A22B. Hot fire and cold coals. 52.61.62.
The sun and its satellite burn down. The satellite burns at a less hot fire (rushes into ash, etc.); therefore, the Moon (or Star) is cold. See motive A22.
Mesoamerica Aztecs; otomi; Totonaki; 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 returned in the footsteps; the same second time; on the third, the father hung two empty calebasses on a branch; in the wind they were knocking on each other and the children thought that the father was cutting wood nearby; realizing that the father had left, the boy I 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 to 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 will go up to the sky will become gods; the boy swallows, becomes the Sun; his sister swallows the cooled coals with ash, becomes the Moon; the girl's dog is left on earth, it is a coyote; the devil tried to hold the girl grabbed the ribbon, 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.
Western Amazon. Maihuna.
NW Amazon. Yagua.