K10A. Bird Fight: Shelter .45.47.50.-.53.61.62.70.
Heroes kill a dangerous bird; during or before battle, they hide in a shelter (hut, cage, vessel, bag, deck) or cover themselves with a body-protecting object.
Northeast. Hurons [the man kills many eagles; the eagle chief chases him; he hides in an empty deck; she brings the deck to his nest; he ties its beaks to the chicks, the chicks are starving; the eagles are starving; the eagle brings a man down to the ground, gives an amulet; he no longer kills eagles]: Barbeau 1960, No. 11:13-14.
Southeast USA. Natchez [a huge hawk carries a child; his father climbs into the nest under the shell of a turtle, kills the chicks in the nest; hawks break their wings against the shell; the man collects their red feathers, the disease spreads in the village; stops when a person throws away feathers]: Swanton 1929, No. 18:246-247; alabama [man hides from huge birds in the hollow of a tree; birds bring a tree with man inside to his nest; man plays with chicks, descends from a cliff on the back of one of them]: Swanton 1929, No. 43:154; hichiti [man hides in a hollow deck]: Swanton 1929, No. 4 [ The bird makes a hole in the deck, it grabs it by the claw; leaving the claw, the bird flies away; the person finds eggs in its nest; returns home], 5 [Crow; like Alabama]: 88-90.
The Great Southwest. Hopi [a kite carries chickens in Mishongnovi village; people seek help from the Spider, who calls her grandchildren Pöqangawhoya and Palöngawhoya, who call the Field Mouse; she promises to help , if people prepare prayer feathers and sticks for her; the Field Mouse provokes the kite to dive, hides in a hole every time; eventually he attacks a sharp greasewood stick, dies on place]: Malotki 1998:7-18.
NW Mexico. Yaki: Giddings 1959 [The cannibal bird lives on the mountain, took the husband of a young pregnant woman; she gave birth to a boy; the bird took his grandmother, the mother; the grandfather told his grandson what happened; the young man takes shelter under the tree, where the nest is, kills the bird with arrows; from its feathers it makes four species of owls, then all birds; turns pieces of meat into a cougar, other cats, foxes, raccoons, coyotes, snakes - anyone with teeth; universal holiday]: 36-38; Olmos Aguilara 2005 [a terrible feathered creature carried away, ate a pregnant woman, two twins from her womb escaped, her grandmother raised them; they won, killed the monster; bones turned into a mountain (Cerro de los Huesos), feathers into all types of birds]: 210-211.
Mesoamerica Cell; see motif A20. The Chinantecs [the Sun and Moon twins run away from the old woman; a two- or seven-headed eagle takes people away; the twins make a cage, hide in it, the eagle takes it away; at noon he sleeps, one head is awake; The twins strangle her with a noose, at which time the earth shudders; the eagle's eyes fall out, the moon grabs the bright right, the Sun is dim on the left; the Vulture is unable to let the twins down, Having planted carrion on his back, he will now eat carrion; the Bat is fed seeds, excrement grows into a tree, twins and others descend to the ground]: Bartolomé 1984 [seven-headed eagle; first the Toucan, then the Bat is fed seeds; the Toucan tree is low, the Bat tree grows to the top of the cliff]: 13-16; Weitlaner 1952 [double-headed eagle; the Bat is fed twice; the second time the root of a tree that grew on top of a cliff descends to the ground]: 172-173; cuicateques [the old woman found two eggs, put them in a vessel, from which the Sun and Moon were born; every day she went to feed corn deer porridge, told the twins to stay at home; called the deer the father of twins; when she returned, the house was a mess; once I sent them to feed my father themselves - call him, Kundo, Kundo! ; they called, the deer came, they killed him, the Moon took her right eye, the Sun took his left eye; fire was needed to cook the meat; they sent a fox to the old woman; she set fire to her tail, ran away; so that the tail would not burn, the fox placed fire in the stone {obviously in the flint}, the twins cut fire out of it; brought the old woman roasted venison, and made a scarecrow out of the skin, filling it with wasps and other stinging insects; old woman she ate, and by the river, the frogs told her that she ate deer liver; the twins told the old woman to pour sand on the frog's ass, so it was rough; the black vulture also told the old woman that she ate deer; she accused the twins of killing their father; went to check it out for herself; the deer did not respond; she went to the scarecrow and hit him with a stick - why she did not answer; insects bit her; she returned home and promised the twins call their uncle; this is a jaguar; they dug a trap hole, the jaguar fell into it; then the old woman called the twins' aunt, an eagle with two heads; they made a cage, the eagle sat on top, they grabbed her by paws (and killed); the old woman called another uncle; this is an aquatic animal with a shell, but big; the twins ran, met Thunder, asked them to hide them behind her cheek; Thunder replied to the beast that his teeth hurt and his cheek swollen; the beast tried to get into Thunder's mouth, but the Sun asked to hit, Thunder smashed the beast to pieces; while Thunder was working, the twins opened three vessels in his house: water, wind and hail; The soaked Thunder came back, closed the vessels and drove the twins away: that's why your aunt kicked you out; they found honey, the Sun ate a little, and told the moon to eat more, she was thirsty; the Sun gave water only after how they changed their eyes; the Sun did not tell them to drink everything, but the Moon drank everything; the Sun told them to regurgitate some of the water, otherwise it would not be on earth; the moon regurgitated, but the dirty water stained her face, so she was wearing it stains; the woman has a chest; the Sun gave her ripe cherimoyi and said that there are many of them in the forest; she left, and he asked the rat to gnaw through the chest; the woman hears and asks, Sun: don't worry; the same with the woodpecker; agouti gnawed, a wheel with a rope in the chest, the Sun and the Moon rose to heaven, agouti followed; asks what to do; Sun: cut the rope above you; Aguti fell, buried in the ground; the woman managed spanking the moon; so when the moon looks like a sickle, women have periods; woman to the Sun: remember me when I cover your face with my underskirt]: Weitlaner 1977:56-62 (=Bartolomé 1984:6-9); the masateks (ohitek) [the Sun and Moon twins run away from the old woman; they hide in a cage from an eagle, which takes her to the rock; there are already many children there, the eagle is eating them; the brother cuts off the children's hair, weaves a rope, they strangle an eagle with it; his sparkling eyes have fallen out; the twins ask the Bat to eat fruit; a tree grows out of the excrement; Woodpecker, the Squirrel is unable, Aguchi gnaws on a tree, it falls on a mountain; children they go down it to the ground]: Portal 1986:51-53.
Honduras-Panama. A cage or basket. Terraba: Bozzoli, Murillo Chaverri 1984, No. 20, 22:21, 24; bribri: Bozzoli 1977 [the eagle eagle eats people; one person puts another in a cage; the eagle takes it to its nest to the top trees; a man puts two eagles to sleep with tobacco smoke, kills them with a stick; goes down to the ground]: 76; Bozzoli, Cubero Venegas 1982:9; 1983:11; cabecar: Stone 1962:58.
Western Amazon. Napo [the wife is pregnant, her month-old husband is gone somewhere; she goes looking for him, asks about the twins' journey in her stomach; she picks flowers for the twins, she is bitten by a wasp, she claps herself on to her stomach, saying they're to blame; the twins fall silent; she comes to the Jaguar grandmother; she hides her under the roof, the woman spits; Murupuma, Puka-Puma can't reach her, Wimba-puma jumps; they eat her grandmother asks for giblets, takes her out, hides her twins in a pot; they grow up, call her to the site where they quickly grew corn; she almost got lost in it; she tells them to bring water, they they bring a lot, the grandmother almost drowned; she asks for firewood, they bring a lot, they fill it up with firewood; they eat wood-grown mushrooms, it turned out that the grandmother's ears are still alive; the name of the brothers is Kuillurkuna ("Stars"); they they lured her into a cave with musical instruments, asked her to dance, she sat on a glued bench, stuck; she was closed, she would come out at the end of time; the brothers lured the jaguars to the bridge above the dug they brought them down in an abyss; they hid in two rubber bags, let themselves be carried away by the cannibal eagle Anga, who brought them to a nest on a rock; when he fell asleep, the eldest killed the male, the youngest did not finish off the female, she flew to sunset; The duck replied that he could not transport the brothers across the river; Cayman drove, asked what it smelled like; the eldest said he did not feel anything, the youngest that he smelled like caiman; the eldest had time to turn into a fast Suwisuwi bird, and the youngest into a slow Partridge, Cayman bit off his leg; the elder dried the pond, found that caiman, tore off his jaw, took out his leg, put it back; got up along the vine to heaven, the eldest became the Evening Star, the Younger became the Morning Star, the jaw was taken with them (Hyades); the episode with the cannibal bird on pp.34-36]: Mercier 1979:28-39, 51.
NW Amazon. Andoque [Nenefí is the main mythical character, the winner of the "talking tree"; his wife and sister at the same time make two balls of sweet cassava starch and puts plants in the fork in the fork cassava (it is not clear whether this is a real plant or a mythical cassava tree), they turn into male and female harpy eagles; eagles grow up, feed their chick with people; N. eats a chick, makes a house out of stone; The eagle breaks through the roof, sticks its paw inside; it has been torn off; the eagle takes off, stones, water appear from the pouring blood, Andoque Indians of different ancestral groups (perhaps also some non-andoque)]: Landaburu, Pineda 1981:71-72 (=1984:70-71).
Eastern Brazil. The hut. Apinaye: Wilbert 1978, No. 171 [wanting to test the valor of Apinaye, Mebapame creates a giant harpy eagle; he sits on a reaper palm tree, carries people away; the chief orders to make a hut by the river, settles in she has two young warriors, brings them food himself; two years later he builds a new hut for them at the foot of a palm tree; the warriors take turns going out, playing the flute, summoning the eagle, which dives, but the warriors hide in every time hut; when the eagle is exhausted, warriors kill him with clubs], 172 [a huge eagle settled on a reaper palm tree, people fled, a couple of old people and their grandchildren Kenkutá and Akréti remained, their parents were eaten by the eagle; the grandfather is surprised how easily A. catches up and kills other birds; the brothers stay in a hut by the river, the grandfather brings food there, makes them clubs; the brothers call the tapir a rat; the grandfather builds a hut at the foot of the river reapers, A. lures the eagle, hides in the hut; K. does the same less quickly; the eagle is exhausted, the brothers finish him off with clubs; the grandfather plucks him, blows his feathers down the wind, they turn into various birds ; another huge bird Kukád lives on a rock, cuts off people's heads with his beak; grandfather builds a hut there, A. lures the bird, hides; K. does not have time, the bird cuts off his head; A. leaves K.'s head on a branch, can no longer lure a bird, goes to look for people, meets people with a series, black arar people, monkey people, each group tells what it does; A. finds fellow tribesmen, marries, brings meat (nanda ostriches) to his father-in-law and mother-in-law; calls his wife for honey, offers to put his hand in the hollow, his hand gets stuck, A. kills his wife, roasts her meat, brings her to the village; the victim's brother realizes what he was given , finds his sister's head and bones; people push A. into hot coals; his ashes turn into a nest of earth termites]: 449-450, 451-454; kayapo: Wilbert 1978, No. 173 [flying in front of two boys the Ok-tí monster takes their father's sister away; noticing that objects appear larger under water, the boys' father keeps them in a box under water; boys gain strength, easily catch game; hide in shelters under O.'s nest, repeatedly lure him out with the sounds of a horn, killed exhausted with clubs; people eat O., brothers scatter his feathers, they turn into birds of different colors, depending on What feather did they come from; since then, men have been making a hut in the village where they prepare weapons and wear feathers in their hair]: 456-457; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 136 (shikrin) [Vidal 1977:224-225; in front of our eyes Kukrut-uíre and Kukrut-kako, the Okti hawk took their grandmother away; the grandfather put the boys in a pond and started feeding them well; they are growing fast; after 40 days, their legs are already on the other side, fish and crocodiles they think they are fallen trees; the grandfather made a club, a spear and a horn; the boy was wiped off the mucus and painted uruku in red; his grandfather made a shelter hut; one of the brothers went out and teased Okti, then hid again; Okti dived, but there was no one; when the Okti ran out of strength, the brothers killed him; the plucked feathers turned into various birds], 137 (pau d'arco) [Nimuendaju; in front of Akrët and Kenkutfalcon Agaikríti took their grandmother away; put them in the river, leaving their heads on the shore, feeding them; when they grew up so much that their feet almost reached the other side, their grandfather washed them of mucus and painted them red uruku; grandfather built a shelter under a tree, where there was a nest, made a wooden club for everyone; the brothers whistled, the falcon dived, saw no one; when tired, the brothers killed him, the feathers became different birds; in the same village Nyére lived; he pestoned children, fried them and ate them; brothers killed him, others attacked them, but brothers beat them]: 414-416, 417-418; crash: Wilbert 1978, No. 170 [(Schultz 1950:93-112); people lived near a tree that supported the sky; the boy was carried by a harpy eagle to a nest on a rock, fed to the chicks; nightjars flew at night, people's heads were cut off; people put stairs to the tree, went up to holes in the sky went to heaven, threw away the stairs; the old man, his wife and two grandchildren accidentally stayed on the ground; A-krey's older brother knew how to turn into animals, the younger Kengunã did not know how to; grandfather made a platform for his grandchildren in the water, they lay in the water to become strong, to avenge the birds for the death of their father; the brothers killed a huge emu, scattered feathers, they became current birds; the same with a large partridge (my grandfather does not believe every time that the brothers will be able to approach the monsters unnoticed); the grandfather took shelter under the rock where the birds lived; K. jumped out and then hid in the shelter, teasing the eagle; he was exhausted, K. killed; A. also wanted to try it, but cut off his head with a nightjar; K. put it at the fork in the tree, his head became a swarm of bees; K. went to look for another tribe; saw emu, koati, monkeys, tapir burn grass, trees to get larvae, fruits; K. himself from the kraho tribe, i.e. paki (kraho - paka); met a girl from the Koati tribe, became her husband; he is a good hunter, everyone is happy]: 424-446; 1984a, No. 135:411-412; apaniecra (Mehin): Wilbert 1978, No. 176 [Pompeu Sobrinho 1935:192-194; the huge Hoktí hawk devoured people; those who were still alive were afraid to leave home were weak from hunger; Kenegumã and his brother Waiitôme asked his uncle and his wife to leave them in a well-built young man's hut and feed them well; K. put his finger in from time to time; one day, an aunt saw that her finger was plump, which meant that the young men had become strong; they built a house near Hokti's home, his uncle gave him a wooden sword; K. was dissatisfied with the sword, his uncle made another one heavier and bigger; V. went out and hid again, Hokti spent his energy trying to grab it; when completely tired, K. killed him with a sword; the carcass was brought to the village, plucked, all the birds appeared from the feathers], 177 [Pompeu Sobrinho 1935:194-195; Hokti was killed, but now the night bird Kukói has begun to devastate the village; Kenegumã and Waiitôme put up a hut near his nest; V. ran outside and returned, and the bird lost its strength trying to grab it; K. threw his sword and cut off the bird's head]: 466-167, 168-469; ramkokamekra [Kokodyótómre's daughter and daughter's husband ate Hakti's giant harpy eagle; Kokodyótómre and his wife raise grandchildren Akréi and Kenkunã; they build a hut by the river, live there, they become strong; they take shelter at the foot of a tree on which X.'s nest; then they show him and then hide in a hut, exhausting H., kill with a club; the Nightjar lives in the cave, cutting people off with his beak heads; he killed A.; Kenkunã left his brother's head at a fork in a tree where bees nest; looking for departed people, asks birds; Nandu says they passed a year ago, series - that two or three days ago ; Kenkunã finds people; Kokodyótómre and his wife roamed the savannah; by the mountain, the husband went to the right, told his wife to go left; when they separated, they both turned into anteaters; Kokodyótómre was killed hunters; wife waited, cried and left alone]: Wilbert 1978, No. 175:461-463.