K19F. Worker stars. 62.66.69.72.
Astar or many stars are coming down from the sky to work on the field. See K19B motif.
NW Amazon. Barasana [stars take a person to heaven; he marries one of them, returns to earth with her; stars work in his field, night is day for them; they leave a person on earth and disappear]: Torres Laborde 1969:55-56.
Montagna - Jurua. Character: Calífano 1995, No. 12 [the light of the stars (always women) comes from their silver pendants in their nose; one woman jokingly asks the Stars to work on her field; they go down in a day do the work, they are not told to tell; the woman violates the ban, the field is covered with forest]: 185; Gray 1997 [the woman asks the Stars to help her cultivate the site; in the morning she sees that all the work has been done; to her A young star comes, says he worked, tells him not to tell others; she says that her chakra is again covered with forest; since then, weeds have grown rapidly]: 56-57.
Araguaia. A male star descends, bringing cultivated plants; returns to heaven. Tapirape [taking a son born on earth]: Baldus 1970:357-359; Wagley 1977 [Apuvenona came down from heaven, married Anuntero; she had a son, Imanavungo; brought along cassava, corn, yam, peanuts, cotton and other cultivated plants; people did not know how to grow them; A. told heron, wild goose, parrots and other birds to help in the field; his wife taught how to spin cotton, hammocks and bracelets out of it; when old, A. took his son and rose to heaven; both can be seen among the stars (A., possibly Venus, and his son Vega); his wife was carried away by water, some believe that she turned into a freshwater dolphin]: 178; carage: Gutenberg 1975 [the daughter of a woman and a deity admires the Morning Star; the star husband returns to heaven because his wife violates the ban on watching him works in the garden, transforming from an old man to a young man; his wife becomes a small star herself]: 20-22; Krause 1911 [returns because one of his children steals corn from him]: 346- 347.
Chaco. Caduveo [the girl wished a Pleiades man; he goes down to her; cultivates the field for an unprecedented harvest; returns to heaven; a woman gives birth to a son or two sons from him]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990a, No. 26, 27 [a woman looks at the sky, wants a star as her husband; he goes down, plants corn and cassava, they ripen in a day; he returns to heaven; his two sons stay with their mother, made by shamans; Morning Star (Nibetad-Lale) is a feather headdress on the head of Nibetad (Pleiade man)], 28:46-48, 49, 50.