A36A. The sun and immortality .11.13.21.26.48.70.72.

The sun is opposed to humans as immortal to mortals; it is responsible for the mortal nature of humans.

Chokwe, dengeze, teke, kete, luba, luba kasai, bena-lulua, bena-koshi, bena-matembo, songe, acholi, malgashi, aka, miji, lisu, nisenan, ramkokamekra, chamakoko.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Chokwe: Abrahamsson 1951:51 [Kalunga sent a son to the Sun, the Month, the Stars, Savannah, the Forest, and man to give him a goat; everyone gave him, but the man was indignant that he received nothing in return, killed K.'s son; to find the murderer, K. told everyone to climb into the hole; the innocent will come out, the culprit will remain in it; everyone went out, but the man and dog remained in the hole, now dying], 52 [Frobenius; Kalunga summoned the Snake, the Elephant, the Man, the Sun, the Moon; the Snake, the Elephant asked for a hand (and legs); after learning that the snake was already biting passers-by and the elephant was crushing bananas, K. refused them; the man stole oil; K. made them all mortals; he was satisfied with the Sun and Moon, they do not die]; Baumann in Anpetkova-Sharova 1975 [Nzambi-Kalunga created the Sun, Moon and man; sent Congo's son to visit them; Sun, The moon received him well, the man killed and ate it; for this, NC made people mortal]: 278-279; retelling in Abrahamsson 1951 [the image of the Congo as the son of God or the first man in Zaire and Angola could influence Portuguese missionaries]: 51-52; denghese [Nzakomba has three children-the Sun, the Moon, the man; N. died, called the children to him; Brother Sun and Sister Moon immediately appeared, and the man lingered sorting out animal spores; N. told the first two to live forever and humans to die; animals became wild]: Abrahamsson 1951:14; teke [God allowed the Sun, Month, and man to enter his house in the village, but do not look at women, take cassava (two mouthfuls) in your mouth no more than twice, drink no more than two sips of water; then told them to go down into the hole; the Sun, the Month, demonstrated that they obeyed God, for they ascended in the east and west; the man disobeyed and stayed in the pit (=grave)]: Andersson in Abrahamsson 1951:49; keta [Fidi Mukullu ordered the Sun, the Month, to bring wine to Man, told him not to drink; He ordered everyone to climb into a hole; the Sun rose a day later, a month later, a man died because he drank wine]: Abrahamsson 1951:52-53; Luba: Abrahamsson 1951:39 [Mvidi Mukulu created a man with a woman, the sun, the moon; another invited him to check whether the creations were obedient, to try to give them forbidden bananas; the Sun and the Moon were asleep, but the dog guard drove away those who came; the dog guarding people slept; people were given bananas, they ate; MM made them mortal, told them to work, and the Sun and Moon sent them to heaven; every month the Moon dies for three days but then revives (=Baumann 1936:281)], 49 [God created the Sun, the Month, a man and a woman; planted two bananas, did not order the fruits to be picked; people picked; God killed, buried the Sun, it rose in the morning, God understood that the Sun was not to blame; the same with the Month (ascended on third day); a man killed and buried did not rise], 50 [Frobenius; on the border with Songe, Ben; Fidi Mukullu called on the Sun, Month, Pleiades, man, tells everyone to bring palm wine, forbidding it to drink it ; everyone is buried - if he did not drink, he will come to life; the Sun rises the next day, the Month in a month, the Pleiades in a year; the person is dead forever]; luba (shaba?) [God created the Sun, Moon, Man; made palm wine, left, forbidding it to drink on pain of death; all three drank with their children, their children died, they began to cry; Man lied that cries just like that, and the Sun and Moon confessed to what they did; their children came to life, the child of the Sun rose in the east, the Moon in the west; Man's child did not come to life, people became mortal]: Theuws 1954:69-72 in Studstill 1984:125; luba-kasai [during the dry season, God created Kongolo ka Mukanda ("spiral of law") with a human head, body parts of various animals; then created man and woman, animals; more There used to be God's messenger Maweja and three other spirits; two of them persuaded a man and a woman to eat plants forbidden by God; KM met a woman in front of a man, then told her to copulate man (var.: KM has a hermaphrodite, copulated with both); God told the Sun, the Month, Man, the Man's Star to bring palm wine; sedated them; the Sun woke up the next day, a month later; The man and his Star had to be woken up; they violated the ban not to drink palm wine, became mortal; M. rebelled against God, other spirits, led by his son Tschame and Longbeard, drove God's orders the rebels were driven out of the sky like game; in the west, the four Orion stars forming a quadrangle - the four great spirits of the summer sky; the three stars of the Orion Belt - a dog (Long-bearded), a hunter (son of the spirit Tshame), game (M.); M. and other spirits fell towards the Pleiades ("lightning farmer"); M. - in the lower world in the west; God turned KM into the main swamp serpent, his breath was a rainbow]: Fourche, Morlighem 1973:105-127 at Studstill 1984:127-128; bena lulua [God tells the Sun, the Month, to carry palm wine to Calebas from east to west, forbid drinking; the Sun carried in a day, Month after a little longer, the man persuaded by the dog drank; God made the Sun and the Month eternal, and the man mortal, drove the dog away, the man no longer drank beer]: Abrahamsson 1951:50; bena -koshi [Fidi Mukullu sent the Sun, the Month, a man to bring palm wine, forbid drinking on the way; the man drank; FM dug three holes, told everyone to go down into them; the Sun had to go out through day, month after two, man six; Sun and Month are out, man rotted]: Abrahamsson 1951:51; bena-matembo and songe [Fidi Mukullu told the Sun, Moon, Man to bring bananas, I forbid eating them; I tested everyone by telling them to climb into a hole; the Sun rose every other day, the Moon in a month, Man did not rise because he ate bananas; became mortal]: Abrahamsson 1951:52.

Sudan-East Africa. Acholi [God called the Sun, Month, Stars, and Man to taste the plant of life and gain immortality; when everyone came, God was told that man was halfway and was in no hurry; God in He gave everything to the luminaries to anger, but he made man mortal]: Grove in Boccassino 1938:92 (retelling in Abrahamsson 1951:18, in Scheub 2000:85); malgashi [divine couple Zanaharindahy and Zanaharimbavy created heaven and earth; made the Sun the ruler of heaven and the first human couple rulers of the earth; asked who prefers what type of death; people wanted to be like a banana, and the Sun like the moon]: Abrahamsson 1951:121.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Aka (chrusso) [there were two suns (husband and wife) and two moons (also husband and wife); the Sun's wife became the mistress of Moon's husband, they went down to earth to make love; everything around began to burn, people killed them with arrows; the corpse of the Sun's wife remained on earth, and the Moon's husband managed to rise to heaven, died in the arms of the moon; the Sun warned that if the Moon threw her husband's corpse to the ground, humans and animals would also become to die; told people not to answer if Sister Moon called them, but to answer if he called, the Sun; the Moon came out carrying her husband's body and cried; everyone slept, but the Barking Deer and Peacock did not sleep, they also began to cry, the Moon threw her husband's body on the ground; the Rooster heard, called the Sun, he came out, said he could not help now]: Elwin 1958a, No. 7:288-290; miji (Dhammai) [at first people did not die, but the children of the Sun and the Month died every time; the Sunwoman asked the Month-old man to cover his face more and more every day, and she would cry like he was dying; on earth, a man wrapped the dog in a shroud, became cry like someone was dead; the Sun sent a bird, a chicken, a pig, a bee, but only a hornet pierced the shroud and found out that there was a dog under it; when another child of the Sun died, it threw his body to the ground It became the carcass of a deer; people ate it and became mortal]: Elwin 1958a, No. 3:284-285.

China - Korea. Lisa [Asu's husband is ill, almost paralyzed; to prevent him from being killed by tax collectors, Asu takes him to the mountains, leaving him food; he has run out of food; he sees a snake reaching for him, killed it; another snake revived the first one with leaf juice; the man rubbed himself with this juice, recovered; found his wife sick, cured her too; becomes a famous healer; forbids his wife to open the chest with leaves; she opened, rays the suns fell on the leaves, ate half, so the sun is immortal; the moon stole the other half in the evening; the husband made a ladder out of hemp, climbed to the moon; told Asa to wet the end of the stairs with water; almost climbed, his dog had already jumped on the moon; Asu forgot to pour cold water on the stairs at noon, poured cold water in the evening, not warm water; she broke off, her husband fell and crashed; the dog remained on the moon when it gnawed at it, there are eclipses]: Bystrov et al. 1962:226-231.

(Wed. Baltoscandia. Lithuanians (Samogites) [God gave posts to all angels, and two were left idle; there was no death or sleep; these two angels quarreled people with the Month and the Sun; people began to shout to the Month that he mortal, and they are immortal, and to the Sun that it cannot shine around the clock; the Sun, the Month, and the angels themselves complained to God; he told one angel to bring people death and another to sleep; diseases are messengers of death]: Veckenstedt 1883, No. 55.3:242-243).

California. Nisenan [The Lizard, the Month and the Sun want the dead to be reborn in 4 days; the Coyote wants people to perform funeral ceremonies; someone has broken off a branch, it has become a rattlesnake, bitten by Coyote's daughter, she died; Coyote asked for a change of mind, Sun and Month refused; rose to heaven; The month revives in 4 days, but people did not due to Coyote's fault]: Voegelin 1942:236.

Eastern Brazil. Crocker MS; The sun ate the fruits of the buriti palm (Maurutua flexuosa), its bowel movements turned red; the sun said that the flowers were eaten by the pau d'arco tree (Tabebuia inpetiginosa, ant tree); The month ate them, but its bowel movements contain whole flowers; in the end, the Sun admitted that it ate, but made the fruits of the ant tree that the Month ate unripe on one side; The month hit the tree, it has become high since then; the Sun and the Month are diving, pulling girls and boys out of the water; the people of the Month are ugly, the Sun is beautiful; the Sun has thrown a stick of wood into the water Mauritian palm tree; said that let the dead revive like a stick that pops up; the Month threw a stone, said they should die like a drowned stone; the Sun told axes and machetes to work by themselves; the Month heard sounds, began to look; the guns stopped and no longer worked on their own; the Sun asked the Woodpecker to throw off his shining fiery headdress; threw it from hand to hand until he cooled down; put it on his head; The Month wanted the same dress, dropped it, the ground caught fire; the Sun hid in a wasp house made of clay, and the Month in a hollow made of straw; then in a hollow, in a battleship's hole; a little bit did not burn; left without a hat; The sun found two capybaras who died in the fire, the Month chose a fat male, but when brought home, the Sun spat, the female was fat; they changed again, but The sun spat again; poured hot fat on the belly of the sleeping Month, said it was by accident; sent it to cool into the river, told him not to touch the turtle at the bottom; He touched the month, the stream carried it away, he hardly clung to tree; the Sun and the Month agreed that when their children (i.e. people) die, they should be buried; the Sun killed the Month, put it at the foot of the tree; the Month came to life, the Sun said that it would be the same with people; Month killed the Sun, buried them in the grave; the Sun got out, but with difficulty; The Month said that the dead should be buried in the ground so that the Earth could eat and satiate them; the Sun agreed; both rose to heaven, leaving people with axes and machete]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 1:17-30

Chaco. Chamacoko [the sun of Deich teaches his younger brother (var.: nephew) of Pyne to hunt nanda so that he can then teach people; after eating the wild fruits and flowers that nandu feeds on, he himself became one of them; explains to the incredulous Nandu that they are larger in size because he knows where the food is; when he runs away, he spews out gases and digested food - the same as Nandu's; nandu ate, fell asleep , D. twisted their necks; P. repeats the trick, but eats people's food before that; he was recognized, torn, trampled to death; D. revives him; looking into the eyes of a wild dog, turns it into a domestic dog, hunts with him; P. rushes to pick up the Nandu killed by the dog ahead of time, the dog kills him; D. teaches people to hunt himself; goes with P. to the ends of the earth, P. gets tired, D. gives him a white horse; they agree to walk across the sky in different times; occur during eclipses, when D. corrects P.'s mistakes, teaches him to walk from east to west, and not from north to south; P. proposes to make people mortal so that the earth does not overflow; D. throws a fruit on the ground; P. says that the fruit will leave seeds, life will return; then D. throws a stone, it falls into the pond and sinks; so people are mortal, as the first shaman once wanted]: Escobar 2006:223-225 .