Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

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Ethnicities and habitats

J4a. Young egg boy (.43.57.)

An egg

remains from the deceased water character. The young hero who emerged from her avenges his father.

Lower chinook, upper chinook (clackamas, vasco, vishram), makiritare.

The coast is the Plateau. Lower chinook [the chief's daughter agrees to marry the one who breaks the moose horn; Salmon breaks, its ulcers disappear, he becomes handsome; 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 into 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 them all father's bow]: Boas 1894a, No. 4:77-83; clackamas [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 alone the egg fell into the water (the males probably had caviar at the time); the Coyote comes to the Skunk, pretends to be mourning; two Crows grow Salmon their eggs in larger vessels; from the fifth he comes out; { He is salmon by name, almost human}; Crows tell him that the 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 skunk; dried the spring from which the wolves drank, created another at their wife's feet; Wolves drown in it; 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 it on a rock, left her skin and bones; Crows argue who will eat her head and who's cheeks; Salmon asks the Vultures to let her down, pours water, she comes to life]: Jacobs 1958, No. 5:42-51; Vishram: Hines 1991, No. 7 [five Wolves and five Cold Wind 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; salmon born from eggs comes to his grandmother, becomes a boy, trains strength; he is a warm Chinook Wind; comes to Cold Winds; Grandma Salmon's sister is a slave, a crippled sister Cold Winds recover on her hair in the morning; Salmon tells her aunt to beat the torturer with a rose hip branch; defeats and kills Cold Winds, only their sister saves; so winter still happens, but not so harsh; Wolves go to the mountains], 36 [The chief invites you to play dice, cuts off the heads of the losers; the Eagle has wives Cricket and Gorlink, each with a son; the Eagle goes to play; the Chief sends the Blue Jay, Whitefish, Crab, Rabbit find out who came; Eagle sees the first three crippled (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 it's Eagle, Gorlinka doesn't; two old women tell Young Eagle how his father died; Young won, cut off the Chief's head; since then, the losers have not been killed; the head The Young Eagle removed his father from the pole, put it to his body, painted him five times, and 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; Vasco: Hines 1996, No. 15A [five Wolf Brothers and five Cold Wind Brothers fight against Salmon; Coyote Wolves; they fight on ice, all Salmon are killed, it's cold; Coyote sees that he has taken the wrong side; one egg remains in the crevice of the rock, it has been washed into the water, little Salmon (=Wind Chinook) has found his grandmother; she tells how his father was killed; he trains strength by swimming in cold water; the grandmother's sister is a slave to SV Winds, their limp sister relieves the slave's hair in the morning; with her breath, young Salmon melted the ice on the slave, hit the limp with a rose hip branch on bare ass; in a fight he killed all the Winds, 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]: 65-78.

Southern Venezuela. Makiritare [people eat raw food; Kawao Toad, wife of Jaguar Manuwa, spews fire from her mouth, then swallows; tells her husband she cooked in the sun; finds two fish eggs, from which brothers Iureke and Shikiemon are born; they do not believe that an imaginary mother cooks in the sun; they dive into the river, their real mother Uio (The Great Serpent killed by birds) tells them the truth; I. spies on K. making fire; brothers kill K., put fire in trees]: Civrieux 1960:120; 1980:55-61.