M123C. Bad flight south. .36.40.-.42.
Thenon-migratory bird goes south with migratory birds, but is unable to reach the end.
Yenisei Evenks [capercaillie], Evenks of Buryatia [capercaillie], Evens [crow], central Yupik [crows], Northern Alaska inupiate [raven], copper [owl], caribou [owl], netsilic [raven], igloolik [raven], polar [raven], Labrador Eskimos [hawk], khan [raven], atna [raven], tanana [raven], tanaina [raven], upper tanana [raven], tlingit [raven], haida [raven].
Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks (Yenisei) [Flying south, the Swans reluctantly take Capercaillie, pull him on a rope, but he gets tired and left; so as not to protest, the Swan gives him white peppers to decorate; Capercaillie cries, eyebrows and eyes turn red with tears]: Rychkov 1936, No. 3:266; Baikal Evenks (Bauntovsky District, Buryatia) [in autumn, Capercaillie began to ask to go south with swans; one Swan agreed take him with her, dragged him on a rope, but he could not fly for a long time; gave some of her feathers, they are now in wings; Capercaillie cried, his eyebrows turned red]: Voskoboynikov 1973, No. 11:40; Evens [during the flood, some wild deer died, another swam to the other side of the sea; the birds were about to fly away, the crow decided to fly with them, although it was dissuaded; before reaching the middle of the sea, it fell; wild deer and moose standing on the shore saw a wet crow, got scared and ran away; since then there have been wild deer and moose, crows overwinter, and migratory birds come to incubate their chicks, because on that the earth is too hot]: Robbeck 2005:192.
The Arctic. Central Yupik: Ivanoff Brown 1987 (Norton Bay Unaligmiut) [The raven marries a waterfowl; everyone flies south in autumn, he decides to accompany the geese for a while, turns back , falls into the water, ends up in the whale's stomach; inside there is a lamp, he pokes it with a knife, it goes out; the whale's corpse is washed ashore, the Raven pecks a hole, goes out, eats to his heart's content]: 79-82; Nelson 1899 (unaligmiut Norton Bay) [The Raven marries Goose; flies south with the Geese in autumn; when they see that he is tired, the Raven lies that he has an arrowhead stuck in his heart; Geese do not believe, the Raven falls into the water, with difficulty gets to the shore; asks Keith to open her mouth, flies inside; inside, the beauty warns not to touch her lamp; the beauty is the soul, the lamp is the heart of the whale; the raven touches the lamp, the whale dies; the raven swims inside the carcass to the shore; forgets the fire drill inside the whale; when people fresh the whale and find the drill, the Raven says it's a bad sign; people run away, the Raven takes all the meat for himself; looks for a vessel for fat, meets Norka, they build porridge; the Raven; sends Nork to invite marine life to the festival; Seals come; the Raven says he must improve their eyesight by touching their eyes with his rod; glues their eyelids with resin; forgets about the seal in the door; he raises the alarm when another seal cries trying to open his eyes; the raven kills guests with a stick one at a time, only a seal in the door saved]: 462-467; Northern Alaska Inupiate (Noatak) [Raven marries Duck, flies south with ducks in autumn; asks his wife and mother-in-law to carry it; they get tired, leave him; he descends into the whale's breath; inside light; his voice tells him not to eat dripping fat; he eats; when the fat runs out, the light goes out; it was fat from the whale's heart; the carcass is washed ashore, people cut it, the Raven comes out; says that this whale does not have giblets; silent that he ate them]: Hall 1975, â„– PM 117:347-348; copper [Owl marries Goose; Geese do not tell her to fly with them in autumn, because she will not be able to rest on the water at sea; but Owl does not listen; (the informant does not remember any further)]: Rasmussen 1932:215-216; caribou [Owl marries Goose; Geese fly south in autumn; contrary to warning, the Owl is flying with them; Geese rest, sitting on the water, The owl flies above them; tired, sits on their backs; Geese fly away, the Owl drowns]: Rasmussen 1930b:87-88; netsilic [Raven marries Goose; Geese fly south in autumn; contrary to warning, the Raven flies with them; Geese rest after sitting on the water, the Raven hovers above them; tired, sits on his wife's back; he spoils her feathers, her brothers advise her to fly, the Raven stays drowning]: Rasmussen 1931:400-401; igloolik : Kroeber 1899, No. 13 (Smith Sound) [Drozdiha (snowbird), widowed, cries, Raven offers himself as a husband, is refused; comes to the Geese going south, asks to take him with him, flies with them; Geese they go down to sleep on the water, the Raven cannot swim, asks to be allowed to sleep on the backs of the Geese; they get tired, throw him off, the Raven drowns]: 173-174; Rasmussen 1930a [The raven takes two Geese as his wife; in autumn those fly to their country; the Raven decides to fly with them; first hovers while they are resting, sitting on the water, then sits on their wives; he spoils their feathers, their brothers advise them to fly, the Raven remains drowning]: 280-281; igloolik ("the whole Arctic") [people killed Raven's wife; Sparrow, Ptarmigan refuse him, he marries two Geese, flies south with geese, gets tired, asks his wives to sit on the water, starts with them copulate; seeing other geese move away, wives abandon the Raven; he drowns, turns into thousands of little black snails at the bottom]: Millman 2004:171-172; Polar Eskimos: Holtved 1951, No. 60 [ The raven married two Geese; flies south with them in autumn; tries to sleep in the air, then his wives; Geese fly away, the Raven falls, turns into many sea crows (winged mollusks that form plankton or silt)]: 92 (translated into Menovshchikov 1985, No. 197:408); Kroeber 1899, No. 13 (hall. Smith) [The Raven asks the Geese to take it with them; they sleep on the water, the Raven lies on them, they throw it off, he drowns]: 174; Labrador Eskimos [Hawk marries Goose; flies with Geese in autumn through sea; Geese sleep on the water, it can't, it sinks]: Nungak, Arima 1969, No. 19:45.
Subarctic. Khan [The Raven marries Goose; Geese fly south in autumn; the Raven goes with them, gets tired, comes back; now crows live in the north all year round]: Smelcer 1992:123; atna [Raven marries Goose; in autumn geese gather south; the raven can hardly keep up with them, does not find suitable food in the parking lots, weakens; his wife and her relatives alternately carry him on their backs; when they fly up to the sea, persuade the Raven to go back; he agrees]: Smelcer 1997:63-64; tanana [The Raven marries a Goose; Geese fly south in autumn, the Raven is with them; gets tired; first the Geese support him, then they abandon him ; he makes an island out of a fin; (the storyline then shifts to other topics)]: De Laguna 1995, No. 8:111-112; Tanaina: Kalifornsky 1991 [The raven marries Goose; tries to fly with them in the fall to south, gets tired, carried first, then left, he tells the rock to rise out of the water, sits on it; flies on, asks the whale to give him a ride, the whale hides under water; another whale agrees; the raven climbs He breathes, bites from the inside, says that he pecks parasites, tells him to swim with all his might, the whale finds himself on the coastal shallows, dies; when he sees people, the Raven flies away; returns in human form, says eating a dead whale is dangerous; people spy on a Raven in the form of a crow biting a whale, chasing a crow away, butchering a whale]: 93-97 (Ruppert, Bernet 2001:321-322); Vaudrin 1969 [Chulien (raven) marries Goose (species of geese with black heads, necks and legs are his descendants); in autumn he also wants to fly south; first geese help him, then get tired and leave him; he falls, tells the rock to be under him; The white whale offers to get into her breath, takes him to the shore; C. eats her fat, lies that the coast is still far away; Beluga whales jump ashore, C. throws stones into her breath, she dies; people appear, he flies out, returns in human form; people say that something black came out of the beluga whale's womb; C. says his relatives ate white whales under similar circumstances and all died; gets a daughter foremen, eats white whales at night; people find fat on his mustache, beat him to death, throw him in the trash; an old woman cuts off his beak; Magpies defecate on C., he comes to life; creates enemies; covering his face with his hand, shouts to run and throw everything away; finds a beak, puts it in a hurry, now he is crooked]: 35-40; upper tanana: Brean 1975 [Raven marries Swans; flies with swans in autumn, his wife drops, he tells him to have a fin under him in the sea, turns it into an island; leaves it on the shore of his eyes to see if the boat comes; the eye raises the alarm when he sees a fin; next time people they take their eyes away; the Raven catches up with them, takes their eyes, puts them back crooked; so crows have different eyes]: 63-67; McKennan 1959 [The raven marries Swans; flies south across the sea with her; gets tired, the swans leave him; he sits on a rock in the middle of the sea; grabs the child's big fish; promises to return stones if the fish pulls him from the bottom; makes them an island; tells him to bring moss, returns the child to the fish; moss grows, Alaska emerges]: 190.
NW coast. The Tlingits [The Raven marries a Goose, flies south with geese; he doesn't like their food, he kills the Goose, is abandoned by geese]: Boas 1916, No. 179:578; Haida [The raven is flying with Geese; they throw it, he sprinkles sand, creating Rose Spit; [there seems to be a text similar to Tlingit}]: Boas 1916, No. 112:575.