A38. The sun in the trap, A728.

.11.12. (.14.) .18.19.20.23.40.-.46.48.65.

The sun falls into a snare, a trap, and is tied by a rope.

Congo [in ritual: Sun, Month caught in a noose], nkunda [trapped], bolia and nkunda [Sun-woman trapped in pegs and vines], pende [caught in trapped], luba [trapped], bena lulua [trapped], chokwe [trapped in a cage], dagomba [caught and hidden in a bag], jukun "and the whole Benue area" [woman catches, binds the Sun a ram], chamba [woman catches, binds Sun Ram], Kirri [man brought Sun Ram], (Algerian Arabs [camel moon]), Gazelle Peninsula [caught in a snare], bukavak [if the hunter needs to extend the day, he makes a grass loop to slow down the sun], Paparatawa [caught in a snare], San Cristobal [caught in a palm leaf snare], Orokaiva (New Guinea) [the magic of causing rain: make a cone out of a leaf a certain vine, point to the sun, turn], motu [so that the sun does not disappear, you have to make a loop, look through it at the sun, tighten it], kai (Melanesians of Morobe County) [to extend the day you have to tie the grass in a knot, say the name of the sun]; New Caledonia [trying to catch the moon in a snare], Fiji [knotted reeds to prevent the sun from setting], Easter Island [The sun is caught in a snare], oh- va Gilberta [Sun caught and bound by coconut leaf], Palau [Sun caught by the leg], Samoa [Sun caught in a snare], Maori (North and South Islands) [Sun trapped], moriori [caught in a snare], Mangareva [no details], Tuamotu [catches the Sun in a snare], Tahiti [Sun caught in a pubic hair loop], Cook Islands (Mangaia, Manihiki, Rakahanga), Australia Islands (incl. Rapa), Chatham, Hawaii [lasso covered in the Sun], Marquises [caught in a hair snare], bondo [Bull sun tied], buna [Sun caught with a rope], toda [The sun or its sled bull is chained], agaria [ The sun is caught by the net], Maria (Bison-Horn Maria) [The bull is tied], the igloolik [they make rope figures to prevent the sun from setting], the chipewayan [The sun is trapped], the doghrib [The sun is trapped], beaver [Sun trapped], bellacula [Sun caught in pubic hair snare], quarry [Sun trapped], menominee [Sun caught in pubic hair snare], winnebago [Sun caught in pubic hair snare] trap], Ojibwa [trapped in pubic hair snare], Western marsh crees [Sun caught in a snare], Eastern marsh crees [Sun trapped], Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [Sun trapped] , Eastern Cree [Sun Trapped], Steppe Cree [Sun Trapped], Steppe Ojibwa [Sun Trapped], Meti [Trapped Month, Sun], Atticamek [Snare Caught], Algonquins (Lake Grand Victoria) [Sun trapped], fox [Sun trapped], menominee [Sun caught in pubic hair snare], ojibwa [like menominee], nascapi [like menominee], montagnier [like menominee], sarsi [Sun caught in a tendon snare], blacklegs (piegan) [Sun trapped], assiniboine [Sun trapped], mandan [Sun caught in a snare], Omaha and ponka [Sun falling trapped], iowa [The sun falls into a trap], yurok [The sun is tied with a rope of tendons], pomo [caught in a snare], a screw [The sun is caught in a snare], Andahuaylas (dep. Apurimac) [The sun is caught by a net, chained].

Bantu-speaking Africa. Congo [nganga (sorcerer) catches the sun or moon by drawing on the ground (circle?) with chalk and red paint when the sun rises; when it reaches its zenith, the star is caught; if there is a halo around the moon, then the sorcerers have trapped in the sky]: Laman 1962:65; nkundu [hero Yanya comes to the serpent king Indombe; the serpent descends from the tree, puts its head on Yanya's shoulder, who immediately falls; regains strength by ringing his talisman bell; the sun sets; to prolong the day , Yanya weaves a snare, the Sun falls into him, everything around him is burning, Yanya comes to life again, ringing the bell; the snake wins martial arts thanks to the bell, calls to his father and grandfather; the snake says that Yanya must eat it at a time; he eats it but leaves his head; a new Indombe spirit emerges from it; disappears into the forest; (the fate of the sun is not particularly mentioned; Yanya on the trunk of a palm tree, taking her mother, sister and brother, climbs into heaven)]: Kotlyar 1973:283-286; bolia [Lonkundo dreams of his father Bokele, who teaches him to make a trap out of vines and pegs; women find an animal trapped; now it's the animal is forbidden to eat for women; L. dreams that the Sun has caught; goes to check the traps, in one woman shining like fire; she explains that she is the eldest in her family; came to meet a man, and when she returns, she is trapped; promises that her father will give L. a copper ring for her daughter's release; L. agrees to release her only if she becomes his wife; she agrees, her name is Ilankaka, her father Esombyankaka; I. is pregnant, eats only rats; L. brings them, some disappear, he blames the servants; one day he sees that his wife has a flat stomach; he and his wife see the head in the hearth; it was the son who came out of his womb to steal meat; {further unclear}]: Mamet 1960:123-127; cf. text that Kotlyar refers to nkunda, but is very similar to bolia's text: nkundu [Lonkundo's deceased father Bokele appeared in a dream, ordered watering hole traps (this is how people learned how to make traps and traps); in a dream, L. saw that the Sun was trapped; in the morning he found a girl shining like fire; this is Ilankaka, the eldest daughter of the Sun; for her a man got married, she followed him, and he disappeared because it was a spirit, she got lost, fell into the trap of L.; L. refused to take her to her father, married her]: Kotlyar 1973:242-244; =2009, No. 122:109; pende: Frobenius 1983:155 [a man put a snare on small animals; Kumbi Sun caught in a large trap; he said he was dead, but people would also die; one person survived, left this village away], 156 [the man set a trap to catch something (neither man nor beast) that steals flour from his wife's grain grater; caught the Sun; went to cut his snare, cut it, but died from the heat] (retelling both texts in Luomala 1940:44-45); luba: Frobenius 1983:153-154 [a man traps a thief stealing grain (gleanings) from his wife's grater; this is the Sun; people cut the trap, fell on earth from the heat when the Sun began to rise], 154 [Mupala set a trap; his son found a rat, a pig, then the Sun in him; M. went to kill the Sun, died] (retelling both texts in Luomala 1940:44); bena-lulua [Kadifuke made himself, lived on earth; Tshauke, Fidi Mukulu's daughter, went down to him, returned to heaven; K. rose to her in a column of smoke from the fire; FM promises to give her daughter if K. catches her Sun, Moon, Pleiades, Muntu (also a constellation), Orion, Behemoth, Elephant; The Bat gives K. an iron wire snare, K. catches the Sun and Moon, they have to pull them with all their might; then catches them, puts them in Pleiades bag, Muntu, Orion; catches Behemoth and Elephant with huge hooks; gets a wife, descends to earth with her; FM takes control of the sun]: Frobenius 1983:133-136 (retelling in Luomala 1940:44); chokwe [a man named Nakabamba put a cage on a tree, the Sun fell into it, the night was not over, people were still sleeping; people asked N. to slaughter the goat, offer it to the Sun; N. cut the snare; the Sun came up, women began to dry cassava]: Frobenius 1983:155.

West Africa. Jukun "and the whole Benue region" [in the evening, the sun fell on the women blowing the grain, one grabbed it, it turned out to be a lamb; the woman tied it in her house, the house was filled with light; in the morning the sun did not rise; the king ordered to find out if anyone was hiding something strange; the woman confessed, let the lamb go, he rose to heaven, the sun shone again; var.: moon instead of the sun]: Meek 1931:192; chamba [a woman caught a white lamb eating grain (gleanings) from her grain grater, said to her husband; night had come; the oracle said someone had caught a white lamb; the couple confessed, let the lamb go, the sun rose to the sky]: Frobenius 1925:38-39 in Luomala 1940:44; Kirri [the man found a white lamb, said to a friend; eternal night had come; the king began to ask if anything had happened unusual, a man's friend told him everything; the lamb was released, the sun rose again]: Luomala 1940:44 (Frobenius, Atlantis 5:70-71); dagomba [the man promised a cow to someone who would give him three unusual answers; he went into the house where his mother left her newborn; asked if anyone was in the house; the baby became a boy and said that he was late: the parents quarreled, their water mixed and he had hers shared; this is the first answer; the second: he cut the mixed fire of father and mother; third: he lingered because he connected the road that had broken in half; the man gave the cow to the boy; he took it to his grandfather to get calves from his grandfather's bull; when he came for offspring, the grandfather gave only half of the calves, and the worst; the rest were born by his bull; the boy pretended to agree and drove the calves home with his father; halfway back: father gives birth, came to get water; grandfather: men do not give birth; boy: bulls too; got all the calves; it turned out that the old cow killed his father to death; he began to cry, and at sunset asked the sun to wait to set so that he could finish mourning; but the sun went down; the moon agreed; in the moonlight, the boy buried his father, left the sacrificial meat on the covered mound; when He came in the morning, the sun was sitting there eating meat; he grabbed the sun and hid it in a leather bag; the world fell into darkness; the chief had a meeting; the elder wife advises to ask the boy too; he told everything; agreed to release the sun, but told me to close their eyes; those who peeked with one eye went blind in one eye, and those who peeked both went completely blind; so there is blindness]: Cardinall 1931:165-169.

(Wed. North Africa. The Arabs of Algeria (Tiaret Plateau, Tusnina) [the witch lowered the moon into her basin of water from the sky when it shone through the hole in her tent; this water became especially clear; once she let it down, the moon She looked like a camel; he refused to go back to heaven until the woman gave the road what she had; she agreed and found her baby dead in the morning]: Aceval 2005, No. 93:102-104.

Melanesia. Orokaiva [the magic of causing rain: make a cone out of a leaf of a particular vine, point it at the sun, roll it; if you want to stop raining, turn it around, open it to the sun and wind]: Williams 1928: 201 in Luomala 1964:219; bukavak [if the hunter needs to extend the day, he makes a grass loop to slow down the sun]: Lehner 1931b: 112; Gazelle Peninsula (New Britain) [man is angry at The sun because it was always shining, preventing him from climbing the breadtree for fruit; at night he put a noose on the tree, caught the Sun by the leg, killed him; he warned that his brother, another Sun, would come to avenge him; that's what happened; the man tried to hide in a hole, in the water, but the Sun killed him and all his relatives]: Meier 1909, No. 3:133-137 (retelling in Luomala 1940:39, in Hambruch 1921, no. 14:48-50) ; paparatava (New Britain): Kleintitschen 1924:65-66 [To Purgo chose to be the sun, To Kabinana for a month; a man placed a snare on a tree, caught a green parrot flying to peck for fruit, killed, it turned out to be the TP sun, who chased a man trying to hide in a hole, in the water, burned him; TC got angry at TP for this murder, forced him to change roles], 66-68 [at night a man caught in cockatoo snare, killed, put in a basket; cockatoo was the sun To Purgo, burned a man], 68-69 [a man always sat under a breadtree, basking in the sun; once he caught a bird in a snare there, wondering why the sun stopped warming; the bird was the sun To Mora, burned a man], 69 (note 1) [same but the cockatoo sun - To Kabinana; flew from tree to sky, burned a man] in Luomala 1940:40; motu [must make a loop, look through it into the sun, tighten it, promise the Sun a pig if it waits for the traveler to get home]: Chalmers 1887:172 (quoted in The Golden Branch) in Luomala 1940:40; kai [to prolong the day, you have to tie the grass in a knot, say the name of the sun]: Keysser 1911 (3, part 1): 159 in Luomala 1940:40; San Cristobal (Solomon Islands) [an ancestor of the genus Mwara caught the Sun in a snare from palm leaf; descendants do the same thing when they want the sun to go down later]: Fox 1925:263, 260, 362 in Luomala 1964:210; New Caledonia [to catch the moon and tie it to a palm tree, fools they put a plant fiber trap on the top of the mountain; they were going to smoke the moon to cause rain; it turned out that the moon had risen on a mountain further from where fools were waiting for it; they thought that neighbors revealed their plan to the Moon, went to war on them]: Laville, Berkowitz 1944:143-148 in Luomala 1964:219; Fiji (Lau) [if the traveler thinks he may not be home before sunset, he quits with a knot of a reed and either walks with a knot in his hand or ties a reed growing on a certain hill]: Luomala 1940:40.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Palau [The sun was moving too fast, people's lives were short; Mvchibla (hero and trickster, The Smart One) caught him by the leg in a noose; his injured leg made the Sun move more slowly. the day and night are long; then M. carved hacheos out of wood; did not have time to finish it when the children opened the vessel containing the disc and it (rose into the sky and) became the moon]: Bird 1957 MS in Luomala 1964:220; islands Gilbert: Grimble 1921:81-83 in Luomala 1940 [The sun stops three times during its night journey and three times during the daytime; Bue, a descendant of the Sun, went to the place of sunrise, taking 6 varieties weapons: two coral stones, two coconuts (the fifth is not specified), a coconut leaf; so he broke three rays in the parking lots below the horizon; on the first, he smashed the face of the Sun; on the sixth he tied him leaf, not letting me move; let go by the rod in which the wisdom of the Sun; this gesture is kept in the genus B.]: 41; Maude, Maude 1994, No. 4 [woman conceives from sunlight; gives birth to five sons and a daughter; four died, the Sun placed his daughter in a stone house in the east; the remaining son Bue decides to sail to his father; when the Sun begins to rise, B. throws six stones and fruits given by his mother, breaking his rays and cooling him; tied him with a coconut leaf; the Sun gave him ritual knowledge; on the way back, B. captured his sister, they followed the boat, committed incest; the Sun, in anger, told the dolphin to turn their boat over; B. with his sister went down to the bottom, B. swam west, overheard the wind spells that the Sun gave to old woman Nei Bairaro; stole a tree from old woman Nei Nemaing to make a fire drill; she set off in pursuit, carrying the storm and the wind; B. blew the winds against her, using the knowledge he had gained from her father, the NB, and herself; the latter stopped her, B. brought a tree]: 70-74; Samoa: Blixen 1987 , No. 11 [Pratt 1888:451-454, 458-463; Mangamanga-i-fatu ("legs spread") conceived in sunlight, gave birth to a son Alo-alo-o-o-le-lā; he married a girl from Fiji; visited his mother; presented mats the sisters of the Sun; they were advised to make a pandanus loop, A. caught the Sun in it; said he was his son; the Sun told him to go to his sisters, they keep a good luck fishing hook and a fishing hook misfortunes; we must take the second one: first there will be failures, then success, and with the hook of luck, vice versa; the sisters of the Sun ordered to put the hook aft and not turn around; A. turned around, the hook fell into the sea; (more about pulling out the hook, with other characters)]: 207-208; Luomala 1940 [1) the mother of the Sun's son complains that the day is too short to dry the mats; the son catches the Sun at sunrise, asks him to walk more slowly, that agrees; 2) likewise, the son catches the Sun in a snare by climbing a tree as it rises above the horizon; 3) the son of the Sun asks his mother Mangamangai to give him property so that he can marry; that sends him to his father; he catches the Sun with a vine from a tree; the Sun offers him a choice of useful things and disasters, he chooses useful ones; 4) about the same thing; 5) The sun went so fast that man did not managed to complete the house; unsuccessfully tried to trap the Sun at sunrise; Itu gave him a vine, he caught the Sun by the neck; let him go when he completed the house; (same more in Williamson 1933 (1): 110)]: 28; Hawaii: Beckwith 1970:229-330 [Hina finds a men's loincloth on the beach, puts it on, gives birth to Maui; the fire is owned by mud hens, hidden when M. approaches; he the smallest one is enough, she first says that fire should be extracted by friction from the tarot, from ti leaves (M. tries, there are holes in the leaves of these plants); indicates correctly, M. makes fire, punishes the chicken, leaving a red stripe on her head; the sun is moving too fast; M. steals bananas one by one, which his blind grandmother bakes; she recognizes him, agrees to help; sitting on a tree, M. throws a loop over the rays of the rising sun; the Sun agrees to move more slowly, especially in summer; together with the brothers M. catches land in the forest; tells the brothers not to look back, one violates the ban, forests are breaking off, so the land mass is divided into islands], 231 (Fr. Maui) [The sun moves so fast that Hina doesn't have time to dry her tapa; her son Maui catches the Sun with a coconut fiber rope, making it move slower]; Cook Islands: Gill 1876 (Mangaia ) [The sun is moving fast, people don't have time to work and cook; Buataranga warned Maui's son, who put six coconut fiber snares at the hole from which the Sun comes out and on trail; the first loop jumped off, the rest held various parts of the Sun's body (legs, hips, etc.); M. tied loops to the rock, obliged the Sun to move more slowly; loops in the form of rays are visible at sunrise and at sunset]: 61-63; Manihiki [After learning to cook, people cannot finish cooking because the days are too short; Maui placed a sennit snare at the hole from which the Sun comes out, but the Sun wasn't caught; then Sister M. Inaika ("Ina Fish") let him cut off her curls, the Sun fell into this hair snare; M. freed him for promising to move slower]: Gill 1876:70-71; Rakahanga [the days were so short that people barely had time to start a fire; Maui twice failed to catch the Sun in a sennit snare; mother M. Hina gave him her hair; M. put his snare at the hole from which the Sun comes out, caught the Sun, let him go for promising to move slower]: Luomala 1940:27; Tahiti: Mare 1849 in Luomala 1964: 233 [Maui-ti'iti'i, his father Atara'a, his mother Huahe'a, they came from below {from the lower world?} , gave birth to M. in Fare-ana; M. slept with a Hinahina-toto-io woman; the day is short, M.'s mother eats raw tarot tubers and xanthosomes without having time to bake them; the poisonous juice of raw xanthosome made her lips swollen; M. did a rope made of vegetable fiber (Freycinetia arborea) and Hinahina's pubic hair; put a loop at the hole from which the Sun comes out in the morning; it was around his neck; vegetable fibers torn, but his pubic hair did not; the Sun's forehead split; M. let him go for promising to move more slowly across the sky], 233-234 [Maui was angry at the Sun for moving too fast; mother M. Huahe'a did not have time to cook, her lips were swollen with raw xanthosome; M. weaved a loop of various plant fibers and Hinahina-toto-io pubic hair, put it in the hole from which he came out The sun, who was caught by the neck, tore all fibers except his pubic hair; M. agreed to spare him for his promise to walk slowly; the sun split, went slowly to To'areva]; Tuamotu : Beckwith 1970:234 [Ataraga sees Huahega bathing, marrying her, their son Maui-tikitiki, catching the sun in a snare; recognized as a father; kills Mahuika; fishing for Tahiti and Little Tahiti; takes Hina away from Tuna eel; T. sends a flood, M. stops the water by exposing his fall; kills T., the first coconut palm grows out of T.'s head; Peka takes Hina; M. flies to P. in the form of a golden pheasant; mother Peka warns not to take the bird, but P. takes it; M. cuts off his head, returns with Hina; turns Hina's lover Ri into a dog; his friend goes for revenge, is also turned into a dog; M. sees that his mother's hair Huahega has turned gray; decides to exchange stomachs with the sea slug Rori, then people would not die; at this time, the M. brothers scream, M. regurgitates his stomach, people remain mortal] 234-235 (Anaa) [Maui-tikitiki is the fifth son of Ataranga and Huahega (daughter of fire owner Mahuike); seeks his father's recognition, competes with Mahuike and kills him, catches the Sun in a snare from his hair from his head Huahega mother; with the help of her brothers, she fishes Havaiki from the sea; marries Tiki's daughter; she is Tuna's wife, Maui kills Tuna, a coconut tree grows out of his head; Peka-nui (The Great Bat) takes Hina; Maui turns into a snipe, kills Peka, gets his wife back; gets sick; he is advised to climb into the shell of a Tupa crab to change his skin and continue to live like a crab; to do this, he must swallow Rori-tau's insides; at this moment the Maui brothers enter, he belches his insides; Hina Ri's lover and Ri's friend Togio Maui turns into dogs; the Maui brothers go to the Sun; one dies from it's hot, the other comes back; Maui goes to bury his brother's body in the sky; meets two heavenly girls, Dawn-Maid and the Moon; sends the first home, marries the second]; Luomala 1940 (Fangatau) [Huahega complains that she is eating sand because the days are too short; asks her son Maui-tikitiki-a-Ataraga to rip her hair from her forehead, top of her head, left and right sides of the head, weave a snare; M. puts it where the Sun comes out of the abyss, catches it, lets him go for promising to move slower]: 26; Maori [Maui, the youngest of five brothers, gets in the underground the world's jaw of his grandmother; tells the brothers to send their wives for flax, weave strong ropes, make a trap; catches the Sun that moved too fast; hits him with his jaw, the Sun has lost its former strength and since then the pores move more slowly; people do not know how to make fire; M. puts off the lights to get a new one; goes down to the lower world to the mistress of the fire, old Mahuika; she gives her nail, the flame hits it; M. extinguishes it, says , who accidentally dropped, gets a second nail; when she comes for the tenth, the old woman throws her nail at him, the flame chases M., he flies like a hawk (since then the hawk has scorched feathers on its wings); the gods fill the flame with rain, Mawick threw the remnants into the trees, now the fire pulls them out of them with friction; sitting in a boat with her brothers, M. makes the sea endless, hooks new land out of his grandmother's jaw ( the hook caught on the door of the house of Tonganui, the son of the sea god); the brothers began to divide the land, striping it with teslas; the earth wandered, so the mountainous terrain appeared]: Reed 1960:32-41; moriori [Sun moved fast, the days were too short; Maui-mua, the eldest of the five Maui brothers, put his snare with his brothers at sunrise, the Sun hit him, pulled it on his hips; the sun began to walk slower; snare rope - a narrow strip of clouds in the east]: Shand 1894:122-123; Mangareva: Buck 1938 [there is a text fragment about how Maui caught the Sun in a snare, but no details are known]: 312; Luomala 1940 [Maui-matavaru tied the Sun with a hair loop]: 27; Marquises: Handy 1930 [Maui-tiki-tiki is the youngest of seven Maui brothers; the brothers made a boat, fished, then hooked a mountain. they pulled Toka Eva Island; then Maui got fire from Mahuike; to dry his clothes, M. caught the Sun in a snare out of human hair, since then the world has been light; Tai-ana-e-Vau stole M.'s wife; he did the pigeon, climbed into it, flew to the kidnapped; she recognized M., fed the bird; at night M. took a human life, took T.'s club, called him, killed him, took his wife home]: 103; Steinen 1934, No. 7 [The sun was walking too fast, Hina, Maui's wife, did not have time to dry her belt; M. made a hair loop, placed it on the mountain, caught the Sun, brought it to him, started fighting it; won by hitting the leg (obviously the Sun promised to move more slowly)]: 200-201; (cf. Rennel [the time around 7 pm is called Sebe; S. cultivated his field with soi tubers; it became dark; he asked his father to hold the sun in order to finish the work; he finished it in dusk; since then it has been "an hour for myself"]: Elbert, Monberg 1965:124-125); Easter Island [the woman is going to cook in an earthen oven and the sun has already gone down; her son Tikitiki Ataranga caught the Sun in snare, making him move more slowly]: Bartel 1974:706-707.

South Asia. All Indian texts are retold in more detail than here in Luomala 1964:213-215. Bondo [The sun was wandering in the guise of a black bull; people caught him and tied him; at night, the young men went to the girls; they were tired, and dawn was not coming; the girl gave the young man a mushroom; on the way home, young men they saw a bull; the mushroom fell, a rooster jumped out of it like an egg, sang; the bull cut off the rope, it dawned; birds hatched from mushrooms like eggs, sang; now the Sun rises in front of the rooster's voice]: Elwin 1950:140; buna (Bengal) [The sun was moving very fast, the day was short; people climbed a tree, threw a rope at it, but they didn't tie it quite correctly, so it moves faster in winter, and slower in summer]: Basu 1939:86 in Elwin 1949:56; agaria: Elwin 1942:99-100 [Jwala Mukhi (Fire Mouth) is the best shooter but is told he doesn't have a father; mother says his 12 fathers killed the Sun; J.M. prepares an iron net and a cage, goes east; when the Sun plays with his wife Moon at sunrise, J.M., catches him, puts him in a cage; it turns dark; the blind Wind finds a gap in the cage, finds the Sun; he goes out, he and JM curse each other, the Sun curses Agaria], 100, note 1 [Kairya Kuar takes the Sun's daughter, marries her; the Sun comes for her; KK. puts him in iron cell; hence eclipses] in Luomala 1964:213-214; maria (Bison-Horn Maria) [The sun visited the earth in the guise of a black bull; man caught and tied it; so half a day is dark]: Elwin 1949, No. 3 : 57; (cf. gondas [The sun fell in love with the girl, her father found them, covered the Sun in the hole; people began to beat the vine with the Wind inside; he flew out, lifted the lid, the Sun slipped out; the Moon wanted first leave her husband, but remained the wife of the Sun]: Elwin 1949, No. 7:62); toda: Emeneau 1984 [during the first ancestors, husband and wife traveled from one area to another; on the way, the woman gave birth to a pumpkin; they became it was a shame and they reported that the child was dead; a pumpkin burst at the funeral fire, the boy Kwatöw jumped out of it and ended up on a mountain in a Celtis tetranda tree; the couple brought it to the first ancestor gods; he made them so angry with his tricks that they threw him off the cliff; but W. turned into a bird of prey, grabbed a bamboo trunk and hit the god Ko-ra-to-W with it on the head; his head fell into three pieces, now it's three hills at an altitude of 1900 m; the gods decided that if K. could make the river flow in the opposite direction, the sun could drink this river and turn day into night, they would recognize it as one of their own; K. he dammed the river with a rock, caught the sun with a stone chain and forced it to drink the water of the river, leaving him chained by the pond among trees; the earth and the underworld fell into darkness; then the gods begged K. free the sun and recognized as the most powerful of them]: 241 in Walker 2018:403; Rivers 1906 [a woman gave birth to a pumpkin; a couple said their baby was born dead; a pumpkin at the funeral fire exploded, the boy flew out, fell on a tree; his parents picked him up; it was Kwoto; people did not believe he was a god; then he hooked the sun with a stone chain, tied him to a tree; the earth and the world of the dead became dark; Var.: At first he attached an iron chain, probably also a bronze chain, but they melted; the sun was sitting on a buffalo, K. tied a buffalo; the gods asked to let go of the sun, he let go, recognized as the most powerful of the gods]: 203-207.

The Arctic. Igloolik: Boas 1901a [they make rope figures (cat's cradle) to keep the Sun entangled in them]: 151 in Luomala 1940:20; MacDonald 1998 [after his daytime journey The sun comes back wounded as people continue to make rope figures when the Sun is already above the horizon]: 224.

Subarctic. Chipewayan: Birket-Smith 1930 [The sun accidentally falls into the trap of a hunter; he cannot approach because of the heat; the day does not come; all birds try to free the Sun; the goose tears the trap, his beak burns]: 87-88; Lowie 1912 [Ayas falls asleep on the trail; when he wakes up, he sees that his clothes are burnt; puts a trap; dawn does not come; sister A. realizes that these are his brother's pranks; the sun has fallen into a trap; because of the heat, various animals cannot approach and free the Sun; The mouse gnaws through the fetters; burns and its skin turns yellow]: 184; Petitot 1886, No. 15 [brother and sister live alone; The sun is speeding up, the days are getting shorter, the earth is cold; the sister traps the Sun; lets go for the promise to make the days longer]: 411-412; domushroom [Chapewee created a tree that grew to sky; chasing a squirrel, he climbed this tree into the sky; put a snare out of his sister's hair on a wide path; the sun fell into him; the sun family suspects that C. is to blame for his disappearance; C. and animals try to gnaw through the snare; Mole succeeds, as a result he lost his sight, his teeth and nose turned brown]: Richardson, Franklin 1828:242-243 in Luomala 1940:8; beaver [huge The beaver is given people to eat; it's the girls' turn; Tumashal kills the beaver, cuts into pieces, beavers emerge from them; The sun falls into T.'s trap, it gets dark; T. and various animals do not manages to get close to the trap because of the heat; The mouse gnaws through the fetters]: Goddard 1916:233.

NW Coast. Bellacula: McIlwraith 1948 (1): 635-640 [3 Var.; Keldcap (Var.: Jeskip, Tkalkwap; probably an Atapaskan word quarry) and his sister are orphans; he asks sisters pubic hair, makes a snare; splits trees with arrows, kills a grizzly; his arrow gets stuck in a tree, he climbs after it; the tree grows, he goes to heaven, puts a snare; the Sun falls into him; K. paints the Mouse to help her withstand the heat and free the Sun; K. returns to earth], 1948 (2): 498-499 [The sun touches the woman's back with his hands, making her pregnant; her son climbs the stairs to sky; The sun agrees for the son to come again, bringing his mother with him; when they appear, the Sun does not pay attention to them; the son asks his mother for pubic hair, makes a snare, catches the Sun; lets go in exchange for a promise to change the path in winter to make it cooler (the origin of the seasons); builds three high mountains to guide the movement of the sun].

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [the young man's arrow gets stuck in a tree; he climbs after it, ends up in the sky; makes a snare out of his string, the Sun falls into it; a boy and two types of mice cannot approach because of the heat; the red mouse manages to gnaw through the bowstring; the sun continues its journey, the young man descends to earth]: Jenness 1934, No. 65:248.

The Midwest. Menominee [The sun burns an orphan boy's cape; he gets pubic hair from his sister, makes a snare, catches the Sun; it gets dark; the mouse will gnaw through the fetters]: Hoffman 1896 [boy himself puts a snare; The Sun calls the Mouse for help]: 181-182; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II11 [Polar Bears live underground; they drag a man and his wife under the ice; son, daughter, their pet Eagle remain; boy sends the Eagle to put a snare on the path of the Sun; then lets the Eagle carry the Mouse to the sky; she gnaws through the snare], II12 [the boy lives with his mother; sends the Hawk to put his snare; the mother gives a knife; the son himself cuts his fetters when the Sun is barely alive]: 357-361; Winnebago: Erdoes, Ortiz 1984 [Brother makes a bow and arrow, who shoots bullfinches, Sister sews clothes for him from birdskin; he lies down on the trail, the Sun burns clothes, they shrink, he has to tear them to get out; Sister makes a snare out of reindeer tendons, Brother catches the Sun in them; animals send Sonya, she succeeds gnaw her tendons; The sun is released, but Sonya becomes small and half-blind]: 164-166; Smith 1997 [animals destroy people; Grandmother moon and granddaughter live alone; grandmother makes her granddaughter a blue cape feathers; while the girl sleeps, the Sun shines and the cape shrinks; the animals look and laugh; the girl climbs a pine tree, shoots arrows into the Sun until it disappears; the mouse rises to her, agrees that the girl will let go of the Sun and the animals will be hunted]: 166-168; Ojibwa: Désveaux 1984 [an orphan asks her older sister for pubic hair; makes a snare out of him, puts on the trail; The sun is caught, the day does not come; the orphan sends the Mouse to gnaw through the snare]: 61; Jones 1916, No. 22 [The sun burns the dwarf's cape, he catches the Sun in a trap; the dwarf's sister tells him free the Sun; the Mole manages to do this]: 376; timagami ojibwa [The sun hits the boy's snare; it gets dark; only the Mouse manages to get closer and gnaw the snare; her teeth have turned black]: Speck 1915d, No. 17:69; Western Swamp Cree: Brightman 1989 (Stone Cree) [When Cahkāpīs was still a boy, giants killed his parents; he grew up, killed beavers, did not share with giants; at home hid in the river shell; the giants could not open it, burn it, took his sister; K. fired an arrow, killing both giants; made a noose out of a bowstring, put it on someone's path; it became dark, his sister says that K. caught the Sun, sends his brother to free it; K. cannot approach because of the heat; the mouse gnaws through the snare, since then its skin has been burned; since then the Sun has been weaker and night exists]: 138-139; Cresswell 1923 [sister does not tell her younger brother to shoot squirrels by the water; he breaks the ban, climbs into the water for an arrow, tells the fish to swallow it; sister catches it on the hook, finds a living brother; the sun has burned it his cape, he puts his snare, the Sun does not rise; the young man cannot open his snare because of the heat; insects, the mouse can't, the Mole succeeds, he goes blind; the sister tells his brother that the Bear killed their parents; brother breaks a tree and a stone with an arrow, the Bear rushes to run, is killed by an arrow; the brother hangs a birch bark bundle with bear hair in the dugout, does not tell his sister to look; sounds can be heard from the forest; the brother says that sister must have looked and cried]: 404-405; Eastern Swamp Cree: Bird 2007 (Vinisk River) [Chakapesh lives with her older sister, their parents were killed by giants; finds a path he walks along Sun; asks his sister for the right material to make a snare; he consistently rejects everything; finally, she gives him her own hair; then he spreads her legs, pulls out her pubic hair; The sun has fallen into trap, dark in the morning; Squirrel, Mouse can't get close, Shrew gnawed through the snare]: 29-36; Ellis 1995 (west bank hall. James), No. 3 [Chahkabesh lives with his older sister; saw someone's trap, set a trap, returned to his sister; it wasn't dawn in the morning; C. went to that place, saw the Sun caught by the neck; only a sharp-nosed mouse managed to overcome the fever, come, gnaw through the trap; it was dawn again; his sister told him not to do this anymore], 15 [as in (3), in short]: 15-17, 111-113; Skinner 1911 (Albany) [T.'s parents and his sister were eaten brown bears; T. and his sister ran to heaven, climbing a tree trunk; his sister does not tell you to climb a tree that leans over the lake; T. shot a duck, it fell into the water, he climbed a tree, him swallowed the fish; her sister caught it, T. was inside, screaming, Careful; T. killed the bears, found his mother's hair in his stomach; T. put on the skin of the jay, took away the giant's fat from the beavers they killed; they knocked him down , throwing away the scraper; stopped cooking, he jumped out, pushed them into boiling water, everyone died; T. carried away the beaver killed by the giants, put on the shell that arose from the spoon shell; the giants took his sister away; T . killed them all with an arrow; set a trap on the path of the Sun, it became dark; T. sends various small animals to gnaw through the rope; Ermine (Laska) died in the heat, the Shrew gnawed]: 102-104; oriental Cree: Skinner 1911:100-102 (Ruperts House) [Tcikápis young man asks his sister what their parents looked like when killed by the Katcitos creature; she replies that the father had dark hair and the mother had blond hair; T. calls all the animals one by one, asks what they do when they meet people; everyone replies that they run away, that they don't eat people; K. replies that he eats people, that he is as strong as a pine tree; T. blows a pine tree with an arrow at chips; catches up, kills the beast with an arrow; finds the hair of his mother and father in his stomach, brings it to his sister; tells the big fish to swallow it; sitting in his stomach, invites her to see what it is; this is his hook sisters, who catch fish, finds her brother in her stomach, he laughs; the sister does not tell you to go to giants who hunt beavers in winter; T. takes their beaver; makes the teepee stone at night, giants powerless to do anything; T. goes to the cannibal; her two daughters do not mind if he kills her, for her mother killed all their lovers; T. pushes her into a boiling pot; climbs wood into heaven; does not want give way to the Sun, he steps through it, burning its cape; T. puts a trap on the path; the Sun is caught, it gets dark; T. cannot approach the Sun because of the heat; sends the Shrew to block fetters; goes down for his sister and his two wives, climbs back to heaven with them]; northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [The sun burns Jacabaish 'a (Tkney-in-eye) clothes; he catches The sun is trapped, it gets dark; The Squirrel, the Wolf, the Mole can't approach because of the heat; The mouse gnaws through the fetters, freeing the Sun]: Ray, Stevens 1971:107-110; Steppe Cree [The sun shines irregularly; Vesakaicak puts a trap on his path; it is now too hot; only Beaver manages to gnaw through the fetters; for this, Vesakaicak gives him a fur coat and sharp teeth; the Sun promises to approach the ground only on at sunrise and sunset; shine poorly in winter when the North Wind rules]: Ahenakew 1929:327-329; Steppe Ojibwa (Lake. Winnipeg) [water is everywhere; Weese-ke-Jak sees geese; they say that the land is somewhere in the south; V. asks them to bring some land with them; makes it a big land; creates all living things on it; Ane-ne-ke ( Sun) appears only occasionally; V. sets a trap, A. is caught; it becomes unbearably hot on the ground next to him; V. agrees with A. that he will come close to the ground only in the east and at sunset, and otherwise, keep the right distance so that it is warm but not hot; agrees with the Kee-wa-tin north wind so that it does not blow much in summer and brings cold and snow in winter, so bears, reptiles and frogs could rest; because of the heat, V. himself cannot approach the trap to free the Sun; sends Beaver to gnaw through his fetters; rewards him with beautiful fur and strong teeth]: Simms 1906:337-338; meti [The sun is too close to the ground, its rays burn everything; the First Real Young Man catches him in a hole, the world plunges into darkness; he tries to catch the Month, but he is trapped and now hangs on wood, playing the role of the sun]: Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:166; Algonquins (Grand Victoria Lake) [Tcakabesh put a squirrel snare in the east; the sun did not rise in the morning; C. saw that the Sun had hit the snare; because of the heat, none of the animals could come to gnaw through the snare; the squirrel fell on its back, its tail was burned, so now the squirrels are falling on their backs and their tail is sharp; the mouse gnawed but scorched wool, now it's short]: Davidson 1928b:277; atticamec [Tcikabis could make trees grow tall and then low again; liked to climb trees like this; once climbed up trees a tree into the sky, went along the path, the Sun told him to give way, he refused, the Sun stepped over him, scorched his clothes; C. returned to earth to his sister, made a snare, put it in the sky on the path, the Sun was caught , it became dark; only the Mouse could overcome the fever, gnaw through the snare, it was light again]: Davidson 1928a: 282-283; fox [little pranksters see light in the hole; put a snare, hit it The sun; they release it in fear, otherwise eternal night would come]: Jones 1907, No. 6:79.

Northeast. Naskapi: Millman 1993 [The sun burned Chakapesh and his sister's backs; C. trapped him, let him go for promising not to burn again; a mouse or shrew gnawed through the fetters; there is a lot of caribou on the moon ]: 140-141; Speck 1925 (mistasini) [the sun, then the month is always above the horizon; Tsekabek makes a trap out of (pubic?) sister's hair, catches the Month; it's getting dark; C. sends different animals to gnaw through the trap; the shrew succeeds]: 25; 1935a: 59-61 (escumene) [=Speck 1925:3-5; the sun is too hot; the old man can't trap him; his son Tsekabek catches; it gets dark; the rabbit, the birds, the mouse, the mole cannot approach, chew the trap; the rabbit is burned; Tsekabek's mother pulls one eye out for her son with a crochet because he caught the Sun; his father puts owl eyes in Tsekabek and his wife; Tsekabek's son sets a trap for the Month, Tsekabek himself falls into him; his son turns him into a new one sun], 61-62 (mistasini) [The Sun and the Month never go down; Tsekabeka's sister gives him her hair to trap; he catches the Month; the sister is angry; he sends all the small animals to gnaw trap; Shrew succeeds in it; since then, the sun and the month have risen and set regularly], 62 (escumen) [Tsekabek traps the Month; he likes the month, he sits on it, releases it; since then his figure seen on the moon disk]; Montagnier: Desbarats 1969 [see motif J1; Monster kills Shakabish's parents and sister; S. kills Monster; kills cannibals (see motive K34); kills a cannibal, marries her two daughters (they are human); his sister tells him not to go after a stuck arrow; he climbs a tree, it grows to the sky; at this time his sister is kidnapped; he goes down, kills kidnappers and a sister-born boy; first Shch.'s wife, then his sister, then he climbs a tree into the sky himself; Shch. sees his sister's vagina; falls asleep on the path of the Sun; he burns his clothes; Shch. asks his sister ashistuku; she gives a rope; No; pubic hair; Yes; Shch. makes a trap, the Sun falls into it, it becomes dark; the Sun agrees that Shch. remains in the sky, he frees him; Shch. is seen on the lunar disc; his two wives and sister are as stars at a distance]: 58-63; Jesuit Relations 12:35 in Lowie 1909a [this is the earliest fixation of this motive]: 140 (note); Savard 1979, No. 1 [Katshikuasku kills Tshakapesh and his wife; their daughter finds a boy in her mother's womb; his name is also T.; does not tell him to go where K. lives, he pretends to be afraid, goes (the episode repeats at the beginning of every new one adventures); black, polar bears, Matshuo (like K., a particularly scary bear) take turns coming out, rejected; K. comes out, says that killing him is as difficult as hitting a certain tree, rock; T . breaks a tree, a rock with arrows, kills K., finds his father's hair in K.'s stomach, turns it into moss on conifers; brings K.'s head to her sister, does not tell her to eat; the sister eats, cannot open her mouth; T. opens her mouth, says only men will eat bear head; T. is swallowed by a huge trout; tells her to grab the bait in her sister's forest, sister cuts the trout's belly, T. goes out; people offer T. to hunt a huge beaver, who always drags hunters to the bottom; T. kills a beaver, brings it to his sister; marries two cannibal daughters; they warn not to eat human fat , which their mother will offer; the cannibal offers to fight, T. kills her by throwing her against the stone she threw her former sons-in-law against; T. brings her wives to her sister; mistapeut people play ball with a bear's head, kill every newcomer by throwing it; T. hits his head; a man wants to captivate T., make his sister's husband; T. brings him to his sister's husband; people swing on a swing over the abyss, victims fall into a boiling pot; T. tells the feathers to float, tells his sister's husband to invite those people to gather at the cauldron when the fat pops up; turns the cauldron over them; T. plucks everything for himself hair, leaving it on her head, eyebrows and eyelashes; people used to be covered in hair; now T. is cold, his sister sews her first clothes; T. shoots a squirrel, his sister gets stuck in a tree, it grows, he climbs on sky; puts a trap on the trap, the Sun falls into it, it gets dark; The Squirrel, the Mouse can't come up because of the heat, the Shrew gnaws through the trap; it's light again; T. comes back for the family, they all climb into the sky then he makes the tree small again; he goes to live on the moon, sends his son-in-law to the Morning Star]: 4-11.

Plains. Sarsi [the young man asked his grandmother for tendons, made a snare, the Sun fell into him; it became dark; all the animals tried to gnaw through their tendons, but could not approach because of the heat; the mole was burned, but gnawed]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 6:8-9; blacklegs (piegan) [people die of smallpox, a girl remains with her younger brother; she teaches him how to hunt; he puts a trap in the Sun; dawn does not come; sister tells him to free the Sun, but no one can get close because of the heat; the mole digs an underground passage, gnaws through the fetters; dawn is coming]: Josselin de Jong 1914:104-105; assiniboine [orphan catches The sun is trapped; it gets dark; because of the heat, it cannot free the Sun on its own; sends a mouse to gnaw through the trap's tendon; the mouse's hair is burnt]: Lowie 1909a, No. 3b: 140; mandan [Coyote is coming to the east, wears the same outfit as the Sun, follows his path; at noon he stops where the Sun always rests and smokes a pipe (the ash from the pipe has formed a whole hill); the Sun catches up with the Coyote, furiously asks who he is; the Coyote replies that he usually illuminates the lower world; the Sun throws him upside down from the sky; the Black Trap helps the Coyote make a snare; the sun hangs on the poplar, The coyote beats him; the first ancestors reconcile them]: Beckwith 1938, No. 34:269-272; Omaha, ponka [The rabbit goes hunting early in the morning, but someone is always in front of him; he sets a trap, falls into him The sun; the rabbit is scared, his grandmother tells him to cut his fetters; he does it, burned by the heat of the Sun; the sun rises higher into the sky]: Dorsey 1890:14-15; Dorsey, Swanton 1912, No. 3:20-21; iowa [ every morning The Hare sees that someone has passed before him; puts a trap, the Sun falls into him; the hare tries to relax the trap; finally he succeeds, but his skin burns, turns brownish, and the fat with sunk from his body since then]: Skinner 1925, No. 41:499.

California. Yurok [the foxes got angry at the Sun; at sunset, 12 foxes caught him, tied him to the hill with a tendon rope; people freed the Sun, killed the fox; at this point the Sun burned a large hole]: Powers 1877:60 (=Judson 1994:80); Pomo [Yu-ee sun has grown old, handed over his name, duties, and a bag of hornets to his grandson; he is evil, intends to destroy everyone, but Coyote wants to save people; Y. approaches villages, people think he brought them dancing, and he burns the crowd in houses, lets hornets run out; Coyote rained, but Y. became a bat, hid under a leaf; also survived a snowstorm, frost, lightning; then Coyote created two trails, one easy to walk, the other difficult; advised me to follow the difficult one; Y. did not believe it, walked along a wide and flat path, said that all people would follow it, got caught into a noose put by Coyote; he was taken to the sky, he slapped into a lake on the moon; two female sisters on the moon said it was their rabbit brother; brought him into the house, washed him with live water; Y. decided return to earth, although you have to work there every day, and all wishes come true on the moon right away; Coyote allowed him to return, not as a sun, but as a night creature, a bat]: Clark, Williams 1954:49-52; screw [Coyote pulls wire between two mountains to the east; The sun falls into this trap; it gets dark; Coyote is proud that no one can free the sun; The Mole gnaws through the wire, blinded by the light; the Sun rises]: Demetracopoulou, DuBois 1932, No. 67:494.

(Wed. Honduras-Panama. Hikake [The sun is walking, people grab him and put him in jail; his father releases his four brothers into the sky; the water in the rivers boils; the father agrees to remove excess suns in exchange for release of the captive]: Chapman 1982, No. 27:112).

(Wed. Guiana. Arekuna [The sun is walking, people grab it, cover it with a mountain vessel; others break the vessel, freeing the Sun]: Loven 1935:566).

The Central Andes. Andahuaylas (dep. Apurimac) [iron wedges were driven into the walls of the gorge, a net was stretched between them to catch the sun; once caught, chained]: Luomala 1940:20 (by Fraser, "Golden Branch" (abbreviated Russian translation 1984:82), Kü hn 1936:84 (by Bastian, Die Völker des östlicher Asien, Bd. IV, Jena: Hermann Costenoble, 1868, S. 174-175}.