K27yy2. Get the chick of a dangerous bird. .46.67.68.

The hero is sent to bring the chick of a dangerous bird.

Teton, Takana, Bororo, Nambikwara, Kamayura, Waura.

Plains. Teton (Oglala) [Corn dies, orders itself to be dismembered and buried; the first corn grows from its remains; a man flies after his arrow; 1) identify his wife among four buffalo sisters (a calf plays near her); 2) enter a stone tipi (a whirlwind carries the man inside, he is not crushed by the tent flaps); 3) place a quiver on his wife's lap (the calf rubs against its mother); 4) fetch cherry twigs (the bushes are snakes, he turns them into twigs); 5) fetch the Thunderbird's chick (a whirlwind carries it up the mountain, he brings the bird); 6) dance with the other buffalo (his father-in-law tries to gore him, he is killed); man strikes his mother-in-law and her daughters (except his wife) with his lightning arrows made of snake rods and feathered with Thunderbird feathers; chosen chief of the buffalo, leads them to the people]: Walker 1983: 109-118.

Bolivia – Guaporé. Tacana [father-in-law and mother-in-law send their orphan son-in-law to fetch chicks from a tree ; the father-in-law cuts a ladder-vine, calls a poisonous snake out of the hollow; the master of the forest kills the snake, makes the man a good hunter; gives fat, after eating which the mother-in-law turns into a snake ; the son-in-law turned the father-in-law into an anteater]: Hissink, Hahn 1961, no. 62: 165-176; surui [a man asks his brother to get a harpy eagle chick from a tree ; asks again what it is like, are its feathers big; How are your wife's genitals! The man cuts the vines, leaves, the brother cannot get down; the chick turns him into an eagle; the mother eagle tells him to bring game, he cannot, the chick hunts in his place; the hero sends a bird to track down his brother; in the form of an eagle kills him, lifts him into the air, eats the flesh, the skull turns into a tinamou bird (Tinamus sp.); Lefty wounds the hero with an arrow, hides in a cave; women come to him, calling him by name, Mosan ! the hero summons him in the same way, kills him, he turns into a crayfish; the eagle-father demands from the hero 1) to make arrows (suitable feathers are needed; beetles first eat the feather ornaments of the youth, then magnificent plumage appears on the arrows); 2) to spin cotton for a hammock (trumpeter birds spin); 3) to cut a wooden mortar for corn (a squirrel makes it); 4) to clear a plot; the hero clears it, leaving one tree; asks the eagle to cut it down; it is exhausted by this work, dies]: Mindlin 1995, No. 4: 14-20.

Southern Amazonia. Bororo : Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, #104 [Toribugu is Kiare Ware's son by his dead wife; his other wife seduced him, decorated him with white down; KV noticed this down on his wife's belt; threw a party, saw that only T. was decorated with the same; KV decides to kill his son, T.'s grandmother helps him; 1) kill a jaguar; 2) get a rattle from the spirits (a locust brought it); get the fruit from a tree growing in the middle of a lake where the spirits live (a spider transported a squirrel, it got it, the spirits caused a flood, but the spider saved the squirrel, it gnawed off the fruit and brought it); 4) go with KV and get mako chicks from a cliff; KV began to swing the pole T. was climbing, he stuck the stick his grandmother had given him into the cliff and climbed up; KV removed the ladder, T. suffered from hunger and thirst; T. made a small bow, shot some lizards, hung them on his belt, vultures pecked his buttocks, raised the corpse to eat on the ground by the water; T.'s food falls right through; T. applied the root given to him by his grandmother, it became new flesh; the people left the village; T. caught up with his grandmother, first in the form of a bird, then a lizard; his grandmother and younger brother recognized him; on the occasion of his son's return, the father organized a hunt; T. made himself antlers from branches, became a deer, before this he ordered the deer to be driven to KV, raised it on its antlers, threw it to the piranhas, and himself returned in the form of a man; KV's wives noticed scars on T.'s head where the antlers had been, they wanted to kill him, he killed them himself], 105 [Geriguiguiatugo has a relationship with a young stepmother; his father gives him difficult assignments, the young man's grandmother teaches him each time what to do; 1) kill a jaguar, 2) get a rattle from the spirits (locusts get it), 3) get nuts from a palm tree growing in the middle of the water (there are dangerous spirits in the lake ; a spider carries a squirrel, it brings a nut), 4) get chicks from a cliff (the father throws away the ladder, the young man climbs down with the vultures); turns into a deer, kills his father with a horn; when the father's wives find out about this, he kills them too; retelling in Lévi-Strauss 1964: 43-45]: 198-203, 204-209; nambikwara [the forest spirit Sivitiyahlusu brings two brothers to him, gives them his daughters as wives; orders 1) to bring nuts (a harpy eagle attacks the elder brother who is climbing a palm tree; he breaks his wing; the father-in-law revives the bird; the next time everything is repeated, but the bird cannot be revived), 2) the elder brother to get an armadillo from its hole (S. tries to kill his son-in-law, who kills him himself); the mother-in-law kills the elder brother by releasing poisonous insects; the wives turn the younger into a pashiuba palm tree]: Pereira 1983, No. 40: 58-61; Kamayura [the younger brother sleeps with the elder brother's wives; he gives difficult tasks; the grandfather advises how to complete them; 1) bring a heavy tree (a termite gnaws out the core), 2) bring a mako chick living in a hollow (only a snake lives there, the boy brings it), 3) undergo the procedure of applying ritual scars with a scraper (puts on a suit of bark; then the grandfather makes safe cuts), 4) bring tobacco from spirits (hummingbirds bring), 5) bring reeds for arrows (a monstrous armadillo has it; finches, turtledoves bring them), 6) get axes from Thunder (the hero tells Thunder that he is chopping wood for his mistress; Thunder laughs, his wife tickles him until he loses consciousness; allows the hero to take axes; Thunder pursues him, but woodpeckers protect him), 7) bring necklaces and bracelets from cannibals (brings, leaves behind clay, stumps, convulsions that hinder the pursuers), 8) get a chick of an eagle (the brother throws away the ladder; the hero takes a dead mouse with him to lure the vultures; they let him down); the elder brother calls the younger one to hunt so that the beast will kill him; the beast lifts the elder one on its horns; the younger one takes the women for himself]: Agostinho 1974, no. 9: 192-199; Münzel 1973: 120-147; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973: 213-225; waura [in Morená on the bank of the Kuluene River Kanalapá sleeps with the wife of his uncle Yanamá; he gives difficult assignments; the grandmother helps K. with advice, tells him to wrap his hands and feet with cotton threads, kill mice, and take them with him; I order to bring 1) a scraper from the tooth of a poisonous snake for making ritual cuts on the body (catches a snake by throwing a circle of embira fibers over it; covers himself with bark when cuts are made with a poisonous scraper), 2) a heavy tree (termites gnaw out the core), 3) fruit pits (for a rattle?) from a rattlesnake (locusts got them), 4) reeds for arrows, which Fire owns (a bird brought them), 5) fruits of the genipa growing on the island (a spider brought them, the piranhas did not eat them), 6) a belt from cannibals (a bird helped the jacques), 7) a drawing of a house like those of cannibals (he tells the cannibals that he sleeps with his uncle's wife; they laugh, he inspects the house), 8) an armadillo's claw (he goes down into the hole, kills the armadillo), 9) get a harpy eagle chick ; K. finds an egg in the nest, there is a chick in it; J. answers that the chick is covered with down like the hair between J.'s wife's legs; J. began to beat the tree, it grew to the sky; K. unwound the threads, but did not reach the ground; the mouse went bad, the urubu vulture flew in, K. flew down to the ground on it, promised to leave him a share after the hunt; at midnight he came to his grandmother, she told him to make a wooden spear, to become a deer; in the morning K. played ball; K. entered the belly of a deer in the forest, the deer crossed the road near J.'s house, everyone with clubs followed him; the deer killed J. with an horn, ran away; people did not know that the deer was K.; K. began to play ball, married a widow