Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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Ethnicities and habitats

J50A. Sons hug their mother. 59.66.68.73.

A mother dies when her sons push or hug her.

Guiana. Oyampy: Grenand 1982, No. 5 [see J9 motif; Yaneya leaves; pregnant wife follows him; twins from her womb show her way; ask for flowers to pick; she gets bitten by a wasp; she refuses collect, the twins fall silent; the woman goes to the Jaguars, the Yaguariha eats her; the Mayamayali and Wayamakale twins (from poppy - monkey?) jump on a tree; Jaguariha calls them back; A dove hunting talks about his mother's death; M. and Y. lure the Jaguars to the bridge, create piranhas in the river; V. cuts off the vine ahead of time, two jaguars they save themselves, the rest are eaten by piranhas; M. almost revives his mother, V. hugs her ahead of time, she falls apart; by the sea, their father cuts down a tree, chips turn into fish; the father tests his sons, M. does not He withstands; the father tells him that he is not his son, but the Monkey; makes a parrot out of his skin, monkeys out of flesh; in the morning the father rises to heaven], 6 [the mother breaks up when the youngest of two sons rushes hug her]: 69-72, 76.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Guarazu [older Yanerykiy (Y1) and younger Yaneryvy (Y2) from Yanehi's womb tell her where to go; they ask her to pick a flower every now and then, she gets angry, claps her stomach, at a fork in the trails they refuse to show her the way; she comes to the Jaguars; their grandmother hides her under the roof; all the jaguars believe, the latter finds and kills a woman; the Jaguars try to cook the twins, they jump to the edge vessel; grandmother advises raising boys; they hunt, bring the Jaguars a lot of meat; Y1 creates a river, puts a log bridge, tells Y2 to tell the Jaguars that beyond the el chuchío river (something edible); brothers they bring down the bridge, one pregnant woman escapes, the brothers smear her with clay (stains on the skin), turn her into a jaguariha, the current ones from her; houses throw the grandmother of the jaguars to each other like a ball; she runs, turns into jochi (agouti?) ; because she lived with jaguars, she also has a patchy skin; because she was an old woman, she has only two teeth; she collects her mother's bones, Y1 tells the partridges to revive her; they fly over her three times, reviving her; Y2 each time rushes to hug her prematurely, revived turns into bones again; brothers go west to heaven, turn into stars (unidentified)]: Riester 1977, No. 9:241-242.

Southern Amazon. The mother is dying again. Vaura [her sister and jaguar husband don't want her resurrected]: Schultz 1966:32; Kalapalo [younger son pushes her into the chest]: Baldus 1958:58; Carvahlo 1951:23 in Carneiro 1989:31 (note 123); kuikuro [after hearing the name of the sun son, the mother cries; he decides that she should die again]: Carneiro 1989:11-12; kamayura [sons hug her very much]: Münzel 1973:31, 39

Southern Brazil. Like an oyampy; when she rushes to suckle. Mbia: Cadogán 1959:77; Cadogán, Lopez Austin 1970:80; Chiripa: Bartolomé 197:23-26; Caigua: Telémaco Borba 1908 (West in Paraná in Tibagy in 1874): 62-69 in Frič 1912:480-482, in Koch-Grünberg 1921:213-215, in Metraux 1932:138-139 [the husband told his wife to sow corn, immediately sent it for the cobs, she did not believe that they were ripe in a day, did not go; husband He sent it again, said that their unborn son wanted to eat; the wife replied that the son was not from him; the husband left, the wife went to look for him; the son asked to pick flowers and fruits for him from the womb; the woman was bitten by a wasp, she slapped her son, hitting herself in the stomach, her son stopped showing the way; she came to the mother of the Iary jaguars; she hid her under a vessel (cernidor), the last jaguar smelled the woman, ate her, I. asked an embryo, there are twins; they jump off the pan, jump out of the mortar, I. kept them alive; senior Derekey, asked I. to make him a bow and arrow to hunt birds; younger Derevuy only cries; the red macaw told Derekey about his mother's fate; the brothers found her bones in the excrement of the jaguars, Derekay revived her, but Derevy rushed to suck his breast, her mother broke up; Derekay kicked the rotten in anger a tree, it turned into bees and honey; the tree ate on it, stopped crying; having tied up the jaguars, the brothers went to look for their father, came to Ahan, Derevuy married his daughter; ran away from him; they called their father from the tree, he responded from heaven; the eldest chose the day, became the sun, the youngest became night, became a month; went to bed with his aunt, she smeared his face with genipa juice, since then there have been spots on the moon; Guarani come from his son A tree and his aunt's daughters]; Hanke 1956:225-226; Nyandeva [Ñanderú told his wife to go pick corn; she got angry, N. left, she decided to follow; her two sons replied that they were not they know where the father went; he turned three times in the house and three times when he went outside, and the wife turned outside only twice; the children from the mother's belly began to ask for flowers; the mother was bitten by a bee; she was angry, hit herself on the stomach; came to the jaguars, where their toothless grandmother; the jaguars ate the woman, the grandmother asked for children (they are soft); she could not crush them in a mortar, kept them alive; they hunt parrots with a sling; the parrot tells the story of the mother's fate; the eldest revived the mother, the youngest rushed to suck, the mother broke up again; the brothers killed the grandmother; put a log across the river, made the river wide; the jaguars stepped onto the bridge , the bridge extended to fit everyone; the youngest swung too early, one pregnant jaguariha escaped; the trunk fell into the water and turned into fish; the eldest began to copulate with Diablo's daughter (hereinafter informant did not remember)]: Novaes da Mota 1992:58-62.