A22A. The hot Sun and its satellite .51.-.53.56.61.62.66.
Two characters burn; one becomes the current sun and the other becomes a less significant celestial object. See motive A22.
NW Mexico. Cora [the first ancestors gathered and fasted for five days; found the boy who was supposed to be the Sun; he was thrown into the fire; the next day it dawned; they asked each other what the name was Suns; they fasted but did not know the name; only one named Rabbit said it was Heat, the Sun; they chased him, he hid in a hole; they made a fire there and it burned; the bark is seen in part on the moon (teils ) rabbit, part of a coyote]: Preuβ 1912, No. 1:143.
Mesoamerica Aztecs; mountain and coastal Totonacs; Puebla Nahuatl; Mazatecs; tequistlatecs [the wife is dead, the new one tells her husband to get rid of his stepsons; the father took them to the forest, but they came back in the footsteps; the second time; the third time, the father hung two empty calabasses on a branch; in the wind they were knocking on each other and the children thought that the father was cutting wood nearby; when they realized that the father had left, the boy climbed a tree, saw smoke in the distance; there was a house, an old woman in it; she fed the children well, washed them, then scratched them to get the blood that she and her sons ate; once told the boy boil water; he realized that the old woman wanted to eat his sister, broke the pot with a stick, the old woman scalded and died; the children came to town; there is an annual test: whoever can swallow hot coals, those they will rise into the sky and become gods; the boy swallows, becomes the Sun; his sister swallows the cooled coals with ash, becomes the Moon; the girl's dog remains on earth, it is a coyote; the devil tried to hold the girl, grabbed by the ribbon, remained in his hand, became a coral snake, since then there have been these snakes; on a moonless night, the sun and the moon are together]: Carrasco 1960:109; kekchi, mopan.
Honduras-Panama. Sumu; guaimi.
Llanos. Sicuani.
Western Amazon. Sekoya; Maihuna.
NW Amazon. Yagua.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana.