M129. Birthright loss, K1988. 11.-.13.17.20.21.

A parent or parent is going to transfer birthright (royalty, other virtues) to a chosen son. Another son or brother comes under the guise of being chosen and receives birthright.

Cuba, Matabele, Ashanti, Soninke, Oromo, Konso, Zande, Anuak, Masai, Old Testament, Palau, Marshall Islands, Meitei

Bantu-speaking Africa. Cuba [Mboom regurgitated the sun, moon and stars; the sun evaporated water, earth appeared; then M. regurgitated various animals and people; then the crocodile regurgitated all the snakes himself, the goat all the horned ones animals, gudgeon - all fish; one man regurgitated white ants, died, ants buried them; the second regurgitated the plants, the third the hawk; M. told everyone how to live; Mboom and Ngaan quarreled over women; N. went into the water, created harmful crocodiles, iguanas, snakes; M. gave birth to 9 sons Woot; they, acting separately, arranged the land, built rivers, invented blacksmithing; the woman relieved her need for the lake of palm wine, it dried up, palm trees grew in this place; the pygmy guessed that the wine had gone to the palm trees; King Woot's son got drunk, lay naked; his sons laughed at him, and his daughter covered him, so he handed him over daughter inheritance; W. fell ill with leprosy, retired to the forest, but his sister Mweel went with him, became his wife, they had many children, W. found signs of royalty, recovered, returned; pygmy spoke about incest, W. fled, his son too became an ancestor of the Lele people; when he left, W. was going to pass on the signs of royalty ("chicken-basket") to his son; the pygmy told Brother Voota Nyimi Longa about this; in the pre-dawn darkness W. did not notice the substitution, handed the "chicken basket" to his brother; after learning about the change, W. burned down the village, sent darkness, and his wife cursed the crops and livestock, both went up the river; later NL begged him to return light and fertility recovered; two families argued for supremacy, decided to throw an ax into the water, whoever swims, would win; Chief Byeeng ordered a wooden fake, but his wife was Chief Bushong's sister, replaced axes; bushong won]: Belcher 2005:215-218; (cf. karanga [brothers We will see and He will see; the father loves the eldest, the mother loves the youngest; they go to the river, the youngest is fishing, the eldest only catches frogs, the eldest pushes the youngest into the water; the mother cannot pull out the drowned, kills the elder with an arrow]: Sicard 1952:68); matabele (Transvaal) [(Jacob and Esau's motif is known, several records)]: Sicard 1952:68.

West Africa. Ashanti: Cardinall 1931 [supreme god Nyame has sons Bia (noble, obedient) and Tano (evil, naughty); N. decided to give B. the country of Ashanti, and T. -wild lands in the west; sent a goat to tell his sons to come to him tomorrow; the goat, knowing what would be discussed, told T. to dress as B., and B. - so as not to hurry, N. would not be in a hurry, he would not be in the morning; N. took T. for B. and gave him the country of Ashanti; when B. came, it was no longer possible to change his mind and he received a barren and wild forest]: 48-50; Herskovits, Herskovits 1937, No. 25 [Bremu - evil son, Densu - kind; the dying mother asks D. to come to her soon; B. comes; the mother has already closed her eyes, thinks that D. is in front of her, gives him all the gold; realizing the mistake, the mother gives D. the rest, i.e. kauri; these brothers two rivers, Brem has gold, and Densu has only white stones]: 97; soninka [Dinga came to the land of Kumbi, asked for water from the well, the girl refused; her father is the spirit of the well, D.'s magic turned out to be stronger , the spirit gave him three daughters; the first in the form of a snake disappeared into the well, the eldest gave birth to a son Khine, the youngest to Djabe; D. migrated to the east; H. was a good hunter, arrogant, cruel, shaggy, wiped hands on the head of the servant Siture; J. gave him food; when he learned that the half-blind Dinga was going to hand over his magical powers to H., S. advises J. what to do; he borrowed J.'s bracelet and covered his chest with his skin goat (as if she were hairy); H. went hunting in the morning, J. killed the animal in advance, under the guise of H. came to his father, who showed his amulets, ordered him to lie in the sand so that J. grains of sand; when H. came, D. was able to tell him only the secret of causing rain; J. fled, Hyena about the country of Cumbi, to which Dinga had the right; leads to Vulture, who knows the way to Cumbi; J. feeds 40 days Vulture's foal and Hyena, who are getting younger, take him to Cumbi; there J. makes an agreement with his blood brother Snake (who has gone to the well): he will give him a foal and a girl every year, the Snake - golden shower; The snake gives 4 drums (made of iron, copper, silver, gold; only J. can raise gold, which means he has the right to the kingdom); once a young man in love with a sacrificed girl cut off The snake's head, took the girl away; the Snake's head cursed the country, sent a drought]: Belcher 2005:385-389.

Sudan-East Africa. Zande []: Evans Pritchard 1965:71-72; Oromo [the first man came down from heaven, he had a penis on his finger; met a woman on the ground, her vagina was under her arm; the woman became pregnant; asked the heavenly god Waqa to place her vagina away from the eyes of strangers, between her legs; gave birth to five boys and four girls; the older brother did not have enough wife, he took his niece when she grew up ; only this eldest son covered his father when his veil slipped off his sleep and his genitals were exposed; when he died, the father was going to give grace to the elder, but the youngest heard about it and came disguised as an elder , got everything; sailed overseas, giving birth to Arabs and Europeans; the elder became the ancestor of the Oromo, the second to Gabra (non-Muslim camels), the third to Muslims, the fourth to Shangalla]: Belcher 2005:143-145; conso [{same text but attributed to konso, not oromo}]: Jensen 1936, #1:491-493; anuak: Evans Pritchard, Beaton 1940, No. 3 [at first only animals on earth; God created boy and girl and told the Dog to throw them into the river; but the Dog carried them into the hollow of the tree where they grew up; God understood that the Dog did not drown the children, but promised not to harm them; gave the young man a wooden spear, and the girl wooden pestle; the young man began to herd God's cattle; the boy and the girl got married; the lion wanted to eat them, but the Dog recognized them and sheltered them; God once told Buffalo that tomorrow he would distribute fangs among animals, eyes, horns and horns; he will give buffalo all his spears, but let him come early in the morning; the dog heard about this and came to God in the morning; answered that "It's me, Buffalo"; having received spears, checked if it took everything; took it man; when Buffalo came, God had no spears left and had to give the buffalo a horn; when he found out that Leo wanted to kill him, the Dog agreed with the man; Leo ran after the Dog, which slipped between his legs a man, and a man killed a lion; as soon as their leader was killed, the animals left their village and went anywhere; a man with his wife and dog remained in the village]: 58-60; Scheub 2000 [Juok is the creator god, androgyne; gave birth to Elephant, Buffalo, Leo, Crocodile, Dog; Otino man and Akongo woman were the last to be born; seeing that these children were without hair, J. told the Dog to throw them away, but she hid them in the hollow of a tree , fed cow's milk; they grew up, the Dog built a house for them; showed J., who reluctantly agreed not to kill children; J. decided to give land to the children; man and woman should have been the last to come, but The dog advised me to go first, say that they were Elephant, Buffalo, etc.; J. gave them spears, and when the big animals came, he realized his mistake; he gave tusks to the Elephant, Buffalo horns, Crocodile teeth, Leo's claws; but man began to kill animals with a spear]: 87; the Masai [the first people came out of the termite hole and settled next to it; heard Enkai's order from the sky not to close the kraali seven evenings; some left kraali open, others did not dare, closed; on the seventh night goats and sheep came out of the thermite hole, entered the kraali; the owners of these kraals are Maasai, and those who closed their own were kamba; God ordered dorobo (any hunter-gatherers, cushits and nilots) come the next day; the Masai overheard, appeared in the morning, God decided that dorobo had come, ordered to build a kraal, find a thin calf in the forest, slaughter it, wrap the meat in skin, throw it into the fire, wait in the house without looking out; the belt came down from the sky, cattle began to descend it, filling the kraal; the Masai went out to look, the belt immediately broke off, the cattle stopped going down; the Masai began to herd these cattle, and Dorobo remained a hunter]: Scheub 2000:46-47.

Western Asia. Old Testament: Gen. 25, 20-34 [Issac married Rebekah at the age of 40; she conceived twins, they began to fight in the womb; the red shaggy Esau was born first; Jacob was the second, holding himself by the heel; Esau became a hunter, Jacob a meek shepherd; one day Esau came tired, hungry, sold Jacob his birthright for bread and lentil food], 27 [Isaac grew old, unable to see; him Rebekah's wife heard him send his eldest son Esau to get game, cook for him, then he will give Esau a blessing; R. tells younger Jacob to bring the goats, makes them a meal, and overlays them Jacob's smooth neck and hands in the skin of goats, for Esau was shaggy; Isaac takes Jacob for Esau, gives him a blessing; Esau wants to kill Jacob, R. sends him to his brother Lavan].

Micronesia-Polynesia. Palau [the old woman loves her son Uek, is indifferent to her son Malek (Rooster); asks M. to go to the men's house, let W. stay; M. overhears, finds out that his mother told W. to come before dawn to get all the good things from her; M. adjusts so that in the men's house he tells fairy tales first and can go to bed, and W. is the last to go to bed later than anyone else; in the pre-dawn darkness, M. comes to his mother under looking W., receives all the colors (plumages) from her; then W. comes; the mother has no more colors left, she makes W. black, only a red speck on her head; but the mother gives W. the opportunity to eat tarot on the field, as much as he wants, and M. must look for food all day]: Mitchell 1973, No. 14:48-50; Marshall Islands [like Palau, but the blessing and associated body markings were in the mouth of a great eel and a giant helped get them]: Mitchell 1973:248.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Meitei [the creator of Atiya Shidaba has a wife, Leimarel Shidabi; they have sons Sanamahi and Pakhangba; ASH is going to hand over the throne but does not know which of them; decided that the one who is the first 7 times will travel around the universe; S. sat on a tiger and galloped; and P.'s mother suggested that running around the universe 7 times is the same as bypassing the ASH throne 7 times; P. did this and his father handed him the throne; when S. arrived and saw that someone was sitting on the throne, he thought it was his father and addressed him respectfully; but when he realized that his brother had decided to turn the earth upside down; his father managed to persuade him to calm his rabies and S. the deity of every dwelling]: Singh 1985:182-186.