K25E. A magical wife is the ancestor of people.
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People in general, a certain ethnic or tribal group, or a ruling dynasty are considered descendants of an earthly man and woman of supernatural origin.
Owambo, Chi, Akan, Bilala, Shilluk, Malgashi, Algerian Arabs, Welsh, Scots, Irish, Majprat, Arapesh, Yap, Ulithi, Tibetans (Nepal), Hrusso (aka), Shans, Lao, Khmer, Palaung, Gondas, Javanese (Madura), Brunei, Bantik, Sangihe, Tidore, Numphor, Tetum, Ifugao, Ibaloi, Nabaloi, Bontok, Kalamians, Romanians, Ossetians, Nogais, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Siberian Tatars, Buryats, Oirats, Dagurs, Manchus, Nivhi, Miyako Islands, Tlingit Islands, Lacandons, Yanomami, Oyampi, Waiwai, Mapidian, Taruma, Kandoshi, Shuar, Achuar, Aguaruna, Karaja, Bororo, Suya.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Owambo (or ovimbundu) [Feti's first man fell from the sky; the first Choya woman ("decoration") came out of the river; they have a son, Galange]: Serauky 1986:200-202.
West Africa. Chi [a man meets a girl by the sea, marries; in a few months she wants to visit relatives at the bottom of the sea; he goes down with her; (next series of episodes); they come back; he takes the second wife; she reproaches the first for her origin; the marine wife says that her husband broke his promise to keep her secret, returns to sea; the older children stayed with their father, became the ancestors of the family]: Frobenius 1904:321-322; Akan (Tshi): Klipple 1992:351 [The man's wife died; on the shore he met a girl, fell in love, married; she wants to go home; reluctantly admits that she and her relatives are fish; he descends from it to the bottom; he is told not to go beyond a certain border; he violates the ban, fishermen injure him with a harpoon; he has been cured; when he returns to land with his wife, the man hides a harpoon under the roof; a few years later, the harpoon is discovered by its owner, accuses the man of stealing, he has to tell him everything; he takes a second wife and one day she calls the first fish; she takes a newborn child, leaves her husband with two older children on the shore, goes to sea; the descendants of these children do not eat this type of fish], 352 [a person catches a fish, it asks not to kill it, promises to become wife; becomes a woman at home; their descendants do not eat fish of this species].
Sudan - East Africa. Bilala [A resident of Gollo, a fishing village in the Fitri depot in the Batha region, once went fishing by canoe and met a girl sitting on a water lily on the lake. Seduced by her beauty, he took her to the village and lodged her in his hut. The sultan's servant came and told him to give him the girl. The new wife gave birth to the Sultan five sons, after which she disappeared into the lake. She turned into a snake named Gashé may. Her sons, the Sultans of Yao, are descendants of this woman's sons. The owner of the waters of Gashé may is a black snake that produces abundant crops or terrible disasters, depending on the person's attitude towards it and the frequency of sacrifices; 2-3 m long, black, the head is covered with grass, forming green hair, the look is similar to that of a human]: Tibiana 1990:189-205; shilluk: Baumann 1936:214, 220, 250 in Kotlyar 2009, No. 142 [the progenitor of the cow Dean Aduk came out of the river; carried pumpkin, the ancestor of the Kolo people and animals came out of the pumpkin; K. gave birth to three people; one of them caught two girls in the river, their lower body was crocodiles; the girls' fathers objected, but K. married them; one of these, Nyakayo, gave birth to a son, Nyikang; he caught the first humans with a fishing rod and a harpoon; performed feats, fought the Sun, founded a royal dynasty, disappeared with the wind]: 114-115 (more in Scheub 2000: 249; a similar variant in Watermann 1912:155-156, the cow's name Deung Adok); Westermann 1912, No. 50 [Okwa (the original ancestor of Nyikang) married Nyikae, a water woman, daughter of Ke, the sister of a crocodile; he He lived among people with his children; Dak (Nyikang's son) killed, fried and ate crocodile children; since then, crocodiles have been killing people who go into the water and people kill crocodiles]: 155; malgashi: Parrinder 1967 [The fisherman pulled the forest, pulled the woman out of the water; she told her never to look under her arms; gave birth to a son and a daughter to the fisherman; the husband looked under the arm of his sleeping wife (var.: there was a second mouth; var.: she forbid look at her naked); while swimming, the wife returned to the water; she is the ancestor of the fishing clan]: 51; Frobenius 1904 (betsimisaraka) [the fisherman saw a girl coming out of the water, made her his wife; she agreed to live with him as long as he kept her origin secret; they have two sons and two daughters; he was once asked how he, a poor young man, managed to get such a beautiful woman; he was drunk all said; the wife and daughters returned to the water, the sons became ancestors of the local family]: 318.
North Africa. Algerian Arabs (Tiaret Plateau) [a man marries a sea maiden; one day she asks to buy 7 pairs of shoes and clothes; tells me not to enter the same room; he peeks through the roof, sees that she gave birth to seven children; when she notices her husband, the siren begins to devour them, he manages to save one; the siren rushes into the sea, replies that her son should be called White; his descendants bear this name]: Aceval 2005, No. 82:82 -83.
Western Europe. Welsh: Waugh 1960 [a peasant's son saw a water maiden brushing her hair; she agreed to be his wife, but if he hits her three times for no reason, she'll return to the lake; she counts him three times when he 1) hits her when she laughs at the funeral, 2) refuses to go married, 3) cries during the child's baptism; she takes with her the cattle that came out with her from the lake; her three sons became famous doctors]: 82-83; Wood 1992 [(summary of many records; almost identical to the Waugh 1960 version)]: 69; Scots (Hebrides) [marine wife the king died, he took a new one - a sea witch, who turned the children of her first wife into seals; once a year they took human form; fisherman McCodran hid the skin of one of the girls she had to agree to marry him; during the storm, she found the skin, put it on, and sailed away; McCodram's descendants never hunted seals]: Klyagina-Kondratyeva 1967:229-235 (=Kharitonov 2008:458-462); Irish (western 1929) [an O'Shea man in Kerry County saw a mermaid, fell in love, managed to grab her clothes, run home, hide her clothes, lock the door; the mermaid promised to marry him; gave birth in 7 years two daughters and two sons; one day, during a storm, the husband climbed to repair the roof, the hidden clothes accidentally fell down; the wife put them on, took two children, ran and disappeared into the sea; from the other two Mermaid family]: Muller 2006, No. 87:134-135.
Melanesia. Majprat [the stone gave birth to a white shrimp, she was a woman; a man saw a white fish swim out of her vagina in the water; caught a shrimp, it became a woman, they have a fair-skinned son and daughter; from them (from their marriage to each other?) Wafom takes place in the village of Framesá]: Elmberg 1968, No. 53:281; ilahita arapesh [The First Man heard laughter; saw several cassowaries; beauties swam in the pond, taking off their feather skins; the man hid the most beautiful skin, brought it to him, arranged it to make a hole in his genitals; her name was Nambweapav; the couple gave birth to sons and daughters alternately for many years, these couples became ancestors of different peoples; the eldest son was the ancestor of ilahit arapesh; the father took the children to the garden, the mother stayed at home with the youngest, they alternated duties day by day; the father wore cassowary skin to frighten the youngest so that he would not be capricious; at the age of six, the boy found a skin, gave his mother pieces of coconut for promising; N. flew away, telling the children how to find it; a few months later they went to she took her father; N. asked them to go down from the trees and take their spears; one spear was left untaken; N. found her husband under the leaf, broke his head; under N. there was no death or pain, everything was easy; her children, except her youngest, broke the food taboo, grace ran out; N. turned into a wallaby, arranged for the youngest to kill him; when she died, she ordered people to die hard; the youngest sailed away with streams of water, became the ancestor of whites; will return someday]: Tuzin 1980:1-8 in Gregor, Tuzin 2001:325-326.
Micronesia-Polynesia. Yap [Tholoor sees two dolphins take off their tails, become girls, go to watch dances; T. finds one of their tails in the sand, brings home one of their tails; marries, wife gives birth to two daughters; finds her tail, swims into the sea; her daughters are the ancestors of the dolphin family; (quoted in Lessa 1961:142-143)]: Müller 1918, No. 76:618-619 (quoted in Lessa 1961:142-143); Ulithi (West Carolinas) [each at night, two dolphins leave their tails under a palm tree, turn into girls, go dancing; a man who collected juice from these palms for mash hid one of the tails, married the girl; she gave birth to a son and Daughter, found her tail, told her daughter not to eat dolphins, swam away]: Lessa 1961, No. 6:38-39.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Nepalese Tibetans (Tichurong dialect) [enemies kill everyone, a pregnant woman leaves, gives birth to a son; he sees seven birds fly to the lake, turn into seven women, bathe; twice forgets to tell his mother about this; for the third time she says, the mother teaches her to drip cow's blood into the lake; when six birds fly away, the young man drips, the seventh remains human, he brings her home, takes her wives; (var.: young man hides the seventh girl's clothes); first the wife is silent, finally laughs when she sees her mother-in-law cook; this couple gives birth to one of the births]: Jest 1971:72-74 in Allen 2011:94-95; chrusso (aka) [Mr. Siksilia-ao (SA) has the daughter of Siksilia-Sam; one day she went ashore and saw a young man Turu-Lebou, he married her; SA sent a frog demanding the return of his daughter, T. refused; SA offers to compete, tells us to carry bamboo from mountain to valley; T. does this, but SA cannot carry the tree from the valley to the mountain; go through the fire; T. slipped through, scorching his hair, since then people have been on their bodies hair hardly grows; SA could not get through the fire that T. made; SA threw a stone; T. released a bird that he caught unnoticed, it did not return; SA recognized the power of his son-in-law; says the fish is afraid T.'s beards, let him put his beard on a stone; T. did so, and SA swallowed it, T. fell ill; SA ordered his daughter to give it to her husband: let him sacrifice a pig and a chicken; T. did so, recovered; T. and his daughter SA had two sons, they are the ancestors of Hrusso and Bangui]: Elwin 1958a, No. 11:169-171.
Burma - Indochina. Shans [a chronicle of one of the northern Shan kingdoms; the elderly couple have a son, Hkun Ai; when he was 16 years old and herded cattle, the daughter of the Naga king came out of the lake; they fell in love, she led him to to his father; he ordered all the nagas to take the form of human beings; but during the festival, all the nagas were to take the form of dragons; the wife told HA to stay at home, but he spied; when the wife returned, he said that wants to visit her parents; the wife has allowed; promised to lay an egg on the ground from which their son will hatch; milk will trickle from HP's little finger to feed him; husband and son can always call her; and happened; when Tüng Hkam is 16 years old, the ruler of Yunnan promised his daughter to the one who would hit the gong in her golden palace on the island; Th called the naked mother, she lay down on the bridge over the lake, he hit the gong, got married on the princess, he became king himself; he was succeeded by his sons]: Scott 1918:272-274; Lao, Khmers [same story as the Shans: the origin of the founder of the dynasties from the Nagas]: Scott 1918:277; palaung: Scott 1918 [Son of the Sun Hsuriya (from Sanskt. Surya, sun) fell in love with the naked daughter, Princess Thusandi, who lived in the lake; the father asked his son to join him; Th. gave birth to three eggs; Ts. sent two parrots to bring her a letter and a Manicopa gem; parrots met others, forgot about the errand; Taunghtu replaced the letter with bird droppings; when the parrots finally brought the letter to Th., she was offended, threw two of the three eggs in Ayeyarwady; one swam upstream he was picked up by a gardener, hatched by a boy, named Udibwa ("Born from an Egg"); he married the daughter of the ruler Se-lan, the youngest of their two sons became Emperor of China; the eldest descended from chiefs Palaung; the second egg floated down to Bagan, picked up by the laundress's husband and wife, put it in a gold box, the boy hatched; he became king of Pagan; the princess threw the third egg into the mountains, its fragments turned into rubies]: 276-277 (retelling in Obayashi 1966:54-55); Obayashi 1966 [(Milne 1924:379-383); princess naga i-ran-ti took the form of a girl, went to earth, met the Sun; 7 days later that returned to heaven, leaving her his chariot; I. laid 3 eggs; the Sun sent I. a bag with a letter and a wonderful gem, giving it to the golden crow; he stopped pecking carrion, a pouch a fisherman found the treasure, replaced the treasure with a pebble; the Raven brought I.'s bag, who found a simple stone inside, threw it at the Raven; the Sun, as punishment, painted the Raven black, ordered him to live on earth; I. in the guise of a naga returned underground, throwing her barrette and three eggs; the barrette and two eggs turned into placers of gold and precious stones; the third egg was stuck at the fork in a tree floating along the river; it was found by the elderly spouses raised a born boy Kok-ya; his Sun Father sent him an onion; his naga mother sent her daughter to earth from her marriage to a naga, K. married her, she gave birth to a daughter; K. killed an ogre bird; wife- The naga forgot that she should not be completely immersed in water, became a snake again while bathing; told her daughter to make clothes striped like snakeskin, gave the clothes the color of snakeskin by touching her; people began to copy these patterns; K. became the ancestor and king of the Palauns]: 51-54.
South Asia. Gondas [Bhagavan's seven daughters went swimming; Manna Deo took the form of a snotty boy, hid their clothes; gave him his younger sister for a promise to give him; they still demand to play hide and seek; girls throw themselves into the water; MD hides three times in the form of an eel, lotus, fly; sisters do not find him, admit defeat; the wife tries to swim away in the form of a fish; he catches up with her in the same way they were born Samduria's seven sisters, and all gods from sisters; MD turned his wife's sisters into fish]: Elwin 1949, No. 3:176.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Brunei (inner region) [a man obtained one of the heavenly maidens who were bathing; one day he beat her, tore off her clothes, other clothes fell from the sky, his wife flew away; their son became the ancestor of the tribe] : McDougall 1854:109-110 in Lessa 196:155-156; Javanese (Madura) [a young man Aryo Menak wandered into the forest, saw heavenly maidens swimming in the lake, took one of them's clothes; this is Ni Perri Tunjung Wulan, she became his wife; their son Aryo Kedot became the ancestor of Madura's chiefs; AM and his wife became rich, but AM wonders why the wife does not break rice, but always serves it ready; forbids her husband to enter the kitchen; while wives No, AM looked into the pot, saw not rice, but an unpeeled rice stalk; the wife came - the stem did not turn into rice; she realized that her husband had peeked; since then, the wife has been working all day to cut rice; a year later, the rice barn was empty and the wife found her robe at the bottom; flew away, telling her husband to look for it on the moon; since then, men do not go into the kitchen and lovers look at the moon]: Kratz 1973, No. 21:132-136; bow [seven doves came to swim, Kasimbaha hid one of them's clothes, got married; her name is Oetahagi; she has white hairs on the top of her head, you can't tear them out; he pulled them out hair, the storm took O., their son Tambaga remained; taking him, K. climbed the vine into the sky (the rat gnawed the thorns from the vine), fell to the east; the sun was too hot, the Month helped to reach the sky; the bird showed Where is W.'s home; the firefly warned that there are 7 rooms in the house, each with a sister; he will sit on the door behind which W.; Brother W. says that K. is not an immortal and therefore cannot marry W. ; offers tests; rice in 8 vessels, something else in the ninth; if K. touches the ninth, then he is the son of an earthly woman; husband: I will consistently climb into all vessels and heal back; from the unclean not I will cure him, do not touch him; K. is recognized as the son of the immortals, he is allowed to marry W. and stay in heaven; but they decided to return his son to earth; T. grows up, descends, marries, comes from him a bow]: Spreeuwenberg 1845:25-28 in Backer 1874:98-101, in Frobenius 1904:306-307 (a more brief retelling in Lessa 196:123-124); Tidore Island (off Halmahera's west coast) [sailor from the wrecked the ship lives in an old woman's house on an island; 10 winged heavenly maidens go down to swim; the sailor hides the youngest's winged robe, takes her as his wife; she gives birth to two sons; finds hidden wings, flies away; the children tell their father about what happened; the husband asks the birds to take him to heaven, only a honey bird can pick him up; the man in the sky gives him flies, they will sit on his wife (she will have to be identified, all women they look the same in the sky); warns not to talk to anyone; the husband does not respond to talking logs, bamboo; the king orders to identify his wife; then separate the millet grains from others (flies separate); wife gives birth to third son; king lets go down the silver rope ladder; on earth, wife gives birth to her fourth; sons become chiefs of Tidore and three neighboring islands]: de Vries 1925 (1): 161 -166 in Knappert 1999:299-301; Sangihe Islands [a bird grabs a young man, throws him on a desert island; a young man sees nine girls bathing, hides clothes alone; she promises to be his wife if he will never ask about her origins; he asks if she digs up her clothes, flies away; her husband dies in anguish, their children are the ancestors of Siau Islanders]: Dinter 1899:388-389 in Lessa 196:148-149; tetum (Timor) [the younger single brother asked the older married man for a fishing hook; Na'I Lou, the island's chief's only daughter, turned into loli, grabbed the hook, went with it into the water; older brother demanded that the hook be returned; the youngest threw the net, it brought it to the island like a boat; the young man climbed a tree; there was a spring nearby, guarded by crocodiles; two maids came to the spring; the young man chewed the fruit spit; they first thought they were birds, then they saw the reflection, decided that they were their own, that they were very beautiful; when they saw the young man, they told them to go down without fear of crocodiles; they said that the princess he has a sore throat; the young man took out, hid his hook, replaced it with a bamboo fake, then took it out, showed it; he was married to NL; he sailed home, gave the hook to his brother, returned to the island, the chief handed it to him throne]: Sá 196:44-64; Numfoor: Hasselt 1908:534-535 (in Lessa 196:154-155) [the fish swallowed the ship, the eagle picked up the fish, threw it on land, the people came to the king, he had a giant melon, people ate a cave in it; one person swam to get water to Fr. Tidor hid the clothes and wings of one of the heavenly maidens who were bathing, married her; his wife made a fishing line and net out of her two hairs; gave birth to four sons; found wings hidden under the roof, flew away ; sons, depending on where they sat (on a stone, on a tree, on a rock, on a table), became rulers of four sultanates], 539-542 (in Lessa 196:155) [the Dutchman who escaped the shipwreck hid his clothes from heaven virgins, she gave birth to two sons, found wings under the roof, flew to heaven; her husband brought her back, she gave birth to two more; depending on where they sat, the sons became four sultans], 543-544 (in Lessa 196:155) [approximately as on p.539-542, but Meraksamana instead of Dutchman].
Taiwan - Philippines. Nabaloi [women ask who broke off the tops of the tarot; Pig, Dog, Monkey say they weren't; men hide, see female stars go down to swim in the sky, hide their clothes, marry them; men are old, but the Stars are not; they took their clothes, returned to heaven; marriages to stars are spoiled]: Moss 1924, No. 26:259-261 (translated to Rybkin 1975, No. 16:48-49; retelling in Lessa 196:156); Bontok: Eugenio 1994, No. 7 [star girls fly to swim in the lake; a young hunter hides the wings of one of them; takes her as a wife; she gives birth to a son, the placenta turns into the second boy, more powerful; while playing, the brothers turn the stone over, find wings, return to his mother; the placenta boy stands on the edge of the spear, pushes off, flies to heaven, becomes an Evening Star; brother cannot fly; mother flies away, promising him that he will be the ancestor of Europeans]: 15-16; Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 23 [a widower is a good hunter; once he has not met game I saw two women bathing on the pond; hid the wings and skirt of the more beautiful one; took her home, returning her skirt but not her wings; hid her wings in the garden in sugar cane; his wife gave birth to five children; found the wings were full of holes and half-rotted, fixed them, made wings for children; the youngest flew up and fell, his mother told him to stay with his father, four flew away with her; the rest every night showed which of the stars his mother and siblings; Can-eo descended from it; because their ancestor is the Star, they have sharp eyesight and shining eyes]: 231-233; ifugao (Batad band) [Tilay always brought wild boar from hunting; one day his dog began to bark incessantly; at dusk he saw big ducks come down to the pond, took their clothes off their feathers, turned into girls; T. hid the most beautiful clothes; others flew away, this one he brought her home, covering her nudity with a piece of his own loincloth; they have a daughter and two sons; playing, they found their mother's clothes; she put them on, cut one son in half, took the lower half and one child, left the other and the upper half, flew to heaven; the remaining half below began to decay; T. said he was human and could not revive her; the wife said she was a star came down and revived; these children T. have many descendants]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 22:225-229; the ibaloi [stars went down to swim, broke off the tops of the tarot planted on the field; the pig, the dog responded women, who were not to blame, were advised that women's husbands cross the field; at midnight they saw stars come down from the sky, take off their clothes, start swimming; men hid them, took stars as wives; former wives either killed themselves out of jealousy or left; men grew old and weak, and women remained strong and young; they took their clothes locked in the room, returned to heaven; their children became our ancestors]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 24:235.
The Balkans. Romanians [an old man feeds fish every day; saved a bull whom the child wanted to kill with a stone; a goby tells him to come with a bag for three days, fills the bag with gold, pearls and diamonds; on the third a day jumps into a wooden bowl, and a year later she turns into a girl; an old man sends her image to 24 countries; a girl chooses not princes, but a peasant son, giving him strength; turning him into a dove, cut off her head and revived him; 24 rejected princes declared war; a young man dives into the sea; there they mourn the king and his missing bull daughter; the young man promises to return the princess to them if they help him get out to earth; smashes enemies, princes become his vassals, he revives their warriors; his wife gives birth to him a gold-haired son; he becomes king, and his parents sail to a country beyond 99 seas]: B₂ rlea 1966:419-420.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [Zerassa (epithets: "golden-haired", "beauty of the earth", "shining like the sun and moon") is one of the three sisters of seven brothers, the daughter of the ruler of the water kingdom Donbettyr. In the form of a bird (in another version: a deer), she found herself in the Nart Garden, where a wonderful apple tree grows, the fruits of which heal all diseases. Ahsartag, the son of the oldest Narth of Warhag, shot and wounded D. Following the bloody trail of a bird, he came to the seashore, went down to the bottom and saw the mortally wounded beauty D. Ahsartag healed D. and was rewarded with her hand and heart. On their way to Nart village, they stopped at the seashore in the tent of Akhsar, Akhsartag's twin brother. Ahsar was hunting and Ahsartag went looking for him. Ahsar D. mistook Ahsar for her husband and began to caress him. At night, when they went to bed on the same burka, Ahsar put his sword between himself and D. so that there would be no intimacy with his brother's wife. Ahsartag, who returned, thought ill and killed his brother. D. told Akhsartag the truth, and he, in despair, pierced his heart with a sword. D. mourned her brothers bitterly when she heard her voice, and Uastyrji descended from heaven to earth on his three-legged horse. He promised D. to bury his brothers, but in return demanded that she become his wife. D. deceived Uastyrji. When she came to the seashore, she went to her father's home, the water kingdom. Her mother, having learned that D. was expecting a child, insisted that she return to the country of sledges and give birth on earth. D. gave birth to twin sons Uryzmag and Khamyts from sledges. As adults, they found their grandfather Warhag and married him to D. When she died, D. asked her sons to guard her crypt for three nights because she was afraid that Uastyrji would abuse her corpse. On the third night, Uastyrji came to D.'s crypt, then let his horse and dog go. A year later, dead D. gave birth to Satan, the foal of Arfan, "the eldest of horses," and the puppy Silam, "the oldest of dogs." D. left offspring that formed a powerful Nart family, Akhsartagkata]: Kaloev 1980:375; Nogais [the legend about the origin of the founder of the Nogai rulers Egide; the shepherd found in the steppe a skull with an inscription; grinded it into flour, hid it in a chest; his daughter found a parcel, licked it, gave birth to a boy Bar-Kai; living away from people and hunting, B. marries a swan maiden; she gives birth to him a son Kutly-kaya (Edige's father) and leaves; in another version, three swans flew to the lake shore, took off their clothes, became girls, swam; Kutly-kaya hid his youngest's clothes, married her]: Kapaev 2012:257 -258.
Volga - Perm. Bashkirs: see. Turkestan, Abramzon 1977:159-160.
Turkestan. Kazakhs, Karakalpaks [in the epic "Edigei" among Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, semi-nomadic Uzbeks, Bashkirs, Siberian Tatars, etc., the youngest of the virgins flying in the form of swans agrees to become the wife of St. Baba Tuklas, provided that he does not look at her head when she combs, under her arms when she takes off her shirt, at her legs when she takes off her shoes; BT violates the ban, sees a transparent skull, lungs, translucent under the arms, bird legs or hooves; the wife flies away, telling me where she will leave the baby; BT finds Edigea there]: Abramzon 1977:159-160;
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars: see. Turkestan, Abramzon 1977:159-160; Buryats: Zabanov 1929 [Three boys, Bulagat, Ekhirit and Khorida, came out of the foaming water of Lake Baikal; they were raised by Asoy Khan Udagan; after her death, B. and E. they divided the property, separated; H. was offended that they were divided without him; on Olkhon he saw a swan girl bathing, hid her clothes, got married; the wife gave birth to 11 sons; asked for clothes, flew away; H. tried grab it with soot-smeared hands, since then the legs of the swans have been black]: 29-31; Late 1880 [(Khorin Buryats); Horida saw Fr. Olkhon three swans; they turned into girls, began to swim; H. stole the clothes of one of them; had 11 sons from her, the ancestors of 11 Khorin families; when he was old, his wife asked for her back swan clothes, flew to the sky through a smoke hole]: 264-266 in Sharakshinov 1980:130-131; Mikhailov 1983 [(retelling the same text as in Sharakshinov); "according to the History of Asuikhan-Udagan, Bulagat and Ekhirit decided to separate and divide the property; their third brother, Horida, was deprived, left, hid the bird's vestments of the swan maiden; (other text): Galzut, the founder, married the swan maiden The Galzut family of the Lena Buryats, and Wuhan, another member of the same family]: 98-99; Potanin 1883:23-24 [the Khangin family of the Balagan Department honors the swan as its ancestor; three swans flew to lake, skinned, bathed in the form of girls; the man hid one skin, the girl had to marry it], 24-25 [(Alar Buryats); three daughters of Heaven flew to swim in the form of swans (sagan shibo ); the crooked shaman Oduge stole the youngest's dress, hid in a stone box; the wife gave birth to a son and a daughter, three years later asked her husband to return her dress; while her husband followed him, she washed herself with water from clean spring and fumigated herself with juniper, washing away the earthly sewage; wearing feathers, she flew away; predicted that her son would come from the Kharyat family, and from her daughter - the Sharyat family]; Toroev 1941 in Eliasov 1973, No. 64 (Baikal region) [the poor man hides the clothes of the youngest of the 9 swan girls who are bathing, they are daughters of heavenly Usege-Malan; when 6 sons and 6 daughters have grown up, his father-in-law visits his son-in-law; returns; wife asks for her wings fly away; people come from the sons and daughters of this couple]: 312-317; Tugutov, Tugutov 1992, No. 46 [Horyodoy was offended by his two brothers that the prey was shared without him; left them; hid the clothes of one of the heavenly maidens swimming in the lake; got married], 47 [Horyody-Hubuun hid the plumage of one of the swan girls who were swimming in Lake Baikal; his wife gave birth to 11 children and asked for clothes flew away as a swan; H. managed to grab her paws with clay-smeared hands; now the swans have black legs; H.'s children gave birth 11], 48 [Horyody-Mergen lived on an island in the Angara; three girls swans flew to the lake to swim. Osa-nur; H. turned into horse apples, hid his clothes alone; she gave birth to him a son and a daughter; after drinking, persuaded her to give her clothes, flew into the opening of the yurt; H. touched his swan's legs with hearth forceps, since then they have been black; when flying away, the swan ordered her son to be named Sharait (descendants in the Alar aimak), and daughter Hangin (descendants in Nukut aimak)], 49 [9 daughters of Esege Malaan-Tengeri went down to swim; H., turned into horse apples, hid her clothes alone; the daughter was named Hangin, Sharaid's son; after drinking her husband, the wife received clothes from him, flew away; before that, she smeared the lid of the cauldron, got her mouth and hands dirty ( swans are now black beaks and legs)]: 157-158, 158-160, 160-162, 162-163; Khangalov 1960, No. 105 (Unga Buryats) [three daughters of Heaven swam in Lake Altan; a poor old man hid his youngest's clothes; Horedoy- Mergen married this girl; she gave birth to a son and a daughter; asked for her clothes; flew away, saying that the son would be Sharat (Sharat's family) and the daughter would be Khangin (Khangin family)]: 379-380; Sharakshinova 1959 [(Khorin family)]: 379-380; Sharakshinova 1959 [(Khorinsky Buryats); the poor man's bread died due to frost, the foal was eaten by wolves; the poor man hid the dress of one of the swan girls who came to swim, married her; their 9 sons and 9 daughters became the ancestors of the Khorins]: 136; Nassen-Bayer, Stuart 1992 (Barguzin Range) [Hunter Bargutai saw seven girls splashing in Lake Baikal; hid his youngest's clothes, others flew away as swans; his wife gave birth to seven Bargutai children, found their swan clothes, flew away through the upper opening of the yurt; the children became the ancestors of the Buryats]: 327; Oirats: Nassen-Bayer, Stuart 1992 (durbuts) [durbuts lived near Mount Nidu; the hunter found The goddesses who had come down to swim in the lake, grabbed one; after living with him, the goddess returned to heaven; realizing that she was pregnant, she went down again, left her newborn son in a cradle on a tree branch, left a yellow the bird to protect the baby; the predictor sent the durbuts there looking for a leader; the bird returned to heaven, the goddess's son became the ancestor of the tribe]: 326-327); Mikhailov 1983 [the father of the first tsoros was a hunter, and the mother is a swan maiden who descended a high mountain to swim in a mountain lake, but fell into the arms of a hunter; this couple's baby was picked up by people who went to look for someone who could become a noyon among derbets; Kalmyks on the Volga have no longer recorded this legend]: 100-101; Dagurs [Kurugure and Karegure live with their mother; while they are hunting, two heavenly maidens descend from the sky, asking a woman at home whether her sons, their dog and falcon; when they found out not, they take off their clothes from their feathers, help around the house; the mother told the sons; they pretended to go hunting, hid, burned their feather clothes, took the maidens in wives; Dagurs are their descendants]: Kevin et al. 1994:80.
Amur - Sakhalin. Manchus: Zheleznyakov, Tsendina 2005 [During the period of Buyantu Setsen Khan, the ancestor of Ligden Khan, a capable person named Nurhatsi-Bagatur from Jurchid Manju lived in Mukden, who is a descendant of the Chinese Altan Khan, whose Manchu name was Taizu Khan. And since he was an extremely fair man, knowledgeable and wise in law, many people began to flock under his rule, and then the Manchus elevated him to emperor, and gave him the years of his reign name Tengares-Dzayagatu (= whale. Tien-ming 'Sent Down by the Sky' is the motto of the reign of Nurhatsi, the founder of the Qing Dynasty). This is the reason why Tengares-Zayagata was named. In the homeland of this khan, there was one high mountain called Undur-Bogdo (High Holy), at the very top of which there was a garden and a small lake. From time to time, clouds and mists enveloped the top of that mountain, making it a wonderfully beautiful sight. And when that Jurchid Taizu Khan began to look for the reasons for the fog, it turned out that heavenly maidens were descending into this lake and swimming there. Jurchid Taizu Khan found out about this and chose the right time, made his way to the lake and hid in the garden. When the fog came down, the heavenly maidens came and began swimming in that lake. At this time, Taizu Khan grabbed one girl by the hand and abused her. This girl became pregnant and, after the due number of months, came to the lake and hid her newborn boy in the thickets of reeds. This boy was found by his father Taizu and raised him as a son, naming him after Undur-Bogdo. This is why Undur-Bogdo was elevated to emperor under the title of Tengeres Zayagata]: 105-106; Bäcker 1988, No. 4 [the young man was fed by animals in the forest, he is beautiful and strong; one day a dragon fell into the lake from the sky, broke; the young man dug a runoff from another lake, the water arrived, the dragon took off, the storm carried the young man to the sky; the local lake is much richer in fish; nine heavenly maidens fly there; one day they find a young man the youngest takes him as her husband; heavenly warriors tell her to return, threaten to kill him, but the dragon takes the lovers to earth; paves the Amur River (the "black dragon river"); from a young man and a heavenly maiden Jurchen]: 21-25; nivhi [father is dead, maternal uncles force the young man to fish with them, but they give only two fish each; once they gave a male and a female; he and his mother ate the male, put the female in a vessel with with water; she told the young man to let her out - she was the daughter of the owner of the water; he let her go, she swam a seal; then an old man saw a woman in the tree, who told him that young man should be called; told him that she was the daughter of the saved woman, became his wife; the young man became rich, he always has a lot of fish; when their son grew up, the marine woman returned to sea, saying that her husband's descendants would not die in the water]: Pevnov 2010, No. 13:66-72.
Japan. Miyako Islands (Kurima Island) [the daughter of the ruler of southwestern Miyako District gets pregnant from the sun, gives birth to three eggs, three of which are boys; they ate so much that they were driven away time is the uninhabited island of Kurima; people stopped celebrating in honor of the sea dragon, who began to send a bull to carry people to the bottom; the brothers defeated the bull, followed him to the dragon, that let people go for promising to celebrate in his honor; married his brothers, from whom the three main families of Kurima Island come from]: Maruyama 2009:33.
NW Coast. The Tlingits [The Raven flies above the waters; the Fish promises to marry him if he makes the ground; the Seal, the Frog agree to bring sand from the bottom, if he gives fur to the Seal, makes the Frog The guardian of the earth's treasures; the seal dives, gets sand-filled frog skin from the Frog; the Raven soars as high as possible, where the wind scatters the sand, the wind carries it around the world grains of sand fall into the water, islands grow out of them; Fish dries their hair for the first time, becomes the wife of the Raven, they are the ancestors of the Raven family]: Smelcer 1992:7-8.
Mesoamerica Lacandons (northern) [there were few women, men cooked themselves; the man saw two girls bathing, their clothes were royal vulture feathers; the next day he caught one of the girls; she agreed to marry him if he was a good husband; told him to leave her feather clothes, her sister would pick her up; a year later they go to their father-in-law, at that time a trail led to heaven; there were corn fields; bald the chief tells his son-in-law that after death, his soul will not go to the underworld to Kisin, but here to heaven; the man began to treat his wife badly when he saw her eat carrion and worms; began to spend the night in the field; to her Xok (water, fish owners) began to come, she became pregnant; told her husband to open her stomach, there are a dozen Xok children, he killed them; when she dies, she tells her to cut off her little finger, there are pumpkin seeds, she teaches how raise calebasses; three calebasses have grown up, he accidentally cut one, put two under a bench in the kitchen; someone cooks in his absence; he finds two girls, his daughters from his vulture wife; gives wife to a neighbor in exchange for his sister; a man was bitten by a snake, but his soul did not rise to heaven because he mistreated his wife; his daughters have many children, they are descendants of a vulture woman; vultures are not allowed kill]: Boremanse 1986:242-246 (=1989:91-93).
Southern Venezuela. Yanomami [(Cocco 1972:469-474); Jaguar Ira ate Poapoama, gave the baby from the womb to his grandmother Mamokori-yoma, who raised Omawë; his older brother was Yoawë; when he caught fish, he sees in the river two girls; the next day O. saw one girl, grabbed her, brought her home; she was the daughter of the water monster Rahara-riwë (it looks like a cassava push-up bag); O. took her to the station, to Seiba, told her pull out the root, make a cassava; the wife did not eat, said that the real cassava was not like that; gave birth to a beautiful girl; asked her to marry Yarimi-riwë; her vagina bit his penis, there was a fish; he turned into a monkey; O.'s wife took him and YE. to her father, to the station, showed a real cassava; at that time her father sent a huge wave at them; O. and YE. turned into crickets, hid under the roof of a house where the air was left; both his wife O. and his wife returned home; decided to take revenge on R.; agreed in the Sun to dry the pond; for the first time, the dry season had come; O. plunged his spear into the ground the water spilled out, everyone got drunk; some of the water rose to the sky, now it pours out in the form of rain; the shamans threw the old woman into the water, the flood was over; O. ate dead fish, where he threw bones, rivers appeared; O. stole his daughter morokoto fish; then left with his family, his descendants are Europeans]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 192:377-384.
Guiana. Oyampi [see motif E9; Mayamayali and Wayamakale twins (from poppy - monkey?) they come to the father, he tests them; M. can't stand it; the father says that he is not his son, but the Monkey; makes a parrot out of his skin, monkeys out of flesh; in the morning the father rises to heaven; M. makes wood woman; V. reappears, contrary to warning, makes love to a woman; she turns into a solid tree, his penis becomes long, he carries it in a basket; comes to the village; while men sleep, dance with all women; they go into a hole, disappear underground; a parrot and a monkey remain in the village; while men hunt, they take off their feathers and skins, cook; V. comes out of the pit; one woman cuts off his long penis; the piece remains in his vagina; once in the river, it turns into an eel; {the text ends; probably people are descendants of a Parrot, a Monkey and one or both of the brothers}]: Grenada 1982, No. 5: 69-72; waiwai: Fock 1967 [1) Mawari made the first peak; sent the Lizard to check it out, gave her a bag of ash inside, said that when he unfolded, her companion would be there; but the biting ones flew out flies sucked the Lizard's blood, so it's gray; in revenge, she wove a mat, threw it into the water, it became a stinging stingray; when M. went to check the trap himself, he stepped on the stingray; M. sent a bird - weak the voice is not heard; the karau bird (the size of a chicken), she warned of the catch; there was an otter, M. and his brother Yours began to copulate with it using the eye; she orders to catch women; shooting from onions into the water, M. caught women's accessories (bag, menstrual mat, basket, paint, apron, spindle, finally the woman herself; she has a baby of snakes (Okoimo-yenna) in her arms; yours have a lot children from his wife and daughter, their descendants are Brazilians; and almost all M.'s children died; M. made a chain of arrows, took it to heaven with his wife; 2) M. made the first peak, caught the Otter, and stood with her to copulate, she told him to catch your wives for himself and your brother; he caught, there were piranhas in his bosom, they bit their dicks, they became normal in size; Indians and Europeans come from M., from V. - notorious]: 40-42; mapidian [while Tuminkar was sleeping, his brother Duid caught a woman; T. set the top, told the Owl to guard; before dawn, a woman in a feather crown approached her; before dawn steal the fish, took off the crown, accidentally put it on the Owl; he brought the crown to T., he took it to heaven; the woman followed him, people descended from them]: Farabee 1918:159; taruma [older brother ( name forgotten) and younger Wapichan caught various female objects (mortar, comb, etc.); when the eldest did not go fishing, V. caught the woman, hid it, stopped going to the river; the eldest found and took it a woman, people came from this couple]: Ogilvie 1940:70-72.
Western Amazon. Kandoshi (maina) [Rimachuma Lake (on the right bank of Lower Pastas) overflowed; only one man escaped the flood; went hunting and fishing; returned to the hut and found food cooked; he hid, saw two parrots arrive and become girls; the man grabbed the maid and the hostess flew away; the myna were the descendants of a man and a maid, failures are due to the wrong choice]: Verneau, Rivet 1912:34-35; shuar [the man is ill, in a dream a woman promises to give him medicine on a rock in the middle of the river; says he killed her father's enemy, lemucha, asked to make his skull a trophy head; a person sees a tapir whistling by the river, Tsunki comes out, copulates with him; the man also whistles, T. asks to hang a lemucha skull around his neck, goes under water with him to his anaconda father; They want to put him on an anaconda, he is frightened, he is put on a turtle; instead of cockroaches on the walls of a fish, instead of pigs in a pen, anacondas; his father-in-law made his son-in-law potent by putting leaves on his genitals; went to visit the family on earth, the man brought his Wife in the basket; in his absence, the earthly wife found a snake in the basket, began to poke it with her head; Father flooded the ground with rain and flood; all people were eaten caimans; a man with his little daughter escaped in a tree; shed fruit, understood by the sound that the water was falling; after the flood he married his daughter, people come from them]: Pelizzaro 1993:142-146; achuar: Mowitz 1978:21 [during the flood and a long night, a man climbed a genipu tree, threw fruits down, a harpy eagle screamed, dawned, the water came down; three types of parrots flew in, became women, began to chew cassava to make masato (alcoholic drink); woodpecker knocks on wood, sparks fly, man gets fire; man catches that Parrot that is less beautiful, so people are not as beautiful as they could To be; the descendants of man and Parrots gave birth to people], 27-29 [the same, two, not three Parrots], 33-39 [the man freed the anaconda from the nets; at night a woman approaches him, says that her father is calling him; after being in the underwater world, a man and his wife return to earth; at night, a woman, a snake, a snake in the afternoon, the husband hides it in a basket; the man's mother finds an anaconda, hits her with a stick; the flood begins, the man climbs on a tree, throws fruits down, water comes down; out of three parrot women, a man wanted to grab the one that was more beautiful, but grabbed the other two, one of them darker; from the remaining uncaught come Europeans]; Aguaruna [like Shuar]: Akutz Nugkai et al. 1977 (2), No. 11:135-137.
Araguaia. Karazha: Baldus 1952-1953:210 [After the old men killed each other, two boys and two periquito parrots remained in the house; the boys watched the periquito grind and cook corn, became girls; when the boys grew up, they married them, they made new people], 210-211 [it's a holiday in the village; the dancers took off their masks; the rest went hunting and fishing; everyone promised return with the loot; three boats sailed upstream, one young man swam downstream; his blind, lame mother remains at the hearth; when he returns, he asks her if the dead really danced; the mother answers that men danced with their fingers on each other in the manner of the dead; then the others returned, including two strongmen Tenira and Sokrä; one of them cut off the old woman's head with a piranha oak knife, showed everyone, ordered them to dig a grave, set fire to firewood in it, threw all the carages into the fire; they began to fight, hit each other in the eye, died; two parrots remained in the village; two young men came who were late hunting; returning the next day from hunting, they found the food cooked, heard the voices of women, the sound of foes; on the third day they found two girls; these two couples had the current carages]; (= Baldus 1937:216-217).
Southern Amazon. Bororo [a single woman has two doves; she leaves for a day expressing a desire for someone to cook corn porridge; since then, every day the porridge is ready; the woman spies, asks for two girls remain human; they get married, people of the family Aroroe Cebegiwúge are their descendants, they have a totem dove]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, No. 55:112; shya [at night, brother stains his face with genipa juice an unknown mistress; the exposed sister lives openly with him, although he does not want to; they fish, the water blows her down the river; she turns into an androgyne; under her guidance, women are killed most men go far to the east; set up a village behind a lake full of piranhas; men who return from hunting fish from the river, they turn into new women; they are different physiques depending on the fish from which they originated]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 158:466-467.