K6. A rope made of body secretions.

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From tears, snot, urine, saliva, chewed substance, a vine or rope emerges. See K1A motif.

Karen, Nenets (Gydan), Yurok, Karok, Chinanteki, Mihe, Carinha (Orinoco), Oyana, Kashuyana, Oyampi, Shuar, Siona, Sekoya, Baniva/Tariana, Desana, Okaina, Andoke, Chikuna, Tupi (Nizhnyaya Amazon), moseten, chimane, ayoreo.

Burma - Indochina. Karen [a strange creature without arms, head and body tells a person to take it, chop it to pieces, cook it in a pot, eat it; the person does not eat, runs away; the pot chases the person; Buffalo, the Cow they lie that they did not see a person; The squirrel hides him in a hollow, he climbs there through a stream of urine; when the Pot climbs, the Squirrel breaks the stream, the Pot breaks; pieces of meat that fell into the water became leeches, to the ground - ]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 159:392-394.

Western Siberia. Nenets (Gydan, Western 1979) [the mare gives birth to a boy Yuno Nyu ("son of a horse", Yoon); he meets Iba-sei Nyu ("Warm Hearts Son", IN) and Pi-sei Nyu ("Heart Nights Son", PN), they live together; three girls fly in and throw off swans skins, enter the house to eat; PN turns into a wooden dish, the girls put hot meat on it, it is scalded; the next day, IN is in a scoop, boiled; Yun catches girls, each gets a wife; Sudby Wesako comes three times in the absence of her husbands, draws in air, almost killing women; only Yun hits him with a hammer, he leaves (riding bears, wolverines, mammoths); Yun comes to SV's daughter, who offers look in his head, throws it into a hole; Yun sends a bird to his mother; after 9 years, the mare comes, lowers its snot, it turns into a bronze rope; the first time the rope breaks, because Yun broke the prohibition to think about anything; in the second, YuN rises; the mare flies to heaven, shouting that she is the Mother of the Seven Heavens and he is the Son of Seven Heaven; Yun cuts to pieces of the SV, and his wife is the daughter of the SV; a seventh of them hearts fall into the ground, becoming diseases; Yun - Num, his wife Haer (sun)]: Golovnev 2004:277-285.

California. A man chews resin, makes a rope out of it, goes down from the pine tree. Yurok; karok.

Mesoamerica Chinantecs [from bat excrement]: Bartolomé 1984:15; Weitlaner 1952:172-173; Miche: Lipp 1991 [twin orphans brother and sister spent the night in the barn; the monster carried them to forest; there are already many people there, some are dead, some are still alive; the twins saw a monster sleeping in a tree; the sister did not hit, his brother killed him with arrows, it fell down the mountain with a crash; not to go down; brother tells him write to my sister, say, I pee vines; She says, I pee bananas, moms, all fruit trees; brother wrote, vines have grown; twins tell people not to eat fruit until they, twins, are not went down; those who did not eat performed the first rituals with the twins; the twins turned them into coati, bakers, raccoons and other animals that spoil crops; the twins told Toad the ashes of a burnt monster throw it into the river; on the bank, the Toad opened the bag, mosquitoes and other biting insects flew; there are especially many of them along the shores of water bodies; the Toad was punished, now his body is covered with warts]: 75-76; Miller 1956, No. 3 [the girl refused the young man; he turned into a bird, the girl hit her, hid it on her chest, became pregnant; went to the forest; the squirrel asked her to swing on the vine, cut the vine, the girl crashed; Vulture I found a boy and a girl in her womb; brother and sister came to her mother's parents; while the grandmother was gone, they killed my grandfather, stuffed the scarecrow with insects; the grandmother was fed meat; she hit his grandfather, the insects flew out; the grandmother pursues the twins, Aguthi hid them in her mouth; they threw hot stones into the snake's mouth; the beast carried them to the rock, they killed him with arrows; the brother tells her sister to write vines; she says she pees bananas; brother pees vines himself; turned people who ate bananas into forest animals; burned the beast, let the Toad throw ash into the sea; he discovered, mosquitoes flew out, turned into a toad; the appearance of the Sun and Moon as in No. 4], 4 [Maria is spinning, the bird sits on the spinning wheel, she hit it, put it under her shirt, the bird pecked her in the chest, flew away; M. became pregnant; The squirrel invited her to swing on the vine, cut the vine, M. crashed; the Vulture took a boy and a girl out of her womb; the boy buried her mother, told Vulture to eat the corpses of animals, not humans; the twins came to the mother's parents; taking out the lice from her grandfather, they killed him, the scarecrow was filled with insects, the testicles were allowed to cook and eat; the grandmother hit the scarecrow, the insects bit her; the sister wrote, the road was wet, the stalker grandmother was sliding; Aguti hid the twins at himself in his mouth; the old man sheltered them, a snake comes at night, pancakes threw hot stones into his mouth; further as in No. 3 (Lorenzo opened a bag of ash, turned into a toad); people are going to choose the Sun , they tell his brother that he is weak; he turns into the Sun, tells the old man to dig a well; while it is low above the ground, it is hot, only the old man has water in the well; tells his sister to run away to the old man's house for the forgotten huarache; this time rose high; sister became the moon; spots - her brother's huarache]: 79-85, 86-97; Hoogshagen 1971 (Oaxaca) [an orphan girl lived with an old woman; rejected suitors; it is not clear how she got along with a man; when the old woman saw that the orphan was pregnant, she kicked her out; the squirrel offered to climb the tree and swing on the vine; she would fix the vine; but did not correct it, but cut it; the girl began to swing, the vine broke off, she crashed to death; a female vulture came down to peck at her; a boy and a girl from the woman's belly ask for a hole; the female vulture did it with difficulty, breaking her beak; the children went out; living with vulture, found their grandfather; then killed him; his meat was fed to an old woman; she went to get water, the bird said she ate her husband; (did the children make a scarecrow out of their grandfather? it is said that the old woman was bitten by wasps); the children are running, the old woman is chasing; Aguti hid the children behind her cheeks, said that her tooth hurt; the children came to the village, spent the night, found themselves on a rock among the bones; the beast came up, they killed it and burned it; the brother told his sister to write so that vines would appear, but they did not appear; he wrote it himself, vines appeared, they went down, other people too; below the corn and sugar field reeds, everyone ate; we came to the village where it was a holiday, brother became the sun, sister became the moon]: 338-346.

Guiana. Carinha (Orinoco) [the man is jealous of his wife, she leaves; he comes to her father, lies down in a hammock; his son finds him dead; tobacco grows on the grave; the young man hides the wings of pigeons that have arrived; doves take it to heaven; there the old man and the old woman tell me 1) make a stone bench decorated with copies of the heads of the old man and the old woman; 2) dry the pond; 3) make a bridge; everything is done by an assistant spirit; reports that these old man and old woman killed the young man's father; when the young man knocked down the trunk to make a bridge, the chips turned into piranhas; the old man and the old woman stepped on the bridge, he fell, they were eaten by piranhas, their heads remain; the old woman's head went up to heaven, became the Morning Star; telling her daughters to avenge her; they gave the young man a drink, lifted the sleeper high up a tree; the eagle asks how he got here; a vine appears from the eagle's bowel movements, a man descends it; the eagle wanted to kill him, but he hid in the water, returned to his mother, gave her an eagle chick; he grew up to bring deer and fish to the woman; she organized a party clearing the site; people came to help, one asked the eagle to bring him an old woman, the other a young woman; so the eagle began to drag people; in one village they made a trap, a bait girl into it, the eagle was caught, killed; a woman came, an avenger feather fell on her chest: all his fibers became diseases; a woman blew on them, they spread around the world]: Civrieux 1974:104-108; oyana: Magaña 1987, No. 12 [A howler monkey lives in a lonely man's house; in his absence, he turns into a woman, cooks food for him; he catches her by surprise, takes her as a wife; her relatives come to visit, dance, he laughs at by them, they leave it on top of the tree as punishment; the watankë bird creates a rope from its excrement, it does not reach the ground; the rope of eagle excrement is long enough, the person goes down], 67 [man marries a howler monkey; wife warns not to laugh when her relatives come to dance; he smiles; they leave him in a tree; two birds make ropes out of their excrement, he afraid to go down them; the eagle gives him its wings; he goes down, kills monkeys, goes to live in a village of eagles], 70 [like the top of his head; to a rock in the middle of the river; the sun transports across the river]: 36, 48; Kashuyan [the young man brought a lot of game from the hunt, ate it, went to bed, leaving the female monkey to roast until noon; then did not eat, wished the monkey to become a girl; when he returned from hunting, food ready; then he found the girl in the hammock; they come to her parents; the monkeys leave it in the tree; the royal vulture makes a vine out of his snot; it is thin; the same is a harpy eagle; the man goes down according to it; kills monkeys; whoever cooks a vine called the "harpy eagle arrow" in a certain way goes hunting guariba monkeys]: Frikel 1953:267-269 (=Lévi-Strauss 1964:279-280); oyampy [from the tears of a cassika bird]: Grenand 1982, No. 38:245-246

Western Amazon. Shuar [The fox killed the woman's husband, the Thunder made her husband a new head; the woman hugged him, both were thrown into heaven; when she fell, the woman crushed the beans of heavenly women; heavenly women hide in horror under the leaves when flying ants attack them; a woman from the ground catches, roasts and eats them, heavenly women are grateful, they give her beans (this is how beans appeared in humans); The sun makes a vine out of its urine , a woman descends on her to the ground; falls in love with the Fox again; he hits a tambourine; the husband in heaven thinks his wife is calling him (as they agreed); the husband returns, leaves the snake to bite the Fox to death; goes up to heaven with four sons, not allowing them to look back; they looked down, turned into eagles]: Pelizzaro 1993:188-192 (the one with the vine on p. 191); Zion [the rope comes from saliva monkeys]: Chaves 1958:135, 144; sekoya [rope arises from monkey saliva]: Cipolletti 1988, No. 3b, 3c [monkeys?] : 45-46.

NW Amazon. Baniva/Tariana [old man Ualri ("big anteater" for baniva) asked the boys to take him to the forest to pick fruits with them; climbed a tree, cut off the fruits, asked them not to make a fire; they became fry oily fruits, which caused suffocating smoke; W. brought an amulet to his nose, a vine "anteater's saliva" appeared; W. caused a thunderstorm, the boys began to seek shelter, W. turned into a house; when everyone entered, W. accepted the same image, the boys stayed in his stomach]: Stradelli 1890:668-670; baniva [a vine arises from the urine of a person carried by a bird through the air]: Saake 1968:269; desana [Ab& #233; ("sun" or "moon") cut down two pieces of palm tree, hid it in the water at the pier; at home he told his son that he would go make sacred flutes with him in the morning, forbid him to talk about it; the boy overslept, and his two the sisters went to the river to look for cipó (drug, vomit), which the father hid there and did not forbid the daughters to take; the sisters found wooden flutes, they sparkled like gold; they tried to take it, the blanks slipped out of their hands, but eventually the girls grabbed them; the fish taught them to make flutes; the girls hid them in their vagina; when they started playing, the sound spread all over the world; along with with other women, the sisters came to A.'s house; there the men are busy doing the things women do now; when the women entered, the men left timidly; but they made themselves a different flute; out of that saliva the boy was created a vine that is used in making flutes; they decided to kill women; for this was a palá toad that carries eggs on his back; however, others spoke out against killing all women and bear children themselves; so is the creator of Ngoamañ; when the men entered the house and began to play, the women abandoned their flutes, fell, admitted defeat; but A.'s two daughters went down river, one of them carried a piece of flute in her vagina]: Kumu, Kenhiri 1980:123-125; andoque [Month has a love affair with his Sun Brother's wife; he creates two parrots, asks the Month to get them from wood; throws away the pole; The month falls into the hollow, the hole overgrows; woodpeckers push something new; from the excrement of the hummingbird there are two vines - outside the tree and in the hollow; The month rises along them and goes down; makes himself a wife out of wood]: Landaburu, Pineda 1984:45-48; Okaina: Blixen 1999, No. 4 [Fahairama (big spider wasp) meets two Muiroñókaha sisters (from "muyro", a species of bird , beautiful); they compete in magical power; F. has a tuh helper (this is the spirit of tapaka); the sisters hide all the animals in an underground receptacle; first F. returns from hunting without prey; next time the spirit- the assistant tells him where the animals are, F. lets them out; the sisters slam the door shut, F. can't go out; he leaves his sewage on the floor; a year later, the sisters fumble with a stick, find crap, think that F. is dead and rotted; they open the door, F. jumps out, locks them themselves; leaves, sees the fishermen, insists that he be allowed to catch the biggest fish, she swallows it, the fishermen take F. out of its womb; F. wants to eat this fish, they give him another, smaller one; he does not believe that she swallowed it, wants to give him more, eats it (after all, he has been starving for a year); wanders further, climbs the Ficus fruit tree anthelmintica, leaving a weapon and a handbag with shamanic accessories below; the tree grows tall, it cannot get off; in the morning, Yomanahima, son of Ko:ma:ndio, who lived on at sunrise; F. asked for help to go down, J. went to his father, who gave him two peppers, ordered him to chew and saliva; F. had no saliva; then J. chewed, the saliva went down to the ground, turned into vine, both went down; F. gave J. cotton as a reward, ordered them to put it on the body, now these monkeys have beautiful gold-colored fur], 8 [two brothers are children of the Sun Hunter and his Tarantula wife; the elder Kappidji married, finds out that the youngest is sleeping with his wife; painted the parasite plant as if the hollow has chicks of a red parrot (guacamayo), 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]: 63-85, 187-194; chikuna: Nimuendaju 1952 [Dyoi and Epi climbed the rock to ruin the harpy eagle's nest; E. said that the stairs fell and it fell immediately; at D.'s request, the bird brought them a calebas with palm juice; they drank, urinated, E.'s urine formed a prickly vine, which was far from the cliff, and D.'s urine was smooth close; the brothers killed the eagle that had arrived from the sarbakan, came down - E. in the form of a night monkey, D. - an opossum; E. wanted to take the right half of the killed hawk, although he was born from his father's left knee; his sister Mocha-cha D. let this one hide half, she hid between her legs; E. began to search, touched her genitals; she turned into bakers, ran into the forest, the demon Ma-chi threw a spear at her with a hornet at the end; M. returned home, died, D. her revived]: 124-125; Pereira 1980 (2) [two brothers climb a tree for eagle chicks; a chick thrown down falls on a ladder, it breaks; they ask the bird to bring them water; they drink, urinate, urine turns into two vines; brothers go down]: 467-469.

Eastern Amazon. Tupi (Lower Amazon) [Kurupira killed the hunter, put on his clothes, came to his wife, let his liver cook; lying down in a kamak, asked for a son; the wife understood the deception, gave him a log , taking the child, ran away; the frog cunauaru created a vine from the body secretions, lowered it from the hollow, the woman and the child climbed it; when K. climbed, his hair stuck (or tangled), he fell; a woman with went home as a child; Frog helps]: Barbosa Rodrigues 1890:63-64.

Bolivia - Guaporé. The character descends from the sky on a rope out of his snot or tears. Mosethen [Dohitt created people from clay; he climbed the stairs to the sky, closed it; invited his companion, the white condor Keri, to descend to earth; hammered the vault of heaven for a long time, did a hole, saw the ground; made a rope out of snot, climbed down, K. followed; the rope broke off, K. broke to pieces; D. threw his head into the river, it turned into a fish; D. asked fishermen everywhere for fish, to him refused, especially women; he turned everyone into vultures, ants and other animals; elsewhere asks people what they're doing; We paint tipoy; so three times, they get angry; he turns them into red monkeys; shot one, made a lot of monkeys out of wool, they ran in all directions; the same with people who dyed black tipoy (black monkeys); the same, just tipoy, turned Penelope into birds; turned other spruce fruits into capuchins; asked another to climb a tree for an arrow, turned him into a squirrel; the boy behind the arrow into a night monkey (Nyctipithecus); the birds gave him feathers, he flew, they pulled out feathers over the village, he fell on a tree, it grew tall; he descended on the back of a caterpillar, it fell in front of the ground, D. remained hanging on bamboo; Jaguar, a big cat refused, the little cat took it off; in the house, the shaman sat on a snake, went out, D. took his place; he pierced him with a stake, nailed him to the ground; first he moved, the ground shook, then the shaman drove him another stake into head, D. froze; D. gave the shaman a basket of water, it grew, the water filled the riverbeds that used to be dry; people turned into stones, the shaman remained; he led the water with him, creating Mamore, Beni; when thunders, D. tells the shaman to pour more water, it's raining]: Nordenskiöld 1924:140-141; chimane: Daillant 1995 [Dohiti, Micha are brothers; their sister Dobose invites them to heaven to give their third brother Tsun 'a (the sun) a drink to keep him at his zenith and keep people awake; this fails; D. and M. throw a balsa raft down, it grows, forms the earth; they they cry, a vine emerges from their tears; D. goes down, M.'s vine breaks, falls, breaks; D. glues him together, but puts his head to the ass; D. and M. come to the frog women; D. took one, M. at night raped everyone, they urinate with blood in the morning; M. digs a tunnel east to the edge of the world, now the dead are going there; D. pretended to be dead, covered with worms; the Frogs threw him into the river; he turned them into frogs, worms into fish; goes looking for M.; along the way turns people into animals - arachnids, howlers, capuchins; asks parrots for feathers, they give them with care that he will not imitate their voices; D . violates the ban, parrots take their feathers, he falls on a tree, it becomes tall; the caterpillar lowers it, putting it on its back; when the ground is near, it makes it fall, it breaks its back; gets to a place where the sky hits the ground; inserting a log, slips into Misha's world; steals one of his wives, she is pregnant; meets people on the way about to kill the kidnapper wife M.; D. turns them into arrow reeds, bamboo, palm trees for making bows and tips; they climb the Manika River; the wife gives birth, D. turns her and the child into salt; wants to establish a village in the center of the world, sends birds to explore; they return, saying that the center is further in the mountains; D. founded a village in the Andes (Var.: La Paz); left a footprint on a stone, which is a sign that salt is here]: 163-164 ; Hissink, Hahn 1989, No. 1 [Dohitt created the earth as a raft on the water; brought Kiri (the moon), his brother's wife, whose name is Mich; made a vine out of snot, descended to earth; K. climbed, the vine broke off, it fell; the next day it returned to heaven; D. sent Hummingbird and another bird to scout where the end of the earth was; that bird returned quickly, the Hummingbird looked for a long time; D. noted the center of the earth his footprint, but Hummingbird said that the center was in the mountains; then D. made a salt rock here and the village in the mountains (var.: La Paz); where D. was walking, the Beni River formed there; turned the Inigua River; from a scream the eagle was frightened, peed, a lake was formed; walking on the ground, he turned evil people into animals; he created Cimane from stone, carved the inhabitants of San Borja and others from balsa; since then people have spoken to different languages; D. and M. come to women who live without men; they lock them in the house; M. digs a tunnel to the end of the world; D. dies, women throw his wormy corpse into the river; he comes to life, turns them into frogs, their house in the rock; D. received feathers from the birds, flew; the feathers fell, he fell on the tree; the caterpillar lowered him; D. almost catches up with his brother; cuts a tree without noticing that M. was sitting on it; M. falls, breaking his neck; D. puts his head to his ass; D. took the eldest of his brother's two wives, she is pregnant; in Rio Pacena he turned them into salt; asks people in the tree what they eat; they eat fruits, say they have their eggs; D. hit himself in the eggs with a stone, died; came to life, turned those people into monkeys; go further, turned other people into arachnids; created jaguars, agouti, wild pigs, birds, fish in the same way; jaguars almost all people were eaten; D. turned jaguars into battleships, bakers, anteaters, but one escaped, the current ones from him; turned monstrous cannibal animals (huge duck, fish, snake, monkey, dog) into stone]: 60-63.

Chaco. Ayoreo: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989b, No. 310 [the Lizard had all the fish; the fox tried to steal one fish but released them all; for this, the Lizard left it on top of the tree; regretted it, spat, but the Fox only for the second time did he dare to go down the Lizard's saliva; found Vulture smoking tobacco; asked for tobacco, Vulture scolded him], 311 [bird people took fish out of the tree trunk; they don't let the Fox Widow; she pretends to have stabbed her leg, returns to the tree, releases all the fish; the Iguana raises the Fox to the top of the tree; offers to go down his saliva; she goes down], 313 [The fox released the fish, inside the bottle tree; Vulture was sent to find and kill her; another Vulture (Buzzard) saw Liu sleeping, raised her to the top of the tree; the little Battleship climbed there and got together with the Fox; all birds did the same; since then sex has been known; The battleship made a rope out of his saliva, the Fox descended it; At night, Vulture began to smoke a pipe; the fox woke up, he agreed let her smoke, but told her not to tell others; she said she ran away to escape; attacked the Heron, she flew away; the fox took off her feathers, flew up, fell; the fox tried to steal meat; began to live alone]: 372- 373, 373-374, 375-378.