L78. Jaguar toad. 52.57.-.59.61.62.64.-.66.70.72.

In the images, the character has the characteristics of a jaguar and a toad; the toad/frog becomes a jaguar; the toad/frog is the mother or wife of a jaguar.

Mesoamerica Aztecs [mixed features]: Codex Borgia 1831 [pictographical representation of Monster-Earth with features of a toad and a predator]: 7; Furst 1974, fig.21 [a stone altar in the form of a creature with features of a toad and predator (Isapa)].

Southern Venezuela. Makiritare [people eat raw food; Kawao Toad, wife of Jaguar Manuwa, spews fire from her mouth, then swallows; tells her husband she cooked in the sun; finds two fish eggs, from which brothers Iureke and Shikiemon are born; they do not believe that an imaginary mother cooks in the sun; they dive into the river, their real mother Uio (The Great Serpent killed by birds) tells them the truth; I. spies on K. making fire; brothers kill K., putting fire in trees]: Civrieux 1960:120; 1980:55-62; Yanomami: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 159 (surara) [ (Becher 1974:31-32); people saw a toad on the site; they wanted to kill, but it ran away and turned into a black jaguar], 280 [(Lizot MS); residents of one village consider shamans from another to be liars; in response, they they turn the frog into a jaguar; he kills everyone, the rest flee, leaving a tame turtle in the village and telling it to bite the jaguar in the neck; he offers to bite it everywhere; when in the neck, the turtle gnaws through the neck his throat; soon died; people buried the head of a jaguar, and a tree with caterpillars (edible?) grew in this place , the caterpillar owner lives there]: 295, 507-511.

Guiana. Varrau [see motive D7; a woman with two sons follows her father; her mother promises her to close the Toad's path; the Toad opens its path, closes his father's path; because of Toad's fire, the trail is getting hotter, so the woman puts the twins in her stomach; the Toad asks the woman to clean her of fleas, tells her not to bite through them; she bites, falls dead; two jaguars living with the Toad devour her; the Toad brings up twins found in the mother's womb; they throw fruit from the tree, the Toad picks it up; the Lizard advises leaving the fetus unexpectedly; the Toad does not have time to prepare, explodes]: Wilbert 1970, No. 190:441; Guyanese carinha [see motif J9; a woman conceives twins from the Sun, Pia and Makunaima; P. from her mother's womb promises to show her the way to her father; on the way she picks flowers; she she falls, blames her sons for it; they stop talking, she comes to the house of the Frog Kono (bo) -aru, the mother of Jaguar; she hides the woman under a vessel, the Jaguar finds her and kills her; K. orders to save the twins; tells them that the Crax bird killed their mother; they exterminate the birds, the latter reports that their mother killed Jaguar; brothers kill the Jaguar and the Frog with arrows]: Roth 1915, No. 35-38:133-135; macushi: Soares Diniz 1971, No. 1 [mother], 2 [see motif J16; The sun goes away, tells his wife to follow him after a while, along the narrow right path from the fork; the woman walks along the wide left, comes to the Old Toad; she asks to remove the lice from her, not the ones on the right side of her head; the woman bites through the louse and dies; the grandchildren of the Jaguar Toad find and eat the corpse; the Toad takes two eggs in the woman's womb; tries to cook, the water cools down; it cleans their shells, sing eggs; she pours them into the basket; Anike and Inskira emerge from them, feed on deer giblets lying in the next basket; at night, the toad hears a conversation, sees two boys in the morning; while hunting, a parikuara bird tells them about the death of its mother; the brothers try to cut off the Toad's head, but she has a strong neck; lure her to the site under vegetable garden; they ask her to name all crops (corn, bananas, sugar cane, papaya, yam, jerimu, watermelon, melon, rice, cassava); set fire to the plot; old woman explodes, hot stones they fly to the sides; the brothers hid in advance in the shelter, were not injured]: 77-80; vapishana [the wife of the Sun lost her husband's trail, went not along the right path, but along the left path; came to the house of the Old Toad; she asks her to look in her head, not to bite through the lice; the woman saw it, died; the Toad hid the corpse on the platform under the basket; her sons (or pupils) came - Jaguar, Puma, Ocelot and others; found the corpse they ate, the old woman was given the twins extracted from her womb (João and Pedro, according to other texts, Duidi and Mauára); they could not be cooked; they jumped out of her mouth, and when she swallowed them - out of the ass; she thought they were dead, put rot in a big vessel; they secretly get out of there, steal food; she waited, said let them live; they hide in mocó; she hid the mocó, they stopped hiding, immediately became adult young men; they wanted to kill the bird, she said that it was not her, but the Toad that killed their mother; the brothers sent the old woman to the site prepared for burning, set it on fire; from its ashes sweet potatoes, pumpkins, jerimú, melancias grew]: Wirth 1950, No. 1:167-168; trio [turns]: Koelewijn, Riviere 1987, No. 31:123; oyana, aparai [man doesn't want to give his sister to Injoliveryo's wife; makes a girl out of rattan, sends it to him; I. copulates with her, inserting a flute into her vagina; leaves, tells her to follow their son soon; she ends up with the Jaguars; old woman The toad hides it under the pot; the Jaguars come and eat it; the toad preserves the eggs, from which the boys Malakalev and Varanarya and the girls Lyatukoni and Molokalypyo appear; from the forest chickens learn about the death of their mother; lure dancing Jaguars into a community home; Var turns into a rock, presses the audience; a flood begins; they flee their brother in a mortar that grows into a palm tree; V. turns a Toad into a duck; sisters turn into fish]: Rauschert 1967, No. 8:184-185; oyana [mother or aunt]: Magaña 1987, No. 43, 53, 89, 97:42-43, 45, 52, 53.

Western Amazon. Shuar: Barrueco 1988 [a young man mimics a toad's voice; it turns into a jaguar, devours it]: 25; Pellizaro 1961, No. 23:14; 1993:204; Rueda 1987, No. 33:150; Aguaruna: Akutz Nugkai et al. 1977 (2): 219-221; napo or canelo [see motif A31; the girl became pregnant by her brother; he went to heaven, became a month; she became an ilucu bird (nightjar? ; but then the story continues; the same below with the mother of the jaguars, who became a toad but continues to act as before) has left home; the Cuillor (younger) and Docero twins from her womb show the way; ask her to pick a flower, then a leaf, a fruit; when she picked the fruit, she was bitten by a wasp; she clapped her stomach because of you; the twins fell silent; the parrot on her shoulder began to point the road, but he was carried away by a falcon; the woman came to the mother of the jaguars; she hid her under the roof, warned her not to spit; the jaguars came, she spat, the eldest climbed, did not find it, the youngest found the woman, they spit her they were torn to pieces, the twins were given to their mother (tender meat), but they asked them not to eat; the mother of the jaguars hid them, a month later they had already grown up; the old woman asked them to prepare firewood; they collected a huge pile, told pull from below, the old woman filled up the firewood; the next time she asked for water, they directed the river, when the old woman opened the door, the water carried her; the twins told the old woman to collect corn in the middle fields, made it endless; she can't find her way back; the voice of the toad "ooh" can be heard; since then, where corn grows, the toad unculu screams; the brothers brought the old woman home; the elder brother tells the younger not throw the leftovers wrapped in leaves into the water; he threw them away, they turned into a stingray, and when he started fishing, the stingray plunged his thorn into it; the mother of the jaguars asked them to make a bridge over the river for them; brothers turned into birds, made clubs, came back; the elder told the youngest to cut off the bridge at the signal, but he said there was no need for a signal; when all the jaguars stepped on the bridge, the elder cut off his end, and the younger he fiddled for a long time and a pregnant jaguariha ran away; her traces are still visible on the river rocks; the brothers told the Old Jaguar about their adventures; he asked them to set traps and the brothers caught almost all birds and animals; the Old Jaguar decided to eat them; his brothers killed him, took out his spine, filled him with ash, put insects in his eyes; shouted that the jaguar wanted to eat them; the old mother of jaguars ran, hit the scarecrow with a stick, the ash blinded her, the brothers washed her eyes; the ancient Jaguar devoured everyone; the brothers made a room inside Mount Galera, put a lot of food and musical instruments there, they lured Jaguar with a game; he started playing himself, did not notice how the brothers came out; they told the hole to close; the Jaguar started rushing, one leg was left outside; there was still a roar; other jaguars brought him food; a huge harpy eagle devoured everyone; Cuillor hid in a rubber bag; the eagle could not tear it, threw it on the clouds; C. does not know how to go down; the old man Uchitican says he is also from the ground; ordered sit on his back, close his eyes, open him after the second whistle, flew; but C. opened after the first one, fell into the forest; Docero went to look for him; began to pick edible mushrooms from the trunk; scream from the trunk {apparently mushrooms are C.'s ears, but it's not directly said}; the woodpecker cut the hole; for this D. gave him a red handkerchief over his head; C. made glue, the eagle stuck, D. broke his wing with a blow of the club; the brothers turned him into stone; it is visible now - it looks like an eagle with a broken wing; a huge anaconda devoured people; the brothers made a trap, persuaded them to climb into it, turned the anaconda into stone; the thunder killed many; the brothers found him sleeping on a tree branch; they cut his neck with an ax, told him to petrify; there are thunderstones in this place now; the evil frog spirit ("devil") took the form of a mother, told the children to dance; the brothers hid, told him to become a stone; the brothers asked the caiman to transport them across the sea; when the first one sailed, he answered the caiman every time that it smelled like fragrant flowers; when he jumped ashore, he said that he was like a caiman; But when the Cayman took the second one, but he had time to bite off the young man's leg; the bees pasted his leg with wax; the brothers made a fire, the smoke rose to the sky, became a staircase, and the brothers climbed into heaven; C. became a morning star, and D. an evening star]: Orr, Hudelson 1971, No. 2-15:7-49.

NW Amazon. Carijona [2 similar options: the wife shouts to her husband to catch frogs in the lake while she cooks cassava; the husband walks with a torch, one frog turns into a Jaguar, eats it; comes to a woman in the guise of a husband; she hears the clanging of her teeth, puts a leaf in the hammock, wraps the ground in it, runs, climbs the Anona squamosa tree, rips off the bark from the trunk; the Jaguar chews a leaf, then chases the woman, cannot climb a slippery trunk; a woman's brothers, father and uncle return from the holiday; a Jaguar turns into a frog, hides in a hole: they find a frog, cut it to pieces]: Schindler 1979, No. 9:95-99.

Eastern Amazon. Sipaya [Marušawa is now invisible; lives in Kurišiši, with him his family and great shamans who spoke to M. during his lifetime; he used to be like a human, now looks like a jaguar; three women they collect saliva dripping from its mouth into a vessel; if even one drop falls to the ground, misfortune happens (someone cuts himself, bites a snake, etc.); M. sits facing north; when he turns around and looks around, people will die; next to him is the Kududú toad, holding the ground on its back; when M. wants to destroy the earth, he will bypass the toad from the outside of the sky and pull it out so that the sky will collapse; writing M. - people without an anus, Adji, who were once killed by his son Kuñarima; when the meat runs out, M. blows on the remaining bones on the roasting rack, they are again overgrown with meat]: Nimuendaju 1920:1022.

The Central Andes. Peru's North Coast (mochica culture vessels) [mixed traits; toad and jaguar in copulation]: Benson 1972, fig.6-13; Larco Hoyle 1965:141.

Montagna - Jurua. Chayahuita [in the forest, people saw two black jaguars walking beside the other; their throats were bright blue and sparkling; they were huankynya taranisu" - that is, "uankynya (woody frog) werewolves"; they climbed a tree and disappeared into the hollow; later two huankynya frogs were found in it]: Shlyakhtinsky 2008; matses [frog {or toad} steals fire from his jaguar husband]: Wistrand MS at Erikson 1994:80.

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo [frog people with long teeth and jaguar fangs]: Wilbert 1978, No. 132:324.

Chaco. The toad is Jaguar's wife. Toba [Fox convinces Jaguar to let him take his heart out; Jaguar dies, Fox sleeps with his widow]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 102:219; mocovi [Battleship kills Toad for not giving him meat; the Jaguar wants to grab him, he pinches his nose with his plates; the Jaguar dies]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 143-148:179-188.