K26A. The rock covers the hole .19.20.40.41.45.46.

The hole in the sky is covered with a flat stone. Pushing it away, the character sees the ground. See motif K26.

Melanesia. Santa Isabel (bugotu) [Combili ("fish chief") swallowed Kamakajaku, swam east; when he found himself in the shallows, K. took a sharp obsidian hidden in his ear and cut through the way out; The sun brought him to his village; taught the locals how to use fire; the children of the Sun did not tell him to go to the far end of the house; he went in, picked up a stone, saw his home below, wanted to go home; his they lowered them in a small hut, let them plant bananas on the ground, told them to open their eyes when he heard the sound of cicadas, not the cries of birds; K. returned home]: Beckwith 1970:504 (trans. Permyakov 1970, No. 47:124-126).

Micronesia-Polynesia. Yap.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos; St. Lawrence: Slwooko 1977:74-79; chugach; polar.

Subarctic. Koyukon; tanana; atna; kuchin; upper tanana.

Northeast. Mikmak, passamaquoddy.

The Great Plains. Wichita.