Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

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Ethnicities and habitats

M51. The meat is on the tree.

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One of the two characters gets meat. The weaker deceives the stronger one, hiding the meat in his absence to eat alone later.

Hottentots, Bushmen, Kikuyu, Dabida, Xhosa, Dagari, Bilin Ontong Java, Garo, Palaung, Malays, Tetum, Avars, Tabasarans, Lezgins, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, Quarry, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Ne perse, sanpual, curdalen, klamate, modoc, menominee, assiniboine, crowe, santi, yankton, osage, pawnee, kiova-apache, wichita, caddo, catawba, karok, pomo, northern payut, western shoshones, utah, south payute, chemeuevi, hicarilla, lipan, navajo, zunyi, western keres, tewa, havasupai, varihio, bakairi, iranshe, chamakoko, kaduveo.

South Africa. Hottentots: Olderogge 1959 [the lion and the jackal shot the same antelope; the lion missed, but the jackal frightened him and agreed that the lion killed the antelope; the jackal broke his nose, left a blood trail, sent a lion over it, ate the best parts of the carcass; the lion still found an antelope, noticed a jackal; sent him to take the meat to his family; the jackal scratched himself, said it was the lioness who did not let him in ; the lion went to the lioness, and the jackal and his wife collected a bunch of stones, climbed on it, taking meat with them; invites the lion to pull him upstairs, releases the rope twice; the third time he offers to throw off his meat, throws a hot stone into his mouth]: 8-10; Seubring 1934 [The Jackal promises Leo to take the game he has caught to his family, but takes it to himself; transfers the property to the top of the cliff; accuses his wife before Leo pretends to hit her; lowers Leo's rope; when he rises to half, cuts him off; throws a red-hot stone wrapped in fat into Leo's mouth, he dies]: 332-333; Bushmen [lion and jackal shot at the same antelope; the lion missed but said he killed the antelope; while the lion was sleeping, the jackal removed the fat from the antelope, broke his nose, left a bloody trail as if the antelope had run away; but the lion found an antelope, noticed a jackal in the carcass; gave him breast fat to the lioness; the jackal threw pieces of antelope lungs at the lion cubs, they got scared and ran away; gave fat to his wife and children; since then, the lion and the jackal have not hunt together], 30 (kung, Botswana) [Jackal and Boa constrictor walked on hot sand; Jackal asked Boa for sandals, ran away with them, did not return them; became a jackal and a boa constrictor]: Kotlyar 1983, No. 29 (Kalahari): 52.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Kikuyu [Wakahare squirrel raised cassava, offered everyone, one woman agreed to take it, giving him a kid in return; V. locked him in a bean barn, he was so fat that he could not go out; V. asks various animals, like they whistle to lure a kid; rejects everyone, accepts the Leopard; but he just pulled out the kid and tore it up; sent V. to his father for fire, but he almost killed him; The leopard agreed to go by himself, at which time V. dragged the meat to the tree; the leopard leaves his sons to guard the watering hole so that V. cannot approach; he disguises himself with leaves, etc., comes; the leopard guards himself enough V., demands to bring him monkeys as a ransom; V. dances under a tree with monkeys, says that he has just completed the circumcision ritual, do the monkeys also want to participate; to the leader ceremonies must come at such a time, with his face covered so as not to look at him; the leopard takes turns killing suitable monkeys; the old monkey following suspected something was amiss, looked, and raised the alarm; the monkeys caught V., who promised them all the pumpkins from the garden; told the owner that they were waiting for him at a party with meat and beer; while the owner was away, the monkeys ate all the pumpkins; the owner was looking for V. in vain for him kill]: Gagnolo 1952, No. 16:133-135; dabida [the hare caught a goat, led him on a rope; to prevent a porcupine, a rhino from molesting him, the hare says that he is leading the goat to his father a lion; towards a lion; slaughtering a goat, he sends a hare to the river to bring water in the bubble; the hare, with a hole in the bubble: I can't do it, bring it myself; the lion leaves, the hare hides the meat in a cave with a narrow entrance; invites the lion to butt harder he broke his head, died; the hare tells the hyena that his father is sleeping, let him gnaw his bones quietly; ties the tails of a hyena and a dead lion; the hyena sees a lion, rushes, dragging the carcass with him, dies from fear]: Vinogradov 1984:334-335; braid [Leo invited Jackal to hunt together; Leo would take large animals, Jackal would take small animals; Leo killed an antelope, told Jackal to take it to Leo's house; Jackal called his children, they dragged the carcass together onto the rock; the lion cannot get there; one day the Jackal went to get water, the Leo saw him, chased him, the Jackal whizzed into the hole; the lion grabbed his tail, the Jackal said that this is the root; let Leo take the stone and hit to see if blood comes out; while Leo was looking for the stone, the Jackal climbed deeper; then ran away; once he met Leo, pointed to him at an antelope supposedly standing nearby, promised to drive her to Leo, ran away again; there was a meeting of animals, only horned ones could come; the Jackal made horns out of wax; fell asleep by the fire, the horns melted; the lion recognized him, chased, the Jackal stood under the rock: it will collapse now, we must hold it; while Leo followed the pole, the Jackal ran away; they are hunting together again; the lion tells him to take the bull's chest to his wife, and the bottom of his leg to be a jackal, he did the opposite; the lion went to the rock, the Jackal was wearing her; he lowered his rope of mouse skins; the lion climbed, the rope broke, the Leo hurt himself painfully]: McCall Theal 1882:175-179.

West Africa. Dagari [the chief promises the bull to be the fastest; the turtle invites the wind to compete; he does not notice that he is carrying the turtle himself; Der invites the turtle to cut the bull it has won; says that killed a bull with a stick he borrowed from a tree, I should give it a share; broke off the branches of many trees in advance, left all the meat under the trees; the turtle got nothing, and D. then took everything]: M& #233; tuolé Somba 1991:47-48.

Sudan - East Africa. Bilin [baboons bury his mother; the fox says he buried his own in the sky; to get there, let one climb on his back, the others one on top of the other; the fox jumped out, the baboons fell, broke; the fox filled their vessel with their brains, smeared honey on top; gave the son of noble parents to try honey, ordered them to tell their parents that he would not eat anything but fox honey obtained in the sky; father the fox called, who sold him a pot for a bull and a cow, ran away; he began to live with the lion, he chose a bull; when the fox cow calved, the lion ate the calf, then shoved it in the bull's ass, said that he had given birth to a bull; the antelope confirmed that it had given birth to a bull; the fox gave birth to the boar, which said it had given birth to a cow; in the end, the fox agreed that it had given birth to a bull, but when the lion picked up the cow, the fox lifted the meat to the tree; the lion asked him throw it off, the fox wrapped a hot stone in the meat, the lion swallowed it and died; the hyena asks her to share the meat; the fox gave her bones, said that the lion came to life, the hyena rushed to run, fell into the river and drowned]: Reinisch 1883, No. 3:202-208.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Ontong Java [brother and sister killed a pig but do not know how to cut it; the spirit came and offered to cut it, brother and sister promised him part of the meat; he took all the good, and the bitter and the bad gave it to brother and sister; they had to throw it away; they opened the spirit's earthen oven and took out the meat; knowing that the spirit would chase, the brother told his sister to climb the coconut palm, pick up meat and water there; around palm trees poked the stakes upside down, climbed the palm tree by himself; the spirit came to eat brother and sister; asks how they climbed; sister: upside down; the spirit cannot climb; brother: upside down; the spirit climbed, and the young man poured ash and water into his eyes; the spirit fell, ran into stakes, died]: Keopo 1981:37-38.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Garo [the turtle and the monkey decided to put the tops; the clever monkey caught a lot of fish; the turtle put the top in a small puddle, but a boar hit its top, the monkey offered to cut it, fry the best pieces and eat them on the tree with the best view; invited the turtle to hold on to its tail to pick it up; going up to the middle, asked to loosen its grip, the turtle fell; so three times; the monkey ate all the meat, throwing only the bones to the turtle; when the monkey went to the river to drink, the turtle grabbed its ass; the monkey's nephew tore off the turtle, but the monkey died of blood loss; the monkeys They discuss options for executing the turtle; she replies that the ax will break, the club will be dull, the fire will go out; pretends to be afraid of drowning; swims away]: Rongmuthu 1960:138-140.

Burma - Indochina. Palaung (Yunnan) [The hare ate grass and branches and wanted to try something else. I saw bees in the tree. A tiger came up. Hare: "There is a manga (several connected gongs) on the tree that I inherited from my grandfather, and I'm guarding it. The tiger said, "Is this manga sound good?" "Certainly excellent! The best in the world!" The tiger got even more interesting, he asked the hare to hit him once, but he said, "No, grandpa will be angry." The tiger started asking again, and the hare pretended to have mercy: "I'll go ask my grandfather if he allows me, I'll scream at you and you can hit you three times." The hare ran to the mountain and shouted: "Tiger, hit!" , - he hit, bees flew out of the hive and bit him. He wanted to bounce, but the hare had tied him to a hive before. Seeing the tiger's suffering, the hare ordered to hit harder. The tiger knocked the hive down to the ground, and the bees bit it. The tiger decided to take revenge. The hare wet his fur and rolled over the flower petals, getting stains. When I met a tiger: "I did not deceive you, that hare was white and I was spotted." The tiger agreed. The hare untied the tiger and asked him to eat the honeycombs in half. He took half of it for himself with honey, and gave the tiger his honeycombs. The empty honeycombs pricked the tiger's mouth, and the hare ate. He showed his mouth full of honey: "Look, my mouth is all over in porridge." Now the hare has decided to try beef. I met another tiger and said he offered to become friends. Let the tiger get a cow and we'll celebrate our friendship!" The tiger bit to death the cow and they started butchering it. The hare broke off its horn and gave it to the tiger to eat, which screamed from abdominal pain. Hare: "Don't scream, the meat will go bad." The tiger listened and suffered in silence. The hare cut the meat and let the tiger go for water, the pumpkin must be full, otherwise the meat will deteriorate. Wild pigeon: "The tiger has a leaky pumpkin." The tiger mistook sincerity for a mockery and threw a stone at the pigeon. The hare hid the meat, divided the leftovers into two parts, and gave the bad one to the tiger. This meat was salty and bitter, but the hare said that it went bad because the water was not up to the brim. The next day, the hare saw people returning from picking bananas, lay down by the road, pretending to be dead. People put it in a basket full of bananas. The hare ate them, jumped out and ran away. I fell into a hole and couldn't get out. The tiger asked what the hare was doing in the pit. Hare: "Today the sky will fall, my grandfather told me to hide." Pointed to the movement of the clouds, the tiger believed that the sky was trembling. He promised not to touch the hare and jumped into the hole. The hare began to poke the tiger in the side with a stick. He began to swear, and the hare promised not to poke again. Same thing over again. For the third time, the tiger threw the hare out of the hole. I told people there was a tiger in the pit. People slaughtered a tiger and cut meat. The hare set fire to the grass near the village and said that the village was on fire. They ran to the village, and the hare ate meat. I climbed a tree, people started cutting it.. Hare: "I won't die if I fall out of the blue. People cut down the tree so that it fell towards the cave, and the hare disappeared into it. People closed the entrance. An old man lived in the cave and had a manga (combined gongs). People told the old man to hit the manga three times when he caught a hare. Hare to an old man: "I'm going to die soon and I only want this golden cup, will you give it to me?" The old man leaned over the hare, the hare bit his ear, the old man backed away, tripped over the barrier that blocked the entrance to the cave, it broke, the old man fell on the rocks and crashed to death. The hare hit the manga three times. People hurried to the cave, but the hare was gone. I ran to the edge of the field, where there are lots of snails. "We're going to honor the snail king." The hare began to laugh: they were too slow. The snails offered to compete in running. The hare reached the end of the field, called out to the snails, but answered from the beginning of the field: "We've been here for a long time, you're behind!" The hare ran back and forth until he died of exhaustion]: Chen, Wang 1989:529-533.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Malays (Kelantan) [the dwarf deer and heron went by boat to Java; the deer fell asleep three times while driving; the heron was tired of it, it pierced a hole in the bottom, flew away; the shark was about to eat a deer, but he promised her a magic remedy that would save her from the need to hunt; a shark brings a deer to the shore; he ties a vine to it, pulls it to land, cuts it into pieces; a tiger comes and wants eat a deer, he offers meat; sends a tiger for water, for fire, drags meat to a tree; a tiger promises to kill a deer if it meets]: Skeat 1901:5-8; tetum [the tide caught the Dog on littoral, she climbed a rock; The crocodile refused to transport her ashore because he was in a hurry with the king's errand; the Shark agreed; on the shore, the Dog said she would go for the promised money, told the Shark open its mouth, threw hot coals, the Shark gasped; the Dog invited the Monkey to cut the prey together; the Monkey offered to swim; told the Dog to clean it with sand to make the skin shine ; while the Dog was doing this, the Monkey moved the meat to the tree; refused to throw at least a piece to the Dog; the dog began to guard, the Monkey fell off the tree, the Dog killed it]: Mathijsen 1915, No. 3:4-7.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Avars [bear, wolf, fox, camel live together; in winter they decide who agrees to be eaten to give seven lambs next winter; the camel agreed; when cutting the carcass, the fox quietly ate the heart; replies to the bear that if the camel had a heart, he would agree to be killed; the wolf ate the kidneys, the bear chased him and killed him, the fox hides the meat in the hole; tells the bear that the camel came to life and left; she hides in a hole herself; says she will meet a bear when the camel is resurrected]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 16:88-89; Lezgins [camel, fox, wolf, bear meet, depart to spend the winter; the fox promises to arrange for the bear and the wolf to eat the camel; invites him to agree to be slaughtered, and for this he will receive barley next year; the fox leads the bear to wash his insides offers to eat; he is afraid that the wolf will be dissatisfied; the fox tells the bear to look at him when the wolf asks; explains to the wolf that if the camel had a heart, he would not give himself slaughter; the bear is silent, the wolf is chasing him, the fox hides the meat, the wolf climbs into the hole, he comes out from the other side, slowly eats the wolf from behind; wolf: my eyes are good fat, eat in front; fox: me and I'll get there, it's far from the end of winter]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 15:86-87; Tabasarans [camel, fox, wolf and bear went together for the winter; the fox invited the wolf and bear to slaughter the camel; then said to the camel that the winter will be harsh, so they will exchange its meat for barley (next year the camel will have barley); the camel agreed, he was stabbed; the bear and the fox went to wash the guts, demand, heart and liver; hungry, they ate the heart and then the intestines; the fox assured the bear that it would find something to answer to the wolf; the wolf asked where the heart went; the fox: "If he had a heart, would he kill himself ?" ; the wolf asked where the guts had gone; the bear looked at the fox, which said, "You ate it, why are you looking at me?" ; the bear ran, the wolf rushed after him; the fox dragged the camel meat into its hole; the wolf came back and asked where it had gone; after chasing the fox, he got stuck in its hole; the fox came from behind and began to nibble at it ; wolf: "Eat behind my eyes, I have fatty pieces of meat behind my eyes"; fox: "Winter is long, I'll eat them too"]: Uslar 1979, No. XIV: 488-497.

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [a camel and a donkey escaped from their owners; they were caught, a tired donkey was brought on a camel; the camel had to work even harder; he runs away, meets a fox, a wolf, a tiger; suggests that it was eaten because it does not have the strength to spend the winter; the fox offers the tiger to eat its entrails, and if the wolf protests, slaughter it; eats the brain, the tiger eats the heart; explains to the wolf that the camel does not I had brains, otherwise I would not let myself be slaughtered; the tiger is silent, the wolf chased him; the fox hides the meat; says that she is another fox, reads a book, offers to teach cubs; eats them; says again that she another fox, weaving a basket, promises to teach the wolf and let him get inside; hunters come, the fox ran away, the wolf forcibly escaped from the basket; the fox says that she is a miller, advises the wolf to climb into grain structure above the millstones; the wolf hardly jumped out; since then he feared the fox]: Barag 1989, No. 89:398-401 (=Yukhma 1990:115-118).

Turkestan. The Kyrgyz [lion, fox and camel were wandering; the camel fell behind; gladly agreed to the fox's offer: slaughter it now and revive it in the spring; the lion went to the river to wash his camel stomach; time, the fox ate the brain, and the wolf ate the camel's heart {the wolf is not mentioned before}; lion: where are the heart and brain? fox: there was no brain, otherwise he would not have agreed to be slaughtered; the wolf is silent; the fox to the wolf: knew how to eat, know how to answer the lion hero; the wolf ran, the lion behind him, the fox hid the meat in the hole; when the lion returned, the fox said that the camel came to life and left, saying: If you quarrel over me, how will I believe you will revive it later; the fox got all the meat]: Muchnik 1944:24 (apparently the same in Brudny, Eshmambetov 1962, No. 52:48ff ).

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [Caribou agrees to transport Porcupine across the river; D. sits on his back, kills him with his tail in his back; Ducks throw D. a knife to cut the carcass; Wolverine says she herself cuts; tells D. to wash giblets for her in the river; D. eats all the fat; R. beats him, thinks she killed him, follows the family; D. carries the meat to the tree; tells R. and her household to cover themselves with a blanket when he throws meat at them; throws a sharp bone himself; R. sees what he throws in the hole, bounces; D. agrees to help R. climb the tree; R. chases D., jumps, falls, breaks]: Jenness 1934, No. 70 : 250-252; chilcotin [Caribou agrees to transport Porcupine across the river; D. sits on his back, kills him with a needle into his anus; looks for a knife to remove his skin; Wolverine helps to remove his skin, demands fat; D. eats fat himself; R. beats him, thinks she killed him, follows the family; D. carries the meat to the tree; tells R. and her household to cover themselves with a blanket when he throws meat to them; throws a sharp bone himself; R. sees bounces into the hole he throws; D. agrees to help R. climb the tree; R. eats meat, wants to relieve himself; D. tells him to sit on a thin branch for this purpose; R. falls, breaks]: Farrand 1900, No. 25:40; shuswap [Moose agrees to transport Wren across the river on his back; he cuts him with a knife, says he takes out ticks; kills; looks for a large knife to cut the carcass; Wolf picks up the carcass for himself, cuts with a knife; Wren offers to take the meat to the Wolf's children, takes the pieces to the top of the cliff, cooks the meat; the Wolf asks him to throw off a piece; the Wren throws hot meat into the Wolf's mouth, he dies; kills Wolf cubs in the same way; birds feast]: Teit 1909a, No. 60:751-752; ne perse [Porcupine kills bison; Coyote kills Porcupine, leaves his son to guard him, goes after other children; Porcupine comes to life, kills Coyote's son; lifts meat to a tree; kills the Coyote family with a heavy bone]: Spinden 1908, No. 9:21-23; sanpual [grandmother scolds the Woodpecker that he does not hunt or fish; he goes to hunt, finds an elk or deer who has recently been killed by someone; he needs a knife to fresh the carcass; the Wolf offers to cut the carcass if the Woodpecker brings his nephews; he goes, hits them, says he did not find them; Wolf He goes by himself; the woodpecker takes the meat to the cave on the rock; throws Volka and his five tribesmen hot stones instead of meat; they die; the woodpecker skins them, makes arrows, fills each skin with arrows; kills snakes, their skins are wrapped in a bow made of an elk's rib, some arrows, his hands; the Coyote wants to exchange for arrows, the Woodpecker gives him those wrapped in snakeskin; the snake bites the Coyote, he falls rocks, breaks; the fox revives him; the woodpecker makes a chain of arrows; first Excrement climbs into the sky for fire; dogs eat it in the sky; then Beaver is sent; he pretends to be dead, his skin is ripped off; people see the Eagle, rush after him, the Beaver comes to life, grabs coal; the Grizzly tried to climb, cut off the stairs; those in the sky jump down; Pisces bones pierced their flesh; fire owners urinate, trying put out the fire; it's raining, but people make clothes out of willow bark; the fire is preserved], 13 [as in (12); Excrement and the Dog are sent first, one eats the other]: Ray 1933, No. 12:153-157; curdalen [feline a mockingbird (Dumetella carolinensis) tells his grandmother that he wants to make a bow; to get a bowstring, asks Moose to transport it across the river; agrees the oldest Moose; Mockingbird says that sitting in hair on his feet, soaks his moccasins; the same is higher, finally on his nose; climbs through his nose into the Moose, does something to his heart, the Moose dies; the Mockingbird comes out, forgetting the moccasins inside; sings, saying that he does not have a knife; the Wolf hears it, offers to refresh the carcass, sends a Mockingbird to bring his maternal uncle; the Mockingbird says he has no moccasins; the Wolf gives his own, The Mockingbird deliberately spoils them; the Wolf goes after his children by himself; at this time, Mockingbird and his relatives carry the meat to the top of the cliff, cover a pile of coal; the Wolf and his four cubs A mockingbird throws hot stones wrapped in fat from a cliff, they die; he lets Orlitz carry himself to the nest, lives with eagles until their feathers have grown, descends on two eagles, pulls them out the feathers of their wings and tail, gives the Grizzly to make plumage for arrows; catches fish, does not share with his grandmother; she leaves him, rising into the air; he fishes for everything he needs; fishes for his wife, child; the wife calls to her bottom; everything is made of ice; the child disappears; his grandfather says he has already been eaten; together with Mockingbird they return to shore (the informant does not remember further)]: Reichard 1947, No. 22:148 -153; Klamath [Porcupine asks Bison (possibly Moose) to transport him across the river to let him get in his ass to cross the river; refuses to sit on his horns, on his back, hold his tail, gets in the ass; cuts his liver, kidneys, heart; goes out looking for a knife to cut meat; Coyote gives him a knife, but demands to compete with him on the run; the winner gets all the meat; the Coyote wins, hits Porcupine, leaves his hat as a watchman, runs after his children; Porcupine throws his hat into the fire, lifts meat to the tree; Coyotes line up below asking for meat; Porcupine sheds his spine, killing the Coyotes; the youngest cub escapes, and current coyotes come from it]: Barker 1963, No. 3:17-21; modoc [Modoc offers Porcupine to transport him across the river; he replies that he is afraid to ride on his back head, ear; gets into his mouth, then inside the Moose; on the other side he hurts his heart, gets out, looks for a knife to cut meat; the Black-Brown Fox gives him his own, offers him to jump over the carcass; the winner will get it; wins, kills Porcupine, leaves his hat as a watchman, runs after his children; Porcupine comes to life, tears his hat apart, lifts meat to a tree; Coyotes line up below asking for meat; Porcupine sheds his spine, killing all Coyotes]: Curtin 1912:272-275.

The Midwest. Menominee [Porcupine asks the Cow {obviously bisonica} to transport him across the river; she offers to hold her by the horns, by the tail; the porcupine replies that he will fall into the water; agrees to climb into her ass ; pierces the heart with a thorn; looks for a knife to cut the carcass; Menapus offers his own, freshens the cow, drives Porcupine away; while he goes after his wife and children, Porcupine takes the meat to the top of the pine tree; M. sees Porcupine's reflection in the river, dives with a stone tied to his neck; defecates, the wife takes the surfaced crap for Porcupine's giblets; M. unties the stone, sees the Porcupine in the tree; he refuses to throw it at him meat]: Bloomfield 1928, No. 84:237-245.

Plains. Assiniboine [I n ktumni invites the Black Bear to take a steam bath; closes the exits from the steam room, finishes off the Bear with a club; calls all the animals to a feast; The Rock grabs I. and holds for two days ; animals eat all the meat; I. promises daughters to fly by birds; they produce the wind, breaking the Rock; I. says he has no daughters; The fisherman's marten (Fisher) dragged the meat to the tree; I. sees in water reflection, dives; noticing Marten, asks to drop some of the meat; he throws a flintlock knife, I. is killed]: Lowie 1909a, No. 11-12:108-109; (cf. sarsi [The old man jumps off the cliff onto the rock ledge, comes back, invites the deer to jump too; they fall into the abyss, crash; the old man lets the pregnant female go so that the deer reproduce again ; meets the Coyote, offers to race, whoever wins gets meat; the Coyote pretends to be lame, the Old Man ties a stone to his leg; the Coyote is actually healthy, comes first, eats meat, leaves, falls asleep; The old man comes up unnoticed, scorches his face]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 7:9); Crowe [Bison agrees to transport Porcupine across the river; he says he will fall off the back of Bison's head, from his backs, hips, agrees to get into his ass; when the Bison reaches the opposite bank, pierces his heart with needles, crawls out, looks for a knife to cut meat; Coyote gives Porcupine a blunt knife, let the meat whoever jumps over the carcass will pick it up, cut it first; loses, but still leaves to call his family; Porcupine carries meat to a tree, makes a fire on a branch, roasts meat; Coyote jumps into the river Seeing his reflection, he thinks he is too light, ties stones, cannot float up, defecate, his children think it is ash; the Coyote pops up a little alive; the cub notices Porcupine laughing, that sheds pieces of meat, killing four cubs one by one; Coyote says fewer coyotes the better, he'll get more; tells porcupines to eat bark from now on, not eat meat]: Lowie 1918 : 34-36; santi [The spider steals ducks from the hunter, lets Norka cook them; offers a running competition; ties stones to clothes to compensate for Mink's slowness; falls into the lake; Mink carries meat to the tree; the spider dives when he sees Mink's reflection in the lake; he throws him only a piece of meat]: Wallis 1923, No. 24:95-96; Yankton: Zitkala-Ša 1985:27-33 [Iktomi prepares fish soup; comes Muskrat; I. does not share with him properly, but offers to race: whoever wins will eat his ear; agrees to carry a heavy stone to slow down his run; Muskrat returns, drags him away a pot on a tree, eats his ear there; I. first sees a reflection in the water; then asks him to shed his bone; Muskrat throws a sharp bone without meat I. down his throat], 103-109 [The turtle finds a deer carcass; Iktomi suggests that the meat will be received by the one who jumps over the carcass: wins, runs after his children: The turtle drags the meat to the tree, makes a fire: I. sees a reflection in the river, jumps there, drowns]; Osage: Dorsey 1904c, No. 12 [The turtle goes to war; agrees to take the Wolf and the Deer with him, they run as fast as she does; asks the Bison to transport her across the river; he invites her to sit between its horns - no, I'll fall; sitting on my back will fall too; climb into the anus; the turtle agrees, eats the Bison's guts; crossing the river, he dies; the turtle hangs a refreshed bison on a tree above the river; Wolves jump in water, seeing its reflection; enemies catch the Turtle; offer to cook, burn them; she promises to burn them with hot splashes, coals; pretends to be afraid of water; thrown into the river, runs away; at home, the wife breaks it with a stone], 13 [The turtle goes for scalps; The bison offers to transport it across the river, let him sit on his back; no, I'll fall; then into the mouth; no, you'll see it; then into the anus; I agree; I ate the Bison's insides, he fell across the river; Wolf {Coyote?} offers to jump over the carcass, wins, takes meat for himself; goes to call friends; The turtle asks the Bear to hang the carcass on a tree; Wolves jump into the water for reflection, drown]: 15-16, 16-17; throw off the pawnee [The turtle asks the Bison to transport it across the river; climbs into his anus, gnaws on his entrails, the Bison dies; the turtle sings that it would be good to get a knife to fresh its prey; the Coyote offers his own the condition that the meat goes to the one who jumps over the carcass; wins, goes to call his family; the turtle asks two Eagles to move the meat to their nest on the poplar; there he makes a fire and cooks the meat; The coyote brings his kids, sees a reflection of fire in the water, thinks it's a Turtle, dives, gets his head stuck between two driftwood; his excrement pops up; the turtle asks his cubs if they want meat; they cry and run away]: Dorsey 1906, No. 130:453-454; Kiova-Apache [The bison offers Porcupine to transport him across the river; he is afraid to cling to the wool, wants the Bison to take it in his mouth; on the other side, he pierces his heart with thorns; looks for a knife to fresh the carcass; the Coyote pretends to be chrome, offers to jump over the carcass; wins by getting all the meat; while he is gone, Porcupine transfers the meat to the tree at rivers, prepares it; Coyote sees a reflection, jumps into the water with a rock, sinks; Porcupine asks the Coyote's children to lie down with their eyes closed; throws ribs instead of meat; kills everyone but the youngest, who opens his eyes; calls him to the tree, feeds him to the dump, tells him to sit at the end of the branch; it breaks, the Coyote falls, crashes to death]: McAllister 1949, No. 17:62-64; wichita [The turtle asks the Bison to transport it through river; does not want anything but climbing into his anus; on the other side he gnaws Bison's intestines, goes out; looks for a knife to cut the carcass; Coyote gives, offers a competition in running; wins meat, goes after the family; The squirrel helps the Turtle carry the meat to the tree; the Coyote dives into the river for reflection, almost sinking]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 44:271-274; (cf. tonkava [The turtle bites off the testicles lying down, which dies; the turtle looks for a knife to cut the carcass; the Coyote suggests that whoever comes first get the meat; while he is running, the Turtle eats fat; the Coyote broke the Turtle's shell, but he was immediately struck by lightning]: Hoijer 1972, No. 12:42-43).

Southeast USA. Caddo [Coyoticha kills a deer, follows children; Wild Cat picks up meat, hides in a tree above the river; Coyoticha sees a reflection, dives, drowns; excrement pops up, her children mistake it for meat; Wild Cat brings Coyotich's children and takes care of them]: Dorsey 1905, No. 60:97; catavba [Opossum advises the Deer to get the fruit by hitting a tree; The deer dies; the Opossum seeks the knife, the Wolf hears it, takes the meat; The partridge frightens the Wolf, helps the Opossum carry the meat to the tree; the Wolf sees the reflection of the Possum in the water, dives; the Opossum laughs, his drools down; the Wolf asks throw meat away; he throws bigger pieces; throws the bone, the Wolf swallows it, dies]: Speck 1934, No. 115:87-88.

California. Karok [Coyote kills a giant, takes meat from his house, falls asleep; Eagle steals meat; throws Coyote an empty basket from a tree]: Kroeber, Gifford 1980, No. A4:9; pomo [Coyote marries Coyote one of the two Skunny sisters; the other has a leg ache, he takes her to the forest to heal, roasts her; the Eagle takes the meat to the tree; the Coyote asks him to throw something; he tells Coyote to close his eyes, throws inedible , Coyote's gallbladder bursts in his mouth]: Barrett 1933, No. 60:242-243.

Big Pool. A porcupine kills a bison by crawling inside it and piercing his heart with thorns; he does not have a carcass knife; the Coyote offers his knife; then says that the winner of the competition will get all the meat in running or jumping; wins, kills Porcupine; goes to bring his children; Porcupine comes to life, carries meat to the top of the tree]. Northern Payut: Kelly 1938, No. 16a [Porcupine asks Moose to transport him across the river; prefers to climb not on his back or neck, but under his tail; climbs inside; when the Elk reaches the shore, kills; looks for a knife to cut the carcass; Coyote suggests that whoever jumps over the carcass gets meat; wins, kills Porcupine; leaves his hat to guard, follows his wife and children; Porcupine comes to life, throws the hat into the water; cuts the carcass (with a Coyote knife?) , carries meat to the top of the juniper; Coyote asks him to drop a piece; Porcupine asks the Coyotes to stand in a row, kills everyone by dropping a heavy portion of meat], 16b [Porcupine asks Moose to transport it across the river; replies that he is afraid to fall, sitting on his back, ear, nose; climbs into the anus; when the Elk goes ashore, kills him with thorns; looks for a knife, cut the carcass; Coyote hears, offers to jump through the carcass; wins, takes all the meat, kills Porcupine, leaves the hat to guard, goes to bring the family; The porcupine comes to life, the hat screams but the Coyote does not hear; The porcupine throws the hat away, transfers the meat to the top of the juniper; the Coyote comes, climbs the juniper, asks where to relieve himself; the porcupine points a thin branch, it breaks off, the Coyote breaks; the Coyote cubs wait for the Porcupine will shed their meat; killed in large pieces]: 407-408, 408-409; Western Shoshones: Smith 1993:49-50 [Coyote and Mouse spend the winter together; Coyote: I should get rabbits, I'll cause snow; all night shamanite; The mouse goes out to see, but it is light and does not sink in the snow, so every time it tells Coyote that there is not enough snow so far; Coyote went out and fell; wanted to kill the Mouse, but she hid and then ran away; Mountain Sheep invites the Mouse to warm up in his ear; under his arm; all the rams offer the Mice different places, but the mouse only accepts the offer of the one who allowed it to get inside; climbs through the mouth, one by one, kills all the rams from the inside, makes a big fire at the top of the cliff, carrying the meat there; the Coyote came; the mouse threw pieces of meat on him, which it first spoiled, but he ate everything], 59 -62 [Bison killed by an arrow], 155 [Mouse kills a Deer by climbing through his mouth]; Utah: Kroeber 1901 (Wintah), No. 5 [similar to Lowie 1924]: 270-271; Lowie 1924 (southern Utah), No. 17 [Porcupine asks carry the bison across the river; he offers to sit between his legs (no: you will step); on his back (drown); etc.; agrees to climb only into his anus; when he hears that the bison's hooves have stepped ashore , opens needles, killing a bison; looking for a knife to cut the carcass; Coyote {wolf, but most likely it's a coyote} hears it and offers his knife; meat will get a jumping carcass; Porcupine can't jump over; Coyote gives him giblets, tells the best to give him flies, but Porcupine takes the best ones; the Coyote killed him, told his excrement to signal if he came to life; brought his daughters, but the Porcupine, who came to life, had already raised the meat on tree; invited the coyotes to stand in a row, threw not meat but a thick bone on them, killing all but one cub; he climbed a tree, Porcupine told him to relieve himself at the end of a thin branch, which fell and crashed]: 30-31; Sapir 1930, No. 1 (Wintah) [following the trail of bison, Porcupine (D.) asks bison manure how long ago its owner has passed; the deadline is getting shorter; by the river asks to transport it; rejects many buffalo, chooses the best one; says he is afraid to ride on his back, horns, nose, gets in the ass; kills when the bison replies that it has reached the shore; other bison butt the carcass, but did not reach D.; he searches the knife to cut the carcass; the Coyote (K.) says that whoever jumps over it will cut the carcass; tells D. to wash the meat but not eat it; leaves his excrement as a watchman; they shout that D. eats meat, K. it kills with a stick, leaves; D. comes to life, puts meat on a pine tree, tells it to grow up; throws K. and his cubs off the bison's neck, killing everyone but the youngest; he climbed, ate, K. sent him to relieve himself at the end of the branch he fell and crashed]: 485-489; Smith 1992:6-9 (Wintah) [Porcupine asks Bison to transport him across the river; he offers to climb into his anus (no: you'll start defecating), on his back (throw him off), between his hooves (I'll fall out), in my ear; not either - just inside, I climbed over the ass; when I heard that the bison went ashore, pierced his heart and lungs with thorns; there is no knife to cut the carcass, the Coyote offers his own, the meat will get whoever jumps over the carcass gives Porcupine giblets and tells the best to give it to the water beetles, but Porcupine ate it himself; the Coyote killed him, but he came to life, told the pines to grow, dragged the meat to the upper branches; The coyote brought his wives and children; the porcupine told them to stand in a row, threw off not the meat, but the bison's neck, killed them all; only the youngest cub was left; he climbed to Porcupine, who told him to relieve himself at the end of the thin branch, he fell and crashed], 85-89 (White River Utah) [about the same as p. 6-9; through the penis]; Mason 1910 (wintah), No. 16 [without getting inside the moose, the winner will get meat]: 317; Powell 1971 [as in Mason]: 86-87; Southern Payutes: Lowie 1924, No. 9 (Shivvitz) [Porcupine calls from the other side; large animals respond, he chooses bison (literally "cow"); she invites her to sit between horns, Porcupine refuses; then: in the stomach, anus, mouth; agrees to go only to the heart; when he hears that the bison has stepped ashore, pierces her heart with needles; there is no knife to cut the carcass; Coyote offers his own, whoever jumps over the carcass will take the meat; the Coyote killed Porcupine, left the excrement to watch, went after the family, but Porcupine came to life, scattered excrement, transferred the meat to a pine tree, which grew up; told the coyotes to close his eyes, threw off his heavy rib, the youngest opened his eyes, bounced; Porcupine invited him to eat meat, told him to relieve himself at the end of a thin branch, which fell and crashed]: 119-121; Sapir 1930, No. 17 [Porcupine (D.) asks the buffalo to transport him across the river; the last female agrees; D. does not want to sit on her back, between her horns, in her ear, agrees in her mouth; while crossing, asks where are they; when he finds out that he is on the shore, he pierces Bisonicha's heart; looks for a knife to cut the carcass; Coyote (K.) says that he recently wounded a bison, whether it's his prey; whoever jumps over the carcass will get a skin; cuts the carcass, tells D. to bring firewood, kills him with a stick; hangs the meat on a low pine tree, leaves his excrement to watch D., goes to call his wife and children; excrement shouts that D. came to life, K. kills him again; for the third time, D. tells the tree to rise tall; K. asks them to lose their spine; D. asks the coyotes to lie in a row, close their eyes, kills with a thrown spine; the youngest son K. opened his eyes, bounced; D. asks him to climb a tree, feeds him, sends him relief to the end of a thin branch; K. falls, breaks]: 457-463; chemeuevi [The South Fox comes to the river, asks for one of the Geese girls to transport him; each asks if he wants it, he replies that the other one; so to the last, she is the biggest; he gets inside her; asks if the water is deep; she answers as for the calves, thighs, etc., and then in reverse order; when it is clear that they are on the other side, the YuL breaks her heart; when she falls, the Goose Girl turns into a dead bison; YuL sings that she is looking for a knife cut meat; Coyote hears; runs away for a knife; in fact, the YuL had a knife; after cutting the carcass, he tells the pine tree to grow; the pine tree understands it and the meat; the Coyote brings his family; the YuL tells everyone to lie under the pine tree, he sheds meat; sheds bones, killing everyone but the Coyotic girl; tells her to climb to the end of a thin branch, shakes it off, she breaks to death]: Laird 1974b: 220-221.

The Great Southwest. Jicarilla: Goddard 1911, No. 32 [Porcupine asks Moose to transport him across the river; climbs into the anus, kills him on the other side of the river; (hereinafter "meat on the tree" and "killed coyotes")], 34 [Coyote kills gophers; Wild Cat drags meat to a tree]: 228-229, 230; Russel 1898 [Porcupine asks Bison to transport him across the river; afraid to sit on his head, agrees to climb into the anus; on the other side gnaws through vital organs; looks for a knife to cut meat; Fox: whoever jumps over the carcass will get meat; Porcupine cannot; Fox runs away to invite his own to a feast; Porcupine carries meat to a tree; tells the Fox lie down with your eyes closed and covered with your skins; throws not meat, but sharp ribs; The fox peeks on the edge, dodges, stays alive; the porcupine lifts him up to the tree, feeds him; he asks where relieve himself; Porcupine sends him to the end of a thin branch; The fox falls; comes to life when his corpse begins to decompose]: 263-264; lipan [Porcupine asks the Bison to transport him across the river; does not want to ride between horns, in the mouth, agrees in the anus; eats the heart and lungs, goes out, looks for a knife, Coyote hears about it, offers to jump over the carcass, Porcupine can't, Coyote takes the meat; goes after the family, into this time Squirrels help Porcupine carry meat to the tree; Coyotes are asked to dump them and Porcupine refuses]: Opler 1940, No. 24:142-143; Navajo: Haile 1984, No. 1 [Coyote wants it to rain, to pour harder; goes with the flow to a colony of gophers, lies down there as if dead; tells Skunk to tell the Gophers that their enemy is dead; Gophers dance around an imaginary dead Coyote; Skunk tells them to watch up, puts a stream of her urine up, it gets into the Gophers's eyes; the Coyote jumps up, hits them with a club; Skunk and Coyote bake gophers, the Coyote offers to race; while the Coyote runs around the mountain, The skunk hides in the hole, returns, takes the fat gophers to the top of the cliff, eats them; the Coyote sheds only bones, heads, skins], 8 [The porcupine asked the moose to transport him across the river; refused to go to horns - will fall; it is better to get into the anus and get out through the mouth; when he hears that the elk's hooves are dry, pierced his heart and got out; Coyote: whoever jumps over the carcass will take the meat; Porcupine wears meat to the river and eats, says Coyote that the meat was eaten by "water men"; the Coyote killed him, but Porcupine came to life; so three times; while the Coyote was picking up his children, the porcupine dragged the meat to the pine tree; told all coyotes lie on a moose skin, killed them by dropping the elk's spine; only the smallest one saw a flying bone through a hole in his skin and bounced; Porcupine promised to feed him fat; told him to relieve himself at the end thin branches, the coyote fell and crashed; but then the coyotes came to life]: 27-30, 41-44; Hill, Hill 1945, No. 11 [Skunk hides meat on a rock, throws a bone to the Coyote], 13 [as in Haile]: 327-328, 328-330; Parsons 1923b, No. 8 [ The Coyote goes, wants water to carry him; pretends to be dead, tells the Wild Cat to tell the Gophers that their enemy is dead; Gophers, Rabbits dance around, Coyote jumps up, kills many with the Cat with a stick; bakes; invites the Cat to race; while the Coyote is running, the Cat returns, picks up the fattest gophers, takes them to the tree, eats]: 371-372; Zunyi [The turtle cunningly kills the deer (not exactly how), looking for a knife to cut the carcass; Coyote wants half a deer for help, the Turtle does not agree; the Coyote tries to kill the Turtle, which pretends to be dead; while the Coyote runs to call his wife and children, The turtle fills the deer's stomach with ants, carries meat to the top of the pine tree; ants bite the Coyotes; the turtle sheds the Coyotes heavy ribs instead of meat; all Coyotes are killed except two puppies; The turtle asks one to climb a tree, gives him meat; after eating, the Coyote is thirsty; the turtle invites him to drink dew at the end of the branch; it's actually tar; the Coyote falls, crashes to death]: Cushing 1901: 244-254; Western Ceres (Laguna): Espinosa 1936a, No. 10 [Coyote agrees with Skunk that he will pretend to be dead and he will call the Gophers; they began to dance around the dead, Coyote jumped up, many killed; offered to race, whoever won would eat everything; while Coyote was running, Skunk ran around the mountain, came back, carried the fattest ones to the rock; then tears, Coyote called him to look for the cornfield; Skunk wrote In his mouth, Coyote died]: 83-84; Parsons 1918, No. 10 [Coyote kills gophers, leaves, Polecat takes them away; Coyote offers to compete in the run; while the Coyote is running, the Cat hides in a hole, returns, takes the gophers to the rock, eats them there; the Coyote persuades him to go down, wants to kill him, he hides in a hole; the Coyote is going to make a smoky fire from the cedar branches, the cat replies that he is not afraid this smoke (this is a lie); from pignon pine branches (same); made of pine resin; The cat lies that he is afraid of it; advises Coyote to fan the fire, throws pieces of burning resin at his face; Coyote is burned], 11 [ Having agreed with the Coyote, the Rabbit tells the Gophers that he is dead; hand in hand, the Gophers surround the imaginary dead and sing; the Coyote kills them by throwing sand into their eyes; agrees with the Rabbit that the winner of the run will get the fattest; while the Coyote is running, the Rabbit hides in the hole, comes back, picks up the best carcasses, eats under a rock; the Coyote wants to kill him, asks how to go down; the rabbit calls to crevice, Coyote falls, breaks]: 229-230, 230-231; teva [two options; Coyoticha asks Dicobraz to catch rabbits by climbing into their holes; takes prey, closes the exit from the hole with a stone; The Coyotich finds another way out; asks the Moose (Deer) to transport her across the river; does not want to ride on her back, on horns, climbs into the anus; pierces the Moose's heart, killing him; the Coyotich comes and sends her to wash pieces of meat, Porcupine eats them; Coyoticha kills her, follows the cubs; The porcupine comes to life, transfers the meat to the tree; invites the Coyotiche and the cubs to lie in a row, throws not meat, but the spine; Only the youngest cub remains alive; the Coyoticha takes it to the tree, feeds it, offers to move; the branch breaks off, the Coyote crashes to death]: Parsons 1994, No. 25:285-290; havasupai [ The porcupine climbed into the deer's anus and killed it with a deer arrow; the Coyote offers to jump over the carcass, wins; the porcupine slowly eats meat, takes it to the tree]: Smithson, Euler 1994:92-98.

NW Mexico. Varigio [The turtle offers Coyote to drive deer at her, she will shoot; misses; only the Coyote catches the deer; decide to cook meat, go to drink before that, the Turtle immediately comes back, asks aura {Vulture?} pick meat on the palm tree and then it; thorns poke thorns in the head; the Coyote's children come across them; the Coyote lies under a palm tree, the Turtle drops a piece of meat on him, he asks God to throw more; Seeing the Turtle, the Coyote cuts a palm tree, the Turtle asks Aura to move the meat to the top of the mountain; despite the warning, he opens his eyes, falls; answers Coyote that trying to eat it, break it, he will break it teeth, a knife, an ax, will break a stone; pretends to cry when he offers to drown her; laughs when she gets into the pond; Coyote asks ducks and herons to grab her, she swims to a nearby pond; two frogs drink almost all the water, but the hummingbirds pierce their bellies, the water pours out]: Relatos Guarijíos 1995:33-39

Southern Amazon. Bakairi [The anteater offers Jaguar to relieve himself by closing his eyes; replaces bowel movements, tells Jaguar that he ate termites and he ate meat himself; then the Jaguar suggests that the Anteater kill the tapir; he can't; the Jaguar kills the tapir himself, roasts the meat, gives the anteater crap tapir; he goes to look for water to drink, pees, fish swim in his puddle of urine, he brings them to Jaguar; he believes that the Anteater has found water, also goes to drink; The anteater collects the meat in the basket, raises the jatoba on the palm tree; eats the meat, the Jaguara throws the bones; the Jaguar sends biting ants to the palm tree, it does not help; then the wind calls, that breaks a palm tree, but the Anteater runs away; the Jaguar comes, the Anteater says his meat was eaten by the Little Anteater; scratched Jaguar's eyes, ran away; Aguti found the Jaguar's eyes, returned it to him; the Jaguar caught up An anteater in his house, ate his legs; the Termites cured the Anteater; the Little Anteater left a vessel with poison in front of Jaguar's house, he opened it, died]: Steinen 1897:330; Iranche [Jaguar kills a deer; asks the Anteater to go get the basket; he invites the Jaguar to go by himself; transfers the meat to the tree; the Jaguar throws only one bone; later Y. meets M., finds deer bones in his excrement, scratches his eyes; the bird heals them; M. asks Cayman to kill Jaguar; K. pretends to have a toothache, asks Jaguar to touch his penis to the tooth, this will help; bites off his penis; I. dies; M. roasts pieces of Jaguar skin, gives food to his wife and children; runs away from the Jaguars]: Pereira 1985, No. 72:236-240.

Chaco. Chamacoco [Doxóra and Jaguar agree to shoot two tapirs; Jaguar missed, D. killed a tapir, Jaguar changed arrows, began to fry meat; told Butterfly to bring water; D. told her carry water in a leaky vessel; Jaguar has to go by himself to drink; D. puts meat on a platform on a pole, tells the pole to grow; the Jaguar makes a fire, floods it, tries to cut down a pole, breaks axe; D. wounds Jaguar with a bone, saying he is throwing meat at him; Jaguar is dead; D. pulled out two fangs for him, revives the Jaguar; Kingfisher dives for fish screaming ëlebiché, offers to catch Jaguara; he too ëlebiché screams, falls his head into the clay, gets stuck, the Kingfisher takes out two more fangs from him; the Jaguar takes the crab for an eel, tries to dig it out of the mud, decides to kill it by defecating on it; The crab grabs it with its claws, pulls out his ass {penis?} , then pulls out a few teeth; the monkey pretends to be sick, the Jaguar agrees to carry it; before that, the Monkey wanted to get along with Jaguar's wife Deer, said that the Jaguar is her horse; the Jaguar agrees to put a harness on him; the monkey leaves with Jaguar's wife, but he remains attached; the monkey tells Jaguar that he climbed the tree backwards, pours boiling water on it; the Jaguar guards at the watering hole, but The monkey is covered with honey, pasted over with leaves, the Jaguar does not recognize it; the monkey says that the whirlwind will take everyone away, the Jaguar allows itself to be tied, the Monkey hits him; the Fox unties it, the Jaguar eats it; The monkey hid in the hollow, the Jaguar grabbed her tail, the monkey says he grabbed the root, the Jaguar let go; he went after the stick, leaving the Vulture to guard; the monkey threw dust into his eyes ran away; the Jaguar found a Toad in the hollow, telling me where the Turtle is; the Toad says he is not afraid of fire, he is afraid of water; the Jaguar threw it into the water, it swam away]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 98:385-392; caduveo [ like a chamacoco; a Jaguar kills an anteater, refuses to share with the Ant]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990a, No. 34 [Jaguar kills an anteater, refuses to share with the Ant; the water vessel flows; to drink, The Jaguar has to leave; the Ant asks the Hawk to pick up the meat on the tree; the Jaguar asks him to throw a piece, the Ant throws the bone, knocking out the Jaguar's front teeth; the Jaguar cuts the tree, but the Hawk heals the felling; The Jaguar leaves], 35 [The Jaguar kills the tapir; the Ant picks up the meat himself, knocks out the Jaguar's teeth]: 62-63, 63-64.