A19D. One carries the Sun, the other carries the Moon. (.30.50.52.)

Two characters carry stars across the sky - one carries the sun, the other carries a month.

Iran - Central Asia. Kafirs (prasun) [two stallions, Suva (Zolotoy) and Uru (Silver), grazed in the pastures of Mount Tirich-Mir; their owner was Aspavoga (Clear Sky); in the morning he released into the vault of heaven The golden stallion, loaded with the sun, and while the stallion was running through the sky, the sun sent rays to the ground; when the stallion reached Lake Sudzhum and leaned down to drink water, the sun slipped into the lake and darkness fell; then A. released the Silver Stallion, who was loaded with the moon; he ran across the sky, illuminating the earth with the light of the moon; Purdy's seven sons were caught The golden stallion and locked him in a barn; Silver thought it was night and galloped across the sky; the brothers caught him too; darkness fell to the ground; Gish, A.'s groom, broke the barn doors and drove the stallions to at the top of Tirich Mir; seven sons rushed after G., but the Golden Horse had already illuminated the whole earth, the gods woke up and Imra threw G.'s sword; G. hacked Purdy's seven sons and scattered their bodies across the sky]: Abayeva 1978: 111.

The Great Southwest. Navajo [The old man finds two boys in the spring; under his supervision, they make the sun and the month; one carries the sun on his back, the other a month; their name is Inner-Suns and Inward-Months]: Stephens 1930:104.

Mesoamerica The Aztecs (Borgia Codex) [a deer carries the sun, a rabbit carries the moon]: Seler 1963 in Burkhart 1986, fig.5; kekchi, mopan [a frog drags out the Sun's cart, a turtle's cart of the Moon]: Ulrich, Ulrich 1982:30.