A10. The sun finds its eyes. 52.61.

The sun gets its sparkling eyes (eyes) from the animal.

Mesoamerica The sun and moon kill a monstrous snake or eagle and take its sparkling eyes. Chatino [snake]: Bartolomé 1979, no. 2:25; 1984:12; Carrasco 1961:46; tricks [see motif A20; twin brothers live in an old woman's house, kill her deer husband; the snake is going to eat the world, the twins throw hot stones into her mouth; send a fly to check if the snake is dead; the fly defecates in her left eye; the younger brother takes a brighter right eye, the older one takes his left eye; the brothers go, the youngest is thirsty; the elder gets water as soon as the youngest agrees to change eyes; G. comes to the twins; they put her to sleep and rape her, putting stones on her penises; runs to heaven, the elder becomes the Sun, the youngest becomes the Month; he swallows the rabbit, which is now visible on it; the birds wake up G., it is covered in blood; throws after the twins the parts of his loom (turning into the Taurus constellation) and sandals (turning into the Pleiades); G. herself becomes the spirit of a steam bath]: Hollenbach 197:143; 1980, No. 8.26-8.37:463-468; Zapotecs [two orphans Sun Boy and Moon Girl live at Sus Ley (" an infertile woman"); they hunt, but she gives everything to her old husband Gol Gisa'; he lives in the forest, does nothing; St. Anton always helps children with advice; twins kill GG, let SL eat his heart under the guise of a deer's heart, stuff his scarecrow with stinging insects; when SL touches her husband, insects fly out; she and her brother Ros (a worm living in the mud) wants to burn the children in the steam bath; they run away, strangle SL with smoke in her house, pick up her loom parts, ring, jug, comb; Ros turns into a snake, chases twins; they throw the objects they take, they turn into different mountains; they throw hot stones down R.'s throat, he dies; the sister grabs the bright right, and the brother grabs R.'s left, dim eye; the sister is thirsty; brother makes a hole of water; offers in exchange for the rabbit's bright eye; lets his sister approach the water when she puts her eyes on the ground; God assigns the boy to become the sun, the girl to become the moon; when they have risen, everyone rebengulal ("los idolos", first ancestors) buried in the ground]: 281-283 (=1936:222, 324-327); mixteks [snakes]: Dyk 1959:15-16; chinantecs: Bartolomé 1984 [people hear sounds inside the tree; A comet, Thunder can't cut down, a woodpecker cuts a tree; two eggs inside; an old woman takes them; carries food to her deer husband every day; when she returns, the house is a mess; The Sun Boy and the Moon Girl rush hide inside eggs, the girl hesitates, the old woman catches them; hunting a bird: Why do you kill birds for someone who is not your mother? The sun revives dead birds, kills the Deer, the old woman's husband; fills the vessel with wasps, they buzz, he tells the old woman that this is her husband's voice; but Luna says he's gone fishing; the old woman is chasing children; they throw the comb, mountains appear several times on the way (the origin of the mountains); the twins cross the river; when the old woman is in the middle of the river, they throw bola de acuyo at her; she falls dead, turns into agouti; many animals emerge from her blood; twins shoot wind guns at interpreting rocks, they disperse; a seven- or double-headed eagle takes people to the rock; twins do the cage, the eagle carries them away; at noon he sleeps, one head is awake; the twins strangle it with a noose, at which time the earth shudders; the eagle's eyes fall out, the moon grabs the right bright, the Sun is dim on the left; The vulture is unable to lower the twins on its back, it will now eat carrion; the Bat is fed seeds, the excrement grows into a tree, twins and other people descend it to the ground; the Moon wants drink; agrees to change eyes with his brother if he creates a source (the origin of the springs); drinks without waiting for the brother to bring the Rabbit Priest to bless the water; he throws the rabbit to her in anger in the face, it sticks to her, is still visible; the Sun and Moon rise to the sky]: Bartolomé 1984 [The hummingbird advises the old woman to come back earlier; the twins punish him by making him small (he was with a chicken); the seven-headed eagle; first the Toucan, then the Bat, is fed seeds; the Toucan tree is low, the Bat tree grows to the top of the cliff]: 13-16; Weitlaner 1952 [the twins tell the Hummingbird to warn them about the arrival of an old woman; the third time he forgets; the double-headed eagle; the Bat is fed twice; the second time the root of a tree that grew at the top of the cliff descends to the ground]: 172; Masateki (ohitek) [ the old woman hears a voice from the hollow of a tree; cuts down a tree, finds two eggs; when she returns home, finds a pogrom; discovers the twins Sun and the Moon when the bird they left to guard falls asleep; the twins run away an old stalker is pushed into the river from the bridge; all forest animals emerge from her body; she hides in a cage from an eagle, which takes her to the rock; there are already many children there, the eagle devours them; the brother cuts off the children hair, weaves a rope, they strangle the eagle with it; his sparkling eyes have fallen out; the twins ask the Bat to eat fruit; a tree grows out of excrement; Woodpecker, Squirrel is unable, Agouti gnaws on the tree, it falls on a mountain; children descend it to the ground; sister finds right eye, brother finds left eye; sister thirsty (hereinafter referred to as Chinantecs)]: Portal 1986:51-54; Sierra de Zongolica [a giant serpent glowed faintly in the sky before the sun rose {The Milky Way?} ; the brothers took her sparkling eyes, the Sun took a brighter one, the Month was weaker]: Oropeza Escobar, p. 220 in Chinchilla Mazariegos 2011:84.

(Wed. Honduras - Panama. Bribri [intending to sacrifice the girl Iriria to make her land, Sibö sent a fly to call the vulture king, a famous singer and dancer; for this he gave the fly a green rainbow color; Vulture sang and danced, then asked for cocoa as a reward; for supernatural creatures, cocoa is human blood; S. offered him to drink chicha first, got him drunk, took him out keen dangerous eyes, replaced weaker ones made from the seeds of the slá tree; allowed him to eat the eyes and flesh of the dead as a reward for dancing]: Segundo Vargas 1997:58).

Western Amazon. The sun exchanges the fox's keen and sparkling eyes for its weak ones. Achuar [The Sun, the Moon, and the Fox bathe in the river, leaving their eyes on the shore; the Sun comes out first, takes the Fox's eyes away; now he has bright eyes, and the Fox had to take the ordinary ones that the Sun had ]: Mowitz 1978:17; Aguaruna: Akutz Nugkai et al. 1977 (1) [The Sun and the Fox change their eyes while swimming], No. 10, 11 [lends Fox's eyes to catch fish]: 233-238