K58b. Watercourse rotation: failure. (.34.43.48.65.)

The character builds a canal, bridge, dam. For some reason, the work cannot be completed as planned.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Altaians [Sartakpay and his Aduchi-Mergen are laying the channels of Altai rivers; A. first mistakenly led the Katun to the west; Woodpecker ordered his father to turn, for which S. taught him to knock on insects, allegedly, to the wedding of his son Karata-Kaan; S. is waiting for A., holding the Biy River with his finger, Teletskoye Lake was formed; in the light of lightning, S. began to build a bridge across the Katun, told his son go home but not sleep with his wife; they broke the ban, the bridge collapsed; A. and his wife turned into gray geese, S. threw a stone after them, it still lies]: Garf, Kuciyak 1978:269-274; Teleuts, telengits, Altaians, South Altai Tuvans, Oirats (durbuts) [Sartaktai (Sardakban) dams the river (Katun), throws a bridge over it or digs a new one, a more convenient riverbed (to bring water to Beijing); insults the stream by comparing it to a camel or saying that he has mastered it like a pet, or his son violates the ban on sleeping with his wife at night on the eve of the end of work; the enterprise fails, the river does not flow in the right place, the bridge is not completed, etc.]: Nikiforov 1915:242; Potanin 1883, No. 61:285-287; Taube 1994, No. 61:281-284; Verbitsky 1893 [ father and son are building a bridge across the Katun; there was not much left; but when he woke up in the morning, the father saw that his son did not comply with Ulgen's condition, so many stones were covered with water; he sat down and the prints of his seat and legs remained on the rocks]: 125.

Japan. Harima -fudoki.

The coast is the Plateau. Skagit; sanpual; flethead.

California. Hoopa.

The Central Andes. Uarochiri.