L90D. Lips nailed to heaven and earth. .33.34.

The hero attaches the monster's upper lip (jaw) to the sky and the lower lip to the ground.

Salars, Southern Altaians, Oirats.

Turkestan. Salary (Ujirem, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [an old man had two wives but no children; he went to heaven to ask for a child; there were three boys in heaven, the youngest was given to the old man; the old man returned home; in the morning a golden eagle flew in; it dipped one wing in milk, hit the old man and the older wife with it; hit the younger wife with the other wing; she became pregnant; the older wife took her to the mountains; the younger gave birth to a boy there, began to live in a cave; Mungyskarjah said that he would eat her son; the boy told his mother to wash him and put him on a plate; then he turned into a frog; the mother said to M.: "Don't chew [it], I'll put it in your mouth. The frog is tiny, [you] swallow [it] whole"; as soon as M. swallowed the frog, it turned into a man; he suspended M.’s upper jaw (lit. mouth) to the sky, and attached the lower jaw (lit. mouth) to the ground; that’s how he killed him]: Tenishev 1964, No. 11: 26-27.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Southern Altaians (west of the baptized Altaian in the village of Ongudai in the Ursul River valley) [Altai-buchi went to war with Demichi-tere; his wife Edil-Djebil and sister Edil-Kodjil wrote a letter with a duck to Aranai-Charanai, the son of Elden-Chaldan, that they would be better off without Ab; they gave Ab wine with the sweat of a worker and a horse; Ab fell into a pit; ACh ordered Ab's six-horse horse to be tied up and his thumbs to be cut off; they also entangled and took away three more horses, two dogs, and two golden eagles of Ab, but Demichi-djeren's horse (DD) deceitfully freed them, becoming a sparrow, and took Ab's thumbs away; Ab's wife gave birth to Kan-Sorysh, DD, becoming a sparrow, carried him away through the smoke hole of the yurt; the mother managed to cut off her son's leg, but DD stole the leg too; from the milky lake in the sky, where the birch is in bloom, he brought the girl Temene-ko, she revived everyone, put the cut off part back, and married KS; Ab tied his wife to the tails of nine horses; went underground to fight with Aranai-Charanai; caught a fish with a fishing rod baited with 6 bulls, there are no more of this fish; marries Kan-Dzhekpei's sister; goes to look for his missing son; a snake climbs into the nest of the Kan-Gerede bird, Ab kills it; the chick replies that when his mother arrives, there will be a little rain and wind; the bird sends Ab to Erlik to look for Altyn-Gerel; the wife gave needles (to stick in front of two camels, to have time to pass between them), a hundred eyes (to let two crows and two magpies peck), threads (to give to two maidens, so that they would not pull out tendons), coals (to give to charcoal burners, so that they would not burn themselves), iron (to blacksmiths, so that they would not unforge themselves); a woman, in front of her a kid and a foal, she stole them from a mare and a goat during their lifetime; for some spouses, nine sheepskins are not enough to hide, for others it is good under one; children who looked askance at their parents are hung on hooks by the eyes; the woman who killed a child is hanged by the navel; he who condemned people, but himself took liberties, the soles of his feet are nailed with iron; the woman has a man's bone, the man has a woman's bone, both took liberties; murderers boil in sulfur; Ab beats his wife E. with rods grown from his palms, she promises to help him; Ab made sure that the living head went to Kutai, the dead one to Yerlik; (etc.); Kan-Dzhekpei nailed the lower lip of Dzherzhenis-boko (boko - strongman) to the ground, the lower one to the sky ; Kan-Sorysh cut open his stomach from the inside and crawled out]: Potanin 1916, No. 59: 181-186; Oirats (Dyurbyuts) [an episode of a long story about the hero Mekele; he went for the bride, on the way there was a huge snake, its upper jaw resting on the sky, the lower one on the ground; it pulled M. into its mouth; he pinned her upper lip to the sky with a spear, pressed the lower lip to the ground with the blunt end , tied the horse to the spear, entered the mouth, cut a hole in the snake's back, tore the snake into pieces, from there two uluses emerged: the Khoshuts went north, the Olyuts to the south; a year later M. meets a camel whose upper lip hits the sky, the lower one hits the ground, from this thunder stones roll, larches fall; M. tamed the camel, led it to the poisonous sea]: Potanin 1883, No. 135: 471-474.