A32L. Silhouette in the sun (.17.22.26.27.33.36.43.).
On the solar disk, we can see the silhouette of a particular character. Or the character got into the sun and stayed there.
Western Asia. Babylonia [picture on a Seleucid plaque from Uruk: image of a lunar disk showing a male Nabu character defeating a lion; there is also a text: "Tiamat is seen in the sun, Marduk visible on the moon"; the forest in Babylonia is functionally similar to Tiamat and by all the forces of chaos]: Beaulier 1999:92-94.
Burma - Indochina. The Viets [see motive A32; three brothers caught frogs; hear them say that animals will soon gather to judge a man; brothers let the frogs go, the elder goes to a meeting with the old one a frog, hides in a hollow; animals accuse each other of being guilty to man; only frogs man destroys innocently; the frog promises that there will be a flood; animals run away; the frog tells the brothers to make a raft; water floods the fire, the brothers want to fry the crab, swim to the Sun's house; the eldest fell in love with the daughter of the Sun, baked the crab to black; now visible in the sun with a black crab in hands]: Vietnamese tales 1992:174-182.
China - Korea. Ancient Chinese: Burial in Mawangdui, Prov. Hunan, Western Han, 168 BC, depicted on a painted silk banner placed face down on the lid of the inner coffin from Princess Dai's tomb [apparently cosmological diagram; at the top left is a moon sickle with a toad and a rabbit, at the top right is a tree (or rather a curly vine), among the leaves and flowers of which at the very top there is a large solar disk with the silhouette of a crow (with two paws) and below six more small ones]: Kryukov et al. 1983:257-259; Chekmarev 1998:147-148; Scott 1993:25; Yuan Ke 1987, ch. 6 [ten suns are children of Sihe, wife of the eastern heavenly deity Di-Jun. In the bubbling sea, a fusan tree grows several thousand zhans high and a thousand zhans thick; ten sun sons live on it; nine were on the upper branches, one on the lower branches (In the Book of Mountains and Seas - on the contrary); appear in the sky one by one; they ride a chariot ruled by S.; although there are ten suns, people always see one in the sky; ten suns, under the supervision of their mother, take turns every day; the way repeats from day to day, gets bored; sun sons agree to fly together, not wanting to get into a boring chariot; people are poor; before sending the arrow And to people (hollow mulberry gave birth to Yi Yin, pp. 216-217), Di-Jian gives him a bow and arrows; apparently, And he should only frighten the sun; And sympathizes with people, hits the sun with arrows, every time a three-legged golden crow falls to the ground ; wise Yao tells you to take one arrow out of Yi's quiver, one sun remains alive]: 139-148; Huainan Tzu, The Book of Mountains and Seas, Qu Yuan Questions to Heaven.
The Balkans. Bulgarians [childless Queen Domna asked the Sun for help, who brought her grass on the condition that if a girl is born, she gives it to him, and if a boy, she can keep it for herself; the girl who was born Marinka was beautiful; her mother did not allow her to leave the house; one day, while her mother was in church, M. went out with buckets to fetch water, the Sun saw her, lowered her cradle, raised her to heaven; in the morning and evening in the sun a cradle with M. is noticeable]: Marinov 2003 (northwestern Bulgaria): 28.
Turkestan. Yellow Uighurs [there is a monkey on the moon; there is also mangys; there is also a monkey in the sun]: Malov 1967, No. 50:35.
Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks (Ngokonnovsky) [a rich man oppressed a working girl; she went to get water, asked the Sun to pick her up; the Sun went down, took her away, she still lives there]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 54: 73-74.
The coast is the Plateau. Kurdalen [a woman goes out every day to dig rhizomes (probably hogfennel, Peucedanum palustre, marsh mustard); her mother looks after her son; he has grown up, asks about his father, grandmother replies that he did not have a father; he threatens to kill her with a stick, she admits that his father is a mustard rhizome; the young Chief Son-Root (UK) leaves, summons monstrous fish out of the water, pulls her throat out, turns it into a boat; the Pest boy asks to take it with him, jumps into a boat, SK turns it just into a pestle; sees a burning tree, comes up, there Grouse (Foolhen, Falcipennis canadensis) touches his burnt eyebrows; the UK tells him to peck raw moss, not build a house anymore or cook food on fire; and Grouse used to collect moss under his wing, set fire to a tree and throw himself into the fire; the rabbit jumped into the boat The UK killed him; the Otter (Fisher) demanded its prey, threatened to hit the tail, began to hit the water with its tail, spraying the UK; he killed her, threw her to the rabbit; comes to the house, there are many children, the hostess tells them that the father will soon return from hunting; the children see the Otter killed by the UK, he was their father; the UK revives him; enters the house with an awl on the walls; takes a large one with patterns, the awls dig into it; he sets fire to the house, says that Shilla will no longer be cannibals, but will become awls for making moccasins; the same in the house where the Combs are; where Bubbles (they will now store tobacco); Kingfisher dives but the fish slips out; he washes the smell of fish into the bucket, cooks soup, he likes it; he makes the Kingfisher claws and beak so that the fish is easy to grab; he must not live in the house, but by the river, eat raw fish; the same with Osprey; by the river, a man with one leg is a spear; SK turns into salmon, harpoons himself, breaks himself off, carries the tip; harpoons the fish with it; Ostronog sharpens his tibia again; SK comes to him, says he caught a salmon with a stuck tip; Ostroonog tries to cover his leg with a cape; SK offers to play hoop and stick on capes, wins, Ostronog is forced to give his own, SK hits him on the leg with a stick, makes it normal, gives a moose horn, tells him to make tips from a moose horn, not from his own bone; everyone goes out to meet SK; the ugly Toad causes it rains, comes into the house; the UK is forced to enter her; he speaks to her, naming different degrees of kinship, finally says "wife"; she jumps between his eyes; she can't take her off; Coyote says you have to choose Sun and Month; Robin is too hot, Coyote talks about everything he sees; SK says it will be the Month, will go far so that the Toad is not so visible on his face; Toadstool's son is one-eyed, becomes good With the sun, he does not see everything so clearly and is not so hot; when the sun is less bright, a one-eyed toadstool is visible]: Reichard 1947, No. 1:57-63.