when the beaver jumped out, it was boiled and died, but the man was unharmed; in the morning the animals ran away; the man walked and said: off the road, this will be your country (so many times); let animals be game (for people?)] : Vogt 1940, No. 9:93-99); tillamook [the owner's dog comes home alone; the wife finds his severed genitals in her boat; the woman and the dog both give birth to sons; the woman tells them that the enemy is from heaven killed their father; brothers go up to heaven, making a chain of arrows; kill two enemy wives, stretch their skin; heavenly men hit the father of young men in the head like a drum; brothers kill the enemy and his people, except wise Ice; take their father's head; a spider lowers them to the ground; a dog's son revives his father]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 8:25-28; alsea: Frachtenberg 1920, No. 10 [when a man makes a boat, enemies cut off his head from heaven; his two sons, born to his dog, climb into heaven with a chain of arrows; ask the murderer's two wives about their customs, kill them, put on their skins; husband she is surprised that the youngest wife hits the water while jumping into the boat; the brothers make holes in boats, carry the father's head and the head of his murderer (their "husband") cut off by them; try to resurrect their father; four times his head falls, grows on the fifth; they turn him into a woodpecker, themselves into dogs], 11 [= (10); one son from a woman, the other from a dog], 12 [brothers (no number specified) go to play with their brothers from one bank of the river, living on the other side; killed, leaving a grandmother and a boy from the whole family; he trains to become invulnerable to a knife; finds in the steam room a set of playaccessories owned by his father and uncle (s); plays; he is attacked, he cuts off the attackers's heads; the youngest of them turns into a hawk]: 125-137, 137-159; cous [like Alsea, No. 10, 11; the heavenly leader decapitated the Hawk; Having risen to heaven, the two sons of the murdered man ask the leader's wives about their behavior; they are ready to help, give their brothers their clothes; the boy notices the male genitals of the "daughter-in-law", they do not believe him; on the way back, the brothers take the chief's wives with them]: Jacobs 1940, No. 8:235-238; Kalapuya: Gatschet et al. 1945, No. 8 [Puma hunts, Mink catches fish and collects roots; Puma marries Grizzly; her four sisters come alone after another, he fights with them, kills them; the wife finds out the truth in a dream, puts on a grizzly skin, devours her husband, carries his penis in her teeth; revives her sisters, returns to her father; gives birth to a boy and a girl; they hear how a mother cries, they see a penis in her teeth; they come to Norka, he tells them about the murder of their father; they tie up their sleeping grizzly sisters and their father in the house, set him on fire, run away; the mother chases them; the boy creates a berry meadow behind, a turtle, a teasing stalker; she loses time picking berries, catching a turtle; the children make a swing on an oak branch; the mother asks for permission to swing; rocking it, they break the swing, she falls far north, disappears; the boy turns Norka into a hole, his sister into a grizzly, himself a cougar]: 261-272; Jacobs 1945, No. 9 [Grizzly kills a man, kidnaps his wife; she's in blood, lies that she is on her period, actually just gave birth; the mother of the murdered man is raising a baby; he goes to the mountain, covers himself with sharp flints; comes to the Grizzly; he attacks him, is cut, dies; son takes mother home]: 125-127; takelma [someone (probably the Sun) kills an Otter; two sons of the murdered man see a bow and arrow, a shell, a harpoon in the house; they ask their grandmother who owner; she lies that she is, they suspect the truth; brothers go up the river; kill two daughters of the Sun who come for resin, pull their skins over themselves; jumping into a boat, one brother stumbles; old man suspects that they are not daughters of the Sun; in the Sun's house, Otter's heart is smoked on resin; at night, brothers kill the Sun, bring their father's heart home; since then, the otter skin has been black]: Sapir 1909, No. 17:155-163.

The Midwest. Winnebago [The hare is the youngest of ten brothers, he is always left at home; the girl promises to marry the winner in the run; the hare overtakes the Turtle, wins; gives the woman to his older brother Kunu; the Hare's hair becomes long and red, his new name is Red Horn; small grimacing faces appear on his ears; he wins the competition to see who eats faster and more; his fighting Comrade - Thunderbird; they travel with him in the clouds; he marries an orphan; together with his brothers and relatives he competes with giants, loses to them in the fight; giants kill everyone; after death His two sons are born to Red Horn; the eldest is born to his wife (he also has faces on his ears), the youngest is from a giantess (he has faces on his chest); the brothers take out the skulls of Red Horn, Thunder, Turtles planted in giants on poles; they kill giants with screams and arrows; they spare the girl and boy, throw them across the sea (there are giants there now); they revive the father and his brothers; they put the bones of those killed by giants in their homes, all they are reborn; they go with their comrades to the edge of the earth, where the sky beats noisily against it; they slip into the crack and then back, blowing moose bubbles (it is not clear how this helped); they bring iron bubbles from the outside world people, burn them to death at the stake]: Radin 1931:143-162; menominee [see motive F34; wife takes Bear as lover; sprinkles her dandruff on her husband to deprive him of luck; husband burns lovers in a hollow ; the wife's corpse is buried under the floor; her relatives are looking for him; the husband tells his children to flee; the Bear's relatives take her husband to heaven and torture; the son of the carried away marries, he has two sons; his wife's brother takes married to a young man's sister; they have a son with two heads; he asks where his grandfather is; together with his cousins he goes to heaven, kills bears, brings his grandfather back to earth]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II2: 305-311; chippewa [Venebojo sharpens his axe, hears the sound of mother, mother, then father, father; grandmother explains that the axe-cutter killed his father-chief and his men ; V. wants to be swallowed by Keith, sends other fish; finds an Owl and a Squirrel inside; the ogre's house is surrounded by a resin lake; V. swims across it, pouring oil on top; calls the ogre brother; the last person reached the ogre's house, was Father V.; V.'s excrement advises him to shoot the ogre's braid, who was killed]: Barnouw 1977, No. 7:77-82.

Northeast. Seneca: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 21 [the cannibal Wolf killed all the relatives of the Old Turkey Woman; the little grandson remains; she shows him the room where the weapon, drum and accessories are kept ball games by his father and uncle; the hearts of the ogre and his three sisters are hidden under the right wing of the loon; she swims in the lake under the bed in the ogre's house; the young man learns about this from human skin, which is an ogre guarded his strawberry meadow; the young man takes the form of an ogre, comes to his sisters, breaks their hearts; the cannibal and his sisters die; the young man revives the dead from their bones], 35 [the bird flies off wood, turns into a man, copulates with a woman; she does not care about her husband and children; adorns herself, comes to the hollow, knocks on the trunk with an ax; the husband watches her; kills her lover; the wife beats her husband, sets fire to their house, leaves; the son violates the ban on putting his little sister on the ground; she is carried away by a bear, their dog also disappears; a boy jumps into the lake in a suicide attempt, is swallowed by fish; two women fish, adopt a boy; he plays sequentially with three old men, wins, kills them; his mother calls men to choose a new husband; tortures his old daughter and dog with fire; the father's tears turn into beads; the son puts on moccasins made from the female genitals, sticks them into the fire; his mother dies in agony; father, sister, dog recover; sisters who adopt a young man go beyond his father]: 180-187, 135-138; Tuscarora [mother asks her daughter to look for insects; she finds a strange louse, shows her father; he replies that it is an owl louse; daughter and son tell father that mother leaves home in his absence; he goes into the forest, turns into a turkey, invites other turkeys to let them down the mountain in the basket; they are happy; offers to close their eyes, closes the basket, brings turkeys home, the children curl their necks; he hangs a skin of caress from the ceiling; if blood flows, he is killed; puts calebasses with water in the corners; does not tell them to open the door; Bear, Lynx, Wolf come consistently, everyone pretends that the father of the children has come, the children do not unlock it; the giant breaks the door, the brother and sister go underground under the hearth; before that they see blood dripping from the face of the caress; the giant is wasting time rushing to the calebasses who make a sound; follow the children underground; they go out, climb a tree, find themselves in the upper world where the Owls live; their mother is there; their father killed her lover, she told the Owls , they killed their father; the mother abandons the children, says she did not give birth to anyone; they are placed in a basket, hung on a tree that bends over the river; they are found by a hunter, brought them to her; the boy grows up, exterminates the Owl race]: Rudes, Crouse 1987, No. 27:414-428; malesite [a bear comes out of the hollow, copulates with a woman; she does not care about her husband and children; adorns herself, comes to the hollow, knocks on the trunk with an ax; the husband watches her; calls the Bear with the same signal, kills his wife, feeds him meat; she goes to the old woman; the chief takes her as his wife; he has two eagles; her first husband comes, the woman tells the eagles To tear him to pieces; her sons come, the eagles feel sorry for them, they take them to the care of their wolf spouses; sons invite their mother to visit; she brings her child from a new marriage; tells them not to put him on the ground; they bet, boy dies; mother choked and died too]: Stamp 1915:243-246.

Plains. Iowa [the youngest of ten brothers comes out of the steam room handsome; his ear pendants are living human heads; his friends Turtle and Hawk; giants race against humans, always win, kill losers; To-who-ho-head pendants (TPG) wins, kills giants; Bears play lacrose with people on ice, kill losers; TPG runs, after him Bear; one of pendants make faces, sticks out her tongue; The bear laughs, loses; Bears lose, TPG and friends kill them; other giants come to fight; instead of the Tortoise Strongman, he fights Hawk, defeated; giants cut off his heads, TPG, Turtle; sons TPG and Hawk grow up to learn from their mothers about the fate of their fathers; a TPG son like him, but he has a live head on his chest; young men turn into cobwebs, find out where giants keep trophy heads; TPG shows giants that he is shaking, he grumbles blood; the same thing happens to giants, they die; young men take the heads of their fathers, revive their fathers; The turtle goes to live in the water]: Skinner 1925, No. 6:456-458; wichita: Dorsey 1904a, No. 11 [the man knows that the Two-Faced Monster will carry him away; his wife gives birth to a son named Young Flintknife; son wanted get out of his mother's womb through his mouth, which would kill her; he eats flints; comes to monsters; their hearts hang on the walls of the cave; he pierces them, monsters die; he finds his father, rises to heaven with him, they turn into stars], 39 [a ballplayer kills losers; four brothers and their father die one by one; the brothers' old mother bathes, gets pregnant; her grown son goes to play, plays with his ball; playing time kills the enemy by throwing hail from the sky; burns a corpse; victims rise from the fire, turn into hawks]: 81-87, 247-251.

California. Shasta [while hunting squirrels, the Coyote asks the Raccoon to put his hand in the hole, grabs it on the other side, tears it off; he dies; the Coyote brings home his meat; one of the Coyote's sons tells the truth Raccoon's sons; they kill the rest of the Coyote's children (not specified how), flee with their informant; the fugitives turn into Pleiades, Coyote can't catch them]: Dixon 1910a, No. 26:30-31; Farrand 1915, No. 11 [ The reason for the murder is that the Raccoon is sleeping with Coyote's wife; the ash of the hearth tells Coyote that the children are fleeing]: 220-221; wappo [Hawk comes to the house of the Month; Coyote, Hawk's grandfather, lives there, helps his grandson; makes hugs safe with two sisters of the Month; Month always kills sisters' husbands; Hawk 1) stays alive in a hot steam room; performs tasks 2) bring arrow reeds (guarded by bears and winged rattlesnakes; two hummingbirds bring reeds to Hawk, explain that monsters are relatives of the Month); 3) bring red earth (apparently to color arrows; it must be taken from the mouth of the cannibal wife Months, it is red earth; hummingbirds are pulled out and brought to the Hawk); 4) bring two eagles (obviously ahead of the arrows; when the Hawk climbs a tree, it rises into the air, the Coyote attracts him back), 5) drive deer, kill a spotted one to get arrow tendons (two owls kill a deer, it was a relative of the Month, it all consisted of tendons), 6) catches siren fish (this is the sister Months, two drakes kill her); The Hawk breaks the branches of the pine tree; during this Month he kills him with an arrow; the Hawk's body is burned, the hawk flies out of the ash, returns to his country; the eldest wife gives birth to his son, the youngest is a daughter; an old coyote helps them grow up right away; mothers do not tell them to go to the pine tree; they go and find his father's onions and traces of blood; the young man breaks pine branches in front of the Month, kills him with an arrow; sisters Months are crying; Uncle is a month (reborn?) comes, offers a competition in running; Coyote helps the young man win by creating thick grass, the Month is entangled in it; they run on; in the steam room, the young man knocks his head off the Month with a poker, she is alive, he breaks it with a poker]: Radin 1924, No. 11:93-141; achomavi [The Wild Cat comes to bed with his relative Gagara; she stains herself with resin, finds the Cat's hairs stuck to her; comes into the house men, singing, I want a man; fires lightning, showing his strength; rejects Wolf, Fox, Marten; other men push her the cat; but Loon is enough Woodworm, the son of the Cocoon Chief, whom his father hid; he is small; everyone gives him their penises, now his penis is dragging along the ground; he quietly tears it off, throws it into the fire; at night he runs away from Loon, puts a stump in his place; Loon approaches, burning everything; the Spider spins the rope, the Lizard ties it to the arrow, shoots into the sky; everyone climbs the rope, in front of the Eagle, behind the Coyote Old; the Loon screams, Father, he answers Daughter; looks around, the rope breaks; Eagle, Cocoon, Worm climb into the sky, the rest fall into flames; Loon makes a necklace out of their hearts; the Lizard's heart falls on Mount Shasta; turns into a baby, Blue Jay finds him, brings him to his wife; there is a growth on the boy's forehead; the boy shoots him with an arrow, the growth turns into his twin; the Forehead Boy kills Gagara's daughter with an arrow on the lake; she chases him, his brother kills her with an arrow]: Angulo, Freeland 1931:126-132; Mivok: Barrett 1919, No. 6:9-10 [Falcon's father goes south; loses a ball game to a local chief, burned alive]; Gifford 1917, No. 5 [without details, text corrupted]: 306-310; Merriam 1993 [Falcon's father goes south through a hole into another world, plays ball with Vulture and the monstrous Ku-choo; they win, refuse to take the money, they burn it slowly; The Falcon and his friend Dove and wife Duck follow in their father's footsteps; the Fire Lizard sends fire at them; the Duck creates a green reed, only in it the fire goes out; they slip through a hole that closes and opens; Duck's legs are flattened forever; Falcon notices holes in the place of play; wins, burns enemies; asks two shamans to revive his charred father bones; he comes to life but does not look like himself; The Falcon sends him over the mountain to the sea; returns to our world with his friend and wife; kills the Fire Lizard and other monsters]: 179-189; Chukchansi yokuts [Falcon and his friend Falcon goes north to play ball with people who kill losers; lose, get killed; grandmother tells his grandson Sokolenko how his father died; he follows in his footsteps; on the way he marries Duck; players laugh at him, show two dead bodies hanging from a tree; they give out a mournful scream from time to time; the Falcon uses his own collarbone instead of the ball; wins by overcoming everything traps; throws enemies into the fire; revives father and his friend]: Rogers, Gayton 1944, No. 15:200-202; Serrano: Benedict 1926, No. 3 [two sisters go east, the eldest carries a vessel of water; does not give the youngest, she dies of thirst; the eldest gives birth to twins Tsatukotani (the elder) and Parakonix; the Bear, the Wolf, the Vulture, the Eagle say they are their fathers; the real father is the Sun; the boys secretly come out the cradle to hunt; the mother tells them about the eagle's nest on the rock; they rise up as fluffs and take two eagles; they quarrel over who will take the larger eagle; the eagles die; the mother of the boys revives them; the young men they take reeds out of the sea; they make flutes; the youngest can be heard playing on the other side of the world; Vulture's two daughters go from there to the sound; on the road, the Coyote, the Hawk say they played; the older sister believes the youngest tells us to move on; the sisters spend the night with their brothers, leave in the morning; the brothers follow them soon; the mother knows they will die; the Vulture sends his son named Tcaikakat to find out who has come; the light from the bodies of the young men kills Tc.; the Vulture calls his warriors, the Hawk manages to kill the twins; their bones are crushed into powder, long bones are used to play; the younger sister gives birth to a son Kwexomári; he also shines; she lies to her father that she gave birth to a girl; K. plays with his uncle, who says that he did not kill his father and uncle; K. finds the bones of his father and uncle, begins to revive them; they say that this is impossible, they remain dead; plays with Coyote; rolls dice, earth splits, everyone dies except mother K.; with her he visits his grandmother; carries mother across the sea, drowns], 16 [see motive J52; Coyote kills Wild Cat; sons The cat is killed by the sons of Coyote and himself]: 2-7, 15-16.

Big Pool. North Payut (Owens Valley) [Kiao'nu always wins, tortures and maims losers; made the Bear and the Raven lame; Tuhuki'ni boy sees his mother's bow, arrows, playing hoop, etc.; mother claims that this is her property; he realizes that these are the things of the murdered father; comes to his father's sister, who says that K. is digging holes where rivals fall; Aunt Frog and Woodpecker went with the young man; Crane held out his leg to them like a bridge across the river, told them not to sit on the cape offered to him by K.; T. does not eat poisoned food, does not sleep (so as not to be killed in his sleep), does not take the daughter K. offered to him; plays with his own ball; wives T. and K. sit by the fire; Frog pours water on T.'s wife and K.'s wife is hot; with the help of Woodpecker T. plays better; Gopher digs holes in K.'s way, Woodpecker drives his ball into the hollow; T. wins; burns the Player and his wife, the Bear and the Raven regain their eyes and claws; kill people K.]: Steward 1936, No. 28:388-396; Western Shoshones [Little Hawk lives with his mother; aims at the bullfinch; that asks if he knows that his father was killed; his mother refused to tell me how it happened; the Hawk made a network: if it breaks, I was killed; went to look for my father's murderers; the gopher woman said that the murderer was Hitoo (lark); his dog is a bear; when the bear rushed at him, the Hawk dodged; came to H.'s house; he makes puddink from human brains, covering them with nuts with piñon nuts; eaten brains died; but Gopher warned Hawk and he ate only nuts; H. offered to throw the dart through the rolling ring; Hawk won; then another game: chase the ball; X. had the ball a skull; the ball given to Hawk was completely does not roll; the Hawk took his hidden ball, won; the third game: slide off a high cliff on a blade sharp as a knife; the Hawk did not cut himself; jump over the rope over the fire; the Hawk jumped, H. fell and burned down; when he died, he offered Hawk a daughter, but he killed all his daughters; pulled his father's hair stuck in his teeth from the bear's mouth; put it in his mother's bed at home; in the morning the father lies alive next to his mother Hawk]: Smith 1993:147-150; Chemewevi [The Lizard (Gila Monster) and the Turtle prepare food supplies; the Coyote finds and eats them; the owners organize a raid, many of the Coyote's people are killed; the old woman saves baby grandson, Pigeon; he breaks the bird's leg, she shows him a pile of father's bones, says that the Lizard captured her mother; tells him that the grandmother hit him with a wooden knife on the top of his head, splits in half; so one young man turns into two; the Coyote prepares the younger chiefs (various animal people) for the campaign; young men in the guise of pigeons fly to their mother; they kill a rabbit for her; she lies to the Lizard as if she were herself killed him; the lizard puts hot coal on the pigeons' beaks, but they don't blink; he believes they're just birds; pigeons bring water to thirsty warriors; the Rattlesnake knocked over the vessel and flowed out of it a stream; a woman hides the stone clothes of a sleeping Lizard; a lizard, a turtle and all their men are killed]: Laird 1976:168-182; Utah [Stone Shirt kills the Crane and its men, kidnaps the Crane's wife; she manages to give the baby to his mother; the child grows up, breaks the man's leg; he shows him the bones of his murdered father; the young man asks his grandmother to hit him with an ax, turns into two twins; the mother tells them that the Stone Shirt's clothes are impenetrable, and his two daughters' arrows are flying at their own target; the twins turn into mice, gnaw on their bow strings; the Rattlesnake bites the Stone Shirt; both Daughters are dying]: Powell 1881:47-51.

The Great Southwest. Havasupai [mother tells her two sons that there is no arrow cane in the well with converging walls; they put a pole in it, the walls have stopped, they brought reeds; they spy on their mother straightens his arrows with them in his vagina; the arrow immediately broke; the owl gave a hard tree for the tips, began to live with their mother; they told him to fry his gut with meat, she burst, Owl went blind, brothers he was killed; the Bear's tip stones; he gave, lives with their mother; the young man made a coal tip, offered to shoot the Bear; replaced it with a stone tip, killed the Bear; the brothers hid in deer skin; the eagle carried them to the rock, the eagles scream that the prey is alive; the brothers consistently kill all eight eagles, then the eagles, tell the rock to fall, go down; they play the flutes before going to bed, two girls go from the south to the sound; Lizard: I played; they don't believe, they come to the brothers, their mother says they will ruin their hunting luck; the younger brother gets together with the girl, the older one refused; the girls left before the mother wakes up; the eldest unsuccessfully wants to stop the younger brother; the younger brother loses his hunting luck; both went to the girls, left two hairs tight if they burst and bleed - trouble; the younger sister is ready to give birth; the eldest calls the Kite to kill the brothers, who cuts off their heads, carries them to his cliff; the boy born sees men playing; the mother and aunt say that they fed him from his father's skull; his aunt replied that the Kite lived on a rock, told them not to go there; the boy followed the feather, killed Kite, told the women to stand in a row, threw a piece of wood from the nest at them , killed; killed his mother, sister, all women with a stick at home; came to my grandmother; she told him to go east, to the west herself; You'll visit me (clouds across the sky); she lives by the sea herself]: Smithson, Euler 1994:54- 61; Pima [Sand Coyote is older, Yellow Coyote is younger brother; LCD wife is Corn Woman; they come to the PC, which considers CE a dirty syphilic; LCD loses PC property, body and soul, PC kills, eats him; the widow gives birth to a son; when he is 9 years old, the PC drops a piece of fat, the boy supports him, hides him under a muffin; the PC finds, offers to play the same game as with his father; the mother says that father dies playing with PC; mother and son run away, live alone; boy kills bigger game; Vulture brings his arrow to the village, PC recognizes her, comes to his nephew, he is not treated, he goes to his nephew tears; the mother goes to visit relatives; the son follows her later; when he sees two girls, he turns into a corpse; the girls hear a euphonic song; the youngest realizes that this corpse is singing; the eldest mocks her when she returns to the corpse; instead of the corpse, a handsome young man; now the eldest wants it too, the youngest refuses; the young man takes both; their former husband offers to play, let the young man put it one of the wives is at stake; the young man asks him to put his shirt on the line; he replies that it is his skin; the young man shakes it out of his skin, he dies; the boy's mother returns; the young man goes to play with the PC; gives it away pebbles for bird eggs (PC thinks birds can't lay eggs yet, argues, loses); turns his nail into a young month (PC knows that the new moon is far away, argues, loses again); young man wins and then, grabs the PC by the hair, kills; the mother offers to go to her homeland; at each night, she, the eldest, youngest wives successively turn into gray, black, yellow spiders; left alone, the young man turns into a black lizard]: Russel 1908:233-237; papago [Acorn Eater is the sister of the Big Brother; refuses Puma and Jaguar, Hawk and Eagle; brother advises her to marry Gopher; Gopher magically fertilizes her, she gives birth to twins; Coyote and other men claim paternity; her mother collects them, but the children don't crawl to anyone; everyone is separated, Coyote stayed, said that he was the grandfather of the twins; they grew up, went to ruin the eagle's nest on the rock; the eldest turned into a snake, crawled to the middle, fell, died; the youngest revived him, became a ball of feathers, the wind raised he went down to the nest, they came down with two eagles; the brothers are arguing about who to take the smaller chick, the eldest has to take the smaller one; it snowed, the eagles froze, the brothers burned them, the mother revived them from the remaining fluff, told the youngest to take the smaller chick; the Coyote made himself a good bow, and the mother to her sons were bad, she was in a hurry; became a deer to teach them how to hunt; the mother told them to bring bamboo from the lake; lies around the bamboo lightning snake; the youngest managed to get there, the mother made flutes out of bamboo for her sons; in the east lived the Brown Vulture; his two daughters go to the sound of the flute; on the way Owl, Barn Owl, Hawk, another bird is served voice to prove that they played but are rejected; girls come to the brothers' mother; she feeds them but does not let them into the house; the younger one broke his flute, after that the older one also stopped playing; sisters they return to their father, the youngest is expecting a child; after the wives left, the brothers lost their luck; they came to their wives, the Hawk destroyed their strength, their father-in-law killed and ate them; promised to eat the youngest daughter's child if born boy; but he went blind, he was told that a girl was born; then he tries but cannot kill his grandson; his mother sends him to his grandmother; the young man lit the fires, images of father and uncle appeared in front of them, but then they became break up; they said that his grandfather killed them; the young man comes to his mother; he was swallowed by a water monster, but he collected sharp stones in advance, cut the monster's belly, went out; the grandmother made him out of that bamboo four playing sticks; a young man comes to his cannibal grandfather, bamboo falls on the old man's head, kills (var: the bet is life, the young man wins); the young man brings his scalp to his grandmother, she dances; she goes overseas; a young man comes to his mother and aunt; goes to his grandmother, his mother and aunt follow him; he made a bridge, when they are in the middle, he brought it down; they turned into birds walking on the beach; a young man steles to live with his grandmother ]: Densmore 1929:54-79; yuma [boys A'xtakwa'some' and Pu'kuhan are children of the yellow-breasted witsawits (tcowits) bird; they went to make flutes; one said: girls will love me when I play on flute; father's spirit; both brothers took two wives each; the youngest died; on the way east, one of his wives gave birth; father of wives: if a boy is born, I will cook and eat him, and if a girl, I will raise him to make a maid; the baby's mother was also powerful and made his crying seem like a girl's crying; Coyote gave the boy a name he didn't like, he called himself Po'kohan; came to the place where they lived his parents; tried on clothes, but took only amulets that allowed him to do without water and food and not suffer from the sun, as well as a handbag; made a fire, poured water into the hot ash, rubbed it, evoked his father's spirit; he said that his bones were made of sticks, and his killer made him breathe dust until it was completely dry; P.: I could revive you, but I won't do it; if he did, there could be dead revive; he summoned his father again, hugged him, and he told him where he hid his supply of dried meat; but P. said he had his own strength, sent his father to the ground forever; came to Colorado with difficulty crossed, came to a place called Mouth Earth; met A'xtakwa'some', who wore bamboo clothes; P. wanders, gives names to animals, birds and insects]: Densmore 1932a: 49-66; mojave : Bourke 1889 [Two girls come to First Woman's two sons; sleep with them, come back; their fathers kill boys; one girl gives birth to a son, pretends to be a daughter; boy's aunt tells him about the fate of his father and uncle; he hides the rain, hunger begins, the murderers of the sons of the First Woman die; the First Woman goes overseas; the grandson follows her, bringing his mother and aunt with him; he flies for with his arrow; women can't fly like this; he turns them into curlews]: 186-188; Devereux 1948 [hostile tribe]: 240-249; Kroeber 1948, No. 1 [the eldest of two brothers]: 4-19; 1972, No. 17 [as in No. 1], 18 [two sisters go in search of the two brothers whose flute they heard playing; the first to meet Gopher is the first; he tries to play, it turns out badly; tries in vain to pass off a puddle of his urine as spilled water by people; sisters understand deception, move on; bypass other false contenders (Hawk, Lizard, Woodpecker); the mother of young men does not believe that sisters are virgins; sisters put her to sleep, go to bed with young men; the elder the brother abstains from copulation, the youngest does not; loses hunting luck; the girls return to their father; the brothers come to them; the mother tries to prevent it, the young men create a tornado, he takes her home; the girls' father turns into a monstrous falcon, kills brothers; his people (also birds) mock the bodies; one bird brings the blood of their dead mother; she goes to sea, becomes an "old woman of the West"; the younger sister is born a boy, she lies that a girl has been born; the boy sees people playing with the kneecap of his murdered father; cries, his tears flood the ground with a flood, everyone drowns; he takes his mother and aunt, leads them west; they can't cross the Colorado River, turn into snipes; he now lives with his grandmother in the ocean]: 95-97, 100-109; maricopa [Gopher man appears in front of a girl on across the river; she bathes, feels something four times; gives birth to twins; all birds and animals claim to be paternal; she only recognizes Gopher; while the mother is away, babies get up from the cradle, kill partridges; she makes them bows and arrows, they kill bigger game; talks about an eagle's nest on a rock; her younger brother (MB) turns into a snake, does not get to the nest, the elder (SB) turns into a feather, brings two eagles; brothers quarrel over who to take; so that they are not thirsty, the mother sends rain; eagles die from the cold; the SB is ready to kill the mother, she revives the eagles; MB cannot dive to the bottom of the sea; SB dives, red, white, black, yellow beavers give way to him, he brings reeds from the bottom, his mother makes flutes out of it; the old man's two daughters hear the brothers' play, go to sounds; Hawk, Lizard, Squirrel, Three Barn Owl, Horned Owl claim they played, but their music is unusable; mother first disguises the entrance to the house, then lets the sisters in; MB puts the mother to sleep, sleeps with younger (MS); elder (SS) sends biting insects in vain to force the SB to turn to her; in the morning MB wants to go with her sisters, MS wants to stay with her brothers, but the SS and SB do not allow them to do so; soon SB agrees to go with MB to the sisters; tells the mother that if the wind knocks over an arrow with beads, they are dead; brothers decorate themselves with stars, enter the house through a hole in the roof, sisters laugh; their father He hears this, sends his grandson to find out what is going on; every time the greedy boy demands to give him an increasing portion of roasted pumpkin seeds for it, eats them before reaching the girls' house; when he enters, they throw them away he is dirty, he cries, his grandfather comes running after him; tells his people to kill his brothers; the Hawk kills both; the Coyote hits the youngest after he has died; the woodpecker bites the corpses, now he has red feathers; mother The brothers are angry with him, makes him eat ants ever since; the corpses are hung on a pole, blood drips on the seeds, the old man's people eat them; the MC gives birth to a boy, the sisters tell his father that it is a girl; the boy grows up, kills his grandfather with an arrow; mother and aunt talk about the circumstances of the death of his father and uncle; the boy makes a hole in the ground with an arrow, SB and MB come out, but are too weak, they come back to another world; a boy comes to the brothers' mother; turns into a Comet, an old woman into a Morning Star]: Spier 1933:367-396; kiliva [Memipáio has a son, Metáilkwa'ipáiv, who has two wives; the eldest lover is expecting a child; the youngest, out of envy, stepped over her husband so that menstrual blood dripped on him; he hit her with a stick in the heart, killed her; blood splashed in the sun, now there are spots; he chased three wild sheep, they became three stars of Orion's Belt; Orion's sword is an arrow, another star next to it is its tip; Orion rises every night from the sea where the rams jumped; when he returned, his wife had already given birth to a son named Maikwiak; people killed his father, his son revived him; twice; the third time they cut him apart; the head was Valle Trinidad; the body was the slope towards the San Felipe desert; the right hand is a trough on the other side (what?) ; there is no left hand, it was torn off; legs are two plains; the son killed evil people; he made a hut in the sky, which is made of bent branches, but rainbows instead of branches; took a dog with him]: Meigs 1939:69-78 (spots: 69); tiva [The sun cuts off a person's head, takes him to heaven; two sons of the victim come to the Sun, put him to sleep, take his head]: Harrington 1928 (Picouris) [the deer warns the hunter that the Sun will fight him; the Sun takes the victim's wife; his two sons run to their father's parents; the grandfather tells them who killed their father; tells them to cut willow twigs, makes his grandchildren ball sticks; a pair of Rats (Woodrat ) gives the brothers sticks to put the Sun to sleep; four butterflies give white, black, yellow, blue colors; brothers paint a black bird to make it an Eagle; he brings them to heaven, teaches them how to play ball with The Morning Star; he plays with their father's head; the brothers break all the Morning Star's sticks, he dies; the Eagle lowers the brothers and their mother to the ground; the father's head is put in a dark closet, the father comes to life]: 313-323; Parsons 1932c (Isleta), No. 12 [the mother tells her sons that the Sun killed their father; the Spider gives them tobacco to help them withstand the heat, to put the Sun to sleep; at home they almost revive their father; contrary to the ban, mother peeks, father dies again]: 390-392; Western Apaches (San Carlos): Goddard 1918:69-70 [two sisters hear the flute playing; go looking for a flutist; they meet Red Bird, Partridge, Dove, Road-runner; everyone claims he played, but his voice sounds different; came to two young men who lived with their grandmother; lived with them for a while; they were concerned about the fire kindled by their grandmother, they returned home, inviting the young men to visit them someday; the boys came and stopped nearby; people from the girls' camp killed one, the other flew back to his grandmother with a feather; the girls followed him, they were chased; The heron grandmother stretches her leg like a bridge across the river, the boy and the girls cross; the pursuers fall when the Heron removes his leg turn into ducks; the boy lives with two wives], 71-72 [two sisters hear the sounds of the flute, they go there; on the way they meet Woodrat, Gopher, Pigeon, Red Bird; each answers that he did not play; the girl finds two young men, then they come back, the youngest is pregnant; the brothers come to him (the episode of their death has not been described); the younger sister gives birth to a boy; he shot Partridge; she asks her to be cured, for which he says that his mother's relatives ate her husband; at home, the mother shows him his father's hand; a young man walks down a wormhole; a mother, her sister and their mother follow; by the river, a young man tells a duck woman that he is being chased by human murderers; the Duck stretches out his leg like a bridge; how stalkers in the middle of the river, Duck removes his leg, they fall into the water]; diegueño (ipai) [the hero's mother and sister do nothing to save his father and uncle]: DuBois 1904 [two sisters approach swim, gopher swims after the youngest, she gets pregnant, gives birth to twins; Coyote, Canary pretend to be paternal, woman drives them away; twins secretly get out of the cradle from their mother, kill partridges; mother turns into a stump, waits for them; they turn to her as Mother Earth; they kill bigger game; the mother asks them to bring eagles; first they bring an owl, a vulture; the youngest climbs on rock, falls, breaks, his elder comes to life; throws off eagles, pacifying snakes around the nest; the youngest gives the elder a black eagle, takes a white eagle; each sends both eagles to another storm they die; the mother revives them; the elder gets a tree surrounded by water and predators, the mother makes flutes out of it; when they hear the game, girls from the north, west, south come; brothers reject them; accept those who come from the east of the Vulture's two daughters; when the sisters sound of the flute, the Rattlesnake, the Raccoon, the Long-Eared Owl pretend to be flutists, but they play poorly; the mother of the twins tells them not to react to the girls then they will leave; the mother asks the girls about the degree of kinship, they answer when she says, My daughters-in-law; only the older brother does not give in to caresses; in the morning the sisters go home to their father; the older brother reluctantly agrees to the youngest's request to follow them; the mother tries to keep them by sending hail, they deceive her, leaving the herbal scarecrows; on the way, the elder intends to drown the youngest and return, but he on the alert; brothers fly into their wives' house with shooting stars; sent by Vulture Coyote, Hawks, Bear are afraid, Vulture kills brothers himself, his people eat them; the youngest's wife gives birth to a son, betrays for the daughter; his mother's mother says his father was eaten; the grandfather is unable to kill him; he kills his mother's mother's mother dancing with his father's bones with an arrow; sees people playing ball with the heel bones of his father and uncle; in the time of another game, everyone enters the split rock, the young man slams it shut, all his father's murderers die; his grandfather, aunt, mother and maternal uncle, who was kind to him, remain; he hears his father's voice, but he cannot revive him from his bones; he goes to his paternal grandmother; puts onions as a bridge across the lake; when his mother enters, he removes the bridge, she sinks; he comes to his blind grandmother, cleans his house, burns it; puts her on his back, flies north to the mountains; that's where they live; he's Chaup (shooting star)]: 217-242; 1906 [the hero lets his mother burn alive; the aunt regrets that all relatives died]: 147- 164.

(Wed. NW Mexico. Nahuatl Zap. Mexico [the couple began to prepare for the šuravét festival (464: cf. Bark: šuruabe, Huichol: šuráve - "star"); the father sent two sons to get a deer; the youngest was hit by an arrow, killed, the eldest missed; the father sent to get protein, they killed two; sent to bring flowers; two women asked for flowers to meet them; the youngest said that the father would be angry, passed by; the eldest gave it, stayed; the mother said that now the youngest will be the eldest; after the holiday, the parents said to the youngest: You will sit down in the morning, and your brother in the evening, since he gave flowers; the youngest was given a bow and arrow, said that he would get up when the rooster sings]: Preuss 1925:459-463).

Mesoamerica Tarasca [Cupantzieeri (Sol despojado de los cabellos {"The sun that was scalped off?} , or perhaps more precisely Apantzieeri ("ballplayer") goes to play ball with Ahchuri-hirepe (La noche que apresura, "Fast Coming Night"), loses, sacrificed by him in Xacona ("House of the Night"); after his his son Sira-Tatáperi is born, he is going to shoot an iguana with a bow while hunting; she asks not to kill her, talks about his father's fate; S. finds, digs up his father's corpse, carries it on the back; on the way, a flock of quails (codornizes) takes off, he puts the corpse on the ground to shoot birds, the corpse turns into a deer with a tail and mane (crines a la cerviz), runs to the right, perhaps there where did those who later came from (Spaniards) later come from]: Relación 1989:259 (paraphrase and interpretation in Corona Núñez 1957:20-22 [by Seler, the name Sira-Tatáperi means "main root or a trunk from which people sprouted like side shoots"; in Cuitzeo, Michoacán, they still play with a burning, smoldering ball of dry root magey; the picture from the codex (fig.1) shows a ball court framed by stars and two players, apparently playing with the sun]; German translated in Krickeberg 1928:169); otomi [the woman kept her daughter in a drawer, did not let go; the young man made wooden spoons, bowls, came disguised as a seller; the girl asked her mother to buy it; when she saw him, the girl felt itchy; when she went swimming and took off her dress, she found a corn seed in it; she rubbed it and threw him into the water, the shrimp took care of him, the fish raised him, and since then some had dark spots on their backs; the boy grew up asking the girls who were washing clothes to transport him across the river; they refused; Then he persuaded them to stand in a row to cross their backs; as he walked, the girls turned into frogs; he came to his mother, she made clay vessels, he smashed them with arrows; she scolded him, he explained that he was her son, whom she grinded and threw into the water; he began to play his grandfather's musical instrument; told him to stop: another, angry grandfather would hear him kill the player; he came took the young man to the temazcal, closed the door, gave a couple; opened it, intending to cut and eat the cooked; the bathhouse was empty, the young man came from the spring, all wet; then the grandfather offered to separate the black grains from white; the young man covered the vessel with a cross, the grains separated; but the grandfather could not separate; the young man offered to catch the thrown stone; the young man caught it; he threw the stone himself, and when it fell, he threw corn into his grandfather's eyes thorns (espigas), a stone hit him in the head and killed him; he asked his mother for cakes, she replied that they only ate bones here, there was nothing else; he ordered him to take the pot, it boiled, it contained cakes; ordered to cook the field, the first corn grew on it]: Oropeza Escobar 2007:185-191; tepeua [some characters don't like the musician's performance; they invite him to a party, feed him, offer everything new portions; he can't do it anymore; they call him to play ball, kill him with their iron balls; his pregnant wife wants an abortion, the baby from the womb tells him to wait, give birth to him where she is swimming; she gives birth and buries a dead baby; corn grows on his grave; a woman cooks a cake, she is bitter, the woman throws it away; the turtle puts it on her back, the cake turns into a boy; the baby is dirty, since then a picture can be seen on the turtle shell; the turtle makes arrows for him, but tells him not to shoot poor fish; the boy asks the scorpion to take him to his real mother; under the roof of the house finds his father's musical instrument; opponents hear the game again, call the player to their place to subject him to the same tests as his father; he is fed for slaughter, but he asks for a shrew in advance hole in food vessels; while playing, he hits balls, killing opponents; spares three for showing where his father's bones are; revives his father, brings him home, forbids him to open his eyes; a leaf falls, opens his eyes, turns into a deer; his son gives him a handkerchief - a tail; tells the crocodile to open its mouth, pulls out his tongue; asks San Pedro to let him go with his mother (to heaven?) ; the mother turns into a holy rose; the snake moves, producing thunder, lightning, clouds, rain; the young man waves the crocodile's tongue, causing a stronger thunderstorm; Thunders lead the young man to San Pedro ; he admits that he missed him with his mother; tells him to share his weapon between the Thunders]: Williams García 1972:87-92; mountain totonaki [girl rejects suitors; musician turns into a flea, penetrates her, clinging to her clothes; becomes a man at night; plays the violin; four Thunders hear a game, tell him to shoot him; a woman gives birth to a boy, he dies; she buries him on the grave corn grows; a woman makes bread from green cobs; it is bitter, she throws it into the river; it is eaten by fish, the Turtle carries a piece on its back; the piece turns into a boy; when it grows up, she leaves it on the shore; the crocodile wants to swallow it; the young man tells him to open his mouth, cuts off his tongue, cuts them into four pieces; puts them with river foam in four reeds; pieces of tongue turn into lightning; a young man summons his father from his grave, carries him on his back, tells him not to be afraid; a leaf falls, the father is frightened, turns into a deer, runs away; the boy's mother makes pots; he breaks them with arrows; tells her who he is; predicts that she will be called the grandmother of all beings; he plays the violin and harp like his father; the Thunders send Mucha, then Vulture, Hawk to find a musician; the young man hides in the flute; for the second time, the Fly finds it; Thunders offer competitions; 1) playing ball (can't kill a young man with a ball); 2) who will eat beans and corn faster (ants carry pieces of food out of the young man's mouth); 2) who will drink lots of water faster (The mole makes a hole in the young man's vessel, the water pours out); 4) the steam room (Gromov's brooms have withered, the young man's broom is covered with flowers); the young man gives the Thunders lightning, orders them to make thunderstorms and showers (there were no clouds before); the young man - corn, revived annually]: Ichon 1969, No. III: 63-69; Totonaki (Chicotepec) [the man played the violin; the Thunders sent a messenger to him to appear; let him say who allowed him to play, they don't like it; he was asked to sit in a chair and then compete in running; at a distance he saw pajaro de primavera lying upside down; not wanting to step on him, the man hesitated and lost the contest; he was killed and buried; his wife remained pregnant; the Thunders summoned her and forced her to miscarry under threat of death; the child was buried in the yard of the house from where they ran the village (town) hall); 8 days later, a corn shoot grew on this place, and the cob ripened on it; the thunders called a woman and told him to pick it up; she ground the grain, cooked the tamale; it turned out to be bitter and she threw it into river; downstream, the old woman heard crying and picked up the baby; brought it home, her husband is also happy; the boy grew up quickly, calls the couple parents; asks where the father goes; old woman: take care of animals {fish, but is more commonly referred to as animals}; these animals lay motionless; kingfisher and other birds that eat fish came to eat them; the young man asked for permission to go with father; started shooting at kingfishers and killing them; promised that now the fish ("animals") would multiply; the next time he went alone, started shooting fish in the head, they had fins, and appeared in the back tail; tomorrow or the day after tomorrow God's children (i.e. people}) will appear, they will need animals {that is, there must be many fish and should not be concentrated in one place}; the fish has moved {i.e. blurred}; the next day, the young man came with his father again; he: how to catch it now; then the young man gave his father a net; people would appear - they would need it; the young man came to the crocodile, he wanted to eat it; the young man asked him open his mouth to get into it, cut off his tongue and said that he would now be called a crocodile; when the lightning flashes, they would honor you {that is, lightning is made of the crocodile's tongue}; the young man said an old woman who knows that he has a real mother and his real father is killed; the young man came when his mother sadly sang and made clay pots; hiding in a tree, he broke the pot with arrows; she began to swear; he went out to her, told her not to swear and called herself a son; sat on her knees and spoiled her; told her the whole story about his father's death and his appearance; he was the cob of corn; he assured her that he was not they'll kill; he opened his father's house and all the violins, guitars, drums and flutes were there; he started playing the violin, the Thunders heard it, sent messengers for him; he volunteered to go; when {people} came, you will be called rain/storm clouds, for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow God will increase the number of his children {i.e. people}; and they agreed to be under his control, to be clouds, not who they were; they were given their horses are white clouds, and are given to their machetes; and they will produce lightning, scream {thunder} and pour water; in the morning clouds appeared in the east, rained, thunderstorm began; while running, he did not looked at the man lying down and ran first; the second test was to eat a lot of corn porridge; he arranged with Agouti to gnaw a hole in the bottom of the porridge vessel; the porridge flowed out, and the Thunders believed that The young man ate everything; then he took his father out of the grave to revive him; but he should not be afraid; but when he heard the rustle of a fallen leaf, his father was frightened and turned into a deer; now people will eat you, hunters they will kill; this young man is Wonder Man]: Aschmann 1977; Veracruz Nahuatl: González Cruz 1984:211-255; mountain guards [old Tsitsimat saw an egg in the lake, began to catch it with a net ; realized that this was a reflection, and the egg was on a tree; told her husband to get it, the boy Homsuk hatched from the egg; he shoots fish and lizards with a bow; realized that the old man wanted to eat it; hid under the roof, taking from a bat; the old man climbed upstairs, the bat cut off his head; the old woman drank the bleeding, thinking it was the blood of a young man; rushed after him; the man he met replied that H. He had been here for a long time; the old woman burned down, H. told the Toad to throw out the ashes; she opened the bag, the ashes turned into poisonous snakes and insects; when H. was young, he always cried; his mother ground him and threw it into the water; now he came to her, asked her where his father was; He went to the country of Thunder and died; the Turtle took H. across the sea; she was in pain, she returned; because the Rabbit cured her, H. gave his horns; the deer began to compete with him, the horns suited him more, he took them for himself; H. arrives at the Thunders, who put him in a cage with snakes, with jaguars; H. easily pacifies them, first sitting on a snake, then on a jaguar; remains unharmed in a house filled with arrows; sits in a hammock above the waterfall; when Thunders sit in the hammock, the rodent bites the rope, the Thunders fall, die; alone stays, asks not To kill him, revives Father H.; H. sends an animal (a lizard) to tell his mother to laugh when the dead man returns; the lizard told her to cry and bite the ground; Father H. died again; H. tore lizard language in two]: Elson 1947:195-213; (cf. Foster 1945a, No. 1 [the old woman saw an egg in the river, began to catch it with a net; realized that it was a reflection, and the egg was on a tree; told her husband to get it, the Homshuk boy hatched from the egg; he shoots gudgeon with a bow; the gudgeon says he is just an egg caught in a net; the old woman tells him not to pay attention; the same is true of thrushes in the forest; the old woman tells him to return the gudgeon caught into the water, revive and release the dead thrushes; tells the old man that H. should be eaten; H. feels it; hid under the roof, telling the bat to cut off the old man's head; the old woman drank the bleeding, thinking it was H.'s blood; rushed after him; H. warns the old woman that if she doesn't stop chasing, she'll burn; the savanna is on fire, the old woman is burned; on the seashore, H. hits the drum; Hurricane sends to find out who it is; I'm the one who Sprouts in the knees, whoever blooms; Hurricane again asks H. to name himself, he calls him, says he is the one who is peeled and eaten; H. asks Tarantula to build a house for him, because he will now come Hurricane; in the morning, Hurricane's people find themselves on the shore of X. hitting the drum; the Turtle agrees to transport it across the sea, but returns because its shell cracks on its stomach under its weight; this species turtles - pecho quebrado; the larger one transports Hurricane to the country, for which H. paints it brightly; the Hurricane puts him in a cell with snakes; with jaguars; in the morning he sits on a snake; on a jaguar; with arrows; H. tells them to be servants of man, binds them; who will throw a stone across the sea; H. asks the woodpecker to knock on wood when he throws a stone, as if the stone fell and jumped; and when the Hurricane threw, it was not heard falls; Hurricane proposes to transport H. across the ocean with a hammock; shakes, thinking that he fell and drowned; H. did not fall out; when Hurricane and his men land in the hammock, H. asks Agouti to gnaw on the roots trees to which the hammock is tied; everyone is drowning, the Hurricane itself escaped, but broke his leg when he fell from a height; recognizes the strength of H., promises to water it in June-July]: 191-194); chontal [mother cannot calm him down young son, leaves on an ant heap (he still cries, throws him into a ditch in the rain, finally killed, rubbed it on a grain grater, placed it in an eggshell, threw an egg into the lake a childless old woman found it, her husband told me to put it down so that the chicken would hatch, a boy was born the same night; he grew up, was mischievous, came to his real parents, told them who he was, turned them into a couple deer attached to a tail cloth; hit the drum at the holidays; people were tired of his mischief, wanted to shoot him at the party, but he disappeared from sight]: Keller, Gerónimo 2001:111-117; quiche [Hun-Hun-Ahpu and Vukub-Hun-Ahpu brothers are invited to play ball in Shibalba; going down to the lower world, they cross the river of blood and the river of pus, but do not drink from them; at the red crossroads, black, white and yellow roads choose black; welcome wooden images of Lord Sh., and not themselves; sit on a hot bench; sacrificed; the head of the XXA is hung on a pumpkin tree; Shkik, the daughter of one of the rulers Sh., comes to the tree, becomes pregnant from the saliva of XHA's head; the father sends the Owl to kill her, who brings him a clot of red juice in the shape of her heart; S. comes to mother XHA, gives birth to twins Hun-Ahpu and Shbalanke; old woman's sons Hun-Batz and Hun-Chowen put them in an anthill, on a thistle, but they are unharmed; HA and S. ask HB and HC to get them from the top trees of birds they shot; tell the tree to rise tall; turn those who have climbed into monkeys; they could live with their grandmother (and turn into people again) if she did not laugh when she saw their grimaces; after On the third attempt, the monkeys run away into the forest forever; the brothers tell the ax and hoe to clear the garden themselves; at night, all birds and animal forests restore vegetation; brothers guard, cut off tails to a rabbit and a deer; they want to kill the Mouse; she reports that the grandmother is hiding their father and uncle's ball accessories from them; sending the grandmother to get water and telling the insect to hole her jug, they send The mouse gnaw through the rope, for which a package with a ball, gloves, etc. is hung from the roof; Vladyka S. hear the brothers play, call them to play; the grandmother sends Louse to give his grandchildren this invitation; Toad swallows Louse, Snake Toad, Falcon Snake, brings an invitation; brothers cross rivers of blood and pus, pass a crossroads, send a mosquito to bite all Lords Sh. One by one; everyone asks another who he was stung by name; the mosquito gives names to the young men, warns that the first figures are wooden; the twins do not sit on a hot bench; 1) spend the night in the House of Darkness illuminating it with feathers a red parrot and placing fireflies at the ends of the cigars (thus fulfilling the requirement to return the splinters and cigars intact); 2) win the game with their own ball; 3) spend the night in the House of Knives (promise The meat of all animals is brought to knives); 4) bring flowers of four colors protected by two Swallows (they send ants to cut them off; Lords S. punish the Swallows by tearing their mouths); 5) spend the night in the Ice House (tourniquet pine branches); 6) in the Jaguar House (they throw bones to them); 7) in the House of Fire (do not burn); 8) in the House of Bats with sharp blades; brothers hide in their windpipes; HA looks out, he is cut off head, hang it on the ball court; Sh. replaces his brother's head with a turtle; during the game, Lords Sheeb chase the rabbit, mistaking him for a ball; at this moment Shb. returns his brother's head; Lords Sheeb. they tell the brothers to rush into the underground furnace; their bones are ground, thrown into the water; at the bottom, the young men were born again from powder; they come to Lords Sheb under the guise of poor old people, cut each other into pieces and resurrect; Vladyka Sheba ask them to jokingly sacrifice; brothers kill them but do not resurrect them; brothers find XXA, but he is weak, babbles something vague; he is left in Shib; brothers go up to heaven, one gets the Sun, the other gets the Month]: Popol-Wuh 1959:32-78; chorty (synopsis of several versions) [hero - Kumix Angel ("younger angel, younger brother", hereinafter K.) lives with four of his older brothers; he has a cut on his leg; when he bathes, the fish swim to eat his blood and flesh; his brothers rubbed him on a stone, threw him into the water, it foamed like a vine that poisons fish; brothers with they understand with disgust that the fish they eat is fed up with K.'s body; or K. turns into a fish himself; when the brothers leave, K. revives and cries on the shore; the old cannibal woman K'ech'uj takes him home; Var.: She takes the bloody foam on the water for her own miscarriage; K. hunts birds and deer, but K'ech'uj secretly gives the meat to her lover; after learning that K'ech'uj and her partner are not his parents, K. kills both; K. hides in a guitar that the hummingbird took to heaven, meets her mother there; all her property has been taken away by the Bronze King; K. turns the few remaining beans and corn grains into abundant supplies, rebuilds the house built by his uncle San Lorenzo (SL) and where K.'s mother lives; arranges the ritual of feeding his father's brothers, i.e. four-way winds; causes SL with the power of a drum; deceives returns his father's weapons (sword, drum, flute, ring, cloth) owned by a monkey, battleship, crocodile; defeats and kills the Bronze King (sometimes with lightning); hitting the drum and hitting the drum with a sword (thunderstorm), creates a milpa; older brothers create a mountain to also climb into heaven and see their mother; eagles begin to descend from the sky, threatening people's existence; K. destroys the mountain with lightning; The older brothers are told to hide their heads, but they stick them out and are blinded; their tears are a small November rain; K. turns them into frogs - "rain priests" at the four ends of the world; K. finds his father's grave; When trying to revive it, a flock of partridges distracts him and revival fails; according to one version (Girard 1995:404), K. rises to heaven and becomes the sun]: Braakhuis, Hull 2014:452-454.

The Northern Andes. Cimila [two sons went to hunt tapir; their mother sends their old father to work on the site, who dies of heat and fatigue; sons come to the cleared area, see their father, he has good clothes and jewelry, he is beautifully painted; he appears and disappears with a gust of wind; tells them to kill their mother, gives her club for this purpose; they kill his mother with a club]: Reichel-Dolmatoff 1945, No. 12 : 11-12.

The Northern Andes. Ambera [a young man born from a tumor on a man's leg dies; seeing that he has no parents, the young man wants to know who killed his mother or father; he is told the culprits, he makes sure that they are not his parents were killed; the moon is named last; he climbs a tree or vine towards her, slaps her in the face, the trail remains; the woodpecker cuts down a tree or vine, the young man falls into the underworld; after adventures returns]: Isaza Bravo 1987 [Buro-Poto boy is born from a tumor on a man's leg; he is dead; BP asks old people (los viejos) who killed his father; they say that jaguars (hoping BP will go to them take revenge, and they will eat him); BP kills jaguars, leaves a pregnant female, the current ones; then old people say that BP's father was killed by snakes; BP killed snakes; a monstrous crab that lives in a deep body of water and swallows whole people; BP sits on the raft, makes a fire, the crab swallows it; the PSU keeps the crab on the fire, roasts the unborn cub, feeds the other swallowed ones, swims out on the raft through the ass; crab dies; old people: your father was killed by the moon; BP made a ladder, goes up to the moon, has already reached out his hand, but the woodpecker cut off the stairs; BP fell at sunset, and there have been spots on the moon since then; The sun took the PSU in its underground journey along the river; there people who ate the smell only B. ate, they asked them to make anuses, died, B. revived them; crabs attacked, for underground people it was death, B. easily exterminated them; through The Sun took him with him for several days; a lot of food in a small basket; at home B. began to suck blood at night, kill women; they poured boiling water on him, he petrified, and made corn grinders out of it]: 127 -130.

Southern Venezuela. Yanomami: Pereira 1980 (1): 96-97; Yanomam: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 187:369-370

Western Amazon. Koreguahe [A jaguar lives in a tree hollow on the edge of the garden; a woman takes him as a lover, he kills her husband; the victim's two sons bring a lot of meat from the hunt, but the mother gives everything to her lover; brothers they are going to kill the pauhil bird, who tells them about the death of their father; the brothers watch the mother, see her summon the Jaguar with blows to the trunk; call him with the same signal, kill him with arrows; when they learn of death lover, furious woman; gives birth to a son by Jaguar; coreguahe jaguars (who can turn into jaguars) come from]: Jimenez 1989, No. 45:100-101; mayhuna [Heavenly Jaguar sister asked her husband to kill white birds on a fruit tree and made the Sky Jaguars eat him; her son Maineno asks how he was born; she replies that she found him under tree bark; sends birds to shoot on the same tree; along the road te (father's spirit?) sits on his shoulders, tells him how it happened; M. waits under a tree where jaguars descend from the sky; his father tells him to shoot until the one who ate him comes down; he descends, M. tears it apart, they fall, crushing the Toad; now it is flat; M. tells her to smear her back with poison and be a toad; the mother fills the fire with urine, leaves; Father M. says the Lizard has fire, but that swallowed fire, burned her throat; M. takes the fire drill from the Otter]: Bellier 1991b, No. 3:173-179; waorani [revenge is not described (text is cut off), but the hero's father, not the hero's mother, is killed]: Wavrin 1932:145-146; aguaruna: 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, and the goose took it away him to his nest down the river; a boy came out of the egg, the goose raised him; 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.

NW Amazon. Carijona: Schindler 1979, No. 1 [a woman takes Jaguar as a lover, allows him to kill her husband; when she is two years old, her son Months asks his mother how his father died; Missing in the woods; boy wanders through the woods, Forest says he didn't kill his father; Fell off a tree; boy jumped off a tree, fell slowly; Earth; Didn't kill; - Drowned fishing; boy swims in dolblenke through the rapids, Water: Did not kill; the boy took a hummingbird egg, from which his younger brother Tukučimobi (hummingbird egg before) was born; he is the Sun, on the third day he is smarter than the Month; Month brings a lot of meat, but the mother gives everything to the Jaguar; brothers kill birds to tell them about their father's death; the woodpecker who hammered the tree in which the Jaguar and the Night Monkey lived spoke; brothers revive the dead birds; they spy on a mother dressed as a girl bringing food, calling the Jaguar, knocking a vine on wood, copulating; when she leaves, the brothers call the Jaguar with the same signal, kill with poisoned arrows; T. made a necklace out of his fangs, wears it for war; when the Month wears the necklace, the hunters have a lot of prey; the mother takes a palm larva as lovers, the brothers burn the palm tree, the larva dies; the mother calls T. has eye disease (the same after the murder of Jaguar); the forest chicken screams about it; T. tells all the birds to voice, finds a chicken by voice, brings her mother to fry; she conjures to make a broken one while eating bones, water poured over, flooded the ground with a flood; T., with the help of a magical calebass, stops the flood; tells her mother to drop her milk into a pot of ash, from which a fruit tree grows; to the tree animals come, including the Night Monkey; she has a horn from Father T.'s skull around her neck; brothers kill the Monkey in an ambush, but her mother creates a snake, which steals her father's skull; therefore, he could not be resurrected; mother tells T. and his month-old brother that she will die, tells her to cut off her hand, put it in the basket with cassava, hang it over the hearth; when the sons return from hunting, the food will be prepared; said that the garden was ruining Aguti, went to make a trap, turned into an agouti, died deliberately trapped; there was a trace of the place where T. took a sand flea out of his mother's leg the day before; the brothers did, as his mother ordered, but T. did not believe that Aguti's paw was preparing the food; told the kuckuck bird to warn if women appeared; but the brothers were far away, did not have time to run; the same with the woodpecker (the brothers noticed footprints of two women); the third time the cacambra bird warned in time, the brothers grabbed two women, both wanted a lighter and younger one; T. managed to grab the eldest before she put on her outfit The vulture, and the youngest put it on and flew away; because the eldest's clothes were torn, she remained human, T. married her; gave birth to many children, but dumb; then T. showed her huge larvae, she was surprised spoke], 12 [Kaeromati dug a hole in the forest, pushed his son-in-law there, he died a week later; K. collected the bones, hid it under the roof; the victim's little son asks his mother about his father; tears off the crickets's heads, alone asks not to kill him, talks about his father; for this, the boy revived the others; bewitched the tree on the site to be strong, cassava to make it difficult to dig (so the grandfather and mother will not return home soon, they will to work), threw the cricket to the ceiling, he gnawed through the rope of the bundle, the bones fell; for this, the boy gave the cricket to chirp the bone that people had between their thumb and forefinger; fumigated their bones after covering them with tobacco leaves, the father came to life; K. took meat from his grandson, now the father brought monkeys to his son, and gave his father-in-law a skin; the boy sculpted two harpy eagles from manioc starch, they grew up quickly; the boy they built a platform for them by the water so that their bones would fall into the water and their mother would not revive their grandfather like his father; the harpies grabbed and ate their grandfather, the bones fell into the water; the boy pretended to shoot, but with blunt arrows; then drove the harpies far away]: 21-43, 110-118; (cf. yukuna [see motives K1, M30, I14; (Father Kawarivi is not mentioned, the story begins with a conflict between brothers K. and younger Maotchi); Wolves (Martens?) Kawarimi's wife was stolen, Mother Komarov was left in return; K. killed her, mosquitoes flew out of her; K. took his wife, hid with her in a tree, took the fire from the Wolves, threw a stone, they became wolves; K. returns to mother; her husband is a Jaguar, they have a daughter; she rushed to K., but did not eat it; K. kills her (it does not say how), turns her into a paka, told her mother to cook for Jaguar; he eats, understands, K. climbs a tree, creates termite mound around the trunk, kills Jaguar; tells the mother that he brought her eggs with a toad, tells her to open her mouth wider, throws hot eggs (possibly hevea latex), her mother dies; K. kills a toucan, tells her cousin Hipu look into the hollow, the toucan pecked out his eye; they began to fish, the fish swallowed H., K. frees him; Crax ruba laughs at X., who has a swam eye; K. takes turns asking the birds how they sing finds a mocker; he warns not to eat his left half; H. eats, threw a bone, water poured out of it, a flood; the water came down; K. killed the Nothocrax urumutum mutum), he fell into the water, H. climbed to get it, swallowed by an anaconda; H. cut through her belly with a comb with piranha teeth, went out; so three times; K. and H. invented fire, began to live in the river]: Jacopin 1981:148-162); cubeo: Koch-Grünberg 1910:159; desana: Kumu, Kenhiri 1980 [at the festival, two sisters dance with Inambu (Crypturus sp.); from the fork to his house there is a path to the right with a yellow macaw feather on it; on the left path to the house The opossum is the feather of a green macaw; the possum changes feathers; in the morning, the sisters turn left to reach the Possum; at night they prevent him from inserting the penis into their vagina; he has been using all parts of their bodies since then in women bad smell; in the morning, the eldest gives in to the harassment of the Possum; both run to Inamba; Crane, Duck refuses to transport them due to an unpleasant smell; Cayman does not smell, transports; Opossum chases them; Herons wash them (the smell remains only under their arms), hide them; kill Oposum, leave his skin on top of the cliff; the calebass in the house of the Possum is filled with his blood; from it his mother creates two eagles; they take Inambu to the Jaguars, where they eat him; one feather falls, turns into current inambu; Inambu's father comes to the Jaguars, hides the bone from his son's leg, she falls into the lake, turns into two fish Diloa; Inambu's mother can't catch them; they turn into crickets, come to grandparents; become young men; they come to Opossum's mother, kill eagles, make flutes out of their bones; one the feather turns into current eagles; the Jaguars are struck with lightning; the grandmother also dies because she comes from a Jaguar family; D. rise to heaven, become Thunders]: Kumu, Kenhiri 1980:161-188; letuama [ night monkeys killed the hunter; her head fell into the hollow, the body to the ground; the pregnant wife put a stick in her ass (thinking there should be a head here), and palm leaves stopped bleeding in her neck; the body turned into an anteater; a woman gave birth on the way; the boy grew up in seven days and came to his grandfather; he says that if a boy is his grandson, he will not get wet in the rain; he went out and did not get wet; Who killed my father? - Snake; a young man came to the Snakes, asking him to be killed as a father; - Not us, ask his mother; - He fell off a tree! - I ate a jaguar! - The forest spirit of Kurupir killed; once a young man helped his grandfather get rid of mosquitoes on the site; he said in gratitude that night monkeys had killed; the young man shattered his mother's wind gun and shot him monkeys, but one was only injured; when her mother wanted to put her on fire, a monkey killed her; when she saw her mother dead, her son turned into a frog]: Palma 1984:134-137; yukuna [Karipulakena brothers sailed in a boat downstream of Apaporis, but a huge turtle blocked the way; K. asked the harpy eagle to carry it away; but the turtle made it so that it was a wet season and it was difficult to tear it off the ground; lechero fish began to shoot at the eagle; the eagle died; K. raised the son of an eagle, who came to the turtle's house to compare his bones with his father's; when he realized that his bones were larger, he first sent the little eagles to cover the sun, then the bees bite the turtle, then picked it up and carried it to Ipojló; the turtle's armor formed the rocky islands]: Hammen 1992:94-95; baniva [heroes arise from the victim's remains]: Saake 1968 : 261-262 [from bones], 268-269 [from the heart]; vacuenai [Major Illness (BB) killed his wife's brother; she folded the victim's bones into calebasa; one day she forgot to take it to the station, BB opened the calebas, found inside two crickets, crushed; they came to life, fixed each other's guts, turned into Duiménai (D.) young men; their aunt is happy; 1) BB leads D. to fish; he goes to another place, turns into a jaguar; D. they turn into hummingbirds, the jaguar does not find them; by removing insects from D., BB cannot flatten their heads; they also sent jaguar ants, which dug into his feet; 2) BB sends D. to the middle of the site, sets fire to vegetation; D. turn into leaf cutter ants (they have existed since then), leave the plot underground, at home before BB; 3) BB asks a woman to kill D. while fishing with poison; D. they kill her, turn her into a paka, feed her BB meat with her hair in; BB choked on him, died]: Hill 2009:25-29; Tarian: Brüzzi 1994:114-134 [there were few first ancestors on the river island; then they became jaguars, spirits; a 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, turning into 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; on the other an old man and an old woman lived on the island; the old woman sent her husband to get a piece; the old man got little fingers with 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 caught the fish and peppered them, but they became crickets; the old woman put them in the pot, put them on the fire, but they became as boys; the old woman began to raise them; they threw pepper into the old man's eyes; he took them to the site to burn them, but they jumped out of the fire unharmed; they 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 site; there women pick unripe fruits, they turn into agouti; the brothers climbed a tree, the 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 behind birds, birds became young men again, got together with girls; the relationship continued, alone said; jaguar people try to kill the brothers, but they easily turn into anyone, elusive, do not drink poisoned kashiri; the possum killed the inamba, but ate the inamba harpy eagle; the victim's relatives sent Kill the harpy eagle brothers: let them decorate them with feathers if they want to become shamans; they have caught eagles in strong nets, become shamans; dabucuru needs fish; one brother has become a woman, the Big Serpent came to meet her, two others killed him; the brothers cut the body into pieces, and fish appeared from them (p. 125-126); the brothers went out and returned, increasing in number; they answered the jaguars that they were the name is Gorky Jaguar, Broken Teeth, etc.; they tried to bite - bitterly, their teeth are breaking, etc.; it is not clear which of the audience are the real three brothers; the brothers went to heaven to steal the Thunder sword ( lightning is its shine); Thunder gave a fake; while Thunder was sleeping, they replaced his real club with a fake; from the lightning of Thunder, the brothers fell apart and came to life, and killed him with their lightning; revived; this lightning killed him all jaguars, but also an old woman; climbed to the uppermost tier of the sky], 211-215 [Iauaretê people ate their grandfather and made sure that nothing was left (i.e. burned bones, drank kashiri); but one named Yeet threw something away; thunder thundered and three pirapucu fish (from the crucian carp family) appeared; his wife, the grandmother of the fish, put them in a basket of peppers; they turned into little men," people of blood" - Diroá; grew up and matured; as birds, they flew to the field where Iauaretê worked; they tried to kill them, did not catch them; and the birds became young men again and met I. then they returned home as birds; their grandmother took them to catch winged female ants (a treat); they threw fruits at the girls; the grandmother released ants from the vagina, they climbed the tree and D. fell; their grandmother released the ants from the vagina, they climbed the tree and D. fell; their grandmother revived; they made her bitten by a spider; she died, they revived her; I. tried to cut down trees on D., but they rejected them; I. set fire to the site so that D. burned down, but they were unharmed {it is not said how it is they succeeded}; D. got into the boat and sailed a long distance, waving their oar only once; asking people what they were doing; - We are preparing batons to kill D.; D. killed them ourselves immediately; they killed them elsewhere the anaconda, which was on the tree, was fried; they went to kill the harpy eagle; his mother cooks resin; D.: why resin? - Kill D.; they killed her, made a whistle out of bone to lure harpy eagles; they flocked, D. killed them; the feathers of D.'s two dead eagles were turned into humans; when, after the holiday, I. intended to kill D. , a lot of people {warriors} came out against them; D. offered them to try eating resin, she tied their mouths, they couldn't eat D.]; bar: Pereira 1980 (1): 256-265; andoque [women brothers - night monkeys ate her husband, hid his wind gun (sarbakan) in the house, the woman hid the dart and cotton wool between her breasts; the victim's son made a small sarbakan, shot flies, his grandfather got into the testicles, he said that the boy had his father's habits; so the boy found out that he had a father; began to ask his mother how he died; she replies that he was eaten by the owner of the forest (the boy walks in the forest at night, intact); 2) fell off the roof (boy jumps off the roof, alive); 3) bitten by a snake; 4) ran into a branch; the boy wants to kill a rat, she says that his father was killed by his mother's brothers, showed where sarbakan; the boy found him, asked his mother to give him a breast; she admitted that his father was killed because he killed monkeys himself; the son put his hand in the hollow, then his head, got stuck; his head was cut off]: Landaburu, Pineda 1984:133-136; uitoto: Pereira 1980 (2) [Jaguar Gaimo is Hitoma's wife's lover; kills him; his widow gives birth to twins Monaro Hitoma and Fishido Hisema; they ask mother about father; she first denies that they had him, then says that he burned down, fell from a tree, etc.; they try fire, fall from a tree, etc., but they are unharmed; they see a monstrous ball rolling- cannibal; mother says he ate his father; F.H. collides with the ball, dies; then comes to life; brothers kill Gaimo with arrows; are going to burn their mother]: 482-492; Preuss 1921, No. 7 and 8 [takes in lovers murderer husband]: 270-317; Preuss 1921, No. 9 [Kud Buneima got himself into a trance after drinking tobacco juice, went to play ball with Dyaroka's people, his head was torn off with a ball, cooked, eaten; his son Buneim's Magyari offered to eat their father's meat; he and his brother get a magic cure, kill opponents; see that their mother mourns their death; their mother tells them that she planted cassava and they eat it rodents; the brothers caught the rodent in a trap, recognized the mother from the wound on her leg - she was a rodent; they cremated her, cried; went up to heaven to get the magic remedy for the Diarok people; when they went down, they went to the tree fell down, they were called for help by the Muinane tribe, because the tree broke people's heads; the eagle sits on top, shouting, "We are eating MA!" ; the worms on the tree struck Brother MB with lightning; their urine poured in a stream; then MB rose to heaven, took the name Hítoma (Sun); he took an egg from the hummingbird's nest on a palm tree, containing his brother, his name now a hummingbird boy; at night his brother was eaten by beetles; H. became hard as stone, killed beetles, but one escaped; H. went underground]: 314-330; Rodríguez de Montes 1981, No. 23 [Hitoma (The Sun) received a wife from river people; climbed a tree for fruit, says that the fruit is like your chest; at this time birds (Vultures?) stolen his wife; her husband is responsible for her spit; H. killed the kidnappers; came to a single woman; she has a lover, a river man; a toucan chick screams that the Sun's wife is unfaithful; carries meat with cassava to the river, knocks on a vessel placed on the water; H. killed his lover, cut off his penis, let his wife eat; H. came to another woman, they had a daughter; his wife tells him to swim down the river; he goes higher, he was eaten by a jaguar Gaimo, this woman's other husband; she gave birth to a son by H.; tells him that he was born from her knee; he sees his father's heart hanging on a tree - a hummingbird egg; he warmed up at home, his brother came out of the egg; the mother lies that father was bitten by a snake; brothers found a snake - it does not want to bite; fell from a tree; burned in a fire; brothers do not break, do not burn; woodpecker is injured, he lives on the same tree as G.; for treating, woodpecker talks about G.; G. has an assistant; advised him to bring cassava to G.'s hollow so that he thinks a woman has come; said that pucuna (wind gun?) the father is under the roof; the assistant (ocelot?) will be the first to come out , do not kill him; the brothers called and killed G., H. the youngest took a tooth for the necklace; for the fact that his sister was silent, turned her into a tuayó bird, sings at night; when the mother pulled fleas out of their feet, they threw her into she has coal and achiote; she asks to put a rat trap in the garden; she was caught herself (the brothers identified it by paint); did not want to live after G.'s death]: 189-201; ocaina [mother's lover killed her father twins, they were born after their father's death; they ask their mother where their father is; she replies that she climbed for fruit, fell off a tree; brothers try to fall, they are alive, they ask again; she comes up with something again; they injure a butterfly from the sarbakan, which refers to the grasshopper, that to the woodpecker; the woodpecker tells him to be cured first; says that on the side where the sound of the slit gong comes from lives the father who ate them; brothers reward the woodpecker by giving him a red hat; the brothers waited for and killed Drake (mother's lover and father's murderer; Blixen, p. 116: this is a deviation from the usual version in which either a jaguar or a monkey} was made from he was given soup, given to his mother; she tells him to make a trap, turns into a rat, falls into this trap; the brothers are leaving; their mother is now a frog, hiding in the ground, they dig there, find a worm egg, decide to grow brother; pierced an egg, hit him in his eye; a boy came out, remained one-eyed; two sisters saw two sparkling worms on the tree; called people, more and more worms, they made fire, the tree threatens the world by fire; brothers (two and a third one-eyed) are called for help; they go to Thunder, climbing into the sky, throwing darts (carrizos) that pierce each other (var: climbing a tree); the twins failed create a chain of darts, the younger brother created; the dart chain turns into a vine (they argue which one is too smooth, the other is prickly); you can't approach Thunder, they fall asleep; then they go to their own to the snake grandmother, who gives them a dream wrapped in a sheet; The one-eyed man says that the grandmother did not put anything; they open the bag, fall asleep; the grandmother reluctantly sleeps again; the thunder falls asleep, his daughter - no; while One-Eyed flirts with her, the twins replace Thunder's club and mirror (causes lightning); when they came down, añuje, at their request, cut off the vine, it fell, injuring its paws; the brothers told The battleship undermined the roots of the tree, knocked him west with Thunder's weapon; Thunder was surprised that his former strength was gone]: Blixen 1999, No. 5:113-134; yagua [man married to the Night Monkey; wife cooks masato (alcoholic drink), sends her husband to hunt night monkeys; her brothers are waiting there, they kill him themselves; everyone eats him, drinks masato; they give meat to his little son, they plan to kill him too; or son is born after the death of her father; asks the mother how the father died; she replies that she fell from a roof, from a tree; she cut down a tree, it crushed it, a nest of bees fell on it; ate a jaguar; bitten by an anteater, a snake; the young man exposes himself to the same dangers, is alive; asks animals who say they are innocent; (see motive H39); the young man smashed Chuchupe's vessel of poison, the snakes took possession of it; Ch. tells him the truth; mother lies that there is a bird's nest under the roof; the son climbs there, takes his father's wind gun; waits for monkeys in ambush; the father of the young man's mother has the skull of the young man's eaten father hanging around his neck, he blows him like a horn; others have flutes from the bones of the dead; the young man kills everyone; the cub escapes, the current monkeys come from him, but the young man makes them harmless; Chuchupe received a horn from the skull for his help to warn people about his intimacy; the frog asked for it to be given to her, jumped into the water; since then her voice has been loud; the son brings the mother of her father and brothers killed by him; C. warned the young man to leave animals and thorns behind ; the mother throws the magic lasso, but attracts only what is left (or the son tears the noose); The sloth catches fish, saying "monkey food on the hook of the father's bones"; the fish immediately bites; the young man asks for repeats the trick; presses the Sloth into a tree, tears off his fingers, turns him into a sloth; four Trogons (birds) make battle loops (garrotes) to kill the young man (they talk about it); he asks for him see if he kills them, the blood turns into trogons; makes a hat out of palm leaves, leaves them on the path, she turns into a woman; he needs a male servant; makes another, she turns into a young man; he tells him not to touch his wind gun; he sees toucans, climbs onto a platform, a toucan pecks out his eye, then his eye swallows a pauhil; companions catch birds in snare, each cut in half, of them the male and female of the corresponding species appear; the pauchil is the last, the eye in it, the servant inserts it back; the fish pulls out his eye, he disappears altogether; because of this, rain begins, the flood begins; the young man He plants a seed, a tree grows, raises them with his house above the waters; a young man takes manioc cakes from the sky; the crumbs fall; he tells the servant that he eats his crap; he eats his own (or does not eat); to find out if the water has slept, the pods are thrown; the first turns into a majás, swims away; the second runs away in a pack; they go down; the servant is afraid to go down, turns into a nest of bees; the young man himself asks the electric eel is his rod; he gives a false one; the young man sits next to his mother, hits the ground with a rod, there is a distant thunder; he catches the eye of ants, grabs the rod, the Eel jumps forever into water; son cuts his mother in half with a thunder rod; both halves turn into frogs; now, when lightning strikes, their tadpoles lose their tails and become adults]: Powlison 1959:9-11; 1972a: 78-79; 1993:80-96; chikuna: Nimuendaju 1952:122-123 [nu'tapa got angry with his wife, tied her to a tree, hornets bit her genitals; she told the cancan bird (Ibycter americanus) that if he were man, he would untie her; that's what happened; he gave her a hornet nest; she threw him at her husband, hornets bit him, and his knees were swollen for a long time; they were born from the right Dyoi and his sister, from the left Epi and his sister; came out five years old; their father N. was torn to pieces by a jaguar; his mother tells her grandchildren that N. killed ash, they showered themselves with ash, nothing happened; that a leaf fell on him (the same); when they grew up, spoke the truth; the brothers encircled the ground with hair, driving all the animals into the corral; the Jaguariha was the last to come, blowing into a horn made of N.'s stomach; when she saw the brothers, she swallowed her stomach, she became hypocritical to mourn N.; they offered to wear a necklace, put on a chain, pulled out her stomach, but it fell into the river, swallowed it by the caiman; it was pulled out, but her stomach bounced again, swallowed by a forest lizard; she hot coal was applied to her throat, her stomach fell between the butterfly's wings; a hole was burned in her wings, her stomach was taken out, her father was revived], 147-148 [the heroes' grandmother kills their father (her son)].

Central Amazon. Maue [The Harpy Eagle carries the son of monkeys; he cries and wants fish; the eagle suspects that his wife has a lover bringing fish; sends a fly to watch her, kills his lover, the Soko bird, drives his son away; tells his wife to put her hand in the hollow to catch the rat; 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 womb of the victim; Soko's son eat it too, and give his son (Eagle) to his 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 killed to catch his grandson; he asks his grandmother who killed his father; answer, Wind, then Hot Summer; he scratches his aunts, they 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; the Toucan, then the Dove, can't penetrate its shell, The woodpecker pierces; these birds are colored with its blood; the Jaguar and fish also color]: Ugge 1991, No. 2:130-146; the lower reaches of Rio Negro (manao?) : Barbosa Rodrigues 1890:170-171, 271

The Central Andes. Huamachuco (dep. La Libertad) [Ataguju, together with Sugad-Gabra and Ucioz-Gabra, created Guamansiri (Huamansuri, i.e. "Son of the Falcon"), sends to land in Huamachuco, where the Guachemines live; they force him to cultivate their fields; he seduces their sister Cautaguan; they burn him, push his bones to dust, she rises to the sky to A.; Cautaguan gives birth to two eggs, dies, throw eggs on a pile of manure; they are picked up by a woman, one of them Cepokatequil (or simply Catequil) and Piquerao are born; Catequil revives his mother, she gives him the two slings left by his father; with them he kills some of the guachemines, drives the rest away; asks A. to populate the land new people; he tells you to dig on Guacat Hill, aka Ipuna, on the site of Puerto de Santa between Trujillo and Lima; Catequil digs with a silver and gold shovel, people come out of the ground; with his sling Catequil produces thunder and lightning]: Relación 1918:19-21; see also Tello 1923:142-144 (full text); San Pedro 1992 in Topic 1998:112 (summary).

Montagna - Jurua. Kashibo [the two twins grew up, the grandfather told them that their father was killed by Thunder, advised them to find Thunder's wife first; they came to her, asked her what her husband was doing when he returned home; By the horn ; they became bees, hid in a horn; when Thunder took the horn, the bees began to bite it, and he threw lightning; both Thunder and brothers died, they all went up to heaven]: Girard 1958:277.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana [Paititi Edutzi (the general name for supernatural creatures, first ancestors) hunted near large bodies of water; male and female Iba Bana (flying jaguars) came out of the water; PI did not release a male arrow made of a peach palm tree, and a woman's arrow made of bamboo; the arrow was frightened, flew around the target; the female information security swallowed PI; the swallowed man's wife found his bow and arrow on the shore, and five days later gave birth to Arauari Edutzi; he began to practice with his father's heavy bow early; went to take revenge by hanging bags of coca and tobacco around his neck; killed a male and a female information security with arrows; took out a stone from the female's heart into which he had become swallowed by father, put in a bag of coca; (spirit) PE went to Edutzi's world, will be there until the end of the world]: Hissink, Hahn 1961, No. 216:338; moseten [a huge snake swallows a man; his pregnant wife gives birth to a son, marries an eagle; the son hears his sisters say that he would rather kill his father's killer than hunt mice; turns into an eagle, picks up huge stones, grabs a snake, brings him to the rocks , where she eats her with her stepfather; snakes, ants, wasps and other stinging creatures arose from her blood]: Nordenskiöld 1924:145-146; arua [woman gives birth to a son; five days later she goes to his mother, both decide to kill and eat the child's father; one day an old woman told a boy to tell his mother that he was in a fever; he heard an old woman say he was good for eating; ran away, said he had heard ; people killed an old woman]: Snethlage 1937:131; guarazu [woman invites her husband to lie in a hole; he lies down and falls asleep dead; she puts him in a basket, covers it with leaves, puts meat on top animals; her sons suspect that the father is in the basket; one leaves his eye and saliva to watch; they see and hear a woman ask her husband if he will die soon; the son goes to wash his eyes, the fish takes him away, he remains with one eye; since then, these fish have human eyes; brothers pour four strips of ash around the house; stepping over them, the mother falls and dies; brothers treat their father; the woodpecker promises to give them a gift, if they do not kill him; steals sticky oil from the owner of the peach palm, lubricates their arrows with it; the toad pees on the arrows, the oil partially dissolves; brothers and father make a chain of arrows, climb on sky; father becomes Thunder, scolds his wife loudly; brothers fire their lightning arrows; because the glue has partially come off, lightning can be split]: Riester 1977, No. 3:226-230.

Southern Amazon. Kamayura: Münzel 1973 [people came to the harpy eagle to ask for feathers; after attaching feathers, they managed to fly; the Harpy Eagle offered to kill Hauatsíu (the big turtle, Podocnemis cayennensis Schw.); everyone flew there with the Harpy Eagle; H. killed everyone; Araura's red bird lured the boy into the forest, became a man, says he is his father, tells him to paint his body red Uruku, promises to come in a year; the bird takes the young man again to the forest, to the village of Harpy Orlov; they say that his father has been killed, give him feathers to train lifting heavy stones; he came to H., grabbed Down his throat, the Eagles carried H.'s children; he himself was thrown on a rock; all the birds gathered to drink his blood, found their current voices]: 212-224; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973 [the man quarreled with his wife and left; approaches three types of trees consistently, wants to be like them; each answers that he can't; comes to birds; he is given feathers, especially harpy eagle feathers, asked to shake up; the second time one feather falls; he misses trying to dive and grab a rock; the birds say their enemy Avatsiú, who has already killed many birds, is likely to kill him too; he will attack A., but he is killed himself; birds ask his son for help; not a single feather falls, he lifts A. into the air, throws him; all birds smear A.'s blood, finding their current voices]: 174-180; trumay: Monod Becquelin 1975, No. 8: 60-65; Rickbacza [The lizard told the woman that her hunter husband was swallowed by fish chief Anaconda; the woman has various eggs in her basket; she is waiting for a bird to hatch that will break bamboo and will withstand the weight of her necklace; only the Harpy Eagle has managed to do it; he invites fish and Anaconda to drink chicha; Anaconda comes with her son, leaves his wife at home; if they die, she will take revenge; the Eagle kills, eats father and son; now all anacondas in the river are females; women find beads in Eagle's excrement (from swallowed Anaconda jewelry), make necklaces for themselves; the Eagle catches and eats the women themselves, stays ugly; then the Eagle disappears]: Pereira 1973, No. 2:35-36; 1994, No. 6:76-82; paresis: Pereira 1986, No. 16 [two brothers married two sisters; one has a son Kazalynazaré, the other has a daughter Ayryazeró; K., his father, both mothers turned into birds, swallowed by a huge fish; Father A. had a party; the bird-man Trogonideo meets a girl; in the morning she goes to his house; Owl she replaces the pen sign at a fork in the road, the girl comes to Owl's house, everything is in mud; she runs, spends the night in a hollow, where she paints parrot chicks; they take her home; she tells me where the nest is parrots, her brothers kill chicks; parrots make her get lost again out of revenge; she gets to the Wolf; says she has her period, puts a test on the parrot watchman's beak, comes to Mãe do tucum -do-campo; to the emams; to the Forest Cockerel; refuses to sleep with him, he flies away and takes the fire; to the Spider, does not want to copulate, he drives her away; she comes to the Water Men, their mother kills her; her soul flies away a bird; she and the soul of a cousin swallowed by fish decide to be called Ayryazeró and Kazalynazaré and take revenge on the fish; they pick up stones and tree trunks to then be able to raise their own enemy; raise the main fish to the tree where the stones were previously brought; eat; fallen pieces of meat and drops of blood turned into poisonous insects and snakes; scales into fish; head into stingray]: 246-261; Metraux 1942 []: 167-170; nambiquara: Pereira 1983, No. 46:65-73; Iranshe: Pereira 1985, No. 29:127-128.

Eastern Brazil. Sherente [the man went to the forest with his pregnant wife; two monsters came out of the cave, bird-like but flightless, with bat-like wings; the man defended himself with a club, but they cut him off head with sharp beaks; people killed two monsters, the second couple escaped; the born son of the victim tells his mother to keep him in a basket in a stream so that he can grow quickly; burned the bones of those already killed, killed two with a club remaining monsters]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, #127:394-395

Chaco. Chamacoco: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 101 [Maned Wolf (GW; species not precisely established: Chrysocyon branchyrus or a species belonging to the Cerdocyon families, Dusicyon or Lycalopex) is a good gatherer, fisherman and hunter; the Jaguar (GW calls him "big brother") returns empty-handed - the game runs away when they see him; Jaguar found a place full of tubers aquatic plants, decided to lure GW there; GW's wife saw Jaguar carry tubers and send her husband; Jaguar lured GW deeper, hit and drowned him, took his bag of tubers; told GW's four sons that their the father went home before him; they started playing with Jaguar's sons and noticed their father's bag; they lured Yaguar's children to hunt guinea pigs by setting fire around their holes; the Yaguar children found themselves in a ring fire and died; at home they mixed guinea pig meat with the meat of the Jaguar's children and let him eat it; told their rabbit maid to tell Jaguar when he finished eating, whose meat he ate; he is chasing her, she turns into a rabbit; there is a mark on the back - the mark of a spear thrown by the Jaguar; the Jaguar set fire to the thickets, but the Rabbit Girl ran away], 102 [Maned Wolf (GW) collects more honey and finds better ones tubers than Jaguar; the Jaguar tried in vain to scare him, and GW frightened him; he cried out but said that it was the horsefly that bit him on the penis; while collecting the tubers of aquatic plants, the Jaguar drowned GW; the sons of GW noticed on Jaguar's feet, his father's sandals; bakers imitating traces, called Jaguar's children to hunt; set fire to the vegetation and they burned down; the GW children mixed their meat with bakers meat, let the Jaguara eat; asked the woman The rabbit tell Jaguar what he ate; he chased her, but she ran away], 103 [Jaguar and Maned Wolf (GW) are friends, both have two sons; the Jaguar brings small tubers and the GW brings big ones; the Jaguar lured GW bend down for a tuber (there's only a piece of wood) and kill him; GW's sons spotted their father's basket at Jaguar; reproduced the traces of wild pigs, brought the sons of Jaguar there, set fire to the vegetation, and they died; them bakers mixed meat with meat; asked Jaguar Hare's servant to give him this meat and then report what he ate; the Jaguar threw his spear and since then there is a bald patch on the Hare's back; the hare became a hare; (the end is confused: in in particular, an adult GW successfully frightens Jaguar, but does not get scared himself)]: 403-410, 411-415, 416-419; poppy: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 9:35-39; matako: Calífano 1974:49; Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 2-4:38-44.

The Southern Cone. Yagany: Gusinde 1937:1256-1257 [single brought a lot of fish, married little, asked a single man to show him a fishing spot; he took him ashore against an island where fish clearing can be seen; said that if you run away, you can jump over the strait; the single man fell his head against a stone into the water, died; the single was the lover of the deceased's wife, began to live with her; the eldest son saw them, pierced his lover with a harpoon] 1257-1258 [it is difficult for a married man to chop wood, and a single man has sharp flint; a married man said he splits logs on his legs; a married man breaks his legs, cleans up; hereinafter as in the first version]; Wilbert 1977, No. 48, 49:147-149.