G24A. Seeds hidden on body. .21.-.25.38.55.57.67.

The character steals cultivated plants for people by hiding the seeds on/in his own body.

Drung, Viet, Sinhalese, Toraja, Minahasa, Tontemboan, Wemale, Paiwan, Ainu, Embera, Makiritare, Tsimane.

Tibet - Northeast India. Drung (Yunnan) [there were no domestic animals or cultivated plants; Penggenpeng began to clear the area, in the morning all the trees were in place; he waylaid an old man who was restoring vegetation; he replied that he was the heavenly god Mubengge and promised P. his daughter if he fulfilled the requirements; 1) quickly climb a straight tree and come down (P. does this); 2) follow a tiger to the ends of the earth; P. goes, finds himself in the sky, where all the cultivated plants and animals are; M. offers to choose between two daughters; one has beautiful eyes, but a dirty face, the other, named Mumeiji, is clean, but she is one-eyed; M. sent her to earth with P., and the other daughter became the fish's wife; the father gave the young spouses plants and animals and told them not to look back; Mumeidzi noticed that her father did not give her rice, and hid the grains of rice under her nails (according to one version, M. had a dog with her, and it hid the grains of rice on its stomach, pressing them with its tail); hearing the voices of animals behind her, M. looked back, and the animals ran away; P. and M. managed to catch only cows, pigs, sheep, dogs, and chickens, while the others became wild; the spouses dropped the bamboo with honey, and the bees became wild; the vessel with medicine was dropped into the river, which is why there is no medicine and the Drung can only make a weak intoxicating drink; but the seeds of millet, sweet buckwheat, oats, corn, and rice were preserved; Mubengge dropped weed seeds from the sky so that people's lives would not be too easy; seeing the rice, Mubengge ordered the gods to return some of it, which is why there are empty ears of rice; Mubengge gave a book, but the people cooked and ate it, so the Drung cannot write]: Miller 1994: 63-66.

Burma - Indochina. The Viets [maize, black beans, millet, and sweet potatoes are not used as offerings to spirits; these plants were brought from China by a Vietnamese official, although the emperor had forbidden their exportation; so the official hid the seeds in an unnamed part of the body, and wrapped the stalk of the sweet potato around his waist]: Pouchat 1910: 588.

South Asia. Sinhalese [husband died, leaving a widow, elder brother, younger brother and elder sister; one day the children went to help the neighbors, where they treated everyone; the elder brother and sister did not think of their mother, and the younger brother hid rice and curry for their mother under his fingernail; at home the mother told her daughter that for not thinking of her, she herself would be cooked in hell; i.e. she herself is rice, or rather one of its varieties, which is distinguished by its large grains; the younger son shook off what was hidden under his fingernail and the pot filled to the brim; the mother told the elder son to move quickly, he is the Sun; she told the younger son to become the Moon, a cool breeze blows on him]: Parker 2010, No. 2: 52-53.

Malaysia - Indonesia. Western Toraja [Napu: two ears of rice and a grain of corn fell from the sky to the earth; Kore: rice fell from the sky to the earth; Pakawa: the first woman married a man from the sky, gave birth to two sons; one remained a bachelor, the second had seven daughters; the sky god Nabi gave the younger two vessels made of coconut shells, one filled with jellied rice, the other with dry rice; her father's brother gave these vessels to the people of Palu and Pakawa respectively; Sigi: Sawerigading (a name borrowed from the Bugis) and his sister descended from the sky on a rainbow, brought cultivated plants to the people; Bada: the creator god Ala Tala sent two pairs of people to earth; agreed with the chief of the spirits of the earth Wuali that rice should not be given to the people; for seven days they ate cassava, bananas and leaves; but Wuali took pity on the people, gave them rice; Rampi, Gimpu (several texts): a bird brought a grain of rice from the sky; Rampi, Sigi: a mouse brought rice from the sky; Bada: two orphan brothers were left without property; the youngest saw seven heavenly maidens bathing in a pond; he climbed with them along the rainbow to the sky; he found rice there; the owner of the rice did not allow him to take it; the young man stole the rice, began to descend, but the owner caught up with him and wounded him; in the sky the young man rested, hid the grains of rice in the wound, descended, brought the rice to the earth (variants: hid in trousers, etc.); Napu: a god in the sky invited a girl to pound rice for a festival; she took only one grain, but they were counted, the god caught up with her, took it away; the next time she swallowed the grain; the god could not find it, said that the girl would die; she returned to her parents, said that rice would grow on her grave; and so it happened; Bada: seven ears of rice grew from seeds that fell from the sky onto a banyan tree; a mouse noticed them; the cat tried unsuccessfully to catch the mouse, brought the rice to the people]: Kruyt 1938(4): 5-13 and Woensdregt 1925: 118-129 in Mabuchi 1969: 39-44; minahasa [rice on earth was like plums - the same size and could not be stored; Tuleng climbed into the sky to steal real rice; hid it in his hair, the sky people found it, he pretended that the grains of rice were in his hair by accident; the next time he hid it in a cut in the tough skin of his leg, brought it to the people; but the harvest was eaten by mice; T.'s friend in the sky explained that one should share with the birds that were in the sky; T. put on mourning clothes, climbed up to heaven again, supposedly to cry for his father who had died there; they decided to give him a present, he asked for a bird; the inhabitants of heaven gathered to take revenge, but T.'s brother brought down the mountain that served as a road to heaven and back; they began to throw bamboo darts; where they stuck in the ground, bamboo now grows]: Bezemer 1904: 303-303; tontemboan[there was no rice on earth; Tumileng went up to the sky and saw rice scattered to dry; he replied that he had come to get a chicken; then he asked for rice, but they did not give it to him; then he made a cut on his leg and hid a grain of rice in it; Tumileng examined it, but the grain was not found; at home he planted the grain inside (in the hollow?) of a tree; he harvested the crop and planted many grains; people came from the sky, but he drove them away with a spear; at first the grains were large, but the old women chopped them up and thus different varieties of rice appeared]: Juynboll 1894, no. 5: 319-321; Wemale (Seram): Prager 2005: 107 [(Jensen 1939: 83-84); a girl is working in a field, it begins to rain, she curses it; having become pregnant, gives birth to a boy Taunala, he has only the right half of his body; T. comes to the upper world to the god Duniai for his other half; D. boils both halves in a cauldron, molds a new T. from the boiled substance, revives him; tells him to tell his mother not to curse the rain anymore; having seen his mother, T. comes to heaven again; chooses human food, D. gives him a human leg; then animal food; hides a grain of rice in a wound on his leg, brings it to earth; D. in a rage lowers mice on a rope to devour the rice, but T. cuts the rope, the mice scatter throughout the world], 108-109 [(Jensen 1939: 76-77); a man ascends to the upper world, rejects the offered food; accepts "animal food"; in a dream he lets out a wind, the celestials feel the stench, think that the man has died; a woman from his family dies on earth; the celestials say they want pork, go hunting, bring the corpse of the woman; the man sees the celestials eating rice; he swallows the rice, takes it out of his excrement on earth, but it does not sprout; then he returns to heaven, hides the grain behind his foreskin, brings it to earth; as punishment he is forbidden to appear in heaven anymore; while working in the field he is bitten by a snake, dies], 109 [(Jensen 1939: 82); for the celestials, human excrement is unbearably foul, but their own is a delicious delicacy; the man steals rice from heaven; the celestials send birds along a rope to peck at the grains, the man cuts the rope, the birds scatter]; galela [there was no rice on earth; Tumileng ascended to heaven (it is not said how); there people were drying rice, but they did not give him any; he said he had come to buy chickens; cut a callus on his foot and hid a grain of rice in it; they searched him, but did not find the grain; returning to earth, he planted it in a tree {in a hollow?}; the celestials saw that rice had grown on the earth, came down to take it away, but T. drove them away with a spear; thus all varieties of rice originated]: Vries 1925, No. 32: 144-145.

Taiwan – Philippines. Paiwan [1) A woman came to heaven, the gods gave her edible tubers but refused to give her millet; later the millet god invited a Paiwan priest to help her harvest; he hid a grain of millet under his fingernail, and the millet fell to earth; 2) A man came to his friend in heaven; the friend refused to share the tubers and millet; the man hid them in his penis, brought them to earth]: Mabuchi 1969: 20.

Japan. Ainu : Etter 1949 [gods compete to rule the world; 1) endure freezing temperatures; 2) sit in a fire; 3) not laugh while listening to funny stories; Kirumi wins; smiles only slightly when gods imitate copulation, says such a smile does not count; hides millet seeds in a cut under his skin, brings them to the ground; dog says K. is going to take the seeds away; K. throws ashes into its mouth; dogs do not speak since then]: 65-67; ​​Kindaiti Kyosure 1931: 36, Kayano Shigery 1985: 116 in Sadokova 2001 [after losing the third test (not laughing), Okikurumi decided to run away to the ground, taking the millet with him; tied a bag of grains to his leg; the dog blocked the way, began to shout that O. had stolen a handful of millet and was going to go down to the people; O. put a handful of ashes in the dog’s mouth, ordering it to become mute; since then dogs only bark, and millet grows on the ground]: 194.

Northern Andes. Embera (Chami) [a woman cries for her dead sister; a white bird turns into a man, offers to take her to the sky to her sister, tells her to close her eyes; there are black women with breasts up to their knees; the woman sees her sister and dead brother, the bird tells her not to approach them; before returning, one of the women (there are now two?) hides a corn seed in her mouth, and the other a peach palm seed; this is how these plants appeared on earth]: Chaves 1945, no. 5: 150;

Southern Venezuela. Makiritare [the inhabitants of the earth ate the earth; the monkey Kúshu learned that a giant cassava bush grew in the sky; he got there, made the bush small, hid it under his fingernails; the owner of the cassava Suamo followed, skinned K.; K.'s sister restored him to his former appearance; K. with cassava under his fingernails came down to the earth, gave the cassava to Kamáso to plant; only a rickety plant grew; the same in a second place; in a third it grew well; the bird Daríche brought water from the sky, watered the cassava; Eréñahádi took a seed to plant at her place {cassava does not reproduce by seeds}, but the seed did not sprout; Uanádi's mother (a cultural hero), advised by the sorcerer Wádi, planted a seed in Marahuaca, where it grew into a giant tree with all kinds of fruits on its branches; they fell and killed the animal-people, including Wade's son, who was killed; all the animals and birds, under the leadership of Seménia, collected fruits from the ground; Tapir and Jaguar collected only for themselves, hid them; S. sent them to bring water in a basket, they cut down the tree; when it fell, it formed three mountain ranges; S. ordered the bird Dariche to spill the water brought from the sky, it formed rivers; Tapir and Jaguar ran to the fallen tree, but the rivers blocked their way; a huge snake became the master of the waters; when Jaguar ran up, he said, "Now we will eat people"; Tapir heard, "Now we will eat leaves"; [therefore the jaguar became a predator, the tapir a herbivore]: Civrieux 1960: 185-188.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Chimane [the owner of the corn in heaven gives only boiled seeds; gives good ones in exchange for an earthly woman]: Hissink, Hahn 1989, No. 2: 62; yabuti [a woman became pregnant, her husband was unhappy because her other child was still small; the woman's hand got stuck in a hollow with honey; the husband left and took the child away; the woman gave birth; the child was already bringing her water the next day, but she died; vultures flew in; the husband returned, threw a pupunya (peach palm fruit) at them; the Urubu ask them not to kill them; they put the woman's body parts in a basket, a boy sat on top; when he opened his eyes, he found himself in the land of the Urubu; there were fields of corn and beans; he caught the Urubu in a trap, tore off the skin from their heads, now they are bald; the Urubu want to kill him; he hid the grains of corn and beans in his body, ran home to his grandmother; [I cut my finger and grains came out instead of blood]: Maldi 1991: 257-259.