K58a. Water in exchange for love .38.43.48.65.

The character draws water for irrigation or a fish river to where the girl agrees to meet him, and does not supply water if she is refused. (The parallel between the myths of Peru and Oregon was first noted in Lehmann-Nitsche 1935a; 1936).

Japanese, Skagit, Cowlitz, Okanagon, Sanpual, Flethead, Wallavalla, Yakima, Vasco, Hoopa, Vilyot, Waylaki, (Hakalteka), Dep. Lima (Uarochiri et al.), dep. Junin, dep. Cuzco.

Japan. Harima -Fudoki [the Anashi River is named after the goddess Anashihime; god Iwa asks for her hand, she refuses; he angrily dammed the source of the river with a rock, and the water flowed towards Mikata village , and Anasi has little water now]: Popov 1969:96; (cf. Ikeda 1971, № 425A [Snail's Son. I. Because parents are too quick to wish for a child (C758.1; T553), they turn out to be a Snail (Frog, Slug, Snake) or Boy with a Finger (F535.1); he comes out of his mother's body in an unusual way by way, through the thumb or lower leg (T541; V52); in some cases, the son has been silent for many years (L124.1). II. The little boy easily controls the horse while sitting in its ear (F911.3.1), and when his father is fishing, he finds his son in its belly (F913). III. (1) After staying overnight in a wealthy house, he enters the master's daughter's bedroom or asks him to be left there, smears her lips with chewed rice, accuses her of stealing his rice, forcing him to marry him as redemption. (2) The three options begin as type 312 I (1) and II (1): The snail marries the farmer's three daughters, promising to irrigate his field (H1138). IV. A young wife most often seeks to change the situation (she presses the Snail at his request or on her own initiative {several options}, (5) Crumbles the shell when it leaves it; The snail turns into handsome young man]: 111).

The coast is the Plateau. Skagit [Coyote wants to marry Colville, gets rejected; as punishment does not lead the river there, Colville's people are left without salmon]: Hilbert 1985:165; Cowlitz [having received a woman, Shwanee in builds a fish trap at the mouth of the Cowlitz River as a payment; tells people not to make noise when fishing for salmon; one person screams with excitement; even dried fish jumps back into the water; one woman has fish hung on a rope around her neck, her head almost got her head off; S. comes to another place, sleeps with a woman; in gratitude, creates whirlpools and waterfalls that are convenient to catch salmon]: Adamson 1934:261-262; okanagon [Coyote sails down Colombia in the form of a small inverted boat; at the mouth of the river, two sisters blocked it with a dam, preventing the salmon from going up; find a boat at the top, use like a trough; the fish put in it disappears; they hit the trough, it turns into a boy; it grows rapidly; while the sisters are away, it breaks the dam, makes the fish go; turns the sisters into sandstone birds; leads salmon up the river; lets them where they give them wives, blocks the channel with rapids where they are not allowed]: Teit 1917c, No. 3a: 67-70; sanpual [Coyote negotiates to marry the girl's father; his mother refuses him; he changes the course of the Columbia River, preventing salmon from climbing to where the bride lives; turns donated salmon into rocks]: Ray 1933, No. 24:176-177; Flethead: Edmonds, Clark 1989 [Coyote and Fox were traveling; the leader of the Kalispel tribe (aka Pend d'Oreille) refused to marry the girl Coyote; he retaliated by creating Spokane rapids above which salmon are not rise; the Coyote enters the womb of a giant creature unnoticed; feeds swallowed people with monster fat; cuts off his heart with a knife (it turns into a mountain range); swallowed people jump out through the creature's mouth; clenched jaws flatten the Tick; the Coyote sees two women, sits between them, they jump up, dance into the river; the Coyote asks to wait, follows them, they drown him; companion The Coyote Fox finds the body, jumps over it, the Coyote comes to life; the Fox says the Coyote should not have been with these women, they are from the Shell tribe; the Coyote has set fire to the grass, the women are burned; now Some oysters are black on top because they are burned in the fire]: 29-31; McDermott 1901, No. 1 [Coyote is going to marry a Kalispel girl; her tribal chief refuses to give her away; Coyote makes Spokane Falls Falls to prevent salmon from climbing to Kalispel Country]: 240; wallavalla [Wizard Wolf (Coyote?) sees three girls building a salmon dam on the river; destroys it three times at night; rebuilds it when they agree to live with it; turns two sisters into stone pillars out of jealousy; himself turns into a cliff to watch them]: Kane in Lehmann-Nitsche 1935a: 434-439; 1936:236-237; yakima [Coyote brings fish into rivers; promises to build a dam if he gets a wife; he is given a girlfriend he creates Cascade Falls]: Hines 1992, No. 7D: 45; Vasco [Coyote is a handsome young man; the chief's daughter agrees to marry him if he makes her a bath where strangers won't look at her; he fulfills the condition (Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River); gets married; they swim together; two old women see them from mountain peaks, laugh at a woman; out of shame she sails in a boat down the river; Coyote swims next; catches up at the mouth, but both turn into a pair of ducks]: Edmonds, Clark 1989:8-11.

California. Hupa [two women live by the river; a hero in love builds a dam for them, is going to build a road by the dam; he is rejected, breaks the dam]: Goddard 1904, No. 1:124-125; villaute [Duck sails in a boat with Adak -sora -hlukih across the bay but refuses to marry him; the water in the bay was fresh and the Duck drank it; he pees in the water, the water becomes salty; when she agrees to marry him, he creates freshwater bodies near the coast; at this point along the coast, fresh water is shallow under the sand]: Curtis 1976 (13): 196; Wailaki [Coyote goes along the coast, Invites people to make rivers for them if they give him wives; those who refused (most of them) made rivers wide and shallow; those who gave wives narrow and rapids]: Curtis 1976 (14): 167.

(Wed. Mesoamerica Jacalteka [the girl rejects the groom; he builds a dam, the river floods the banks; people persuade the girl to agree; she gives in, but now the groom refuses; she kills him, the flood ends]: La Farge, Byers 1931:124-125).

Central Andes. The condition for a girl to marry is the groom's obligation to dig an irrigation canal. Uarochiri (dep. Lima): Salomon, Urioste 1991, ch. 6 [Chuki Suso cried while caring for her corn because there was little water; Pariah Kaka covered the groove with a cloak, the water was almost dry; promised to do a good channel if an emergency falls with him; she demanded to finish the work first; the canal was built by all animals and birds, the Fox was in charge; the Partridge fluttered out in front of him, he fell down in fear; now the channel led The snake and it went lower than it should have; the emergency lay down from the PC, and then turned into stone; (quail. Dumézil, Duviols 1976, No. 1:173-174)], 31 [Colkiri turned into callcallo (grasshopper?) ; Kapiyama caught him, put him under her clothes; he became a man again, married her; her relatives agreed to recognize him when he made an underground passage through which water passed and clogged source; people were dissatisfied that there was a lot of water, and K. reduced the source; (quail. Dumézil, Duviols 1976, No. 16:189-190)]: 62-63, 139-142; Farfán 1958:670-676; San Lorenzo de Quinti, Huarochiri, dep. Lima [Pariacaca promises Chuquisuso to bring water; a fox, a dove, a parrot, a snake help him build a canal; but he did not finish it because C. rejected it; he gave her the fruit of lucuma and she gave it ate; he continued to travel, but women rejected him, so there was little water; he took all the water to Lunahuana]: Ortiz Rescaniere 1980:101-102; yauyo [western 1943 B. Variullas Gallardo; in the village of Pi& #241; os had no water; they asked for water at Lake Chalhuacocha ("the lake where Chalhua lives"), they took it for irrigation little by little; the lake, out of compassion for people, promised its daughter to someone who would lead the canals to the villages Pinhos and Huakis; two snakes came out of the Chiclayo spring in the thunder and hail, one led a canal to Huaquis, the other, faster, to Pinhos, descended into the waters of the lake, joined his daughter; people began to live safely]: Dumezil, Duviols 1976:192-193; Pampacocha, prov. Kant [women go to Viscas to get water; the man promises to supply water for the one who will marry him; he threw a stone from his sling as proof, clogged the spring; but the woman refused; he turned it into stone]: Dumézil, Duviols 1976, No. 6:176; prov. Kant: Dumézil, Duviols 1976, No. 9 (West. Arguedas) [Mount Condorcoto has the shape of a condor; Juan Alonso was rejected by Mariatana, he brought water to Llanga]: 179; Risua, Andamarca (dep. Junin) [Ri Inca is the son of Atavalpa and his wife Mancu Capac; the owner of the estate agrees to marry his daughter if he builds a bridge from Apurimac to Cusco in three nights; RI puts the stones in motion finishes work overnight, gets married; builds the village of Arequipa]: Ortiz Rescaniere 1980:137-138; Piquillacta (the ruins of the Wari era south of Cusco): Dumézil, Duviols 1976, No. 10 [(Quail with Benigno Pia Mesa, Cuzco, 1867; Wiener about him: Doctor of Law, National Guard Colonel, School Inspector, Magazine Publisher, etc.); Sumacc Tica (Beautiful Flower) lived in Piquillacta, promised a hand to whoever would lead water; Auqui-Ttitu, the only son of Ccolla-Suyu Kuraki, built an aqueduct across the Rumi-Ccollca hill ("Pile of Stones"; this pile is the remains of the aqueduct); safely married ST]: 180-184; Cusco: Dumézil, Duviols 1976, No. 11 [(Quail by Mujuhul S. Pacha, Leyendas del Wilcomayo, Cuzco, s.d.: 53-55); Ccoillor, daughter of Maita Ccapac), Pauccar commanders argue over her (led the military west) and Cusi Puma (north); K. returned first, reported how many people he killed, sacrificed children; Inca called him a cougar, sent him to fight in Anti for cruelty; P. said that he found a country without water, ordered the soldiers to build a canal; Inca happily gave his daughter for it]: 184-185.