K27L. Task: Get an item from the bottom .12.24.27.33.42.43.48.
The task: get an object from the bottom of the reservoir. See motive K27.
West Africa. Loma [one of the two leaders in the village died, the youngest son only got a tree with cola nuts; he shared the nuts with the Snake, Ant, Wind, Crocodile; the other leader at his instigation an adviser (town-crier) wants to kill a young man, suggests 1) knock down a tree towards the forest (the wind is blowing), 2) collect scattered rice (ants collect), 3) get a ring thrown into the pond (the crocodile pulls out) ; The snake bit the leader's daughter, advised the young man to ask for a counselor's liver to heal her; he was stabbed to death, the girl came to life, the young man married her, and gained power over half the village]: Schwab 1947:458-459.
Indonesia. Murut (Keningau band) [(Brooks 1960:34-47); the Baiagong hunter went to look for prey at a watering place; sees seven girls bathing, hides the youngest's rainbow clothes; the elders could not pick it up. flew away; B. brings the maiden into the house, hides her clothes in a chest; the wife gives birth to a son; feels that her mother-in-law does not love her and does not believe that she is a heavenly maiden; tells her son his story, he says he knows Where are her clothes; when she flies away, the heavenly maiden teaches her son how he and his father can find her; in the place where K. met her, the old man is fishing; if you grab his hook, he will throw a fishing rod into the heavenly land of Kayangan ; on the way, B. frees fish from the top, builds a bridge for ants across a stream, frees a squirrel from a trap, a deer entangled in vines, a firefly from a web; a fisherman throws B. and his son into the sky, his wife meets B.; her Raja father says that her daughter also has a prince fiancé in heaven; gives tasks; 1) get beads thrown into the river (they get fish); 2) collect rice scattered in the grass (ants collect); 3) collect all the fruits from the chopped tree without breaking the branches (the squirrel collects); 4) race with the local prince to get red leaves from a tree in the distance (the prince flies, but B. rides a deer, returns first); 5) identify his wife's cup among many (firefly shows); Raja gives B. a wife, but does not tell him to return to earth; celestials want B. to swim in the pond, getting rid of human smell; in crocodiles on the pond, B. sticks his finger, he turns white, B. refuses to swim; he is dumped like garbage through a hole in the floor of the house, he finds himself on the ground, a drum, an ax, a coconut fell nearby; from coconut immediately a whole grove grows, the drum scares off enemies, the ax kills them, getting trophy heads; his son occasionally descends to him from the sky, then stops; after B.'s death, his white finger, ax and drum became Murut relics]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 5:276-285.
The Balkans. Serbs [(source not specified); the devil steals the sun; God sends the Archangel Michael to return it; M. pretends to be D.'s friend, offers to test who will dive deeper; dives to the bottom, brings a handful of mud; when D. dives, the sea freezes six cubits thick; M. manages to steal the sun]: Abayev 1990:150; Bulgarians; Albanians.
Turkestan. Kazakhs.
NW Coast. Bellacula [gutted salmon, the chief's wife finds a boy in one, raises her son, both grow up immediately; Salmon brother tells me to scream as he approaches his hut by the shore; human brother forgets, sees half-alive salmon on the floor; then a boat arrives, a man sails with it; they sail through the countries of Smelt, Herring, Candlefish; in Salmon Country, they jump into a house whose door every now and then slams shut; Salmon eat seaweed, offer a boy and a girl to a man; thrown into the water, they turn into salmon; the owners order to preserve bones and giblets, throw them into the water; children are reborn, but the boy is limping, the girl has no eye; an eye and bone are found, thrown into the water, the children recover; Salmon's daughter does not tell her to go to bed with her; a man sticks a stone, breaks her vaginal teeth; she gives birth to a son and daughter ; in the form of salmon, everyone returns to the human world; caught, man and wife take the form of human beings; man teaches how to throw fish bones into water; wife and children return to salmon; man climbs to sky; a woman gives him a bubble with a cold wind; the Sun 1) locks the person who comes in a hot cave, he opens a bubble around the icicle; 2) tells daughters to become mountain sheep, gives a man arrows with with charcoal tips; rams drive a man to the abyss, he descends with a feather, kills sheep with his arrows; the Sun mourns children, man revives them; gets two eldest daughters of the Sun as his wife; 3 ) The sun tells you to check the top, a log falls on his son-in-law, he swims out with salmon; 4) The sun drops a hammer into the water, tells him to get it, covers the water with ice, the son-in-law slips out through the crack with a fish; 5) The sun tells you to get a bird (partridge or similar); son-in-law tells her to peck out his father-in-law's eyes; he admits defeat, his son-in-law regains his sight; a year later he goes home to earth, his wife goes down with him to the sun's rays (these are her father's eyelashes)]: Boas 1898:73-83; McIlwraith 1948 (1) [a shaman and his three older brothers come to the Sun; he gives them a daughter as his wife; 1) tries to kill his sons-in-law twice with heat, burning house (shaman cools the house); 2) orders to get a lot of mountain sheep; the wife herself turns into a bear, attacks hunters; in the form of a ram, she pushes the shaman off the cliff (brothers bring prey, shaman descends into the abyss, becoming a feather); 3) The sun brings the shaman in a boat to the middle of the sea, tells him to hammer the pile with a hammer; he hammers, drops the hammer; dives after him, his father-in-law covers the sea with ice; the shaman turns into salmon, pulls out a hammer, finds a crack in the ice; brings a hammer, throws it in front of his father-in-law, which crumbles into dust; brothers return home, they don't take their wife with them]: 671-672; chickpeas [dive into a pond with biting fish].
The coast is the Plateau. Quarry; chilcotin; tillamook; cous.
California. Shasta.