A12G. Revenge for a month for denouncing. 21.23.28.34.
The character tries to overshadow the month for talking about his crime.
Tibetans, Ancient India, Russians (Arkhangelsk), Tuvans, Mongols.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [Urjan-Rembuchi made himself a drink, Zadu-Rahi {with an emphasis on "i"} urinated there; W. drank and fell ill, chased W.; asked in the sun and the month; the sun only with his lips showed the direction, and the month spoke in words; W. threw his daughter into pieces in a month; after that, the sun and moon did not rise; W. made the month whole again and the stars rose; for giving it away, Ts. -r. devours and spews stars]: Potanin 1893, No. 83:316.
South Asia. Ancient India (Mahabharata, Puranas, Ramayana) [when, as a result of the smelling of the sea, a vessel with the drink of immortality Amrita appeared, the asuras were ready to take possession of it; Vishnu became beautiful, distracted their attention, the gods seized Amrita; the dragon Rahu took the image of God, secretly approached Amrita and venerated the bowl; the Sun and the Month recognized and exposed him; Vishnu cut off Rahu's head; Amrita had time to reach Rahu's throat, her head remains immortal, has ascended to heaven and, hating the Sun and the Month, is always trying to swallow them; the tail sometimes appears in the sky in the form of a comet]: Erman, Temkin 1975, No. 12: 33 (=Temkin, Erman 1982, No. 24:65-66; Elwin 1949:68.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [Zeitlin 1912; when Cain killed Abel, he saw it for a month and told the sun; when he learned that his crime had been solved in a month, K. smeared the month with resin, climbing from with a bucket and a helmet; during this month he pulled him towards him and he can be seen there; previously the month was as bright as the sun; after that, the sun became friends with the month and began to walk separately]: Saint 1913:22 (short retelling in Belova 2004a: 126).
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [Burgan-Bakshy created living water to make everyone immortal; Ara-Hoo secretly swallowed it; BB asked Shulba which direction AH went, he pointed to heaven; BB asked the Sun , it pointed to the moon; asked the Moon, she said: Here he comes; TT cut AH with a sacred rod; the lower part fell to the ground, the upper part slipped away; the water that had leaked out of the body fell on the cedar, spruce, juniper Turkestan and Siberian, fir, pine; for giving it away from the Sun and Moon, AH swallowed them, but they came out of its empty body; this is how eclipses occur]: Alekseev et al. 2010, No. 7:49; Mongols [asura took the rasāyana drink; Hormusta sent the sun god to get it, who, turning into a girl, fulfilled the task; asura sent his lord Rāhu to return rasāyana; he reached deva regions, took the form of the moon god and sat down with the others; he was exposed and cut; because Rāhu drank rasāyana, he got up alive and said prophetic wishes: "Since you deceived rasāyana, may I swallow you, sun god, at the time when you connect the orbital nodes on the thirtieth! As a reward for recognizing me, you, the god of the moon, pointed me out and forced me to cut me, and I will grab and devour you on the fifteenth, during the full moon! to how you deceived him, he had already drunk before"]: Vladimirtsov 2003, No. IV ("The Mongolian collection of short stories from Paňcatantra" (MS. Burd) is a manuscript written in literary Khalkha Mongolian a language with Western Khalkhas dialectisms and acquired by A.V. Burdukov in North-Western Mongolia; the text seems to go back to the Tibetan original, which was a revision of one of the versions Panchatantras]: 178-181.