L11. Turtle bench.

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Everyday items look like fish, invertebrates, reptiles, dangerous predators, or items turn into these animals under special circumstances.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Garo [a young man named Saora Spora saw a water maiden on the river; she agreed to marry him and brought him to the underwater world; he was put on a turtle in an underwater cave; his wife's servants were crocodiles , water snakes and fish; lavish wedding; wife agreed to visit her husband's parents; cannot eat or drink what people eat; withers away, and the SS does not pay attention, intoxicated with wine; when she comes to her senses, the wife had already returned to the underwater world; he tried to go there on his own; a water snake and an electric eel appeared, killed him, tore his body apart; and his soul was brought to his wife]: Rongmuthu 1960:67-70.

South Asia. Bhumia [the hunter climbed down the hole for the porcupine, ended up in the lower world; Burha-Nang invited him to sit down; the chair was a curled snake, the bed was a python; the porcupines were his pigs; the journey back took 7 days the hunter tells his neighbors what he saw]: Fuchs 1970:38-44; Santals: Bodding 1952, No. 2 [Baijal young man plays flute and violin, Bongo (spirit, deity) fell in love with him, appeared as an image girls led to the bottom of the reservoir; at bongos, snakes serve as benches, tigers and leopards serve as dogs, Phyllantus emblica L. leaves are their taben cakes (thick crushed rice), bread is dry cow cakes; his wife's brothers lead him to hunt pheasants; a man cuts a tree, they say it's a pheasant; a young man is forced to let the dog down, a lumberjack manages to kill it with an ax, his wife's brothers are dissatisfied; a young man returns to the ground, the bread he takes turns into cow dung; his bongo wife continues to visit him, they have two children; the young man is going to marry an earthly girl; if a daughter is born, the bongo asks name a girl by her name; one day a young man tries to keep his bongo wife out of her world, she and her children fly over the roof; he does not name his daughter by her name, she dies; so several times; when he called it, the daughter remains alive], 9 [two similar texts; 1) (p.99-107): a young man herds buffaloes, plays the flute; a bongo girl fell in love with him, brought him under water to her parents; he was offered to sit on a chair - it's a snake; tigers next to him and leopards; he wants to go back, they give him food with him, he opens it - it's leaves and cow dung; his bongo wife continues to visit him, he gets rich; when he marries an earthly girl, his bongo wife leaves; 2) (p. 107-111); as text No. 2; the wife's brothers order to take a tiger dog, kill a pheasant, i.e. a man, a lumberjack in the forest; the young man deliberately speaks loudly, the man hears, prepares, hacked the tiger with an ax; The wife's relatives tell him to take such a husband back; on earth, the bongo wife continues to visit him]: 55-58, 99-107, 107-111; dhanwar [on Mount Jhinjhigarh Bhakku cut down with a gold and silver ax bamboo to make a fan to carry grain, brought it home, cut it, seeds of 21 types of cereals and a spider fell out of there; grain and spider - sister and brother; B. harnessed tigers, buildings - snakes, chirped at the end placed a scorpion, the plow share was a poisonous snake of the genus Bungarus, the handle was made of a viper, the yoke was made of a boa constrictor; when the harvest was ripe, the Spider caught 200 parrots in its net, told them to collect grain; people from different villages received grain, so it spread around the world]: Elwin 1949, No. 4:216.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [Sasrikva took his sister from the sledges; they decided to escape from shame to a place where no one knows them; on the way they met a witch riding the rooster of the deity Shashva, her stremans served as thorns, a whip - snake; she explained to the sledges that S. would die if his right, steel leg was broken; others claim that his left leg (and arm) was iron, his right leg was made of steel; sledges offered S. to break his knee stone; he broke with his left foot, pieces scattered across the sky like stars; when he put his right leg up, it broke, he died]: Inal-ipa 1977:24-25; Karachays or Balkarians [Temir-Bolat with two they hunt and cook with older brothers; a bearded dwarf riding a rooster, a saddle a frog, the reins were snakes, the whip a lizard eats everything every time; when TB remains, he ties him to a tree; he uprooted a tree, went into a hole; the brothers lowered TB; there are three beauties downstairs, one is crying (the monster will eat it today), the other laughs (will eat it tomorrow), the third song is singing (the day after tomorrow); TB hacked down a dwarf; TB released prisoners from the fortress, married a younger beauty, gave the other two to his brothers]: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:21-24.

NW Coast. Eyak [the man's boat capsized, gone; he builds a shelter, hollows out a new boat with the bad thread he still has; from time to time Otters come disguised as his fellow tribesmen; he puts their oars to the fire, the oars turn into minks; he hits their boat, it's alive, it's a stingray; he kills those who come, they turn into otters; when real people come, he puts them to the same tests they can all stand it]: Johnson 1978:35-36.

Southeast USA. Chirokee: Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick 1966, No. 9 [after dancing, the young man cannot catch up with two girls; next time one agrees to marry him; her brother Thunder rides a big snake; when she his tongue sticks out, lightning flashes; in the box lies his necklace - a rattlesnake; the man is afraid to take it, everything disappears, he finds himself in the forest; if he hadn't chickened out, he would have become a shaman]: 292-393; Mooney 1990, No. 84 [two girls come to dance, a young warrior falls in love with one; a week later she comes back and tells her that her brother agrees to the marriage; they walk down the river, the water turns to grass; the girl's houses they remove their hair from their heads and hang them on a rock; their benches are turtles, the horse is a snake, bracelets are other snakes; the thunder is furious that the young man is frightened, lightning flies out of his eyes, the young man is alone in the forest]: 345-347; yuchi: Speck 1909, No. 12 [(text is brief; Thunder rides a big black snake; when it leaves the sea and comes back, there is thunder; when the snake shakes its tail, lightning]: 149; Wagner 1931 , No. 18 [The wind is without arms or legs; sends his sons into the world, they disappear one by one; then he goes by himself; his moccasins, chair and bag are turtles, the bag strap is a rattlesnake, the other snakes are his belt, his legs , smoking pipe - bull frog, snake witch (?) - tobacco; by the river, the net refuses to enter the carrier's boat, walks on the water; sits on his bench, smokes his pipe with his tobacco; the owner (Iron Monster) falls dead from tobacco; his wife cuts down wood; when it falls into the water, the sons of the Wind appear from under the water; they have changed, the Wind sends them away; cuts the tree for firewood, burns the monster's wife in the fire; she turns into a rat; the wind lies down, one day she will get up and go around the world]: 77-82; Alabama [collecting firewood, the girl was where lightning struck; the thunder came and took her away; her three brothers consistently come to Thunder's house, disappear; the fourth, the youngest, picks up a star that appears from the water; spends four days at Thunder; he is invited to sit down, the benches are a crocodile and a turtle; he is sent to fetch water, he kills two snakes with a bow, guarding the spring; takes his sister away; Thunder catches up, the Star repels the attack, the brother brings his sister to their mother]: Mooney 1900, No. 9:124.

The Great Southwest. Zunyi [if the sun doesn't rise, utensils will turn into predators and devour humans]: Quilter 1990:60.

NW Mexico. Tarahumara [at the end of the world, cows, goats, rats and other animals will attack humans and treat them as humans do to animals now]: González 1985:205; Huatahame [Huatahame works on the site; when she returns, she sees that the vegetation has revived; the old woman does it; she says that there will be a flood, tells me to take a black dog with her into the boat; utensils will become animals, snakes, Jaguars will destroy people; after the flood, H. finds ready-made tortillas at home; finds a woman who has become a dog; people come from this couple]: Benzi 1971, No. 3:185-186.

Mesoamerica Huasteci: Alcorn 1984 [You can reach Maam's paradise by riding a giant sea turtle; it will take you underwater to the east, where arrivals sit on benches of live snakes or lizards (caimans) and where they are fed good food]: 83; Manrique Castaneda 1991 in Olavarria 1994 [during a solar eclipse, utensils turn into ferocious animals]: 12; otomi: Galinier 1990:526 [stones at night they try to come to life to destroy people; shooting stars kill them], 543 [during a solar eclipse, the grain grater is taken out of the house; otherwise it will turn into a jaguar and eat people]; Nahuatl (San Luis Potosi ) [During a solar eclipse, grain graters and left-handed people turn into cougars, aquatic creatures (mecos) come out of the sea to devour people]: Croft 1957:320-322; mountain totonaks [sunny eclipse: rocks, grain graters, pots, trees, animals will become the creatures of the ancient race they were before the sun and will eat humans]: Harvey, Kelly 1969:671; Kelly 1966:396; Nahuatl Veracruz, poloka [chaneke dwarves live underground; Chane (co) has a snake hammock, crocodiles have boats, jaguars live in bed, battleships and turtles have benches, deer have cattle]: Munch 1983a: 173-177; chontal [after going for firewood, the young man loses his way, goes down; birds and animals prepare for the holiday; the owners are an old man and an old woman; the guest seat is a battleship; the young man returns home]: Vasquez Davila, Hipolito Hernández 1994:158-159; tsotsil [the sun went out for five days; people are thinking about how to escape, they are breaking their pots; broken pots have spoken; the puma, the jaguar, the snake have come out of them, devoured people; children turn into birds, greet a new sunrise with their voices]: Gossen 1974, No. 133:148; Maya Yucatana [solar or lunar eclipse; utensils and other items]: Armador 1995: 314 in Milbrath 1999:25 (Mashkanu community) [during an eclipse, animals can change their nature, and tools (digging sticks, knives, machetes) can come to life and attack their owners if they are not dawned on first Sign of the Cross]; Redfield 1950:117; Redfield, Villa 1962:206-207; Villa 1945:156; 1952:469; Lacandons: Boremanse 1986 [Our Father told his son-in-law Ah k'in Chob to make a ship, there by man and woman from every line; rain, darkness; boats became crocodiles; the howler monkey was in the ark, but the testicles in the water turned white; six years later the water slept, ten years later it became dry; but the earth soft; the gods sent fire, everything burned; the Momotidae bird's tail burned; life was revived; humans were immortal]: 57-58; Rätsch 1984 [Äkinchob warned the man what he should collect in a big boat with a couple of people and different animals; the wind destroyed everything, only mountains remained; then it rained, the world was flooded; boats turned into crocodiles, grain graters into turtles, grinding tables corn into crocodiles and fish; five years later the sky rose again, five years later the boat fell to the ground; the water descended, the sun began to warm more and more, the world burned down; A. sowed a new forest]: 74-80; mopan [Mom wears wormskin sandals and sits on a battleship shell]: Thompson 1930:142; quiche [flood; trees, rocks, pots, grains, dogs]: Popol-Wuh 1959:17-18; tocholabal [ Niwan Pukuj (or Niwan Winik, "big man") is the owner of the lower world, K 'ik 'inal; lives in a cave, his bench is a battleship, he rides big deer; identified with the Christian Devil; the dead work for him, their salt is pus, they are fed not beans, but mites cooked on a fire in which human bones burn; he also Animal Master]: Ruz 1982:63; tricks [when the world falls into darkness again, utensils will turn into jaguars, cougars, dogs, and will devour people; only grain graters will protect them, but they will be overcome; There will be only animals on earth for a while; then it will dawn again and a new race will populate the earth]: Hollenbach 1980, no. 12.29:478.

Honduras vs Panama. Guatuso [while men hunt, women indulge in lesbian love; ask men to warn of their return by hitting trees with sticks; one person spied, men beat women; then those who went for firewood were eaten by a jaguar; jaguars come out of firewood, hearths, kitchen pots, they devour everyone; one person ran away]: Constela Umaña 1993, No. 6:141-144; bribri [all items from TLA' thunder - snakes]: Marcos Guevara: Personal Report, 2007; kuna [before Tad Aiban came down to earth, God had already destroyed life on it four times; at this time the fruits ripened in seven days, the climate was mild, women had long hair; some were ruining crops, strange sounds could be heard from the forest; fish in the river screamed, mosquitoes the size of birds killed people; people tried to cut down trees, blood flowed from the trees, screams were heard; the woman turned into a deer, brought her husband not fruit to the site, but her excrement; the man went into the forest, became a tapir, lay down with a deer, his wife; cassava grew on branches, and viva (Nalup) fruit was on the ground; benches began to scream when they sat on them, pots placed on the fire screamed that they were burning; the sea flooded the ground, A. and his people escaped on the mountain Tingwa Yala; after the flood, new people settled the land; A. went down the mountain; people realized that he was older than them, began to beat him, worms came out of him, his body disappeared]: Chapin 1989:102-110.

The Northern Andes. Yupa [The sun met a man in the forest, took him to him; the son of the Month told the man that the Sun intended to eat him, hid it from his father; the Month told the Sun that the man was gone; arrows in his hands Months turn into snakes when a man takes them; felled trees also turn into snakes]: Wavrin 1937:603; paes [pihaos killed people; Llivan's brother, Pihao captured him, removed his skin and meat they ate, put the bones back, filled his skin with ash, sent him home; when L. turned to him at home, he crumbled to ashes; L. was fasting, and in the mountains he saw a big red man throwing stones into the stream; he; it's Thunder, he gives his spear metal, it produces thunder, lightning, wind, rain; at home, L. hid the spear metal in a pot; told his mother to give it to him, but she was not a shaman, she saw a green snake in the pot; L. I took it myself, told my mother and sister to hide under the pot, but they did not have time, lightning killed them along with the pihao, L. revived them; Pihao hid the treasures in an underground cache; became Thunder]: Nachtigall 1955, No. 3: 294-297.

Guiana. Warrau: Wilbert 1970, No. 34 [Roth 1915:250-251; the fisherman wished a woman from among the aquatic spirits; she agreed that he would feed her not fish, but game; her father's bench was alive crocodile; in her husband's village, his wife does not tell her to be sent to a menstrual hut during her period; the husband sends her, she dies; the man finds her corpse with her father; he says that now people will be unhappy cases and illnesses, women's souls will fall into water spirits during menstruation], 169 [married sisters, they have a younger brother; they leave him moriche palm flour at home, he processes it like a woman; someone stole flour while it was dry; a monkey came down from the tree, became a woman, he grabbed her, she became a woman, he was happy with her; her husband's sisters call her a monkey, they say that she does not work well, they scold her her son born to her; she takes her son, leaves, her husband follows, she screams three times, the banks of the river converge, she crosses the river, her husband too; he did not have time at the second river; termite told the man that the water was shallow; he crossed many rivers; he sees an old man scooping water in a basket, so he catches fish; makes a platform out of poles to fry fish; sends a man for palm starch, behind a pot; he sees only a snake, a jaguar; the old man brings starch, a pot; at night jaguars come, the man hardly woke him up by hitting him with a club; in the morning the old man put all the fish and meat in a small bag, told him not to open it on the way; man opened it, everything fell out; the second time a person accidentally dropped the bag; the old man said that now people would have a hard time getting fried fish], 186 [see motif L44, text (185); a shaman climbs in the forest on the tree, the gathered spirits began to cut it, their axes and arrows break; they call the spirit Muse ("the one who sees"), M. could not climb; then even more powerful Webuoni; sitting on his forehead bird (she eats scorpions); V. clutched a broken arrow between his heels, climbed his legs forward; the shaman stabbed this arrow in his ass, shouts to the spirits to catch prey, runs away himself; the spirits eat V., then everyone makes excuses as if he didn't eat; half-spirit (vertical?) scoops up the river with the skin of his scrotum; the shaman fires an arrow at it, he grabs it, puts it in a hollow; the shaman gives him a cigarette, he lights it with his fiery hand, he likes it, he takes the shaman as a friend; half-spirit roasts a crocodile, a shark, tells you to bring a pot, a plate, the shaman sees only snakes there; half-spirit brought a pot, a plate; two jaguars came at night, half-spirit killed them easily; half-spirit gives the shaman caught fish in a small bag, sent him across the river when the bird sings "dry, dry"; the man sees only a deep river, comes back; half-spirit carried it half dry, turned back; the man barely had time run to the other side, the river was filled with water again; the shaman reached a house, hung up a hammock; the spirit came out, cut off his calf, blew a whistle; did not like it, made the second one out of the other caviar; told the man where to go; on the way he meets jaguars with 1, 2, 3, 4 heads and tails; returned home]: 96-98, 364-370, 418-423; curl: Goeje 1943, No. d24 [woman carries a drink to her son-in-law, working on the site; stumbling, breaks a vessel; water forms a lake; a woman sinks, becomes a water spirit; a braided cassava push-up sleeve turns into fish; a monkey plants uruku at this time (Bixa orellana), waiting for the flood, runs his hand over his forehead, a red spot remains; var: two female birds leave their baby by the beer vessel; the turtle teaches him how to break the vessel; rivers form; sweet potatoes turns into toads, peppers into scarlet ibises and flamingos, cotton into white herons, Bromelia into blue herons, devil-fishes into old men and ponds]: 110; Roth 1915, No. 123 [for the forest spirit, a curled snake is its vessel; When the hero approaches her again, he sees a vessel whose coloring follows the pattern on the snake's skin]: 193; kalinya [mother dies; people mistreat her daughter, send her to heaven to look for her mother; she approaches the Month, who marries her; punishes evil people with a flood; the wife of the Month descends, sitting on a turtle, teaches people patterns; the patterns on the shell appear every month from the blood of the Wife of the Month; The patterns seen then are still in use]: Penard in Goeje 1943, no. b3:28; vapishana [two brothers climb the rock for arrow feathers; one (apparently the elder) is outraged that the other takes only chick feathers; gets down and cleans the stairs; a bird that has arrived asks why he mistreats her son; a man spends a year with birds; then he grows feathers, he flies with the birds to the shore lakes; marries the daughter of a bird; by the lake, the father-in-law offers to put his hand in the snake's mouth, the snake turns into a net, the man caught fish with it; put it in place - the snake again; the father-in-law asks for cassava cakes from the country where a person comes from; bird cakes are tobacco; a man comes to his mother, brings tobacco to his father-in-law, gets a fishing hook; returns to his mother and wife; she calls his daughter-in-law a bird, that returns to his father, her husband comes to pick her up on foot, father-in-law sends him back; the man gives his brother a fishing hook received from birds, he tries it, he gets stuck in his lip]: Wirth 1950:198-199; aparai [rain floods the earth, darkness sets in; men turn into termites, dogs into jaguars, hammocks into snakes; Battleship experiences a flood in the Pakira hole in the hollow; women and alone are saved man; forest cockerels sing, dawns; a man marries all women, conceiving new people]: Rauschert 1967, No. 10:186; oyana [a group of dancers descended from a heavenly village to earth, among they White, covered with boils; left at dawn, White stayed, recovered, did not communicate with people; rain flooded the ground with a flood, White took the boy and girl to the mountain; then the children boarded the boat, and Bely returned to heaven; after the flood, he told them to build a house; the children grew up; the young man comes to Bely in heaven; there they bake meat and cassava on a stone in the sun; the sister also comes and finds a house whose pillars are - cassava cuttings; White shows cassava making supplies, instead of a juice push-up bag, an anaconda, manaret, a wasp swarm; a piece of wood is a ball of snakes; then the objects took normal species, a piece of wood fired; White sends brother and sister to the ground, giving cassava, yams, bananas, etc.; a piece of wood burns itself (the origin of fire); men and women come out of the two halves of the calebas; brother and sister attach the feathers of the macaw parrot to their shoulders, fly forever to heaven to White; all three are seen as constellations; White is Atacassi, the young man is Mopére, the girl is Quélépo]: Coudreau 1893: 549-552.

Western Amazon. Maihuna: Bellier 1991b, No. 6 [when darkness sets in (solar eclipse?) ; smut turns into jaguars, pots and calebasses into eagles]: 14 [in the lower world, benches, trays, etc. are anacondas, snakes, fish], 204; murato (shapra) [Tsónki is a big water snake, also rainbow; drowned people come to it; she invites them to rest in a hammock - it is made of snakes; causes children to vomit fever and vomit at night; sends rain, floods]: Girard 1958:209-210; shuar [a person falls ill, in a dream, a woman promises to give him medicine on a rock in the middle of the river; says that he killed her father's enemy, lemucha, asked him to make a trophy head out of his skull; a man sees a tapir whistling by the river, comes out Tsunki, copulates with him; the man also whistles, T. asks to hang the lemucha skull around his neck, goes under water with him to his anaconda father; they want to put him on an anaconda, he is frightened, he is put on turtle; instead of cockroaches on the walls of the fish, instead of pigs in the pen, anacondas; father-in-law made his son-in-law potent by putting leaves on his genitals; went to visit the family on earth, the man brought his Wife. in basket; in his absence, the earthly wife found a snake in the basket, began to poke it with her head; Father C. flooded the ground with rain and flood; the man and his little daughter escaped in a tree; shed fruit, he understood by sound that the water is falling; after the flood he married his daughter, people come from them]: Pelizzaro 1993:143-146; Aguaruna [the man hunted with the dog, she drove the Paku, she jumped into the water; the snake is the owner's daughter Tzúnki caught on a thorn on the shore; the man threw it into the water; she became a woman under water, told her father about the savior; he ordered him to be brought, let him bring the head of the pack he had obtained; the next day, daughter C. met a man, gave a drink of love, brought him to the bottom of the river; there dogs were nutrias, benches were crocodile, turtle; man fried fish, for underwater inhabitants they were cockroaches; the other fish are chickens; when the man got home, he was put the fish in a basket, told not to open it on the way; he opened it, the chickens flew into the river, became fish again; he brought his wife from the underwater world to him; drier daughter C. is a snake; a man hides her in the house, pulls it out at night; in the absence of a man, women found a snake, his mother began to beat her, the snake began to grow, it rained; in a dream, the snake wife tells her husband to climb on tree; the house was flooded, the mother, the man's wives and children ate the snake wife, took her husband into the river forever]: Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1979, No. 81:650-653; napo (or canelo) 42 [the shaman went for ayahuasca, saw a tapir whistling, calling a woman out of the lake, turning into a man, copulating with her; the shaman killed the tapir with a spear, called the woman with the same signal; she first washes it with a witchcraft , so that he does not fall ill with scab, leads to the lake; there is one bench, a caiman, the other is a turtle, a hammock is a snake; a person lives at the bottom for three months, wants to visit his relatives, his wife is with him, takes the form of a snake; at night the earthly wife sees her husband in the arms of a snake, wounds a snake with a knife; a downpour begins, a flood begins; a man saved his mother and children, began to live with them in the lake; the former wife was pushed into the water, she was eaten by snakes]: Ortíz de Villalba 1989, No.: 80-82.

NW Amazon. Barasana: S.Hugh-Jones 1979, No. 1A [at first, there are only rocks in the world; Romi-Kumu (Shaman Woman) makes a clay brazier for cassava, puts it on three mountains; mountains are legs, the brazier is the sky; she cracks from fire, falls down, turns into earth; the former earth becomes underworld (var: the sky falls into hell); RK. makes a new brazier - the current sky; opens the door to the outside world; water gushes from there, floods the ground; objects in RM.'s house turn into predators, devour people: long troughs, cassava push-up sieve - anacondas, pole - caiman, shards and other flat the objects are piranhas; some of the people in the boat escape to the mountain; the sun dries the earth, it gets hotter, the earth lights up (var: RK sets fire to the earth itself); at this time the sky cracks (see above)], 6A [ Manioc-stick Anaconda (MA) is a half-brother, the father of the current Sun, the son of the Ancient Sun and his wife, the sky; Mako is his younger brother, single; having become a tapir for a while, left traces; suggested that MA dig a hole- tapir trap, MA fell into the underworld on a tree by the river; the Month, the Morning Star, the striped water snake, the big and small otters (they are the Sun's rowers) swim in silence, or respond that the Sun (" MA mother's son") swims after them; Sun grebe (Heliornis fulica) takes them but leaves him in the water when he blows the winds; the Sun takes him into his boat; tells him to dive for a deck of fish; MA says there only an anaconda; while the Sun was diving itself, the Monkeys, the Squirrel, the Otters (they are the Sun's rowers) told them to remove the substance from the Sun's bag, the Sun was going to burn them MA; with the anaconda's mouth and anus covered, the Sun lifted it up and poured it out fish of all known species; the speckled cooking pot is a poisonous snake; MA only pretended to eat this fish extracted from the anaconda; the Sun releases clouds of fire, MA turns into a spider every time, hides; himself releases the substance that he took out of the Sun's bag, his feather crown lights up, he recognizes him as his brother; see motif K1]: 263, 287-293; yukuna [see motive K1; Kawarimi's older brother sends younger Maotchi on a tree for parrot eggs; asks four times what they are; each time hears my daughter-in-law; breaks off a branch, M. falls into a hollow; K. leaves, takes his wife M.; parrots carry M. food; when they fly away, M. crawls with an ant inside the trunk below; asks the Aguti woman to help, promises to lie down with her for it; she cuts a hole in the trunk with an ax, breaks M.'s spine with the last blow; heals , but since then people have back pain; they lie down in her hammock; she starts eating his anus; bit the bottom of his body; he asks for food from the garden to the mother of his children; Agouti came back, saying that his wife scolded her; next time Aguti is a man, his wife gave her food; M. returns home, first asks his son not to tell his mother; digs a hole in the garden to the lower world (a hole in the center of the world); sends his son for K.; jumps into a hole, climbs out the vine; K. jumps, falls, screams, Cotton, clap; M. screams, Stone, stone; takes his wife; K. waits, a boat sails past the underground river Suns; his crew Kojopana and Lu'uina, black with the heat; K. waits for the boat of the Month, the Sun's little brother; K. kills flies, the Month says they're his sailors; stopped to eat, the Month asks for something top with fish, K. sees an anaconda; The month takes it out by himself; the cauldron, the plate - curled snakes; the calebasa is a wasp's nest; the month cut off the tip of K.'s tongue, it turned into a toad; K. refuses to marry on the Month; he brings him to Maloka, where women want to copulate; the old woman's vagina swallowed it, the Month pulled it out; K. met a woman in the forest; she says she was bitten by a jaguar, but the wounds are from a flying one mice; K. cured her; the mistress of Maloka said that this woman was too young; gave the old woman, at night she turned young, they have a son; grew up, they are going to eat him, he is a deer; penis (grandfather) in the form A hemp with a worm inside warns K. that they want to eat him; the son was killed, his mother eats him too; all the exits from the maloka scream when K. tries to get out; he runs away through a hole in the roof; wasps bite pursuers, they return; K. comes to the Month; the owner of the animals is a big grasshopper; copulates with her sons; K. - at an animal festival; closes her eyes, finds herself on the ground in the form of umari fruit; falls, turns into a man, sees his sons; kills his brother and unfaithful wife; promises to see how they now get out of the lower world; marries M.; one by one asks three groups of cranes take him; the last give him feathers; tell him not to look down when they fly little ones, or else they fall; people shoot arrows at the cranes, they shout that they are biting a scorpion, ant, spider ; he looks at the next little one, falls, the cranes pick him up, bring his aunt to her husband; this is an anaconda; etc.; see motive I14]: Jacopin 1981:69-130; tarian [young man is disliked by women; mother his wife brings him, but she is indifferent to him; he decides to go to the lake - let the snake eat it; his boat is met by a man, he is the son of a snake, he brings him to his snake parents; his father-in-law hunts with him, kills him with an arrow animals, asks to bring game, the young man sees a snake instead of an arrow every time, is afraid; he is given a wife, the youngest daughter of a snake; at night she and others look like snakes, during the day - people; the wife's brothers push him to the top the earthly wife of a young man who did not love him dies; the young man returns to his mother; the serpent's daughter tells her to be summoned by putting a calebas on the water and knocking on her; the young man tells his mother that he is married to a white woman, she wants to bring her; her son brings his snake wife; for him she is a woman, and his mother sees a snake, dies of fear]: Aikhenvald 1999, No. 8:133-157; yagua [underground a world of people without anus; water from our world seeps in there, it's raining there; water people have corn, turtles have benches; just above the land of "earthmen" in the middle of the sky has a "half-moon" that illuminated the world when there was no sun and moons; criminals rise to the sky of vultures, their souls are burned alive; the rainbow is a heavenly serpent, above it is Thunder; in the sky there is a lake of poison, once it flowed out of the vessel, it was received by iguanas, snakes, ants, scorpions; even higher lives the owner of animals Rudra, even higher is the Month and his nephew North Star ("soul of the night"); the Milky Way is the road of souls; even higher is the sky where the souls of the dead live; on the sides two sloths support the sky; disaster could happen if they move]: Chaumeil 1982:49-53; (cf. chikuna: Nimuendaju 1952:77-78 [Dioi invented uaricána, conical horns made of spiraled bark and wooden megaphones; painted them red, but one of the immortals ordered repaint, take multicolored clay, taking each color separately with a wind tube; u. taboo for children and women], 134 [before the holiday, the girl decided to spy on what u. looked like; climbed a tree, and her sister was standing by the path; when the men passed carrying u., the tree climber saw not tools, but caimans, peed herself abundantly and fell; she was killed, cut, smoked, eaten; D. told everyone to eat her meat for everyone; the mother and sister of the victim smeared their cheeks with soot to see if they cried, kill; summoned the girl's soul through u. she plaintively addressed her mother]).

Central Amazon. Tupi (the exact place of recording is not known): Baldus 1946:11-12, 83; Couto de Magalhaes 1882 [it was not at night; the daughter of the Great Serpent married a man; does not want to sleep with him in the daylight; asked to send his three servants to bring the night to her father; he gave them a nut, told them not to open it; the sounds of night crickets and frogs can be heard from the nut; in the middle of the journey, the servants discovered a nut; all the things in the forest turned into birds and the animals that were in the river into ducks and fish; the basket became a jaguar, the fisherman and the boat became a duck (head was beak, the boat was the body, the oars became paws); the morning star rose, the daughter of the Snake decided to separate night from day; turned two balls of threads in kuzhubim and inambu birds singing at regular intervals at night and dawn; turned naughty servants into monkeys]: 5-9.

The Central Andes. Mid- and late-stage paintings of Mochica culture, Peru's northern coast [warriors' clothing and weapons, boats equipped with arms and legs, grabbing and hitting people]: Golte 1994a: 56-77; 1994b: 70-85, 138; Lyon, 1981; 1989; Quilter 1990; Uarochiri (dep. Lima) [the sun went out for five days; mortars, grains, llamas attacked people]: Salomon, Urioste 1991, ch 4:53; Incas (Cusco?) [After several years of Manco Kapak Yupanka's reign, two comets in the form of a puma and a snake appeared in the sky; idols and devils told the priests that Illatici wanted to destroy the world for sins and sent a cougar and a snake destroy the moon; if they manage to break the moon, their tools will turn into cougars and reptiles, spindles will become snakes, looms, bears, jaguars and other predators; so Peruvians scream during eclipses, scaring away monsters]: Montesinos 1882, Book 2, Ch. 8:48-49 (1920:48-49).

Montagna - Jurua. Shipibo [the creator of earth, people, sky Iba lives in the sky; his servants are snakes and lizards, through which he sends rain when shamans ask for it; I.'s hammock is made of water snakes, the seat is a turtle; under its beginning is a ferocious jaguar that lies on the path leading to the world of the dead; to reach the kingdom of I., the Merovs are forced to bypass the jaguar]: Girard in Zerries 1968:255; machigenga: Baer 1984:243 [ the sun is out; demons are looking for people; all objects - houses, mats, poles, cassava, bananas, corn - start talking; suddenly the sun reappears; then the flood begins, people drown], 249 [paraphrase Elkins de Snell 1976; in addition, the Month will also go out, mourning the death of its son Sun; earthquakes will begin]; Elkins de Snell 1976 [when the world ends, the sun will go out, wild animals will come to people to ask, Donde iremos? ; dogs will take revenge on their owners for all grievances, let them eat bones; all objects (mats, arrows, benches, etc.) will speak and ask, Donde iremos? Demons will come, everything we eat will be demons; roosters will scream to women, Kill me now, throw me in the boiling pot! The monkeys will say, Now I want to do to you what you did to me! Animals will tear babies out of pregnant women's bellies; the month will be sad that there is no one to warm us, it will be surprised that his son The sun has disappeared, washed away with bloody tears; the stars will fall; demons will attack people; our guardian spirits will disappear; only angels will save little sinless children]: 73-75; pyro [for Mother of the River (=Mother of Pisces, Madre de los Pescados) various fish are household items, tools, etc. (catfish is her corn, taricaya is the seat, paco is the paddle, another fish is rayador]: Opas 2008:134, 332; cachinahua [pregnant woman sends her husband to hunt frogs; water spirits take him home ; visit the village, then send a flood; people turn into birds, animals, fish, utensils into aquatic creatures; a round net into river dolphins, wooden benches in turtles, baskets into rays, wooden stupas, roof supports, burnt ends of smut, arrows and bows for various types of fish, large baskets for caimans, etc.; Nete's woman escapes on a log; cries, bees flock to suck her tears and snot dazzle her; she makes new people out of bees and pumpkins; they find cultivated plants, restore culture; brother N. also escaped elsewhere]: Montag, Bastien 1996:92-100; characterbet [long night; kushma shirts come to life, try to destroy people]: Fernandez Distel 1988:679.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana: Hissink, Hahn 1961, No. 4 [flood; weapons, pots, cassava graters], 39 [lunar eclipse; weapons, pots, baskets, etc.], 40 [solar eclipse; various objects, trees, animals, etc.] and most rats]: 40, 84-85; chiriguano [see J9 motif; the twins lured the Jaguars to cross a shallow lake first and then a deep lake; all drowned, only the double-headed Sky Jaguar escaped; the twins made a chain of arrows, went up to heaven; the double-headed Jaguar rose after them; ate the moon and the sun, their blood gave rise to a new moon and sun; these are eclipses of the sun and moon; one day it eats, huge bats will kill people; some will hide under leather coats (?) ; at night, pots, plants, stones will sing, dance, attack people; smut will turn green, there will be no fire; people will first make fire with mate, it will end, remain in the dark; it will end earthquake, everything will die; the sun will return, another era will begin]: Metraux 1932:154-158; surui [Ishiwai comes to an abandoned home; at night objects turn into spirits (Night Butterfly and others, the most dangerous of all Night Monkey), want to kill I.; Corn hides him under the roof; spirits celebrate; at dawn they again turn into an old mat, coal, mortar, pestle, corner of the house, etc.; Brother I. comes and kills scorpions, snakes, spiders; I. returns home with him]: Mindlin 1995:6-9.

Southern Amazon. Iranshe [mother, father, sister of three brothers die; the sukuri snake wants to swallow them; they shoot at her, she falls dead into the river, leaving her skin on the shore; the brothers smoke it, climb it to heaven into the world of the dead to see their sister; their dead nephews have fun going down from the tree upside down; thunder sounds; an old woman who was a deer during her lifetime offers them chicha; chicha is brewed from excrement, brothers don't drink; two lost souls (a man and a woman) make grimaces for the brothers; they don't laugh, otherwise lost souls would eat them; at night souls turn into snakes; brothers they talk to the mother's spirit; she asks to find the crest and ball of thread she has forgotten; the brothers go down to the ground; they find a comb and a ball; it's a scolopendra and a spider, they bite one of the brothers, he dies, him the soul rises into the world of the dead]: Pereira 1985, No. 8:68-77; nambiquara [the evil battleship Valuru and another evil spirit dig up the earth, water erodes it, the sun and moon go out, the sky falls, people They die; new people live inside the cliff, they are immortal there; the Monkey (Callicebus personatus) hears their laughter; Agouti, Paka, Hummingbird, Turtle and others can't break the rock; Chelidoptera tenebrosa Vulture breaks, people go out, some stay in the rock; the storm begins, the sun begins (again?) disappears, children turn into anteaters, baskets into jaguars, arrows into snakes, calebas into turtles, men, women and other objects in other animals; a man, his sister, his little son are saved; they keep the fire on; the boy says that the sun will soon rise; it is rising; the woman's body spots like a jaguar, an anteater; the man washes them so that she does not become an animal too; marries his sister; their daughter marries a man's son; these couples are descended from people]: Pereira 1983, No. 1:7-13.