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Two groups of characters compete in challenges or play a game, divided into two teams (at least two episodes with different characters on both sides). The participants are either anthropomorphic but have different unusual abilities, or they are different animals (natural phenomena, elements, etc.). Cf. motif K27xy (Characters with different properties in the enemy camp).

Lombok, Tingyan, Abazin, Kumyk, Avars, Kyurians, Scandinavians, Tuvans, Baikal Buryats, Khalkha Mongols, Ordos Mongols, Darkhat, Forest Nenets, Coastal Koryak, Quinault, Puget Sound, Puyallup, Cowlitz, Upper Chehalis, Kalispel, Lower Chinook, Clackamas, Tillamook, Klickitat, Alsea, Kootenay, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Natchez, Yuchi, Northern and Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute, Lipan, Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Navajo, Hualapai, Yavapai.

Malaysia - Indonesia. Lombok [Yatim - an orphan; when his grandmother died, he went on a journey; before that he caught and released a shrimp, a pig, a dwarf deer, a monkey, a civet, a fly; everyone promised to help him and went with him; Ya got a job as a gardener for a rajah named Buruhan; he arranged cockfights; the civet turned into a rooster and defeated everyone; Ya earned unimaginable money; the rajah orders him to participate in races; the dwarf deer became a horse, the monkey a jockey, they overtook everyone; raja: a competition to see who can dive under water for the longest period; the raja has a man who can sit under water for a day, and the shrimp sat for 5 days; eat an unimaginable amount of rice (the pig ate it); recognize the princess among many women (a fly sat on her); I married a princess and became a raja]: Kratz 1973, no. 26: 152-158.

Taiwan - Philippines. Tingyan (plot only in those Tingyan groups that are in contact with the Christianized population) [Dogedog is a lazy slacker; but before the rainy season he decided to lay bamboo on the ground in his hut; he took rice wrapped in a banana leaf with him; the cat ate the rice; the same the next day; on the third day D. set a trap; the cat asked not to kill him - he would still be useful; in the morning a rooster took the cat's place; D. carried him to Magsingal, where there are cockfights; along the way he meets and takes as companions a crocodile, a deer, an anthill, a monkey; the rooster D. easily defeated all the roosters, for in fact he is a cat and he has claws; further competitions: 1) who can sit under water longer (crocodile); 2) who runs faster (deer); 3) who will win the fight (the anthill defeated the wrestler); 4) whoever climbs the highest in the tree (the monkey); D. bought two horses to carry home all the silver he received and never worked again]: Cole 1916: 91-94.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abaza [a young man went to get married; he meets and takes as his companions a water-drinker who sucks up river with his mouth, a runner with a stone on his shoulder so as not to run too fast, an arrow (hits a needle on top of a tree with an arrow); they pull out a wolf that people drove into a swamp, it gives wool to call him; the bride's father's tasks: 1) sit in a red-hot iron house (the water-drinker cools it down by releasing water from himself); 2) overtake an old woman (she puts him to sleep, puts a chicken to peck grain in a sieve, it seems to the runner that the old woman is searching in his head); the arrow knocks down the sieve, the runner wakes up, overtakes the old woman; 3) whose dog is the fastest (they let the wolf go, it bites off the leg of the prince's dog); got a wife]: Tugov 1985, No. 48: 139-142; Kumyks [39 brothers leave with their father to look for 40 sisters as wives; the youngest, the fortieth Malik-Mamed, stays at home, warns not to spend the night near the city of Palas; they wooed 40 daughters of a poor man, go back, spend the night by the river; in the morning it turns out that they mistook the snake Ashdag for the river, he surrounded them with a ring; lets go for a promise to give MA; demands that he bring him the daughter of the shah of the devs; the wolf orders to find a good racehorse; MA finds it, gives the old one to the wolf to eat; along the way he meets Bystronog, Skalom, Vodokhleb as comrades; the shah of the devs 1) tries to burn them in an iron saklya, Vodokhleb burps water, cools it; 2) the shah orders to bring water faster than the lame old woman; Swiftfoot overtakes her, but she gives him wine to drink, he falls asleep; MA wakes him up by shooting an arrow, he catches up with the old woman, and returns first with a jug; 3) Rock Climber defeats a local strongman; MA gets the girl; the wolf says that the soul of the snake is in the egg of a huge partridge; MA breaks the egg, Ashdag dies, MA marries the daughter of the khan of the devs]; Kapiev 1974: 65-71; Avars[in order to get married, 49 sons of the khan go to look for 49 sisters, disappear; Sulayman is born, they hide from him that he had brothers; he offends other children, breaks the widow's jug; the old man, the widow advise him to better look for his brothers; he meets them in the forest, guards with them, then they recognize him by the ring; someone steals horses, S. remains to guard, kills seven giant Narts, finds riches and 50 girls in their cave; on the way back, the one-eyed father of the Narts and the girls grabs S.; the brothers are afraid and leave; the Cyclops orders the white horse to be fed with flint, the black one with wheat, S. does the opposite; the Cyclops orders the khan's daughter to be brought; S. rides a white horse, takes as companions people endowed with different abilities (1) runs fast, 2) sees well, 3) hears well, 4) drinks the sea, 5) splits and connects rocks); not recognizing S., everyone answers that the real strongman is S.; the khan promises to give his daughter to the winner of the competition, the companions help to win them; 1) horse racing, 2) defeat a bull, 3) running (the runner is put to sleep, but he is awakened by an arrow); they try to burn the companions in a copper room, the one who drinks the sea spews water; S. brings a girl to the Cyclops, tells her to find out where the Cyclops's soul is; he first answers that it is in a stick (his wife adorns her), then that it is in three eggs in a chest under a pile of garbage in a hut in the desert, only the white horse knows the way; S. kills the Cyclops, brings home his wife]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965: 184-197; Kyurintsy [a childless queen suddenly gave birth to 40 sons; after this the king left home; the wife hired wet nurses, raised the sons; the youngest Melik Mamed calls his brothers to find their father; they found him and threatened to kill him if he did not marry them to 40 sisters - the daughters of one father and one mother; the king found; MM orders the brothers not to stop at Palas; but they spent the night there, and in the morning they are surrounded by a huge snake; he will let everyone go if MM comes to him; MM came, the snake orders him to get the daughter of the king of the divas for him; the wolf orders MM to ask the snake for a horse; MM slaughtered his horse for the wolf; MM meets, they take as a companion the one who milks deer on the run; throwing stones; drinking a river; the king of the divas orders to spend the night in an iron room, it was lined with firewood, the drinker burped up water, the room cooled down; to run with a lame old woman for deer milk; the old woman gave wine to the milker of the deer, he fell asleep; MM saw this, shot, the milker woke up, killed the old woman, brought milk; to defeat the hero (the stone thrower defeated); MM received the daughter of the king of the divas; they came to the wolf; the wolf orders to kill a huge hare, in its heart is an egg, in the egg is the soul of a snake; MM broke the egg, the snake died; MM married the daughter of the king of divas and the girl brought by her father; the father gave him the throne]: Lionidze, Sultanov 1892, No. 5: 204-208.

Baltoscandia. Scandinavians [Thor and his companions come to Utgard, where Utgarda-Loki rules (note 61: In the Deeds of the Danes by Saxo Grammaticus it is explained that Utgardilokus is Loki, banished from Asgard to Utgard, i.e. to the outer fenced area ); they see a city in the middle of a field; the king asks in what art the guests undertake to demonstrate themselves; Loki: no one will eat his share faster than me ; competes with Logi ( flame ), both eat from both ends of the trough, meet in the middle, Logi has eaten both the bones and the trough; Tjalvi competes in a race with Hugi ( thought ), loses; Thor drinks from a horn, which the local people drink in one, many in two or three gulps, but when Thor takes two gulps, the water in the horn hardly decreases; Thor is asked to lift the cat, he only manages to lift one of its paws off the ground; Thor offers to wrestle; Utgard-Loki sends the old woman Elli ( old age ), Thor falls on one knee; Utgard-Loki receives the Aesir well, and when he lets them go, he says that if he had known how strong Thor is, he would not have let them into Utgard; Loki and Tjalvi could not argue with Flame and Thought; the other end of the horn was in the sea: what Thor drank is now called the tide; The cat is the world serpent, Thor raised it to the sky; there was no man who could defeat Old Age; Thor raised his hammer, Utgard-Loki and his city disappeared]: Younger Edda 1970: 42-46.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans[before his death, the father of Moge Bayan-Dalai (BD) sent him for lama Koldu-Burgan; he arrived, began to read sacred books, but the camp was surrounded by enemies - brothers Ak-Khan and Kadyn-Kara; BD's horse tells him to aim higher, because the brothers will jump, but BD did not listen, the arrow flew past; he himself did not jump, was killed; his pregnant wife Sai-Kuu fled to the steppe, gave birth to a son Kara-Kogel; three days later he is already walking and talking; asks his mother about animals, from small to large, easily kills them with stones; mother taught him to make a bow and shoot; KK brought 6 bears at once; mother does not tell him to go to the sacred mountain; he went, the mountain moves, it is a giant maral that eats forest like grass; KK hit a vulnerable spot on the forehead, where the animal fur is; he ripped open the belly of a maral, from which many people came out alive (this episode is on p. 102); KK made a dwelling from the skin of this maral; his mother sent KK to meet his grandfather Aldyn-Aas; he is going to woo the daughter of Manchyn-Ege-khan; they are met by people without an ear; without an arm; without a leg; they answer that two eagles attacked them; two birds of Khan-Khereti; two lions; this happened when they went to Manchyn-Ege-khan; AA gives BD a name that his mother only indistinctly pronounced: Kara-Kogel, riding the horse Arzylan-Kyskyl; this horse has no gaps between its ribs; AA stays with KK's mother, and sends him to Mynchyn-Ege-khan; BD's father once wooed her for him, gave him a steel bar and scissors; to cross the sea, KK shot an arrow, it swept away the passage between the waters; the khan has a competition, the winner will get his daughter; the son of the moon, the son of the sky, the son of the sun are participating; KK's arrow went through the eye of a needle, through the hole in a shovel, set fire to a pile of firewood, etc., but he threw a lasso on it and returned it; to compete in running from the place where the sky meets the earth; the strongmen sent sorceresses in their place; they gave KK something to drink - he, poisoned, fell dead; the horse came running, pushed the jug away, the winds revived KK, he overtook the old women, dragged along those who wanted to detain him with hooks; horse races, those old women are on horses, the horse tells you not to look back; AA turned around, saw his mother's breast, fell to her, fell poisoned; the horse woke him up, he overtook the old women; to fight with the strongman for 90 days; in winter only the frost creaked underfoot, in summer the dew rustled; AA defeated him and buried him in a hole; a fight with a strongman from whom sparks were pouring; AA beat him with an icy fur coat, threw him into the sea; defeat a bull, AA threw the bull over a rock slide; a fight with three bears; in winter the frost creaked under their feet, in summer the dew rustled; KK threw all three on the stones; these strongmen are from the lower world, they licked the arrow, swearing never to attack again; horse: they will demand me for the bride, do not give up the iron fetters; but Malchyn-Ege-khan took the horse away along with the fetters; at a feast KK was given drink, the heroes attacked him; KK shouted: Earth is my mother, Sky is my father, where are you? stones rained down from the sky, destroying half of the khan's squad; the wife brought KK to her place and in the morning he again called upon the Earth and Heaven, asking them to be beneficent; the sun shone,half of the dead came to life; KK melted down the broken bronze cup and cast it again; KK's horse almost died of thirst and hunger, but the khan's little son let him go and gave him something to drink; the horse was offended at KK for giving him away along with the fetters, but then forgave him; visiting his plundered camp, KK saw the remains of a long-dead man; this was his father; KK smeared the bones with potions, the body was revived; he struck with the golden handle of the whip and jumped over - the man rose up, but could not speak; from the book of sudurs KK learned that a magic mouse carried away vocal cords through 7 layers of earth, 9 layers of dust; KK became an ermine, caught up with, killed the mouse, returned the cords, put them in his father's mouth; BD came to life, but KK told him to look after the house, and he himself went to take revenge; learned from the shepherds that life is hard under the new owners; suggested that Ak-Khan and Kadyn-Kara shoot at each other the same way they had done with his father; their arrow bounced off KK's chest and fell apart, his arrow pierced both of them at once; KK returned the people to their former nomadic camp]: Grebnev 1960: 87-141; PribaikalskieBuryats (Okinsky district of Buryatia) [noyon Sebzheney goes to worship; meets and takes as a comrade a man with keen hearing, who can lift a mountain, who can change the feathers of a magpie and a crow without being noticed, who runs with stones on his feet, who swallows the sea, and who is a good marksman; the khan invites him to compete; the runner overtakes those on horseback on foot; the keen one learns that they are about to be poisoned, the money changer substitutes the food, the khan’s noyons die, the marksman kills all the khan’s mergens, the swallower drowns all who remain; to atone for the sin of murder, seven young men throw themselves into the sea and end up in heaven – “Seven Elders” (Ursa Major)]: Barannikova et al. 1993, no. 14: 209-215; Khalkha- Mongols [a poor brother works as a farmhand for a rich man, he feels sorry to cut down trees; in a dream, a forester pierces his tongue with needles, now he understands the language of animals; Raven tells Crow that the khan's son has fallen ill because a snake crawled into his mouth; he must throw the meat of a fat mare into the fire and breathe in the smoke; a poor man treats the khan's son, asks for 7 skinny mares and a bad horse under a blanket as a reward; along the way he meets and takes as a companion 1) someone who moves mountains, 2) someone who listens to what is underground, 3) someone who shoots into the sky, 4) someone who quietly changes the feathers of crows and magpies, 5) someone who drinks a river, 6) someone who chases mountain rams; the khan will give his daughter to the winner of the competition; 1) a strong man defeats a wrestler, 2) a shooter gets into the golden circle between heaven and earth, 3) a runner overtakes two fast-walking old women (they put him to sleep by stroking his head, but he woke up); the khan sent an army, the drinker drowned him; the friends ascended to the sky, became the constellation Ursa Major - "Seven Elders"; the little star is a princess]: Skorodumova 2003: 5-8; the Mongols [two brothers meet a shooter (shoots at birds behind the clouds), a listener, what is underground (buried up to the waist), a strong man (moves mountains), a runner (catches antelopes); the listener hears that Shaazgai Khan is going to attack across the sea; they meet a drinker, he drained the sea to the bottom, they passed by, took him as a comrade; Sh. suggests a competition: 1) the khan's archer pierces a mountain with an arrow, the arrow gets stuck in another mountain, the Archer - five mountains, gets stuck in the sixth; 2) wrestling (the strongman defeated the khan's wrestler), 3) running (the khan's shaman fell from fatigue); the sage Tushimel Saran suggests taking seven by deception, burning them in a cast-iron yurt; the listener hears this, the opivalo floods the yurt and the entire city of the khan with water; they ascend to the sky, become the Big Dipper]; the bird Khangarid carried away the khan's 25-year-old daughter; the old man's eight sons (archer, runner, keen-sighted, smelling, sucking in the wind, swallowing the sea, stopping the moon and the sun; the youngest - grasping the intangible) went in search. They shot Kh., caught the princess in flight, delivered her to the khan; the father decides to make the khan of the one who catches the arrow shot into the sky; the youngest caught it and became the North Star, the rest – the Big Dipper]: Skorodumova: 8-13; Mongols(Ordos) [two brothers meet and take as sworn brothers 1) the one who shot a bird, it fell only at the end of the day; 2) the one who listens to what creatures are doing in the three worlds; 3) the one who moves mountains; 5) the one who catches up with gazelles; 6) the one who drinks the sea; they made him their elder brother, they crossed the sea on dry land, he burped up water back; they came to Shadzhagai Khan, he offers a competition; the one who listens finds out about everything in advance; 1) shoot - the shooter penetrates five, and the man SH only two mountains; 2) the one who lifted mountains defeats the wrestler SH; 3) the runner overtakes the White Old Woman SH; 4) SH invites them to feast in a cast-iron house, lights a fire around it, the one who swallowed the sea burps up water; SH drowned; [the sworn brothers have returned, have become the stars of the Big Dipper]: Mostaert 1937, No. 32 in Solovieva 2014; darkhats [Alahai-Mergen cannot be killed, but the warriors of the king of the manguses tied him with iron, threw him into a deep pit, stole the cattle, took his sister as the king of the manguses' wife; the Magpie and the Raven are crying, for they are no longer thrown the entrails of AM's slaughtered cattle; AM asks them to bring Khan-Garudi, she lowers a wing into the pit, AM climbs out; two servants of the king of the manguses, blind and armless, tear the iron apart with their teeth, freeing AM; he finds his younger brother, they meet and take as comrades the Listener, the Runner, the Thief (imperceptibly plucks feathers from a flying magpie), the Sea Drinker, the Mountain Mover; they put poisoned wine under the manguses, win 1) by shooting into the eye of a needle behind the seven mountains, 2) in horse races, 3) in wrestling; the khan of the manguses places them in a yurt, sets it on fire, the Sea Drinker puts out the fire, the subjects of the king of the manguses drown in the water, the Mountain Raiser crushes him with a mountain; the seven return the property to the kidnapped sister AM, themselves rise from the mountain into the sky, turn into seven burkhans (seven stars of the Big Dipper)]: Sanjeev 1931, No. 3: 87-93.

Western Siberia. Forest Nenets [three brothers Shokho are going to propose, their sister is with them; the chieftain proposes a competition: 1) to pull a stick (Shokho is stronger); 2) to knock a sable off the top of a larch tree (the chieftain's men killed it yesterday); 3) to run a race around a huge lake with the chieftain's daughter (the Shokho brothers' sister barely managed to overtake her); the brothers got the bride]: Chapikhovich, Logany 2016: 51-56.

NE Asia. Coastal Koryaks (western A.N. Zhukova, 1952, Belogolovoe village, Tigilsky district) [seven brothers come to propose, Oyo is the youngest; the local owner Kagynkan and his assistant Nyunye propose a competition with local heroes; the losers are killed; 1) wrestle; 2) ski race; 3) jump over spears; Oyo wins; N. shoots seven arrows, each brother goes for his own, finds a yaranga, a bride, deer; Oyo's are the best, he is now the eldest]: Zhukova 1988, no. 12: 41-50.

Coast - Plateau. Quinault [five seal hunters give little meat to Ryabchik; he makes a seal out of cedar, it drags the hunters' boat out to sea; they reach an unknown land, are challenged to a competition; 1) climb a pole (Blue Jay hits Squirrel on the head with a bone, it falls from the pole); 2) sit under water (Blue Jay breathes under an overturned boat; hits Seal on the head with a hammer, it floats); 3) endure a red-hot bath (Beaver and Otter dig a passage to the river; the rivals are almost boiled); 4) spend five days without sleep (the hunters leave behind logs with rotten wood instead of eyes, run away); pursuers drown, hunters return home]: Farrand 1902, No. 3: 102-105; Puget Sound : Ballard 1929: 64 [Sea Wind (Chinook) and his servants (Blue Jay, Beaver, Raven) go to compete with North Wind, whose servants are Otter, Woodpecker); 1) to dive for a long time (Otter comes up dead, Blue Jay breathes secretly in the grass), 2) to climb a pole (Blue Jay defeats Woodpecker); if Chinook had lost, there would be no summer], 65 [Eagle's sister marries Sea Otter, who takes her north; his servant is Woodpecker; Eagle and other birds come to compete (as on p. 64); 1) to dive (Seal versus Blue Jay), 2) to climb an ice pole; on the way back pass under a sky that sometimes rises and sometimes falls], 66 [Sea Wind's sister is taken away by North Wind's son; her brother leads his people north; breaks ice on rivers; North Wind's wife is Blue Jay's sister, helps him with advice; 1) blow dust (smoke?) at each other (Blue Jay hides his face in a hole), 2) eat a lot (sends food past through a hollow stick), 3) kill a monstrous beaver, 4) dive (Seal dies, Blue Jay hides in the grass), 5) shoot at each other (Blue Jay covers his chest with a stone), 6) climb an ice pillar (knocks down Squirrel, wins); return home with Chinook Wind's sister] ; Puyallup [the Seal tribe competes with freshwater animals, joined by Blue Jay; 1) to stay underwater for a long time (Blue Jay breathes under a broom thrown from a boat, hits a Seal lying on the bottom with a hatchet); 2) to climb a tree with a smooth trunk (Blue Jay hits Woodpecker on the head with a club, he falls, Jay wins)]: Adamson 1934: 251-353; upper Chehalis[chief and his people arrive at unknown land; jumping out of boat, Blue Jay slips and falls; local chief Sea Otter lies on bed, proposes contests; room is full of smoke, servant or dog inhales smoke, purifying air; 1) eating dangerous food (guests swallow hollow tubes, pass food through themselves); 2) diving (as among the Puyallup); 3) running races (Blue Jay against Coyote or Squirrel, beats him, wins)]: Adamson 1934: 12-15 [4) climbing slippery tree (Blue Jay beats Squirrel, he falls), 5) hot bath (Blue Jay takes ice with him, Partridge bursts from heat); 6) to go down the river in a boat under the ice floes that rise and fall (they do, Blue Jay gets the tip of his tail cut off); Spider gives them a boat, it brings them home and goes back], 15-20 [7) to shoot at each other (Blue Jay kills Beaver]; Cowlitz : Adamson 1934: 178-184 [two var., as in the Upper Chehalis; salmon drags boat to unfamiliar shore, turns into local chief; 1) diving (Blue Jay breathes under a broom floating on the water, kills Duck); 2) climbing a pole (Blue Jay hits Hummingbird Girl); 3) duel (Eagle puts whetstone under Jay's clothes, local boy is killed); 4) sweat lodge (Eagle digs under, local boy bursts from heat); 5) Eagle and Jay win at dice; Jay's kidnapped sister lives in this land, the fish are her children; she helps her relatives return home; another version: Blue Jay, his sister, Eagle, and others sail to another village, find themselves on an unfamiliar shore; on the way back, the boat twice passes under a log that rises and falls], 209-211 [Thunder tells his brother-in-law Puma to kill Grizzly; this is Thunder's wife, Puma kills her, gives Thunder her udder to eat, he cries; asks Puma's brother Mink to bring his toy ; this is White Agate and Blue Stone; both stones fight each other, Mink brings them, they smash Thunder's house to dust; the servants turn into birds, Thunder himself - into the Thunderbird] ; kalispel [two (wood duck and woodpecker) went to a pow-wow where there was to be a contest to see who could dive and stay under the water the longest; decided to make a hole in the bottom of the boat so they could swim under it and breathe unnoticed; Coyote insisted on going to the pow-wow too; painted one red and the other white clay and black; beautifully; they won; against them Elk, Deer, Buffalo, they cut off their heads; and ate so much that they died]: Vogt 1940, No. 5: 85-89; lower Chinook[the chief's sister marries an overseas spirit; the chief and his people come to visit; they are told to 1) eat a lot (the host and the chief pass meat through swallowed reeds, and Blue Jay's intestines fall out), 2) stay underwater for a long time (Blue Jay hides under floating branches, kills a local diver at the bottom with a club, her corpse floats to the surface), 3) climb an ice pillar (Blue Jay quietly hits her rival Chipmunk with a club), 4) take part in a duel with bows (Beaver ties stones to his chest, wins against the local Loon), 5) endure a steam room (the chief puts ice under the feet of his people, and the spirits burst from the heat); people return home safely]: Boas 1894a, no. 3: 55-59; Clackamas [older brother makes boats; sends son to fetch fat from younger brother; younger brother insults him; older brother sends wooden seal to drag hunters' boat out to sea; they come to Seal Woman; Bumblebee Woman with teeth in vagina is there; hero inserts stone; teeth break, woman menstruates; spirit helper gives advice on how to win competitions; 1) breathe in a cloud of poisonous smoke (they breathe through pipes), 2) shoot at each other (the Beaver covers his chest with a stone, the local chieftain with a shell, is pierced by an arrow), 3) dive (the Blue Jay secretly breathes under the boat, the local girl dies), 4) climb a greased pole (the Blue Jay takes off, hits the Woodpecker girl, she falls), 5) run a race (the Raven is faster than the Wind), 6) spend the night in a red-hot steam room (the Beavers and Martens dig a hole to cold water), 7) harpoon a salmon (the Salmon Wind drags the hero, the Beaver gnaws through a tench); people come to the Sturgeon couple; the wife bakes herself; the firmament hits the ground; on the way home, the boat passes over them five times; the last time only the stern is slightly broken; the hunters return; people turn into birds and animals]: Jacobs 1958, no. 25: 207-226; Tillamook [Ice and his people (land animals) come to the sea people; they offer 1) to drink a lot of fat (Ice inserts a hollow stem into his anus to remove the fat), 2) to take out a hot steam room (live whales heat it up with their breath; Ice blows, the wind carries the whales away), 3) to climb an ice pillar (Bear climbs), 4) to spend a long time under water (Ice breathes imperceptibly under the moss floating on the surface); land animals engage in single combat with fish and sea animals; Ice and his people return home]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, no. 2: 9-12; Klickitat [Chief Eagle and his people are sailing in a boat; Salmon woman drags boat to her people; they propose a contest; 1) a long dive (Blue Jay breathes secretly near the boat, native girl dies), 2) Beaver and native woman lie down near a rock; she falls, Beaver lives, woman dies), 3) Eagle and Puma girl eat each other (Puma dies)]: Jacobs 1929, no. 7: 216-219; alcea[brothers (number not given) from one bank of a river go to play with brothers living on the other bank (dice throwing, guessing game); killed, only a grandmother and a boy remain of the entire clan; the boy trains to become invulnerable to a knife; finds a set of gaming sticks in the sweat lodge that had been owned by his father and uncle(s); plays, wins; is attacked, he cuts off the heads of his attackers, the grandmother throws them into a pit so that they go to the world of the dead; the youngest's neck is cut, so the hawk (into which he has turned) has a crooked neck]: Frachtenberg 1920, no. 12: 137-159; Kutenay [Coyote and his bird people come to three separate villages to compete; 1) to dive for a long time (Beaver drowns, Drake breathes unnoticed near the boat); 2) to fight with fists (Drake defeats Kneecap with the help of Woodpecker); 3) to eat a lot (Blue Jay eats and wins)]: Boas 1918, no. 49: 69-73; Yakima [eel, on whose side are snakes, worms, salmon, plays against bony fish; the stake is bones; the fish win, therefore they have many bones, and the eel is boneless]: Hines 1992, no. 10: 49; ne percé [Mountain Sheep, Elk, Black-Tailed Deer, White-Tailed Deer, Mountain Goat always win the race, decapitate the losers; Coyote and Fox win, kill ungulates, eat their fill of meat; lose to Magpie, they themselves are beheaded, although Coyote tried to hide]: Spinden 1917, No. 5: 185-186.

Southeastern United States. Natchez [a young man, Idzogociya, shoots birds; sees a girl picking up his arrows; she agrees to take him home but warns him that her mother is a cannibal; along the way they pick up feathers from various birds and put a ball of clay on each; warns him not to eat anything his mother offers, gives him corn which is edible; he does so; the girl warns him that just because her mother snores does not mean she is asleep; when she actually falls asleep, the daughter places feathers with lumps of clay on the ends around her bed, and the cannibal finds herself in the middle of a lake with waterfowl; the cannibal finds herself chest-deep in water; the daughter removes the feathers and the water disappears; her daughter helps her husband 1) shoot raccoons (the mother-in-law would kill her son-in-law if he missed), 2) shoot a big fish (the water pursues him), 3) hunt cranes (the cannibal leaves him on the other side of the river; he builds a bridge of feathers); the cannibal brought her son-in-law to her husband and offered to play ball; the young man, together with the Wind, Tornado and Thunder, play ball against the cannibal father-in-law and his men; among the players on the cannibal's side are excrement and slippery holes on the river bank (the young man and his men must slip); the Wind lifts them from the ground, Thunder tears them apart; body parts of the cannibal's thrown and dismembered players fall to the ground; they are collected in a pile and burned; after this the youth and his wife went west]: Swanton 1929, no. 4: 219-222; Yuchi [Red Copper proposed a shooting contest at a rolling wheel, caught up with him, cut him, took his blood; the grandmother tells Thunder's son that before going to Red Copper, he should visit his father; at his father's house the youth sees a young woman, she calls Thunder; he replies that if the youth is his son, let him sit inside a rock for four days, then walk above the earth; on the fourth day the rock explodes, the youth comes out, walks above the earth with thunder and clouds; his father and sister recognize him, the sister splits the clouds with an axe, the sky clears; catching up with the youth and touching him, Red Copper does not cut him, but melts himself, only his head remains; Red Copper proposes to play ball, puts his head on the line; Red Copper is helped by all the creatures on earth, the son of Thunder by all who fly; to win, Red Copper must throw the ball into the water, and the son of Thunder - into the gates of heaven; every time the flying creatures are ready to drive the ball into heaven, the Rabbit tells him to become hot, they drop the ball; the Bat pushes the ball up; first the Crocodile, then the Trout grab the ball, it sinks; the enraged Eagle grabs the Crocodile, throws him; Red Copper has won back his head]: Wagner 1931, No. 17: 71-77.

Great Basin. Northern Shoshoni : Lowie 1909b, #23h [Chief Eagle promises one of his two daughters to anyone who kills a fox (not specified, text is brief); poor grandson of old woman brings fox, marries older sister; urinates in night, wife sends him away; finds clothes and red dye, grows big and handsome; marries younger sister, Raven marries older sister; grandmother sends him to buffalo pit; Coyote pretends to be his friend, lowers him into pit, begs for his weapons and clothes, comes to his wife; boy had live bird on his hat, now it screams constantly; grandmother helps grandson out of pit; boy comes to wife; bird screams and flies onto his head; Coyote has to return all boy's property], 23k [Coyote comes to Eagle's village to compete; 1) who can stay under water the longest; Beaver dives for Coyote, Duck for Eagle, Beaver wins; 2) wrestling: Weasel for Coyote, defeats Mole; 3) who can eat the most; Rat for Coyote, Floating Ice wins; 4) running, Coyote defeats bird; in another village, Coyote and Fox propose to run a race; the losers will have their heads cut off; Magpie wins, Fox and Coyote are beheaded]: 274-275, 277; Western Shoshoni [with Coyote, small animals (beetles, lizards, frogs), in another room - birds; Coyote and Hawk agreed that those who first run from the reeds to the hot springs could burn the losers; Coyote and Bullfrog {won}, threw all the hawks into the fire; Coyote pushed Bear into the fire and held him there until he was burned; Bear was the sun, so it became dark; in the spring Coyote was given food, the food was found by owls, rats and mice, who can see in the dark; everyone decided to shout, to call the sun; Coyote's shout only made it darker; the cry of the bugs did not change anything; the cry of the duck made it a little lighter; after the cry of the woodpecker it became light, and after the cry of the red-headed woodpecker the sun rose]: Smith 1993: 127-129; Southern Paiute(Moapa) [two women stand in front of a house while their sons play with visitors inside the house; before the game the women give the visitors poisonous porridge; when the players win they cut off the heads of the losers and throw them to their mothers; Cünawab {probably Coyote}, his brother Töbats {probably Wolf} and their people came to play; would not eat the porridge offered, but threw it to the women; Rabbit, on Coyote's team, won, cut off the heads of the players and threw them to their mothers; at first they thought they were the heads of the visitors, but then they began to cry; these women were also killed; then they went to play in another place; they won everything, including the seeds of the pinyon pine; they were on the top of a smooth pole; at Coyote's command, a mouse got them; Coyote placed the seeds on the pines to remain there forever; Turtle killed a wild ram; Coyote: whoever jumps over the carcass gets the skin; Turtle couldn't jump over; Coyote skinned a ram, but had no rope to carry the skin; while he was getting grass and making a rope, Turtle dragged everything to his home; Coyote asked one of his sons to make a rainstorm so that Turtle's house would be flooded; but Turtle was alive; asked one of his sons to make a terrible heat; Coyote and his sons died]: Lowie 1924, no. 2: 160-161.

The Great Southwest. Lipan : Opler 1940: 87-93 [fierce animals play against harmless ones; it is necessary to guess under which moccasin the bone is; the stake is life; Rabbit, Antelope play on the side of the wicked; if they won, there would be eternal night; the good win the day, thanks to Opossum, who crawled under the moccasins and changed the bone; for this the wicked beat him into the ground; the winners take fat from some of the losers; Bear in a hurry put his moccasins on the wrong foot, therefore he has a clubfoot; the birds beat the Great Owl, he hides his heart in his foot, Lizard shoots him there with an arrow; his body turns into flints, an ordinary owl flies out of it, asks for a little darkness, lives in caves], 93-95 [as on pp. 87-93; Sun, Morning Star play on the side of good], 199-200 [Puma, Coyote and other quadrupeds fight with insects; they bite everyone; Coyote stayed behind, ran away]; Chiricahua: Opler 1942, #1a [the birds are playing a game of chance against the quadrupeds (moccasin game: under which moccasin is a short stick, stone, etc. hidden); if the birds win, there will be daylight in the world; the winners will exterminate the losers; the birds almost lost, but the sleeping turkey had 3 sticks in reserve and the birds won back what they had lost; when the animals had 2 sticks left, daylight began to break; Coyote decided to go over to the side of the birds; the wren began to sing: day, day; the giant told him to be quiet and poked him with a firebrand, since then the wren has a black spot on his head; the wren flew up onto a rock and light poured through a crevice; the animals lost their last stick and the birds began to kill them; the giant walked away; the arrows of the birds did not harm him; The lizard, though among the animals, reported that the giant's heart was under his sole; shot at it, the giant fell dead; now the white stones there are his bones; the snake hid in a crack in the rock, they did not get it; the bear ran into the woods, where he now lives; was in such a hurry that he put his moccasins on the wrong foot, now he is club-footed], 1b [the world is dark; the birds decided to play against the quadrupeds in a moccasin game; the winners will kill the losers; the insects are on the side of the birds; Coyote supports those who win; a gopher from under the ground threw a stick under another moccasin if the birds guessed correctly; at first the birds lost, but then the roadrunner began to guess, the birds won it all back; someone hit him with a firebrand, now he has red streaks on his face; then the quadrupeds began to win again; the turkey hid some sticks, now they are in his paw; after this the birds began to win for good; giant: it is time for me to go, I am going slowly; he went, hung his testicles (on a tree) and sat in their shade; when the quadrupeds lost their last stick, the day sowed for the first time; those whom the birds killed are no longer on earth; the coyote went over to the side of the birds; the giant was not harmed by the arrows of the birds; the lizard decided to help, shot the giant in the sole where his heart was; he died; the snake went into a crevice, the birds shot arrows at it; in the thicket where the bear hid, there are now many bears]: 23-25, 25-27; Jicarilla : Opler 1938, No. IV.C [the diurnal birds and animals play a gambling game (moccassin game) against the Bear and the nocturnal birds led by the Eagle Owl; if they win, there will be day, and if they lose, then eternal night; roadrunner: I bet the sun will rise ! owl: I bet it won't!; the roadrunner was the first to guess correctly; (further details of the game); when those playing on the owl's side began to lose, they ran away, for they did not want to see the rising sun; but the rays scorched them, therefore their fur is yellowish in places; and those who wanted daylight to come chose their own colors, therefore they are motley; the moccasins left over from the game turned into stones, now visible; the bear hid in the thicket, where he now lives; the snake hid in a crack in the rock, and was shot at with bows; while flying away, the owl hit the roadrunner with a firebrand, and a burn mark remained under his eyes; coyote: I bet there won't be any stars tonight! partridge: You can't do anything! (further details how the fox tricked the coyote's eyes into closing with tar)]: 231-234; Mooney 1898a [people live in the dark in the nether world; Bear, Mountain Lion, Owl and other night animals want darkness, Magpie, Partridge and others want light; decide to play; those who want light win four times; first Black Bear, then Brown Bear, then Mountain Lion, Owl go into darkness; accordingly appear Morning Star, dawn, more light, Sun; Sun tells people to go up; they heap up four hills at the cardinal points, on each they plant plants with fruits of corresponding colors: black in the east, blue in the south, yellow in the west, variegated in the north; the hills stop growing when two girls go to pick berries on them; therefore boys do not grow after their first contact with women; feathers are too light to make a ladder; four buffalo expose their horns; people go out on the land; the horns have been crooked ever since; the land is covered with water, four winds of corresponding colors dry it]: 198-199; Navajo[the divine gambler Naqaílpi ("the Winner") descended from the sky; he wore a piece of turquoise as a talisman; the Pueblo lost their property and themselves to him; they lost two precious shells, the Sun asked N. to give them to him, he refused, the Sun was angry with him; the god Qastcèyalçi came to tell a Navajo youth about this, told him to come to a meeting; among the gamblers there were Wind, Darkness, Bat, Big Snake, Little Bird, Gopher, and also animals that had previously obeyed N., but now turned against him; Darkness crept unnoticed to the sleeping Gambler, returned, saying that he repents; Wind did not believe him, but returned with the same news; N. places parts of his body against parts of the youth's body; places his wives; he has no wives, but two youths put on women's clothing, pretend to be the hero's wives; 1) 13 chips of wood must be thrown up, they must fall with the white side up, not the red side; the Bat hides under the ceiling, having prepared 13 chips of wood white on both sides, throws them in place of the thrown ones; 2) chase a hoop (the Snake hides in the hoop, chases it, the Coon is needed); 3) knock down a tree by flying into it (the Gopher gnaws at the roots of the tree that the hero is pushing); 4) drive a ball beyond a certain line (the Bird instead of a ball); N.'s animals told the Wind to blow harder in order to justify their inaction to N.; the hero wins, places N. on the bowstring, shoots it into the sky, it flies to the god of the Moon; he gives him the domestic animals that the Mexicans now have, returns him to earth in Mexico; he became the god of the Mexicans]: Matthew 1889: 90-94; Walapai [the Sun has a wife and two daughters; they kill suitors with their vaginal teeth, their father eats the bodies; Coyote told this to two brothers, Makwitia (the eldest) and Kah ^a waga; so that the Sun would not notice him, M. asked Coyote to dig an underground passage; he did not finish digging, other digging animals continued, the gopher finished; the Sun offers dried meat to those who came; M.: it is human flesh, whoever eats it will be defeated; the Sun proposes a running competition, the loser will have his genitals cut off; the daughters of the Sun undressed and exposed themselves to view; Coyote is ready to rush at them; M. stopped him, began to copulate himself, putting a mountain ram's horn on his penis, broke off his teeth with it, although the girls bit with all their might; since then the head of the penis is red; after this the rest of the girls met; M.'s people drove the ball first; Coyote cut off Sun's testicles; he jumped in pain, the earth caught fire, all the animals and plants died; Cottontail asked the sedge if it would burn completely; no, only the top; Rabbit hid under its roots, only the back of his head was burned, since then the fur there is dark]: Kroeber 1935: 272-275; NE Yavapai[The Sun always beats Coyote at a game in which the participants kick a ball around with a stick; in the end, Coyote even lost his son, daughter, wife, and leg; the Sun cut off his leg, Coyote made himself a wooden one; Coyote came to Squirrel, asked him to go with his people to play with the Sun; in his house, the Sun sees everyone who passes by, sends them back; only Hummingbird was able to enter unnoticed; under Squirrel's leadership, the animal-people dug an underground passage into the Sun's house; Squirrel orders them not to eat or drink what is offered, otherwise they will lose; sat down where the Sun usually sat, refused to change places; they began to play a game in which they hide a disk of yucca root under a heap of earth; only the Sun and Rabbit never made a mistake; but at midnight the Sun got tired, began to lose; the Sun sent Rabbit to lie down with his daughters; continued to play with the other participants and lost everything, including Coyote's leg; in the morning a race with the two sons of the Sun - running, chasing a ball; the sons of the Sun overtake both Rabbits (Rabbit and Jackrabbit), but cannot get the ball over a rock; Rabbit wins, the Sun allows himself to be killed with a stone hatchet; Squirrel tore off the Sun's arm and threw it into the sky, the arm became the present sun; Sun was skinned; Squirrel: only don't drop anything on the ground; but Coyote cut a piece out of the Sun's belly, put it on a rock; the ground caught fire; everyone burned up, turning into red ants]: Gifford 1933a: 373-377.