N28E. The bridge across the sea. 29.32.33.
Among the things that don't exist in the world is a bridge across a lake, sea or ocean.
Kumyks, Turks, Maris, Kyrgyz.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kumyks ["What four things are missing in the world?" (stairs to the sky, keys to the earth, a bridge across the ocean, sleeves at the burka)]: Gamzatov, Dalgat 1991:448; Turks ["What is that over which you don't build a bridge? What is that for which you don't find a cure? - Open sea, death"]: Taylor 1954:407 (cf. ["Incapable of begitting offspring, -, unbridgeable, unacceptable. - Mule, heaven, sea, death"]: Taylor 1954:408)
Volga - Perm. Marie: Kitikov 2004, No. 394 (meadow; ~Kitikov 2006:29) ["There are no stairs to go to heaven, there is no bridge across the sea, the white hawk has no milk"; shopshar is a kind of staircase made of solid wood with short cut branches]; No. 2564 (hervel) ["God's supports - three supports: there are no stairs to climb into the sky, there are no stairs, there is no bridge to cross the sea, no white hawk has no milk"]: 40, 163; Kitikov 2006, No. 395 (Novotoryalsky District) ["There are no three things in the world" (a bridge across the sea, a staircase to heaven, bird's milk)]; â„– 396 (Soviet District) ["There are no three things in God's world ( bridge across the sea, stairs to heaven, bird milk)]: 69; Taylor 1954 ["Three sorts of things are not in the world: for climbing to heaven there is no ladder; for going over the sea there is no beam; a white hawk has no milk"]: 408.
Turkestan. Kyrgyz ["What doesn't have cream? /- Clean water doesn't have cream./ What doesn't have roots? /- A stone has no roots./What doesn't have a bridge? /- The lake doesn't have a bridge. /What doesn't have a support? /- The sky has no support./What doesn't have a soul? /- A log has no soul./ What doesn't have a language? /- Fish don't have a tongue./ What doesn't blood? /- The herb has no blood./ What doesn't have bile? /- A horse doesn't have bile./Why doesn't milk? /- Birds don't have milk./What don't they have hair? /- The snake has no hair"]: Orozova 1998:114.