K10D. The bird takes you to the island. (.19.46.) .48.-.50.

A flying monster takes the hero to a distant island. The hero kills the monster and uses a boat, bridge, or rope made from a part of the monster's body to return.

(Wed. Melanesia. Fiji (Viti Levu) [the spirit of Kova married the sister of the spirit Roko-ua; she was carried away by a giant bird; K. and R. sailed in search; R. wanted to stay on an island where only women lived, but K. persuaded her to sail further; they sailed to where the bird lived in the cave; found K.'s wife's little finger; a bird flew in, carrying five turtles in its beak, ten whales in its claws; K. asked the other spirits to raise the wind, feathers from the wind the bird's tail rose, K. pierced it in the ass with a spear; K. and R. made a new sail for the boat out of the bird's feather, it was too big; then from a smaller feather; the body was pushed into the sea, it spilled to the base of heaven as it is now]: Williams 1970 in Polinskaya 1989, No. 44:135-136).

(Wed. Plains. Wichita [The vulture lives in a hot and dark space on the far side of the sun; is covered with sharp flints; takes a person to an island, throws him into a nest in a tree; a person throws out the nests of two chicks, embodying bad weather, leave the other two embodying good weather; gets off the tree, hits the water with a string; she parts, he returns home; the Vulture attacks again, the hero kills him]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 16:122-123; Arikara: Dorsey 1904d, No. 21 [the son of poor parents received power from the gods of the four sides of the world; the Tree Rats gave him a bow and arrow, he is easy kills game; he goes west; in a dream, two Thunderbirds carry him to their nest on a rock; there are four chicks; their mother says that the monster from the lake eats chicks, he is not afraid of lightning; promises for his help, power over birds, lightning will fly out of his eye, mouth, joints; he descends, kills, roasts deer, feeds thunder chicks; their parents are happy; a double-headed snake crawls out of the lake, lightning powerless even when it hits her mouth; a young man hits both heads of a monster with arrows; all birds are pecking meat; two young men in the village are hunting birds; one shoots at something like a white mushroom, which goes up and down; both find themselves on an island in the sea, from where the sun rises; the old woman invites them to her place, gives them five corn tortillas, one for them, four for their grandfather, who will transport them through the water; we must reject three snakes, which one by one will offer to cross, swim on the fourth; give him cakes; collect and give him his lice â€" freshwater turtles; jump ashore, only when he rested on him; the undrained one jumped earlier, swallowed; the other asked the snake to open its mouth, pulled out his comrade; on the way on the path there was a long serpent; the stupid young man cried through him, ate a piece; for four At night he turned into a snake, told him to be taken to Missouri; the young man who helped the Thunderbirds chased the snake with the birds; he carried it to the bottom, made him regurgitate all the strength he had received from the Thunder Birds, except lightning from his eyes; let go; the young man closed his eyes all his life so that lightning would not sparkle; the serpent gave people songs and healer rituals]: 73-78).

California. Kawaiisa [Coyote and Wolf are half brothers; Coyote traps the Ogre Hawk; he swallows it, flies east; Coyote had a tube behind his ear, cutting Hawk's heart with a sharp edge, he falls into the sea; the Coyote makes a bridge out of his wings, returns to the Wolf]: Zigmond 1980, No. 48B: 164.

Big Pool. Washo [a pine tree grows in the middle of the lake, in its branches a nest of a monstrous bird; the bird brings a person to the nest; while eating other prey, he throws flint tips down its throat; the bird dies; a man makes a boat out of its wings, sails to the shore]: Powers 1877:388 and Curtis 1907-1930 (15): 150-151 (retelling in Edmonds, Clark 1989:166-167); northern payutes [the huge Nemechozinna bird grabbed a man and his son and took them to her island; a woman who had been carried away earlier lives there; the man came up with the idea of sprinkling small obsidian scales where the bird eats and drinks; she swallowed them with with water, tried to take off, but fell and died; they made a boat out of her wings; took that woman with them and sailed; returned home]: Thornes 2003:503-510; Western Shoshones [except Smith: 136-137: a bird kills one of the hunters, takes the other to the island; dies after fragments of obsidian are planted in its food; the mother of a bird makes a boat out of its wings, a man swims in a boat to the shore; some people give him special clothes and shoes to help him overcome lands inhabited by monsters; leggings protect him from snakes; at the end he comes to people without mouths; they feed on the smell of cooked food; man cuts through their mouths; returns home]: Smith 1993:51-56 [the bird's mother advises throwing fragments of obsidian into the blood the bird drinks; on the way home, a man hides in a hollow for the night when monsters poke everywhere with sticks; the next night, vulvas run around; if people are enveloped, they die; a person hides from them in a hole; the next night women walk around looking for someone to tickle; spending the night in a cave, a man hides from an owl that kills with light from his eyes; goes through a country of frogs where you can't sleep], 101-105 [a woman throws up the fragments herself; gives sets of protective clothing herself], 136-137 [ every morning, Coyote's nephew finds larger game trapped; the last is a bird that takes him to the island; she swallows and spews it while playing; the bird's mother advises her to cut her heart; makes a boat out of its feathers; when he reaches the shore, the young man escapes a dangerous grasshopper, comes home]; Powell 1971 [a man wets arrows in the blood of a murdered comrade, lets the bird swallow them]: 269-270; Northern shoshones: Lowie 1909b, No. 24 [see motif J25; Nineyune's bird takes brothers to the island; Thrown out kills her with an obsidian knife; Bird's mother gives young men her son's wings to fly off the island; brothers come to Owls with no mouth; Thrown out cuts their mouths, they can eat now; brothers return to their mother], 25 [two young men stop for the night; the Nyneyune bird sits on a tree; young men They shoot her, she takes them east to an island in the middle of the sea; kills one, the other kills her with an obsidian knife; N.'s mother makes a boat out of her son's feathers; water boys kill the water monster Panzoavitz, trying to swallow a young man; give him mocassins to cross a field of cacti, through the land of rattlesnakes; he passes a monstrous mouse; comes to Owls who have no mouth; they feed on the smell of food; he cuts through their mouths, they eat]: 280-283, 283-285; goshiyute [starting like Western shoshones, p.136; a young man kills two bird chicks; an old woman whose legs have broken a bird teaches how to shoot a bird in the anus; a young man reaches the ground in a boat made of bird feathers]: Smith 1993:44; Eastern Shoshones (Wind River) [the older brother warns the younger brother not to cook at night; he cooks, he is carried away by an owl; he finds him on the island two young men; an owl kills one; a hero and another boy throw flint fragments into the victim's blood; an owl dies; boys make a boat out of its wing; kill and eat an old woman (owl's wife or mother?) ; returning home]: Saint Clair 1909b, No. 9:272; South Payut: Lowie 1924, No. 6 (shivvitz) [starting like a gosiyute; carries through a hole in the sky to an island in the middle of the lake; there are many prisoners there; young man covers the monster's anus with resin; the monster bursts; the young man kills his two wives with a club; he wraps a rope from the monster's pen; he and all the prisoners descend it to the ground]: 109-113; Sapir 1930, No. 19 (kaibab) [ the boy lives with his grandmother; catches larger game (louse, mouse, rat, rabbit, wild cat, deer, puma, grizzly); the latter is a flying monster, he took the young man to a rocky island; his baked in coals, but he is neuridim; the other prisoners are all crippled (without an arm, leg, etc.); the young man offers to feed the monster with blood with flint fragments, hide in a hole; the monster began to fight in agony, young man He killed him, the prisoners recovered; feathers were used to make a bridge, crossed it, everyone went home; waiting for her grandson, the grandmother went blind]: 465-471; Utah: Mason 1910 (wintah), No. 20 [the eagle takes a man; on the island, he finds an old woman alive; kills an eagle with a club; the old woman and he make a boat out of eagle wings, sail away from the island]: 318-319; Smith 1992 (ancompagre) [boy catches a bird; she turns around a huge owl, takes him to an island in the middle of the lake; mother (?) owls give her their blood instead of the boy's meat; he kills an owl with a shot in the ass; he and the old woman make a bridge out of her feathers; when they reach the shore, they disperse; the boy returns to his father]: 40-41; chemeuevi [the boy catches larger game (lice, mouse, rabbit, deer, etc.) with his snare; the grandmother explains what kind of animal it is every time; the Human Carrier is the last to come across; when the boy unties his snare, takes him to an island at sea; tells his wives to beat him to bake him; the boy tells the women that his grandmother will grumble, they don't hit him; the next day they beat and fry him, but he's alive; kills UL, leaving him a balloon in the heart is made of its earwax; he made a swimming facility out of its feathers, crossed the sea, returned home]: Laird 1975:20-22.

The Great Southwest. Havasupai [a huge bird killed almost everyone, including the mother of two fox boys; they live with their grandmother; they find larger game trapped every morning; the last is a bird that takes them to the island; the older brother asks ducks (and geese) to get fragments of obsidian from the bottom of the sea; mixing them with human beings, gives them to a blind old woman who feeds the bird; the bird dies; brothers and other animal people cross sea]: Smithson, Euler 1994:83-85 [across the feather bridge], 86-88 [the monster is the Thunderbird, the old woman is her wife; the bridge from the wing]; Valapai [a huge bird steals rabbits from the Fox and Coyote trap; takes the Fox to the island; another bird helps the Fox collect pieces of quartz; he throws them into the blood of children, which the bird feeds on; the fox and other prisoners make a bridge or boats out of feathers; the fox returns to Coyote]: Kroeber 1935:271-272; Western yawapai [the eagle takes the Sun's son to an island on the lake; the bird's servants feed prisoners to his wife there; the hero kills her first, then the bird, throwing them in silicon food; a crane stretches its leg across the lake; people cross it like a bridge; children fall into the water, turn into ducks]: Gifford 1933a: 407-408.