L90B. Fangs to the sky and earth. .21.23.29.

One tooth (fang) of the creature touches the sky, the other reaches the earth or the underworld.

Lepcha, Nepalese, Baiga, Kalmyks, Ossetians, Georgians.

Tibet - North-East India. Lepcha : Siiger 1967, No. 1 [(local variant of "Geser"; see motif L15; hor mu mung (HMM) kidnapped the wife of gye bu (GB) Sacung (S.); BG takes the form of a boy, HMM believes that this is the incarnation of one of his warriors, almost adopts him; HMM has huge ears, he sleeps on one, covers himself with the other; one tooth of HMM reaches the sky, the other to the ground ; GB kills HMM, gets his wife back]: 203-214; Stocks 1925, #XXVI [people are constantly dying; the king consults a fortune teller; he predicts that besides the six sons and the king there will be a seventh; in the sky the mother of the country Rum smells the aroma of incense; her husband says that it is King Lyang-bad asking for a son to be sent to him; the one who can 1) throw a heavy stone, 2) hit a needle behind a mountain with an arrow, 3) cut a horse's hair lengthwise before the steam from a cup of tea rises to the head, 4) bring a lot of firewood will go to earth; the two elder brothers cannot, the youngest, a baby, does everything easily; a hailstone falls next to Queen Tang-kung-ramit on the ground; she breaks off a piece and swallows it; other pieces are swallowed by a cow, a mare, a chicken, a goat; everyone gets pregnant and gives birth; T. gave birth to a sack, buried it; the king dug it up, there was a copper vessel, in it was a boy; the king gave him the name Ati-azyak-pono; she sends her elder brothers to marry the seven daughters of King Lung-da; along the way they must hoist flags of the same color on a black, green, red, white mountain; pass a plain on which there is a spruce, and around two suns; it is hot there, you can’t take off your hats; the king gives daughters, does not allow playing the flute and harp on the plain; but the three younger ones began to have fun with the brides, sat under the spruce, the others had to too; from four sides 4 seas of black, green, red, white color surged; the snake Paril-bu crawled out of the sea, demanded that he give him the younger brother who remained at home; he disappeared, the waters subsided with him and one sun disappeared; the demon messenger came for A.; A. went to the snake, left two rings for the bride, if they change places, he will die; first A. quietly entered P.'s mouth; he ordered to get queens Zer-y-ong and Komyong-pandi; the girl gave A. rice to throw to the dogs, meat - to the tigers, a bolt of cloth - to the demon Shang-tang-krbu, he will become a friend; leaving, A. sowed rice - if it dries up, he died; the demon could not swallow A., recognized A. as the lord; A. dropped a knife in a pond, asked the demon to drink water; came to Z., became her husband; there is no water, the demon drank it all; Z. showed where the knife was, the demon burped up water; Z. took an oath from her 7 demon brothers that they would not eat A.; the demons offer to hide; turn into trees, partridges, streams; Z. tells A. each time where they are (gives him a knife to chop down trees, etc.); A.'s demon friend defeats seven in single combat; they propose fights between cocks, goats, and horses; each time A. asks his heavenly parents to send animals (those who descended in the hailstones give birth to a cockerel, a goat, etc. together with him); A.'s animals win; also a wild bull and a peacock; A. destroys the army of demons; the peacock destroys the rest by releasing fire from under its tail; A. enters Z., one of her fangs reaching to the sky, the other to the earth , one breast hanging, the other thrown over the back; then she is beautiful again; the demon-friend swallows the snake, A. with the wives of Z. and Komiong returns to the brothers; allows the demon-friend to swallow the three younger ones; kills him, revives the youth Dediong-pono swallowed by him, gives him the princess Eu-ramit, leaves him to reign on earth, with three wives returns to heaven]: 406-420.

South Asia. Nepalese [a king learns that a well he has dug will only produce water if he sacrifices a man with 32 lucky marks on his body; only he, his son, and his daughter-in-law are such; the son learns of this, takes a wife, and gallops away; he goes hunting in the forest, chases a doe, which leads him to a cannibal's palace, he kills the doe, defeats the cannibal, and locks her in a cellar; he feeds his wife the meat of the doe, brings her to the palace; she opens the cellar; the cannibal advises her to pretend to be ill, and let her husband bring 1) a tigress's milk; the tiger cubs promise to help, ask their mother for milk for a day, and give it to the prince; 2) part of a monster's fang (to grind the fang into powder), which has one fang reaching to heaven and the other to the underworld ; the prince hides in its fur, stabs it with a sword; the monster agrees to go to the palace, hit the gate with its fang, a piece breaks off; the demon advises the woman to feed her hero-husband, adds poison; dying, the prince tells his wife not to eat his flesh, to throw her heart and liver into the river; the princess finds them; in a dream, the prince asks her to make a figure of him out of cow dung, to put his heart and liver into it; comes to life; takes the princess as his wife; kills the monster and his first wife; comes with his wife to his father; he says that when the unfaithful wife was killed, water appeared in the well]: Heunemann 1980, No. 8: 84-91; baiga : [a potter has 12 married sons-potters and the 13th youngest is single, sits at home; his brothers tell him to drag 12 carts of clay without harnessing animals; he does it; the brothers got scared and drove him away; he meets and takes as companions 1) a baiga who ploughed with a tiger, 2) a lohar who bent hot iron with his bare hands, 3) an akhira who twisted a rope from dust, 4) a teli who squeezed out 12 measures of oil with his hands; the potter's son (SG) tells everyone that he has never seen such a strong (dexterous) person, and they answer that the real strongman (dexterous) is SG; the friends hunt and cook in turns; when it is the teli's turn, a rakshasa comes in the form of a boy, eats all the rice and beats the cook; turning into a monster with one tooth in the sky and another in the underworld , beats Ahir, Lohar, Baiga who came to help, but SG killed him; the rakshasa has 5 beautiful daughters, SG married one, and his companions could also sleep with her; but she liked only Baiga; then SG gave each of them a wife; Baiga and his wife remained to live in that place, and Dharti Mata gave them everything they needed; the wife washed her hair, some hair floated away, the son of the Gond raja picked them up; the raja sent Malin, she introduced herself as the sister of the young woman's mother; asked what her husband's life was; in an arrow; M. burned the arrow; Baiga rushed home, managed to kick his wife in the chest, a mark remained; Baiga died; the woman was dragged to the king of the Gonds, but four friends came out to meet them, killed M. and the servants, returned the woman, found a piece of an unburned arrow, the lohar revived the baiga and they all lived under the protection of Dharti Mata]: Elwin 1939: 489-491.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [an old man and an old woman three times want to slaughter their mare, which foals three times a day; each time the dog burns the towline, the mare breaks free; runs away completely; finds and nurses three newborn boys; flies away in a cloud, telling the youngest that his name is Kokode the Wise; the brothers go to look for wives; K. meets an old woman and a girl, she gives him three flatbreads; K. gives them to the dog of a 15-headed Musa, the dog caresses him, he kills the Musa; the same episode with the 25- and 35-headed Musas; one voice of the 35-headed one sounds in the sky, another on the earth, one fang furrows the sky, the other the earth ; K. kills three old women - the mothers of the Musas, takes the wife of each, gives the eldest to the brothers; they see the light emanating from the youngest, envy; leave braids at the threshold, K. cuts off legs; a blind and an armless man come to him; they kidnap the daughter of a celestial being, she keeps house for them; he goes into a house where an old woman with one eye on the back of her head asks to search in her head, gives ashes and coals, piercing her hem; follows the ashes to the house, sucks blood; friends follow, tell the old woman to heal everyone; she swallows everyone, burps healthy; K. does not burp, a sparrow tells her to cut her finger, it is there; K. came to the brothers disguised as a gypsy; they made his wife a shepherdess; K. tells the brothers to shoot into the air, arrows fall on them, kill them; daughters-in-law are tied to the tails of hundreds of horses; (about the fangs furrowing the earth and sky on p. 39)]: Dzhimbinov 1962: 31-45; Ossetians : Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [Black Aldar tells his son to get the daughter of the underground Hadji; giants ask to rid them of the Zaliag-snake; the horse teaches him to hit her mouth with an arrow; the giants give him their sister as a wife; the old woman guards the bridge, one fang is in the sky, the other underground, eagles build nests between the teeth; he defeats her, gets her daughter; gets her horse; the daughter of the underground Hadji is glad to the young man; her father gives him treasures; Karaych kidnaps her; he himself turns out to be a girl, takes his wealth, goes with the young man; Black Aldar envies his son, asks the crooked hunter to kill him; he feeds the young man salty food, takes his eyes in exchange for water; Black Aldar fights with his daughters-in-law, cannot defeat them; the old man returns the young man's sight, having brought ash leaves from Hadji; Hadji's daughter cut off Black Aldar's head with scissors; the crooked hunter was beaten, fed to the dogs]: 302-312; Byazirov 1971, No. 1 [the son of a sorceress from the Borata (SK) clan with the son of Malik (SK) go to woo the sister of the seven giants, send their arrows as matchmakers; giants and SK go hunting, tell sister and SK not to open the seventh door; SM threatens to leave, the bride opens, Uaig from Black Mountain (UCG) is freed, carries the girl away; SK goes to look for her; meets and takes as comrades the Drinker of the Sea (he shoots after UCG, tears off his leg), Sharp-Eyed, Carrying Mountains and Valleys on His Back, each one says in response that it is not he who is amazing, but SK and SM; UCG goes underground; only SK was able to move the stone, descend on a rope through the flames; sends the girl up, comrades remove the rope, fill the exit with a stone ; SK tells the old woman, who has one fang touching the sky, the other resting on the ground, to tell how to kill UCG (burn, it burns), get out on top (grab the horn of the white ram); SK grabs the horn of the black one, it carries him even lower to the world of Donbettyr; there the dragon closed the water; swallows SK, it cuts him from the inside, refuses to be regurgitated, spat out, comes out through the side, the dragon dies; the king of the Donbettyrs sends SK to the black eagle; SK hears one of her daughters singing (the snake will eat her the day after tomorrow), another laughing (her tomorrow), the third crying (she will be eaten today); SK kills the snake; a downpour begins (the eagle's tears), the sun shines (the eagle sees that her daughters are alive), a whirlwind (flies); the eagle carries SK to the ground, he feeds her with the provisions that the Donbettyrs gave; they are not enough, SK cuts off the meat from the thighs; the eagle puts it back; the swineherd says that three men brought the sister of seven giants, the king took her away, marries her; SK changes clothes with the swineherd, the eldest princess chooses him, noticing his golden curls under his hat; everyone tries SK's quiver and arrows; SK takes them, puts on golden clothes, destroys the guests with arrows, takes the wives for himself and SM]: 5-19; Dzagurov 1973, No. 31 [the strongman Dombay spun a fallen buffalo by the tail and threw it somewhere; his wife boasts about her husband; another woman: there are those stronger than him; D. goes off to look for the strongest; the giant sends to his brothers - he cannot fight without their permission; the middle one sends to the eldest, the eldest - to their mother; She had one fang touching the sky, the other going underground; D. rushed to suck her breast; the mother of the giants says that her sons were going to make shashlik out of D., tells them to run; the giant pulls 20 carts of salt, hid D. in the hollow of a tooth; tied up the pursuers with his hair when they ran up; D. asks why the old man is one-eyed; he said that there were 12 brothers, they went into a cave to spend the night, it turned out to be a skull; the dog grabbed the skull, ran to the house; the girl came out, kicked the skull; the brothers died, the narrator lost an eye; D. no longer boasted of his strength], 45 [see motive K38; the hero's companions pulled the woman up, dropped the rope when the hero began to climb; in the corner of the house he sees the mother of the uaig (cannibal giant), one of her fangs is higher than the sky, the other is in the underworld; she tells him to grab the ram's right horn, he accidentally grabs the left one, does not rise to the ground, but falls into the seventh lower world], 107 [(episode in a long text; the beauty is guarded a woman with one fang going into the sky and the other underground )]: 76-79, 162-177, 463-468; Georgians : Kurdovanidze 1988, #32 [an offended old woman tells the prince to fall in love with the sister of nine devas; his peer, the old woman's son (SS), goes with him; the mother of the devas asks him to lift the millstone, wants to crush SS, he himself, as if by accident, knocks out her teeth with the millstone; one of her fangs is stuck in the underworld, the other rests on the sky ; the devas give the sister to the prince; he takes the key from her, finds the locked Kremneva; he grabs the prince's wife, flies away; SS takes as companions a priest who carries a church, a water drinker (drinks a river), a listener (listens to the war of ants), a sharp-eyed one (the year watches the flight of an arrow), one who tears down mountains, runs with a millstone on his feet; they find the Flint-dev, lower the SS underground to him; the kidnapped one learns where he keeps his soul (a deer, a roe deer, a hare, a casket, three chicks); SS kills the dev, frees the horses and women, the devs feast at the wedding, the prince ascends to the throne]: 83-94; Chikovani 1986 [p. 111: an old woman sits on the roof of a house, one tooth goes to the sky, the other rests on the ground ]: 105-111.