K65. Locus spirits. .23.24. (.25.) .28.29.31.32.34.35. (.37.) .39. (72.)

Being thrown off, thrown away, placed in certain places, born by ancestors, creatures of a certain category acquire individuality, becoming host spirits specific loci.

Santals, Mundari, Birkhor, Haria, Ahir, Oraons, (Anamandans), Ngaju, (Mandaya), Russian written tradition, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Vologda, Tverskaya , Smolensk, Kaluga, Tula, Ryazan, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Volga region, Siberia), Belarusians, Ukrainians (Kharkiv, Podolia, Vinnitsa), Poles, Abkhazians, Georgians, Icelanders, Danes, Karelians (northern ), Estonians, Western Sami, Komi, Udmurts, Mari, Mordovians, Chuvash, Altaians, Kets, Nganasans, (Ulchi, Nivkhs), Russkoe Ustye, (matako).

South Asia. Ahir (Mandla County) [after the wedding, Mahadeo told Parvati that she could go into six rooms but not the seventh; went to make a plow; M. wrote in it, spinach grew there; P. cooked it, ate it , became pregnant; a few months later she turned her hair into a snake, sent it to M.; he turned the sliver into a mongoose, drove the snake away; P. made a tiger out of dirt collected from her chest; M. turned the chips into dogs, drove the tiger away; realized his name; he came and ordered him to give birth with his head in the back so as not to see the children; P. gave birth to many children, M. killed everyone, put them in a vessel, buried them in a certain place in the fields, on the hills, in the ponds, they are all gods; the first, Bara Deo, had 7 heads and 13 eyes; buried in the hills, Lingo became Lingo Deo; by the river, Samduria Deo; where cows rest, Marra Deo]: Elwin 1949, No. 1:431; The Oraons [12 Lodh brothers and 30 Asuras began to melt iron; smoke rose to him; Dharme sent a swallow to ask him to burn the stoves either day or night, but not all day long; the asuras pulled out the swallow feathers from the tail, smoked; D. sent a crow, the asuras and smoked it, also became black; the quail was smeared with ash, now gray; a heron, they stretched out her neck; then D. sent a young man (they say, his son) He settled with childless old people, after which they had plenty of grain and poultry; the young man played with the asuras and always won: his chicken eggs were intact, and their iron eggs split; he climbed into the oven did not burn down, but left, holding gold bars; the lodha and asura men jumped into the oven, burned down; the women demanded that D. himself now take care of them; he turned them into spirits of forests, groves, fields, waters, mountains; they will torment people (cause illness) and people will sacrifice them]: Hahn 1906, No. 46:85-86; Santals [at first all bonga were messengers (goret) of a great god Thakur; he trusted Marang-Buru most of all; b. wished more rights for themselves; in anger T. threw them from the sky to earth; some b. fell on trees, others into rivers, others on hills, etc.; MB fell on big mountain, became the leader of b. on earth; under his leadership b. interfere with all T's deeds and ruin people's lives]: Bodding 1926:68 in Kochar 1966:247; mundari [in heaven sunny god Singh Bong feels hot, it's the asuras who burn iron furnaces on the ground; he sends the birds Dingchua (Dhechua; paraphrase Leuva 1963, p.143: king-crow) and Kerketa (in Leuva 1963: shrike - shrike) to ask for work only during the day or only at night, but the asuras smeared the first with coal dust and the second with iron ore dust, the first black since then, and the second gray; then the SB sent a golden vulture and a silver vultures, asuras hit them with a hammer, poked them with mites; then a lark and a crow, the same as king-crow and a shrike; then two (four in Leuva) brightly colored birds; the first was bought in saffron water, the second one stretched out his tail; then the SB himself went down, pulled off the skin of the man working on the field, came to the asuras in the guise of a young man sick with scabies; defeated the young asuras in a ball game (chicken He broke their iron balls with eggs); the furnaces began to work poorly; SB (in the form of scabies) advises sacrificing a chicken, a goat, then himself; comes out of the oven in glory and gold; advises the asuram to climb there, and their wives fan the flame; male asuras burn, the SB raised the women by the hair, threw them; who fell where and what became the appropriate spirit]: Roy 1912:xx-xxxvii retelling in Leuva 196:133-138); Birkhor [people first used stone and wood tools; then the asuras learned to melt iron; the smoke and heat from the melting furnaces bothered Sing-Bonga in the sky; he sent the asurams a request to stop, but They did not listen; then he himself descended in the form of a boy, threw the male asuras into the oven, and scattered the women in different directions; their spirits still live where they fell - in rocks, forests, reservoirs, springs, rivers]: Roy 1925:402-403; count [{the text is almost identical to the Mundari text; the asuras consider themselves gods; Singbonga asks them to make iron either day or night, but they don't pay attention; everyone on earth suffers from drought; S. sends a couple of birds three times, but the asuras injure them; then S. went to the asuras himself, put on the skin of a leper; the furnaces began to work poorly; S. in the guise of a leper advises to sacrifice a chicken, a goat, then himself; comes out of the oven in glory and gold; advises the asuras to get there and their wives to fan the flame; male asuras burn; asura women demand S. ensured their existence; he promises that people will make sacrifices to them; those he threw to the mountains have become mountain spirits, into the river - river spirits, into the pond - pond, on the road - road; therefore, in the land of the Munda so many spirits (Bonga); S. sent a messenger to earth; he made sure everything was fine, taught people how to blacksmithing; one asur boy survived; he was lowered down the river; he was fed the tigress was either picked up by the queen; Europeans come from him]: Jellinghaus 1872:257-267; haria [a boy with a skin disease is beggar, chase him all; only an old asur blacksmith and his wife sheltered, offered to sow rice; he fed almost all the rice to pigs and chickens; the old people began to swear, but he turned the remaining handful of rice into the same quantity; the iron that the old man was making turned out to be better than others; they questioned the old people, decided to throw the boy into the melting furnace; he came out safe and covered in gold; the men and boys of the asura agreed to get into the furnace themselves, and the women had a boy told me to fan the fire; the men burned down; the women rushed at the boy, but he went up into the sky and scattered the women; they fell to different places - some on a tree, some on the river bank, some into the swamp, some into the pond, some in the pond, some on the rocks, became the spirits of these loci, they are now revered]: Pinnow 1965:140-141.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Ngaju: Schärer 1966:71-73 [(according to Hupe 1846:138); first water, God created the snake Nagapusai; he is unhappy that his body is too small for his head; Hatala sent his servant Praman find out what the serpent is complaining about; gave him a huge body, covered it with earth to protect him from the sun; the son of Hatala Batu-Djampa (more precisely Ratu Tjampa) saw two earth eggs on the ground, went down, broke them, and they appeared a man and a woman, gave birth to seven sons and seven daughters without signs of life; DB gave her husband a porcelain vessel, ordered him to go to the snake for children's souls; when leaving, the husband told his wife not to leave at that time mosquito net; she looked out, a gust of wind revived the bodies; now people are mortal, because their lives are only wind (breath); the husband became angry, drove the children out in pairs; from those who fell into the water comes a water god Djata, from those who fell into the fields, into the forest, the corresponding categories of water spirits; the rest flew to heaven, settling on three rivers, gave rise to categories of immortals; the man left the last couple on the ground, People come from them; Hatala gave them everything but rice; his son stole rice, iron, fire, threw it to people; fire fell on rocks, from which they extract it], 76-77 [(Mallinckrodt 1924); creating land, Mahatara threw a piece of garing wood on her from the sky, at one end of which he carved the figure of a man, on the other a woman; the tree split, the male image fell into the water, the woman on land, both came to life, began to live in a boat, on which the woman went down to the sea; the first miscarriage fell into the water, turned into evil water spirits, the second to land, into evil terrestrial spirits; the third was wrapped in a banana leaf, left on a tree, he turned into wood spirits; then M. went down, taught a man and a woman marriage customs, the woman gave birth to three sons named Maharadja Sangian, Maharadja Sangen, Maharadja Bunu; the sky was near land and served as food; Mahatara gave the first the seeds of all edible plants, the second "floating" iron that kills only for a while, the third "sinking", killing iron; in the end, Mahatara stopped carrying living water to the ground, reviving the dead, the sky moved away from the ground, MB was left alone on earth; made a woman out of clay, Mahatara promised to revive her; at this time, angoi (chameleon) offered his services; Mahatara returned with living water, was upset, explained that since the figure was revived by a mortal being (chameleon), people would also be mortal; from this woman Hantelo Petak ("three times earth") and MB people come from; M.Sangiang M.Sangen also took wives and gave birth to Sangian and Sangen air spirits]; (cf. Andamans (Akar-Bale): Radcliffe-Brown 1933:208 [Ta Kolwot (tree lizard) celebrated, behaved violently; they held his hands, but he threw everyone around; fallen into the water became fish and turtles, animals and birds on land; the Crab grabbed his hand and stopped his riot; there were no animals before], 208-209 [Dugong called everyone to the party; the Tree Lizard quarreled with Karami bird; Dugong grabbed the Lizard by the hand, but he threw it into the sea, he became a dugong; so with all the participants until the Crab grabbed and killed him; the Crab himself was also thrown into the sea; the mother of the Lizard cut down a tree in the forest belonging to the supreme god Puluga; he sent a storm, killing the rest of the people]).

(Wed. Taiwan - Philippines. Mandaya [The Sun and Moon had many children; the couple quarreled, the Moon is still running away from the Sun; she cut the children's bodies into pieces, scattered them; those who fell into the water became fish, and on land they became snakes and animals, to the sky with stars]: Cole 1913:172; =Eugenio 1994, No. 70:136).

Central Europe. Russian written tradition; hand. Solovetsky Library; from Palea in the late 16th or early 17th century): Porfiriev 1877:86-87 [when Satan was overthrown from heaven, the spirits closest to him fell to hell; others fell to the ground and have been walking ever since her; still others, when they heard Michael's voice, remained in the air], 87-89 [God walked on the water, saw Gogol's bird; began to ask her, she replied that he was the God of the gods, from the upper ones, and she was from the lower ones; God told her to give from lower ones; the bird dived, brought God foam like silt, God made the earth out of it; called the bird Sotonail, made it chief over the heavenly forces; he decides to throne over the stars; God handed over power over the heavenly forces to Michael; M. first retreated from S., but God removed S.'s divinity, M. overthrew him from heaven; he fell, fell into the ground, with him part of his strength; others fell to the ground, became demons; still others remained in the air, pretending to be angels]; Russians (Olonetskaya) [Two gogol swam along the upper Okiyan Sea: one white gogol and the other black gogol. And the Lord Almighty himself and Satan sailed with these two gogols. By God's command, with the blessing of the Virgin, Satan summoned a handful of land from the bottom of the sea. From that handful, the Lord created flat places and rolling fields, and Satan made impassable abysses, shilli, and high mountains. And the Lord hit the stone with a hammer - and created the powers of heaven, Satan hit the stone with a hammer - and created his own army. And a great war broke out between the armies: at first Satan's army prevailed, but in the end the power of heaven prevailed. And Michael the Archangel overthrew Satanin's army from heaven, and they fell to earth in different places: who fell into the forests became forest dwellers, who into the water became watermen, who fell into the house as housewives; others fell into baths also became bayenniks, some in the yards became courtyards, and others in Riga became rigachniki]: Rybnikov 1864:191-192; Russians (Vologda) [when God overthrew the devils from the sky, they fell to hell and to hell land; those who came to the ground then settled in forests, rivers and dwellings]: Belova 2004, No. 116:64; Russians (Saratov Volga Region) [the elder lured the devils into a jug, buried him under the cross; one lame the imp hid, saw; in the tavern he persuaded the drunkard to open the jug as if a treasure was hidden there; the devils rose to heaven; at that time God was walking on earth in the face of Christ, Michael the Archangel failed in heaven Alone, the Devil built a throne in seventh heaven; Christ gave Michael six wings and a fiery sword, the Archangel expelled the devil's army from heaven; whoever fell into the water became cursed, some into the forest became goblin, at home a brownie, to the line between the fences and the furrow - hell, who to the noise (probably garbage - N.T.) - is a jester; Michael the Archangel chained the chief to the wall in hell; he groaned, now his name is Stana]: Zavaritsky 1916, No. 5:72-75 (= Tolstoy 1995:245-249); Russians (Tula Gubernia) [about six wings, Archangel Michael flew with the sword of God to Satan with devils and said, In the name of the Lord God, be cursed; devils fell from heaven to earth: some into the water, some into the forest, who where; from evil spirits went to earth: devils (jesters), fire snakes, water snakes, leshias, etc.]: Kolchin 1899, No. 1:55; Russians (Irkutsk Gubernia) [when all creatures were created, God and the devil flew to heaven, but the devil did something against God, for which Archangel Michael threw the devil to the ground; when he fell, the devil broke into four parts: the forest, water, fire snake and bath snake; fire serpent lives in fields as thick as a person]: Ivanovsky 1992:251; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Vologda, Tverskaya, Smolenskaya, Kaluga, Tula, Ryazan, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Volga region, Siberia), Ukrainians (Kharkov Gubernia, Podolia), Belarusians [deposed angels become evil spirits depending on the one who fell where (into the water, into the forest - the goblin, etc.)]: Kuznetsova 1998:89; Ukrainians (Vinnytsia County) [the oldest devil decided to build a tall tower; devils climbed it, but God destroyed it; the devils flew down for 40 days and nights; whoever fell where was named after this place - water man, woodman, swamp, field; whoever fell into the queue was a queue]: Chubinsky 1872:191; Poles [water comes from deposed evil angels who fell into the water (southeastern Poland); the idea of demons hovering in the air (Mazovsha)]: Belova 2004:64.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [the Atsans were so small that they climbed the fern to cut off its branches; walked naked, did not know fire, were not sick, were very strong; grew bread without weeding; milked unnoticed deer; they built stone fences, lived in them themselves and kept goats; were smarter than God; urinated towards the sky; let gases into sour milk, wiped themselves with cheese; imitating thunder, they beat dried cow skin; one day, all their homes were facing not southeast, but northwest; in order to find out the weak point of the Atsans, God lowered a child from heaven into a golden cradle; the Atsans raised him; they answered him that will die if cotton snow catches fire; the old man noticed that the goat's beard shook; cotton snow fell, lit up by lightning, the Atzans died; those who threw themselves into the water turned into lizards and frogs; hid in caves and tree hollows - devils and snakes; (var.: the Atsans died from frost, from floods); once in the underworld, the Atsans drill the ground to get back, but what they will drill in a day, again collapses]: Inal-ipa 1977:156-169; Georgians (Ingiloyans) [Solomon, his wife and minister were walking, stopped for the night, began to cook fish; S. say that you dreamed of another sleeping on his bed man, if true, let one of the fish come to life; the fish jump out of the cauldron; the minister says that a prophetic voice told him that S. was killed; the second fish pops up; the queen confesses that she was plotting the murder of S., because she was the mistress of Kundzulelia, the king of the islands and the ruler of demons; S. suggests that K. fill the jug with demons, then he will give him his wife; demons gather in a jug, he is not full; S. suggests to get there and K. himself, closes the jug, throws it into the sea; fishermen caught it, discovered it, the demons escaped; those who fell into the water became watery, others fell into forests, gorges, caves, etc.; this is how the spirits appeared]: Janashvili 1893, No. 16:171-172.

Baltoscandia. Icelanders [the traveler got lost, went to a farm with a woman with two daughters; he was allowed to lie with one of them, but the girl was ethereal; she explained that when the Devil raised him in heaven rebellion, he and his supporters were thrown down; it was decided that those who were dropped would live in hills, rocks, become elves - the Hidden People; the narrator was one of the elves; they could be visible if they wish for humans, but incorporeal]: Simpson 1972:29-30; Danes (Julland) [when God drove the rebellious angels out of paradise, they fell to the ground and became trolls; those who fell on roofs were nisse, into the water, on hills - hill folk, into swamps (moors) by elves]: Kvideland, Sehmsdorf 1988, No. 44.2:206 (about the same Thorpe 1851:115); Karelians (Kemsky District; Western Russian, but informant with a Finnish surname, P.V. Mikkova): Belova 2004, No. 546 [God walked on earth, Adam and Eve fled from him, went into the forest, buried their children in the forest, in the water, in the ground, in the underground (house owner), in the bathhouse; the Lord said that whoever in the forest, it will be a forest animal, in the water, an earthen in the ground; a frog, a mouse, a mole, and snakes were born from the ground; this is how wolves and cattle appeared], 547 [Eve and Adam hid their children from God; who were hidden in the forest, became a bear, earth reptiles into the ground, sea animals in the sea]: 245-246, 247-248; Stepanova 2000, No. 118 (northern, Tunguda District) [God created the sky, the demon created dense clouds; God threw demons to the ground, those who fell into the water became water, goblins to the ground; they dug a hole in the ground, mosquitoes and other insects came out, God plugged the hole with a gun; therefore, mosquitoes are afraid of smoke]: 216; Estonians (Ludza, Koeru and other areas) [during the heavenly war, some angels were thrown to the ground along with the Devil, who wanted to be above God; those who fell into the water became watery, into the forest became the spirits of the forest, and in the field the spirits of the field]: Valk 1999:221-222; 2006; Western Sami (Norway): Enges 1999:229 [Adam and Eve were shy that they had so many children and decided to hide some of them from God so that he would not think they were slutty; they showed God only a part of the living; and those hidden under the ground, under water, were supposed to stay there, became gufihtar], 230 [when God came, Eva washed the children and showed him only those who had already been washed, replied that others no; God said that what is hidden from God will also be hidden from people; they have become underground or watery inhabitants].

Volga - Perm. Komi: Doronin 2004 [Zap. P.G. Doronin in 1927, I knew it since childhood); at first there was no earth, no sky, one swamp; two frogs, blind and sighted, climbed onto the hummock; the sighted one was Yong, the blind was cunning Omel; falling off the hummock, turned into human beings; the sighted one broke two teeth, they turned into horns, all living things appeared from a drop of blood, all living things appeared from a drop of blood; and when they fell into hummocks, they turned into humans; the sighted broke two teeth, they became a woman; she became O.'s wife, met in E., O. beat him; E. tamed pigeons, created the sky, created a hole in the center, released pigeons through it; O. vorona, this one for them the hole is small, O. made the other wider, the crows flew into the sky, killed the pigeons, escaped alone; returned to E. with mud; O. sent a crow, he took the mud, E. grabbed the crow by the throat, squeezed it, the mud fell down, formed land; the water that spilled out of his beak was the sea; while E. was away, O. plugged the hole in the sky with the hut in which E. lived; flame burned around the hole; O.'s wife said it was from her silk mitt, gave a flap of her dress to make another mitten, her E. broke the flame; O. sucked the flame; O. from her silk mitt, let a flap of her dress make another mitten, to her E. with her crows and animals fell to the ground; O.'s wife stayed in heaven with E., gave birth to his daughter Yoma and son Wojpel; O. persuaded her to open a hole in the sky, broke in there, threw Y. and V. on the ground (they are the ancestors of people), found a mitten, grabbed half of the sun, but ran into a branch, got stuck in a tree; E. cursed him, O. threw away what he had captured, this half became a month, it had O.'s fingerprints; the female broke off, O. fell, the branch became his tail; E. went down to visit his son, who was making pots; demons O. flew in, boasting that they could cloud the sun or fit in four pots; E. closed the pots, but one crashed, E. drove the demon; whoever fell into the water became water, the goblin into the forest, his fingers became damn fingers; in the ground in the pot O. tries to escape; one day he will leave, fight with E. (the other translation into Russian in Novikov 1936:40)]: 392-396; Sharapov 1996 [one woman gave birth to seven; baptized one, but did not have time for six, they became demons; one went down to the river - this is a wausa; the second in the bathhouse settled is a guranka; the third went to the forest is a leshak; the fourth became a grandfather; the fifth is shyan; the sixth is bald]: 311; Uotila 1989:286 in Limerov 2005, No. 20 [the elder Mistletoe made copper skies, three years rain could not seep through them; the Lord sent Mikhail Arkhangelsky, who could not make his way to O. because of the heat; the Lord went by himself, brought down those heavens, horned mistletoe fell for three years, so in the ground and in evil spirits]: 35; Limerov 2005, No. 43 [the small Chudlyans did not sow, rye grew by itself; the ear was from the bottom to the top, reaping with an awl; Yong threw a sickle on the ground; one put his head under it, the other pulled, the head was cut off; the Chudlyans rushed to run, some became water kul, others became forest kul, others huddled under decks, became lizards]: 46; Udmurts: Vereshchagin 1996 [God threw substances from which Man was created, into the air, they scattered everywhere; those who fell into the water became wumurts, and into the forest became nyulesmurts and bears]: 137-138; Moshkov 1900 [the woman gave birth to seven at once, each in size with a fist; threw them, one into the forest, the other into the river, the third into the lake, etc.; they became unclean spirits; thrown into the forest was fed by a hare, he became a bear]: 202; Potanin 1883 [God came to visit to the poor man; he was ashamed to show his children dressed in rags, hid someone in the forest, some in the bathhouse, etc.; said that he did not have children; God, well, let him not be; where whoever was hidden is there and remained an unclean spirit]: 800; 1884 [Kolchin/Inmar promised Votyak to visit; he was ashamed to show his naked children, he hid them - in the bathhouse, in the forest, in the cellar; K/I: Where are your children? person: I don't have children; K/I: even if not; hidden in the bathhouse became a bath line, in the forest became a bear]: 223-224; Wichmann 1901, No. 29 [the woman has 12 children; she cannot feed everyone; she left alone in the water, the other on the pile of rocks, the third in the forest, the fourth in the stove; God came and asked where four were, for he saw eight; the woman refused to speak, God said he already knew; made these four water, bear, goblin, brownie]: 126; Marie: Akzorin 1991, No. 50 [Yumo called people of different nationalities, the Mari, out of modesty, hid his family behind the forest; Yumo said that since he hid them, let will turn into charred stumps and become Keremet; one became Maxer-Shurt, the other became Maxer-Keremet, the third became the city shyrt, the fourth became the city's keremet, the fifth became the lower end's keremet, the sixth Keremet with a swan, the seventh with a swan, the eighth with a courtyard keremet, the ninth with water water, the tenth with a fiery rein], 51 [Yumo ordered the Tatar, Udmurt and the Mari to bring their children to him; Maria was ashamed and left them behind the forest; Yumo ordered them to turn into charred stumps and become Keremets; six or eight Keremets: city keremet, makarov shyrt, courtyard keremet, spirit of water, spirit of fire, Mountain Great Man, Piambar, Old Bearded Man]: 102, 103-104; Vasiliev 1907 [God brought indignant angels from the sky; those who fell into the forest became goblin, water into the water, fell into the hut; asked hide it in the stove; the angel came, the owner replied that there was no one; Well, live with him! ]: 47-48; the Mordovians [the devils decided to make a throne for themselves in heaven; the angel sent by God could not push them together; Archangel Michael succeeded: with the end of his sword, which had a cross, he pushed them together from the sky; whoever of the unclean fell into the water became Vedyava (after all, "water", ava, "woman"), some in a dry place remained devils; (there is a general link to the chapter to several sources, incl. archival)]: Devyatkina 1998:90; Chuvash: Ashmarin 1982 [iye spirits used to live in heaven, they were called Shoyttan there; many of them bred, God became angry with them for something, pushed them down; those who fell on the hut became browniks (prt ie), to the bathhouse - banniks (muncha iye), etc.]: 45; Egorov 1995 [Tour ă carved spirits out of the flint, sent his assistants P ě l hç and Pihampara give souls to the ground; the remnants of souls were in store to give them to the newborns; while T. was sleeping, Shuittan found a chair and flint also began to carve rays; T. pushed him together with those he had created from the sky; those who fell into the water became watery, on the mountains became owners of the mountains, into the forest - goblins, into huts - browniks, baths - banniks, etc.]: 125-126; Salmin 2003 ["According to legends, the deities Kiremet and Tur ă lived in heaven and were brothers; some texts call K. the elder, while others call K. the elder, while others call him vice versa; T. drove away Kiremetei from heaven for their bad deeds; so they fell into ravines and fields and stayed there to live"]: 17; 2004 [(citing the archive); Iye's spirits are in every loci they fell when they were dropped from the sky]: 96.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Altaians [Elgen sends Maytar to punish Erlik; he hit him in the shoulder and overthrew him to the ground; his servants also fell with him; those who fell into the water became su-ezi (the owner of the waters), on the stones - tash-eezi, on the mountains - tu-eezi, into the forest - agash-eezi, on people's dwellings - uy-ezi (brownies), on cattle - mal-ezi, on flat ground - yer- eezi; etc. (for animals, fish, birds, all living things); a total of 44 evil spirits, including Erlik]: Verbitsky 1893:100; 1992:123 (quoted in Dyakonov 1976:271; about the same in Potanin, quoted in Sumtsov 1890b: 16-17); (Lvova et al. 1988 ["The story of Satan's servants falling from heaven was probably borrowed by the Altaians from Russian Siberians"]: 209).

Western Siberia. Kety [Hosyadam was Ysya's wife, but left by the Month (Heung is grandfather); Yes threw her down with her servants to the ground; since then H. has been an evil beginning cold, illness, etc.; some of the servants are now together with H., others fell in the distance; those who fell into the lake became watery, into the forest became goblin, etc.; The month is punished by what time and weather should indicate; spots on it - traces of H.'s stay there; hero Alba drove H. from the upper reaches of the Yenisei to a dead island in the ocean]: Anuchin 1914:3-4; (cf. Osharov 1936a [were brothers Alba (smart and kind), Suuch (singer, musician) and Alba Maly (young, shaman); Hochedam stole souls, A. decided to defeat him so that people would not die; came to the sea, decided to drain him , cut through the Chagan-bat ridge, made a hole into the cave of seven Khochedams; killed six, brought the seventh little one to the children for toys; the new river flooded the cave with a whirlpool, A. called the Khol River (Podkamennaya Tunguska); A. sailed to the Cook River (Yenisei), H. jumped into the water, said that he was the main owner, and they were his children; A. pursues, 4 moose come to the river, H. tells them to block the river, but A. turns them into the rocks (the Four Sokhatykh Islands on the Yenisei 22 km above the mouth of Podkamennaya Tunguska, on the maps "Boats"); the same is a herd of white deer (Osinovsky threshold, 13 km above the islands); A. prepared to shoot in H., but his brother Suuch sang, A. shuddered, pierced his brother's head with an arrow, blood soaked the yar, shamans paint tambourines with clay; a boat with a woman and two wolves, a loon sails ahead; A. I thought that H. turned into it, tore off the loon's cheek with an arrow; it turned out to be a younger brother who went to Sym, married a Tunguska girl there, swam in front of his wife; the Tunguska did not want to live with a freak, harnessed herself scourge wolves, reached for Sym; her husband turned the wolves and the boat into earthen hills, petrified himself; the Tunguska went into the sand, throwing beads at her husband, there is now an underwater stone ridge; H. went to the cold sea, kills people, A. everyone is looking for him; the stone pillar on the Chagan-bat ridge is called Alba]: 145-151; Nganasans (Awam) [{in some places the text is complex and dark}; first water, a stone in the middle; there are two diamada ("having a throat") were arguing about which of them would get the land; a bird flew in, the nose was long, the breast was red (sandpiper?) ; the diamada did not dive to the bottom, the bird brought grass, moss, earth from the bottom; the Sun came, the bird flew away, the sun was gone, in five days the earth was covered with ice; the bird came back, said that now everyone has The diamada will have five fingers; therefore, it is cold for five days; the Mother Sun has melted the ice; the bird is flying, throwing grass, roots; Mother Earth has become alive; worms have crawled out of it, covered with hair like bears; then the hair fell off, they became like humans, gave birth to children, carved fire out of the flint; they looked like deer; the mother fire began to heat the children (these are stones), they burst; they looked up - the sky was completely rose; how the skin became separated; another says: this is the road to my mother; she looked, he returned from Mother Moon, told me that she told me to collect hair from her head, hair, tie the children, throw them around, where they fell, they will live; they have a voice from the sky: we leave you only half of your arms and half your legs so that only half of the people can destroy; one stone has become fire gives, the other with a stone, what iron gives for fire; one will be Mother Fire, the other will be Fire Father, you will give birth to fire together; a man will get meat, a woman will keep fire]: Simchenko 1996 (1): 18-20; (cf. northern (?) Selkups [some upper god had children, one was mischievous, he threw him down, he fell into a fork in a tree, died; worms from the corpse began to fall to the ground; with long tails and large ones to the south bears, short sides - bears on the north side]: Simchenko 1995:113).

(Wed. Amur - Sakhalin. Ulchi: Zolotarev 1939 [a guy lived in the roots of the fir tree, a girl in the roots of the cedar; they went out, talked, the girl brought the guy to her house with a muem; gave birth to twin girls, then a boy, then another boy; brothers grew up in a few days, they hunt, they can't get bears, geese, they mock them; they threaten their mother to kill her, she admits that their father is her brother; brothers and sisters have decided separate; the younger brother became a forest man, the elder brother became the owner of the taiga, the younger brother became the mistress of the sky and the sun, would "prescribe various diseases"; the older sister became a forest man, the mother became a water woman, will give fish; the father, left alone, became a "spirit of unknown purpose", began to "choose shamans from ordinary people"]: 167-170 (retelling Ostrovsky 2009:20-21); Smolyak 1991 (author's notes): 78-79 [ a woman without a husband gave birth to a boy and threw a girl, apparently twins, into the river; the boy stuck to the talnik, the girl to the acacia tree, ate mushrooms; 15 years later, without knowing each other, they met, got married, gave birth to a son and a daughter; the boy cannot kill the beast, the animals laugh at him; threatening with a knife, he forced his mother to tell us about their origin; the boy shot a bow, grabbing an arrow with his teeth, flew to the sky became a heavenly evil tiger spirit (causes madness and heart disease); my sister began to drive crazy on earth; my father went to the taiga on dogs, became a taiga trait, sends diseases; the mother became "watery tiger", it kills in convulsions], 79 [1) villagers were carried away by a three-headed dragon; carried a woman, she threw her daughter on a talnik, her son on larch; the girl ate bird droppings, the boy sucked tar; they grew up, met, got married, gave birth to a son and daughter; all animals, birds, fish tell him that his father and mother are brother and sister; he can't kill anyone; parents told the children the truth; son cut three ice-holes, became a "water tiger", people drown because of it, but he also gives fish; his sister went to the taiga, she causes acne on her body; the father went up, gives sables and diseases; the mother gives diseases to mothers twins; 2) about the same; the girl grew up on a black birch tree; the son became a "water tiger" in the taiga spirit, the daughter became a "sky tiger" (prevents women from hunting and giving birth to women); the father became a "taiga tiger" (prevents hunt), the mother gives illness to the twins]; nivhi [moisture dripped from the elm crack onto the birch tree; a penis-like growth grew on the birch tree, became a man; a woman flowed from the elm tree; she became pregnant, asked her husband to make a huge farce where to give birth; when she entered, the father saw many children; ordered those sitting on the bunk beds facing the shore "with a pale and thin face" to become tol-milki ("tol" is water); on the bunk beds, facing the forest, "with uneven eyes, one above the other, their lips open" - milkami (Ostrovsky: apparently, myth-milkami, underground milks, characterized by asymmetry of the eyes); sitting on the front bunks , "with a red face, a red body" - pal-milkami ("fell" - taiga); the children ran away, the wife reproached her husband for this, went up to heaven, the husband behind her, there they gave birth to tly milks ("aphids" are the sky)]: Pilsudski 2003:70-72 ( retelling to Ostrovsky 2009:21-22).

SV Asia. Russian Ustye [ordered Christ Adam to cook people, fish; A. cooked and did too much; H. goes to check, A. hid the excess: in sendukha (tundra), into the water, into the fire, into the corner; H.: let them be shendushny, water hostess, burning hozhain, ohto around the corner - sushedko; divided the excess fish into meat, put it in the cheeks of each animal]: Belova 2017:144.

(Wed. Chaco. Matako [Metraux 1939, No. 56:43; people heard a woman crying; a Welán woman (evil night and underground spirits) replied that people killed her child and she would eat human children; parents they guarded the children at night, but W. was invisible; she was killed, but she came to life; people hid inside the Yuchan tree, it was hot, they went to sleep outside, W. killed many children; in another village, a woman-W. burned at the stake; the coals that flew out with a bang that fell into the forest became jaguars, domestic cats, pumas, tapirs, snakes; stingrays, surubi fish, piranhas, catfish, fish that fell into the water pack, other aquatic animals]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 170:270-271).