M46B. A born infant. .20.21.25.31.38.40.-.43.45.38.

The character turns into a tiny object or creature, swallowing or touching which a woman (usually a virgin) becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy. He steals valuables or gets along with a woman. See M46 motif.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Truk Islands, Carolina [Olofat and his brother Semen Kanor want one girl; she chooses SK; O. drinks all the water and coconut juice, leaves them in one, puts herself there in the form of a mosquito larva; a woman swallows it with water, has difficulty giving birth to a boy; he cries all the time, and his bowel movements are like an adult man; O. {i.e. is he in two faces - himself and his child?} tells you to throw excrement away where it is not seen; one day she comes back, sees that the child has O.'s face; understands the deception]: Mitchell 1973, No. 38:106-108; Ifaluk (Yap County, Carolina) [cf. K30B motif; to get together with his brother's wife Gio, Wolphat turned into a mosquito, the woman swallowed it unnoticed with water; she gave birth to him, W.; at night the baby was by her side and when she fell asleep, copulated with her; seeing sperm on her genitals, she asked another woman to follow her; she said that her lover was in her own bed; one day a baby relieved G. this is adult excrement; W. ran away laughing]: Spiro 1951:296.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. The local version of Geser. Lepcha: Stocks 1925, № XXVI [people are constantly dying; the king turns to the fortuneteller; he predicts that in addition to six sons and the king will be the seventh; in the sky, the mother of the country Rum feels the aroma of smoke; her husband says that it is the king of Lyang-bad who 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 mountain first will go to the ground, than the steam from a cup of tea rises to the head, 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; the other 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 in it, there is a boy in it; the king gave him the name Ati- azyak-pono; does not send his older brothers to marry King Lung-da's seven daughters; along the way they must hoist flags of the same color on black, green, red, white mountain; cross the plain on which spruce, and there are two suns around; it's hot, 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 younger three began to have fun with the brides, sat under the spruce tree, others also had to; Four seas of black, green, red, white color flooded on four sides; the Paril-bu snake came out of the sea, demanded that his younger brother be given to him; disappeared, the waters flooded with him and one disappeared the sun; 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 entered P.'s mouth; he ordered to get the queens Zer-y-ong and Komyong- pandi; the girl gave A. rice to the dogs, the meat to the tigers, the roll of cloth to the demon Shang-tang-krbu, who would become a friend; when leaving, A. sowed rice - if it dried up, he died; the demon could not swallow A., admitted to A. master; A. dropped a 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 will not eat A.; demons offer to hide; turn into trees, partridges, streams; Z. tells A. each time where they are (gives a knife to cut trees, etc.); demon friend A. defeats seven in martial arts; they offer fights between roosters, 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 is beautiful again; the demon friend swallows the snake, A. and his wives Z. and Komiong returns to the brothers; allows the demon friend to swallow the younger three; kills him, revives the young man swallowed by him Dediong-pono, gives him Princess Eu-Ramit, leaves to reign on earth, returns to heaven with three wives], XXVIII [in heaven in Rum, the youngest seventh son of King Ling Gyaso; the six eldest want take away the father's throne; the father decides to send him to earth to destroy demons; he takes with him a dog, a horse, a goat, a golden rooster; these animals die in their heavenly life, become wheat grains in LG's pocket; he sees a virgin on the ground behind a spinning wheel, falls like a hailstone, a virgin swallows her; gives birth to a bag; throws her off the mountain; a crow covers the bag from the scorching sun; heavenly mother went down, took the boy out of her bag, threatened her earthly mother to kill her if she gave the child to a stranger; two demons demanded that he be handed over, put him in a cauldron to cook; LP got out, hacked them with a sword; became king , brought his wife to the palace; burned demons; learned from the demon's wife that her husband's life was in two sago palms and two flea bags, destroyed them, took the demon's wife; while living with her, his father's brother sold his first wife to King Hore; he said that his wife was kidnapped, went with LG to return her; they spend the night on the edge of the cliff; the uncle offers LG to lie on the edge; he puts bags in his place, his uncle throws them off at night; LG offers uncle carries a stone; he needs a rope, LG offers a leather belt from his own back; the uncle picks up the stone, it gets heavier, presses it into the ground (the uncle was killed not by LG, but by a stone); in the country of Hore LG turns into a baby, X. picks him up; he grows up; if LH is H.'s nephew in a new rebirth, he must identify X.'s weapons among others; mother X.'s sister turns into a white fly, Sits down on every object; H. recognizes LN as a nephew; LG becomes a blacksmith, forges a sword around the neck of H.; asks to send an army to enemies, all X. warriors are killed by magic arrows; LG tells H. that he eats his his hand; he lets him cut off his own, LG gives him rice, H. thinks he eats his hand; the same leg, nose, ears; cuts off his head, takes his wife; hangs his son H. upside down over a plate of rice; leaves a cat next to him a rooster, a donkey, two crows; answers the beggar that the prince eats, animals do this and that; but Vizier H. understood everything; pursues, LG shot him]: 406-420, 427-435.

Taiwan - Philippines. Tsoe [the petty officer's only daughter in Tfuya went to the river to fish; a beautiful piece of wood was caught in the net; the girl threw it downstream of the river; the piece of wood was caught again, again discarded; the girl finally put her in her bosom; she was gone; in the morning the girl gave birth; the baby laughed all the time, his body was covered in hair; five days later, he became an adult and was named Grandfather (=god) Hairy; organized a successful campaign against enemies; after dying, he took care of the village as long as it continued to be honored]: Nevsky 1935, No. 3:80-81; bunun [the same legend as tsow, with minor differences recorded by Japanese explorer Sayama u vonun (Japanese bunun]: Nevsky 1935:83; kanabu [Napaarama's hero, also born to a girl who caught a piece of wood, grew up goes on a campaign against two suns that caused a lot of suffering to people, and kills one of the stars, which then becomes the moon]: Nevsky 1935:83.

Baltoscandia. The Sami [two people see the double sun; one asks himself two centuries of life, the other girl to fall into her womb; turns into a pike, the girl's father catches her, the girl cooks, the petitioner's soul in at the tip of her tail, the girl swallows it, gives birth to a boy who has knowledge of the world; finds a helpless old man, leads to the pines into which they both plunged their whetstones, asking for a double sun Wishes come true; the old man remembers nothing, dies; the one who is born again marries the one who gave birth to him]: Czarnoluski 1962:187-190.

Japan. Ancient Japan [Of this type of legend, I think the closest thing to Tsow's legend above (see motif A26) is the ancient Japanese myth of one of the gods of thunder, Wakeikazugi, honored at the Kamo Temple in Moscow. Kyoto. This myth is found in various forms in Kamo-engi, Kamo-kyūki, Uama-Shiro-fudoki and other ancient books. Here is a version of the first book mentioned above, as quoted by the famous kokugakusha, Ban Nobutomo, in his work Sami no Ogawa, specifically devoted to exploring this myth: "At Kamo-engi it says: The temple of the great god Kamo. Kamo refers to Lord Kamo no Taketsunumi, the god who deigned to descend from heaven to Mount Takachiho in So, Himuka Province... Lord Kamo no Taketsunumi married the divine Igakoyahime from Kamina, Tamba Province, and gave birth to children named Tamayorihiko and Tamayorihime. (note 4: Tamayorihime is a shaman priestess, "a spirit-obsessed girl; a kamo in the northern provinces of Japan is a penis); When Tamayorihime was walking on the river, where you can see the rapids of a rocky river, she sailed down from the upper reaches of the river, the arrow is red. Taking it, she put it near her bed and, under the influence of her pregnancy, gave birth to a son. When he grew up, his grandfather, Lord Takepunumi, built an eight-fathom house, locked eight doors, and, after making wine, brewed eight times [option: making eight jugs of wine], the gods collected I gathered and had seven days, seven nights of fun. And so, turning to the child, he said: "Whoever you think is a father, drink this wine!" Then he picked up a cup of wine and, turning to heaven, honored it, and after breaking through his skate at home, ascended to heaven. So, borrowing his grandfather's name, they called him the lord of Kamo no Wakeikazuchi..."]: Nevsky 1935:71-72.

The Arctic. Northern Alaska Inupiate [feather; mud]; central Yupik [needle]; Kodiak [feather]; Aleuts [?] ; McKenzie estuary [willow branch penetrates the vagina]; (cf. Asian Eskimos (Naukan) [the man wakes up and sees that he is naked and out of the blue; he is without clothes or food; a huge seagull is hammering ice with its beak so that the water around it does not freeze; kayaks are swimming, the man screams, they do not hear him; other kayaks have docked, he was allowed to sit down; they came to the village, entered the house, but the person is not noticed, heard, not invited to eat; he began to walk around the dwellings without fear: no one sees him anyway; saw a beautiful woman: through his fair skin, the entire skeleton and entrails can be seen; he entered her, was born a boy; grew up, but decided to die; then he entered the female, was born smart a puppy; visited brown bears, wolves, foxes, birds in the same way; reached Kygmik and was born human there again; he was named Amek ("skin")]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 8:66-67).

Subarctic. Koyukon [fir needle]; kuchin [dark speck]; tanaina [feather; fir needle]; inhalic [fir needle]; tanana [like tanine; without details]; atna [garbage]; upper tanana [piece of moss; fir needle]; southern tutchoni: McClelland 2007 (1), No. 1b [the world is dark, daylight, sun, moon are owned by a rich man; he has daughter; her maid goes to fetch water; the raven turns into a grain of dirt, tells the maid to remain silent about it, the daughter of the luminary owner swallows dirt along with the water; becomes pregnant, gives birth to a boy three weeks later; he asks for a box of daylight to play, then the sun, then the moon; each time he releases into the world; then turns into a crow, flies away]: 18-22; Workman 2000 [(the informant remembered fragments); Raven created the world; the rich man's daughter collected water; the Raven made garbage fall into the scoop; after drinking water, the girl swallowed it, gave birth to a son Raven; something about the stolen sun]: 81; tagish, internal tlingit [pine needle]; taltan [cedar needle]; helmet [some dirt]; chipewayan [speck].

NW Coast. Eyak [fir needle]; tlingit [feather; bug; fir needle, hemlock]; haida [fir, hemlock, cedar]; tsimshian [hemlock, cedar needle]; barbeau, Beynon 1987 [world it was dark (gloomy), there was no sun; the chief came in and saw his wife and lover; he thought it was his nephew; he told his wife that he knew everything; she was shocked and soon died; the coffin was hung from a pole; the chief is surprised that the nephew shows no signs of grief; tells him to watch; people see a woodpecker flying up to the coffin every evening and flying away in the morning; they hear laughter from the coffin; the chief came to see for himself, but cadaveric worms fell on him; the woman gave birth in the coffin, the baby got out; when the coffin was opened, there was a decayed corpse; the chief ordered one of the sisters to take care of the baby as if it were his son; she has her own son of the same age; they grew up like brothers; the chief's son caught two ducks, took off their skins; wearing them, the young men learned to turn into ducks, fly; flew to a leader who had daylight; we must to fly between two mountains that converge and then disperse; the brothers agreed that whoever flies would marry the chief's two daughters; they flew and descended on the lake in front of the chief's house; each of his daughters took one of the ducks that turned into men at night; both gave birth to a son; the eldest Txamsen ("Smart"), the youngest Lugabula ("Lazy"); at this time, the missing boys are grieving at home about their disappearance; two babies were seen on seaweed in the sea; chief: they were the missing; they grew up, one of them took the form of a crow to steal the sun from the leader of heaven; flew to where the chief's daughter was took water, turned into a needle, she swallowed it with water; it was still the same Txamsen; the baby cries, wanted a ball with light to play; once he rolled the ball out of the house, became a grown man, then put on a crow's skin and took the ball away; saw spirit people fishing in the light of torches; they refused to share the fish, T. tore the ball, daylight spread across the world, the sun appeared, the perfume was gone]: 1-5; bellacula [hemlock needle, spruce; fluff, speck, clay]; heiltsuk [fat drop; fish, needle rejected]; uvikino [berries; pine needle rejected]; chickpea [fir tree rejected] needle].

The coast is the Plateau. Chilcotin [spruce needle].

Northeast. Seneca [duckling; goose].

California. Achomavi [(the motive is not included in M46 because there is no "gaining values"; Christian influence does not concern the episode of the hero's conception and rebirth); the first ancestors know that there is another overseas world; in the basket of Spider's grandson Annicadel flies across the sea; quietly falls into a spring from which the girl takes water; she drinks, gets pregnant, gives birth to a boy; evil people find him, kill him; he revives, speaks to people with instruction]: Merriam 1992:121-126.