L90. Fall to the sky. .17.21.23.27.-.34.37.-.39.

One lip (one fang, horn, etc.) of the creature reaches the sky, the other drags across the ground.

Ugarit, Lepcha, Ancient India (Satapatha Brahman, Mahabharata), Balahs, Nepalis, Bengalis, Santals, Baiga, Bhumia (?) , Sora, Romanians, Moldovans, Hungarians, Gagauz people, Slovaks, Russians (Pskov, Bryansk), Belarusians (Grodno), Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Ossetians, Kumyks, Lacks, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Turks, Turks, Turks, Persians, Tajiks of Sistan, Mountain Tajiks, Baluchis, Turkmens, Edda, Estonians (Risti), Setu, Chuvash, Mordovians, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, (Salars), Altaians, Chelkans, Teleuts, Kumandins, Khakas, Tuvans, Baikal Buryats, Khalkha Mongols, Ordos Mongols, Oirats (Durbuts), Nivkhs, Ainu, Tundra Yukaghirs.

Western Asia. Ugarit [seeing that one lip of the god of death Mutu reaches heaven and the other reaches earth, Balu agreed to become his slave and descend to his throne deep into the earth]: Tsirkin 2000:49, 98.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lepcha: Siiger 1967, No. 1 [(local version of "Geser"; see motif L15; hor mu mung (HMM) kidnapped his wife gye bu (GB) Sacung (S.); BG takes the form of a boy, HMM believes this is the embodiment of one of his warriors, almost adopts him; HMM has huge ears, one he sleeps on, the other covers; one HMM tooth reaches the sky, the other reaches the ground; GB kills HMM, returns his wife]: 203-214; Stocks 1925, No. XXVI [ people are constantly dying; the king turns to the fortuneteller; he predicts that in addition to six sons, the king will be the seventh; in heaven, the mother of Rum smells the smoke; her husband says that he is the king of Lyang-bad asks to send him a son; someone who can 1) throw a heavy stone, 2) hit the needle behind the mountain with an arrow, 3) cut horsehair along the ground before the steam from the cup of tea rises to heads, 4) bring a lot of firewood; two older brothers can't, the youngest baby does everything easily; falls like a hailstone next to Queen Tang-kung-ramit on the ground; she breaks off a piece, swallows; others the pieces are swallowed by a cow, a mare, a chicken, a goat; everyone gets pregnant and gives birth; T. gave birth to a bag, buried it; the king dug up, there is a copper vessel, there is a boy in it; the king gave him the name Ati-azyak-pono; he sends his own older brothers marry King Lung-da's seven daughters; along the way they must hoist flags of the same color on a black, green, red, white mountain; pass a plain with spruce and two suns around; there heat, you can't take off your hats; the king gives daughters, does not tell you to play the flute and harp on the plain; but the youngest three began to have fun with the brides, sat under the spruce tree, the others also had to; 4 flooded on four sides black, green, red, white seas; the Paril-bu snake came out of the sea, demanded that his younger brother's remaining home be given to him; disappeared, the waters subsided with him and the sun alone disappeared; the demon messenger came for A.; A. went to the snake, left the bride two rings, if they changed places, he died; first A. quietly went into P.'s mouth; he ordered to get the queens Zer-y-ong and Komyong-pandi; the girl gave A. rice to throw dogs, meat to tigers, a roll of cloth to the demon Shang-tang-krbu, he will become a friend; when leaving, A. sowed rice - if it dries, he died; the demon could not swallow A., recognized A. master; A. dropped the knife into the pond, asked the demon to drink water; came to Z., became her husband; there was no water, the demon drank everything; Z. showed where the knife was, the demon regurgitated the water; Z. took an oath from her 7 demon brothers that they would not eat A.; demons offer to hide; turn into trees, partridges, streams; Z. each time tells A. where they are (gives a knife to cut trees, etc.); demon friend A. defeats seven in combat; they offer rooster fights, goats, horses; each time A. asks his heavenly parents to send animals (those who descend in the hailstone give birth to a cockerel, a goat, etc.); A.'s animals win; also a wild bull and a peacock; A. destroys an army of demons; the remaining ones are destroyed by a peacock by firing fire from under her tail; A. enters Z., her fang to the sky, the other to the ground, one chest hangs, the other is thrown behind her back; then she again beautiful; demon friend swallows a snake, A. with his wives Z. and Komiong returns to his brothers; allows a demon friend to swallow three younger ones; kills him, revives the young Dediong-pono swallowed by him, gives to him, Princess Eu-Ramit, leaves him to reign on earth, returns to heaven with three wives]: 406-420.

South Asia. Ancient India: Elizarenkova 1999 Rigveda, X.119.11; self-praise phrase under the influence of a catfish: "One of my wings is in the sky, the other is dragged downstairs - did I drink catfish?"] : 277; Erman, Temkin 1975, No. 22 [Satapatha Brahman, Mahabharata; [Chiavana ascetic (In Jaiminiya-Brahman, rishi seers create a monster against enemies) created the monster Mada ("Intoxication") to to punish Indra; his lower jaw touched the ground, his upper jaw reached the sky; C. had mercy, dividing M. into four parts and distributing them between the intoxicating drink, women, dice and hunting; whoever falls under the control of these four temptations dies]: 58-59; balahi [after kidnapping Sita, Ravana appointed Surasa, the daughter of Rakshasi Dhaulagir and mother of the nagas, to guard the gates of Lanka; Hanuman took giant dimensions to frighten her; S. opened her mouth so that her jaws touched the sky and the lower world; H. slipped into her mouth with a squirrel, came out of her ear, became huge again, cut S. into pieces, scattered them; S. revived, collected all the pieces except the part of the spine that fell at Mahadeo's feet, who said he knew nothing]: Fuchs 1950:253-254; Ramayana [Surasa is the demoness who guarded Lanka; when opened her mouth, her jaws touched the sky and the underworld]: Fuchs 1952:611; Nepalis [the king learns that water will only appear in a dug well if a person on his body is sacrificed 32 happy marks; such are only himself, his son and daughter-in-law; the son finds out about this, takes his wife, jumps away; in the forest he goes hunting, chases a doe, she brings him to the ogre's palace, he kills a doe, the cannibal wins, closes him in the basement; feeds his wife with fallow deer meat, brings him to the palace; she opens the basement; the cannibal advises to influence the sick, let the husband bring 1) the tiger's milk; the cubs promise to help, they ask their mother for milk for the day, give them to the prince; 2) part of the monster's fang (to grind the fang into powder), which has one fang to heaven and the other to hell; the prince hides in his fur, stabs him with a sword; the monster agrees to go to the palace, hit the gate with its fang, the piece breaks off; the demon advises the woman to feed her hero husband, adds poison; when he dies, the prince tells his wife not to eat his flesh, to quit heart and liver into the river; the princess finds them; in a dream, the prince asks her to make his figure out of cow dung, put her heart and liver in it; comes to life; takes the princess as his wife; kills the monster and his first wife ; comes with his wife to his father; he says that when the unfaithful wife was killed, water appeared in the well]: Heunemann 1980, No. 8:84-91; Bengalis [pious but poor and stupid brahman goes to the palace is on the wrong road, she goes to Rakshasi; she says that she is his first wife, gives him a generous gift, asks him to bring his second wife; seeing that her husband has returned rich, the woman goes with him; sees Rakshasi eats an antelope with raw materials; a woman feels that Rakshasi's jaws extend from the ground to the sky; she gives her son Champa Dal her milk - if he turns red, his father is dead, if so is she; rakshasi swallows both, BH jumps away; Sahasra Dal, the son of a Rakshasi from a brahman, saves his half-brother, kills his Rakshasi mother, joins the BH; they come to a city where residents every night leave a person in the temple to be eaten by another Rakshasi; they go instead of the victim; SD kills Rakshasi, gets the daughter of the king and half the kingdom; BH lives with him; the maid is a rakshasi in disguise; BH sees her devours food; to get rid of it, the maid complains that he is encroaching on her honor; the Queen Mother tells him to be driven away; he comes to a distant land; Princess Keshavati sleeps there, BH touches her golden with a stick, she comes to life; Rakshasi is eaten all; every morning Rakshasi touches the princess with a silver stick, she loses consciousness before she returns; K. learns that Rakshasi's life is in two bees at the bottom of the reservoir; BH kills them, all Rakshasi are dying; K. bathes, her swam hair finds SD; wants to find an owner; the Queen Mother sends a Rakshasi maid, she lures K. to the ship, takes her away; BH comes, says his story; SD tells you to place the maid standing in a hole, covered with thorns, buried her alive]: Day 1914, No. 4:64-92 (=Porozhnyakov 1990:55-68); Santals [Turta plows, his mother brings him food; every time a jackal threatens to bite her, eats most of it; upon learning about this, T. dresses as an old woman, hits the jackal, tears off his tail; ties a razor to a plow, the jackal wanted to wipe his ass on him, cut himself; hides with a sickle in chicken coop, with a hammer in a goat pen, the jackal is wounded by a sickle, hit with a hammer; A. negotiates with his mother to pretend to be dead; the mother calls that jackal, he brings the others; the mother ties jackals to fight over food; T. hits them, they break out, run away; T. tied a tailless jackal, beats them regularly, he swollen; tells the leopard that he is well fed; the leopard asks switch seats with him; T. beat a leopard, made a scarecrow, showed him for money; overheard two horses talking, one has a splinter in his hoof, if removed, he will be able to fly through the air; T. buys cheaply lame horse, agreed to marry a princess with a dragon in her body; when he comes out of the princess's nose, his fall from earth to heaven; kills grooms; at night the dragon came out, T. flew on horseback across the sky, the dragon behind him, he slaughtered a dragon; visited his mother with his wife; everything is fine]: Bodding 1925, No. 9:111-121; baiga: Elwin 1939:308-316 [at the beginning only water, a lotus leaf floated on it, Bhagavan sat on it, rolled it up dirt out of her hand, made it out of a crow - his daughter Karicag, sent her to search for land; losing her strength, she fell on the back of the great Turtle, Kekramal Chhatri, sitting on the waters, with one leg on the bottom of the sea , the other reached the sky; the Raven calls the Turtle the older brother, the Turtle calls the Raven the younger sister; says that the land was stolen by the worm Gichnaraja, he is at the bottom of the sea; took the Raven to Logandi Raja; he called 12 Loharsur brothers, 13 Tamesur brothers, 14 Agyasur brothers, they made an iron cage, lowered the Turtle and the Raven to the bottom; the Turtle was afraid of the Worm, hid behind the Crow; the Worm itself frightened when the Raven promised to beat him, lied that Dano had the land, who would burn those who came; the emboldened Turtle grabbed the Worm by the neck, who regurgitated 21 times; each portion of the land is named in its own way, from mother earth to virgin land (white, red, good, trembling, rocky, etc.); the turtle pulled the chain, Logundi Raja pulled out the cage, the Turtle tied the ground to the Raven's neck, that brought it to Bhagavan; he summoned a virgin, she knocked down the ground in a vessel of leaves for 8 days and 9 nights; B. threw the earth into the waters, it grew and became dry; at first the earth was wet and slippery; B. called The wind and Bhimseb; The wind dried the earth, but when they stood on one side, the other rose; Bhimsen walked, created mountains, valleys; Nanga Baigin (Nang Baigi's wife) drove four nails into the corners, the ground established (but the earth itself is round, p.330)], 489-491 [the potter has 12 married potter sons and the 13th youngest is single, sitting at home; the brothers tell him to bring 12 carts of clay without harnessing animals; this is do; the brothers got scared and drove him away; he meets, takes as companions 1) a baiga who plowed a tiger, 2) a lohara who bent the hot iron with his bare hands, 3) ahira, who forked a rope of dust, 4) bodies who squeezed out 12 measures of oil with his hands; the potter's son (SG) tells everyone that he has never seen such a strong (dexterous), and they say that a real strongman (trickster) is SG; friends hunt and take turns cook; when it's teli's turn, a rakshasa comes in the guise of a boy, eats all the rice and hits the cook; turning into a monster with one tooth in heaven and the other in the underworld, beats the ahir who comes to the rescue , lohara, baigu, but SG killed him; Rakshasa has 5 beautiful daughters, SG married one, and his companions could also sleep with her; but she only liked baiga; then SG gave each one a wife; Baiga and his wife stayed to live in that place, and Dharti Mata gave them everything they needed; the wife washed her hair, some of her hair swam away, the son of Raja Gonda picked it up; Raja sent Malin, who introduced herself as the young woman's mother's sister; asked what her husband's life was like; in the arrow; M. burned the arrow; Baiga rushed home, managed to kick his wife in the chest, the trail remained; the baiga died; the woman was dragged to the king of the Gondas, but four came out to meet her friends, killed M. and servants, returned the woman, found a piece of an unburned arrow, Lohar revived the baiga and they all lived under the auspices of Dharti Mata]; Fuchs 1952 [see motif C6; Bhagwan did not wash for 12 years, rolled dirt from the armpits and chest, blinded a man and a woman, revived; these are Nanga Baiga and Nanga Baigin; they were ashamed of their nudity, sat in the sea up to their necks, fished, ate raw (there was no fire); the Pandwa brothers and them Kotma Ma's mother lived in the middle world; KM complained to B. that there were only rocks; he ordered to bring land from the lower world; the P. brothers sent the Turtle there, it walked through a crack in the rock; took the Wasp, the Worm with them an alumina eater, a White ant and another (the informant forgot); the wasp put the others on its wings, carried them across the river; the Kakramal crab guards the entrance, one claw on the ground, the other reaches the sky]: 608-617; bhumia (? {clearly the same text as baiga in English}) [Kotma, mother of five Pandava brothers, complains to the heavenly god Bhagavan that there are only rocks on earth; B. suggests that Pandava go down to the underground the world of the serpent king Burha Nang; the turtle king Kichhul descends along a crack in the ground, with him an earthen wasp, an earthworm, a white ant; the wasp sent everyone to the other side of the river; the king of the serpents set seven traps Kakramal crab is nearby; one of its claws is in the underworld, the other reaches the sky; the crab is sleeping, Kichhul and his companions are passing; see motive B3]: Fuchs 1970:16-18; sora [Raja Ruhel lived in the sky; man his mother did not give his mother a seat in the bath, she cursed people, the world plunged into water; she decided to create a new land, rolled mud off her body, creating a bird that flew for six months, sat on the crayfish claw; one mustache the cancer took the sky, the other was in the lower world with the king of crocodiles; the cancer agreed to steal his land, gave it to the bird; Raja Ruhe and his mother mixed the earth with water, threw it on four sides, and land arose]: Elwin 1954, #14:433

The Balkans. Romanians [the old man promises the childless emperor the birth of a son; the boy still cries in his mother's womb; falls silent and is born when his father promises him immortality and eternal youth; the young man grows up chooses a thin skate, which turns into a four-winged horse; they come to a field covered with bones; a young man shoots the leg of a woman who has become a monstrous woodpecker; she promises peace, the young man puts leg back; woodpecker's sister was also cursed by her parents, became a scorpion, both sisters are at odds; a scorpion has one cheek in the sky, the other on the ground, he spews fire; a young man shoots one head, a scorpion promises peace, the young man puts his head back; the horse carries him through the forest with monsters to the castle of eternal life; the mistress of the castle does not allow monsters to attack those who have flown in; there are two women in the castle, a young man marries youngest; women warn him not to go to the Valley of Sorrows; when chasing a hare, he goes there, he wants to go home; women explain that his parents are long ago; they are not on the way back they find Scorpio and Woodpecker, people say they have heard tales about them from old people; the horse leaves the young man at the ruins of his father's castle, returns to the land of immortality; the young man turns into an old man; Death comes out from the deck, says that if he came later, even she would die; takes the hero]: Brown 1915:312-320; Romanians [the mighty king always laughs with his right eye and cries with his left eye; he has three sons; the mighty tall Florea, the dense strong Costan and the younger Petru are tall, but girlish in character; the older brothers refused, P. agreed to ask his father about his eyes and received a slap in the face from him; but he it seemed that the left eye was crying less and the right eye laughing more; and he asked again; both eyes laughed at the father: that three sons are good, but they are unlikely to be able to protect themselves from their neighbors; therefore laughter and tears; but if you bring water from the well of the Morning Dawn fairy, I will wet my eyes and both will laugh, for I will understand that the sons are brave; F. rode the best horse to the border of his father's possessions; there is a bridge and a three-headed dragon: one jaw in the sky, the other on earth; F. turned, but did not return home a year, month and day later; K. went; the dragon also has three heads; also turned, but did not return home; went P ., the dragon has 7 heads; the horse stands on its hind legs, P. returned to take another horse; the old nurse: you need the horse your father rode; he replies that the horse has long fallen, and there are only scraps of bridle in the stall; the nurse tells you to bring such a fragment and hit the pole with it; then a beautiful horse appears under the precious saddle; now there is a 12-headed dragon at the bridge; the horse tells you to cut off the main head and flies forward - one day is like the wind, the other as a thought; they have a copper wall in front of them, as well as copper trees, bushes and grasses; flowers whisper, but the horse forbids them to be plucked; otherwise they will have to fight Velva; but he plucked them to to see her; she has a horse's mane, a deer antler, a bear's face, a ferret's eyes, the bodies of various creatures; after three days of battle, P. put a bridle over the velva and she turned into a beautiful horse; this is the brother of the horse P., whom bewitched; so they galloped through the copper forest; then silver (still another velva horse); golden (same, the strongest and youngest of these horses is disgraced); now they go through the frozen country of Saint Sereda, and there is fire around the edges; this is the frost that causes the calf in the womb of the cow to freeze and the rocks crumble; when we reach the house of St. Sereda, she gave a box that will show the way home and tell you who is doing what now; P. asks about his father; a box: his eldest sons have taken away his power; now they are traveling through the red-hot land of St. . Thursdays (Joi, Jupiter); rocks began to melt under their hooves; from the cool valleys, where springs and flowers, girls turn to P.; St. Thursday: Next will be the country of St. Fridays, tell her my wishes for good health; it is not cold or hot there; but darkness has descended and Tornado's daughters are in it; Tornadoes guard Friday's house; the horse tells me to throw a copper wreath, the spirits rushed behind the wreath ; a silver wreath showed Friday and she allowed her to enter; Friday is an ancient old woman; when the world arose, she was a child; asks for a mug of water from the spring of the Morning Dawn Fairy on the way back; gave the flute, the sounds of which make them fall asleep; in the morning P. fed his horses with hot coals; Friday: leave one horse here now, and enter the Fairy dismounted; she has a terrible appearance: owl eyes, fox face, claws cats; her gaze deprives her of reason; the Fairy's palace where the earth touches the sky; flowers along the way; neither warm nor cold, eternal twilight; P. sedated the giant watchman and seven-headed dragons with a flute; the milk river is not in sandy or jelly shores, and on shores made of gems and pearls, flows quickly and slowly at the same time; lions with golden skin and iron teeth; beautiful fairies sleep in flowers; P. tied to a sleeper He woke up the giant's fingers, told him to carry him across the river - then we'll fight; but the giant hammered P. into the ground to his knees, and P. to his waist; giant P. to his chest, P. his neck; then a half-bound giant agreed to carry P., standing with both legs on different banks of the river; on the table in front of the fairy's bed, the bread of strength and the wine of youth; he bit off bread and took a sip of wine, kissed Fairy, put a golden wreath on her, and picked water and left; gave water to Friday; Thursday warned not to communicate with people on the way back; gave a handkerchief protecting against lightning, spears and bullets; a knowledgeable box warns: the brothers found out that P. would bring water, they want to kill him; P. does not believe him, broke the box; the brothers met him, asked him to get water from a deep well, left it there, took the Fairy's water and came to their father; the Fairy woke up and sent all the guards they did not find it; they did not find it; the Sun looked for 7 days, but P. was where its rays did not reach; the Fairy ordered darkness to come, and now only the king father, who saw the light from that water, began to see, but everyone else did not; Florea came to see the fairy, but could not say how he got that water; the Fairy blinded him; {the same with his middle brother}; The fairy told everyone to come to her so that the winds, flowers, springs, people and giants would all cry; Friday sent tornadoes to look for P.; and only one spring breeze heard P. end up in the well; now there were only bones and ashes; Thursday boiled ashes in a cauldron with the dew of life, she got an ointment, she was rubbed bones, P. came to life; tells the horse to fly fast like a curse; came to Fairy, kissed; the flowers bloomed, the sun shone, the world came to life again; P. brothers found sight to see his happiness]: Kremnitz 1882, No. 20:237 -295; Moldovans: Botezatu 1981 [the old woman quickly grew up three hero sons; one chased a frog, the other a duck, the younger Dragan after a squirrel; they went up to heaven, brothers after them; three snakes They took away three royal daughters, as well as the sun, moon and stars; the old woman asked for three buckets of red wine and red cloth to be spread on the roof; the brothers think that the house is on fire, they are chasing they go down, get angry, but their mother gives them guilt; they don't know each other at first; the mother said why she called them; they don't know what to do; the brothers have reached the hole, go down the silk cord, the elders are frightened , D. went down, became a bumblebee, listens to how the wives of snakes respond to their mother Scorpia, how their husbands come home (across a copper bridge, a silver bridge, a golden bridge; eats 12 fried cows, 24, one hunk of bread ); S. says that the bumblebee is D.; the eldest daughter-in-law promises to become a well, the second apple tree, the third fire; and S. will fall from the ground to the sky; D. killed all three snakes {described in detail}; immediately The stars, the moon and the sun were freed; D. cut off a well, an apple tree, a fire; he came to the blacksmith, this is Kózma-Dimir, his mother's brother; S. managed to bite off a piece of her heel; when S. stuck her head, she was killed with a club, the corpse was burned; in a copper, silver, golden garden, D. meets the kidnapped princesses, sends them upstairs; each turns her wealth into 3 apples - copper, silver, gold; pulling out three princesses, brothers the rope was cut off; D. came to CD; he tells us to go to the apple tree of life on Synzyen Day when it rises from the ground into the light; if Grandfather Odolyan wants to say hello, you should reach out not your hand, but the coulter; O. is the father those snakes; when he squeezed the coulter, three drops of blood fell, O. burned down, and the blood turned into an ololyan flower; the apple tree carried life to the ground; D. released the stars into the sky; tied the brothers to the tails of horses]: 169- 181, Moldavian tales 1968 [mother tells Fat Frumos that his father was eaten by wolves; but he still became a hunter; saw virgin birds coming down to swim in the lake, hid their wings; fairies follow him, singing; FF looks around twice, two pairs of wings fly away; FF brings the third fairy home without looking back; at the wedding, people admire the bride's dance; she promises to dance even better if the groom gives her wings; FF reluctantly gives, his wife flies away; FF wanted to shoot her, but she turned into a cuckoo and you can't shoot the cuckoo; she tells you to look for her in a golden palace in the golden forest; FF goes in search; the old man calls animals and birds; the goat comes last, she knows the places, but now there is a terrible drought; a man says that the owner of the palace was stolen by snakes; people milk sheep in nutshells, milk drops; FF leads sheep to pastures are snake; watchmen wolves and bears are fascinated by FF playing on the pipe; he says that the pipe needs to be repaired with wood from the middle of the oak tree, splits it, wolves and bears stick their paws, FF takes out the wedge, burns clamped wolves, one charred one escapes; pulls out the heart of the bears, one escapes; the shepherd tore off his tail, since then the bears have no tail; Vyzh-Surviil's guard cuts off FF's arms and legs; he grabs with his teeth to the vein of the spring, tells him to return his limbs, gives him strong water, FF killed BV; the serpent opened its mouth from ground to sky, but FF killed him and returned his wife]: 434-450; Hungarians [dying, the poor man reports three sons that, according to the sorcerer, one of them will return the stolen sun and moon, but he does not know who exactly; the king found out about this and called the brothers to him; promises to heir the one who will cope with this task, and make his assistant viceroy; the younger brother is Kiss Miklos (KM), the elders laugh at him; the king orders to choose horses and weapons; the elders take the best horses and swords, KM - a seedy and dirty skate, a rusty sword; the skate turned out to be conceived by the wind by a six-legged horse that eats hot coals, a sword on its own; brothers come to the country for 49 kingdoms, overseas of Opertsia, for glass mountain to the silver bridge; KM tells you to hide under the bridge and wait for the 12-headed dragon, whose moon is tied to the saddle; the dragon horse stumbles for the first time, the dragon realizes that it will fight KM; KM ordered the sword to cut off his heads, he cut off; KM gave the horse with the moon to his middle brother; the same at the golden bridge, the 24-headed dragon; KM ordered the sword to cut off the dragon's heads, but they grew; KM began to fight on its own, but not can defeat him; dragon: I will become a blue flame and the dragon will become red; when the red rose above the blue, the KM brothers threw a piece of sulfur at him, as the KM had asked them in advance, the red flame went out; sending Brothers home with the moon and sun, KM took the form of a gray kitten and climbed into a house where the mother and wives of dragons overhear their conversation; the wife of the younger dragon: I will become a source if the brothers take a sip of water, then they will die; the elder's wife will turn into a pear with poisoned fruits; the mother of dragons asks to support her eyelids with an iron beam weighing 1200 pounds so that she can see; promises to turn into such a mouth that the upper jaw is in the sky and the lower jaw is on the ground;: swallowed KM and his brothers; the kitten rushed out, the dragon threw a beam at him and immediately went blind, as her eyelids closed her eyes again; KM reached two jumps on their horse to the brothers and all went home together; on the way, KM cuts a spring and a pear with a sword, bleeding from them; brothers see an open mouth approaching, hide in the house of a lead smelter (Lead Friend, SD); they pour molten lead into the dragon's mouth, she's dead; now SD offers KM to fight; with his little finger drove KM into the lead floor; lets go for promising to get a Green Daughter for him The Green King; he let the older brothers go; they claim victory over dragons, marry princesses, the eldest becomes king; they let the moon and sun horses go to heaven, but they began to shine sad; KM goes in search, meets, companions Runner, Drinker, Obivala, Freezing in Fire, Seeing Far Away, Strongman Throwing an Iron Club; The Green King (ZK) demands to bring Pluto's daughter's wedding dress is faster than a local runner; but ZK sent his old witch mother to run in the evening, and Runner only ran in the morning; he overtook her, received a dress from Pluto, but On the way back, the witch persuaded him to take his time and go together; put him to sleep, grabbed the dress box and ran; the Seer saw this, the Strongman threw his club, knocking out a horse's skull from under the Runner's head, which the witch laid his head; The runner overtook the witch again, took the box and handed it to ZK; he demands to spend the night in an iron oven; the freezing oven cooled; ZK demands to eat and drink the incredible the amount of meat and wine (Oat and Drank performed); KM got the princess, but as soon as he admitted to getting it for another, she disappeared; The seer saw her in the whale's belly, Vipivalo drank the sea, Runner brought the whale, KM took the princess out of his belly; the princess was gone again; the seer saw her in an apple hanging in the ZK's garden, the Runner brought her; for the third time, the princess in a cocoon hanging in the sky; The strongman knocked down a cocoon With a club, the Runner ran and caught the princess; KM let go of the companions; told the princess that she should find out what the power of SD was; while he was talking to KM, the princess opened 7 iron doors to basement, took gold out of the lead kegs and told the jeweler to gild the threshold; SD was furious and beat the princess, but she changed herself with a feature and lay down on the bed; promised not to gild anything else , if SD says what his strength is, he refused; then she gilded three more thresholds; still the same; 7 thresholds; then the SD confessed: in a silk meadow under the seventh bush there is a hare, he has an egg under his tail, the egg is a hornet, it has its strength; at night, the princess reported this to the KM; he became a hound, caught a hare, then a hornet that flew out; SD died; KM and the princess arrived in the KM kingdom in a luxurious chariot; the sun and the moon immediately shone brightly; the sage explained everything to the old king; KM said that as heir to the kingdom of SD and ZK, he leaves this kingdom to his brothers; the KM and his wife still rule the two kingdoms, if not dead]: Curtin 1890:477-516; Gagauz people [the master has three daughters, he is looking for someone to herd his horses; the eldest daughter is coming, the father turned to a bear, went out to meet him, the girl ran home; then but middle; the youngest goes to the old woman for advice; she tells the horses to give hot coals, take the one that will eat them; the skinny mare began to eat, the girl sat on her, was going to shoot the bear; father blessed her to herd horses for three years; The sun fell in love with her, but does not understand whether it is a girl or a man; the mother of the Sun advises to see how she urinates and what things she buys at the bazaar; the girl urinates on- masculine, she takes only things for men at the bazaar; three years later she shows Soltsy her chest and braid; the mother of the Sun advises to put a gold swing; the girl sat on her, the Sun raised her; her palm advised the girl is seven years old to be silent; then the Sun took another bride; she tells her to be the first to bring a sieve from Mother Sunday; Sunday sends by Friday, she sends by Wednesday, Wednesday says that the sieve took the hobur; hobur tells you to play the violin, follows the sieve, but in fact sharpen his teeth; the mouse volunteered to jump on the strings, run; the hobur killed the mouse, follows; the girl threw the canvas (river; hobur put one lip to the ground, the other to the sky, drank water), brush (forest), stone (rocky place, hobur can't cross); the girl brought a sieve; the second bride: you, dumb, bring her a pot; girl: to take away from you tongue; The sun slaughtered the ram, heard it, rushed to the girl, her hands were covered in blood; the girl became a swallow, the second bride was a goat, both went through the trumpet, the Sun still did not marry]: Moshkov 1904, No. 30:42-44.

Central Europe. Slovaks [the king is old, telling his three sons to go to the world to test themselves; the eldest two are back, Víntalko went on; spent the night under an iron bridge near the iron forest; then silver; gold; every time a dragon rides across the bridge, V. cuts off all heads except the last one, the dragon asks him to spare, gives his claw to call him for help; V. puts his heads in place, they grow ; V. saw a plain, where an old man herds geese, ducks, cows, oxen and other living creatures; this is grandfather V.; he says that King Groshking lives in the castle the size of an ant and his mother, who has one lip to the ground, the other to the sky; at noon she must drive the whole herd into her mouth; V. asks to drive him there, summons the dragon, tells the dragons to smash the monster into small pieces; old man: but don't touch King G. the whip that kills everything; V. did not believe it, summoned the dragons, but G. killed them all instantly, and V. lost consciousness; G. saved his life on the condition that V. would get him a certain girl; old man advises to ask G. for a ship with goods; the girl was lured onto the ship and brought; V. persuaded the girl to find out what G.'s strength is; there is a well far away, a deer will come out carrying wine and a towel; if you drink wine and wipe yourself off with one side of the towel, you will become the ruler of half the world, if the other half of the world; V. got there, the deer is happy, V. dried himself with a towel, came back, killed G., became king, summoned parents]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 19:105-112; Russians (Pskov) [the tsar has two kingdoms; he sends people to find out why in one of the kingdoms the people do not know where to go; the old man sent: you must throw the seine three times; the first two times you will find a lot of fish, throw it away; on the third, three white fish pike; let the princess eat - then the tsar will find out where the people are going; the cook cooked the fish herself I also tried it and gave it to the female; everyone gave birth to a son: Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan Kukharkin, Ivan-Suchkin-Ploshkin (ISP); grew up quickly, went in search; before that, the ISP whistled in three stables, remained in each there was only one horse to stand, the brothers took them for themselves; chose the oldest one who would throw the club higher; when he threw the ISP, they had time to drink tea before it fell; made him the eldest; stopped at the bridge over the river Kalinovka; they take turns guarding, but Ivan Tsarevich and Ivan-Kukharkin fall asleep, all three times at the ISP bridge; each time the snake drives the ISP into the ground "on the trail", and the ISMP cuts down all three heads of the snake; the third snake drove the ISP into the ground waist-deep, and the ISP blew off only two heads, but the horse finished off the snake; as a fly, the ISP overheard the snakes talking; one will thirst, the other will turn into a spring, the third has one mustache in the ground, and the other into the sky: how they will go, so in her mouth; the brothers went, thirsty; the ISP crossed the meadow - blood, crossed the key - blood too; told the brothers to go forward, they drove into the snake's mouth, and he told the blacksmiths to light the horn; the snake gnawed through the iron doors, stuck its tongue, and began to beat her tongue with a hammer; the ISP beat until the snake regurgitated the brothers and died; a gold-haired ram ran out; the ISP threw a club at him, and the ram grabbed her and carried her down the hole; the ISP tells the brothers to lower him on a rope; picked up a club, came to the copper kingdom, there was a girl, a serpent flew in, the ISP killed him; the same in the silver kingdom; in the golden princess hides under the hem, the serpent flies around, the ISP, according to the princess's teaching, grabbed him by the tail, the serpent flew, hit the ground and shattered to pieces; each of the princesses turned her kingdom into a testicle; the princess of gold branded the ISP with her ring and ordered the snake to take the tail: it will deliver it wherever you want; the brothers pulled out the princesses, began to argue over the princess of the golden kingdom, decided to get rid of the opponent, raised The ISP was thrown half the hole; the ISP shifted the snake's tail from hand to hand, found himself on the ground, exchanged clothes with the old woman's son, came to a feast; the princess saw her stigma on him; traitor brothers shot]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 2:10-18; Russians (Bryansk) [the youngest of his sons, Ivan Pópyalov, lay in ash ("in the pool") until the age of 12; the sun hid the snakes; the individual entrepreneur asks his father to make him a club , throws up, puts his forehead, the club breaks; the third club does not break by 15 pounds; kills three-, six-headed snakes; the 12-headed one cuts off 9 heads; the snake asks the Raven to fly to call his Snake to help, IP asks to call his brothers, promises snake meat; Raven flies to his brothers; brothers came, killed a snake, broke his head in his house, light appeared in the world; halfway through, IP returned for with mittens, becoming a cat, overheard the conversation between his wife and daughters of the snake; the brothers want to relax on pillows in the meadow, the IP hits the pillows with a club, blood flows; there are golden and silver apples on the apple tree, the IP beats them, flows blood; the spring is the same; they were snake daughters; a snake is flying, his mouth is flying from earth to sky; brothers throw three pounds of salt, the snake thinks it is an individual entrepreneur, tries, loses time; IP hides in the forge of Kuzma and Demyan; those they offer her to lick 12 doors with her tongue, then take an individual entrepreneur; they grab her tongue with ticks, kill her with hammers, burn her]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 135:264-266; Belarusians (Grodno region) [two brothers go to plow in the forest, mark the road with straw, the sister must walk along it to bring them lunch; the seven-headed Serpent overheard, changed signs, the girl came to the Snake; one, then the second brothers come, The serpent shows its wealth, offers iron bread, hangs his brothers on a beam; their mother's pea turns into a boy Pokatypea (P.), he grows up, the blacksmith makes him a seven-pound mace, he throws it to the clouds, it falls, breaks; he orders stronger; comes to the Serpent, eats iron bread, breaks the deck without an ax, burns it without fire; P. and the Serpent drive each other into the ground, P. drives him whole, kills him with a mace; kills a horse, hides in a carcass, grabs the Crow that has descended, orders him to bring living and dead water; he brings, P. tears the Raven in two, glues, revives brought with water; revives the brothers; on the way back, the brothers tie him to the oak tree, not believing that he is their brother; he drags the oak tree to the house, leaves his parents, leaves; meets and takes Vyrvigora as a friend, Vyrvidub; P. kills a six-, seven-, nine-headed snake, brings tongues to the king; the wives of the Serpents turn into a bed, into an apple tree, P. cuts them, preventing their comrades from sitting down and eating apples; the third Snake falls from earth to heaven; P. throws three kani (stones?) into her mouth , three falcons, comrades; each time the Snake returns to drink; P. hides with blacksmiths; they tell the Snake to wipe the doors with their tongue, grab the tongue with ticks, P. kills her]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 134:254-263.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [a childless padishah takes a vizier and goes to wander; they wear dervish clothes; at the source, a real dervish addresses the padishah; he knows who he is talking to and what the padishah is doing ; gives an apple: eat it yourself, and give the peel to the mare; but do not name my son until I come and name him; a boy and a foal were born; children call sheikhzade "nameless bey"; the teacher says he can't to learn it in this world, you need a abode underground; the padishah ordered to dig the basement, tells him to feed the boy boneless meat; when the boy is 12 years old, there was a bone in the meat; he threw it into the glass the ceiling, which broke, the boy began to catch sunlight without success; the teacher agrees to take the boy out of the basement; he sees the rider, tells the teacher to tell his father to give him a horse, a peregrine falcon and a greyhound; boy 15 years old; dervish enters: Sheikhzade's name is Shah Ismail, horse is Kamer Tai; Shea hunts with companions of her age; chases a gazelle, she disappeared into a tent, turned out to be a girl; SHI lost consciousness; old woman , living with a girl, tells her to run her chest over the young man's face, this is the only way to save him; Shea and Gulizar fall in love; he gave her a ring, she is a precious comb to him; Shea dries with love, one of the boys tells the padishah from meeting G.; she is the daughter of bey nomads; Padishah and Bey agreed to marry; but G.'s mother did not agree, migrated with her daughter towards India; Bey jumps to catch up with them; the vizier suggested arrange for SHI to choose a bride: let all the girls of Kandahar come, and all the men stay at home; but G. no; Shea jumps in search; the palace is without doors, Shea broke the wall, came in; Peri Gulperi cries there; her the brothers fight the devas; Shea hacked all the devas; the brothers gave him Gulperi, but he put a sword between himself and his wife on the bed; when they learn that SHEA was looking for a lover, the brothers report that they saw what passed Arapa with bloody hands; SHI reached Arapa Yuzengi's palace, saw pilaf cooked on blood; AYU offers to fight and then eat; one Ayu lip on the ground, the other on Mount Kesheesh; AYU hit SHI so that his mother's milk flowed from his nose; Shea knocked down Aya, was going to slaughter her, but she turned out to be a beautiful girl; she goes with SHI in search of Gulizar; stayed with an old woman; she says that the Shah of India is marrying son on the daughter of bey nomads; arranged a date between SHI and Gulizar; while they are sleeping, AYU killed the attacking army; SHI returned home with three girls obtained; Ayu feels dangerous, tells me to ask settle them in a separate palace; SHI's mother was jealous, telling the padishah to kill their son; when he saw the girls, the padishah also wanted them for himself; AYU gives a stone that identifies the poison; then the vizier offered to play with SHI in chess, the loser will be tied; Shea won three times and then deliberately lost; admits that his bow's bowstring holds him in this world; he was tied up, his eyes were pulled out, his right pocket was put in his left pocket, and left to right; AYU pretends that they agree to marry the padishah, asks for 100 concubines - she will send jewelry; sends a bag with the severed heads of concubines; smashes the army of the padishah; SHI in The doves hear the doves talking in the desert: let's throw them on the feather, if SHEA rubs his eyes with them, he will see the light; SHEA put his eyes in, but the hangman did not put them as SHEA asked; his appearance has changed; he became a padishah's warrior; fights against AYU; the padishah praises him, lets him take his horse and weapon; Shea takes his horse and his sword Zulfikar, comes to his wives, they recognize him; Oh, cut off the head of the padishah; funeral and wedding; they have achieved their goal, may Allah help you as well]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 84; Kalmyks [an old man and an old woman want to slaughter their mare three times a day; each time the dog burns twine, the mare breaks out; runs away altogether; finds and feeds three newborn boys; flies away in the cloud, telling the youngest that his name is Kokode Wise; the brothers go to look for wives; K. meets an old woman and the girl, who gives him three cakes; K. gives them to the dog 15-headed Musa, who caresses him, he kills Musa; the same episode has 25- and 35-headed muses; the 35-headed one voice sounds in the sky, the other on the earth, one fang plows the sky, the other earth; K. kills three old women, the mothers of the Muses, takes each wife, gives the elders to the brothers; they see the light coming from the younger, they are jealous; they leave braids at the doorstep, K. cuts off his legs; blind and armless comes to him; the daughter of a celestial is kidnapped, she is at home with them; enters a house where an old woman with only an eye on the back of her head asks to look in her head, gives ash and coals, punctured hem; on an ash trail comes to the house, sucks blood; friends watch, tell the old woman to cure everyone; she starves everyone, regurgitates healthy; K. does not regurgitate, the sparrow tells her to cut her finger, he's there; K. came to the brothers disguised as a gypsy; they made his wife a shepherdess; K. tells the brothers to shoot up, arrows fall on them, kill them; daughter-in-law ties hundreds of horses to the tails; (about plowing earth and sky with fangs p. 39)]: Dzhimbinov 1962:31-45; Abkhazians [the hunter tears flowers behind the fence, brings flowers to his sister; they satiate; in his absence, the flower owner, the dragon Agulshap, takes his sister away; he falls asleep, she asks God to save her, she finds herself in a room; a young man gets up from the coffin, goes back to the tomb for a day; when he died, God was able to resurrect him for his father-king only at night; the husband sends his wife give birth to his father; a son is born, bites his mother's nipple, making her say who comes to her at night; a young man sends her to the end of the world; husband and wife lie on a hatchet, others push on a wide skin; a skinny bull is among the best food, obese without food; a deer suffers - one horn rests on the ground, the other against the sky; a young man climbs its horn into the sky; the mother of the Sun and Moon hides the young man from them, gives water to which they they washed their face, he will resurrect his father with it; the deer killed animals, promises not to do so, is released, the young man is lucky; the obese bull did not complain about work during his lifetime, the skinny one was dissatisfied; the friendly spouses are not cramped during his lifetime on a hatchet, grumpy in his skin; a young man disguises himself as a shepherd, resurrects his father; a general feast]: Bgazhba 2002:121-128; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [Cherny Aldar tells his son to get a daughter underground Haji; giants ask to be saved from the Zaliag snake; the horse teaches her to hit her mouth with an arrow; the giants give him their sister as his wife; an old woman guards the bridge, one fang in the sky, the other under the ground, Eagles make nests between their teeth; he defeats her, gets her daughter; gets her horse; the daughter of the underground Haji is happy with the young man; her father gives treasures; Karaich kidnaps her; he turns out to be a girl, takes his rich, goes with a young man; Black Aldar envies his son, asks a crooked hunter to destroy him; he feeds the young man salty, takes his eyes in exchange for water; Black Aldar fights with his daughters-in-law, cannot them win; the old man restores the young man's eyesight, bringing ash leaves from Haji; Haji's daughter cut off Black Aldar's head with scissors; the crooked hunter was beaten and fed to dogs]: 302-312; Byazirov 1971, No. 1 [son witches from the Borata family (UK) and their son Malik (UK) go to marry the sister of seven giants, send their arrows as matchmakers; giants and UK go hunting, tell their sister and UK not to open the seventh door; SM threatens leave, the bride opens, the waig from the Black Mountain (UCHG) is released, takes the girl away; the SK goes to look for her; meets, takes the Sea Drinker as a friend (he shoots after the UCHG, tears off his leg), Zorky, Carrying mountains and valleys on his back, everyone replies that he is not amazing, but SK and SM; UCHG goes underground; only SK was able to push the stone, go down on a rope through the flame; sends the girl upstairs, comrades remove the rope, fill the exit with a stone; the UK tells an old woman, whose fang touches the sky, the other rests on the ground, to tell her how to kill the UCHG (burn, it burns) to get upstairs (grab hold of white ram horn); SK grabs the black horn, which takes it even lower to the world of Donbettyr; there the dragon closed the water; swallows the SK, it cuts it from the inside, refuses to be spewed, spit out, goes over the side, the dragon is exhausted; Tsar Donbettyrov sends the UK to the Black Eagle; the UK hears one of her daughters singing (her serpent will eat her the day after tomorrow), the other laughs (her tomorrow), the third cries (she will be eaten today); SK kills a snake; a downpour begins (eagle tears), the sun shines (the eagle sees that the daughters are alive), the whirlwind (flies); the eagle brings the UK to the ground, which feeds it with supplies given by the Donbettyrs; they are not enough, The SK cuts off the meat from the thighs; the eagle puts it back; the swineherd says that three brought the sister of seven giants, the king took her away, marries; the UK changes clothes with the swineherd, the elder princess chooses him, noticing his golden curls under his hat; everyone tries SK quiver and arrows; SK takes them, puts on gold clothes, exterminates guests with arrows, takes wives for himself and SM]: 5-19; Dzagurov 1973, No. 31 [strongman Dombay untwisted a fallen buffalo by the tail and threw it somewhere; his wife brags about her husband; another woman: there is even stronger than him; D. goes to look for the strongest; the giant sends him to his brothers - she cannot to fight without their permission; the middle one refers to the elder, the eldest to their mother; her fang touched the sky, the other went underground; D. rushed to suck her breasts; the mother of the giants says that her sons were going to make kebabs out of D., told them to run; the giant pulls 20 arb of salt, hid D. in the hollow of his tooth; tied the pursuers with his hair when they ran up; D. asks why the old man is one-eyed; that said that there were 12 brothers, they went into the cave to spend the night, it turned out that it was a skull; the dog grabbed the skull, ran up to the house; the girl went out, put her foot on the skull; the brothers died, the narrator lost eye; D. no longer boasted of strength], 45 [see motif K38; the hero's companions pulled a woman upstairs, threw off the rope when the hero began to rise; in the corner of the house he sees the mother of the Waiga (cannibal giant), one fang her above the sky, the other in the underworld; she tells him to grab the right horn of a ram, which accidentally grabs the left, does not rise to the ground, but falls into the seventh lower world], 107 [(episode in the long text; the beauty is guarded by a woman whose fang goes to the sky and the other underground)]: 76-79, 162-177, 463-468; Kumyks [returning, the Goat asks the goats Engelik and Sengelik to open the door; replies to Wolf that the children's names are Zasov and Big Hook; warns the children that she will put her white leg under the door with her golden fingers; Wolf calls the children by name, but they say that the mother is white a leg with golden fingers; The wolf rolled his paw in flour, made finger rings out of straw, the goats opened them, the Wolf swallowed them; the Goat says that one of its horns plows the sky, the other earth; The wolf says that children the Bear ate, the Bear ate like the Wolf; the Goat ripped the Wolf's stomach with its horns, the goats jumped out alive]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 61:177-178; Lucky [mother died; neighbor persuades her daughter to ask her father to take her to wives; he postpones, but then agrees; stepmother prepares a cake of sand and ash for her stepdaughter; persuaded her husband to leave her daughter in the forest; she climbed a tree; wolves, bears, foxes pass successively, they promise not to eat it; but Zaza-white cow comes, digs the sky with one horn, the earth with the other; the girl's tears are dripping on her, Z. tells her to jump on her chest; leads her to the dungeon; allows her to eat everything, but not touch jugs; the girl put her finger in, it turned silver; then Z. tells her to swim in jugs; the girl turned silver, gold; the girl pulled expensive jugs and other dishes out of the cow's right ear clothes and jewelry; Z. passed her off as Khan's son]: Omar-ogly 1868:51-52 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 59:174-178, =Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:152-154); Georgians: Bogoyavlensky 1894, No. 7 (Imereti) [angels the girls say that her three brothers will soon die: the eldest is hunting, the middle one is fishing, the youngest on the wedding day - a snake will crawl out of her new shoes; if her sister tells, she will turn into a pole of salt; the eldest was killed while hunting by a deer, the middle one drowned in the river; before the wedding, the sister throws her brother's shoes into the fire, the monster screams; the brother's wife considers his sister a sorceress, the sister says she is stony; brother goes to look for a way to revive her; on the way she sees a thin bull grazing on the juicy grass; a woman with bread in her hands, but screaming from hunger; another woman sweeps rubbish and the wind brings it back into the house; A deer that has one horn in the clouds and the other has entered the ground; he tells his horns to climb into heaven; a young man comes to an old woman; she promises to ask the angels about the fate of the young man's sister and those he is I met on the way; the bull did not work well, let him get drunk from the spring; the woman did not give the poor, let him distribute all her bread; the other did evil, we must take the garbage out the back door; the deer killed his older brother and other people, let him put his upper horn behind his back, then pull out the lower one; the young man sprinkled his sister with water, which the angels used to wash her feet, she came to life]: 56-65; Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 32 [the offended old woman tells the prince fall in love with the sister of nine devas; his peer son of an old woman (SS) walks with him; the mother of the devas asks to raise the millstones, wants to run over the SS, he himself seems to accidentally knock out her millstone teeth; one of her fang pierced the underworld, the other rests on the sky; the devas give their sister to the prince; he takes her key, finds the Kremen-deva locked; he grabs the prince's wife, flies away; the SS takes the priest carrying the church as his companions, water bread (drinks the river), rumor (listens to ant war), eyed (watches the arrow fly for a year), tearing mountains, running from a millstone on his feet; they find Kremen Deva, descend the SS underground; the kidnapped person finds out where he keeps his soul (deer, roe deer, hare, casket, three chicks); the SS kills the deva, frees horses and women, the devas feast at the wedding, the prince reigns]: 83-94; Chikovani 1986 [p. 111: on An old woman is sitting on the roof of the house, one tooth goes to the sky, the other rests on the ground]: 105-111; Armenians: Melik-Oganjanyan 2004, No. 29 [David came to his father's city of Khandut-Khatun; at the gate there is a black man, alone the lip is raised to the sky, the other hangs to the ground; both bowed to each other out of fear of each other; David did not like it; when H. saw D. come to her window, she threw an apple at him; three For 7 years, feriz sat there, but she did not throw an apple to any of them]: 72; Shahinyan 1924 [one of the beauties terrified the neighboring kings for a long time, robbing an arap in a mask, whose "upper lip was on in the sky, and the lower one on earth"]: 118; Turks: Borovkov 1938 [the padishah forbade burning a fire for three nights, three sisters worked, lit it, the courtiers advised to eavesdrop; the eldest wants to marry an economist, plenty eat, average for a tailor, dress well, youngest for a padishah to give birth to children whose tears turn into pearls, and if they laugh, roses fall; sisters ask the old woman for help, she puts a woman in labor throws two puppies, a son and a daughter in a box on the river bank; the padishah tells her to bury his wife to the waist, does not care about her; the gardener finds children, gives the padishah roses; the sisters guess, send the grandmother, that threatens the gardener with the anger of the Shah, who takes the children to the cave, feeds them with a doe; the boy sells pearls; the old woman persuades his sister to ask his brother 1) bring the Dilryukyush-khanim bush; 2) her own mirror; 3) her own; her brother is attached to the giantess's chest, she helps; those who come to D. turn into stones, the young man has almost turned, D. revived him and others, became his wife, she is the daughter of Peri; D.'s servant is the giant Of, one lip drags along the ground, the other rises to the sky; D. cured her husband's mother, told everyone what happened, the Shah kissed his wife and children, forgave his wife's sisters]: 120-135; Dmitriev 1967, No. 2 [the woman has a daughter and three sons, the youngest rode in ash; the older brothers ask the mother to send them their sister to bring them dinner; she went the wrong way and came to the three-legged deva and his three-headed wife; the deva's wife asks the girl to fan the fire, the devil swallows her; the older brother goes to look for the girl; in the bakery he cannot eat all the bread on offer, drink all the wine, crosses the river on an iron bridge, not a wooden bridge, eats sweets, and not sour apples; he is the same as with the girl; the middle brother is the same as with the older brother; the youngest ordered a club from the blacksmith, threw it up, caught it with his finger, it crashed; ordered a new one; ate everything in the tavern; went across a wooden bridge, ate sour apples; dev threw his club, the guy put his little finger, it crashed; he killed the deva with his club; refused to hit a second time; ripped the deva's belly apart, released the living brothers and sister; killed the deva's wife; the brothers went to the well, began to let the elder go to get water, he screamed - hot; the same middle; the youngest was lowered, there were three beauties and a deva, the guy killed the deva with a club; sent girls upstairs; the youngest gave a box, in it flint to call an Arab, he will follow orders; white and black rams will come to the pool; if you sit on black, he will carry him down seven layers of land; the guy accidentally sat on black; called an Arab - one lip on the ground, the other in the sky; the guy ordered him to bring him the clothes of a merchant, hired him as an apprentice to the shop; dev gives water to the city once a year, for which he demands a girl, turn the daughter of the padishah; the guy killed the deva, got the daughter of a padishah; told him to wait 7 years - he would bring another love from above; the snake crawls to the nest, the guy killed the snake with a mace, the birds told the mother that he fell asleep the guy saved them; the bird agrees to take him to the ground, let him cook meat and water; the bird takes him to the ground, brings him back with the girl; there was not enough meat, the guy cut off a piece from his thigh, the bird put it back; wedding with two wives]: 39-48; Stebleva 1986, No. 26 [dying, the padishah asks three sons to guard his grave; usually the devas ate the liver of the dead; older brothers are afraid, the younger agrees to show the devas the daughter of the padishah, cuts off everyone's heads when they lean over the wall; the padishah gives three daughters for him and his brothers; on the way home, the Grandfather Gardener takes the hero's wife; the eagle brings Shahzade to him, he takes his wife, rides with her, Grandfather Gardener again easily catches up on his winged horse and takes the woman; shahzade is hired by the groom to the king, chooses an oath, this is the mother of the horse Grandfather Gardener, Shahzade leaves the chase on it, the mare tells his son to throw off the Gardener's Grandfather, he dies; a huge snake wraps around the place to sleep; promises to poke his wife while Shahzade goes to learn the story of Gul- Sinan; she knows the padishah, who kills listeners; story: the son of the padishah withers; the father goes to his bed; he will be his wife (thinking it is the son), he walks, she is on horseback, in the cave she meets an arap, who has one lip on the ground and the other in the sky; at home, his wife and mother-in-law recognize the Shah on the trail of the scourge, turn him into a dog; the servant recognizes him, turns him back into a man; the padishah turns his wife and mother-in-law into a raven, arapa in the head; the padishah is going to kill the young man, he calls the horse, disappears; the snake turns out to be the brother of that padishah's wife; he has now learned the secret], 38 [the padishah asks three daughters how much they love him; The dervish in a dream tells the youngest to say that she loves him like salt; the padishah tells her daughter to be killed; the hangman lets her go, smears her shirt with bird blood; the girl comes to a poor house; the old woman tells her that her son Mehmed has been lying for 10 years; he is a lazy person, a girl drives him to the bazaar; M. goes with merchants; every year a man is released into the well to pay for water; a dervish says what to do; in a well, an arap with one lip on the ground, another in the sky asks who M. likes better, a girl or a toad; M. replies that a toad; an arap gives him three grenades, lets water; M. brings grenades home, with precious stones in them; padishah disguised as a dervish, she goes to travel; the girl recognizes her father, tells her not to salt food, the padishah cries, everyone is happy]: 97-105, 153-160; Kunos 1901 [after the death of her father, the younger brother is idle; the elder decides to sail by ship to Egypt, but the youngest crept onto the ship; in Egypt, the youngest waits for the elder for a long time, decides to go, meets three people fighting over his father's inheritance: an invisible hat, a flying carpet and lashes, spur the carpet; the young man fires an arrow: whoever of the debators is the first to run back with her will get everything; takes objects himself and, invisible, flies away; the padishah promises a daughter and half a kingdom to the one who will find out where the daughter goes at night; invisible, the young man follows the princess, flies with her and efreet on the shield; efreet is surprised why it is so heavy; the young man breaks off branches in the forest, where the trees are made of silver and diamonds; trees cry: the son of man tortures us; the next forest is gold and precious stones (the same); in the palace, the princess is given a pair of slippers, the young man hides one; they give the second pair, he hides again; the princess walks barefoot; black peri, one lip to the sky, the other to the ground, asks furiously where the princess has been for so long; the servant gives a sorbet, the young man pushes his hand, the cup is broken, he hid shard; eats the food he brought, hides spoons and forks; Peri is also concerned, advises the princess to return as soon as possible; the young man cut off his head, the voice "Woe, the son of man killed the king" rang out; on the carpet- The young man returned on the plane before the princess, pretended to be sleeping; the young man tells everything, showing the padishah evidence of what he saw (tree twigs, etc.); recognizes his older brother in the crowd; asks the padishah give the princess and half the kingdom to the elder, and his magic items will be enough for him; and that's what happened]: 102-111; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [the prince fell in love with a pomegranate girl; the vizier speaks that she is from divas; bought sakyza (pistachio resin), came to the house where the old woman, her lower lip crawls on the ground, the upper lip reaches the sky; the vizier threw resin into her mouth, she chewed and did not eat it; he became with an awl, hid in the cracks; the old woman's sons came, believed her that there was no one; in the morning the old woman showed the way west; there was a second old woman (the same episodes, the vizier became a piece of carpet); the third (the vizier hid, becoming a fly) pointed out a tree with three grenades at the top; becoming a mosquito, the vizier took away the grenades; the first two had nothing, the third was beautiful; asked for clothes; the vizier left her at the top of the plane tree, went to the city; the vizier's maid saw her reflection, pushed the girl into the well, took her place; she got out and turned into a rose bush; the prince married a liar, surprised that she was black; the vizier cut the roses, sent it to the prince's wife, who threw away the bouquet, he became a plane tree; the wife ordered her to be made a cradle for the child; the old woman took one board, brought it to her place; while she was leaving, the board became a girl , cleaned and cooked everything; the neighbors advised to make sure that the girl stayed with the old woman; the prince was going to Mecca, distributing horses for fattening; the girl told the old woman to take one, she was sworn, from the girl she has become the best horse; women are going to embroider the prince's dress; a pomegranate girl folds pearls with a song, sings about what happened; a wedding of 40 days and nights, a liar tied to her tail an immense horse]: 83-94; Nabiev 1988:23-33 [the poor man leads his son Ahmed to study; drinks from a spring, says, Ohai, what water; O. takes his son to study, tells him to come for him in a hundred days; takes him to a spring; A. sees a wall of skulls; one skull tells her daughter O. to ask for help; O. forbids looking into the fortieth room; she has daughter O.; she tells A. to pretend that he has not learned everything; O. swears, but A. lets go; he turns into a horse, tells his father to sell himself, but without a bridle; once sold him to an old man with a bridle, A. disappeared; O.'s daughter teaches A. to wave his head to make the bridle fall; A. runs like a deer, O. behind a hunter; fish - fisherman; apple hid in a chest; bird - kite, grain - chicken, jackal strangled chicken; daughter O. agrees to marry him if he solves the mystery of white diva apples; he she goes on a journey, she tests him; 1) tries to seduce in the guise of a peri; 2) threatens in the guise of a hero, A. is not afraid; 3) becomes an old woman, her lower lip sweeps the ground, her upper lip rests on the sky; asks which apple is one-, two-, three-year-old; A. puts them in water, an annual sinks, a three-year-old floats up, a two-year-old in the middle; an old woman turns into a daughter O.; they disgrace the people killed by O. they are married to Father A. (=Seyidov 1983:21-33)], 163-164 [=Tahmasib 1964:3-33; =Azerbaijani tales 1987:3-32; Ahmed and Mammad are friends, merchants and both childless; once outside the city they went down to a spring; Ahmed got an apple in his hands; friends ate him in half, A. had a son, M. had a daughter; A. died, M. moved to another city; Ibrahim son A. grew up, came to M., asked his daughter to marry; he said that she was crooked and lame; but I. insisted; at the wedding, it turned out that M.'s daughter was a painted beauty; M. gave his son-in-law a belt; at night, at rest, I. found out that light was coming from his waist; a diva appeared - this is his belt! but I. hacked the diva; at the next halt, the three-headed brother of the first diva attacked, I. and hacked him; on the third night, the bird took away I.'s belt; I. ran after her, lost his way; his wife put on his clothes, pretended to be I., covered her face with a bandage - allegedly a speck fell into her eye; I.'s mother also did not understand the deception; the imaginary I. said that M.'s daughter was a freak and he rejected her; she began to do I.'s business in the shop; I. came to an old woman; old woman: your belt was carried away by a seven-winged witch; she is on Mount Enbergyugh; she is burning a fire under the cauldron; to defeat her, you must extinguish this fire, and to do this, knock an apple off an apple tree nearby; otherwise the witch will throw it into the cauldron; I. did everything, instead of a fire, a pond, a raft on it, a belt on the raft; I. jumped on the raft, but the witch grabbed it and lifted it into the air; the lower lip sweeps the ground, the upper lip scratches the sky ; she will give I. the belt if I. kills a white diva, and only the one who extinguished her fire can kill him; the witch brought a diva like a mountain to the country; I. came to the old man, he has a young man; tells her story; in the morning I. came to the cave diva; there the girl is hung by her braids, her left heel is pierced, blood is dripping into the bowl; girl: this blood will dazzle the diva; I. fights with him, splashed blood into his eyes; the diva disappeared and I.'s bride lies in this place: the voice of a witch: don't believe it; I. hit with a sword is really a diva; the girl turned out to be the bride of a young man who had been talking about himself the day before; I. returned to his fiancée; wedding; pilaf ate, put it on his tongue, but did not get it in his mouth]; Turks [the three daughters of the padishah are single, no one takes it; the uncle leads the eldest and leaves her in a deserted place for a day; she sees the camels come, the donkey in front , they threw off the packs themselves and left; in the evening an arap entered the palace: one lip on the ground, the other in the sky; the girl is terrified, does not agree to stay; the same with her middle sister; the younger one cleans and cooks; the arap drinks she falls asleep with a sherbet; she does not know that shahzadeh, the nephew of the arap, is going to bed with her at this time; the girl invites her mother and sisters to visit her, but does not know how to receive them; after learning about this, shahzade tells the arap tidy up the palace, dress up the girl in a luxurious dress; sisters are envious; the arap turned into a cat to lure the girl to the pond; there are Shahzadeh and the daughter of Padishah Peri; the girl covered her from the sun their child's face with a handkerchief; Peri's daughter woke up, took the child and left shahzade with the girl; the spell was removed; the feast; they achieved their wishes]: Stebleva 1986, No. 41:169-174.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians ["Gul and Senuber", a popular dastan in Iran and Central Asia; the literary source is a Persian novel from the 13th and 14th centuries, translated into Russian by N.P. Ostroumov in the 19th century; authored by Turkmen dastan is attributed to an 18th century poet. Sheidai; Khurshid Shah's son dreams of a peri, goes to look for her; his ship sinks, he enters the garden, turns into a deer, Mehrengiz (the sorceress's daughter) shatters him; continuing his journey, he comes to blacks; the guts ask them to be raised on a tree, entangled it with their legs and guts; he sticks their heads between the branches, tears them off; grabs the Simrug bird by the legs, she leaves it at the nest; the dragon with With one lip to the ground and the other to the sky, he ate two chicks every year; the prince kills him; grateful Simrug, whom he feeds and wateres on the way, brings him to Gul-peri; on the way back they take M.; Khizir revives drowned sailors and Zeever, a friend of the prince; he appoints Z. vizier]: Korogly 1991:12 (comm.), 112-126; Sistan's Tajiks [the barber shaved the king, but one hair remains; the king wants him execute; the vizier advises to give him life, or rather to get a brown whale, his meat is getting younger; the king sent his son for the whale; people caught a black, white whale; when he saw that the brown whale was crying, the prince let him go ; ran away from his father's anger; drives up to the fire, a diva sits by the fire, one lip on the ground, the other in heaven; he took on a human form, tells him to be called not a brother, but a slave; the princess makes riddles and sets conditions for marriage, those who have not met are executed; easily lowers the camel into the well and then throws it on a tree, destroys and restores the rock, the prince must do the same, eat a huge the amount of food; the divas does everything; tells the prince not to touch his wife below the navel after the wedding; the prince puts his sword on the bed, says he must bring home a virgin; on the way home, the divas demands to divide the princess, swings her sword, a dragon crawls out of the girl's mouth, the diva kills him; after that, the princess loses her inhuman power; the diva was that brown whale; gave his blood; after drinking it, father the prince became young]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 1:14-24; mountain Tajiks (Darvaz, upper reaches of Vanja) [the vizier's son must marry the Shah's daughter, but the vizier is dead; the son asks his mother at least ask the Shah for some money, he gives three gold coins three times; the vizier's son buys a cat for the first time, then a puppy, then a dragon in a chest, the dragon falls from earth to heaven; for saving his son, a dragon father gives a ring, a young man sells it for a lot of money, the Shah gives a daughter for it]: Semenov 1900 (2): 6-7 (=1903, No. 3:100-103, =Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 27:112-113); Baluchi: Gafferberg 1975 [ Buzlangi (buz - "goat") looks like a man overgrown with hair with lips reaching the ground; for a number of informants, the upper reaches the sky, the lower reaches the ground]: 228; Zarubin 1932, No. 16 [the dying father orders three sons to guard his grave for three nights; the eldest refuse, the youngest kills a wonder every night, whose upper lip goes to heaven and lower lip to the ground; the king promises daughters to whoever jumps on horseback 40 wells; the young man fulfills the condition three times, gets all three]: 198-201; Turkmens [bald asks his grandfather to marry him the daughter of a padishah; he tells him to study a craft that is not among the people; bald A diva comes to his daughter; one lip of the diva sweeps the ground, the other reaches the sky; teaches the young man science; the young man pretends to have learned only half of the book; the diva beats him but lets him go; when he returns to his father, the son can turn into a horse, a camel; tells you to sell it in these looks, but not sell bridles; immediately returns, the father earns good money; a diva in the form of an old man buys a camel with a bridle; daughter The diva lets the bald man go, he flies away with a dove; the diva chases the golden eagle; the young man chases the padishah with a flower, the diva begs for a flower; the young man begs for millet, the diva chases the chicken, the young man became a fox, ate the chicken; the padishah gives him a daughter]: Lebedev 1954, No. 13:148-157.

Baltoscandia. Scandinavians [When the gods die, there will be a brutal winter, three winters at a time without summer. There will be great wars before then. The first wolf will swallow the sun, the second month. The earth will tremble, the mountains will fall, all the shackles will be broken. The World Serpent will climb to land, the sea will move to the ground, Fenrir will be free. The Naglfar ship will sail from the nails of the dead (so dying people must cut their nails). The ship is ruled by the giant Hryum. Fenrir's mouth from earth to sky. The sky is splitting, and Muspell's sons are rushing from above. Surt's sword is brighter than the sun. The Bivröst Bridge is collapsing. Loki, Hrum, Fenrir, World Serpent, and frosty giants gather in the Wigrid field. Heimdal blows his horn, wakes up the gods, they come to the ting (meeting field). One jumps to Mimir's source, asking for advice. He drives at the head of the Einerians against Fenrir, next to Thor fights the world's serpent, Freir dies in a fight with Surt, because he does not have a sword given to Skirnir. The dog Garm breaks free, he and Thur hit each other to death. Thor kills a snake, dies himself from its venom, Fenrir swallows Odin. Vidar steps on the wolf's lower jaw; Vidar's shoe is made of scraps from the cut of all shoes (whoever wants to help the aces must throw these scraps). With his hand, Vidar grabs the wolf's upper jaw and tears its mouth apart. Heimdall (white ace) fights Loki, they kill each other. Surt burns the whole world]: Younger Edda 1970:51-53; Estonians (Risti) [the plowman plowed, but it turned out to be a lake; a pike jumped out from there; a voice told her to give it to the maid to cook for her grandmother, only she should eat; the grandmother was a witch; the maid tasted the ear, the dog and the mare swallowed the foam; the maid, the mare and the dog gave birth to a son, the dog's son's name was Juhan; they grew up, went to look for wives; the maid's son had a horse walks two miles at once, the mare's son has a mile, Yu does not have a horse; the old man tells the maid's son where to get a horse under a stone to take three miles in one step; they spend the night at the bridge, guard one by one; the son the maid defeated the one-headed line; the mare's son was frightened, instead of him Yu defeated the double-headed line, the next night the six-headed line; spent the night with the old woman, did not know that she was the mother of devils; left her; they see as she pursues them, one lip to the clouds, the other on the ground; swallowed the servant's son and the son of a mare; Yu came to the forge; the blacksmith invited the pursuer to make a hole in the wall with his tongue, grabbed tongue with ticks, Yu began to beat her with an iron club; she regurgitated the swallowed, she was alive, she left herself; they took their wives, they came back; the mother of the devils in the swamp calls them, Yu beats her again; on the way there are soft seats, then beds; Yu does not let them sit down, lie down because he heard that they are going to kill them when they fall asleep; the same is food tables; they married the girls brought at home]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 15:85-89; setu [ the queen is childless, the tsar brings fish, tells the cook to cook, not to eat herself; the queen ate the fish, the cook ate the broth, the dog has bones, each gave birth to a son: Ivan Tsarevich (IC), Ivan Povarov (IP), Old Sukin Son (S.); brothers come to the bridge; IP is the first to guard, the devil goes (vanasitt), IP hits, he did not notice, S. kills the Devil; the same the next night when the IC guards; on the third - a 12-headed devil; S. leaves a knife - blood drips, let the brothers come to the rescue; the hell grows severed heads; S. throws a shoe at the brothers, another, but they hid under the stove; S. gathered his strength, killed the devil; at the first two the devils were wives, one became an apple tree, the other a well; S. destroyed an apple tree, a well; a 12-headed wife had one lip half the world and the other half the world (ühe huule ühe ilmaveere peale, teise huule teise ilmaveere peale), opened her mouth; S. poured flour into it; S. and the IC slipped through, the IP was swallowed; S. ordered the blacksmith to cook ticks; the 12-headed wife opened her mouth, her ticks by the tongue, regurgitated the IP, that in flour, S. killed her]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 4:47-50.

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi: Ivanov 1957:291 in Salmin 1989:50 [(slander from the evil eye); "a red bull parades from the east; one rips the earth into forty arshins with its horn, and the other rips the sky into forty arshins; if that red bull will be able to get there and stab, even if the bad eye falls on this person"; when repeated, they say "from the south", "from the west" and, accordingly, "colorful bull", "black bull"], 97 [mothers and the elder wives of the snakes block the hero's way; their mouths are open, their lower lips touch the ground, the upper lips touch the sky]; Eisin 1993 [Exrem Patsha dreams of a 12-headed serpent on a seventh horse; tells them to build a tower at the top, the mirror, whoever sees that horse in it, will receive half the kingdom; Ivan Batyr sees, receives soldiers to help, goes to the bridge; soldiers sleep, I. guards; every night he consistently kills 3-, 6-, 9-, 12- head serpent; crushed by the latter's carcass, the seminary horse frees him, makes I. a fly so that he knows what snake wives are cooking on the shore of a bloody lake; one will become a meadow and a river, the other will become an apple tree, the third rests one lip against the ground, the other against the sky; I. cuts a meadow, an apple tree; the horse teaches to ask the third snake to let his comrades pass, lower his upper lip, jumps himself, I. cuts the snake; the old man Chige-Khursukhal himself from the elbow, the beard from the fathom teases, jumps up on the seed horse, promises to give it back if I. brings the bird's daughter Maxim Patsha; I. meets, takes a cup of water, Frost, Glutton as his companions; M. requires 1) cook and eat lots of bread, 60 bulls (Glutton eats), 2) sit in a hot bath (Frost cools, cup collects excess water); I. takes daughter M., Glutton and a cup stop the chase, regurgitating swallowed by bottling water; daughter M. Mary tells her to be given to C. with her feet forward; she quietly turns into a needle, I. brings her home on a seventh horse; E. wants to take Mary away, she makes sure that a bullet from his gun kills him; I. gets the kingdom]: 64-77; Mordovians (moksha) [the prince is strong, maims his playmates, leaves with an iron club; takes two heroes as twin brothers; each takes turns guarding the bridge; the brothers sleep, Each time the prince kills a 6-, 9-, 12-headed snake himself, hides his heads under the bridge; overhears how snake wives promise to become a spring, an apple tree, a bed, poison, strangle heroes; the mother of snakes will kill one lip to the sky, the other to the ground, one chest will lower to the ground, raise the other to the sky; whips over the spring, apple tree, bed, blood flows; the prince's horse jumps over the old woman, she is sister swallows; by order of the prince, the blacksmiths ask the old woman to stick out her tongue, press her with ticks, she regurgitates the swallowed ones; the prince's horse disappears; she solders the watchmen, takes her away from the wizard; he looks in the mirror, catches up on a three-legged horse; promises to give the horse if the prince brings the youngest sister from a glass house at the bottom of the sea; companions someone who is cold on fire, who drinks endlessly who turns into fish; twin brothers complete the old woman's tasks (one cools the hot bath, the other drinks and eats forty barrels of beer and forty pounds of bread); the perch sister catches the bride who swims away with fish ; the wife creates a ditch with hot coals, the magician on a three-legged horse dies in it; the old man cuts the girl, takes out snakes, frogs, worms, etc., revives the clean one, gives it to the prince]: Samorodov 1972 : 221-235; Bashkirs [the old man stabbed a cow, a drop of blood fell on the roof of the house, the boy Akyelyak arose from it; the padishah takes him for service; the padishah has a bull, one horn goes to the sky, the other reaches land; the padishah tells him to drink, the bull butts, A. kills him with a click; the adviser advises sending A. to buy firewood with horses without an ax to be eaten by wolves; A. kills wolves; then bears; adviser offers to instruct the mare to be brought into 60 girths; Father A. tells you to ask the padishah for a tireless horse and endless food; the horse brings A. to the maskey (cannibal witch), who sends it to her eldest sister, sister to the watering hole; A. saddles a huge mare, kills Azhdaha, makes a whip out of his skin; the padishah makes A. the heir]: Barag 1988, No. 26:178-180.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Kaskabasov 2000 [When people, after burying the deceased, walk 40 steps from his grave, Mungir-Nangir comes to the deceased for questioning, and one lip rests against the sky and the other - to the ground]: 160 {in Masalskaya 2005}; Kaskabasov et al. 1979 [Bucks considers a ram to be the strongest of the ancestor spirits, who "rested one horn in the ground and supported the sky with the other" (Songs of the Steppes. Re. L. Sobolev. Moscow, 1940:130-140)]: 11; (cf. salars (Ujirem, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [the old man had two wives but did not have children; he went to heaven to ask for a child; there were three boys in heaven, the youngest was given to an old man; an old man returned home; in the morning a golden eagle flew in; dipped one wing in milk, hit the old man and elder wife with it; hit his youngest wife with the second wing; she became pregnant; the elder wife took her to the mountains; the youngest gave birth there boy, began to live in a cave; Mungiskarjah said he would eat her son; the boy told his mother to wash him and put him on a plate; then turned into a frog; the mother said to M.: "Don't chew [only], I'll put it in your mouth. The frog is tiny, [you] swallow [it] whole"; as soon as M. swallowed the frog, it turned into a human; he hung M.'s upper jaw (letters. mouth) from the sky, and the lower jaw (letters. mouth) from the sky, and the lower jaw (letters. mouth) attached it to the ground; this is how he killed him]: Tenishev 1964, No. 11:26-27).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians: Potanin 1916, No. 59 (west from a baptized Altai to the village. Onguday in the river valley Ursul) [Altai-Buchi went to fight Demichi-ter; his wife Edil-Jebil and sister Edil-Kojil wrote a letter with the duck to Aranai-Charanay, Elden-Chaldan's son, that they would be better off without Ab; they gave Ab wine with sweat workers and a horse; Ab fell into a hole; AH ordered Ab's sixth horse to be tied, his thumbs cut off; three more horses, two dogs and two golden eagles Ab were also confused and taken away, but Demichi-Jeren's horse (DD) tricked them into freeing them, becoming a sparrow, took Ab's thumbs away; Ab's wife gave birth to Kan-Sorysh, DD, becoming a sparrow, carried him through the smoke hole in the yurt; the mother cut off her son's leg, but DD stole his leg; from the sky from the milk lake, where the birch tree is in bloom, brought the girl Temene-ko, she revived everyone, put the cut back, married the COP; Ab tied his wife to the tails of nine horses; went underground to fight with Aranai-Charanay; fished with a fishing rod with a bait of 6 bulls, this fish is gone; marries Kan-Jackpay's sister; goes to look for his missing son; the serpent climbs into the nest of the Kan-Gerede bird, Ab kills him; the chick replies that when his mother arrives, it will rain a little, there will be wind; the bird sends Ab to Yerlik to look for Altyn-Gerel; the wife gave needles (stick in front of two camels, have time to pass between them) , a hundred eyes (let two crows and two magpies bite), threads (give two girls so that they do not tear out their tendons), coals (give coal burners so that they do not burn themselves), iron (to blacksmiths, so as not to split themselves); a woman, a goat and a foal in front of her, she stole them from a mare and a goat during her lifetime; it is not enough for some spouses to hide 9 sheepskins, others feel good under one; children who looked sideways at their parents are hooked for eyes; the woman who killed the child is hanged by the navel; who condemned people, and freestyle himself, the soles are pinned with iron; the woman has a man's bone, the man has a female bone, both freestyle; the murderers boil in sulfur; Ab beats E. with twigs that have grown out of her hands, she promises to help him; Ab made a live head go to Kutai, dead to Yerlik; (etc.); Kan-Jackpay nailed Jergenis-Boko's lower lip (boko is a strongman) to the ground, lower to the sky; Kan-Sorysh cut his stomach inside and got out]: 181-186; Radlov 1866 ("Samples.. ", 3 (Proben.. vol.1:39, 73) in Surazakov 1985 (Aktai-Katunja) [Ker-Dyutpa (Gnedoe Swallo) blinded an old man and an old woman; young Tektebey-Mergen is surprised at the first departure from home the horse's behavior; he explains that they almost drove into the mouth of a CT scan, whose upper lip moves across the sky, the lower lip on the ground; TM hawk nailed the upper lip to the sky; CD asked him to gird himself when he killed him with his stomach, throw the golden box into the lake; TM ripped the belly of the KG, released people; some are dissatisfied, because it was warm inside; threw his stomach on the iron poplar - the poplar burned; the intestines into the lake - it dried ; broke a gold box, silver inside, found the eyes of an old man and an old woman in a white shawl]: 40-41; Nikiforov 1915 [see motif K27, fairy tale by Ain Shain Shikshirge; one of the tasks of the hero is to bring Ker-bylyk monster; that lower jaw stuck to the ground, supported his upper jaw to the sky]: 41; Radlov 1895 (Experience of the Dictionary of Turkic Dialects): 1083 in Novikov 1949 [kär-tutpa is a monster, the upper lip grabs the sky, the lower lip grabs the earth]: 160; Sagalaev 1984 [inhabitants of the reservoirs of the underworld, guards of the approaches to the possessions of Erlik-Dutpa (yutpa, ker- dutpa, dzhutpa); in the heroic tale "Temir-Biy", recorded by N.Ya. Nikiforov in 1910 in the village. Baragash, at Ker-jutp, "the upper lip swallows white clouds like drinking, the lower lip licks the upper layer of the earth" (bible. Tomsk. un., Potanin archive); among the Altai-Kizhi, Shors, Kumandins and Teleuts, Ker-Balyk, Ulu-Arjan were synonymous with Ker-Dutp; southern Tuvans had the mythical beast Melkhi, owner of the underground sea (Dyakonova 1976:279)]: 74; Chelkan residents [after turning to a shaman and sacrificing a horse, the wife gives birth to seven sons, the elder Maka-Maatyr; next time he asks a girl, but donates not a mare, but a dog, gives birth to a six-eyed Karagys; MM sees K. getting up from the cradle, eating a calf, lying back; then a foal, a goby; MM says he will leave for a while, leaves altogether; marries the youngest of three daughters, Ulug-Piya; other sons-in-law advise her father-in-law to tell MM to bring 1) the feathers of the Purush bird; the wife says that her nest is at the top of one of the seven larch trees; a seven-headed snake crawls from lake to nest, MM kills seven heads with arrows, climbs into the nest; chicks say that this snake always eats chicks; Father P. flew in with the wind and light snow, then the mother, with wind and rain (these are her tears), gives two feathers; 2) the tooth of a wolverine living at the confluence of seven rivers to make a tagan; the wife says that one horn is stuck in her ground, the other is raised to the sky, it is necessary cling to both; wolverine gives two teeth; 3) Kuday's youngest daughter Altyn-Tana; his wife teaches how to make a home where K. gets water; his three sons will come; ask for a fur coat made from collected from the mountains show half of the sister's face; for the button under her arm sewn from the meadows; from the rivers, let him drink araka from a thimble; AT is intoxicated, MM takes her away; the brothers who have received fur coats catch up, AT sends them away; turns UP cattle into black ground, them into fox; MM marries AT; she says that only six-eyed K. remains at MM's father's camp; AT gives him a six-legged trotter; K. eats his parents' bones, sees MM chimney, chases, cuts off, eats the horse's sixth and fifth leg, fights with her brother; AT tells her to leave, she returns home; AT and MM live on]: Sadalova 2002, No. 20:173-201; Teleuts: Funk 1992:72-76 [Sida-katu mulotu and his younger brother hear everything shake; The wolf tells S. that the creator of Yayuchi is calling him to ninth heaven; Wolf's lower lip goes to the ground, from the upper lip to sparks fly in the sky; S. goes after the second invitation; defeats the heavenly bagatyr; I. gives him the Wolf for a favor; S. does not find his brother at home; returns him, defeats his kidnappers], 77-80 [Malada Alyp Salay and his younger brother hear a rumble; the Wolf asks M. to come to the creator of Yayuchi; the Wolf's lower lip lies on the ground, the upper lip supports the sky; Y. asks to defeat the heroes of the lower peace, otherwise darkness walls; M. defeats the chief at the foot of a giant poplar, whose leaves carry the news around the world; when he returns, he does not find his brother (the narrator did not remember further)]; 2004 [other translation of the same text as in Funk 1992:77-78 with additions from K. Vertkov's 1924 record (MAE archive); similar texts from the Shors; Maladu, riding a milky white horse, and his younger brother Alyp Salay sit in the palace, hear a rumble; a motley wolf with a 60-seated tail, his lower lip lies on the ground, the upper sky supports, M. conveys the demand of the Only Creator to come to him; M. agrees on the third time when the wolf promises to eat it; the Creator asks for help against the Forty Creators of the Underworld peace, who sent Kara Pyokö to destroy the white light; the battle will be at poplar, whose roots go deep into the earth, the crown reaches the sky; it rustles leaves in all the languages of humans, birds and animals; returning after defeating KP, M. finds ashes on the site of his house; he was ravaged by Altyn-Chakkay and Kÿmÿsh-Chakkay; M. goes to the brothers' possession, kills them, marries their sister, returns home]: 23-28; Kumandins [(author's note); the shaman's strongest assistant, the monster associated with the lower world is ker čupta, whose lower jaw plows the earth, the upper jaw plows the sky]: Diószegi 1978:126; Khakas [The sons of the seven Irliks are called "mohs"; they are black as the bottom of the cauldron, so "hara mohs"; their head is the Great Mohs, who looks like a seven-headed dragon; he reaches the sky with one head and supports the other earth; listening to heaven with one ear, growing tree roots with the other]: Butanayev 2003:103-104; Tuvans: Orus-ool 1997:23 [Shulbu wife becomes mangys sweeping ashes in the Lower World of her lower world with a lip that scatters clouds in the Upper World with its upper lip], 87 [Amyrga-Kara-mangys sweeping ashes with its lower lip in the Lower World, accelerating clouds with its upper lip in the Upper World]; Baikal Buryats (Balagan) [the colorful forest lion Oktor plowed the sky with his upper jaw, the ground with his lower jaw; swallowed everything, sucking it into himself; Abai-Geser Bogdo Khan inserted a spear into his mouth, flew inside, cut off his heart; Geser and his batyrs went outside, followed by people, cattle, animals who had previously swallowed]: Khangalov 1959c: 218-219; Khalkha Mongols [Irin-sain comes to Mangys's wife; ta replies that her husband will come with rain, wind and thunder, hugging the sky, lower ground with his upper lip, swallowing people and camels; breaking the bowstring on the back of the mangys, I. kills him, freeing the swallowed]: Potanin 1893, No. 2a: 132; Oirats (durbuts) [an episode of a long story about the hero Mekel; he went after the bride, on the way there is a huge snake, the upper jaw rests on the sky, the lower jaw on the ground; pulled M. into his mouth; he pinned her upper lip with a spear to the sky, pressed her lower lip with a blunt end to the ground, tied the horse to a spear, entered the mouth, cut a hole in the snake's back, tore the snake apart, and from there two came out ulus: the khoshuts went north, the Olyuts went south; a year later M. meets a camel, whose upper lip hits the sky, the lower lip hits the ground, stones roll from this thunder, larch falls; M. tamed the camel, led to a poisonous sea]: Potanin 1883, No. 135:471-474; the Mongols of Ordos [Ondey, the best man, is immensely rich in cattle; someone kidnaps the foals that his mare gives birth to every year; he gathers give the foal to Hormusta; the mare gives birth, but the yellow rainbow takes it away; O. fired an arrow, the foal fell, the mare licked it; the long yellow llama also fell; said that he stole foals by order burkhan; O. dug a deep well, lowered Dolny there, put a bull and a camel in the hole, telling them not to get up, even if they were beaten and the brushwood and stick broke; went to inspect the herds; O.'s wife went out, she goes to look for fire, hears a song, comes to the well; Long advises to offer animals herbs and water - O. did not tell them about it; the animals got up, Long got out, woman brought him to her; says that he will not return to her husband again; Long advises to pretend to be sick, ask for the heart of a monstrous snake; O. took his dogs Arja and Barja, a peacock and a parrot, went to searching; came to a black yurt, in front of her gold and silver horseback riding, O. tied the mare to a gold one; the girl called her to the house, the old woman fed and paid tribute; when he reached the mountain, behind which the serpent, the horse teaches close your eyes, the horse will jump, making thunder, the snake will close its mouth in fear, you have to shoot, swallowed people will come out of its mouth, then insert an arrow, enter the snake, cut off the heart; the snake has an upper lip flush with the mountain in the west, his lower lip flush with the mountain in the east; when O. pulled out his heart, blood flowed, causing a flood; when O. reached the yurt, he lost consciousness; the old woman tells his daughter to throw a snake's heart at abyss, replace the heart of a bull; at home Long advises a woman to feed the snake's heart to her husband - it is poisonous, he will die; O. is not dead; Long advises the patient to reappear, ask for the brain of a 12-headed black mangus; O. goes to a black yurt, there are other girls and an old woman; the old woman tells the girl to cook a bull for the guest, keep her brain separate; the horse trampled on the mangus, O. collected the brain; the old woman tells her daughter to change her brain mangus with the brain of a bull; the wife only pretended to eat the brain; gave her husband insensitivity; Long got out of the chest, cut O. into pieces; the mare, peacock, parrot and both dogs grabbed and carried away pieces; wife first gave birth to son O., and then son Long; animals guard O.'s chopped body, Naran Gho (daughter of an old woman from a white yurt) found them, his mother gave him a magic object to revive O.; gives him a daughter as his wife, gives him a daughter, gives him a daughter new name Shudurg Mergen Chagadai Khan (Chagadai Mergen); Long flew to heaven; World Cup (i.e. former O.) arrived when only his son was at home; opened up to him; took the animal's meat out of the cauldron, cooked Long's son; asks his wife if she wants to live with five jings or someone she doesn't love; she: with jings; he tied her to five horses; when the World Cup mare started, her son, on whom Long was sitting in the sky, rushed carrying a rider; S. cut it into 5 parts and cooked it; lives with his wife, her mother and his son; by order of Hormusta, became Genghis's son, became emperor]: Mostaert 1937, No. 1 in Solovyov 2014.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nivhi [the older brother has a wife; he tells her to wash, comb her younger brother every morning, ventilate his clothes; the elder's wife thinks to make the youngest her husband; once the youngest dressed himself, went out to at sea, saw a seal, she took off her skin, became a woman, they met; the seal woman promised to come again tomorrow, bringing tables and dishes to taste elks; the younger brother returned, the elder and his wife did not asked; in the morning, the elder's wife put on her younger brother's clothes, went on the younger brother's ski track, hid herself, buried in the sand; the seal is afraid, the woman tells her to go out as agreed; throws it at her harpoon; they have been fighting for a long time, the tench broke off, the wounded seal went to sea, ordered him to tell her husband's brother not to pursue her; at home, the young man understood everything, went ashore, overheard the conversation between the younger two the sisters of the seal wife, who came to the house from chips; carved a figure, swam on it, then fired an arrow, flew it, so fired arrows and flew on each, reached another land; there were the wife's sisters and other seals in human guise say that a man from the ground wounded the elder's daughter, they are preparing spears and arrows, he is guarding him; he asks the servant where his jews harp is (by the window behind the pillow), asks other questions; Having found out everything, he shook him out of his skin, put it on, came to his nerpa wife; there the local shamans were camlaing; the imaginary servant asked to let him go, pulled the prison out of the wounded woman's chest, now the seal will marry him; the young man returned, returned the servant's skin, he came to life; told his grandfather and grandmother seals that he did not injure her, but his brother's wife, but he cured it; the uncles of the seal bear and walrus were guarding him on the shore, but he gave them a fish, they they called him his son-in-law; he flies back on an arrow; there whoever turned around growls in a walrus, his lower lip drags along the ground, his upper lip reaches the sky, there is fire in his mouth; the young man jumped into his mouth, began to cut him from the inside, that man jumped into his mouth, began to cut him from the inside released; in disguise, a man went with him, brought a bear to that, a young man and jumped into his mouth (still the same); those two seal girls go with him (the younger sisters of the first seal?) ; at home he forced his brother to take his wife by the leg, took him by the other, they tore her apart; he married one seal girl, gave his brother another]: Pevnov 2010, No. 2:16-25.

Japan. Ainu: Etter 1949:168-169 [a whale has a mouth from ground to sky; one of six brothers jumps into it, cuts the monster from the inside, goes out through its mouth; cuts the whale into two halves, they turn into rocks]; Pilsudski 1912a, No. 19 [hunter sees two men fighting; one in black and the other in red; black tells to run; red kills black, chases a hunter; he has a fall to the sky; hunter jumps into it, cuts the red insides; he dies]: 168-170.

SV Asia. Tundra Yukaghirs [when a virgin sings, her deer always come to her; one day she sees an evil spirit approaching, his upper lip touches the sky, his lower lip touches the ground; the girl runs, throws behind a comb, then a red handkerchief, they turn into forest, fire; the spirit devours the forest, drinks the river, floods the fire; it hits the ground with its iron-tipped staff, turns into a fox, then wolverine, she-wolf, bear, but the spirit catches up with her; she runs into the Evenk plague, loses consciousness; when she wakes up, she sees three young men; the eldest was a stalker spirit; she marries him]: Bogoras 1918, No. 1:9-10.