K11C. Plants grow from feathers. (.48.72.)

The plucked feathers of a huge bird turn into plants.

Southern mountain winks, aioreo.

California. Southern mountain mivok: Barrett 1918, No. 9 [out of jealousy, the Eagle beat his chipmunk wife, kicked her out of the house; a week later someone brought her back, but she died; the stripes on the chipmunk's skin are traces of those beatings; the eagle grieves, mourns for a year; Yelelkin descended from the sky, carried him through a hole in the zenith of the sky; his nephew Coyote ran to the southern, eastern, northern, western corners of the world in search of a passage to heaven; came back, began to dance, jumping higher and higher, jumped to the zenith; in the sky, the Frog (Bullfrog), Y.'s wife and Eagle's aunt, advised not to kill the prisoner right away, gave Eagle a knife; Y. kills prisoners, inviting them to bend down for a drink from a basket of water; the Eagle offered Y. to drink himself, cut off his head with a knife; Coyote plucked all the feathers from Y. planted all the feathers around the world, which grew trees and grass; from the sky Coyote The Frog lowered the Eagle on a rope; then Coyote said there would be new people, turned himself, the Eagle and others into animals and birds]: 17-19; Merriam 1993 [a huge bird lived on the back of the sky; flew there through a hole in the zenith of the sky; kidnapped a toad woman, made her wife, dragged her people to eat, but she refused human meat; the Eagle is the leader of the First People, Toad's nephew, his bird took it away; the Toad taught how to kill the monster, gave a stone knife; the eagle pushed the bird into a vat of blood, cut off its head; the Toad weaved a rope out of the grass, they went down to the ground; the Coyote planted the feathers of the bird, including various trees and grasses have grown]: 163-167.

Chaco. Ayoreo [the big bird had all its tools, knives and fabrics; the young man killed the bird, took the tools and fabrics; the trees too; when there was nothing left, people tore it off pieces of skin, now flowers on trees]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989b, No. 174:244-245; aioreo [pío (big black bird) hunted herons; came to Heron's children, asked: how Will your father fly in? children: there will be a breeze before he arrives; when the Heron appeared, Pio ran, asked the tree for help; it opened {and Pio hid in the trunk}, then fell on the Heron and crushed him; Pio dragged it to his grandmother, pulled out feathers - these are iron tools; the fluff gave the trees these are white flowers; other trees were colored with Heron's blood - they have red flowers; watermelon soft too]: Wilbert , Simoneau 1989b, No. 175:245-246; aioreo [children ask grandmother: When will a big bird come to kill us? grandmother: if a strong wind blows, it is a sign that it is approaching; but one day people attacked a bird; she ran, but the tree stopped it; when the bird was killed, its feathers turned into iron tools; blood in very hard pototo tree; feathers in {other} trees]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989b, No. 176:246-247.