K27O. Ball game .35.36.39.40.42.-.50.52.56.62.68.74.

The confrontation between heroes and antagonists takes place in the form of a ball game.

Western Siberia. Southern Khanty (b. Konda, S. Patkanov, 1888) [A childless old man set fire to his barns so that smoke could rise to Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother-why doesn't he have children? Heavenly Father sent a son, who gave three seeds, let the old man let his wife eat; she gave birth to a boy, he grew up quickly, came to one of the ends of the earth, the bear and the wolf let him see the old woman, who gave him a name Like Aspen Leaf, the Agile Husband (VM); he returned home, only one foal from his father's herd did not bend at his arm, he took it; tells his father to marry him one of the three royal daughters; the father was beaten, expelled; the priest's youngest daughter was given without dowry; his wife refuses to look in his head - she did not even look aside where the Merchant, the Wanderer (KS); his flying horse brought him to the old woman; she says that no one returned from the city of CS; gave a bundle of 60 silver rings; the next old woman gave a ball of thread, the third gave a white towel; teaches how to avoid a mountain of human bones, throw rings to 60 warriors, cross the bridge across the sea; the warriors shot, only pulled three hairs out of the horse's tail; the CS's mother turned the VM into a needle, hid it from her son; he orders to show the person who came, became his brother, ordered his wife to be beaten, when she arrives magpie and gets out of her magpie skin, with three silver bars; the wife is forty again and flew away; the COP does not tell me to open the seventh room; in others - frogs and lizards, in the seventh - the girl is CS's sister; the VM married her; goes to fight the seven-headed menqua, tells his wife not to leave the house at that time; cuts down the menqua warriors, but there are more and more of them; then he cut her husband, who carved warriors out of flint like sparks, destroyed warriors, hit something with a sword; at home I found out that the COP had left the house - he hit him, why did they release him? they found the body, put it in the coffin; wife: mother-in-law wants to kill you; he entered his mother-in-law's house, fell into the lower world; there the old man and old woman adopted him; they do not tell him to herd cattle in the Menqua estate, he stole their eyes; but grass is better on the other side, the VM drives cattle there; hacked one-, two-, etc. -headed menkvas; the seven-headed man cannot be cut down, he drove him into the ground, the menkv asks him to take his white towel, wrap it around his neck, then cut; then the VM cut off his head; came to the Menkwa mother, fights with her, changed buckets of strong and weak water; the old woman's daughter shows that the old woman should be stabbed in the chin with a knife ; VM did so, killed an old woman; daughter tells her to burn her, sweep away frogs and lizards that will crawl out of her into the fire; VM tells the girl to jump over the fire - if she used to live with a man, she will fall into the fire; she she fell, she also had lizards, he burned them; he took the eyes of the old people, restored their sight; they told them to prepare meat, immerse firebirds on their backs; she brought them to the ground, he cut off the last two pieces from the calves of his legs; fever -the bird regurgitated them and put them back; the wife lies between two men; VM wanted to hack them, wife: these are your sons; VM cut his youngest son, sprinkled blood on the body of CS, he came to life; revived his son alive water; his wife's brother (i.e. CS) set up a copper playground for games, the VM set up a silver one; everyone puts a block of stone on his court with his foot; the VM takes flint, sparks turn into husbands; when he lets his stone, he breaks the arms and legs of the CS people, tears them apart; the COP lets the VM and his wife (i.e. his sister) go home to the VM - he cannot live with a hero who is stronger than him; on the way they go to those three old women, his wife turns them young; at home, VM climbed onto the roof, looks into the house, where his parents are quarreling over a spark; he poured water or snowed to put out their fire; they swear; he opened, their daughter-in-law turned them young; the VM scatters chips brought from another world, they turn into a populated city; abundance is all around]: Lukina 1990, No. 88:220-237.

Eastern Siberia. Far Eastern Evenks (Uchursky: Aldan District of Yakutia): Romanova, Myreeva 1971, No. 19:219-224 [episode in a long epic story: the leader of the Avakhs (inhabitants of the lower land) Salergun Saveendya came to middle earth, killed the beautiful girl Darpek and began to marry Sekak the beautiful; first Chagilgan the hero, and then the son of the sun Dergaldin, came out to fight him with his bare hands; and C., and D. failed to defeat S.-S.; C.'s brother, Cocoldokon, who was a little man with a mitten, came out to fight with him; K. reproached C. and D. for their lack of intelligence and said that he would have fun with S.-S. with the ball; The beautiful Sekak found her father's old 100-pound cast-iron ball; the battlefield was a huge copper field; K. invited S.-S. to try to catch the ball with her mouth and threw; S.-S. caught the ball with her mouth and lost his iron teeth; then the ball threw S.-S., K. caught it with his hands and made a new throw; S.-S. caught the ball with his hands, but it jumped out and, hitting his liver, tore it; K. ran up to the wounded man to the enemy, began to beat him; K. was so agile that S.-S. could not hit him in any way; as a result, K. tore off S.-S.'s head and began to throw it up playfully] (retelling to Kurilov, Varlamova 1986:50-55), 226-229 [ an episode in a long epic story: the hero Cocoldokon the size of a mitten wanted to marry the daughter of heaven's son Dugirmandi; D. said when he met that he needed a good friend, and suggested K. try your hand at: 1) jump on one leg on three jump markings that he, D., jumped on when he was young; 2) jump on both legs on his, D., jump markings; 3) try it, D., a hundred pound ball; K. picked up the ball, put it on his knees, on his liver, and then threw it up; then began to jump tirelessly on the markings; D. took K. with him to fight Avah leader Sumuenday] (retelling to Kurilov, Varlamova 1986:55-58), 236-238 [episode in a long epic story: hero Kokoldokon met Salergun-Savendi's younger brother Awaha Saveende; K. invited S. to catch with his mouth the ball, and then took his father-in-law Dugirmandi's 100-pound cast-iron ball and threw; S. deftly caught the ball with his mouth; K. offered another game - to dodge an arrow fired from the bow - and shot; arrow pierced S.'s knee, K. attacked him and cut his throat] (retelling to Kurilov, Varlamova 1986:61-62).

SV Asia. Chukchi: Baboshina 1958, No. 62 [a seal comes to the camp owner, brings firewood, a spark has fallen on her, the fat has burned down, the seal has become a guy; the owner orders to bring deer; he brings deer, but not a hunchback; the guy found one, although the humpbacked tried to take care of him, got half the herd; the camp residents offer to compete to take over the herd; 1) race; cut the guy apart, but when They're back, he's been there for a long time; 2) playing ball; a local guy throws a stone ball, whoever comes hits him, blows his head off]: 151-152; Belikov 1982 [a polar bear kidnaps a man's wife; he comes to bears, they offer competitions; 1) jumps beyond the bear; 2) defeats the bear in martial arts; 3) play the ball with the head of a walrus (dodges, throws his head, fangs pierce the bear); 4) kills with the spear of the kidnapper, the bear Kochatko; gets a bear as his wife, returns home with two wives]: 24-27.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos: Bogoraz 1949, No. 12 [takes an unlucky hunter to sea on an ice floe; the Polar Bear kills a seal for him, becomes a woman, he brings her home; gives birth to two sons; Her mother-in-law reproaches her for eating fat intended for the fat lamp; she leaves with her sons; her husband follows her to the country of polar bears; the Bear's ex-husband offers to compete; 1) raise a stone from the bottom (wearing polar bear skin, a person lifts the stone for a long time and at the same time kills a seal); 2) play the ball with a walrus's head (wearing a bear skin, a person wins); 3) fight; man kills a bear with an arrow; lives with his wife and children with bears; when old, wants to return to people; his bear sons bring him ashore]: 161-176; Rubtsova, Vakhtin 2019, No. 20 [the man lived with his mother without a wife; once a polar bear met him, took off his hood, a woman underneath him; she became his wife, gave birth to a son, then a second; the man's mother is dissatisfied with the fact that she ate fat, calls him a bear; she wears his hood, takes his sons with him and leaves; when he finds out what is going on, the husband goes in search; the polar bear wife takes him and his sons through two holes, they come to the polar bears; the foreman wants test a man, suggests playing ball with a walrus's head; the old man (i.e. the father of a bear wife) warns that the foreman is going to kill him; the man took a pebble in his mouth, spit it out on the skull flying into him, he cracked; now ride down the mountain, there are two holes below; the bear will lower a stone from above; but the man fell into one outlet, got out of the other; now he has to fight; but the man cut his veins with a dig, that fell, the man finished him off; the man and his wife returned to his mother]: 254-276; St. Lawrence [a young man whose relative mocks him, sees light in the cave, finds a woman there; a relative offers to swap wives, comes to a cave, is killed by a woman; she is the White Bear, leads husband to his people; bears with a necklace were killed by hunters and reborn; the wife's sister's husband offers to compete, the wife teaches how to win; 1) dive into the sea, get it from the bottom, throw heavy stones; 2) play with a heavy walrus head; man wins]: Slwooko 1979:86-91; Bering Strait Inupiate: Curtis 1976 (20) (Cape Prince of Wales) [the young man does not marry for a long time; sees an unfamiliar girl leads to herself, she makes it a condition that his mother does not insult her; they have a son; mother-in-law says that her daughter-in-law eats raw blubber, she is a Polar Bear; the wife leaves, the husband comes to the Polar Bears; father-in-law tells him to throw a bead in his son's mouth, the Bears become friendly; the foreman summons the man to compete, his father-in-law gives him his skin; 1) play ice ball (the man gives him the furthest); 2) who dives for a longer period (the person breathes secretly, wins); 3) hunt seals (wins); the person stays with the Bears]: 157-160; Garber 1940, No. 24 [Taktak meets on ice an unfamiliar woman, gets married, they have a son; T.'s mother tells her grandson that his mother eats like a polar bear; she takes her son, goes to polar bears; T. comes to them, they are happy; her father helps him, gives him bear skin; these bears are the souls of those killed by people; are divided into two parts, white and speckled; T. in the white party; wins the ball game (ice ball); first catches the seal; stays with his wife and children bears]: 195-203; Garber 1940, No. 27 [orphan Seetuk lives with his uncle, studies with him; uncle's wife eats all supplies, tells her husband that his nephew does it; uncle puts S. in the box, ties the lid, descends into the sea; the box sticks to the shore; S. frees himself, hunts, gets everything he needs; someone brings fish, deer, wolves (they have valuable skins) to his house; two brothers and sister come; she ready to marry S. if he overtakes her and defeats an evil opponent; S. first falls behind, then witches, overtakes; the girl's father gives him polar bear skin; S. defeats the opponent in a ball game (this is a big one stone); diving into the sea; kills with an arrow when he appears in the guise of a bear; S. marries, father-in-law gives him hawkish plumage; S. flies to his native village, raises his uncle, throws him into the sea, before taking off bird clothes and saying why he is going to kill him; brings his uncle's corpse to the village, tells his story; people kill his uncle's wife, bury him with her husband; S. returns to the Hawks, becomes them chief]: 204-215; Northern Alaska Inupiate: Hall 1975, No. 114 [a poor young man lives with his grandmother; a rich man has a pole with a ball at the top; whoever climbs in and removes the ball gets a rich man's daughter; a poor young man performs task; the ball is a human head; the rich man tells it to roll to whoever took the ball; she rolls up to the young man; he gets a wife; the wife finds a lot of meat in the young man's house; in fact, the young man was rich]: 343-345; Spencer 1959 [a man marries a Polar Bear woman; mother-in-law does not like that his daughter-in-law eats a lot of fat; she goes to her own; in her village, Angusiliuk kills strangers, offering them compete, takes the wives of the dead; the man's wife's father-in-law and brothers help him; 1) play with a heavy ball of bone and ice (the man breaks it); 2) catch seals (the man is the first to pull the seal out); 3) A. turns into a walrus, the dugout is filled with water; a man harpoons a walrus; heals the enemy; 4) dive for a long time (the person breathes through the tube; A. is slightly alive); the man with his wife and son returns to their own parents]: 419-425.

NW Coast. Bellacula [the son of a man named Nutsxoasenem loses all his property and wife to Senxalolela's son; people leave the loser alone, only a friend secretly tells where he is hidden fire; snow extinguishes fire; a woman tells the abandoned person to follow her, lets her eat a strip of meat from her chest, restoring his strength; they approach the rock, the door to it opens and then slams shut; young man slips through; there's a holiday inside, these people are Wolves; he marries the Wolf who saved him; she says he shouldn't smoke her blanket; at first he doesn't know it's a euphemism for infidelity; he kills a lot mountain sheep, Wolves bring meat; he is called to play ball, his wife says that her ex-husband was killed while playing; the wolf is ready to gnaw a man's throat, but he throws the ball; no longer participates in the game ; falls in love with a girl at the spring; promises his wife that this is the last time; they go to live with his parents; he is met by his former wife; the Wolf takes her son, leaves; he looks for her, becoming a wolf; Bobrikha tells go under water; there he reaches the land of the Wolves; the son rejoices in his father, the wife believes he loves her; he stays with the Wolves]: Boas 1898:103-108.

The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [Coyote has four sons; they are weak, they go to play ball, are killed while playing; Coyote turns into a Moose, kills many players; killed when an arrow hits his vulnerable spot - Adam's apple; his brother Fox brings it back to life]: Hanna, Henry 1996:43-48.

The Midwest. Ojibwa (timagami) [a lonely young man carves his wife out of wood; she tells her to be locked in a teepee for three days; he peeks for a while, she leaves; he follows her; three old women one after another show him the way, give him lynx bones like amulets; he climbs to heaven on a tree trunk; 1) his wife warns that her Polar Bears brothers will play ball with him, chasing the ball around the earth; he makes the Bear drop the ball, wins; 2) The bears cannot move the rock, he breaks it with an arrow; 3) kills the red otter first, then the blue otter; recognized as a son-in-law]: Speck 1915d, No. 9:57-62; Winnebago [(zap. Louis L. Meeker); having created the earth, Ma-ona created a man in the sky Wah-reh-ksan-ke-ka ("man with one leg"; M.); he dried by the fire (it was the sun), his leg cracked, M. threw him to the ground; created another , Koo-noo-ha ("first young man"; K.); together with seven other people, they are ancestors of eight families (apparently they were lowered to earth); brothers take turns chasing the beast, disappear; seventh brother Nah-ghee-gho-no-neenk (N.) comes to a hollow tree; six pairs of skis nearby; M. descends from the sky, N. wounds him with an arrow, he hits him, takes him to heaven; K. hears his screams, comes to heaven to M.; he took off his skins from six brothers, prepared their meat for food, N. hung up to suffer, avenging the wound, and he is small for food; M. and K. compete in a ball game (the ball must be handed over with a club); each hits the other's head, the head takes off, returns to the neck; for the fourth time, Ma-ona agrees that N.'s head does not return; she turns into the Morning Star, the murdered brothers into the clouds; each brother married the sister of another but N. who was single]: Smith 1997:105-110.

Northeast. Seneca [wife does not feed her husband's dogs; cutting meat, she cut her finger; sucks blood, she likes the taste, she cuts and eats her flesh; eats her little daughter; chases dogs, eats her little daughter; chases dogs, eats people in the village, chases her husband; he with his dogs swims across the river on a raft; she jumps after him, falls into the water, drowns; a man with his three dogs stays in a poor house; the chief calls him 1) race (the dog in his form wins), 2) play ball (the other dog wins, cuts off the chief's head); the man becomes the chief]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 46:231-236; Tuscarora [giant Akutręwe lures people to its ball court; a stone ball the size of a person's head must be driven through holes in two trees at opposite ends of the court; the bet is life, A. eats the losers; ixhuhtyeręhsků makes A. immediately dislocated his leg; drives the ball through the holes; A. offers to become his friend, but O. disagrees, cuts off his head]: Rudes, Crouse 1987, No. 25:367-37; Malesite [Sakilexis (all other Gluskap informants) comes to the village; the Forest Marmot woman is crying because he will be killed; he is asked to play with a shaman's skull, who digs his teeth into whoever he hits; S. breaks his skull with a kick; he is asked to fight; the enemy is knee-deep in the ground among rocks; S. wants his legs to break, throws his body on the rocks; people are happy that he saved them from the tyrant; the Master of the Water closed the water; S. threatens to pierce his huge belly, he breaks the dam in fear, releases water]: Mechling 1914, No. 6:45-47.

Plains. Teton (oglala) [four brothers go missing; their sister swallows a stone, gives birth to a Young Stone, talks about his uncles]: Walker 1983:94-99 [old women give him feathers of various birds, a turtle; Bisons call him to play ball; birds (derived from feathers) serve him as a ball; when opponents drive the ball into the water, he chases the turtle ball; old Bisonicha asks to be shot at it, he kills it; places the bones Uncle goes to the steam room, they come to life; as a stone, he presses the buffalo girls; the old Bison sharpens his horns; replies that he wants to kill the Stone Boy; he kills him himself; so he kills four Bisons, then many others; Bisons admit defeat], 140-146 [the eldest of the four brothers pricked their toes; a girl, their sister, was born from an abscess; the Stone Boy receives speedboats and magic clothes as a gift; along the way finds a knife, an ax, an arrowhead, an uncle's hammer; breaks the Rolling Rock; a monstrous woman says that the Living Stone is her master; the young man replies that it is his father; the woman turns into an old man; it is he who crushed the young man's uncle; the young man revives his uncle, presses the old man; from which salt water flows (the origin of salt springs and lakes)]; wichita [the ballplayer kills the losers; four brothers and their father dies one by one; the brothers' old mother bathes, becomes pregnant; her grown son goes to play, plays with his ball; kills an opponent while playing, throwing hail from the sky; burns a corpse; victims rise from fire, turn into hawks]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 39:247-251

Southeast USA. Chirokee [the hunter has three dogs; the Little Dog tells him that his wife doesn't feed them; he tells the dogs to do whatever they want with her; the wife bit her finger instead of meat, she liked it she cut off her chest, ate her little daughter, chases dogs; her husband is on a raft, pushed her away, she drowned; a man with dogs settled with old couple; they say they have an evil leader- player; Player offers running competition; Little Dog in human form wins; ball game, Little Dog wins again; hunter became chief]: Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick 1966, No. 4:418- 420; yuchi [Red Copper offered to compete in shooting on a rolling wheel, caught up, cut, took blood; the grandmother tells Thunder's son that before going to Red Copper, you should visit his father; at his father's house, a young man sees a young woman calling Thunder; he replies that if the young man is his son, let him sit inside a rock for four days, then walk above the ground; on the fourth day, the rock explodes, young man goes out, walks above the ground with thunder and clouds; father and sister recognize him, sister splits the clouds with an ax, the sky clears up; catching up with the young man and touching him, Red Copper does not cut him, but melts himself, remains alone head; Red Copper offers to play ball, puts his head on the line; Red Copper is helped by all creatures on earth, Thunder's son is helped by everyone who flies; to win, Red Copper must throw the ball into the water, and Thunder's son, into the sky's gate; every time flying creatures are ready to drive the ball into the sky, the Rabbit tells it to go hot, they drop the ball; the Bat pushes the ball up; first the Crocodile, then The trout grabs the ball, it sinks; the furious Eagle grabs the Crocodile, throws it; Red Copper has won back its head]: Wagner 1931, No. 17:71-77; Natchez [son-in-law along with Wind, Tornado, Thunder play ball against the cannibal father-in-law and his men, including excrement and holes in the river bank; the hero wins, kills enemies]: Swanton 1929, No. 4:222.

California. Shinkyon [Mink father with wife and baby in the basket crosses the river, salmon swallows him and his wife, the baby slips ashore, the grandmother picks him up; he grows up, notices wool in salmon's mouth; kills him and other fish responsible for the death of her parents; A cloudy woman descends from the sky, agrees to meet young Norka, takes him overseas to her Sun Father, mother- Moon and the Morning Star's younger brother; they always kill her suitors; the Moon could not kill him with an oar; the Sun gives difficult assignments; 1) bring stones to grind acorns; 2) firewood (pushes logs on him); 3 ) A dog (she killed the grooms, Norka brings them); 4) salmon (his wife warned how dangerous they are, Norka killed them); 5) sent them to the bears; 6) to the site where he drove various animals; 7) a ball game (without details); Norka dived, pulled out a lot of salmon with a rope at once; decided to visit his grandmother with his wife and son; his wife warned not to turn around; he turned around; in the place of his son there was a dark cloud, his wife a big cloud white cloud; found his grandmother dead; burned; turned into a hole]: Nomland 1935:172-174; mivok: Barrett 1919, No. 6:9-10 [Falcon's father goes south; loses a ball game to a local chief, burned alive]; Gifford 1917, No. 5 [no details, text corrupted]: 306-310; Merriam 1993 [Falcon's father goes south through a hole into another world, plays ball with Vulture and the monstrous Ku-chu; those they win, refuse to take the money, slowly burn it; The Falcon and his friend Dove and wife Duck follow in their father's footsteps; the Fire Lizard sends fire at them; the Duck creates green reeds, only in his fire goes out; they slip through a hole that closes and opens; Duck's legs are flattened forever; Falcon notices holes in the game area; wins, burns enemies; asks two shamans To revive his father from his charred bones; he comes to life but does not look like himself; The Falcon sends him over the mountain to the sea; returns to our world with his friend and wife; kills the Fire Lizard and other monsters]: 179-189; Chukchansi yokuts [Falcon and his friend Falcon go north to play ball with people who kill losers; lose, kill; grandmother tells his grandson Sokolenko how his father died; he walks along his in the footsteps; on the way, he marries a Duck; players laugh at him, show two dead bodies hanging from a tree; they make a mournful scream from time to time; the Falcon uses his own collarbone instead of the ball; wins by overcoming all traps; throws enemies into the fire; revives father and his friend]: Rogers, Gayton 1944, No. 15:200-202.

Big Pool. Northern Payut: Lowie 1924, No. 11a [The centipede beat everyone in hand game and football, killed; two girls and their baby brother are left; he grows up, his sisters make him a bow, he brings lizards, snake; aims at the bird, which says that all his relatives have been killed, the killer has dried their hearts, they can be revived; that two eggs will hatch chicks, they will take the boy across the sky to the Player, spit on his forehead; the boy immediately becomes an adult; should not sit on a player's blanket, not play hand-game, but football; two bird eggs will become invisible to Player Owl (he will cover the dark) and with a gopher (will dig a hole, the Player's ball will disappear in it); the Player will have to be burned; the crow helped burn him as he burned everyone (the Raven jumps because his legs were burned); buried in a damp place in the heart turned into reborn people], 11b [Hawk lost football to Centipede, was burned by him; he has two daughters and a baby son; then about 11a]: 229-231, 231-232; Steward 1936, No. 28 ( Owens-Vely) [Kiao'nu always wins, tortures and maims losers; made the Bear and the Raven lame; the boy Tuhuki'ni sees his mother's bow, arrows, playing hoop, etc.; mother claims that it is hers property; he realizes that these are the things of the murdered father; comes to his father's sister, who says that K. is digging holes where rivals fall; Aunt Frog and Woodpecker went with the young man; the Crane held out his leg to them like a bridge across the river, ordered not to sit on the cape offered to him by K.; T. does not eat poisoned food, does not sleep (so as not to be killed in his sleep), does not take the daughter K. offered to him; plays with his own ball; wives T. and K. sit by the fire; The frog pours water on T.'s wife and K.'s wife is hot; with the help of Woodpecker, T. plays better; Gopher digs holes in K.'s way, the Woodpecker drives his ball into the hollow; T. wins; burns the Player and his wife , The Bear and the Raven regain their eyes and claws; kill people K.]: 388-396; Western Shoshones [the little Hawk lives with his mother; aims at the bullfinch; he asks if he knows that his father has been killed; the mother refused to tell me how it happened; the Hawk made a net: if it breaks, I was killed; went to look for my father's murderers; the gopher woman said that the killer was Hitoo (lark); his dog was a bear; when the bear rushed at him, the Hawk dodged; came to H.'s house; he makes a puddink out of human brains, covering them with nuts; those who ate brains died; but the gopher warned Hawk and he ate only nuts; H. offered to throw the dart through the rolling ring; the Hawk won; then another game: chase the ball; H. has the ball a skull; the ball given to the Hawk does not roll at all; the Hawk took his hidden ball won; the third game: run off a high cliff on a blade sharp as a knife; the Hawk did not cut himself; jump over the rope over the fire; the Hawk jumped, H. fell and burned; dying, offered Hawk a daughter, but he killed all his daughters; pulled his father's hair stuck in his teeth out of the bear's mouth; put it in his mother's bed at home; in the morning his father lies alive next to Hawk's mother]: Smith 1993:147-150.

The Great Southwest. Tiwa (Picouris) [the deer warns the hunter that the Sun will fight him; the Sun cuts off a person's head, takes him to heaven, takes the victim's wife; his two sons run to their father's parents; grandfather reports who killed their father; tells them to cut willow twigs, makes grandchildren ball sticks; a pair of Rats (Woodrat) gives brothers sticks to put the Sun to sleep; four butterflies give white, black, yellow, blue paints; brothers paint a black bird to make it an Eagle; he brings it to heaven, teaches them how to play ball with the Morning Star; he plays with their father's head; brothers break all the Morning Star's sticks, he dies; the eagle brings the brothers and their mother down to the ground; the father's head is put in a dark closet, the father comes to life]: Harrington 1928:313-323; Navajo [the divine player Naqaílpi has descended from heaven (" Beating"); a piece of turquoise served as his talisman; the pueblo lost his property and themselves; they lost two precious shells, the Sun asked N. to give them to him, he refused, the Sun was angry at him; the god Qastcèyalçi came to tell the Navajo youth about this, told them to come to the meeting; there were Wind, Darkness, Bat, Big Serpent, Bird, Gopher, and animals, who obeyed N. before, but opposed him; Darkness quietly penetrated the sleeping Player, returned, saying that he repented; The Wind did not believe it, but returned with the same news; N. puts parts of his bodies against parts of a young man's body; puts his wives; he has no wives, but two boys wear women's clothes, pretend to be the hero's wives; 1) 13 chips must be thrown up, they must fall white, not red side up; The Bat hides under the ceiling, having prepared 13 pieces of white on both sides, throws them instead of the ones thrown; 2) drive the hoop (The snake hides in the hoop, drives it, the kuna must); 3) knock it down a tree flying into it (Gopher gnaws at the roots of the tree that the hero pushes); 4) drive the ball over a certain line (Bird instead of a ball); N.'s animals told the Wind to blow harder to justify N. his inaction; the hero wins, puts N. on a string, shoots it into the sky, he flies to the moon god; he gives him the pets that Mexicans now have, returns to land in Mexico; he became the god of Mexicans]: Matthew 1889:90-94.

Mesoamerica See motive J4. Taraschi; (otomi); huasteca; tepehua; mountain totonaki; quiche.

Llanos. Guayabero [at first there is water everywhere; Wamek sets fire to wax, it spreads through the water, forms earth; V. makes plants and animals; Laman is lazy; V. sends him for water; he sees reflection of two women sitting on a branch; they spit, he brought them home; they like V., they went to him; V. plays ball with his wives; L. brings a snake parrot, which takes the form of a ball; V. is bitten in the back of the head; three days later he comes to life; his grandmother is unhappy, refused to warm the water to rinse his mouth; V. goes to heaven, followed by his grandmother; L. goes underground with oinu perfume]: Schindler 1977a: 221- 222.

NW Amazon. Uitoto: Pereira 1980 (2) [Jaguar Gaimo is Hitoma's wife's lover; kills him; his widow gives birth to twins Monaro Hitoma and Fishido Hisema; they ask mother about father; she first denies that they had him, then says that he burned down, fell from a tree, etc.; they try fire, fall from a tree, etc., but they are unharmed; they see a monstrous cannibal ball rolling; mother says he ate his father; F.H. collides with the ball, dies; then comes to life; brothers kill Gaimo with arrows; they are going to burn their mother]: 482-492; Preuss 1921, No. 9 [Kud Buneima brought himself into a trance, after drinking tobacco juice, he went to play ball with Dyaroka's people, his head was torn off with a ball, cooked and eaten; his son Magyari Buneim was offered to eat his father's meat; he and his brother get magic remedy, kill opponents; see that the mother mourns their death; the mother tells them that she planted cassava and is being eaten by rodents; the brothers caught the rodent in a trap, the mother recognized the wound on her leg - she was as a rodent; they cremated her, cried; went up to heaven to get the magic remedy of the Diarok people; when they went down, they fell down to the tree, they were called for help by the Muinane tribe, i.e. the tree broke people's heads ; an eagle sits on top, yelling, "We're eating MA!" ; the worms on the tree struck Brother MB with lightning; their urine poured in a stream; then MB rose to heaven, took the name Hítoma (Sun); he took an egg from the hummingbird's nest on a palm tree, containing his brother, his name now a hummingbird boy; at night his brother was eaten by beetles; H. became hard as stone, killed the beetles, but one escaped; H. went underground]: 314-330.

Southern Amazon. Nambikwara [the young man's mother goes to another village for cassava; he sleeps outside, wants two stars as his wife; they go down to the village, take him to heaven; the star brothers call him to play ball; they kill when they hit the knee or head with a ball, they eat them; they have always done this to their sons-in-law; sisters turn fruits into wild pigs; brothers go hunting them, disappear; sisters tell other women get ready to cook meat; everyone dies accidentally (cuts herself with an ax, falls into fire, water, gets bitten by a dog, etc.); their children kill each other while playing; sisters think about the best way to commit suicide; decide not to drown, jump into a deep hole, or be bitten by a snake; jump into a fire from a tree; the smoke from their burnt bodies turns into 1) The Small and Large Magellanic Clouds; 2) the younger sister in Maloe The cloud; the eldest in the Big (the part of her body that is more burned) and in the Coal Sack (the part that is weaker burnt)]: Pereira 1983, No. 90:113-117; Iranian: Pereira 1985, No. 15 [two brothers sleep under open air, want two stars as wives; two star girls go down, sleep with them; brothers tell each other that everyone dreamed of a skinny wife; stars (offended?) disappear; come back; do not eat Crypturellus parvirostris bird meat (shooting stars turn into these birds); tell young men to close their eyes, take them to the sky; the elder's wife warns that tapirs there are long legs in the sky, you have to aim higher; he kills the tapir; the younger one misses, the brothers of the stars eat him; his wife warns him not to play ball; a poisonous ball is thrown into his house; he gives it head, dies (var.: goes to play, killed with a heavy ball); widows turn fruits into wild pigs; brothers of stars follow the trail, understand the deception; they and their children throw themselves into the fire, turn into all kinds monkeys depending on who is burned; widows tell the remaining old men and old women to get ready to cook meat; they all die accidentally (fall into the water, injure themselves with an ax, etc.)]: 84-91 (=1974: 39-40); Moura 1960 [A star descends to two young men, sleeps with them, takes them to heaven; one hunts, kills a beast with an arrow; other animals eat both prey and hunter; the second boy plays with the Stars in the ball, killed by a heavy ball, is eaten; the wife of the killed lies to the Stars as if she saw many wild pigs; they do not find pigs, throw themselves into the fire, turn into monkeys of different colors; only Stars remain in the sky -women]: 58-59; camayura [the young man decided to marry the daughter of the Jaguars; she hid him in the house; he watched the Jaguars fight, play with a stone ball; trains with his wife; his wife gives him cotton wool shut up your nose, because father-in-law releases suffocating gases when he comes in; father-in-law and mother-in-law check for a flaw in the son-in-law's body (if it's even a scratch, they eat him); they fight him, play ball, he always wins wins bows, necklaces, etc.; his wife's brother comes from another village, with other jaguars; The squirrel always wins, but avoids fighting the young man; says that the Jaguars will challenge him to the competition until eaten; The squirrel advises him to leave; when his wife is about to give birth, the young man returns to his native village; the Jaguars come there and kill him; this is the story of the origin of Hook-hook wrestling and playing ball]: Seki 2010:413-443.

The Southern Cone. The Araucany [old Atapay plays ball against the winged Conatraro, always wins; his team includes Pishmaihuile, Comcüimahuile, Big Eagle, Little Eagle and Mencholonco birds (Fringilla) matutina); Caimeñtraro and los Tiuques - in the opposite direction; A. wants to get rid of P.; when P., tired of playing, leaves home out of need, Conatraro (hereinafter Traro - T.) connects him and takes him to the edge of the world; Mencholonco birds distract T.'s attention, prancing on horses, freeing P., who cuts off T.'s head; makes balls from his eyes for play, from his wings - milestones for the game; comes to A. under the guise poor old man; A. took his wife P., who recognizes her husband; P. plays and wins, throws the ball at A.'s testicles; he screams in pain, jumps into the water, disappears; P. returns his wife, shares A.'s wealth with the Eagles and Comcüimahuile]: Pino Saavedra 1987, No. 25:76-80.