K25D. The Forbidden Tuber in Heaven.24.25.40.43.44.46.47.49.
Afterdigging a root, a person penetrates the sky or earth, sees the underlying world, and goes down there. Usually a hole is made by a woman who enters the sky; her celestial husband or his relatives forbid digging up a certain root; breaking the ban, a woman sees the ground below and decides to go down. See K19B motif.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Alor [Masingbal went to the coast with his six brothers, who abandoned him; in a dream, his mother and father told him how to avoid the cannibal village and get to where Farik lives; F.'s two daughters washed away from He was burned with shroud, coffin and worms; they fed him, lay down with him at night, but he treated them like sisters; they told his father about this, F. told M. to have sex with his daughters; M. and his wives went to work in the fields; digging up a rhizome, he made a hole, saw his native village below; he went down with his wives, but entered the village alone, covered with skin disease; only one girl gave him a drink and was friendly; then he He entered the village solemnly, left the girl with gongs and pigs, and married her; this is Dry Land Woman; she told M. to get mangoes from the tree, threw away the stairs (he was saved by heavenly wives); threw a stone at him when he was in the hole digging up tubers (his heavenly wives revived him); cut down the roots of an arek palm tree, he climbed, fell (his wives revived); M. with his father-in-law, with gongs, with heavenly wives, Good people from the village took to the sky; the Sushi woman and all the bad ones were washed away by a landslide]: Dubois 1944:166-167.
Taiwan - Philippines. Kankanai [two Timungan brothers are digging roots; they find a flat stone under one, he closed a hole into the lower world; they go down there by rope; cannibals with tails live there; the owner of the house Maseken agrees not to harm them for one of the brothers's promise to marry his daughter; they see four pillars supporting the ground while hunting; a pig rubs against one, causing earthquakes; hunters chasing an old carabao (buffalo?) , a person sees that it is actually their mother, misses; father-in-law catches up and hurts her; tells the brothers to go to earth if they do not like hunting people; they climbed upstairs on the same rope; when the sun was shining in the lower world, it was night on the ground; if the patient's throat and nose bleed, a chicken is killed for M.]: Eugenio 1994, No. 16:50-51.
The Arctic. Aleuts (Unalashka) [while digging roots, the sister of the Month makes a hole in the sky, sees the village below; weaves a rope, goes down, marries two men, gives birth to a son; he grows up; before she dies tells him how to take to the sky by sunlight (?) ; describes the people he will meet; these are the constellations: Three Stars (Orion), Evening Star (working with the turn of day), Cod Ligaments (Pleiades), Caribou (Ursa Major; at the same time, all stars these constellations are humans, obviously men); the young man comes to the Month; burned by lifting the mat (behind which the Sun is apparently a man); the Old Month gives him clothes for the new, half, old moon; makes it New Month, Dies]: Jochelson 1990, No. 15:149-155
The coast is the Plateau. Thompson: Boas 1895, No. II.5 (ntlakyapamuk) [=2002:87-88; Coyote's son has two wives, Coyote wants one for himself; sends his son to a tree for a bird; the tree grows; when the son jumps to heaven, The coyote makes the tree low again; the young man wants to pull out the roots; it turns out that these are holes in the sky = stars; turns two old women into birds; spider spouses lower it to the ground in a basket; wife and son meet him; he kills a deer, sends a Coyote after him; a Coyote sinks in the river; turns into a piece of wood; two women make a plate out of it; it eats food; they throw it into the fire; it turns into the baby; they make him a servant; they keep fog and wasps in the vessels; when left alone, the Coyote opens the vessels, releasing fog and wasps into the world]: 17-18; Teit 1898, No. 2 [see motif K1; Coyote makes a son out of stone, his name Nlixentem; sends chicks; a tree grows to the sky; N. digs up roots in the sky; the wind blows from the holes that have formed; the roots turn out to be stars]: 21-29; 1917b, No. 14 [Coyote digs edible rhizomes; the wind breaks out of the holes, it sticks the rhizomes back; he hit the sky, and the rhizomes were stars]: 7; kutene [the girl wants a weak star as her husband; wakes up in the sky next to the old man; he forbids digging tubers under a tree; she digs, sees relatives below; she goes down to the ground along a rope; the Star kills her the next night]: Boas 1917, No. 70:247-249; snookually [one sister likes a white star; the other likes a red star; both wake up in the sky; Red Star has sore eyes; husbands forbid digging a deep root; after a boy is born, one of the sisters has they dig up a root, a hole forms in the sky; sisters and boy go down a rope; ask a blind toad woman to watch the child; he is stolen; Blue Jay flies into the salmon land, slipping through between the crushing rocks; returns with the boy; he grows up, creates rivers, mountains, animals; his name is Shvek u], 2a [as in 2, three sisters, the youngest remains on earth; a monstrous woman Scully and her two daughters kidnap a child; his name is Archhade, he later becomes a Month]: Haeberlin 1924, No. 2:373-375; lkungen [two sisters sleep outside; the eldest wants a bright Jupiter as her husband, the youngest is reddish Mars; the stars take them to the sky; Jupiter's eyes are sore; husbands do not tell them to dig up rhizomes; the eldest violates the ban, makes a hole in the sky, sees a house; sisters go down rope, return to mother]: Boas 1895, No. 2:62-63; puyallup [five sisters sleep in the open air; the youngest wants a bright star for her husband, the eldest is dim (the rest at intervals); wake up in heaven; the youngest's husband is an old man with sore eyes, the eldest is young; the sisters dig roots, make a hole in the sky, go down a rope out of their bast, return home]: Adamson 1934, No. 3:356; Puget- Sound [two sisters dig the roots of a fern, stay overnight on the prairie; one wants a white star as her husband, the other a red star; when they wake up, they are in the sky; the white star is an old man, the red star is young; husbands are not told to dig deep roots; the older sister is pregnant, the youngest is sitting by the smoke hole so as not to see her cry because she has an old husband; when the boy is older, he I dug a hole, the wind from there, the husbands immediately felt it, but the women managed to close the hole; they weaved the rope and went down with the child; while everyone was swinging on a rope, and an old toad woman was watching the child, salmon stole the boy (this is the next Month); the mother found a rotten tree in the cradle, moistened the diaper, squeezed it five times, a second boy appeared (the future Sun); the yellow woodpecker goes looking for the Month, can't walk between the crushing rocks; the same another woodpecker, a raven, an osprey; the blue jay flew by; The month promised to come later; put a stick between the rocks so that the blue jay could slip back; Married for a month a woman who is one of the salmon; his son does not want to let him go; Month: a new generation is coming, and you (i.e. salmon) will be food; The month first made a mistake, told the salmon to go down, only then told them to go up; meets people fighting; What are you doing? - We fight; he turned them into birds and stones; turned little slaves into snipes; fishermen and people in the swamp into two types of ducks; people on the beach into oysters; people know that the Month changes the nature of people they meet, they want it kill; others argue about day and night, some want light and darkness every day, bear wants day and night to last for a year; now the bear sleeps all winter; the deer makes the tip of a spear; Month: what are you doing? - I want to kill the Transformer; Month: If you're a deer, they'll eat you; Norka argues with the Month who is who; Norka could not change the Month, and he turned it into a stick; he's Mink again; The Month cut him - the current minks turned out; four women drag each other by the hair; - We train to pull onions; The month turned them into 4 types of edible plants; made a man on the lake a beaver; carrying salmon - otter; Wild Cat roasts salmon, fell asleep; He ate everything for a month, the leftovers are in his face, now it has stripes, he has become a cat; 5 brothers are playing: fire, fire! It's all on fire; the trail: here, my grandson! but the quiver of the Month is burnt; across the river, old man Echo; only repeats: bring a boat! The month has passed by itself, began to fight Echo; bird: take the Echo giblets that hang on the wall of the dugout; the Echo echoed; the blue heron uses its head as a hammer, because stones and sticks alive; The Month made them with stones and sticks, made the Heron of Herons; The month gathered everyone to determine who should shine during the day and who should shine at night; tried the yellow hammer, but there is little light; the raven, the coyote, woodpecker is dark; hummingbirds are better, but the day is very short; younger brother The sun offered to be the sun for the Month, but it is too hot, the water is boiling; the Sun has begun to shine during the day, the Month at night; the old toad woman is now visible at night on the disc of the Month; the rope on which they swayed was up to the sky; Month: you can climb; but the Rat gnawed it, the Month turned it into a rat; the rocks on the mountain were transformed people; the Indians were relatives Months]: Ballard 1929:68-80; cowlitz [two sisters look at the sky; the eldest wants a bright, younger dim star for her husband; wake up in the sky; a bright star is young, a dim star is an old man; husbands don't tell Wives dig a deep root; they dig it up, make a hole in the sky, and the wind blows from there; the sisters go down a rope from the roots; the eldest with the boy she was born; see motif A23]: Adamson 1934: 269-271; yakima: Beavert 1974 [five virgins live with grandparents; grandfather does not tell me to sleep on his back looking at the stars; the older two do it, the youngest of the two wants a bright husband, the eldest wants a bright husband, the eldest a dim star; the youngest X áfash wakes up next to the young, the eldest Y áslaams with the old man; the sisters dig roots, makes a hole alone, sees the ground; they weave a rope from climbing plants; the youngest comes down, the eldest falls and breaks when her husband cut the rope; the youngest gives birth to a shining boy; this is the North Star; the Coyote and others want him kill, but he wins everyone; looks at the girl, she gets pregnant and gives birth; amniotic fluid has become soda sources; she threw a baby into the North Star, abandoned, ripped off the young man's leg; standing on one leg, the North Star always spins in one place]: 188-192; Hines 1992, No. 49 []: 141-146; Hines 1992, No. 49 [mother sends two daughters to dig roots; those sleep outside, youngest Yas-lum-mas He wants a red star as her husband, Tah-Pal-Meadow offers his sister a bright one; The stars take both to heaven; Y.'s husband is old, T. is young; husbands do not tell you to dig deep when collecting roots; T. digs, into the wind blows, the husbands feel it; the sisters weave a rope from the hazel root, go down to the ground; T. has a child, the Golden Boy (ZM); a woman from the east comes when a blind grandmother ( mother of sisters) rocks the baby; replaces him with a rotten driftwood; the rope that came down from the sky, which served as a swing, immediately breaks; sisters soak and squeeze dada (diapers?) , make them a new boy; Blue Jay gets east to a place where the ground rises and falls; flies through the crack, only the feathers of his crest are touched; ZM is already a man, making arrows, throws flint fragments into Blue Jay; he talks about what happened, ZM removes the fragments from the wounds; the wife leaves their son to watch his father; he leaves his hair responsible for himself, along with the Blue Jay returns home; becomes the Sun, brother Month made of diapers; Europeans descend from ZM's remaining son in the east]: 141-146); clackamas [cannibal kidnaps a crying boy, feeds his snakes and frogs; he grows up; her brother Crane teaches him how to kill her; a young man cuts off her head as she carries him through the forest in a basket; her tree relatives attack him; he climbs a spruce tree, makes a ladder out of his bow and arrows, goes up to heaven; turns lice and flea men into lice and fleas; cannibals marry him a daughter; she has no genitals; he leaves cannibals, marries Sun girl; she gives birth to Siamese twins; the hero breaks the ban on lying face down when his wife searches in his head; digs a bump, makes a hole in the sky; sees his village and younger brother; he is blind , crying for him; the father-in-law tells the Spiders to lower his son-in-law, grandchildren and daughter in the basket to the ground; the Sunwoman washes the hero's blind brother's eyes, who sees the light; Blue Jay cuts the twins with her tuft, Separating them from one another prematurely; they die; mother takes them back to heaven; turns into the sun, twins into two stars]: Jacobs 1952:121-129.
The Midwest. Steppe Cree [the old woman advises two sisters to dig up a rhizome that grows where the bison manure lies].
The Great Plains. Sarsi; blacklegs; assiniboine [two sisters]; grovantre [girl goes out in Months; see also motive A5]; oglala teton; skidy pawnee; arikara [ two girls sleep in the open air on a platform; both are monthly; one wants a red star as her husband; finds herself in the sky; the husband does not tell you to dig roots in the lowlands; the wife digs up, sees the ground through the hole, cries; the Old Spider woman advises making a rope out of her tendons; lowers the woman with a baby behind her back; the rope (= web) was not enough, the woman hung; the husband throws a stone, tells him to kill his wife, save her son, cuts off the rope, the woman falls; the boy sucks the deceased mother's chest; steals corn from the old woman's garden; she leaves the ball with the stick and the bow and arrows; the bow and arrows disappear, the boy steals; the old woman grabs him, raises him, he hunts; finds a snake behind the curtain, kills him (the old woman fed him meat); it was the old woman's husband, she lowers him into the pond); says to the young man that the bear wants to tear it apart (hoping that it will be so); the young man brings the bear to work; the old woman lets him go; the young man sees a tipi, he has four dice players, one has snot, the young man has them shoot; players take it; kill an elk, give the young man an unborn calf; the young man is afraid of him, hides in a pine tree (when the females have not yet given birth, the constellations in which the boy's father is not yet in heaven; knowing that his father will not help him, the young man is afraid); they kill the embryo for promising to bring them an old woman; he brings them, they are happy, let both go, giving knowledge of the rituals of catching eagles; the young man is invited by snakes, he is sitting on a stone , puts them to sleep with a story, crawls away alone; he falls asleep on the ground, the snake climbs into his anus; he cuts his stomach, chest, throat, cutting off the snake's head, but his head crawls into his skull; his father fills him in the sky skull with water, water boils from the heat of the sun, the snake comes out, the young man jumps up, makes the snake flat, crawling on his belly]: Dorsey 1904d, No. 16:56-60; Santi: Riggs 1893 [two girls sleep outside; one wants a big and bright, another weak star as her husband; both are taken to heaven; a bright star is a big man, a weak star is a young man; the first wife is pregnant, her husband does not tell her to dig up the rhizomes of Psoralea esculenta; she digs up, falls through the sky, crashes to death, her baby remains alive; an old man picks him up, brings him to his wife; throws him over a tipi, the baby turns into a young man; kills buffalo; goes to travel; 1) meets another young man living with his grandmother; people walking on water are swallowed by a monster; friends are also swallowed, they see young men and women living and dead in the womb of the monster; they cut off the monster's heart, he dies; they make a hole in the side, go out; they give them two girls; the star leaves both to a friend, moves on; see motif K19B]: 90-94; Wallis 1923, No. 19 [The thunder takes the sky of two girls, makes her wives; tells not to pull the rhizome of wild carrots out of the soil; the youngest violates the ban, falls through a hole, breaks to the ground; the baby in her womb remains alive, his raises a bird; see motif K35]: 85; crowe [like a grovantra; a girl climbs a tree for a porcupine, goes beyond the Sun; killed by a thrown stone; a snake crawls into a young man's head; The sun with its heat expels her; the young man makes snakes less dangerous]: Lowie 1918:52-57 [The month says that the best girls are frogs, the Sun is hidatsa; three sisters see a porcupine in a tree, ask the youngest to get it; chasing a porcupine, a girl finds herself in the sky, the Sun marries her; a month marries a frog; wives compete to see who eats better; The frog chews coals as if eating meat; The month throws her away, she jumps on his back and stays there; the Sun's wife gives birth to a boy; his father does not tell him to shoot larks and his wife to dig up wild tubers; the boy shoots, the lark shouts to him that he is a slave; a woman digs up a tuber, mother and son see a woman's native camp through the hole; the wife receives the tendons of killed business from the Sun, lets the Spider weave a rope; they go down, the rope only lasts to the top trees; The sun throws a stone, tells his wife to be killed, but not her son; the rope breaks; the boy lives near his mother's corpse, goes to ruin the old woman's garden; she leaves a bow and arrows and a ball stick; disappears bow, the old woman realizes that the thief is a boy, not a girl; catches a boy, brings him to himself; forbids cooking red corn; the boy cooks, the grains turn into jackdaws (blackbirds), he shoots them, old woman revives them; cooks food, leaving it behind the curtain; the boy finds two otters there, kills them; they were the husbands of an old woman, she is in mourning; tells them not to go in a certain direction, the young man goes; 1) the woman turns the vessel towards the prey, it attracts prey and cooks; the young man grabs the vessel, cooks this woman in it; 2) comes to two hunters; they take the embryo out of the killed bison, the young man climbs a tree in horror, they hang the embryo on the trunk; clean it up for promising to persuade his grandmother to surrender to them; she agrees; Old Coyote comes with them; realizes that instead of an old woman they copulated with a pumpkin; 3) the young man comes to snakes, sits on a stone, puts him to sleep, kills, escapes alone; climbs into his anus, into his skull; The Month asks the Sun to help, he heats the skull, the snake comes out, the young man comes to life, washes the snake's face against the stone to eye; turns into a Morning Star], 57-69 [one of the two sisters climbs a tree for a porcupine; ends up in the sky, goes beyond the Sun (?) , gives birth to him a son; contrary to warning, moves a cake with a bison, sees the ground through a hole in the sky; becomes pregnant again; the husband allows her to go down the rope; the rope only reaches the tops of the trees; the husband tells the servant to throw a stone to kill a woman but not to hurt her son; the son ruins the Old Moon's garden; she lures him food, he lives in her house; she feeds her crocodile husband; the young man finds him in her house and kills; then as on pp.52-57; the young man revives his mother and younger brother who remained in her womb; they follow him to heaven, all together turning into Pleiades (?)] , 69-74 [as on pp.52-57]; hidatsa [girl goes out in the Months; her son digs up a rhizome]; mandan [girl goes out of the Months, digs up a rhizome]; arpaho [girl goes beyond Months, digs up a rhizome]; sheyen [the girl goes beyond the Star, digs up a rhizome]; ot [the chief's two daughters sleep outside; one wants to be near the dim, the other with a bright star; both wake up next to their husbands; a dim star is a leader, a bright star is a servant; a servant's wife should work for the leader's wife; both are told not to hit with a hoe twice when digging up roots; the leader's wife expects to try, a hole forms a hole in the sky; sisters see their home, cry; the chief tells them to make a leather belt to the ground, the sisters go down safely; people notice them, competing to shoot through a hoop thrown up]; Kiowa: Marriott, Rachlin 1968 [The sun sees a girl swimming in the river, draws her into the sky, marries her; does not tell you to dig roots if the stem is bitten by a bison; she digs up, forms in the sky a hole, a woman sees her home; weaves a belt from her tendons, goes down with her son, the belt is short, she hangs in the air; the Month reports this to the Sun; he throws a willow disc to shoot at the target, telling him to kill a woman without hurting her son; the belt breaks off; the boy leaves his mother dead, steals food from the Old Spider Woman's house; she leaves the ball and bow with arrows, the bow disappears, she realizes what it is boy; catches him; does not tell him to throw the hoop into the sky; he throws, the hoop falls on his head, splits in two; The spider tells both boys to leave her to destroy monsters]: 78-89; Mooney 1898b [girl climbs a tree for a porcupine; the tree grows to the sky; the porcupine turns out to be the son of the Sun, marries a girl; does not tell you to dig the roots of Psoralea esculenta if they were pinched by bison; she digs, sees in a hole in the ground and people, weaves a rope from her tendons, goes down; the husband throws a stone or buffalo hoof at her, killing her; the child in her womb is alive; he is raised by the Spider; he throws up a hoop to play, he falls on his head, splits it in half, twins appear; they destroy monsters; one disappears into the lake, the other turns into a witchcraft]: 238-239; Parsons 1929a [as in Mooney; boy leaves her mother dead, eats the corn that the Spider cooks for herself; picks up the onion she leaves, she realizes that it is not a girl; turns into a stone, he senses her presence; into a tipi pole, he does not notices her, she catches it; the twins are not suffocated by smoke in the house they come to; they get reeds for arrows from under the falling cliff; they dodge the lightning of the Thunderbird, which gives them the feathers of its chicks for arrows ; turn into moles, dig a passage under the lying monstrous bison, gnaw the hair off its skin, pierce it from below with a sharp pole, take its tendons for the bowstring; bring arrowheads that guarded snakes; a spider gives food to a snake lover; twins find him in a tipi and kill him; come to blind people, make them sighted], No. 1, 2 [girl climbs a tree for a bird]: 1-8.
Southeast USA. Caddo [a girl sleeps outside, wants a star for her husband; wakes up in the sky, an old man next to her; the Star's sister goes with her to dig roots; replies that a large rhizome plugs a hole in the sky; The star agrees to let the girl down on a rope from the bark; the descent lasts ten years; the rope turns out to be short; the Vulture puts the girl on her back, brings her to her parents; since then, people leave vultures of one bison].
Big Pool. Washo: Curtis 1976 (15) [The grandfather of the two sisters rejects all kinds of plant food they collect; they go to bed in the open; the youngest wants a white star, the eldest, the eldest, to be her husband offers red; stars take sisters to heaven; red turns out to be the Sun, white turns out to be the Month; younger sister (wife of the Month) says her husband does not hunt, but bites meat like a coyote, it's bad; the eldest invites her to her place; while digging roots, the youngest pokes an anthill with a stick, making a hole, the sisters see her grandfather below; the eldest asks her husband to collect the tendons that their child wants to play with; they weave a rope, start to descend; the child is offended that his mother does not take him, tells his father, the Sun cuts the rope, both women fall, die]: 154-156; Dangberg 1927, No. 5 [grandfather catches fish, eats good food himself, second-rate, feeds two granddaughters; they decide to leave; lie down, admire the stars; the eldest says that she wants a bright husband, the youngest - that she is dim ("with small eyes like herself"); The stars take them to heaven; one gives birth to a child; one husband brings venison to his wife, the other gives his own kidneys under the guise of game; contrary to the ban, sisters try each other's food; dig lily tubers; Stars forbid wives dig bulbs on an anthill; they dig up, making a hole in the sky; they see their grandfather from above, who is still calling the eldest named (Hélida); they go down a rope of tendons; their baby cries; mother unties him, he flies back to heaven; tells the Stars about his escape; one of the husbands cuts the rope; women fall on their grandfather, killing him]: 433-439 (=1928:90-98); Eastern shoshones [two girls They want stars as husbands; agree to go up to heaven; one gives birth to a son; the husband does not tell me to dig up a large rhizome; she digs it up, sees the ground through the hole; the husband helps to make a rope, lowers it and the son; Warns that a woman's brother should not see the boy; he breaks the ban; the child turns into a piece of bison skin; the woman returns to heaven]: Saint clair 1909b, No. 6:268-269.