K4. Nest destroyer .12.18.-.22.34.35.37.38.40.-.44.46.48.-.50.59.-.64.66.68.70.
The character climbs a tree or rock to get a bird, bird eggs, chicks, climbs into a bird's nest; comes into conflict with another character and/or cannot go down. See K1, K2A motifs. In italics, traditions in which a woman is a nest-breaker; in bold italics, in which a character falls into a trap through no fault of another person, but by accident, or When you go up to ruin the nest, he does not fall into the trap at all, although he quarrels with his companion; the asterisk* indicates those in which the character remains trapped (metamorphosis).
Von, Jaber-Jaber, Jauan, Kamoro, Vatut, Tikopia, Apatani, Dafla, Garo, Ao, Mona (Mentawai), Tofalars, Mongols, Oirats, Dagurs, Nganasans, Orochi, Udege, Japanese (Tohoku), Northern Alaska Inupiate, Bering Strait Inupiate, Tanaina, Southern Tutchoni, Helmet, Dogrib, Tlingit, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Thompson, Lillouette, sechelt, snohomish, skagit, Puget Sound, Cowlitz, Upper Cowlitz, Sanpual, Kurdalen, Klikitat, Western Sachaptin, Yakima, Vasco, Alsea, Cous, Upper Coquill, Takelma, Klamath, Modoc, Wall Cree, Sarsi, blackfooted, assiniboine, teton, omaha and ponca, arapaho, kiowa-apache, kiowa, yurok, viyot, karok, shasta, pomo, wappo, vintu, kawaiisu, luiseno, serrano, Utah, Navajo, Jicarilla, Western Apache, Tewa, Zunyi, Diegueño, Mojave, Maricopa, Papago, Pemon, Wapishana, Trio, Oyampi, Colorado, Napo, kofan*, shuar, aguaruna, mayhuna, carijona, andoque, yukuna, macuna, barasana, ocaina, chikuna, Rio Branco*, parintintin, tenetehara, machigenga, cashibo, charambet, takana, moseten, chiriguano, surui, camayura, vaura, trumay, kalapalo, nambiquara, suya (beiso de pau), kayapo, apinaye, krenje, ramkokamecra, cracho, xavante, sherente.
West Africa. Background [Yo (trickster) and orphan Nochiovi go to a tree where pigeon nests; climb a ladder made of nails; N. puts the chicks in his pocket, Yo eats them right away; angry about it, goes down, taking out his nails, N. cannot get off the tree; the hunter shot the goat, he fell by the tree; N. shouted to the hunter that the goat was here; the hunter helped him go down, wanted to give half of the carcass, N. asked for giblets; Yo told him at home that a buffalo would come, start defecating, he had to put his hand in his ass, pull out his giblets; the buffalo clenches his ass, drags Yo, tears off his hand]: Herskovits, Herskovits 1958, No. 70:298-300.
Australia. Jaber-Jaber [The eagle sent his nephew The lizard to the tree to get a large egg from the nest; he is afraid to touch the big one, takes the small ones; the Eagle tells the tree to rise tall, leaves; The lizard eventually managed to jump to the ground, cut off the Eagle's head with a boomerang]: Waterman 1987, No. 4535 (1): 122; Jauan [The eagle is angry with his brother for not sharing his wives with him; asks him to climb a tree to get it from eagles nests, sings, making the trunk tall; stays with women; brother's skeleton falls to the ground, feeds on flesh, kills brother and wives; now he is the lonely evil spirit of a rocky country]: Waterman 1987, No. 4535 (3): 122.
Melanesia. Kamoro [Múare and his sister's husband Wájrapi saw a rhinoceros bird on the tree; M. climbed the thin tree from it to the big one, threw the bird W.; he cut off the vine, left, brought the bird to his wife, M. stayed on a big tree; began to sing about what had happened, the song was heard by snake people hunting with dogs; they lowered him, brought him home, let him go home]: Drabbe 1948, No. 10:266-267; cotton wool [two cousins ambush birds; one's arrow flies far away, he finds it in the presence of an old woman, who says that she baked and ate the dead bird; at night, coconuts came down from the tree, steel people, danced, returned to the tree; the old woman tells the young man to remove the nut from the tree, not to throw it, but carefully lower it; the nut turns into a beautiful woman; the cousin wants the same for himself; everything repeats himself, but he throws a nut on the ground, gets an ugly girl with a crooked mouth; she drags him to the village; the young man decides to take possession of his brother's wife; invites him to climb a vine on a tree for with chicks of a rhino bird, pulls off the vine, says why he did it, leaves; the person left in the tree asks various birds for help; each refuses because he hunted it, defecates on his head; momoro birds first train by lifting a stone, then grabbing the young man with their beaks, lowering him into his field, cleaning him from bowel movements; his wife finds him, he tells him to bring his bow and arrows, do it in the wall of the house hole; when he came at night, he shot his brother, burned down his house, took his wife, organized a party in honor of the birds, gave them jewelry]: Fischer 1953, No. 21:162-166.
Micronesia-Polynesia. Tikopia [friends Pa Fatumaru and Pa Raropuka went to catch birds with nets; went down to the rocky cornice; PR got up first, untied the rope, left; PF bewitched the rain, drank rainwater; collected bird eggs, smeared his face, lay down; flies flew; PR went down, decided that PF was dead, walked away; PF got up, removed the rope, bewitched the sun; PR died of thirst; PF went down to look at his corpse, returned; the informant's grandfather saw PR bones]: Firth 1967:114-115.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Apatani [was a giant tree, you can't see the top; a huge Arii Midii bird nestled at the top, and began to feed people and animals for its two chicks; people promised Palo Talo make him king if he kills a bird, told him not to kill the chicks; he climbed to the top, shot the mother bird, wanted to kill the chicks, but then people removed the iron pins he climbed upstairs; he became feed the chicks with meat prepared by the bird; tried whether the chick would raise a stone, only picked up one, killed the other; then the chick lowered him to the ground; he killed him too; a feather from a large wing the bird became a little eagle, the other a hawk, the heart a big eagle; PT was made king, but he returned to his country]: Blackburn 2008, No. 6:81-83; duffle [huge Peta Labra birds carry women away usually brides from a wedding procession; Nyu Talo placed a wooden pestle instead of a girl, tied a rope, the bird carried the pestle to a nest on a rock in the middle of the sea, NT found it on a rope, climbed a rock; his friend Poii Talo cut off the rope out of envy; NT killed adult birds, began to train the youngest chick, tied a log to it, it fell; flew on the eldest one; he wanted to throw it off, but NT stabbed him in the wing with a knife above his house, the bird came down, died; this is how NT destroyed cannibal birds]: Bori 1995:49-52; garo [Awil Singwil has younger sisters Nosé and Dimsé; maternal grandmother secretly spoils everything that girls do; their mother accuses them, hits them; they stick feathers for themselves, turn into doves, talk about what happened; parents cry, but A. and S. only ask for a necklace, fly away; they are caught brothers Aual and Gunal; A. ate his bird, and G. put it in a cage; left alone, the dove turns into a girl, cooks and cleans; A. remains guarded, falls asleep; G. grabs S., marries; A. lures his brother into a hole, falls asleep with stones; his dog and S. dig it up; A. asks G. to climb on the poplar to ruin the nests of birds; in fact, there were no nests; A. tells the tree to grow to the sky; S. gives Woodpecker a red a handkerchief and an ax (i.e. beak), which lowers G. to the ground; A. pushes G. into a hole with burning brushwood; his wife and dog pull him out again; G. killed A. by putting a pumpkin scoop down his throat]: Playfair 1909:119- 128; ao [the eldest wants to pick up the youngest girl; calls to ruin the rhino bird's nest; both climb the tree through the notches on the trunk; the eldest drops the phone, goes down after her, destroying notches, leaves; the mother bird brings food to the chicks and the young man at the same time; he slowly pulls out feathers to prevent them from flying away; noticing this, the mother bird suggests lowering the young man to the ground; all the birds raise upstairs a big stone to show that I can withstand the weight of a person; the young man returns to his mother; when he regains consciousness, kills an opponent, takes a girl as a wife]: Smith 1926, No. 18:382-383.
Burma - Indochina. Mona [stepmother demands that the husband leave his son with his first wife in the forest; the father takes the boy away, drives pegs into the tree trunk, and the boy climbs them up into the pelican's nest; the father takes out the pegs, leaves; on the advice of his father, the boy invites the pelicans to be their servant; he takes care of the chicks; they grow up, the pelican lowers the young man to the ground; he has grown rice, the elephants have trampled on him, the young man has made trap pits, elephants got there, their leader, a white elephant, gives a young man two daughters as his wife; the young man became known as the lord of a hundred elephants]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 148:360-354.
(Wed. Malaysia-Indonesia. Mentawai [Simondoroikot climbed a tree to catch birds, handed them to his younger brother, told him not to make noise; heard him say that S. was catching his birds; the birds flew away; S. went down and beat him brother, but the forest spirit of Sikokong said these words, he took his younger brother; S. shouted after his brother to spit sugar cane and throw bird feathers; followed these steps to Shikokong's home, but not I was able to get in, it was smoky; the shaman said that my brother could not be saved]: Loeb 1929, No. 4:88-89).
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tofalars: Rassadin 1996, No. 15 [Kulamai has a Maimayak wife, a Kalyay woman and a Munho man as employees; the shaman replies that Kulamai will have children if he gets an eagle's wing; Kulamay asks Munho bring him down to the edge of the cliff, he throws a rope, takes Mayayak, his mistress; Kulamay drinks rainwater, eats what eagles bring; descends on grown eagles; kills a worker with an arrow and wife; marries Kalyay, founding Aal Konzok], 16 [hunter Mikhishka, his wife Mosyran, six-year-old son Kluge, mother Peturun, neighbor Mutkachik; Patychy's shaman replies that his son will recover if he gets eagle feathers; Mutkachik lowers Mikhishka to the edge of the cliff, throws a rope, takes Mosyran, his mistress; Mikhishka descends on grown eagles, meets her son, tells him to call his grandmother; after recovering, kills with arrows lovers]: 27-29, 35-41; Sherkhunaev 1975 [Kuulamai and his wife Maimayak have no children; shaman Meerkpan says it is possible to help if K. gets the wing of a young eagle; friend K. Mungo lowered him in his belts to a cave in the rock, threw off his belts, married Maimayak, with whom he colluded; the eagle brought K. meat, he drank rainwater; in the fall he tied himself to eagles, went down; told the girl Halyay about everything; killed Mungo and pregnant Maimayak with arrows; married Halyay, they gave birth to the Konzor-Tar - Olokhoi family]: 258-263; Mongols [evil the beggar envies the good things they serve; there are two eggs in the eagle's nest; one hatches an eagle, the other's shell has a belt; an evil beggar persuades the good to get a belt; he falls into the nest, not can get out; the eagle brought him a gopher; later he guessed to go down with his belt tied; at night in the temple he hears a tiger, a wolf, a crow, a fox talking; learns how to cure the khan's daughter (they climbed into her ear spiders), bring water to the city (clear the spring); awarded a khan; an evil beggar goes to the temple for the night, eaten by a tiger]: Mikhailov 1967:146-149; Oirats (Altai Uriankhaians) [the legend of the appearance The song "Buga Bietay Khaltar" ("A Bay Horse with the Body of a Deer") says that in ancient times two brothers lived in Uriankhai Khoshun; when the youngest married, he had a big feast, and the eldest, seeing his daughter-in-law , fell in love with her and harbored malice; the elder brother invited the younger brother to catch the golden eagle chick and teach it how to hunt; the youngest agreed, and both of them went to the Altai Mountains; when they noticed the golden eagle's nest on on the slope, the elder tied the youngest with a rope, lowered it into the nest and left it there; when he returned home, he told everyone that the youngest had fallen and crashed; then began to persuade his younger brother's wife to marry him; the grandmother, not believing in the death of her youngest grandson, secretly convinced her daughter-in-law that her husband was safe and sound; the younger brother left in the nest did not die, he was fed by an eagle; when he grew up and flew from the nest her chick, her younger brother descended with him to the ground; he rode a bay horse, wandered around relatives, and eventually composed the song "A Horse with a Deer's Bay"; since then, the Uryankhais freed their hunter-trained golden eagles forever]: Erdenebold 2012:76-77; Dagurs [Daoluodi is single, fell in love with Guoruledi's wife; offered to go for bird eggs, lowered him from the cliff to the eaves, let go of the rope; G. caught on the tree, climbed to the cave where the bird's nest was; took care of two eggs and the chicks when they hatched; the chicks grew up and began to bring him food; then G. sat alone on back, went down to the ground; I never found it at home - neighbors said that my wife ran away with D.]: Stuart et al. 1994:148-149.
Western Siberia. Nganasany [Shaman Nindimi and his boyfriend next door went to the mountains to get crow feathers for arrows; lowered the guy off the cliff to the crows nest; decided that the crows would take revenge, it would be better to give them the guy, cut off the rope; the guy fell into the nest; the crows fed him; they took him upstairs, he returned; the shaman died, and that man gave birth to the Raven]: Vashchenko, Dolgikh 1962, No. 2:180.
Amur - Sakhalin. The Orochi [two Oroches climbed to the top of the cliff to ruin a white eagle's nest (probably a white-tailed eagle); could not go down; put the chicks back in the nest, asked God for help; the tiger took off them from a cliff]: Arsenyev in Lebedev et al. 1998, No. 101:464; the Udege people [the tiger became an evil spirit (amba); instilled his savons into men, who became his assistants, forgot their relatives; eight-year-old remained Salamage and his brother; to find courage, he climbed into the eagles' nest on the rock, never go back down; there are two eagles in the nest; before the adult eagles returned, the good tiger Kuta Mafa jumped across the abyss in the nest, S. took, jumped back with them, not knowing that S. had taken one chick with him; the king of birds is ready to declare war on the king of tigers, who advises to punish only the guilty person - S.; the eagle took Aka Jr. Brother S.; S. returns the eagle, takes A., falls off a cliff with him, the eagle picks them up; S. explains why he tried to steal the eagle; eagles pick up the evil tiger, throw them into the sea; behind him, leaving the bodies people, savons rush into the sea, become sea devils; men, including Father S., return]: Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010:195-200.
Japan. The Japanese (Tohoku) [falcon catcher in Mutsu {Tohoku} took the falcon's children each time; she made a nest on a cliff ledge; a neighbor offered to lower the catcher to a ledge in the basket; raised the chicks in basket back, went home, said that the catcher fell into the sea; the catcher sat on the ledge for many years, reading the Lotus Sutra and asking Cannes to forgive him for killing birds; a serpent came out of the sea, climbed a cliff, a catcher hit him on the head with a sword, the serpent took him to the top of the cliff, disappeared; the man realized that the serpent was Cannon herself, returned home; his relatives were happy; he opened the box with the Lotus Sutra, found his a sword that pierced her; became a monk]: Mescheryakov 1984:80-81.
The Arctic. Bering Strait Inupiat: Kaplan 1988 (King Island) [husband and wife go for cormorants; wife lowers her husband to the cliff ledge, throws the rope; he manages to go down, at home he finds his wife with lover; a year later he beats her to death, commits suicide by jumping on a sharp rock ledge]: 167-177; Lucier 1954 (kingickmiut on Seward Peninsula) [first husband, then wife die; four brothers more small, it is difficult for them to pull their mother's corpse out of the dugout; her brother and other people do not help them; orphans grow up, Ilyarunik is the elder; his uncle lowers him on a rope to the rocky ledge to collect bird eggs, throws a rope, leaves; at night I. jumps down, flies like a bird, dives like a seal, returns home; kills a monstrous walrus skin and a huge cannibal shrew]: 223-224; Northern Alaska Inupiate (Noatak) [two men change wives; go to collect bird eggs on the rock; one lowers the other to the eaves, throws a rope; the one who comes down is thirsty and hungry; his voice tells him to tie himself with a rope, close his eyes; someone picks him up; perhaps the rescuer was a retreating bear; the man returns to his wife; the next spring both go for eggs again; now the survivor lets down the one who left him to die, throws a rope; this man doesn't come back]: Hall 1975, no. PM139:389-370.
Subarctic. Tanaina [a man descends to a rocky eaves for eagle eggs, his belt breaks off; he suffers from the cold; an adult eagle arrives, invites him into the house; gives feathers for arrows; brings man to his house; he no longer ruined eagle nests]: Vaudrin 1969:64-65; southern tutchoni [the girl has two husbands; her mother asks her to get the chicks out of the owl's nest; the daughter turns into an owl, her human body falls to the ground; mother puts on her daughter's skin and clothes, comes to her husbands; mother's former husband recognizes his wife, kills her]: McClelland 1987:300; helmet: Teit 1917a, No. 17 [old woman asks her daughter to get the feathers of an owl; she is afraid that she will become an owl; yet she climbs a tree and becomes an owl; the old woman puts on her clothes, takes her form to marry her two husbands; says that still young, but moves like an old woman; husbands suspect deception, kill her; her daughter refuses to be human again because her husbands killed her mother], 19 [a man goes down a rope to get eagle feathers from the nest on the rock; Lynx tells his wife to let go of the rope, takes the woman away; plucking the partridge, she marks the trail with feathers; putting him on her back, the Eagle lowers the man to the ground; indicates where he has gone kidnapper; wife advises husband to pretend he is her brother; they kill Lynx together]: 462-463, 464-455; dohrib [old Owl marries a man with an adult daughter; asks her to get feathers from an owl's nest, turns her into an owl; puts on her clothes, takes her form, comes to her husband; he suspects deception, tears off her hair, discovers an old woman, kills her; a real wife refuses become human again]: Norman 1990:159-161.
NW Coast. The Tlingits [(a brief explanation of the symbolism of an owl figure on a totem pole; probably like a tutchoni); an old woman replaces her daughter, who turns into an owl, who still screams]: Garfield, Forrest 1961:39;
Coast - Plateau. Chilcotin; shuswap; thompson; lillwet; sechelt; snohomish; skagit; Puget Sound; cowlitz; upper colitz; sanpual; curdalen; klikitat; western sachaptin; yakima; vasco; alsea; cous; upper coquill; takelma; clamate; modoc.
The Midwest. Steppe Cree [the older brother wants to take possession of the youngest's wife, calls him to ruin the eagle's nest, pushes him off a cliff; the youngest is in a nest of thunderbirds; the chick asks parents from whose eyes lightning flies out, do not offend his friend for games; the man stays with thunderbirds for four years (four days for them); then the chick took the man home, where he met his father and son; taught humans received from thunderbirds to the Sun Dance]: Curtis 1976 (18): 131-132.
Plains. Sarsi: Curtis 1976 (18) [woman tries to seduce her husband's younger brother; he rejects her; she is afraid he will tell her husband; scratches her legs, accuses the boy of trying to rape her; husband asks his brother to climb to the eagle's nest in a tree above the river; cuts down the lower branches, then knocks down a tree, the young man falls into the river, swims in a tree; husband and wife live downstream; buffalo are called dogs, they eat the meat of reptiles and water monsters; their daughter sees a young man who looks like foam; the father orders to place the foam on a wooden tray, places it in four steam rooms one by one, the young man revives; does not eat meat reptiles; first forcibly pushes bison meat into his wife's mouth, then she likes it; throwing a sharp stick into the water, accidentally kills a water monster; father-in-law is happy; the young man with his wife, son, buffalo returns to people; kills brother and wife; hunger stops, now people have bisons]: 141-143; Dzana-gu 1921, No. 22 [woman tries to seduce her husband's younger brother; he rejects her; she scratches herself, says to her husband that his brother tried to rape her; he asks his brother to get the eagle's chicks from the top of the tree, cuts off branches, then knocks the tree into the river; he is carried far downstream, he becomes small, the girl picked him up from the foam, her father prepared a steam room, the young man recovered and regained his former appearance, married a girl; he is offered to eat snakes and frogs, he refuses, gets bison, his wife is afraid try meat; he roasts his bison tongue, puts it in her mouth, she likes it, since then she and her parents have been eating meat; the wife has given birth to a son, the husband misses his parents, the father-in-law sends a herd of buffalo with his daughter and son-in-law, tells me not to look back; the daughter looked around, they were in the same place; for the fourth time they brought the buffalo to the place; the husband sent his son to his parents, they are happy; people gathered, the man told his story, cut brother and wife to pieces]: 22-24; blacklegs; assiniboine; teton; omaha and ponka; arapaho; kiowa-apache; kiowa [ the older brother descends the youngest on a rope to get the eagles out of the nest on the rock; the rope breaks, the father tells everyone to migrate so as not to see his son die; eagles adopt a young man, the grown chick lowers him on the ground, lives with him in his type, warns of enemy attacks; the young man is chosen as chief]: Parsons 1929a, No. 27:57-59.
California. Yurok; viyot; karok; shasta; pomo; wappo; vintu; kawaiisu [a person climbs a rock to an eagle's nest, cannot go down; loses weight; the eagle brings him rabbits; when eagles grow up, they bring a man down to the ground; he returns home]: Zigmond 1980, No. 51:171-172; luiseño; serrano [two sisters go east, the eldest carries a vessel of water; does not give the youngest, she dies of thirst; the eldest gives birth to twins Tsatukotani (the elder) and Parakonish; the Bear, the Wolf, the Vulture, the Eagle say they are fathers; the real father is the Sun; boys secretly come out of their cradles to hunt; their mother tells them about an eagle's nest on a rock; they rise up as fluffs, take two eagles; they quarrel over who will take the bigger eagle; eagles die; the mother of the boys revives them; young men take reeds out of the sea; make flutes; the youngest can be heard playing on the other side of the world; Vulture's two daughters go from there to this sound; on the road, Coyote, Hawk they say they played; the older sister believes, the younger one tells them to move on; the sisters spend the night with their brothers, leave in the morning; the brothers follow them soon; the mother knows they will die; the Vulture sends his son named Tsaikakat find out who has come; the light from the bodies of young men kills C.; The Vulture calls his warriors, the Hawk manages to kill the twins; their bones are crushed into powder, long bones are used for the game; the younger sister gives birth to a son Kveshomari; he also shines; she lies to her father that she gave birth to a girl; K. plays with his uncle, who says he did not kill his father and uncle; K. finds the bones of his father and uncle, not can revive them; plays with Coyote; throws dice, the earth splits, everyone dies except Mother K.; with her he visits his grandmother; carries his mother across the sea, drowns]: Benedict 1926, No. 3:2-7.
Big Pool. Utah.
The Great Southwest. Navajo; hicarilla; western apaches; tewa; zunyi; diegeño (ipai) [old woman tells her two sons about an eagle's nest on a high cliff; younger brother sees snakes at the nest, goes down; the elder pulls out two chicks; both want white, they quarrel; the eldest has to take black; the eagles die on the way home; the woman revives their souls; the brothers quarrel again; mother gives both black and white feathers]: DuBois 1906:148-149; mojave [like an ipai; both brothers turn into snakes to climb a rock; the youngest pretends to be unable to climb; the elder eagle more valuable than the younger one; at home, the younger brother takes it again]: Kroeber 1972, No. 18:100-102; maricopa [girl gets pregnant from Gopher {apparently he inserts his penis while she is sitting on the ground}; gives birth to twins; different animals bring firewood, each claims to be a father; she only accepts Gopher's gift; while the mother is away, one of the babies kills the quail; the mother throws the bird away, thinking that one of the animals brought it; then eats it, realizes that the twins can hunt; they every time they report larger game in fear and then kill it; after catching a deer, they make the carcass small, carry it home; mother revives and lets the deer go; the twins follow him; the mother turns into a pole, the brothers want to shoot at him, the mother becomes human again; the brothers follow the eagles; the youngest picks up the fallen from the rocks are feathers, the elder takes them away from him; the youngest, becoming a snake, climbs to the nest, falls; the elder goes up to the nest with a fluff, brings two eagles; the youngest modestly takes a chick with a dim plumage; on the way to at home, brothers suffer from thirst, their mother sends them rain, eagles die because of it; brothers bury eagles, break their bows in grief; mother pierces an arrow into the ground, pulls the eagles alive; says that reeds for arrows, eat in the east; brothers shoot at Coyote for testing; they go to the bottom of the sea for reeds; the youngest dives, can't reach it; the elder dives to the path, four beavers guard it, they let him through; he brings two reeds, the mother turns them into flutes, pointing them to four directions; tells them to play at dawn; two sisters hear the sound, go north; various male animals say they played they cannot play, the sisters laugh at them; the mother of the twins does not immediately let the girls into the house, looks after her sons; the youngest puts her to sleep, copulates with the youngest; the eldest sends insects in vain provoke the elder; the girls return home; the youngest wants to follow them, the eldest agrees; they leave arrows with beads - if they fall, they die; sisters play dice at home, brothers enter through a hole in the roof; the girls' father hears laughter; tells the Coyote to kill the young men, but he becomes their friend; the Kite flies into the smoke hole, kills the brothers with a club; the girls' father promises to kill the child the youngest, if a boy is born; she lies that a girl was born; the boy climbs a tree, the grandfather sees his genitals; tries in vain to fry him, he kills his grandfather with an arrow; the mother and aunt say that the grandfather killed his father and uncle; he comes to his mother; they go looking for her brother, they don't find it; he turns into a comet, she's a Morning Star]: Spier 1933:417-419; papago [Acorn Eater) - Big Brother's sister; refuses Puma and Jaguar, Hawk and Eagle; brother advises her to marry Gopher; Gopher magically fertilizes her, she gives birth to twins; Coyote and other men claim paternity; the mother collects them, but the children do not crawl to anyone; everyone went away, the Coyote stayed, said that he was the grandfather of the twins; they grew up, went to ruin the eagle's nest on the rock; the eldest turned into a snake, crawled to the middle, fell, died; the youngest revived him, became a ball of feathers, the wind lifted him to the nest, they came down with two eagles; the brothers are arguing about who to take the smaller chick, the eldest has to take the smaller one; it snowed, the eagles froze, the brothers burned them, the mother revived them from the remaining fluff, told the youngest to take the smaller chick; the Coyote made himself a good bow, and the mother of her sons was in a hurry; became a deer to teach them hunt; mother tells me to bring bamboo from the lake; there is a lightning snake around the bamboo; the youngest managed to get there, the mother made flutes out of bamboo for her sons; in the east lived the Brown Vulture; his two daughters go to the sound of a flute; on the way Owl, Barn Owl, Hawk, another bird gives a voice to prove that they played but are rejected; girls come to the brothers' mother; she feeds them, but does not let them into the house; the youngest broke his flute, after that the eldest also stopped playing; the sisters return to their father, the youngest is expecting a child; after the wives left, the brothers lost their luck; they came to their wives, the Hawk destroyed their strength and the father texted them killed and ate; promised to eat his youngest daughter's child if a boy was born; but he went blind, he was told that a girl was born; then he tries but cannot kill his grandson; the mother sends him to his grandmother; the young man stirred up bonfires, images of father and uncle appeared in front of them, but immediately began to fall apart; they said that his young man's grandfather killed them; the young man came to his mother; he was swallowed by a water monster, but he had collected sharp stones in advance cut the monster's womb, went out; the grandmother made four playing sticks out of that bamboo; the young man comes to his cannibal grandfather, bamboo falls on the old man's head, kills (var.: the bet is life, the young man wins); the young man brings his scalp to his grandmother, she dances; she goes overseas; the young man comes to his mother and aunt; goes to his grandmother, mother and aunt after him; he made a bridge, when they are in the middle, he brought it down; they turned into birds walking on the sea beach; the young man began to live with his grandmother]: Densmore 1929a: 54-79.
Guiana. Pemon; vapishana; trio; oyampi.
Ecuador. Colorado: Aguavil, Aguavil 1985:38-40 [two women go into the hollow to get bats; the husband has other women, he cleans the stairs, walks away; one woman starves, the other sees the road, goes along it, goes to wild pigs; they look like humans; then to a female battleship, she is ferocious; then to an old woman guatusa {it seems paka}; lives with her; one cub is trapped, guatusa says that a female fell on him], 178-180 [her husband has a mistress, he wants to get rid of his former wife; he lets his wife and her sister down the cliff to get toro chicks, cuts off the rope; the women climbed into the cave, went out on the road; they came to the old woman; she said that her sons would come; one hid under the roof, they killed the other; the old woman sent the rest along the path to another old woman, she took her to the ground].
Western Amazon. Napo: Mercier 1979 [Tapir asks the Frog (both men) to get toucan chicks out of the hollow; advises not to pull his hand, but to climb whole; he can't get out and turns into a tree frog gunawaru]: 195; Ortíz de Villalba 1989, No. 48 (napo or canelo) [a man climbs a rock, from there to a cave to hunt tayu (Steatornis peruvianus) birds; another wants to take possession of his wife, removes the rope; a person walks through the gorge, comes to the dwarfs; they cook food, eat its smell; they do not give a person what they smell is their excrement; seeing how he has relieved himself, they ask them to do too their anal holes, which are tiny; some die from surgery; dwarfs ask their wives to give birth to children with anal holes; dwarfs tell a person to follow a puma who brings him home, his wife remains faithful]: 92-94; shuar: Barrueco 1988 [two men go down into a cave in a rock high above the ground for the Tayu birds (Steatornis peruvianus); others cut off the rope; take their wives; the jaguar devours one left behind, saves the other; he comes back, kills his unfaithful wife (or wives) and rival]: 64-66; Pelizzaro 1990 (=1993) [circumcised the rope was Foxes (Kujancham), the chief of them took the wives of hunters abandoned in the cave; one hunter was eaten by a jaguar; the other began to cry, the birds of Tayu took pity, tried to bring him to the surface, but did not have the strength enough; they said that if people hadn't killed them, they would have been more and strong enough; then steel bears fruit; he stayed in the cave for several months, suffering from hunger and mud - bird droppings; a Jaguar took the man out of the cave; his mother cured him, he came to K., the children recognized him, he killed K. and his unfaithful wives with a spear]: 217-220; Porras García, 1978:77; Rueda 1987, No. 1:45-49; aguaruna [three people went hunting tayu (guacharo); two went down, the third cut off the vine, left; the rest ate fruits below that regurgitated the thaya; one met a jaguar, who brought him outside; at home a man killed his wife and lover]: Guallart 1958:73-74; Mayhuna [Maineno (Month) tells his two wives that he has found honey; leads their brother to the hollow, deliberately throws honey into the hollow himself; wives' brother climbs for honey, M. pushes it into a hollow, turns it into a tree frog; his father-in-law gives M. difficult tasks; one of them is to get a spider from the tree; father-in-law makes the tree tall, causes a storm ; The month jumps off when the trunk leans to the ground]: Bellier 1991b, No. 4c: 184-187; cofan: Calífano, Gonzalo 1995, No. 25 [Chiga turns a cone into a parrot, puts it in a hollow; sends get another person to get a parrot; it falls into a hollow, turns into a toad, stays there forever], 81 [a person poisons fish not with poison, but by dipping his penis into the water; when he learns about this, the boy refuses help him; the man asks him to get a parrot, pushes him into the hollow; the boy's parents cut the trunk; by morning the felling overgrows; they cut down all night, find a son, but in the form of a tree frog; lure a person on a plot prepared for burning, vegetation is set on fire; he turns into a fish, saves himself; he is thrown to the ground; he turns into stone or finds himself in the lower world (becomes) Cuanqua (underground race)]: 79-80, 140-143; achuar [the monkey master makes the loser a good hunter; his wife's brothers are jealous of his luck; ask him to get parrots out of the nest; his hand gets stuck in a hollow, it turns into a tree frog]: Mowitz 1975:41-49.
NW Amazon. Karijona; andoke; yukuna; makuna; barasana, Hugh-Jones 1979:291; okaina [two brothers are children of the Sun Hunter and his Tarantula wife; older Kappidji married, finds out that the youngest is sleeping with his wife; painted the parasite plant as if there were chicks of a red parrot (guacamayo) in the hollow, invited the younger Diomidji to climb, he fell into the hollow; every day the eldest comes up, asks if he is still alive; the youngest ate monkey feces; the Potos flavus monkey agreed to save D. if he gives her a piece of beige hair (she was hairless before); chewed pepper, saliva went down into the hollow, became a rope, D. got out; mother cries, looking for him, he answers her; he has beautiful hair, K. wants the same; D. advises to heat clay, smear her head; hair K. fell out, he ran away, disappeared]: Blixen 1999, No. 8:187-194; chikuna.
Central Amazon. Rio Branco [husband asks his wife's lover to get a parrot out of the hollow; it gets stuck in a hollow, turns into a tree frog]: Barbosa Rodrigues 1890:198; parintintin.
Eastern Amazon. Tenetehara.
Montagna - Jurua. Machigenga; kashibo; characterbet.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Tacana; mosetén; chiriguano; surui.
Southern Amazon. Kamayura; vaura; trumay; kalapalo; nambikwara.
Eastern Brazil. Suia (beiso de pau); kayapo; apinaye; krenje; ramkokamecra; cracho; xavante; sherente.