L135. Wanderer.

.19.27.40.41.43.46.57.59.61.-.64.66.-.70.72.

A man sets out from home and finds himself in unfamiliar places. His journey is marked by encounters with various strange creatures. Eventually, he returns home, leaves the earth for another world, or the story of encounters with strange creatures ends.

Dobu, Ancient Greece (Odyssey), Northern Alaskan Inupiat, Netsilik, Igloolik, Polar, West Greenland, Baffin Island, Caribou, Koyukon, Tanana, Kuchin, Upper Kuskokwim, Upper Tanana, Slevi, Tlingit, Tillamook, Blackfoot, Gros Ventre, Makiritare, Karinya (Guyana), Macushí, Aguaruna, Yagua, Tenetehara, Urubu, Munduruku, Shipaya, Shipibo, Conibo, Kaxinahua, (Chacobo), Tacana, Chacobo, Guarayu, Guarazu, Pauserna, Kalapalo, Kamayura, Trumai, Kayabi, Riqbaktsa, Iranshe, Paresi, Karaja, Kayapo, Kraho, Sherente,Tereno.

Melanesia. Dobu [when a woman catches a fish, she gives it to everyone in the village except her eldest sister; in return, she sends a wind that drives the woman's husband's boat out to sea; on the fourth day, the man has arrived in the land of the dead - those who have been killed and cooked in an earthen oven; his brother and sister are there; in the evening, the women cook food and the men build a large house; everyone gathers inside, sets fire to the building on all sides and rises as smoke to the clouds; in the morning they return; this is repeated day after day; a man sees a path and asks where it leads; to people whose mouths are closed; a man comes to their village; they pour food into a hole in the top of their heads; a man killed a snake, began to beat the people's faces with it, their mouths were cut; in the next village, the people put everything off until tomorrow (they sleep in the rain - the husband, on him the wife, on her the children); for the inhabitants of the next, day is night and vice versa; in the next, people fly on wings; in the next, people sit with their long {and rather sharp} buttocks stuck into the ground; in the next, they make bracelets from shells every day; in the next, they weave even in their sleep; in the next, they make boats; in the next, a man gets married and has a son; local people use spells to turn dog hairs into dogs, bristles into pigs, dry banana leaves into baked bananas; a man decides to return home (alone); his wife's brother gives him hairs, dry leaves; when the man returns, all this has become pigs, etc.]: Fortune 1932: 182-185 (=1982: 218-222)]: Fortune 1972: 218-221.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Odysseus feigns madness to avoid participating in the campaign against Troy; the ambassadors uncover the deception; Odysseus sets out on a campaign with Menelaus and other Greek kings and warriors; the siege of Troy lasts ten years; Odysseus's return journey to Ithaca takes another ten; during these wanderings, he and his companions visit, among other things, the lands of the Cyclopes, the island of the patron of the winds Aeolus, the island of the sorceress Circe, and also sail past the island of the Sirens and between the monsters Scylla and Charybdis; all of O.'s companions perish (Hom. Od. et al.; see summary and references in data on motives B85B "Wind in the Sack", I81B "Charybdis (Ebb and Flow)", I131 "The Thread of Life", J62B "Those Transformed into Animals Are Disenchanted", J62b1 "The Lady of the Island Transforms Men into Animals", K64 "Escape from the Cave of the Master of the Herds", K64a "The Blinded Cyclops", M39a2c "Sowing Salt", M75b3 "The Trojan Horse: Victory over Enemies", M106 "A Meaningful Name", M106a ""I Myself" and "Nobody" in the House of the Demon")].

Arctic. Inupiat of Northern Alaska(Selawik) [Nunamiu and his wife Qimmiq have four sons, they wander off and disappear; N. conceives a fifth by lighting a fire so that sparks fly into his wife's vagina; a son, Qayaq, is born; his father magically cultivates strength and dexterity in him, gives him amulets made from the bodies of insects and small nimble animals (weasels, minks, shrews); having prepared a supply of food for his parents, K. sets off up the Kobuk Valley in search of his brothers; his father tells him to take with him his uncle, whom he will meet on the way; an unfriendly man comes into K.'s hut at a camp, he throws him out, the uncle turns into a woodpecker; at a beaver lodge he picks up a broken wolverine tooth; a man spends the night with him, leaves in the morning, it was a wolverine; K. tells a man who approaches that his thumb eats people like him; a man runs away in fright, turns out to be a lynx; a gluttonous man behaves strangely, rushes at K. with a knife; K. suggests that he die in a fire, he jumps into the fire and is burned; in the village K. gets married; in the spring the wife expects her father to cut her open and take out the child; K. teaches her to give birth in the usual way; he goes further, meets a giant; he says that his two wives will come soon and start fighting; let K. hamstring both of them, first the one who comes from the sea, since she is aggressive; after urinating, the giant flooded an entire valley; K. does this, the giantesses bandage the wounds, the husband sends them to clean up the house; the wives live with the giant only in the spring; the giant kills a caribou with a torn larch; K. leaves, prepares material to make a boat, wants help; spies, sees the Fox girl roasting meat, the Squirrel melting resin, the Bird women sewing the planking of a boat, the Beaver preparing the frame and oars, the Raven - a dart for birds, the Wolf and Wolverine scraping out the bark, the Bear felling trees, clearing them of branches; then everyone dances, the Woodpecker beats the tambourine; K. jumps up, grabs the Fox, she remains human, the others run away in the form of animals and birds; in the summer K. swims down the Yukon, his wife turns into a fox again; K. meets his uncle, takes him with him; they see how a man breaks off splinters from a fir tree, they fall into the water, the small ones turn into trout, the large ones into salmon; thanks to this there are fish; on the shore there is a house, the bones and skulls of his brothers, a naked woman; K. throws the head of a bearded seal into her vulva, the head tears the cannibal apart; K. buries the bones; there is a shiny ball on a tree, it attracts K., he hangs in the trap; the cannibal brings it home, his two children say that the game has opened its eyes; the cannibals fall asleep, K. cuts off their heads; K.'s boat slips between the crushed rocks, only the oar is shattered; the giant in the boat and K. throw darts at each other, K.'s dart cuts off the giant's head; he enters the house, the giant's wife throws a ule, K. throws it at her, cuts off the head; the door is closed, he gets out, turning into a mouse; turns into a trout, bites off the point of the fisherman's spear; comes to him, offers to fix the spear, pierces the fisherman with it; turns into a salmon, gets into the fishermen's net; the chieftain's son eats the head, the bone gets stuck in his throat,he dies; the bones are thrown into a pit, K. is reborn, they shoot at him, he runs away; they swim to the sea; the uncle left, turning into a lynx; K. becomes a falcon; the leader of the Unalik people catches him, eats him, he is reborn from the bones, marries the leader's stepdaughter; he wanted her for himself; he sends a storm, drives K.'s boat into the open sea; K. burps up the pebbles given to him by his father, the wind subsides; K. burns the leader's face with this stone; he orders the log to be split into firewood; this is how he killed many of the stepdaughter's suitors; with the help of a weasel amulet, K. completes the task, the leader is surprised that K. is alive; the leader orders them to shoot partridges, K. kills a huge man-eating bird there; they cross an abyss on a log, K. falls, but returns unharmed; crawls out of the communal house as a caterpillar, where the chieftain wanted to burn him; K. dodges arrows fired at him, kills the chieftain's warriors himself; ties him naked to a post, leaves him in the cold; appoints a new chieftain, flies away as a falcon]: Ivanoff Brown 1981: 40-114;netsilik [totalik – people who look like seals; Inuit killed one; his wife is pregnant, gave birth to a son Kivioq, puts the skin of an unborn seal on him, began to train him to hold his breath underwater; he swam to the kayak in which the Inuit were, and then swam away; the people after him, he led them far out to sea, and his mother raised a storm and the killers of her husband died; K. lost his way, swam to an unknown land; looked down into a dugout; there a witch is doing something with a human skull; K. spat, she tried to look up, but could not, because her long eyelashes were in the way; "Strange: my house has never leaked before"; when K. spat again, the woman took her ulu and cut off her eyelashes with it; K. saw her terrible eyes; she invited K. into the house; went out to chop gorse; K. saw many human skulls in the house; he began to grab his clothes, but the hangers wouldn’t let him; then a porridge flew in, threw K.’s clothes on the floor, he grabbed the clothes and ran away; the woman didn’t catch up with him, in a rage she hit her ulu on a granite block, cutting it like meat; then she threw the ulu at K., the ulu became an iceberg; floating ice comes from this woman’s ulu; K. went ashore; he saw two huge caterpillars running to take possession of his kayak; K. managed to swim away in it; someone shouted: be careful! K. managed to swim away from a huge oyster, which almost slammed shut over him; K. swam to the spider mother and daughter; slept with them; they gave him a lot of beads; they cried when he swam away; K. swam to the snipe people; asked them to take him in a kayak to his home; seeing their son, his parents died of joy; people gathered, K. saw one of his wives, and the second one had married someone else during his absence; K. gave all the women the beads he had brought, but he did not give them to his unfaithful wife, and she cried]: Rasmussen 1931: 365-370; igloolik(Fox Hall) [when the men are playing ball, a boy tries to come up to them, and each time they cut off the tails of the animals that decorate his clothes; they do not listen to his grandmother's requests not to do this; then she put a seal skin on her grandson and told him to lure the hunters' kayaks out to sea; a storm came up, everyone drowned, only Kivioq was saved; finally, he was washed up on land; there is a house made of stones and turf; K. looked down from above and spat; the woman looked up, cutting off a piece of her cheek with a knife; "The cloud that shaded me must be close"; K. ran away in horror and swam on; in another house, a woman suggested that he undress to dry his clothes; when he lay down, a meat fork began to poke him by itself; the clothes do not give in to his hands; K. called his assistant, the bear, and when his roar was already in the corridor, the woman returned the clothes; he jumped out, and the closed entrance only cut off the edge of his clothing; woman: I will cut you with my knife; K. threatened to pierce her with his harpoon; the woman got scared, threw the knife into the sea, it immediately froze; K. magically made a passage in the ice for a kayak; K. came to two women, a mother and daughter, lay down with the daughter; the women gave him many beads; in the street there is a piece of wood with two growths; he hunts for the woman, swimming out to sea and bringing seals on the growths; one day K. found only one woman in the house; her face was like his wife's, but her body was wrinkled and bony; it was the mother who killed her daughter and put on her skin; K. returned home bringing many beads]: Rasmussen 1929: 287-290; polar Eskimos [people constantly tear the boy's clothes; his grandmother teaches him to become a seal, to lure hunters into the open sea; Kiviok was kind to the boy, survives, falls into the hands of various strange creatures; the woman has a sharp tail, she tries to sit on K., he dodges, leaves (var.: she pierces herself); the man invites K. to look down from a cliff; K. manages to push him himself; sees the bones of numerous victims below; the girl and her mother consider a tree branch with thickenings-penises as their husband; when such a penis is thrown into the water, it brings them seals; K. marries the girl, the branch trembles with jealousy; the girl's mother kills her, puts on her skin; K. discovers the deception, seeing that his wife cannot lift the seal; returns home; the first wife thought that he was dead, she is married to another]: Holtved 1951, no. 3: 104-120 (trans. Menovshchikov 1985, no. 227: 434-438); West Greenland[wife pretends to be dead, Giviok buries her; child sees mother with new husband; G. kills her and her lover, abandons child, swims across sea; fights off sea lice (they ate his pole, but he put old mittens on his oar and they did not have time to gnaw the oar); two icebergs meet and diverge; only the tip of the stern of the kayak is scratched; having sailed to some land, G. spends the night with an old woman and her daughter; notices a sharp protrusion on the old woman's back; imperceptibly places a flat stone on his chest; at night the old woman jumps on it, breaking her tail; her daughter K., leaving, killed with a harpoon; comes to another old woman and daughter, lives with them, helping to catch halibut; many years later returns to his son; he grew up to be a brave hunter]: Rink 1975, no. 15: 257-261 (=Rink 2007: 88-91, =Menovshchikov 1985, no. 258: 473-476); Baffin Island : Boas 1888 [ Kiviung sails to an unknown land; an old woman and her daughter have a log with knots as a husband; they launch it into the water, it brings them seals; it sails away completely; K. marries the daughter; the mother-in-law kills her, wears her skin; he finds his wife's bones, runs away; he returns home; his son has grown up; his wife has married, but returns to him]: 621-624; Boas 1901b, no. 15 [people constantly tear the boy's clothes; his grandmother teaches him to become a seal, to lure hunters into the open sea; only Kiviuk is saved ; swims to an old woman; a human head in her house teaches him to put a flat stone on himself; at night the old woman tries to pierce K. with her sharp tail, breaks it; the door of her house slams shut when K. tries to get out; he slips through, only the edge of his clothes is cut off; K. comes to two women; the young woman's husband is a piece of wood; brings her seals when she releases him into the sea; K. marries her, the piece of wood is jealous, but is powerless; the woman's mother kills her, removing lice from her; puts on her skin; K. recognizes the substitution, seeing that his wife is not strong enough to carry the seal he caught; swims away in a boat, returns home; his wife got married, but returns to him]: 182-185; caribou [Kivioq finds himself on an ice floe, swims to an unknown land; there is an old woman and her daughter, he takes the daughter as his wife; the mother-in-law kills her, searching in her head and piercing her ear, pulling her skin; K. guesses about the substitution, seeing wrinkles on the legs of the imaginary wife; runs away; the mother-in-law puts obstacles in his way; he 1) runs away from bears; 2) runs between crushed rocks (the hem of his clothing is cut off); 3) walks along the edge of a boiling cauldron; 4) copulates with the lower part of a woman's body blocking the way, passes; 5) jumps over a belt that kills travelers; 6) spends the night in the house of an old woman, from whose body an iron blade protrudes from behind (he places a flat stone on his chest; the old woman jumps on it, dies, pierced by her own blade); 7) escapes from a huge oyster in a kayak; his parents die of joy at his return]: Rasmussen 1930b: 97-99.

Subarctic. Koyukon {summary of Attla 1989: 379-405} [a husband quarrels with both wives and leaves; they follow; one is frightened by a black bear's head he left on the trail and returns; the other, with a child in her arms, goes on; the child dies; the woman is killed or kidnapped by a man with a tail; the husband chops him up, takes his two wives; he is swallowed by a huge fish, but escapes and kills it; he begins to kill people and so becomes an old man; finally he returns home, where he finds the wife who was frightened by the bear's head; he stays with her, they are happy; the story is told rarely and with caution]: De Laguna 1995: 330-331; Koyukon [the brothers disappear one after another; The younger Betohoh (later named K'etetaalkkaanee, "He who rowed {in the boat} among people and animals") goes on a quest; many encounters with people who turn out to be different animals; decides to make a boat, choosing the breastbone of a black grouse (Dendragapus canadensis) as a model for the nose; tries the bark of different trees for the planking; fir and poplar sink, birch bark does not; chooses wood for the frame - birch is no good, larch is suitable; when he wakes up, the boat is sewn; next time he spies; the woman who will become the Polar Owl makes large stitches, the others reproach her for this; B. tells the most beautiful one to lose her awl; she stays to look for it, he grabs her, she barks like a fox, he lets her go; he tars the boat; comes to the house-hole; the younger sister of the Fox-woman, the Squirrel-woman, comes out; offended that B. does not want her; two kinds of Weasels come out, B. tries to grab each one, they rush back, promise to give him his wife; then a Mouse comes out; then a half-blind Polar Owl; a Long-eared Owl; there was also a Mink, a Marten; B. found a fault with them all, only those Weasels pleased him; the hole became large, he entered, sat down next to the one he fell in love with; he took her away, sailed with her in a boat; one day she became hot in the sun and a fox smell came from her; he let her go to the shore, she ran away barking]: Attla 1990: 76-88; koyukon[a man is floating down the Yukon; he notices hooks, hides his boat, turns into a fish, lets himself be caught on the hook; the fisherman cannot kill the fish, brings it home; the man resumes his shape, takes the hook and line; continues to float in the boat, throws into the water the bark of fir, cottonwood, and other trees; all drown, the birch bark floats up; to make a frame, the man kills a hawk, tries on its lower jaw - no good; the same with the jaw of an owl; the jaw of a hazel grouse fits, he makes a boat from it; the girls come to sew it; he cannot catch the one he likes, she hid in a hole; he waits nearby, a Mouse comes out; the man insults her: one of your eyes is smaller than the other; then Squirrels, Weasels came out, he rejected them all; a voice tells him to go inside; an old man, the father of the girls, gives him the one he wants; they are sailing in a boat, she is crying; he throws her out of the boat, then helps her to get out on the shore; she ran home, it was Fox; and the man sails further down the Yukon]: De Laguna 1995, No. 22: 188-193; Koyukon (Koyukuk) [the woman got tired of feeding the children; she told her son to put out the weirs, to bring something to eat from the trees; he does everything wrong, brings a bag of branches; but after listening to the explanation, he understands how it should be; after he refused to cut down the trees, deciding that blood was pouring from the wounds, his mother threw him out of the house; he came to the partridges, to the hazel grouse, to the bears, but they did not pay attention to him; in the spring he decided to make a boat; he threw larch and poplar bark into the water - it sank; birch bark floated up; in the morning he saw various animal-women sewing bark together to make a boat; one caught his fancy; he hid her awl; when the others had gone, she began to look for him; the young man seized her and made her his wife; when they were sailing in the boat, the woman sat in the stern and, from the rays of the sun, turned back into a fox; he threw her onto the shore and sailed on; the giant catches those who are sailing by; but he just fell asleep, and the boat sailed between his legs; the young man came to the house of the giant's wife; she hid him; when the young man returned to the boat, the giant ordered it to split; but the young man became an insect and sailed on a leaf to the shore; and then he picked up the fragments and repaired the boat; he sailed on around the world; (the narrator got tired of writing; there is still a lot)]: De Laguna 1995, no. 31: 235-239; tanana[comm., p. 325-333: The Traveller Cycle is known among the Tanana in 6 entries; only 4 begin with the hero leaving home, but none of them has an ending; the episodes can be divided into those that happen in winter, spring, summer, and autumn, when the water begins to freeze; among the Tanana and Koyukon, the plot is not inferior in importance to the Crow Cycle; Ch'eteetaalkane (Chetitalkane) thinks about how to make a birch bark boat; kills a hazel grouse, makes a frame from its breastbones; the Hazel Grouse girls sew birch bark; Ch. does not like their work, he sews the boat himself, sails down the Yukon; swims to the hole people, wants to take a wife there, but the girls do not pay attention to him; he swims on to the mice; they are nice, the mouse feeds him; on to the rabbit; with the sharp end of his tail he killed people; W. put a flat stone on his chest; the rabbit broke his tail, whined; W.: be a rabbit, people will eat rabbits; then two rocks collide and move apart; this is Wolverine's trap; W. shoots an arrow, it barely grazes the rock; he himself swims in a boat, is caught by the rock by the shirt; pretends to be dead; Wolverine brings him home; one of the children notices that the game has opened an eye; Wolverine sharpens a knife; W. grabs a stone axe, kills it; Wolverine's children climb a tree, W. kills them too; the girl in the menstrual hut was in the forest; climbed the tree; put out the fire W. had made around the trunk with urine; she cannot be killed; wolverines came from her, they steal prey from the barns; W. swims to the otter girls; realizes that they want to kill him; notices one lying down with her head on a log; smashes her head with a club; after that the otters become harmless; Ch. swims to the mosquito people, they are friendly; a mouse swims, they cry out like an elk; Ch. catches it and saves the mosquitoes, which are washed away by the waves; when Ch. was dying, he warned that his story should be told in full for 8 days]: De Laguna 1995, No. 5: 96-104; Upper Kuskokwim[two sons complain to their father that their uncle Ch'ititazkane only sits at home, asks them to melt snow, bring him something to drink; the father advises to bring his brother water with dog shit; Ch. is offended, leaves; the man kills beavers, bakes one, gives it to Ch.; in the morning there is no trace of a fire, it was Wolverine; Ch. makes a boat; uses the breastbone of a black grouse (Dendragapus canadensis) as a sample for the frame; asks who will sew the birch bark covering; hears a response from the forest and from the coastal willows; spies on how two pretty young girls are sewing; in the morning he sees that one has small stitches, the other large ones, and her hair was disheveled; he unravels the large stitches, calls again, the neat girl finishes her work; Ch. tries to grab her, but she flies away; Ch. tars the boat, floats down the river; someone from the bank tried to grab him, W. stabbed the attacker in the eye; it was a Mouse, that's why mice have small eyes; W. sees a trap on the river, falls into it, pretends to be dead; the catcher brings him home, is surprised that the prey is letting out winds; W. puts a club under his head. Jumps up, kills the owner, hits the old woman in the tail, that's why wolverines have flat tails; Wolverine's wife climbed a tree, started writing from there; W. left her alone, returned to the boat; a man is spearing salmon; W. turns into a salmon, takes away the tip; it is a seagull's beak; W. comes to the man, the man asks if it was he who deprived him of the tip; a girl comes to W. at the camp; he sees that she was processing human skin; he does not get along with her, wants to know how she kills people; she spreads his legs, puts in a stick, takes out half; thinks she has killed him; but he jumps up, kills her with a club; they come to people who do not know what sleep is; he falls asleep, they think he is dead; he teaches them to sleep; Ch. sees a bear sleeping on the shore, sticking out his backside smeared with blueberries; Ch. tells him that he will not sleep like that; the bear runs away into the forest; since then bears do not sleep near the shore]: Deaphon, Petruska sa: 74-84; kuchin [Jateaquoint throws pieces of fir, poplar, willow bark into the river; they all sink; the birch bark floats up, he makes a boat out of it; kills a willow grouse, makes a nose based on the bird's breastbone; while he sleeps, two species of partridges sew pieces of birch bark together; a spruce grouse was walking on one side, its steps are smaller, the stitches are more frequent; from the other - willow grouse, she did worse, spruce grouse redid what she had done; J. first covered the seams with clay, it melted in the water, the boat began to sink; then he tarred it, the boat floated]: McKennan 1965: 104-105; Upper Tanana[Tsa-o-sha (Tsaosha, "clever beaver") taught many things; {how he left home is not said}; 1) Wolverine places sharp stakes at the foot of a steep icy slope; people slip and fall on the stakes; Ts. is the last of the people left; pretends to be pierced; Wolverine brings him to his house; looks for a knife; Ts. jumps up, kills Wolverine and his family; one old woman escapes up a tree; promises that the wolverines will not eat people, but will eat what Ts. has assigned to the wolverines; 2) two wolves were killing passers-by by the lake; Ts. killed them and decorated his cap with their tails; 3) in the animal village, they intended to kill Ts.; but when the foxes saw the wolf tails on the cap, they decided to make friends with him; Ts. began to live in the fox village and got married there; everyone loved him; 4) Tsetin, a man with a tail, did not love Ts.'s wife, because his wife was like a dog to Tsetin; he lay down like a log across the path; all the women stepped across it, but Ts.'s wife did not know how to; Tsetin killed her and said that he had killed a dog; Fox: Tsetin cannot be killed, he is reborn; Fox: cut off his tail piece by piece: he will die (temporarily); cover him with snow and pour water on him so that he freezes; Tsetin's son tried to free him, but Tsetin shouts: don't cut me down; don't burn me; the smoke from the mountain that formed, under which Ts. is, is still smoking, this is the Wrangel volcano (4317 m); 5) Tsetin marries the two daughters of the Bear; he asks to bring the tendons of a huge moose (the mouse gnaws off the fur from the place on the moose's skin where the heart is; explains that her children need warm moccasins; Ts. kills a sleeping moose with an arrow); to get feathers for arrows from man-eating eagles (Ts. climbs into the nest, kills the male chick; asks the female how her parents arrive; Mother with a cloud and snow, father with a storm cloud and hail; C. kills adult eagles, tells the chick to feed on squirrels and partridges from now on; get larch resin to attach feathers to the tree shaft (the tree grows on a high cliff; C. wets a branch, touches the trunk, the resin freezes to the branch, C. pulls the branch back); the Bear tells him to get two she-bears, turns his daughters into bears; C. killed them with arrows; sees the Bear copulating with the corpses of his daughters; C. runs around the lake, the Bear cannot grab him; asks the Frog to drink the lake, but C. hides in the silt at the bottom; asks the plover (Charadrius dubius, Little ringed plover) to pierce the frog's belly with its beak, the water spills out; for this C. gives the plover a necklace, now it has a white stripe on its neck; The Bear dug a drain from the lake and placed his trousers there like a weir; C. swam underwater, holding a bunch of grass on a pole in front of him; the Bear rushed at him, and C. swam past; 6) The Nightjar was a cannibal and chased C. around the island; he noticed that the Nightjar had made a trap; he stuffed his clothes into it, stuffing them with branches and putting fat on top; the Nightjar began to gut the prey; having found the branches, he became a nightjar and flew away; 7) A Mink girl invites men to copulate and bites off their penises with her toothy vagina, devours the dead; when the Mink lies down nearby and falls asleep, C. sees teeth in her vagina and inserts a green shoot into it; it is immediately chewed; then he sticks in a burning brand; the Mink dies; the Beaver cuts open her belly, from which weasels and minks jump out; According to another version, it was the toothy little animals in the girl's womb that bit off men's penises; C. comes to the Mosquitoes, takes the girl as his wife; the pregnant women of the Mosquitoes have their bellies ripped open; T. teaches them how to give birth; the Mosquitoes kill an aquatic insect with spears, calling it a bear; 8) C. met an Otter, made friends with him, and he got a whitefish from a well for him; 9) The Rabbit killed and ate people; invited C. to the top of the mountain to push him off the bottom; but C. grabbed him, won, and swam further in a boat; 10) C. asks the old mouse to show him the way to the Sun's parking lot; she says that no one has ever returned from there; she gives him an icicle and tells him to keep it under his arm; C. turned into an eagle feather on the path; one of the two daughters of the Sun picked it up; at her house the feather first turned into a tiny little man, then it grew to about a meter in height; the Sun tried to burn C. in the fire, then boil it - he was unharmed; agreed to give him both daughters in marriage; when C. took them away, the Sun decided to burn the whole world; even his daughters burned, but C. saved himself by burying himself in gravel; 11) picked up a piece of fat, then a dead bird, put it under his clothes; something stinks, C. threw out what he had picked up, cleaned his clothes; there was someone strange at the top of the larch; C. lowered it down: no mouth, no anus, no limbs; C. cut a mouth and anus, made limbs; this is how a fly was created, which since then flies where there is rot and stench; 12) C. met mosquitoes {moshká?}, but left them, seeing how they killed not only caribou, but also the people who were pursuing them; 13) saw,that his meat store had been destroyed; followed the tracks to the wolverine's camp; the wolverine pretended to be seriously ill, asked him to make a fire and take half of the moose meat; but C. knew that it had been stolen from him; at night C. noticed that the wolverine was trying to burn his moccasins; he said that he had only gotten up to throw wood on the fire; when he fell asleep, C. switched his moccasins and the wolverine burned his; in the morning C. left, and the wolverine froze to death; 14) when the younger brother of C.'s wife gave him water with dog shit, C. left them; 15) comes to the Mosquitoes, takes a girl as a wife; the Mosquitoes rip open the bellies of pregnant women; T. teaches them to give birth; the Mosquitoes kill an aquatic insect with spears, calling it a bear; 16) when C. returned home, he found his wife gray-haired, and even his sons had grown old; no one recognized him; C. to his son: I used to have light hair; then his son remembered him]: McKennan 1959: 175-189;slevi (Bearlake: Délįnę) [ɂ̨ıtsíné godí (“living spirit”) sends his two grandsons into the forest to begin their spiritual training; the first is called Yámǫréya (“He who went on the journey around the world,” Yámǫréya) and the second is Yámǫhga (“He who followed (around the world,” Yámǫhga); they are to learn about everything; in their dreams they gained an understanding of how to be a tree, a flower, and every other creature; having gained this experience, the brothers returned to their grandfather, who asked who would be the first to go around the world; the younger, Yámǫréya, volunteered; they went in opposite directions, meeting huge and dangerous creatures and rendering them harmless; in a rocky defile, Yámǫréya encounters a lion (unidentified constellation) that was setting traps for people; he killed it with an arrow in the neck; going further, Yámǫréya invents the tools and objects necessary for the Indians, transforms flora and fauna and forms the landscape; obtains feathers of a huge caribou, tendons of a huge caribou, flint/obsidian from a huge frog, creates resin from the snot of a huge wolverine; from what he has obtained, he makes an arrow that is visible in the sky (feather - Aldebaran, tendon - Rigel, tip - Sirius, resin - Betelgeuse, shaft - Capella); as he traveled, it was reproduced in the sky, where the figure of Yamoreya is now visible; Table 3 shows a list of stars corresponding to parts of his body; the Milky Way is a trace left by the Wanderer, the Big Dipper is a “ladle” in which Yamoreya prepared food; it contains all the animals and plants that Yamoreya gives to those in need; Regulus is the left foot; many stars are weak, i.e. we are talking about knowledge that few possessed; fig. 2 - the stars mentioned form the figure of a standing man, whose body and head are turned to the right (to the left from the observer's position); in his outstretched (right) hand he holds a horizontally positioned ladle by the handle, turning it towards his face]: Cannon et al. 2019: 10-12.

NW coast. Tlingit [a young man is killed in a clash with Tlingit; his father and his men sail to search for him; they come to a shore where only women live; they refuse to meet the sailors, saying that they have a husband; this is a log on the shore with teeth on the knots; in another village the sailors see no one; they take skins, fish, fat; when they try to carry the goods to the ship, invisible hands stop them; in the land of the dead the captain does not see his son, because one of the sailors violated the prohibition to take a woman on board; the guilty couple is killed; the sailors return as old men]: Boas 1895, no. 5: 325-327.

Coast - Plateau. Tillamook [Ice and his people live in the village of Nehalem; they sail to hunt sea otters; they cannot overtake the sea otter with a white face; they sail to the village, there is a woman, she was a sea otter, in her house are their arrows; she agrees to get into their boat, takes a purse with her; Ice thinks that there is food in it, but there are living creatures in it; he throws the purse overboard; the woman says that if she had brought it to Nehalem, people would not die; jumps into the sea; they sail to the village of Salmon, eat one; sail to people with tails; to naked people, who cover themselves with their ears at night like blankets (during the day their ears are normal size); to invisible spirits, who throw baskets; to a house, the door of which opens and closes as fast as the woman in the house speaks; in the next house a woman speaks slowly, for she is angry: she got one vertebra with meat on it, and the other got two; Ice runs into the house where the first woman is, grabs the meat, manages to jump out; the door only cuts off a little flesh from his buttocks, but he is immediately cured by herbs; they swim to people without mouths, who feed on the smell of food; Ice cuts a boy's mouth, he can speak; watches as Ice copulates with a mouthless girl; Ice cuts everyone's mouths, orders them not to copulate in public; earlier, mouthless people conceived children differently from us (it is not said how); they swim to cannibals, Ice turns the boat into a feather, eludes pursuit; to people with tiny mouths, they feed on dentalia mollusks; returns home]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, № 1: 3-9.

Plains. Blackfeet [a son-in-law takes all the meat from the parents of his three wives; they boil a clot of buffalo blood, it turns into a boy; son-in-law is told it is a girl; the boy immediately grows up; kills his son-in-law and two older sisters, leaves the youngest, she was kind to her parents; goes on a journey; comes to a people from whom Bear and She-Bear were taking everything; kills them by throwing hot stones into their mouths; a snake with a horn in its forehead was taking everything from the old women of another village; Blood Clot cuts off its and other snakes' heads; kills a Medicine Man who was luring people into his house; a Ball Player (woman); another woman who challenged everyone to wrestle her; another who was swinging people on a swing over a lake; Blood Clot asks her to swing first, cuts the rope, she falls into the water, fish and water creatures devour her; after this he decided to return home]: Josselin de Jong 1914: 76-80; Blackfoot [an evil hunter does not feed his wives' parents; the youngest daughter secretly gives them meat; one day the old man noticed a clot of blood on the ground, pretended to scatter his arrows, bent down, secretly picked it up and hid it; when his wife began to boil the clot of blood, it turned into a baby; the son-in-law sends his wives to check if it is a boy, but each says it is a girl; the old man took the baby, touched the poles of the tipi, and it turned into a young man; said that he is Smoking Star and had come to help them; Blood Clot (BC) tells the old man to eat the kidney of a killed buffalo in front of his son-in-law; the son-in-law wanted to kill the old man, but BC shot him himself; killed the senior wives, burned the bodies of all three, leaving alive the old man's youngest daughter, who had been kind to him; went wandering; comes to the old women; all their food is taken by bears; he kills the bears by throwing hot stones into their mouths; he took pity on a pregnant female; present-day bears are descended from her; he came to the old women, they gave him only dry lean meat; snakes eat all the fat; their leader has a horn on his head; SK killed everyone with a knife, but took pity on one pregnant female; present-day snakes are descended from her; SK gave the bear tipi and the snake tipi to the people; a whirlwind caught SK and he ended up in the mouth of a fish (the whirlwind was its breath); there are many swallowed people in the belly of the fish; SK ordered them to dance, attached a knife to his head, began to jump and pierced the heart of the fish with a knife; then he cut a hole between the ribs; everyone came out; the woman invites the people to fight and kills them, throwing them on protruding knives, which are not noticeable in the straw; SK threw her himself, the knife cut her in half; the women warned that there would be a woman next, offering to sit on the swing; SK offers her to sit herself, cuts the rope (vine), the woman falls into the water and drowns; having rid the world of monsters, SG returned to the old people; once said: if I am killed, do not worry - I will return to where I came from; when he was killed by a Crow Indian, he ascended to the sky and became the Smoking Star, which is visible today]: Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 2: 53-58; Blackfoot: Maclean 1893 [a son-in-law will not share meat with the parents of three sisters he has married; the old people boil a clot of blood, it turns into a boy, kills the wicked son-in-law]: 167; Spence 1985 [an evil son-in-law takes all the game from his old father-in-law; he makes an arrow with drops of buffalo blood on it; the boy is born, grows up into a young man named Kutoyis (Blood Drop); kills the wicked son-in-law; goes traveling; kills Bears that were taking meat from people; kills a woman who challenged the young men to wrestle with her and threw them on sharp flints]: 212-216; Gros Ventre [an old man has 4 daughters; when they grow up, the man takes them as wives; when he hunts, he takes the old man with him to cut up the game, but does not give him meat - only bones; One day he quietly picked up a clot of blood regurgitated by a wounded bison; the son-in-law noticed his father-in-law bending over, but he explained that he was only removing a splinter; when the old man asked his wife to boil the clot of blood, it turned into a baby; the old man's kind youngest daughter (the other three are indifferent to him) tells her husband that SK is a girl; the son-in-law: let her live, I will take her later as my wife; the old man tells his wife to rock the baby 4 times in different parts of the tipi; as a result, the boy immediately becomes a young man; tells his father to eat bison liver in front of his son-in-law; he is going to kill him, but the young man himself shot the son-in-law, three wicked wives and their children; chopped up and burned the body, each part threatening to get the young man wherever he went, but the young man paid no attention; went traveling, exterminating monsters; a tree crushes and swallows passers-by; SK turns into a feather, cuts down a tree, releases those swallowed; a bridge stands on a bison's head, throws off passers-by; SK jumps over it, the bridge goes under water forever; SK allows himself to be swallowed by the Wolf, cuts his heart, comes out, making a hole in his side, releases those swallowed before; a man swings passers-by over a river, throws them to a water monster; SK turns into a feather, allows himself to be swallowed, kills the monster from the inside with arrows, frees those swallowed; kills the owner of a swing; a man with a sharp leg plays with others, kicks to death; SK substitutes a poplar in his place, his leg gets stuck in it; SK gets married; the father-in-law-chief orders 1) to get a luminous object (this is the Morning Star, the son-in-law brings); 2) to kill a bear (the son-in-law brings meat); 3) to get feathers for arrows (the son-in-law climbs into the nest of the Thunderbirds; they produce lightning by blinking, and thunder when moving; Our mother will fly in a black rain cloud, and our father in a white cloud with thunder and hail ; the son-in-law kills the parent birds, leaves the chicks, brings feathers); 4) to bring bison sinews (he brings them); 5) flints for arrows (a cliff falls on him, he flies up as a feather, brings flints); 6) to bring water at night (breaks the horn of a water monster, brings it to his father-in-law); he is furious that all his assistants have died, shoots at his son-in-law, misses; the son-in-law himself kills him with an arrow, chops him into pieces and burns him]: Kroeber 1907b, no. 20: 82-90.

Southern Venezuela. Makiritare [Makusáni was hunting in the forest, began to chase a frog, it ran away, he got lost; a forest hen (gallineta) took the form of a pretty girl, invited him into her house, told him not to touch her; M. tried to get along with her, she became a hen, flew away; M. came to a river; an Otter (perro de agua) took him into his own, promised to take him home if he would look neither forward nor backward; M. looked through his fingers, the Otter left him in the water; M. climbed a tree to sleep; Nuna (Moon) saw his reflection, realized that he was not in the water, but on a tree, when M. spat; brought him to himself in the sky, gave him two daughters in marriage; sends for firewood, the wife confesses that her father will eat him; he throws sand at her back, she thinks it is wasps, starts to run, M. runs in the other direction, comes to Shi (the Sun); N. looks for M., Sh. says that he was not there, drives N. away with heat; M. marries one of Sh.'s two daughters; Sh. gives her an air rifle, tells her not to look through it; M. looks, sees his house, his mother; his wife also wanted to look, both ended up on the ground in M.'s house; M. hides his wife under a basket; when he walked away, her mother found her, began to beat her; M. reconciled them; all three returned to heaven to Sh.'s house, and live there to this day]: Civrieux 1959: 119-120 (= 1980: 119-120 {pagination is correct!}); sanema [Colchester 1981: 72-74; The young man went to the otter people, fell behind them; met a tinamou girl; she invited him into her hammock, but flew away when he tried to copulate; told him to wait three days, but he left, climbed a tree above the river; the Moon came, saw his reflection, began to catch; the young man spat, the Moon looked up; he brought him to his home, told his wife to bake cassava for meat; the son of the Moon told the young man to run, showed three roads - to the stars, to the vultures, to the Sun; the young man came to the Sun; when the Moon came for him, the Sun baked him with its heat; now there are spots on the moon; the Sun gave him a sarbakan, told him not to look; the young man looked through it, flew out like a dart, fell near his house; his mother did not recognize him, wanted to copulate; he said who he was, she was glad]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, no. 324: 568-570.

Guiana. Carinya (Guyana): Gillin 1936, no. 7 [a man was trapped by epo {Latin} (dangerous forest spirits); a little bird advised him to smear himself with shit; the epo put it in a basket anyway and carried it; the man ran away along the way and climbed a tree; the epo began to chop down the trunk with tortoise-shell axes; they sent ants, the man threw them off; one of the epo climbed up feet first; the man pierced it, threw it off, the demons ate it, mistaking it for a man; the man goes on, falls into a hollow tree, there are snakes, the man smears himself with shit again; the snakes blow wind, ask what they smell like; the man answers the big snake that it smells like a deer, the small one that it smells like a rat; he sees a snake-eating hawk, calls it "uncle", the latter answers, calling the man "nephew"; snakes are frightened, try to crawl away, Hawk pecks out their eyes, man finishes them off], 8 [a hunter spends the night in a hollow; Agnatwatimepu approaches, demands to see its head; the man produces the head of a wild pig he has killed, asks A. to put his head in the hollow; the forest spirits have poor vision because of their protruding eyebrows; the man kills A. by piercing the back of his head with an arrow; the next night the voice of the Turtle: I wish the day would come, that I might eat fresh meat ; the man hacked it to death; the next a nest of ants asks: Are you sleeping ? He jumped back, the nest falls where he lay, he hacked it to death; the next night the Snake: I wish the day would come, that I might eat the man ; he hacked it to death, the pieces became frogs, he burned them; the next night the Hummingbird: I wish the day would come, that I might suck out the eyes ; he hacked it to death; in the next Dove: I wish the day would come to peck at the gravel on the path ; it means home is near, the Dove showed the way; mother is glad to be home]: 196-198, 198-199; makushi[Maichoppa wanted to see the chief of the vultures; the inhabitants of two communal houses quarreled, killed each other; M. lay down among the dead bodies; the urubu vultures flew in, took off their feathers and wings, M. took possession of their plumage, but was unable to fly himself; the spider tied one end of her thread to the top of a tree, and gave the other to M.; lengthening the thread, she lifted M. up to the mountain of vultures behind the clouds; M. wants to marry the daughter of the chief of the vultures; he demands 1) to build a house on a bare rock (the eel drilled holes, the animals and birds built the house); 2) to make a bench with his image; the young man climbed onto the web, relieved himself on the vulture's head; he ordered fire to be brought to understand what fell on him, M. saw two heads; a bird and an ant carved a bench out of stone; the vulture's daughter sent a karaka bird to catch M.; he runs from house to house, reaches the Spider Woman, she hides him under cotton yarn, does not allow K. to stir it, so as not to tangle the yarn; M. goes down to the top of the ceiba tree, lets go of the thread of the web, does not know how to get down to the ground; sits on the back of a lizard, which is going to eat him, runs up and down the trunk; M. manages to jump to the ground; M. comes to Agouti, his wife is home, all the cassava has been stolen from M.'s garden, Agouti's wife says that she prepared it especially for him; M. is satisfied, returns home]: Roth 1924, No. 601: 486-488.

Western Amazonia. Aguaruna [a woman with her small children went to a plot of land; she met a blue parrot, he threw her the peel of the yuhank fruit (it has a specific taste, harmful properties are attributed to it); she ate it, she got a headache and stomach ache, she lost the right direction and went not along the aguaruna road, but along the road of animals; she came to the Armadillo, he fed her only ants and snails; she came to Paque, there was good cassava, but the owner did not give it to her, sent her to Canyuc (proper name? Then turns into agouti); she asks her to look after the children, and she goes to get cassava, says that the road is difficult; the children explain that the plot is nearby; the woman comes there, it turns out to be her own garden; the woman seized a baby agouti, she and her husband ate it]: Guallart 1958: 68-70.

NW Amazonia. Yagua [roughly the same in Powlison 1959: 11-12; warriors going to take revenge on their enemies; on the way they hit a toad; this is the shaman Watacharé; the warriors rape his wife; two do not take part, see V. weaving a basket; he says it is a basket for eyes, tells the two to settle down at night apart from the others; in the form of a bat he extracts an eye from each of the sleeping people; in the morning the crooked ones decide to turn into peccaries; some become a howler monkey, birds, a deer, an anteater; two are walking towards a house; one warns the other not to break a branch of a fruit tree, he breaks it; V. cries out that he has been bitten in the heart; he eats the fruit with the people, spits out the seeds, says they are eyes; the warriors realize that they have eaten the eyes of their comrades (the origin of the tasty fruit of the ungurahui palm ); at night V., in the guise of a bat, cuts off the leg of the man who broke the branch, he throws it into the river, the leg turns into a caiman, the one-legged man continues on his way; climbs a tree after night monkeys, the companion explains that these are mushrooms; the one-legged man turns into a toucan, flies ahead, showing the way; a squirrel lures the remaining one to cross a ravine on a log, the end of which does not reach the other bank; the log is an anaconda; the man jumps, is swallowed; inside he finds a live Deer; they cut the anaconda from the inside with the teeth of a piranha when it crawls out into the blazing sun to digest food; the anaconda pursues them, they throw a calabash into the river for it, the anaconda dives into the water; the man goes bald, birds make new hair from bast, the monkey dyes it black; every night the man spends with another man-animal, each warns of the next meeting; Partridge's anus stinks, man spits, Partridge flies away, carrying the fire; Man plugs Anteater's anus with a tampon; Anteater thinks Partridge has cast a spell, is grateful to man when he removes the tampon; Tortoise mutters that he is going to eat poisonous rhizomes, man turns him into a tortoise; Termite-mound falls from tree to crush man, man manages to dodge, tells termite-mounds to stay on earth from then on; copulates with Frog, who warns that her husband Armadillo is jealous; Armadillo calls man into hole, hoping to leave him in the underworld; man climbs tree, Armadillo calls up wind, man has to climb down; man comes to Wild Pig Festival (series of episodes); to Agouti (kills them); home to wife and sons]: Powlison 1993: 97-118.

Central Amazonia. Mundurucu : Kruse 1949, no. 33 [Peresuatpë went hunting with his older brother; the latter went into the bushes; P. shot at a tapir, missed; it was the brother who had taken the form of a tapir; his grandmother advised him to pull the tapir's guts out through his rear next time; his hand got stuck, the tapir ran, P. pulled his hand out when the tapir had relieved itself; P. and the tapir ended up on the right bank of the Tapajos; local people killed the tapir, cut it into pieces, P. saw this from a tree; the people mistook it for a bees' nest, began to poke it with a pole, on the advice of a parrot, P. described the pole, the Indians began to lick the urine, thinking it was honey; in order to cross back across the Tapajos, P. called a caiman named Uàtippanpàn'a; First the smaller caimans came out, P. rejected them; on U.'s back there is grass and trees; the caiman burped, P. compared the aroma to the smell of uruku; when he found himself on the shore, he shouted that U. stunk, he was furious, dived, the palm tree on his back broke; at night the jaguar began to call P. by name, he asked what he wanted, fell asleep; the next night the inambu hen (Cinereous tinamu, = Crypturellus cinereus) woke up, P. broke all her eggs, three remained, since then the inambu lays three eggs; the next night P. sleeps in a hollow; the jaguar wants to bite off his finger, P. gives him the finger of a killed monkey; so the Jaguar received and ate all the fingers, then the liver; left; the next night the Jaguar promises to bring a stone; P. leaves his excrement in the hollow, climbs the tree; sewage is responsible for P., Jaguar throws a stone into the hollow, finds shit; the next night caterpillars prevented him from sleeping, P. crushed half of them, now these caterpillars are few; P. sees two girls in the palm grove; agrees to marry; they ask him not to be afraid of their father; he came, P. ran away; P. sleeps with Jaguar's wife; during the day he replies that he did not see her; running away, he screams that he slept with her; Jaguar accidentally rushed not at P., but at Anteater, who scratched out his eyes; Jaguar's wife made him new eyes out of resin, since then Jaguar's eyes shine; P. asks Mother Rain to throw him bananas; she throws the peel; he threatens to shoot, replies that he will close himself from the rain with a banana leaf; he shot, it began to rain, P. got wet; the Inambu woman plays the flute, there is a fire by her hammock; he refused to lie down with her, she flew away, taking the hammock and the fire; P. took the bone out of Jaguar's throat, he showed him the way home; his mother painted his uruku, P. died from the strong smell]: 642-646; Murphy 1958, No. 29 [ Akainoatpyo is a nephew, Karuzhuribyo is his uncle; K. turns into deer and other animals, A. cannot kill them; A.'s grandmother advises him to kill a tapir by sticking her hand up its backside; the tapir is K.; he jumps up, drags A. across the Tapajos, frees him, emptying his stomach; advises him to choose a third crocodile with trees growing on its back for the crossing back across the river; A.'s name is now Perisvat; P. rejects two smaller crocodiles, swims on a large one; lies that the crocodile's belch is fragrant; jumping ashore, he cries out that it stinks; at night, Inambu disturbs P.'s sleep with his conversations; P. breaks her eggs, since then the Inambu lays only three eggs; P. kills a monkey, spends the night in a hollow; this is the lair of the Jaguar; he demands that P. give him parts of his body in turn; P. gives him the limbs and liver of the monkey; leaves the excrement to answer for itself, climbs a tree; the Jaguar devours the excrement instead of P.; P. spends the night with a man whose leg bones are deprived of flesh, sharpened; he tries to pierce P.; when the leg pierces the tree, P. ties it with a bowstring; in the morning he releases it; copulates with the Jaguar's wife; he chases P., P. turns into an armadillo, scratches out Jaguar's eyes; Jaguar makes new ones from tree latex, since then they shine; P. spends the night by Inambu's fire; refuses to lie in the hammock with her; she flies away, taking the fire; P. falls with both hands and feet into the hunter's trap; he leaves the old woman to guard the game; the old woman falls asleep; an ant, a bee, a wasp, a monkey free P.; the hunter in anger hits the old woman, she turns into a bird; P. returns to the grandmother; dies when she rubs him with uruku]: 95-102.

Eastern Amazonia. Shipaya [men went on a hike; the latter stuck his hand into a hole in the ground, his hand got pinched; in the morning a bearded and hairy demon (one of the informants identified him with the Sun) threw his staff karĩ, which found the prey himself; the man pretended to be dead; the demon carried him in a basket with ants; the man twitched, the demon pricked him, he pretended to be dead again; the demon put the basket down by the house, his son found it empty; the man hid in a hollow, kari found him; the demon blocked the entrance with a stone; rodents made a hole, the man came out, climbed a tree; the demon sent a snake, the man threw it down; the demon went for an axe, the man ran away, jumping from tree to tree; he saw two caimans in the river with bushes and an imbauba tree on their backs; he took one to the other bank; the demon told him to return, but the caiman swam on; passed gas, told him to call him a fart, then an ugly person; the man replied that the caiman was beautiful, etc.; the man called him a disgusting, fat-bellied fart when he reached the other side; came to an inambu who had three hammocks - for her two wings and legs; contrary to the prohibition, he lay down in the hammock, it broke, the inambu flew away; spent the night in an old dwelling, heard singing at night, saw a skull in the morning, took it to a place where the rain would not wet it; a tapir woman married to a jaguar did not let her husband eat a man; he heard melodies in the forest; came to two other tapir spouses; then home; his little son was already grown; the man taught people the melodies he heard]: Nimuendaju 1922: 390-393; tenetehara [approximately like Munduruku]: Nimuendaju 1915, no. 10: 299-300; Wagley, Galvão 1949, no. 15 [a boy, Wiraí, went with his mother to a plot of land, got lost, the river divided, he ended up on an island; a night hawk refused to carry him, a woodpecker could not, a caiman offered to sit on him; at the opposite bank he went under water; a socó bird {probably a pelican} dived, swallowed W., hid him in his throat pouch, the caiman swam away; W. spent the night under a rock, in the morning it turned out to be a huge toad; he saw hummingbirds dancing and singing "I will make a calabash out of his head", W. scared them away; the snake Moizuhú invited him into her house, wanted to eat him, but V. began to sing the song of the Hawk "The hawk eats the eyes of snakes", the snake got scared, hid; V. again slept near the huge toad, it repeated "Sleep on the other side", there V. found a path, walked along it to a fruit tree; from the other V. ate so many fruits that he began to go bald; Pekari brought him to a yam field; V.'s father scared Pekari, grabbed his son; at home he hugged his mother so tightly that they could not separate (var. 1: they called a shaman to separate them; var. 2: they could not separate because V. was a shaman]: 140-142; urubu[a boy chased a nightjar, ended up on the other side of the sea (the nightjar carried him there); a Toucan, a Toucan with a red beak, a Duck offer to carry him home, the boy replies that they are too weak; the Duck gives him a boat for the crossing, it is a Cayman; along the way, it asks if his back, tail, teeth, and biting leeches are pleasant; the boy praises them each time; jumping onto the shore, he shouts that they are disgusting; the Cayman pursues the boy, he asks the Pelican (Socó-ramoui - Master of the Pelicans) for help; the Pelican regurgitates a fish, hides the boy in its crop, threatens the Cayman, who has to leave; the boy returns to his mother]: Ribeiro 2002: 463-466.

Montagna - Jurua. Cashinahua [Nyimbobuilds a ladder, the end reaches the sky; a storm breaks it, carries N. far from the village; he follows the hunters, but is afraid to step on poisonous ants, goes another way; gets stuck in the trap of the man-eating Hawk, falling into it first with one foot, then the other, with one hand, with the other, with his head (=tar-baby); Hawk has huge testicles, and he carries his penis in a bag; puts N. there, brings it home; goes for firewood; Hawk's wife is N.'s ex-fiancée, whom Hawk stole; she hides him under a vessel; Hawk asks their pet parrot what happened; the woman promises to kill the parrot if he betrays her; Hawk tells his ants, wasps, snakes to look for him, but the woman calls them back or crushes them each time; at night, Hawk's penis crawls to his wife, ejaculates between her knees; Now she sleeps with N., gives birth to a boy; N. goes into the forest, climbs a genipa tree; the Hawk finds him, tells him to come down; N. throws him fruits, tries to throw them further and further; he comes down, runs to the river; animals are fishing there, they hide him in the sand, covering their faces with a basket; the Hawk lets out a wind, but N. manages not to cough; the Hawk returns home, the animals show N. the way to his mother's house, he loses it; rabbits, agouti show the way, but he loses it again; hears how someone is afraid that it will rain and they will die; these creatures cast a spell and prevent rain; these are mushrooms; they explain that they know where N.'s mother lives, but they are hiding here, because otherwise she will collect and roast them; a turtle shows N. the way; at night a large mossy tree says that it has an itch, but no one will scratch it; The deer leads N., but he cannot keep up with him; at night he hears the voice of a bird, sees a fire, finds a spinning girl; when he tries to make love to her, she turns into a bird, takes away her fire; this continues several times, she flies further and further, beyond the lake; at night N. hears, Oy, leg, leg! The anaconda has broken its tail; N. heals it by inserting a liana instead of a spine; the anaconda leads him to the house, but he gets lost again; removes a splinter from the jaguar's paw; he leads him to the house, gives him a small bundle with a lot of meat inside; gives a stick that kills game and packs the meat in a small volume; tells him not to tell anyone about this; N. opens the package before reaching the house, the living and dead animals run away, he manages to grab only two; arriving home, he uses the magic wand, then tells about his adventures; the wand loses its power]: d'Ans 1975: 214-232.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Tacana (cavinya) [a shaman sends 10 men out hunting; they kill monkeys, tapirs, wild boars; they roasted the prey and went to bed; only one did not sleep; a night monkey came and ate the eyes of the sleeping men; the one who did not sleep said that his eyes were where the anus was; in the morning the men sailed in a boat across the river; the boat capsized, the blind drowned; a sighted man asked a bird to make a boat for him, but it sank into the water when he stepped in it; a caiman took him across the river, began to wag; the man said that he had to relieve himself; the caiman offered to do it on his back, promised to eat him; the man grabbed a branch, but the caiman bit off his leg; the man turned into an insect like a cockroach, squeaks thinly; flew home; the shaman heard and understood that the man would not return]: Nordenskiöld 1924: 288; Chakobo [after the world fire, Nowa Pashawa was saved by climbing into an armadillo's hole; he is afraid of the voice of a turtle and a grasshopper, goes with an Anteater; he brings a small tinamou, says that this is fire, asks to tell him if he needs to light it; but NP does not say, the tinamou flies away; Anteater brings a large tinamou, NP sleeps peacefully at night; Agouti comes to the house, he gives him chicha to drink, says that it is from corn from his mother's field; NP spied - Agouti makes chicha from his snot, NP did not drink; Agouti led him to the house, told him not to laugh; NP saw his genitals, laughed, Agouti told him to find the way himself; the Woodpecker woman led him to his mother's house; at first she decided that it was the ghost of her son; he ordered to make as many clay vessels as people died in the fire; three days later the skeletons came, each took a vessel; soon they all had a head, but there were not enough vessels for the two old men, they had to wait; but their wives abandoned them, because without heads they could neither drink nor sleep; two birds Pulsatrix sp. flew in; other people told the women that these were their husbands; since then people have not been reborn after death]: Kelm 1972, No. 3: 223-225; Chacobo[a man lives in the forest with a wife named Waita; a tapir Rata in the form of a man kidnapped her; the man wandered for a year until he came to the tapir's house; hid on a platform under the roof; R. returned and smelled the smell, but V. insisted that no one was there; the man saw that R. was not really copulating with the woman, but was only spilling his semen on her feet; the next day R. left, the man lay with his wife; this lasted for two months, she became pregnant; R. smelled the stench, the man had to go down; R. took him for genipa fruits; the wife warned him not to climb the tree and not to touch the fruits with his hands - you would get hurt; R. climbed up himself, V. picked up the fruits, told her husband to run; R. sent a tornado and a downpour, but the man hid in a hole; came to a lake; asked a caiman to translate; he wanted to eat the rider, but at the opposite bank the man managed to jump off and grab onto a branch; the man came to the Agouti husband and wife; they fed him Brazil nuts and gave him chicha to drink; at night the man sees the Agouti adding their snot to the chicha; refuses to drink it; Agouti brings cassava, says that it is from the man's mother's garden; leads him to him; along the way the man sees his genitals and laughs; the offended Agouti leaves; by this time the man is already covered in ulcers, because on the first evening he drank snotty chicha; the man met the Big Anteater, who led him further; at night he brought him to Macuca (apparently, tinamou), who has a fire; at night the man tried to copulate with the tinamou, she ran away; the Anteater brought small Fon-Fon, so that both he and the man would have someone to sleep with; in the morning they went further, and in the evening found themselves in the place of their previous lodging; for this the man killed the anteater with a club; the man went alone; at night someone was sleeping nearby; in the morning he realized that it was Peta's husband and wife; he stuck a branch up their backsides and they died; the woodpecker told him to follow him and led him to the man's mother's garden; the mother barely recognized him because of the ulcers on his skin, she cured them; a crowd of the dead came, the woman found her dead husband in it, but he, like all the others, was headless; the woman placed a calabash on his shoulders, but there was no mouth in it; she removed the calabash and began to pour only chicha right into the opening of his neck; at that moment the dead turned into Sumurucucú and flew away; since then the dead do not return to earth]: Riester 1972, No. 226-229); (cf. guarasú {to check what's there} [of the hero returning home]: Riester 1977, no. 33: 279); pauserna [a man got lost, came to a wide body of water; a duck offered a caiman as a boat; the caiman swam with the man for three days; - Say that I stink and am ugly; the man remained silent; when the shore was close, the man grabbed a tree and ran; he asked the uru (flightless) bird to hide him from the pursuing caiman; it directed him along the road to some herons, they hid him in a basket under a fish; the caiman stuck his paw in the basket, pricked himself on some spiny catfish, and left; the man became a heron, flew back to his relatives with other herons, and became a man again; he died a week or two later]: Snethlage 1936: 287-288.

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo : Wilbert 1978, no. 151 [Metraux 1960: 30-32; the Kayapo were attacked by Europeans, only Sakawāpö escaped and came to the shore of the Xingu; Caiman offered to take him across; swimming to the shore, he accuses S. of calling him "protruding eyebrows", "saw-shaped tail", calling him long-toothed and fat-bellied; S. grabbed a branch, jumped off, ran, hid in the basket of a Heron, who covered him with fish; Caiman began to rummage in the basket, but his paws are short, he did not reach S.; S. wanted to shoot a deer; he said that he had shot it once, the arrow was still in his body; he went with S., but went off to graze, S. did not wait for him; the same with the Tapir; with the Monkey; with Coati; S. came to a recently abandoned village; then he met his brother, who showed him the way home; S. told him that the others had been killed; his mother and other women held mourning ceremonies], 152 [Lukesh 1968: 60-63; the Kayapo attacked a village of other Indians, but they exterminated the attackers, only Tčakamandapá escaped; the Monkey asks not to shoot, promises to lead Ch. to his house; but it often stopped in search of food, Ch. went himself; the same with the Tapir, with the Deer; with the onset of darkness he met a bird, it had a fire under its feathers; the bird allowed him to warm himself, but warned him not to push it; when Ch. moved, it flew away; then it returned; in the morning Ch. came to the river, Cayman offered to take him across; in the middle of the river he began to offer to say that he had a nasty face, a fat belly, a tail like a saw; Ch. answered that he did not; grabbed a branch at the shore and shouted to Cayman that he was fat-bellied; Heron shot fish with a bow and hid Ch. in a basket under the fish; Cayman could not find Ch.; Fox asked Ch. not to shoot, led him to the house, Ch. told about his adventures]: 361-362, 363-367.

Chako. Tereno [recorded in 1947 during a one-day visit to a Tereno village; Koevati got lost in the forest, walked for a long time, came across a dwelling, the cannibal Kuseáka (like a man, but covered in hair) invited him in, but the entrance was on a smooth log across a ravine; after crossing the ravine, K. hid under a pile of leaves, the cannibal did not find him; K. left, climbed a tree, but did not see fire, climbed another, from there he saw a tree with four branches, a chick of the man-eating eagle Kovoéro was sitting there, the ground under the tree was strewn with bones; K. came out of the forest into a field, came to his parents, had been absent for three months, was afraid of people]: Baldus 1950, no. 3: 221-222.

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