Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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K71. The coyote betrays and saves his brother. 48.-.50.

The

coyote brother successfully defends himself against enemies as long as the coyote does not violate a certain ban. Enemies kill a brother; a coyote enters an enemy camp, retrieves his brother's remains and runs away from enemies or kills them. My brother comes back to life.

California. Tubatulabal [during the battle, Coyote says that Lapapille's heart is in his head; L. is killed; Coyote comes to children playing with the eyes and head of the victim; kills children, divides himself into parts , taking the form of children; Coyote's anus tells him he's moving too fast; he slows down; grabs L.'s skin, runs away]: Voegelin 1935, No. 5:201-203; kawaiisa [four options; Coyote - the younger brother, a bad hunter, stays at home to cook; the Puma (or the Wolf) is the older brother; the Coyote pees in the water brought, the Puma takes the water himself from the spring; the brothers make a trap pit, the Bear falls into it, dies; the cougar tells you not to throw a single organ for no reason; the Coyote ejects the gallbladder or pancreas; she comes to life, resorts to the Bears (soldiers), reports what happened; they go to kill Puma; Puma sticks a flute through the wall of the house, he and Coyote hope to escape through it; Puma does not tell Coyote to look around; he looks around, the Puma is killed, crushed, his enemies take his eyes; Coyote revives his brother from a small part; tries to insert the eyes of different animals in him, they do not fit; he comes to an old woman, asks how she will dance with the Puma's eyes in her hands, kills her, puts on her skin, comes to her granddaughters, kills them; at the festival she dances with the Puma's eyes, runs away, returns her brother's eyes; brothers go to the end of the world, turn into stones, cause death]: Zigmond 1980, No. 16:69-78; serrano [Coyote and Wolf live together; Coyote suspects that Wolf is married; finds a woman who flies away as a bird; Coyote lies as if she ran away when enemies attacked; Wolf warns the Coyote not to look at him when enemies come; passes by two groups of enemies; the Coyote watches, the third group kills the Wolf; the Coyote meets a woman collecting firewood; she says they have there will be a holiday, there will be a Wolf's skull on the pole; the Coyote kills a woman, puts on her clothes, comes to the party, carries her skull; cannot revive the Wolf because enemies have crushed his bones]: Benedict 1926, No. 10:12- 13.

Big Pool. If not otherwise: enemies arise from the remains of a monstrous bear; Coyote envies his brother's valor, wants an enemy arrow to hit him; going to enemies, he takes the form of an old woman whose skin he took off paths. Northern Payutes: Lowie 1924, No. 2 [like Western Shoshones; Wolf asks; in enemy camp, Coyote kills all women, his men kill all men]: 212-213; Powell 1971 [Coyote (i-TSA) says to his brother Wolf (i-SHA) that he wants to be a warrior; the Wolf invites him to jump over a stone, he cannot; enemies are approaching, the Wolf does not tell Coyote to touch his arrows, watch him fight; Coyote touches, looks, the Wolf is killed, scalped; the Coyote eats his corpse; in the guise of an old woman and a baby (this is a stick), he comes to enemies, says that enemies, women and children are sent to a separate camp nearby; at night, an imaginary old woman takes her true form, finds the Wolf's scalp in a pile of scalps, carries it away; on the way she buries seven times, waters it, the Wolf revives; because the Coyote ate his corpse, changes it appearance (apparently turning into a coyote)]: 221-223; Western Shoshones: Steward 1943a [Coyote kills his Bear Aunt's two daughters; she rips his back with her claws; his brother Wolf heals him; Coyote kills the Bear; the Wolf tells you to pick up all the giblets; the Coyote forgets a piece of gut; the gut turns back into the Bear, brings enemies from the north; they kill the Wolf; the Coyote kills the old woman, puts on her skin comes to enemies, takes the Wolf's skin, revives him]: 294-296; Smith 1993 [brother asks not to look at him during battle; Coyote looks]: 91-94 and 132-135 [brother - Wolf], 110-113 [brother - Bear]; northern shoshone: Lowie 1909b, No. 2b [Wolf is Coyote's older brother; brings food from their aunt Bear; Coyote sees her genitals, tries to copulate, she tears his groin; Wolf kills her, tells Coyote to bring her meat, nothing to lose from his internal organs; the Coyote loses one part; the enemies attack, the Coyote envies his brother's beautiful clothes, wants him dead; the enemies kill the Wolf, take the scalp; the Coyote meets the old woman kills, puts on her skin; tries to have sex with girls (her daughters?) ; comes to the place where they dance with the Wolf's scalp, takes him away, revives his brother], 2c [enemies attack; the Wolf does not tell Coyote to peek; he watches, the Wolf is immediately killed; as in (b)]: 239-243, 243; goshiute [Coyote puts two women's skin on himself and his penis]: Smith 1993:25-29 [Coyote kills European spouses, soldiers kill Wolf], 45 [like Western Shoshones]; Southern Payutes: Lowie 1924, No. 1 (Shivvitz) [Coyote and Wolf's aunt - Bear; Coyote spies on her masturbating with an artificial phallus; offering her services; hugging the Coyote, the Bear ripped off his back; the Wolf cured him, attaching the deer's muscles; sent the Coyote to kill the Bear, giving her a wineskin of blood with cream inside; he gave her a drink to the Bear's sons, they died; when the Bear asked her sons to give her phallus, Coyote said that they were sleeping, offered to drink blood; the bear died; the wolf ordered to collect all the remains, but Coyote forgot the bag of blood; asks the tip of his tail why the Wolf tells him to uproot the bush; tail: to make arrows, the Bear's blood will try to kill you; lightning is approaching from the south, the Wolf shoots; killed when Coyote draws attention to the Wolf's beautiful armor; Wolf's property has become stones; a Coyote comes to two women, asks about their customs, kills them, puts the skin of one on himself, the other on his penis; their sons wonder why old women eat so fast; Coyote sees lying girls, they were taken care of by his secret penis, he himself killed the sons of old women; while dancing, Coyote jumped out of the old woman's skin, grabbed the clothes of the killed Wolf, ran; turned into a year old coyote droppings ago; then into the pen; each time the pursuers guess, shoot, but the Coyote runs away; the pursuers caused snow, the Coyote the wind, hid in an acorn on an oak tree, rolled with an acorn through the snow to their cave; put tracing paper and bones in Wolf's clothes; when he woke up, he wasn't; Coyote found Wolf sleeping with a woman; broke his bow to come back; tried to rape a woman who climbed into an oak tree, Coyote's penis stuck; Wolf cut off his penis, Coyote asked him to be called "short penis"; Wolf killed him; found Coyote cock in his wife's vagina; he stayed there forever (cause of genital odor)], 3 (Moapa) [bird brother shoots better than Coyote]: 93-101, 161-163; Southern Utah [Wolf {probably steppenwolf, i.e. coyote}: if someone is killed, they will come to life the next morning; Fox: if someone is killed, they will remain dead; his relatives as a sign of mourning, the tails of horses will be cut; the Fox began to fight with other tribes; the Wolf wanted the Fox to be wounded in the calf; the wounded Fox asked to be placed on an anthill; the Wolf carried it; followed enemies who killed Fox; meets two women, asks what they will do; they say that before entering the camp, they dance; the Wolf killed them, turned his penis into one old woman, himself to the other; began to dance at the camp; jumped on the head of all the dancers, killing them; found the Fox, who is alive again; denies that he has a woman; the Wolf set fire to the blanket, found a woman under it; absence The fox rushed at her, but she was a woodworm, disappeared into the tree; the Wolf's cock was stuck in it; the fox came back, cut off the dick, the Wolf left]: Lowie 1924, No. 2a: 5; chemeuevi [brief retelling; dressed in rainbow clothes, Coyote and his older brother Wolf fight against Bears and other creatures; they come like a storm, throwing lightning; due to the envy and treacherous behavior of the Coyote, the Wolf is killed; The third day Coyote brings him back to life; the wolf goes north, the Coyote follows him]: Laird 1974a: 21.

The Great Southwest. Pima [Coyote, Puma, Vulture, Raven, Wild Cat live together; Coyote foolishly calls the Bear to him, promising meat for her children; the jealous Bear comes after him, kills Coyote, Puma, Vulture and Raven; The cat becomes a stone, the Bear breaks its claws against him, he tears the Bear's throat; revives his comrades; Coyote has been sent to invite guests to celebrate victory; he calls the Bears; they find a bear's paw Puma is scalped off, carried away; Coyote meets an old woman going to a party, where the Puma's scalp will be shown; learns her song, takes away her clothes, comes disguised as her to sing the victory song; the scalp, carries it away, returns it to Puma; the cougar has since had a band around the circumference of her head]: Shaw 1968:56-62; maricopa [Coyote kills and eats a dangerous woman (Bear?) , decorates her headdress with his claws; calls four tribes to a feast; those who come recognize their claws, try to kill the Coyote, he runs away, they kill his two Pum Brothers, take their scalps away; Coyote meets an old woman carrying these scalps; he asks her about her customs, kills her, puts her skin on, comes scalping to dance, twitches her skin, throws it to others, runs away; scalping back, revives brothers]: Spier 1933:360-363; havasupai [Wolf gives Coyote a belt made of the bones of the monstrous Bear; warns not to show it to others; Coyote shows]: Smithson, Euler 1994:112-114; valapai [Wolf asks Coyote not to watch battle; Coyote carries Wolf's scalp from enemy camp]: Kroeber 1935:260-262; yavapai [Puma anticipates that the Bears will kill him (no motive Origins from the remains); Coyote does not believe; carries his brother's scalp like a Valapai]: Gifford 1933a: 369-371.