A29. The sun and the demon compete over the hero.

.27.-.29.35.72.

A character connected to the upper world, and a character connected to the land or lower world, each strives to take possession of a person and draws him towards him. One or both opponents are women. The character of the upper world and/or the one over whom the struggle is being waged is associated with the stars - the sun, the moon, and Venus.

Hungarians, Moldovans, Ukrainians (Western?) , Ossetians, Abkhazians, Abazins, Ingush, (Bashkirs), Nenets, Eastern Khanty, Southern and Northern Selkups, Kets, Poppies. Cf. motives A29A, A29B.

The Balkans. Hungarians [a young man goes to search for a country where there is no death; he sees an eagle trying to break the branches of a tree; he turns into a man, says he will die when he can uproot a tree, it will take 600 years old; offers a daughter as a wife, but the young man says that he does not need long, but eternal life; the daughter of an eagle gives a box with her portrait, if you look, you will be transported to the right place; a bald man carries the earth basket, will die when she demolishes the mountain; his daughter gives him a ring (if you wear it, you will be wherever you want); the daughter of the deceased king offers the young man a hand and a throne; in her room the floor is covered with needles, her family will die when everyone will step; gives a golden twig (it will turn into whatever you want); the young man walks along the river, beyond which the sky adjoins the ground; enters the hanging castle, stays with the queen, there is no death in the castle; after a thousand For years, a young man goes to visit his parents, the queen gives bottles of living and dead water; a young man revives a dead queen with needles (they all failed), an old man who demolished a mountain, tore out an eagle tree; where was the parents' home, the old woman sees it Death, rushes in pursuit; Death and the Queen of Life both claim to be a young man, the Queen of Life lets Death in; they agree that the Queen of Life will leave the young man to the sky behind the Morning Star's back; if he falls into the garden, he will stay with it, if behind the fence, with Death; he falls against the wall, but then into the garden, stays with the Queen]: Gidash 1953:24-32; Moldovans [ The prince breaks the old woman's jug with a stone, she tells him to go around the earth, enter the immortal kingdom, but there is no peace there either; the old man tells him to say hello to animals on the way, greet the snake, that he will let him into the castle; in the castle, another old man gives a ball, tells him to follow it; the acorn promises that the young man will die when the oak tree that grew out of this acorn decays; the same is a grape seed (he will drink wine while he is alive the grapes that will grow from it); the eagle asks not to shoot at it, cure it; the king of fish - push it into the water; the fox - save it from dogs; the mosquito - remove it from the web; the thread ends at the castle; the bride will be given if the young man hides; the eagle hides behind the clouds (the eldest finds the daughter), the fish in the sea (the middle one finds it), the fox among the flowers (the youngest picks the flower, puts it in the basket, does not recognize it); the king gives it away if the young man identifies among three (the mosquito sits on the youngest's nose); the king does not tell you to go out the gate through which the young man entered; he goes out, sees the thread of his ball, decides to go visit his parents; the vine has grown, the oak is huge, the dragon is old, the father's castle has fallen apart (many years have passed); the 300-year-old hermit says that once everyone died of the plague; the young man walks back, sees a mortar, Death comes out from under it; a young man runs away, the old man gives him a belt, the oak gives him an iron staff, the vine gives them to Death, let him come when he wears out, when the saber rusts; the time comes, the young man runs to his wife, she grabs his hand Death is by the leg; the wife turns it into a golden apple, throws it into the sky, it's the Evening Star); sisters also turn it into an apple, throw it - the Morning Star; Death turns the king and sisters into stone pillars]: Botezat 1981:27-37.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Western? from unpublished materials collected by the editorial staff of Osnova magazine) [a person decides to look for a country where there is no death; meets a wolf, who says that he will die when he cuts an oak tail; then to pannochki; they say that they will live until they break all the needles in the baskets; he comes to the Month, he replies that when the month in heaven gets old, he is old, and when he is young, he is young; a person lives with A month; Death comes, demands a person, the Month invites her to take a person by the legs, and she will take where he will fly by the head; the man flew up, became a star for about a month]: Afanasiev 1994 (3): 271-272.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [seven brothers went to mow, at which time their mother gave birth to a fanged girl; she immediately followed her mother to her brothers; the youngest saw that she ate half a horse, left; met a girl in tower, began to live with her; went to visit his family; the wife brings a comb, coal, whetstone with her; the sister greets her brother, gives a fandyr (string instrument), goes to sharpen her fangs; the mouse tells me to run through the back window, runs along the strings of the fandyr; sister comes back, swallows the mouse repeatedly, it jumps out from behind her; brother throws objects, they turn into bushes, forests, mountains; sister gnaws through the road; brother runs to the tower, his wife gives him a hand, his sister grabs from below; the women agree that each one should own it for two weeks; the young man has become a Month; when in his sister's hands, she gradually eats it, and the wife feeds again]: Miller 1882:297-299; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 1983:31-33 [the young man promises to marry someone who will sew him a full set of clothes in a day; the girl does not have enough time to sew on clasps; she asks God to bring the sun back a little; when the young go to bed after the wedding, someone calls the young man; he returns in the morning tired; sister, mother watch, cannot grab him, for he turns into a snake, a frog, a flame; the wife holds them; this young man is Amyz (month); his former wife Amra (the sun) says that the new one separated them, but she will not allow their marriage to come true; and takes him away every evening], 33-35 [the prince has three sons; he begged God for a daughter; he shot a wolf's finger, his daughter cries at home, he put a finger to her hand, she was a werewolf; sister chased his younger brother; woodpecker to him did not help, said that he should get food for the children, the young man made the rotten tree young and hard; the witch Arupap sent him along the road, he came to the moon, got married; went to look for parents and brothers, The moon gave a ring; everything is desolated at home, only her sister lives; she consistently eats the horse's legs, goes to the blacksmith to sharpen his teeth; the rat tells the young man to run; the woodpecker, A. sends the witch along the wrong path, but she again catches up; a young man throws a ring to his wife in heaven; dogs rush at a witch, a young man climbs his wife along the moon path; a witch tears his brother's leg to his knee; a one-legged man is visible on the moon]; Ochiauri, Surguladze 1980 [the sun Amra is a beautiful woman, her husband is Amza, haunted by his devil sister; after catching up, she begins to eat; at that moment Amza appears, pulls in his direction, sister in her direction; a dispute between the deity allows them: for 15 days he gives Amza to his sister, who during this period almost completely devours the moon, and for 15 days to Amra]: 604; Chursin 1956:149-150 [A. Joakimov, 1874, No. 54; the family has three brothers; a daughter was born; on the same day she took her younger brother to the cloud, but he cut off her finger and escaped; after getting married, the sister ate her husband; the younger brother came to visit; sister ate his horse's leg, the other, third, the whole horse; tied her brother in a leather wineskin, went to sharpen her teeth; the rats gnawed at his wineskin, his brother ran away; threw a handful of wheat (forest), salt (sea) behind; sister she snuck in, swam across, grabbed her brother at the house, and her brother's wife began to pull him towards her; they decided that the sister would eat Brother of the Month, and the wife would fatten him], 150 [N. Janashia; 7 rich brothers wanted a sister, she was born, cattle began to disappear; younger Amzu (Month) offers to kill her, others disagree; he leaves, marries Sun-Amra; comes to visit his brothers ; there was only one sister, his horse ate him, went to sharpen her teeth; brother ran, Amra was pulling towards him, sister to herself; God gave the Month for 15 days to the Sun Wife, and the devil's sister for the other 15 days], 150-151 [ Gudauta County; two single brothers, the third eldest is married; sees an invisible force carrying a ram from the sky every day; the middle one shoots, a bloody finger falls from the cloud; at home near the older brother's daughter's finger in the cradle is torn off; the brother put a finger on her, he has grown up; the brothers are gone, the youngest is the last; asks the woodpecker to detain the witch; he replies that he needs to get food; the brother hits the tree , it becomes young; Baba Yaga tells you to go straight, he comes to the Maiden Moon; lives with her; goes to look for brothers, the Moon gives a ring; at home niece (var.: sister); eats one, two, third, fourth the horse's leg, the whole horse; puts the young man in a wineskin, goes to sharpen his teeth; he runs away; woodpecker, Baba Yaga help; he throws a ring to the moon, dogs rush at the witch; she manages to tear off his leg; on the moon he can see a man with a leg torn off below the knee]; Abaza [a daughter is born after seven sons; the younger brother is not happy, he is driven away; the girl eats cattle and people, when the younger brother returns, he goes to sharpen teeth; the youngest woman gives a mirror, a comb, a thimble, tells him to learn the names of their dogs; the mouse tells him to run, all that remains is to pull the strings of the Pyartsa (a violin-like instrument) at him so that his sister thinks he is here; the sister devours the mouse, chases her brother; he throws objects, they turn into an ice field, a forest, an iron pole to the moon; he goes up to the moon, calls dogs, they eat the stalker, the head remains; during eclipses it tries to eat his brother on the moon; people shoot, wake up dogs to save the moon, dogs drive their heads away]: Tugov 1985, No. 36:91-93; Ingush [seven in the family sons; everyone wants a girl; apples disappear after the girl is born; the thief is wounded in the finger; everyone is checked, the girl's finger is injured, the mother asks her not to kill; then the younger brother leaves; returning after a lot years old, finds an empty village; the ant says that the girl ate everyone, tells her not to agree to eat, ask her to bring a sieve of water; the sister eats her brother's horse's legs one by one, each time asks how many legs did the horse have; the brother replies that three, two, one, that the horse crawled; that he came on foot without a horse; while the sister carries water, the ant tells me to take a comb, vitriol, coal; brother runs; comb turns into a forest, vitriol into a vitriol field, coal into a black mist; the brother asks the Month to save him; the Month picks him up, the witch manages to tear off one leg of the horse; The month and brother are now together]: Malsagov 1983, No. 138:297-299; (cf. Also, "Dungan Folk Tales and Traditions", No. 16 and commentary).

(Wed. Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [the elderly have three sons and a daughter, the youngest is a bald lazy man; cattle disappear at night; brothers take turns guarding, the elders fall asleep; Bald sees the fire falling down, shot, shot his finger; in the morning his sister has a bandaged hand; his parents do not believe him; he leaves, marries two princesses in different kingdoms; they advise him to visit his family; he comes to Kuk-Tulpara, leaves at a distance, rides a mare, everywhere is desolation; by the stove, the sister flew down the pipe, returned, asked if the brother came on a three-legged horse; then on a two-legged horse, one-legged, came on foot; the brother rushes away, Kuk-Tulpara rides, sister next, wives ready with sabers, hacked her down]: Barag 1989, No. 19:116-117).

Western Siberia. The Nenets [the man got angry, threw his assistant spirit (sit down) into the water; he chased him, on the verge of the plague grabbed his legs, his wife grabbed his hands, tore him in half; the back I ate part of the seat, threw my front wife on bed, she turned into a baby or half a man; his wife threw him into the sky, it became the Month, she became the Sun]: Sherbakova 1984:87 in Golovnev 1995: 303-304; Eastern Khanty: Kulemzin, Lukina 1977 (Vasyugano-Vakhov) [The month (iki - "old man") had two wives, the Sun (syunk) and an underground evil spirit; the wives quarreled, tore the husband is apart; the one where the heart is located was grabbed by the Sun, the rest went to the evil spirit, so there is also a moon underground]: 122; Lukina 1990, No. 5 (R.Vakh) [the daughter of an old man and an old woman swallows everyone; son asks the mother who she likes best; she replies that her daughter; the son put on a swan skin, came to the lake where the daughters of the Sun flew to swim; they took him to their place, he married one; cries, missing house; his wife gave him a comb and a pebble; at home, his sister plays with the skulls of her parents and neighbors; wanted to eat the horse's leg; brother rides away on horseback, throws a comb, a stone; they turn into a forest, into rock; sister and wife grab him, wife gets part without heart; wife heals her husband, he dies and then comes to life; this Month]: 65; Pelikh 1972:368 (Nizhne-Vartovsk) [The month decided to visit his parents; his wife The sun offers to take her horse, but the Month takes its toll; the Sun gives three stones; if left, they will turn into a mountain, a fire, a fallen forest; Seves (the giantess) has eaten the parents of the Month, chases him; he throws objects; S. catches up, eats him by his horse; The Sun and S. pull the Month in different directions, tear it apart; the Sun shakes it, periodically revives it], 369 [The month sleeps one night at the hell, the other at Suns; the devil promises to eat it when the foot stuck above the bed breaks off; it is cut short, the devil and the Sun are dragging for the Month, tearing; the heart and lungs go to the Sun; the Sun converges with the Month in full moon; tells him to walk in front of her, pave the way for her]; Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 6 (Tromoegan River) [a person comes first to one house, marries its mistress; then to another; to a third; goes see, there is nothing in place of the first huts; his first two wives chase him, he runs to the third; the pursuers tear off half of him, the third wife throws the other half up; he is the Month, the wife - Sun]: 16-17 (Lukina 1990, No. 6:66-67); Southern Selkups (b. Tym) [Cheli (sun) was about to marry Areth (month), but old woman Lo, who came out of the ground, challenged the choice; they got into a fight, tore the Month in half; C. got a heartless side, she made it out of it herself a husband; so the month shines dimly, disappears periodically; Lo also made a husband from her half, so there is light in the lower world]: Tuchkova 2004:305; Southern Selkups [Kandalduk had two wives - heavenly and underground suns (see A2D motif); he lived with them one by one, but the underground wanted to keep it for herself; began to pull his legs down, the heavenly one pulled his hands up, they tore him apart; the heavenly wife put the upper half in the cradle, began to rock; The month began to grow, grew into a full moon]: Pelikh 1998:42, 63; Northern Selkups: Prokofieva 1976 [The sun decided to take a husband; held out her hands and rays to the earthly man; Ylynta Kota (Lower Old Woman) also grabbed him, they tore him in half; the Sun got half without a soul; the Sun put various bright hearts into him birds, but it only came to life for a short time; the Sun threw it far from it; the Month appeared, with dark spots]: 107; Tuchkova 2004:126 and 241 [(zap. Varkovitskaya on Baikha); fleeing from the devil, the man jumped into heaven, reached the plague of the daughter of the Sun, married her; went down to earth, the devil chased him again, grabbed him; the daughter of the Sun grabbed her husband for the other half; the devil ate half with his heart, and the daughter of the Sun, putting her half shaky, began to rock; the day passed, the husband became half of the man; the wife told him to be the night sun, she herself became daytime], 126 [(zap. G.N. Prokofiev); the elder brother took the devil on a white horse to heaven, married there; went downstairs to visit his parents; his brother grabbed him, his wife grabbed him from the other side, the husband was torn; the wife got it half without a heart or liver; his wife gave him the heart and liver of the beast; the husband revived, but as the month fell, he turned into half a man again; his wife left him, told him to become the Month; hell said, that God will take a person with a soul up, and he will take half of the people down]; kety: {comm. Nikolaev 1985:45; most likely, the story about the sun and the month was borrowed by some groups of Kets from their predecessor inhabitants of the Lower Yenisei taiga and revised in their own way; that is why the Imbat The Kets do not know it, and the Syms have lost their original meaning; but it is kept by the Dibikovs, who are a mixed keto-Selkup group}; Alekseenko 1976:83 [written by P.N. Kamensky; The Sun and the Month were husband and wife; A month went down to earth to see how people live there; Kyns (Hosedam) chased him; he rose up to the Sun, where their plague stands; The Sun sent his wolf to help; Month I just had time to tear off the vice (plague cover) above the door, half went in; the Sun grabbed him by one half, then by the other; half of the Month remained with her heart; the Sun tried to make the Month a new heart made of coal did not work; then it told him to leave; the Sun is always ahead, and the Month is behind], 83-84 [written by K.M. Tyganov; The month was born on earth, his name was Bangdehyp' (son of the earth); H. tore him in half; The sun shook her husband, but did not revive him; during the day he was like a man, and only half at night; The sun told him to shine at least half at night]; Dulzon 1966, No. 47 [the old man does not tell his son to kill The seventh burbot is the devil's daughter; he killed; married the Sun; went to visit his parents; the devil ate them and his sister, put her skin on; cut off his horse's leg; he pulled this leg out of the fire, stuck it horse, reached the well of the Sun; the devil grabbed the horse by the leg; the young man dived into the well, the devil pulled it out, ate half where the heart is; the Sun revives him, but every time he dies again, becomes Month]: 113-115; Nikolaeva 2006 [brother and sister are orphans, brother wants to see the world; the Sunwoman raises him to the sky with her hands and rays; he wants to visit his sister, the Sun gives him a whetstone and a comb, sends on a winged horse; Hosyadam ate her sister, takes her form; she is outwardly friendly to her brother, but he sees her cooking his horse's back leg cut off; he snatches out his leg, hastily attaches the horse, jumps away; throws a whetstone, it turns into a mountain, X. gnaws at it with his teeth; the crest is the forest, H. makes its way; the Sun and X. grab a person by the different legs, tear it apart; the Sun is half without a heart; a person will live a week, die again; the Sun says they will see each other once a year on the longest day; throws a person into the dark half of the sky, this is the Month]: 123-126; Osharov 1936a: 111-115 [Senior and the middle brothers are shamans, the youngest is not; a myrak runs into their dugout, tells them to make a coffin; in the morning the eldest is dead, he was put in a coffin; the same with the middle one; the youngest does not die, the myrak fights him, falls into the coffin, the lid slams shut, two snakes wrap around the ends; the guy comes to the plague, there the girl tells her to step over her leg, takes her husband; the guy goes to the forest cheerful, returns crying, answers his wife that he was beaten bars in the eyes; the rods tell his wife that they did not beat him, and the husband cries for the dead brothers; the wife gives her husband a comb and flint, tells him to return to the ground; after 7 years he comes to his dugout; kicks the coffin with the myrak, he jumps out, he drops it back into the coffin, the lid closes again; the guy leaves, but hears the chase, throws the comb (thicket), the flint (cliff), the wife managed to grab his right hand, the myrak for the left side was torn, the right half was left without a heart in his wife's hands; by night she took him out as a whole man, by morning he was half again; she said that he would shine at night when she was sleep; this is how the Sun and the Month appeared; (Quail in Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:160-163)], 142-144 [the hero caught a colorful burbot, let his daughter eat, she gave birth to a daughter named Haaz-Ham, she at night grew up, ate people, became small with her mother in the morning; the hero's wife tells her son and daughter to be hidden in a hollow, fires an arrow, let the children put a plague where she falls; brother grows up; shackling an iron a horse comes to an old woman, she promises to send wolves to help her; a young man comes to the camp, looks into the plague, where XX asks the skull where his children are; asks what his brother should feed you, goes to sharpen you teeth; the young man rides an iron horse, the XX grabs it, but the old woman sends wolves, they tear off half, bring it to the old woman, the XX tears off the other; the old woman sends the wolves to take half of the young man to his sister, puts a trap, XX falls into him, dies; the sister nurses her brother, but as soon as she stops, half of him again; they go to heaven, she becomes the Sun, Brother Month]; Nikolaev 1985 [1) as in Osharov 1936a: 111-115; seven brothers; when he learns that a person cries when he sees brothers on earth, the Sun gives him a comb, a whetstone and a horse; when he catches up with a man, the devil tears off the horse's leg; 2) the Sun takes his brother to heaven, Hosyadam eats his sister; the boy misses his sister, the Sun gives him a comb, a whetstone, a horse; H. takes the form of a sister, treats his brother with the foot of his horse; he attaches the horse's leg, runs away; more about persecution and about two halves of a person]: 44; Sangi 1989 (Prokofieva's recording) [brother goes farther and farther from the plague where his sister lives; a sunwoman takes him to heaven; a week later he asks him let him go; she gives him a whetstone and a comb, sends him down on a winged horse; during this time, Hosyadam ate his sister, took her form; he realizes this when he sees that she is cooking a leg that she has ripped off his horse; he sticks his leg back, rides his horse away, throws a whetstone, a comb, they turn into a mountain, a forest; X. overcomes obstacles; the Sun grabs him by one leg, X. by another, torn in half ; The Sun gets a part without a heart, it puts coal instead of the heart, revives a person, but he dies again and again; it sends it to the other side of the sky, turns it into a Month, sees him once a year, they they see each other's eyes; The month is cold, because without a heart]: 142-144.

Chaco. Maca: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 84 [the wife does not like an ugly husband; he looks at the sky, wants a little star as his wife; when hunting, she injures a deer, he turns into a woman, she says she is the Star he wanted; in the form of a firefly, she hides in her husband's bag; opens to his relatives after her husband's younger sister tried to look into her bag (The star hurt her eyes with something, then cured); when the season for collecting algarrobo pods (Prosopis nigra) is over, the Star leads her husband to collect them, moistens his eyes with her urine, then he sees pods on the trees; same, Star leads other women to collect algarrobo beans, also wets their eyes; takes her husband to heaven to his Frost father; when he admits that her husband is sleeping with her, her father-in-law scratches his son-in-law's body with bones for application ritual scars, he dies of blood loss; father-in-law tells his daughter to step on his grave, gives a comb to comb his corpse, his son-in-law revives handsome; father-in-law warns that on earth the former wife will become pull a person towards him, but the spouses still return to earth; the former wife's sister sees that the man has become handsome; the star and the man's ex-wife pull him in different directions, tear him in half; The star revives him by stepping on it; the next night, the same thing, the torn one cannot be revived again; the star returns to heaven, telling her husband's relatives to stock up firewood; the rest of the inhabitants of the village of Moroz kills with cold; the Sun visits Frost, he gives him fish; he visits the Sun himself, he gives him an Algarrobe bean], 85 [the wife leaves her ugly husband; he looks at the sky at night, wants the Morning Star as his wife Foteki; when hunting, she wounds a deer, who turns into a woman, she says he is F.; becomes a firefly, tells a man to hide it in his bag; his mother hears at night that her son is a woman; youngest the sister tries to look into the bag, a needle falls out, stabs it in the eye; F. heals her eye, remains human; she smears her husband, mother-in-law's eyes with urine, who now see fruits on the tree that they have not seen before; takes her husband to heaven to visit his father-in-law; it's cold there; F.'s father is also a star; for a long time F. replies to him that her husband did not copulate with her; finally he confesses; he calls his son-in-law, pierces him with sharp bones, the son-in-law dies of blood loss; after a while, the father-in-law tells his daughter to step on the grave, the husband gets up; the wife combs the half-decomposed corpse, it comes to life, becomes handsome; the father-in-law goes to visit Sun man; son-in-law misses earth; father-in-law tells daughter that she will be able to revive her husband one more time in the same way as she has already done; spouses return to earth; the former wife sees that he became handsome; comes for him with his sisters; F. and his former wife pull him in different directions, tear him in half; F. revives him; the next night is the same, F. cannot revive her husband again; returning to heaven, she tells her husband's family to stock up on firewood, for her father will send cold as punishment; father-in-law kills the rest of the village with cold]: 179-186, 187-191.