K38b3a. The hero feeds the chicks. .14.-.17.28.31.32.35.40.

The mighty bird helps the man because he fed her chicks.

Kabyles, Maltese, Bretons, Germans (Pomerania, Austria), Sumer [and decorated], Karelian Pomorie [and warmed], Estonians [and sheltered from bad weather], Setos, Vepsians [and sheltered from bad weather], Mari, Northern Khanty, Asian Eskimos (Naukan) [and warmed].

North Africa. Kabyles [a sick father orders his seven sons to bring him the hearts of their wives - he will eat them and recover; only the youngest refuses, leaves with his wife; going for fire, he comes to 99 Wuarssen (devas), they boil 99 dead people in a cauldron, offer to remove the cauldron from the fire; the young man lifts and overturns the cauldron, kills the devas, throws it into a pit; brings his wife to the devas' house, orders them not to enter one room, goes hunting; the wife comes in, sees that only one deva is wounded, heals him, gets together with him; the young man comes to the cannibal Teriel, kisses her breast, now she is his mother, promises to help; in order to get rid of the woman's husband, the deva advises her to ask him to bring rejuvenating apples from overseas; T.: meat before an ox, straw before a dog - change; there is a black bull nearby, he will throw you up with his horns in a rage, you will fly over seven seas, you will fall on an apple tree, pick some apples; there is an eagle's nest on the apple tree, give some meat to the chicks, the eagle will bring it back ; returning, the young man gave 4 apples to T. and 4 to his wife; the dev to the woman: tell your husband that you are afraid, have you grown weak, let him let himself be tied up; when he cannot break the bonds, I will climb out and kill him; he breaks all the bonds; T. to the young man: they will kill you, ask them to put your bones in a sack, load it onto a donkey, he will come, I will revive you; when he returned to his wife, she offered to tie him up with her hair, he could not break free, the dev killed and ate him, but the bones were sent on a donkey; T. folded the bones, covered them with wool and silk, poured milk over them, the body was restored, she revived him with a rejuvenating apple; she allowed him to return home when he could easily lift a sack of salt and a sack of iron; he comes disguised as a beggar, the dev lets him in; offered to tell a story; While he is telling his story, the dev and his wife descend into the ground, he cuts off their heads; kills their dev son; wants to return to his father, T. gives a box (not to open on the way) and a Negro; he opens it at the house, there is T.'s beautiful daughter, she has a ring that creates a palace; the young man's father sees his wife, wants her for himself, promises the Jew a reward for killing his son; he takes the young man hunting, feeds him salted meat, gives water in exchange for his eyes, brings them to the young man's father; he goes with the warriors to take his wife, but the Negro does not let him, kills them all; the young man hears the conversation of an old eagle with his chicks; the old one has lost his feathers, asks to cover him; the chicks: suddenly our father will do to us as a man did to his son, who is under a tree; the eagle: let the young man rub his eyes with the leaves of the tree; the young man received his sight, the chicks covered the eagle; A young man came to an old woman, changed his clothes, his father did not recognize him, promised to give him his power as an elder if he would kill a black man alone; the young man agreed with his wife that they would tie a bloody intestine to the black man, the blood would spill, he would fall; witnesses: this man killed the black man; the father transfers power to his son, not knowing who he is; before this he asks the wise men whether the father can marry his daughter-in-law; six say yes, the seventh says no; the father orders him to be killed, the young man kills him himself, orders the Jew to be killed and the six wise men to be punished]: Frobenius 1922a, no. 2: 11-24.

Southern Europe. Maltese (many variations; it is difficult to reconstruct specific texts in detail from retelling) [someone steals golden apples; the eldest and middle princes fall asleep (or for some other reason cannot catch the thief), the youngest wounds a many-headed monster, follows a bloody trail to a cave, a hole, etc.; the brothers lower him down on a rope; the brothers leave and take the rope; or the companions, not the brothers, they throw the rope, but the hero, just in case, ties a stone in his place; each of the three rescued princesses gives the hero a small object in which her luxurious dress is, an almond, a nut and a chestnut; the hero defeats the many-headed serpent, it glows because it eats gold; the last princess advises him to get up first himself, and then to lift her, but the hero does not listen; the companions cut the rope; the shepherd tells the hero to jump on a white ram, but he accidentally jumps on a black one, falls even lower; he feeds the hungry chicks of a mighty eagle , they explain how to open a heavy iron door; or their grateful mother explains everything; this eagle is the guardian of three girls; one of them tells him to choose the rustiest sword to fight the monster; his body shines because he eats gold; the eagle carries the hero and the girl to the ground, he feeds and waters her, cuts off the last piece from his leg, the eagle puts it back; the eldest prince wants to marry the youngest of the rescued girls; she demands from the groom a seamless dress, etc. (the hero has it); the king asks the youngest son to punish the elders; they are boiled alive or their skin is torn off and used as a doormat or napkin]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, no. 301: 33-41.

Western Europe. Bretons [King Bran is a widower and has a son, Hael; the king has remarried, his stepmother does not like her stepson; he spends all day hunting; the old man suggests playing checkers; the winner can ask the loser for whatever he wants; H. wins and asks that his stepmother have a goat's head for a month; and so it happens; H. goes back to the old man, this time losing; the old man orders him to come to him in the Black Valley within a year and complete three tasks there; H. goes in search; a huge bird comes down: its chicks are dying of hunger, let H. give them his horse to eat; H. agrees; in return the bird carries him across the seas and mountains into the desert: follow the path and you will be shown the way to the Black Valley; the old man in the castle gives H. food, lodging for the night, and a mule that will gallop 500 leagues in an hour; there will be a lake, at noon three swans will fly in to bathe, throw off their clothes; these are the three daughters of the King of the Black Valley; you need to hide the clothes of the youngest, she will have a blue ribbon; she agrees to help and be a wife, her name is Skoaz-Wenn (White Shoulder); after spending the night in her room, H. announced to the King of the Black Valley that he had arrived riding a rainbow; the king does not feed H. and leaves him on a tree for the night; SV carries him to her room; 1) demolish the old castle in a day, throw the stones into the pond; SV does everything with the help of her magic wand; 2) rebuild the castle from the stones thrown into the pond (ditto); 3) get a ring lost in the lakes and swamps; SV dives in the form of a swan, fights with the hellish forces, brings the ring, but the feather on her wing is broken; when it is necessary to identify her among the sisters, H. will feel that her little finger is broken; the king offers to identify his chosen one, H. does so; one of the sisters noticed H. climbing into SV's room and is going to tell; SV became a swan, H. sat on her and they flew away; the king-father is happy to see his son with his daughter-in-law; the wedding took place after the stepmother's head became human again]: Brekilien 1999: 209-219; Germans(Pomerania) [a farm laborer has 23 sons; when another one is born, he cannot find a godfather; the farm laborer goes looking; soon he meets a girl; she says that she is God and is ready to be a godmother; the farm laborer refuses: God is unfair; he meets the devil - the same thing; then an old man; this is Death; the farm laborer is glad; the son is named Hans; the godfather gave the pastor a key and told him to give it to G. when he grows up; G., having received the key, went wandering; there is a castle in the forest; the key fits the gate; there is much light in the palace; the godfather comes out - an old man - Death; the light from the lamps, each burns as long as a person lives; G. sees that his father has a couple of days left to live; he asks to light a new lamp for him; G.'s own lamp should burn for a long time; G. went on; again the house, the key fits again, a white horse is behind the door; the horse: if you opened the door, then are you Death? G. asked him to feed him; horse: here is food and wine, and then let's run, this is a den of robbers; G. mounted the horse, it rose to the clouds and flew away; G. sees a bird with shining plumage; the horse advises not to touch it; but G. turned the key into a gun, fired, the bullet hit the bird and G., contrary to the horse's advice, picked up a feather; near the city, the horse orders that the bridle be taken off him: if you shake it, he will appear; and let G. hire himself out as a groom; the king has forbidden lighting a fire at night; G. lives in a stable; at night he took out a feather and the stable was illuminated; servants came running, found the feather, brought G. to the king; he demands that the bird itself be obtained in three days; horse: ask the ship for three ships with provisions to sail to the princess, on whose table the bird is; Six months later they swam to the shore and G. released three carps that had found themselves on the sand into the sea; they promised to help; in another place three giants were fighting; a storm had destroyed all their property, only an ox remained; the one who killed the other two would eat the ox, and then die himself; G. gave the giants cattle and grain seeds, etc., which he had brought with him; the giants promised to help; on another island there was a storks' nest in a pine tree; a black cloud with hail was approaching; G. covered the storks with branches; adult storks arrived, the chicks told them everything; for the first time they would be able to raise the chicks; the storks promised to help G.; they swam to the castle, the key unlocked the door; the princess was sleeping in the bedroom; there was a golden and an iron cage on the table; as the horse had taught, G. put the golden bird in an iron cage and carried it away; he brought it to the king; having learned how everything had happened, he ordered to get the princess; The horse teaches how to swim to the princess, taking a hundred trumpets; at 50, blow under the window of the castle; if she wants to hear another 50, let her go up on the ship; when she got up, G. took her away; she threw all the keys to the rooms of her palace into the sea; tells the king that she will not marry him until she has a palace better than her previous one; The horse: the giants will help you; the giants gave you an iron ring, it created a palace; The princess: let them bring my keys from the sea; The horse: ask for carp; carp are the kings of the sea, they called all the fish; the last to arrive was an old pike; she found the golden keys, decided to deliver them; but since they are heavy, she was delayed; The princess demands the water of life, the water of beauty and the water of death; The horse: ask the storks; G.swam to them; these are blue storks; they say that the water of life and the water of beauty are with them, and the water of death must be asked from the white storks; they flew to them, defeated them, brought a vessel with the water of death; G. gave all three vessels to the princess; she pierced him with a dagger, sprinkled him with the water of beauty and revived him with the water of life; the king wanted the same, but she sprinkled him with the water of death; G. became king and married the princess; the horse orders to slaughter him, and then wash him with the water of beauty and the water of life; the horse became a princess; G.: I already have a wife, but become the wife of one of my brothers; she chose the youngest; from among the remaining 22, 11 began to serve G., and the others - the brother who married the princess; and if G. did not die, then he is still alive]: Jahn 1891, No. 9: 48-61;Germans (Pomerania) [a son born to a peasant immediately walks and talks; tells the pastor to name him Sonderbar ("extraordinary", Z.); his parents give him provisions and send him on a journey; carries loaded carts across water; orders a huge iron club from a blacksmith; bends it by hitting it on a rock; orders a new one - even heavier; meets and takes as a companion 1) someone who stacks mountains one on top of another; 2) someone who uproots trees; someone who juggles millstones; gives everyone his club to hold: it is beyond their strength; noticing a light from a tree, the strongmen come to a house; it contains a kitchen and a room; they hunt and take turns staying to cook; a dwarf comes, asks for food, hits the cook and eats everything; Z. pinches the dwarf's beard, splitting the tree and knocking out a wedge; he tore off his beard and left; a bloody trail leads to a hole in the ground; there is also a rope with a basket; the companions cannot, Z. descends; he descended for so long that winter and summer changed; to check the companions, Z. sent a stone up in the basket; they cut the rope, the stone fell and smashed to pieces; the princess is in the castle, there are three bridges leading to it, along them are three-, six-, nine-headed dragons; Z. easily killed the three-headed one and with difficulty - the six-headed one; the princess gave him some strong water to drink, Z. managed to lift the sword that hung over the well; Z. waited until the 9-headed one fell asleep, putting his heads on the princess's lap, threw it away and cut off the heads; dwarf: in order to return to earth, you need to feed the chicks of a huge bird ; its flight to the upper world lasts so long that the chicks die of hunger every time; Z. fed the chicks, they hid him and he opened after the father bird promised not to eat him; he took Z. and the princess in his claws and flew away; Z. threw him food, a piece was missing, cut off the legs from the calf; this piece is especially tasty; when the bird found out what was going on, it regurgitated it and put it back; Z. killed the traitorous companions with a club, brought the princess to her father and married her; they are alive, if not dead]: Jahn 1891, no. 19: 120-128; Germans (Austria or Bohemia) [three daughters of the king are missing; he promises their hand to the rescuers; two traveling tailors and the soldier Hans set off; they agreed to meet at the appointed place; the old woman brought G. to the well: the princesses are below; warned him to get out first himself, and the princesses after him, because the tailors would betray him; but he did not listen; called the tailors, they lowered him on a rope; he killed the dragon, freeing one princess; then the second seven-headed (the second); nine-headed (the youngest); sent the princesses up, the tailors cut the rope; he walked through the underworld and saw a nest with eaglets; fed them ; for this the eagle king promised to carry him up to the top - let him prepare some meat; {pdf blurred; it is not clear whether there is an episode with cutting meat from one's own leg}; finding himself on the ground, G. pretended to be a wandering singer, came to the tailors' wedding, showed the ring that the youngest princess had given him; received the princess and the whole kingdom; the tailors were lowered down the mountain in barrels with nails; G. found that old witch, hacked her to death, different animals came together and turned into gentlemen and ladies; it was the old woman who bewitched them]: Vernaleken 1889, No. 54: 316-321.

Western Asia. Sumer[two Sumerian poems connected by a common plot, in modern scholarship, as a rule, bear the names "Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave" and "Lugalbanda and the Bird Anzu"; both poems are known primarily from tablets of the Old Babylonian period, mostly from Nippur; in addition, fragments of the version of the era of the Third Dynasty of Ur (Nippur) and the bilingual (Sumerian-Akkadian) version of the 1st millennium BC (Nineveh) have survived; the overwhelming majority of tablets with the text of the poems about L. are kept in the following museums and collections: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania, Hilprecht Collection (Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena), Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, National Museum of Iraq (Baghdad); 1) the text of the poem "L. "In a Mountain Cave" opens with a mythical introduction: in ancient times, when the sky separated from the earth, when the first harvests rose and people began to eat barley, when boundaries were drawn and boundary stones were installed, when canals were dug and wells were constructed, when the Euphrates broke through the earth, when royal power appeared in Uruk, when the weapons of Uruk were raised in battle, when people enjoyed a long life, then Enmerkar, the son of the sun god Utu, decided to go to war against Aratta (a legendary city, conventionally localized in the territory of modern Iran); the population of Uruk is called to war; Enmerkar's army goes through the mountains; at the head of the army are seven brothers, born of the goddess of the earth Urash; they were fed with the milk of a wild cow (probably referring to one of the goddesses of the Sumerian pantheon) and grew up at the table of the sky god An; their eighth brother L. sets out on the campaign with them. In the middle of the journey L. falls seriously ill; the brothers are unable to return L. to Uruk and decide to take him to a mountain cave; they leave L. with abundant supplies of food, drink and incense: if L. recovers, he will be able to return to Uruk, and if he dies, the brothers will take his body on the way back; the army moves on; L. remains in the cave; three days later, when the rays of the evening sun illuminate the cave, L. prays to the sun god Utu for healing; Utu accepts L.'s prayer and gives him vitality; the goddess Inanna appears in the night sky (meaning her astral incarnation, the planet Venus); L. offers her a prayer and asks her for salvation; Inanna accepts his prayer; she plunges L. into sleep and fills his heart with joy; the moon appears in the night sky; moonlight penetrates into the cave; L. prays to the moon god Nanna-Suen; The moon god accepts L.'s prayer and gives him the strength to rise to his feet; the morning sun illuminates the cave; L. is surrounded by protective deities; the deity that sent L.'s illness (probably a demon) retreats; having prayed to the rising sun, L. leaves the cave; "the righteous man consulting with the god Enlil" (possibly the sun god Utu) grows the "grass of life"; the mountain river brings the "water of life"; L. eats the "grass of life" and drinks the "water of life"; his strength returns to him; like a wild ass's stallion, he tirelessly rushes through the mountains; having carried out of the cave the supplies that his brothers left for him, L.prepares food; he strikes sparks from stones and lights a fire; L. catches a wild bull; he makes a leash for it by weaving a rope from plants growing in the mountains; L. catches two wild goats, a male and a female; he also weaves a leash for them; L. is overcome by sleep; he makes himself a bed of grass and clothes; in a dream L. sees the god of dreams Zangara; he orders the bull and goats caught by L. to be sacrificed to the gods; the entrails of the bull should be presented to the rising sun; the goats should be beheaded; their blood should be poured into a pit so that the snakes living in the mountains can smell it; having awakened, L. does what Zangara ordered him; he invites An, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursangu, the supreme gods of the Sumerian pantheon, to a feast, makes libations for them and brings them food sacrifices; L. erects altars for the moon god Nanna and the sun god Utu and decorates them with lapis lazuli statuettes(?) of the goddess Inanna; the passage that follows is largely unclear; it may be about understanding the movements of the heavenly bodies in a mythological key: some demonic creatures are described (possibly a constellation is meant): “they are the racing(?) gazelles of the moon god Suen... they are the assistants of the thunder god Ishkur; they ruin(?) the flax and barley harvests and destroy the steppe animals”; it tells about some actions of the moon god and the sun god (the text is partially damaged); the goddess Inanna is mentioned in an unclear context; apparently, the same demonic creatures (heavenly bodies?) mentioned earlier are now described as "torches of battle", "those that gladden the heart of Inanna"; the sun rises over the mythical juniper (?) mountain; then the text breaks off; the end of the poem "L. in the mountain cave" is practically not preserved; 2) the action of the poem "L. and the bird Anzu" begins with the fact that the healed L. is alone among the mountains; he decides to find the lion-headed eagle Anzu in order to catch up with the army of Uruk with his help; L. prepares a feast for Anzu, his wife and their chick; in Anzu's nest, located on a huge tree, L. discovers onlySome demonic creatures are described (possibly a constellation is meant): “they are the racing(?) gazelles of the moon god Suen… they are the assistants of the thunder god Ishkur; they destroy(?) the flax and barley harvests and destroy the steppe animals”; some actions of the moon god and the sun god are described (the text is partially damaged); the goddess Inanna is mentioned in an unclear context; apparently, the same demonic creatures (heavenly bodies?) that were mentioned earlier are now described as “torches of battle”, “those that gladden the heart of Inanna”; the sun rises over the mythical juniper(?) mountain; then the text breaks off; the end of the poem “L. in the Mountain Cave” is practically not preserved; 2) the action of the poem “L. and the Anzu Bird” begins with the healed L. alone among the mountains; he decides to find the lion-headed eagle Anzu in order to use it to catch up with the army of Uruk; L. prepares a feast for Anzu, his wife and their chick; in Anzu's nest, located on a huge tree, L. discovers onlySome demonic creatures are described (possibly a constellation is meant): “they are the racing(?) gazelles of the moon god Suen… they are the assistants of the thunder god Ishkur; they destroy(?) the flax and barley harvests and destroy the steppe animals”; some actions of the moon god and the sun god are described (the text is partially damaged); the goddess Inanna is mentioned in an unclear context; apparently, the same demonic creatures (heavenly bodies?) that were mentioned earlier are now described as “torches of battle”, “those that gladden the heart of Inanna”; the sun rises over the mythical juniper(?) mountain; then the text breaks off; the end of the poem “L. in the Mountain Cave” is practically not preserved; 2) the action of the poem “L. and the Anzu Bird” begins with the healed L. alone among the mountains; he decides to find the lion-headed eagle Anzu in order to use it to catch up with the army of Uruk; L. prepares a feast for Anzu, his wife and their chick; in Anzu's nest, located on a huge tree, L. discovers only Anzu's chick; L. feeds and decorates it; after that he hides and waits for the return of Anzu and his wife; Anzu returns from hunting; in his claws he carries wild bulls; flying up to the nest, Anzu calls out to his chick, but it does not answer him; Anzu is seized with fear for his chick; from Anzu's mournful cry the mountain gods hide in the gorges, like ants; having flown up to the nest, Anzu sees that it is richly decorated, and his chick is fed and well-groomed; Anzu calls out to the one who decorated his nest and fed the chick : “I am the prince who commands the stormy rivers; I am the blinkers on the eyes of the righteous man who follows the will of the god Enlil; my father Enlil brought me here; like a huge door, he blocked the way through the mountains with me; if I determine fate, no one can change it; if I say a word, no one dares to contradict; he who has so decorated my nest, if you are a god, I want to talk to you, I want to make you my friend ; if you are a man, I will assign you a destiny; there will be no rival equal to you in the mountains; you will become the one whom Anzu has endowed with strength"; L. comes out of his hiding place and delivers a eulogy to the bird Anzu: "Your grandfather (presumably one of the supreme gods of the Sumerian pantheon) ... gave the sky into your hands, placed the earth at your feet; your wings, like a net, spread across the sky, on the earth your claws are like a trap for mountain buffalo and buffaloes, with your back you are like a scribe who tirelessly writes on tablets, with your chest you are like the colorful (mythical) snake Nirakh, with your plumage (?) you are like a green garden, delighting the eye"; L. asks Anzu to assign him a destiny; Anzu intends to help L. solemnly (like a boat slowly carrying a rich harvest) return to Uruk; L. refuses; Then Anzu wants to make L. a great archer, like Shara, the son of the goddess Inanna; L. refuses; Anzu offers L. powerful armor; L. refuses this gift as well; Anzu offers L. the churn of the shepherd god Dumuzi, in which butter and cream never run out; L. does not accept this gift; the annoyed Anzu reproaches L. for his waywardness, but still agrees to appoint for him the fate that he himself wishes for himself; L. asks Anzu to endow him with the ability to move with great speed and reach any place; L. also asks Anzu that no one dare to start a quarrel with him in his hometown; in gratitude for this, L. promises Anzu to glorify his name throughout Sumer; the inhabitants of Sumer will make statues of Anzu and decorate temples with them (apparently, we are talking about the etiological explanation of the practice that existed in Mesopotamia of placing sculptural images of the Anzu bird in temples); Anzu fulfills L.'s wish; L. arms himself and takes the remains of the provisions left for him by his brothers; together with Anzu he sets off to catch up with the army of Uruk; Anzu spies out the army from the height of his flight; L. from the ground tries to make out the dust raised by the army; when L. and Anzu catch up with the army, Anzu goes home; as a farewell, the bird advises L. not to tell anyone about the gift he received; L. suddenly appears among the army; friends and brothers try to find out from L. what he ate during the journey, how he managed to cross the mountains, where no one walks alone, and how he managed to cross the mountain rivers; L. answers: “Having pressed close to the ground and having drunk, as if from a wineskin, water from the mountain rivers, sources of abundance, whose banks are far apart from each other, I growled like a wolf and ate grass in the meadow; like a turtledove (?), I pecked mountain acorns from the ground and ate them”; brothers and friends embrace and kiss L., feed and water him; the army continues on its way to Aratta; having reached Aratta, the army is unable to take the city; the defenders of Aratta shower the warriors of Uruk with a hail of stones from a sling, shoot countless arrows at them; the unsuccessful siege of Aratta lasts a year; the army of Uruk cannot retreat, since the way home is now blocked by thickets of thorny bushes; Enmerkar, the king of Uruk, is looking for a messenger,who would deliver a message to the goddess Inanna in Uruk; no one dares to carry out this task; L. volunteers to deliver Enmerkar's message; L. demands that no one accompany him on the way to Uruk; Enmerkar accepts this demand; in his message, Enmerkar reminds Inanna of how she once chose him and brought him to Kulaba (part of Uruk, originally, apparently, a separate village); in those days, on the site of Uruk there were swamps, poplar groves and reed thickets; the god Enki tore out the reeds for Enmerkar and diverted (?) the water; Enmerkar built for fifty years; then the Amorite nomads invaded Sumer and Akkad, but Enmerkar built a wall against them; now Inanna abandoned Enmerkar with his army and returned to Kulaba; if Inanna will no longer help Enmerkar, let her allow him to return to Kulaba, where his spear will be put away and his shield broken; leaving Enmerkar, L. meets his worried brothers and friends; they want someone to accompany L. on the way to Uruk; L. insists that he go alone; L. crosses seven mountains; by midnight he reaches Inanna's temple at Kulaba; he prostrates himself before Inanna; Inanna receives L. graciously, and he gives her Enmerkar's message; the poem "L. and the Anzu Bird" ends with Inanna's reply, the meaning of which is largely unclear (probably it should be interpreted in an allegorical key): on the banks of Inanna's sacred river, the fishsuhurmash eats honey herbs; a toad eats mountain acorns there; the gishshesh fish , the deity of the suhurmash fish , frolics in the river and stretches out(?) its tail; with its scaly(?) tail it touches the old reed growing in this sacred place; all the tamarisks of the country drink water from this pool; one tamarisk stands apart from the others; Enmerkar must cut down this tamarisk and make a bucket from its wood, tear out the old reed by the roots, catch the gishshesh fish , the deity of the suhurmash fish , cook this fish and sacrifice it to the weapon of the goddess Inanna; then Enmerkar’s army will be accompanied by luck, and Aratta will be taken” (compiled summary, translation of fragments and comments by R.M. Nurullin)]: Alster 2005b; Black et al. 1998-2006, 1.8.2.1, 1.8.2.2; Wilcke 1969; Wilcke 2015 (briefly in Afanasieva 1997: 192-203).

Tibet - Northeast India. Mustang [the elder queen is childless, the younger is pregnant; when the king returned, the elder said that the younger had given birth to a puppy to lick the king's brains and smash his head with a pestle; the king ordered the younger to be sent away, the elder banished her from the country, threw the baby to the guard dog to be eaten; the guard dog raises the baby for three years, and grows thin; the dogkeeper tells the king that some child is eating everything; the king orders the dog to be killed; the dog managed to pass the baby to a cow; the dog is losing weight, the shepherd made sure that the child was eating everything Otrung Gepo with a gold top, silver bottom, mother-of-pearl belt; the king orders the cow to be killed, the cow managed to pass the OG to a horse; the same thing happened to her; she orders the OG to bring a saddle, reins, bow and arrows, he mounted the horse and rode away; killed with an arrow a snake that was about to eat three tiger cubs; adult tigers came, saw the sleeping tiger cubs, decided that a man had killed them; the tiger cubs woke up, told everything, the tigers gave OG one tiger cub; the eyes of three Garuda chicks stuck together, OG washed them, the chicks fell asleep (same as with the tiger cubs - the adults gave one chick); an old man is grazing a herd, says that in three days an elephant will choose a groom for the king's daughter; OG killed the shepherd, put on his wrinkles, the elephant chose him; the king banished the young people to live in the forest; OG tells his wife to bring a copper cauldron, benches with tables from her mother, invites the king and the people to the holiday; the king tells his daughter to keep an eye on her husband; in the evening she pretends to fall asleep; when OG removed the old man's skin, she threw it into the fire; the father-in-law and everyone is happy; OG comes to his father, who says that he has no son; OG demands that his mother be returned; she is covered in fur like a tiger, and calls for her son every time; they slip her food with alcohol, she falls asleep, they smear her with flour and oil, and the fur comes off; OG orders both queens to be seated on mats, each with an egg on her head; he kills the elder queen with an arrow, and begins to rule two kingdoms]: Kretschmar 1985, no. 27: 158-164.

Central Europe. Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [a doctor tells the tsar that there is a fish that if eaten will give birth to a child; the fish is delivered to the tsar, the tsarina eats it, the cook tries it, the swill is given to the cow; Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan the cook's son, and Ivan the korovich are born; they grow up and come to a kingdom where the miracle-yudo has eaten people; the brothers cut off the miracle's heads, who will take the princess? The tsarevich and the cook's son throw Korovich into the abyss; the eaglets are squeaking in the nest, he feeds them with crumbs and warms them up ; the eagle promises to help; Korovich comes to the old man; he says that the most terrible Miracle-yudo is here, the others are only his relatives, it is necessary to change the tubs with living and dead water; having drunk the dead water, the Miracle weakened, Korovich killed him; the birds immediately began to sing, the kidnapped princess is nearby; the eagle carries them up, they need to feed them with prepared meat, there wasn’t enough, Korovich cut off meat from his leg, gave the eagle her own blood to drink; having reached the ground, the eagle regurgitated this piece, brought Korovich and the girl to their senses with living water; Korovich forgave the brothers, married the saved one; wedding; I was there, ate and drank, it flowed down my mustache, but didn’t get into my mouth]: Razumova, Senkina 1987: 104-108.

Baltoscandia. Estonians (Juri; recorded in Sukhum-Kale) [the king of the north (KS) saved the crows, the raven helps him; he says that the king of the south (KY) has a beautiful daughter, but refuses everyone; KS went to woo her, and his three sisters were kidnapped by a lion (he is the king of beasts), an eagle (the king of birds) and a whale (the king of fish); KS's mother decided that it would be better for her son to die with her than to disappear in a distant land, got poison drops from a witch and dripped them on KS during their farewell; but the drops got on a horse; KS made 12 pies from this horse meat, mounted another horse and rode away; 12 robbers attacked, each ate a pie and died; KS came to his eldest sister, she is nursing the child; her husband is a lion for 3 days and a man for 3 days; gives his hairs: if you burn it, he will come to the rescue; his handkerchief will also show if there is trouble with the KS - it will blush; the sister herself gives a self-assembled tablecloth; the same with the middle sister (the eagle gives feathers); with the youngest (the whale gives scales); near the fiery sea there is a tree with a hawk's nest, chicks are squeaking there; the raven teaches: their mother will return in 3 days, they will die of hunger and will be beaten by hail; you need to slaughter a horse, feed the chicks with meat and cover them with skin ; let their mother carry them across the sea as a reward; the mother bird orders to prepare 12 barrels of bird meat and 12 barrels of water; KY's daughter puts KS in prison, where there are other contenders for her hand; he feeds them all, thanks to the magic tablecloth; sells the tablecloth to KY's daughter for the opportunity to look at her naked neck; says that there is nothing to look at; takes out the tablecloth received from the middle sister; ditto (KY's daughter shows her breasts); ditto; KY's daughter agrees to spend the night with KS; at first he turns away, then agrees to embrace her; wedding; the wife gives the keys, does not order to unlock the seventh room; one day he unlocks it; the sorcerer locked there asked three times to bring water, promised to forgive KS three times for this; flew away and carried away his wife; the raven said that the sorcerer has a flying horse that sees far and guards; KS carried off his wife, but the sorcerer easily caught up with her and took her away, said that one forgiveness had become less; this happened three times, and on the fourth time the sorcerer tore KS into pieces; the lion, the eagle and the whale collected the remains, brought living water; they tried it on the crow: they tore it apart and revived it; then they revived KS; he did no harm to the flies, horseflies, crayfish, they promised to help; KS met an old woman, she offered to graze her 12 horses; these are her 12 daughters; on the first evening the horses were driven by flies, on the second - by horseflies; on the third day the horses got into the water, but the crayfish drove them out; the witch agrees to give one horse as a reward; the raven: if you sit on it, you will die; demands the son of a toad; this toad is the mother of the sorcerer's flying horse, and the frog is his brother; the little frog-horse tells him to wait three days until he gains strength, another three to learn from his mother, the last three to take an invincible weapon; KS cut off the witch's head, but it grew back and he galloped away from her with difficulty; the wife learned that the sorcerer's soul was in an egg, the egg was in a duck, the duck was flying over the sea; KS called an eagle, it grabbed the duck, a whale got the egg that had fallen into the sea, KS crushed it, the sorcerer died; KS began to rule the north and the south]: Mälk et al. 1967, no. 79: 246-264; Setu [a man walked with a bear, the bear danced; in the house where he spent the night, the bear made a girl pregnant; she gave birth to a son with bear ears; he is incredibly strong; they called him Ivan the Bear; he took three companions and went wandering; They earned their living as woodcutters; each in turn cooks, a dwarf with a big beard comes, eats out of the cook; when HIM is left, he beats the dwarf, lets him go, he hides in a hole; HIM goes down there on a rope; he meets three kidnapped princesses in succession, one spins copper, another silver, the youngest gold; on the way to each one there are two lions, HIM kills them by hitting each other; each one replaces the bottles with strong and weak water; the kidnapper-devil drinks the weak one, HIM kills all three, driving them into the ground; he sends the princesses up, the youngest gives him a ring, it splits in half, the princess and HIM take half each; the companions did not lower the rope to take HIM; he comes to a pine tree on a hill, devils crawl out from under the pine tree like mice, HIM kills them all, cuts out their tongues; there is an eagle's nest on the pine tree, it feeds the eaglets with devil's tongues, they are incredibly tasty; when a giant eagle flies in, the eaglets do not want the horse she brings, they say that there was better food; the grateful eagle agrees to carry IM to the ground; he throws her the prepared food in flight across the sea, it is not enough, he cuts off meat from his calves; he lies in bed for almost a year until he can walk again; he comes to the king when the youngest princess is to marry a supposed savior; she recognizes the half of the ring; a deceiver was left in a barrel in the forest, a wolf dipped his tail in it, the deceiver got out, was happy to be alive; after the death of the king, IM inherited the throne]: Sandra 2004: 270-275; Veps [a soldier saves the king's daughters, because of the deception of officers he ends up in the underworld; he saves hawk chicks from starvation there ; for this the hawk carries him to the ground; The bird eats pork and beef from barrels sewn from the skin of 40 cows, drinks 40 buckets of water; the soldier cuts off the last piece from his own buttock; having reached the ground, the hawk returns the soldier's flesh with a spit]: Vinokurova 2006: 70.

Volga - Perm. Marie [the gentleman has a son and a beautiful daughter; a young man came to her, said that he came from beyond 30 lands, persuaded her to run away with him, without asking her father; in fact, he was the master of the winds and the underground king; going out into the field, they got on his cart and flew for three or four months; then it became dark; the girl found herself in an underground dwelling; when her companion lay down on the bed, he became an old man; her brother liked to feed chicks in the forest with hemp seed, climbing up to the nests; one day he fed the chicks and their mother promised to help him; having learned that his sister had been kidnapped, the young man turned to a bird; she said that she knew who did it, put the young man on her back and flew away; three months later they flew to a hut in the thicket of the forest; the bird told them to go to the old woman, ask for the herb that opens the door {tear-herb}; If she asks where he came from, you must answer that the eagle brought him; having received the grass, they fly on; after two or three months it becomes dark; they stop at the house where the sister is behind 12 doors; eagle: you can open 11 doors easily, but the 12th - with a burst of grass; the young man enters, the sister hides him in a chest; when the underground king returns, she says that the door was opened by a gust of wind sent by him; the king fell asleep; the sister tells her brother to cut off three golden hairs in his beard; not in his beard; there are in his mustache; the young man cuts them off along with his lip, he and his sister run away; they fly on a bird; the underground king woke up, set off in pursuit; it is difficult for the eagle to fly because of the wind, and the people of the underground king are chasing along the earth; he orders to wave the golden hair; turns into a forest, the sister into flowers, the brother into a rose bush; the underground king did not recognize them; next time – a boat (eagle), a man with an oar (brother), a duck (sister); the underground king asks the young man in the boat if he has seen the fugitives, he sends him on a false path; they fly to the eagle's nest; the brother and sister return home; the girl gets married]: Beke 1938, No. 37: 324-334.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (b. Kazym, 1961) [two brothers are hunting, the third and youngest Ratparkho-Khishparkho is sitting in the ashes; the eldest went to look for people; when blood started flowing from the arrow he left behind, the middle one went; the same; RK went to look for them; Kirp-nyulup-imi transported him in a boat, told him not to sit in the middle of the boat, but he sat down; he sees human bones in her hut; she threw a hare's head at him; RK caught it in flight, threw it at K., hit, K. was killed; RK burned it and scattered the ashes; chicks are screaming in the eagle's nest, RK fed them fish ; they tell them to hide, their parents will arrive soon; they are surprised that the chicks do not want meat; they told about RK; the grateful eagles offer to help; RK asks to revive the brothers; The eagles grabbed the crow chicks and ordered them to bring living and dead water; it brought it; they tore the crow chick apart, revived it, then released the chicks; they brought water, revived the RK brothers; the brothers live in harmony]: Lukina 1990, No. 85: 211-213.

Arctic. Asian Eskimos (Naukan) [a man goes to look for his missing son; he sees an eagles' nest on a mountain, warms and feeds the chicks ; they first hide him from their mother, then explain to her that the man saved them; the grateful eagle carries the hero to the "heavenly mountains" where the eagle that kidnapped his son lives; on the way, the man feeds the eagle whale meat, and when it runs out, he cuts off a piece of his own flesh]: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 41: 97-101.