Then he went with his father Qinggi, they say.

As soon as Qinggi landed at his town,

he gave a feast.

He tried to make the one we speak of eat.

But he would not accept a morsel.

Qinggi gave a feast again the next day.

to make his child eat.

Again he would eat nothing.

Two greedyguts arrived,

and someone grabbed a storage chest of cranberries.

One of the two greedyguts opened up his maw.

They poured in the whole boxful.

They poured one down the other's throat as well.

Next day, his father gave another feast.

The greedyguts arrived.

Again they poured entire storage chests

of cranberries into their mouths.

The one we are speaking of ran to the edge of town.

As he was walking there,

cranberries bubbled up out of the swampland.

He plugged the vent with moss.

When another vent formed, he plugged it too.

Then he went back to the house

and asked the greedyguts closest to the door,

'Tell me, how do you manage to eat so much?'

'Sir, don't ask that.

Do you think this is a happy way to be?'

'No, but tell me.

If you will eat

at every feast my father gives.

If you don't agree to tell me,

I will plug you up for good'.

'Alright, sir, sit beside me.

I will tell you what to do.

In the morning, take a bath and then lie down.

Rub yourself raw where you feel it most deeply.

By the following day, a scab will form.

You must swallow the scab.

He followed these instructions.

Then, after sitting there awhile:

'Father, I'm hungry!'

His father gave a feast without delay.

Again the greedyguts arrived.

Again they upended boxes into their mouths.

He couldn't be filled.

He was famished.

Qinggi gave another feast.

Then he gave another and another, day after day.

At last, the one we speak of went outside.

When he kept picking cranberries out of their turds,

they saw who it was,

and they shut the door in his face.

Then he walked away, they say.

He went around behind his father's house.

'Father, let me come in!'

No answer.

They turned him away

The text above is part of the adventures of Raven ('the one we are speaking of') as told in Haida Gwaii according to 'Sharp as a Knife'. The two major openings (possible to plug) in animals and in other creatures are for input and for output:

 

... 'What's she like, Hine nui te Po?' asked Maui. 'Look over there', said Makea, pointing to the ice-cold mountains beneath the flaming clouds of sunset. 'What you see there is Hine nui, flashing where the sky meets the earth. Her body is like a woman's, but the pupils of her eyes are greenstone and her hair is kelp. Her mouth is that of a barracuda, and in the place where men enter her she has sharp teeth of obsidian and greenstone.' ...
 

Holes for entering and exiting are located in the far away east respectively in the far away west.