J61. He descends with a feather .35.40.-.44.46.48.-.50.

The character has the ability to move or hover in the air like a feather or a feather.

Eastern Khanty, Aleut, Kodiak, Northern Alaska Inupiate, Athna, Tlingit, Haida, Bellacula, Quarry, Chilkotin, Modoc, Western Sachaptin, Kalapuya, Menonym, Blacklegs, Mandan, Omaha and Ponca, Skidi Pawnee, Maricopa, Serrano, Havasupai, Western Apaches.

Western Siberia. Eastern Khanty (b. Trom-Agan) [an aunt and a tribesman lived; my aunt does not tell me to go to the sacred side of the house, the young man's father's relatives disappeared there; but he went, reached a huge house along the giant's path; a witch with an iron nose snores in the house ; she jumped out of the house, sang "I have a two-pointed aspen hammer to kill a man"; the guy replied , "Let me be a dry leaf blown up by a light wind"; the wind carried him out the window in the roof, he became human again; then he flies away in the form of a goose goose; flew to the city of cannibal spirits behind an iron palisade; they rushed at him, he broke their arms and legs; trampled on the ruler for a long time; he asks him not to kill, promises to revive what he has eaten; failing, he says: "Until the time comes for cedar cone doll peoples, male spruce cone dolls, I will not live like a prince with seven souls "; now the young man's ancestors are geese, he flew with them in the form of a goose; returned to the witch, turned her into a bloody mess; failing, she promises to become a spirit that sends 177 diseases; when Aunt the nephew returned home, the ancestors of his aunts and uncles already turned into healthy people there]: Chepregi 2015, No. 8:84-90.

The Arctic. Aleuts: Jochelson 1990, No. 43 (Umnak) [= 1916, No. 4:302-304; Kanaagutukh keeps only women in his villages, kills all boys; one woman hides her son; when K. finds out the truth, he seeks to destroy him; 1) a young man splits a log, brings firewood; 2) K. pushes him off a cliff, hunting cormorants; he descends like a feather that his mother gave him, brings him cormorants; 3) K. leaves his son on the island; he hides the seal in advance, sews himself into his skin, sails to the Eagles]: 269-277, 329-333; Lyapunova 1984 (Commanders) [there are only women in the leader's village (aka do all men's work); men are exterminated, born boys are killed by the chief; one woman hides her son under the guise of a girl; the chief discovers him when he knocks down flying birds with stones; the chief tries to 1) pinch him in a tree trunk (his mother gives a magic bone wedge); 2) throws him off a cliff (his mother gives magic feathers); 3) takes seals to fish, leaves him on an island; With a woman's knife, the boy takes off the skin from the seal, sews himself into it, swims, throws him to Orlov Island; the young man marries, learns to fly in the skin of an eagle, to his mother's village, brings her two whales; the leader tries to take them away, the young man takes him into the air, throws him into the sea; when he returns to the village, he swaps idle women and slaves (including his mother). flies to his wife]: 27-28; Kodiak: Golder 1903, No. 8 [a man kills his sister's sons; she pretends to have given birth to a girl, her brother finds out the truth; 1) drops a wedge into the crack of a log, asks his nephew to get it, knocks out other wedges (the young man rubs the log sour cranberries, it opens its mouth); 2) sends his nephew to get ducks and eggs from a steep cliff, pushes him down (he holds fluffs in his hand, descends like a feather); 3) sends him past a huge oyster (the nephew is swallowed, cuts the muscles of the oyster with a knife); the uncle puts his nephew in a deck with a lid, lets him go to sea; he sails into the country of the Eagles, marries the leader's daughter, gets eagle plumage; brings a whale to his uncle's village; an uncle drives the young man's parents away from meat; an eagle nephew lifts his uncle into the air, throws him into the sea; takes his parents to the country of Eagles]: 90-95; 1909, No. 2 (Karluk) [mother gives her son a feather, a pebble, a needle; an old man pushes him off a cliff, he lands with a feather; marries a cannibal's daughter; she sends him to her brother's steam room; he turns into a pebble, withstands the fever; kills with a needle wife and mother-in-law; marries chief's daughter]: 12-13; Northern Alaska Inupiate (Kotzebue) [two brothers kill a rival, leave the village; the elder catches a striped dragon in the lake, raises it in a bucket, then in a separate needle; he first has many legs, then four; the youngest keeps two polar bears at the entrance to his house, killing passers-by; the eldest feeds passers-by to the dragon; Mink turns into a feather, flies up to his younger brother's house, becomes a warrior, kills bears and himself; kills a dragon when he sees an unprotected place around his neck; the owner of the dragon his mother brings him out of the lake; Norka is thrown into her mouth, he penetrates the monster with a mink, killing him from the inside; goes out through the ass; returns to his wife]: Ivanoff Brown 1987:122-133.

Subarctic. Atna [the chief made a potlach; the Bear came, looked into the steam room, there was only the chief's rain, he dragged her away; said he would go for sticks to fry meat; The mouse gives the girl a needle and feathers, tells her to kill for a dwarf bear and a seal; a girl comes to bathing dwarfs, hides one of them's clothes, others dress up and leave; giving the rest of the clothes, she kills him with a truncheon; comes to the seals kills a seal with a truncheon; brings meat to the Bear; he mumbles that the girl's left hand will be roasted on this stick, and so on; the girl gives him her prey, eats the seal herself, but not meat a dwarf; the bear invites her to walk on a barely frozen lake; she takes a feather amulet, light as a feather; the bear fails; she pulls him out for promising to take her home; the bear does not take it again offers to walk on the ice; stomps, telling the lake to become unfrozen; but the girl does not fail, and the Bear falls when she stomps; the Bear undertakes to take her home, but leaves her on the road leading to his nephews; the girl comes, there is a woman, telling her to run; the bear's nephews smell, kill their own mother, who let go of the prey, chase the girl; she flies away He pierces their hearts with a needle; comes to the Bear; he is afraid that she killed his nephews; takes her home]: Tansy 1982:51-58; {also check Rooth 1971:340.

NW Coast. The Tlingits [jealous uncle kills the sons of his three sisters; the fourth husband gives his son a bracelet to help him become a feather ball in a moment of danger; the uncle demands 1) to approach a huge oyster ( the young man is swallowed, cuts the oyster from the inside), 2) catch a monstrous octopus (brings it to his uncle), 3) climb a tree (the uncle climbs after him, pushes his nephew down, he lands with a feather); uncle ties a young man to a blackboard, throws him into the sea; three sisters find him, he marries two; visits his uncle's wife, kills him, returns to his wives]: Swanton 1909, No. 52:198-203; Hyda (Skidgate) [nephews had the right to sleep with his uncle's wife; he sends nine nephews one by one to split a log, they get stuck, die; the tenth trains swimming in the sea, cutting off the fir's legs; 1) uncle splits the log, asks his nephew to get the wedge that has fallen into the crack, takes out another wedge; the nephew tears the log, brings it to his uncle; 2) the uncle asks for cormorants, pushes the nephew off the cliff; he turns into a feather; into a caress, climbs a rock, brings cormorants; 3) brings burning bark; 4) his uncle pushes him into the shell of the mollusk, the nephew tears it apart; the uncle puts him sleeping into a box, throws him into the sea; he sails into the land of the Eagles; marries the leader's daughter, gets an eagle robe; lifts his uncle into the air, throws him into the sea; he turns into a sea spirit]: Swanton 1905:277-280; bellacula: Boas 1898 [gutted salmon, the chief's wife finds a boy in one, raises her son, both grow up immediately; Salmon brother tells you to scream as he approaches his hut by the shore; human brother forgets, sees half-alive salmon on the floor; then a boat arrives, a man sails with it; they sail through the countries of Smelt, Herring, Candlefish; in Salmon Country, they jump into a house whose door every now and then slams shut; Salmon eat seaweed, offer a boy and a girl to a man; thrown into the water, they turn into salmon; the owners order to preserve bones and giblets, throw them into the water; children are reborn, but the boy is limping, the girl has no eye; an eye and bone are found, thrown into the water, the children recover; Salmon's daughter does not tell her to go to bed with her; a man sticks a stone, breaks vaginal teeth; she gives birth to a son and daughter ; in the form of salmon, everyone returns to the human world; caught, man and wife take the form of human beings; man teaches how to throw fish bones into water; wife and children return to salmon; man climbs to sky; a woman gives him a bubble with a cold wind; the Sun 1) locks the person who comes in a hot cave, he opens a bubble around the icicle; 2) tells daughters to become mountain sheep, gives a man arrows with with charcoal tips; rams drive a man to the abyss, he descends with a feather, kills sheep with his arrows; the Sun mourns children, man revives them; gets two eldest daughters of the Sun as his wife; 3 ) The sun tells you to check the top, a log falls on his son-in-law, he swims out with salmon; 4) The sun drops a hammer into the water, tells him to get it, covers the water with ice, the son-in-law slips out through the crack with a fish; 5) The sun tells you to get a bird (partridge or similar); son-in-law tells her to peck out his father-in-law's eyes; he admits defeat, his son-in-law regains his sight; a year later he goes home to earth, his wife goes down with him sunlight (these are her father's eyelashes)]: 73-83; McIlwraith 1948 (1) [a shaman and his three older brothers come to the Sun; he gives them a daughter as his wife; 1) tries to kill his sons-in-law twice with heat, heating the house (shaman cools the house); 2) orders to get a lot of mountain sheep; the wife herself turns into a bear, attacks hunters; in the form of a ram, she pushes the shaman off the cliff (brothers bring prey, the shaman descends into the abyss, becoming a feather); 3) The sun brings the shaman in a boat to the middle of the sea, tells him to hammer the pile with a hammer; he hammers, drops the hammer; dives after him, the father-in-law covers the sea with ice; the shaman turns into salmon, pulls out a hammer, finds a crack in the ice; brings a hammer, throws it in front of his father-in-law, which crumbles into dust; brothers return home, they don't take their wife with them]: 671-672.

The coast is the Plateau. Career: Jenness 1934, No. 1 [see motive K54; the young man returns after visiting the world of the dead and the world of giants; the sister says that all the young men are gone after going to heaven to marry Sa's two daughters; the brother flies into the sky with a feather; the old woman helps him with advice, gives him what he needs; 1) Sa tells him to swallow hot stones (the young man lets pipes through the body in advance, the stones slip through them); 3) throws an ax into the lake, asks for it (freezes the lake; the young man turns into a loon, fish, hair, comes out, brings an ax); 4) Sa splits the log, pulls out a wedge (the young man is unharmed); 5) locks the young man in a hot steam room (he takes ice with him, it gets too cold; then he lets in the heat); 6) Sa leaves his son-in-law on the island (the old woman sends him a boat with an oar; he brings a lot of bird eggs; the boat turns into an otter, the paddle turns into a caress); 7) Sa calls his son-in-law to hunt, pushes him off a cliff; the son-in-law flies with a feather, rises with a squirrel, pushes Sa; he breaks, darkness comes; the son-in-law revives him; both produce fire, rain (the son-in-law is unharmed, the father-in-law almost dies); the woodpecker pecks out Sa's eyes (darkness comes; the son-in-law restores his father-in-law's vision); Sa tells her son-in-law to take his wives, go down to earth along the trunk of a tree that reaches the top of the sky; gives her daughters bags of cold and heat; on the ground they open them, the boy's mother cannot go to her daughters-in-law get closer; a young man sends his wives back to heaven; sails on an ice floe into the country of salmon; see motif M42]: 104-109; chilcotin [a boy is carried on an ice floe down the river to the country of salmon; an old woman tells him kill and bake a local boy who is actually salmon; after eating, an earthly boy throws bones into the water, the salmon boy comes to life; he is blind because his eyes have fallen to the ground; the old woman finds them, gives them to him to swallow, he sees again; an earthly boy in the guise of salmon comes home, caught by his father, regains his human form; at home, his sister says that his brothers died, married to the daughters of the Sun; the young man collects feathers, tells his sister to blow, flies to heaven on feathers; there the old woman helps him with advice, gives him amulets (a porcupine gut full of cold, a beaver's gut full of heat, arrowheads); 1), 2) The sun puts the young man first in a hot steam room, then freezes it; the young man is alive; 3) asks for a fallen axe from the bottom of the lake, covers the surface with nets; becoming a fish, hair, the young man squeezes into the cells of the net, brings an ax; 4) two daughters of the Sun in the form of bears stand at the entrance to his house; a young man kills them with arrows; the Sun revives them; 5) hunting mountain sheep, the Sun offers a young man look down the cliff, collides him, the young man turns into a flying squirrel, does not break; 6) The sun offers to compete, who will cause more rain, loses; the young man gets married to the daughters of the Sun ; returning with them to earth, he forgets to thank the old helper; on earth, his wives are surrounded by fire, they rise back to heaven]: Farrand 1900, No. 10:24-26; modoc [old Natanas always kills his sons-in-law; Kai (the big rabbit) marries his daughter; the white eagle feather helps him; 1) N. takes him into the boat to fish, causes a storm; K. throws seaweed into the water, goes along them to shore; 2) get reeds for arrow poles; reeds grow on the island, K. flies there, brings reeds; 3) get round stones - arrow straighteners; they lie at the bottom of the river, the river dries up, K. them brings; 4) get feathers for arrows; K. takes off his clothes, climbs a tree to the eagle's nest, the tree becomes tall; he pulls feathers from the chicks, descends to the ground with a feather; 5) kill a deer; N. turns his son into a deer; brother K. Goshgoise (little rabbit) shouts to him that his heart is in his leg; K. shoots a deer in the leg, kills one, then four more sons of N.; he mourns them, hopes to revive them; 6) harpoon a big fish (this is also N.'s son); G. helps his brother get her out; 7) race with his son N.; he pushes him into the river for others to eat him, but K. takes off, confronts an opponent himself, he is eaten; the same when N. himself runs; his spirit returns; K., his wife and G. go to live elsewhere]: Curtin 1912:359-365; Western sachaptin [The coyote hears a noise like a duck is flying, something hits him in the eye, he has a hard time ripping it off, throwing it into the river (var.: the object consistently hits him in the jaw, face, forehead, mouth); for the fifth time he cooks it and eats; the object turns out to be a female vulva, the Coyote loses his teeth; when going hunting, five Goose Brothers tell his sister to marry the first man who comes; the Coyote turns handsome, forgets that he is toothless, she cannot bite off meat; she falls asleep, the girl sees that he has no teeth, she inserts the teeth of a mountain sheep in him; Coyote says that his teeth grow in his sleep; she marries; his brothers are reluctant to take him hunting, They tell him not to make noise, he flies, screams, everyone falls; next time they throw him off; when he falls, he shouts "I'm a feather!" , but at the last moment he accidentally shouts "Bitch!" , breaks; the wife puts her heart in her little fingers, kills the brothers with arrows, the youngest two remain; the youngest tells the eldest to shoot his sister in the little finger, who kills her; both came to the house of Cold, his daughter Winter, they're naked; they went to Summer's house, married his daughters; Winter and her daughters came to fight, but Summer ruined the blanket, everything melted]: Farrand, Meyer 1917, No. 3:144-148; kalapuya [(=Romanova 1997, No. 118:412-413 ); More is approaching, people are running, birds are taking them to heaven; the Coyote was carried by his brother Cathartes aura; he smells nice to him, bites off a piece from Vulture's neck; The fly, flying by, screams, He eats his brother; Coyote: She said - Treat your brother carefully; the third time Vulture hears correctly, throws off the Coyote; he turns into a feather on the ground takes his form; pretends to be Mohr, meets the real Mora; he sees people swarming in his mouth, believes he is eating them; at night, Coyote sends mice to steal some of Mohr's power, he not so strong now]: Jacobs 1945, No. 1:89-90.

The Midwest. Menominee: Bloomfield 1928, No. 101 [the old man invites a young hunter into his boat, which rushes across the lake by herself, the hunter loses strength; on the shore, the ogre's wife pierces him with her digging stick; this is how all brothers die; the youngest becomes a feather, flies to a tree on which the hearts of cannibals lie, pierces them with arrows, both die; their daughter is good, also tells them to kill their dog, their bodies to be burned; the young man on she marries, revives her brothers by throwing arrows over them; one brother remains lame, the girl accidentally changed her bones; at home, the young men's sister does not believe that they have returned; all this time the foxes mocked her, they said that her brother came, urinated in her eyes, she was blind; the young man's wife heals her eyes; he himself kills all but one foxes that come in with a club; therefore there are few silver foxes], 108 [the young man's grandfather lies forever on the floor , overgrown with moss; the young man finds his brother, whose bottom is wooden; the brother says that his grandfather did this, that he also wants to kill him, warns of dangers; the grandfather sends the young man to bring his wives; he gives tobacco to the Cranes, Cougars, they let him in; he goes to two women, runs back, Cranes, Cougars don't detain him, women kill them for it; he, after him, women run into the house, he takes them as wives; grandfather shoots him, he dodges; he shoots, kills his grandfather; turns into a feather, flies (to heaven?) , cuts off the bottom of his brother's body, the bottom falls, the brother becomes whole again; the young man goes to look for the Stupid Girl; on the way, the old man stops him, they smoke, the old man lengthens the day, the young man falls asleep, the old man changes from in his guise, takes his ear jewelry - live hummingbirds; the impostor throws a young man into the water; marries the Stupid Girl; her younger sister picks up the abandoned man, takes him in husbands; impostor says it's his dog; kills lynxes and young man turns decks into bears; spits, turkeys appear; impostor spits, bugs appear; Stupid Girl steals one a bear, he becomes a deck again; the young man climbs into an empty log, regains his appearance; gives the impostor his appearance, turns his head into a hawk; returns to two wives, gives a new one to his brother]: 395- 409, 469-483.

Plains. Blacklegs (piegan): Josselin de Jong 1914 [collecting firewood, a woman comes back late; her husband watches, sees her knock on a tree, a snake crawls out, they copulate; he calls the snake cuts her throat with the same signal; the next day, the wife returns crying; her husband cuts her throat; her seven younger brothers see that she has only one head left; the elder turns into a beetle, sees her drawing on suede, says where her brothers' scalps will be; brothers send her to fetch meat, run away; throw her porcupine needles, scraper, paint; she rushes to pick them up; brothers they think about what they will become; they reject turning into stones (women will break for scrapers), wood (people will burn), water (they will drink), deer (kill), birds (children will shoot), grass (set fire); they rise they turn into seven stars when they blow into the sky]: 43-37; Michelson 1911b, No. 2 [every evening the older sister goes into the forest; the mother tells the youngest to see her sister copulate with a bear; his father and men shot him; the older sister asks the younger sister to bring her a paw, call the young people to play bear; asks not to push her in the hips; the girl pushes, the older sister turns into a Bear, She devours everyone, turns her younger sister into a maid; she meets seven brothers who have returned from the campaign; they ask them to know how to kill the Bear; she replies to her sister that she has been injected with an awl in her paw; the brothers give rabbit sister; the bear tells her to eat him herself, then wants to kill for not leaving her half; runs out, attacks the awls; the brothers burn the corpse, a piece of finger flies off, the Bear revives, chases; the older brother blows on the feather, it takes off, they follow him, become the seven stars of the Ursa Major; the sister runs to the old man, who hides it, cuts off the Bear's ears and tail] : 244-246; mandan [man marries Bisonicha and Corn; jealous Bisonicha quarrels with Corn, goes with her son to the buffalo; the husband follows them in the form of a hawk; the Bisonicha mother-in-law gives difficult tasks to kill a son-in-law; his son helps to complete the first tasks with advice; 1) enter a house with a stone door (the person turns into a feather, the door falls but does not press him), 2) identify his wife's bed (the calf son butts the bed three times), 3) identify the son among ten calves (the son moves his ear), 4) withstand the hot steam room (the spider hides him in the fourth underground tier), 5) bring firewood ( an eagle sits on the poplar, sends lightning; splits the tree so that the hero can take firewood), 6) bring red cubs (the flame is full of wolves; wolves do not eat the hero, give him cubs; like other dangerous ones creatures, they are all servants of the bison; she lets them go when her son-in-law brings them), 7) bring white beavers (sharp flints fly from beaver tails; beavers give beavers), 8) bring arrow blanks ( bushes grow in a gorge that is mother-in-law's ass; a person is inside her; flies out like a swallow, brings blanks), 9) view a distant island (The Raven gives the hero his sharp eyes), 10) loudly shout (The Seagull gives his voice; the hero's cry is louder than the roar of Mother-in-law Bisonicha), 11) race (the whole world is Bisonicha's home; the hero turns the earth into a swamp in the way of the buffalo; a silver fox, a red fox, the coyote run for the hero three-quarters of the way); the old woman spreads the ground, summons four herds of bison upstairs one after another; the first three are strange, the hero abandons them; in the fourth herd, his wife and son; hero brings buffalo to people]: Bowers 1950:276-281; Omaha, ponka [villains offer to compete; older brothers die; younger 1) climbs a pole (killing an opponent), 2) doesn't breaks into a swing with the rope cut (lands softly on his magic pen), 3) wins the running competition; the last villain remains alive, turns into a woman, puts her head on the hero's knees, steals his pen, turns him into a black dog, marries the leader's daughter; her sister in the steam room restores the hero to his former appearance; he marries her, takes hers the pen back, turns the villain himself into a black dog; crows pecked the eyes of the hero's parents; the older sister (the ex-wife of the imaginary hero) restores their eyesight; as a reward, the hero agrees to marry her] : Dorsey 1888b: 74; southern sheyens [a man invites applicants for his daughter's hand to sit on a swing, kicks, they fall into the river, drown; a young man with a magic pen turns into a bird, takes off ; marries a girl; father-in-law tells me to bring material for poles, tips, plumage, bowstring; the son-in-law brings something unusable every time, but the father-in-law does not mind; the son-in-law sees which of the seven buffalo is able to break a rock with horns; directs it at his father-in-law; father-in-law's arrows are powerless, the bison butts him to death, turns into a rock; his son-in-law burns the remains of his father-in-law, they turn into colorful beads]: Curtis 1976 (19): 144-145; skidy pawnee [a virgin boy copulates with the daughter of a bison chief; ties his shell pendant to her horn; the bisonicha has a son; he and her are sent to people bring ritual gifts from them; the bison is offended that a person recognizes his son only when he sees his pendant; returns with his son to the buffalo; the person follows them; the bison requires him to 1) identify his son among ten calves (son, I wiggle my tail), 2) identify my wife from other buffalo (son, I'll lick my mother's lips), 3) race with young buffalo (man produces ice, himself becomes light as a feather, wins), 4) becoming a bison, fighting an opponent (cared for him); a man with his wife and son return to people; wife and son help to get a lot of buffalo; go to the buffalo when the hero cheats on his wife]: Dorsey 1904b, No. 79:284-293.

California. Serrano [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; Bear, Wolf, Vulture, The eagle says they are their fathers; the real father is the Sun; the boys secretly come out of their cradles to hunt; their mother tells them about an eagle's nest on the rock; they rise up like fluffs and take two eagles; quarrel over who will take the bigger eagle; eagles die; the mother of boys revives them; boys take reeds out of the sea; make flutes; the youngest can be heard playing on the other side of the world; two daughters The vultures go from there to this sound; on the road, the Coyote, the Hawk say they played; the older sister believes the younger one tells us to move on; the sisters spend the night with their brothers, leave in the morning; the brothers follow soon after them; 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 powdered, long bones are used to play; the younger sister gives birth to a son Kwexom√°ri; he also shines; she lies to her father that she gave birth to a girl; K. plays with his uncle, who says he did not kill him father and uncle; K. finds the bones of his father and uncle, begins to revive them; they say that this is impossible, remain dead; plays with Coyote; throws the dice, the earth splits, everyone dies except K.'s mother; with her he visits his grandmother; carries his mother across the sea, drowns]: Benedict 1926, No. 3:2-7; maricopa [girl gets pregnant from Gopher {apparently he inserts his penis while she is sitting on the ground}; gives birth to twins ; different animals bring firewood, each claims to be a father; she only accepts Gopher's gift; while the mother is away, one of the babies kills the quail; the mother throws the bird away, thinking that someone brought it one of the animals; then eats, realizes that the twins can hunt; they each time report larger game in fear and then kill it; after catching a deer, they make the carcass small, carry it home; mother revives and releases the deer; the twins follow him; the mother turns into a pole, the brothers want to shoot at him, the mother becomes human again; the brothers follow the eagles; the youngest picks up feathers that have fallen from the cliff , the elder takes them away from him; the youngest, becoming a snake, climbs to the nest, falls; the eldest goes up to the nest with a feather, brings two eagles; the youngest modestly takes a chick with a dim plumage; on the way home, the brothers are thirsty, their mother sends them rain, the eagles die because of it; brothers bury eagles, break their bows in grief; the mother pierces an arrow into the ground, pulls the eagles alive; says that There is arrow reeds in the east; brothers shoot Coyote for testing; they go to the bottom of the sea for reeds; the youngest dives, can't reach it; the elder dives to the path, four beavers guard her, they let him through ; he brings two reeds, his mother turns them into flutes, pointing them to four sides of the world; tells them to play at dawn; two sisters hear a sound and go north; various male animals say that they played, they cannot play, the sisters laugh at them; the mother of the twins does not immediately let the girls into the house, looks after her sons; the youngest puts her to sleep, copulates with the youngest; the eldest sends insects in vain provoke the elder; the girls return home; the youngest wants to follow them, the eldest agrees; they leave arrows with beads - if they fall, they die; sisters play dice at home, brothers enter through a hole in the roof; the girls' father hears laughter; tells the Coyote to kill the young men, but he becomes their friend; the Kite flies into the smoke hole, kills the brothers with a club; the girls' father promises to kill the child the youngest, if a boy is born; she lies that a girl was born; the boy climbs a tree, the grandfather sees his genitals; tries in vain to fry him, he kills his grandfather with an arrow; the mother and aunt say that the grandfather killed his father and uncle; he comes to his mother; they go looking for her brother, they don't find it; he turns into a comet, she's a Morning Star]: Spier 1933:417-419.

The Great Southwest. Havasupai [a 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 him not to go there; the boy followed the feather, killed Kite, told the women to stand in a row, threw a piece at them I killed the tree from the nest; I killed my mother, sister, all women with a stick; I came to my grandmother; she told him to go east, to the west herself; You will visit me (clouds across the sky); she lives by the sea herself]: Smithson, Euler 1994:54-61; Western Apaches (San Carlos): Goddard 1918:69-70 [two sisters hear the flute playing; go looking for a flutist; consistently meet Red Bird, Partridge, Dove, Road-Runner; everyone claims that he played, but his voice sounds different; they 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, offering young men should visit them someday; boys came, 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 young man and the girls cross; the pursuers fall when the Heron removes his leg turn into ducks; the young man lives with two wives].