M2. Descending down the tree .12.48.52.57.59.62.66.
The hero descends from a tree or cliff on the back of an animal or on the backs of animals.
Western Dan, Miwok, Kekchi and Mopan, Lacandons, Kamarakoto, Makushi, Tarian, Makuna, Moseten, Chimane.
West Africa. Western Dan [To is the son of the leader's unloved wife, so he does not love him either; He climbed a tree to get the dead monkey; the son of another wife, cut off the vine, said at home that To was dead; father glad, mother Sometimes in mourning; the chimpanzee formed a chain, Then he descended it to the ground; He brought the dead chimpanzee, the meat was eaten; father and brother offer To hunt the dangerous Schuppentier; He climbs down the hole for him, brothers they make a fire at the entrance to the hole; He spends a month underground; Xra (supreme god) sent two antelopes, a male and a female, they ran, pierced brushwood at the hole with their hooves, Then got out; became the leader of the village; summoned his mother, she came with fear and respect, the chief turned out to be her son; father and brothers began to respect That]: Fischer 1967:723-724.
California. Southern mountain miwok (Yosemite Valley) [two boys fall asleep on a rock, it grows to the sky, they can't go down; of all the animals, only the Caterpillar manages to climb and lower the young men by planting on your back]: 1877:366-367 (=Edmonds, Clark 1989:152-154).
Mesoamerica Kekchi, mopan [the forest spirit asks a person for honey; eats with wax; when a person climbs a tree, the spirit makes him tall, leaves; various animals refuse to help, because they refuse to help. a person hunted them; koati form a chain, told not to step on a pregnant female; a person steps but manages to jump to the ground]: Thompson 1930:146-147; lacandons [like a kekchi; forest spirit cuts off the vine on which a person has climbed; most animals are unable to help; woodpeckers are hammering holes in the trunk so that the koati can cling to; without the motive for taking the wrong step]: Boremanse 1986:163-167.
Southern Venezuela. Yanomami [the youngest of the four Horonámi brothers ran away from the jaguar, stabbed his leg, sat down to remove the splinter, asked the tapir for help, the jaguar rushed after the tapir, thinking he was chasing H.; the jaguar killed tapira, understood the mistake, caught up with H., but he made his teeth soft, the jaguar bit in vain; H. ran away again, then his teeth hardened again; H. caught fish, the jaguar rushed at him from behind, killed him; next In seniority, the brother hunted monkeys, the monkey mother killed him, the brothers found the skull, burned him, drank ash; the two remaining brothers killed the monkey mother, hitting her with arrows in both eyes and all fingers; jaguar killed the youngest of the survivors; the last brother asked the monkeys to pick up the fruits; they offered to climb on their own; he climbed, the tree grew to the clouds; the lizard heard cries for help, put him on his back lowered it to the ground; he returned home, the house was surrounded by jaguars, he climbed the tree unnoticed; next time he climbed the tree again, where the monkeys (the woodpecker helped by pecking the hollow to climb), the tree again grew up, the lizard lowered it again; but the jaguars killed it and ate it]: Polykrates 1967:289-282.
Guiana. Kamarakoto [on a lizard's back from a cliff]: Simpson 1940:590; makushi: Roth 1924, No. 601 [Maichoppa wanted to see the vulture chief; residents of two community houses quarreled and killed each other; M. lay down among the dead bodies; urubu vultures flew together, took off their feathers and wings, M. took possession of their outfit, but could not fly by himself; the Spider tied one end of her thread to the top of the tree and the other gave M.; lengthening the thread, raised M. to a mountain of vultures behind the clouds; M. wants to marry the daughter of the vulture chief; he demands 1) build a house on a bare rock (the eel drilled holes, animals and birds they built a house); 2) make a bench with his image; the young man climbed onto the web, relieved himself on the vulture's head; he ordered to bring fire to understand what had fallen on him, M. saw two heads; a bird and the ant was carved out of the bench; the vulture's daughter sent the karaka bird to grab M.; he runs from house to house, runs to the Spider, she hides it under cotton yarn, does not allow K. to stir it up, so as not to confuse the yarn; M. goes down to the top of the seiba, releases the thread of the web, does not know how to get down to the ground; sits on the lizard's back, it is going to eat it, runs down and up the trunk; M. manages to jump to the ground; M. comes to Agouti, at home his wife, all cassava has been stolen from M.'s garden, Aguti's wife says she cooked especially for him; M. is happy, returns home]: 486-488; Soares Diniz 1971, No. 17 [people died of illness, a young man is left; urubu vultures ate rotten meat; a young man rises to heaven, marries the daughter of a vulture chief; father-in-law demands 1) to dry the lake ( the battleships took water, the birds caught fish), 2) build a house (birds and animals helped), 3) make a stone bench with the image of the father-in-law (the lizard relieved the vulture on the head, he asked his daughter shine, the young man saw two heads, a termite and a woodpecker were carved with a bench); Urubu still decided to kill his son-in-law; his daughter warned the young man; when Urubu sat on a bench, the tião lizard hiding behind her killed him; Urubu's sons chased the young man; he hid in a basket in Spider's house; the Caracara bird cut the thread, the young man fell to the top of the samaumeira tree; there lived a lizard, she offered her to sit on back, ran down the trunk, wanted to eat it, but he jumped to another tree, returned to the ground]: 92-94.
NW Amazon. Tarian [the monkeys invite Wanali to go up the tree for fruit, leave him alone; Herons give him their feathers, he flies with them, they fly to the old woman, the mother of Herons; they pull out for themselves feathers, they grow back overnight; W. does the same, feathers do not grow, Herons fly away without him; the old woman says that she has scolopendra, scorpions and ants in her vagina, tells her to wash her vagina with a decoction of bark; W. not listens, his penis is swollen; she leaves him at the top of the mountain; the ant lowers him down; waits for W. to say that the ant's mouth stinks; W. abstains, reaches the ground, the ant does not drag him into anthill; fish wash his penis, it takes normal size]: Brüzzi 1994:208-211; macuna [Yiba hunts with his younger brother; climbs a tree to the parrot's nest; the youngest cuts down a thin the tree on which he climbed, leaves, takes his wife; the chicks have grown up and flew away; woodpeckers make a ladder out of their beaks, J. goes down it, finds his wife and brother; turns into an anaconda, a house turns women into a lake, women in it into parrots, men into tapirs]: Palma, Feuillet 1980 {without pagination}.
Bolivia - Guaporé. From a tree on a caterpillar; the hero is dropped just before reaching the ground. Mosethen [Dohitt wants to fly like a bird; Ken's birds each give him a pen; he flies, pulls out feathers, falls; becomes small, the Caterpillar lowers him down the trunk; drops him on bamboo, it hangs there; Jaguar, Big Wild Cat doesn't cut his tongue against bamboo; Little cat frees D.]: Nordenskiöld 1924:142; chimane: Daillant 1995 [Dohiti and Micha are brothers; their sister Dobose invites give them a third brother named Tsun (sun) to heaven to leave him at his zenith and keep people awake; this fails; D. and M. throw a balsa raft down, it grows, forms the earth; they cry, out of them a vine appears in tears; D. goes down, M.'s vine breaks, he falls, breaks; D. glues him together, but puts his head to his ass; D. and M. come to the frog women; D. took one, M. raped everyone at night , they urinate with blood in the morning; M. digs a tunnel east to the edge of the world, now the dead are going there; D. pretended to be dead, covered with worms; the Frogs threw him into the river; he turned them into frogs, worms into fish; goes to look for M.; on the way turns people into animals - arachnids, howlers, capuchins; asks parrots for feathers, they give on the condition that he does not imitate their voices; D. violates ban, parrots take their feathers, he falls on a tree, it becomes tall; the caterpillar lowers it, putting it on its back; when the ground is near, it makes it fall, it breaks its back; gets to places where the sky hits the ground; inserting a log, slips into Misha's world; steals one of his wives, she is pregnant; meets people on the way about to kill the one who kidnapped M.'s wife; D. turns them into arrow canes, bamboo, palm trees for making onions and tips; they climb the Manika River; the wife gives birth, D. turns her and the baby into salt; wants to establish a village in the center peace, sends birds to explore; they return, report that the center is further in the mountains; D. founded a village in the Andes (Var.: La Paz); left a footprint on a stone, which is a sign that salt is here]: 163-164; Hissink , Hahn 1989, No. 1:61.