A39A. Twelve months.

(.11.) .12.15.-.17. (.19.) .26.-.29.31.33.41.43.48.

Each of the calendar segments (usually months) that make up the year appears to be a special object or creature, and in a certain locus they are all present simultaneously.

(Xhosa, Ronga), Jukun, Berbers of Morocco (Rif), Kabiles, Portuguese, Spaniards, Catalans, Basques, Italians (Abruzzo), Sicilians, Sardinians, Corsicans, Maltese, French (Poitou, Albre), Bretons, Irish, Scots, Arameans, Palestinians, (Loyalty Islands), Ancient China, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Romanians, Aramians, Slovenes, Serbs, Greeks, Albanians, Slovaks, Czechs, Poles, Ukrainians (Podolia), Russians (Tula, Kaluga), Abkhazians, Adygs (?) , Ossetians, Ingush, Chechens, Georgians, Armenians, Swedes, Estonians, Kyrgyz, Koyukon, Tutni (Joshua), Upper Kokvil, Klamath, Yurok, Shasta.

(Wed. Bantu-speaking Africa. Scythe [the world ends in the sea, it has a hole full of old moons; a new moon comes out of the hole, crosses the sky and dies]: Koekemoer 2007:76; ronga [a new moon is born after the old moon dies ]: Koekemoer 2007:76).

West Africa. Jukun [The month walks day and night, and if not visible, the Sun grabbed it; during an eclipse, people beat drums to let the Sun let it go; Month is boy, 12 months old, they (take turns) relax and rejuvenate; there are seven suns]: Scheub 2000:59.

North Africa. Moroccan Berbers (Reef): Westermark 1926:174 [February 25 to March 4 old-style - Háiyan period (8 days and 7 nights); it's called tamgart ("old woman"); old Tamgart lived at the foot of the river the highest mountain in the Ait Waráin area; one day it rained for the first three days of this period, the calves gathered under a canopy, she drove them out, telling them not to be afraid of the rain; then Háiyan took an evil day in March, to kill this old woman; March gave one day to February, now in March not 32 days, but 31; it became cold, it rained and snowed, T. and her herd turned into stones], 174-175 [the old woman brought goats and sheep to pasture; it was dry, she asked háiyan for rain; he asked March to give him one day; it rained so much that the old woman died and the herd returned to the village; háiyan is called the "owner of the snow"; in these days try not to leave the house, not go on the road, keep the sheep in the pen]; kabila: Arezki 2010 [on the last 30th day of January, the goat laughed at him because he passed without cold or snowfalls; said, "Get a big fart right in the eye that'll burst, brother January! The cold is over, the hunger is over, it's almost spring!" To punish the goat, January borrowed an extra day from February, making it rainy and snowy; the goat died from cold and hunger that day; since then, January 31, which is usually snowy, windy and rainy, called "le prêt de la chèvre"]: 143-144; Frobenius 1921a, No. 12 [first plants, stones, earth, water talked, people understood their speech; the first mother of the world brought all the misfortunes to him; she had a farm with sheep, cows, goats; relatively warm January (Inäjer) ended, a snowball fell; the first mother of the world told the lamb not to be afraid, the month is over and He would not do anything wrong to him; January was offended, asked for a day from the cold February (Fórar), who gave him 7 days and promised more if necessary; on the fourth day of frost and snowfall, the herd and the mother of the world herself turned into stones; January still brings misfortune to old women; during borrowed days they get sick and die]: 81-83.

Southern Europe. Catalans: Amades 1930 [After the first warm days in April, there are cold days called loan days or old woman's days; the old woman had lots of sheep; fearing that in March they might to freeze, the old woman kept the sheep in the pen when March came to an end, began to mock him ("blow it in my ass because you can't face"); it took 3 days in April, not the first days, but later, so take the old woman by surprise; the old woman took the herd to the pasture, the whole herd died]: 105-106; Kustova 1987 [after surviving the winter, the old woman scolds Mart that he was late, tells him to leave faster, brags that she saved in winter, the whole herd of sheep; insulted Mart begged April to lend him 3 days; all the sheep died from the cold, the old woman died of grief; these days are called old women or borrowed]: 25-30; Spaniards: Golant MS (Andalusia) [shepherd Marta: if he behaves well, he will give him lamb; Mart promised to be warm, fulfilled his promise; when he was about to leave, he asked the shepherd for lamb, but the shepherd, considering that Marta has only three days left to rule, mocked him, refused to give anything; March: with three days left and three days my godfather will lend me April, I will kill your sheep ! lambs and sheep died from the cold; Fernan Caballero 1974:110-115]; Spaniards: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 480C (Valladolid) [in a hungry year, a peasant goes to beg, meets two people they ask him about every month, he praises him (rhymes), they give him a wand that fulfills his wishes; another farmer scolds him all the months, the stick given to him hits him]: 367-370; Spaniards: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 294 (everywhere, lots of records; also Catalans, Basques, Galicians) [shepherd: you pass and I stay and my whole herd safe; March to the shepherd: I have 2 more days left and the third loan is in April and I'll make you wear a fur coat]: 438-439; Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 294 (Murcia) [the seasons or months, specifically March, are arguing with each other; please leave March to the owner of the ram; if March turns its tail, there will be no shepherd or herd (Disputas en forma de refranes entre las estaciones del año o entre los meses, con special atenci on a marzo: "Marzo marzueco, /déjame uno para morueco"; "Si marzo vuelve el rabo, /ni pastores ni ganados"): 84; Portuguese (Indanha a Nova) [shepherds ask March to be merciful, they promise lamb from everyone; March turned out to be warm; on March 29, the old people want to take the lambs; young: March is almost over, the cold will not come, there is no need to give anything; March takes one day for April, plus the two remaining ones, the cold wind and the rain destroyed crops, destroyed herds]: Shishlova 1971:196-199; the Basques [once March was especially harsh on shepherds; crooked shepherd Martha: "Kill you a ram"; insulted Mart decided to take revenge, but it was already noon on the 31st; then Mart asked April to lend him two and a half days and caused a snowstorm; rivers and streams overflowed their banks, carried away a herd of careless shepherd; when he saw that one ram caught on a tree branch, he dragged him towards, saying, "At least I'll save you," but the ram fought back and, with his head pulled out his only eye shepherd; shepherds fear the first days of April, once borrowed to Marta; Satrustegi 1990:34-35]: Golant 2013, No. 1. 11. 2:250; Sicilians [1) Palermo; Şăineanu 1896:1-45; Old woman, seeing that March is over, she spat after him, saying: "Get out! March is a dog!" ; Mart swore revenge, asked April for three days; on April 1, the old woman, seeing that the day was fine, released the sheep from the koshara and drove them to the mountain; a cloud appeared, the old woman and sheep died from heavy rain, hail and snow; March laughing: "E questo è Marzo cane!"] ; 2) Şăineanu 1896:1-45; the old woman wanted to marry a handsome guy; March: If you want to marry me, sleep this night on bricks and get married tomorrow; the old woman went to sleep on bricks in hoping for tomorrow night with a handsome guy; March took April's day and killed an old woman]: Golant 2013, No. 1.8.1.: 240-241; Sardinians [January threatened to kill the herd (women?) with snow, took two days in February, which has been shorter since then]: Golant 2013, No. 1.8.2.: 241; Italians: Kabakova 2006, No. 120 (Abruzzo) [=Golant 2013, No. 1.8.3:242-243; the old lady ridiculed March, saying that her lamb already has horns and is no longer afraid of the cold; Mart replied that if the cold prolonged, the lamb would lose its horns; the old woman thought April would come tomorrow, continued to tease Mart; he asked April to lend him three days; April borrowed six; Mart took them, sent the cold and the lamb died], 121 (Calabria) [a woman asked Mart if she could go dry her clothes; Mart promised sunny weather ; but the storm began and the woman was washed away with water]: 185-186, 187-188; Corsicans [the shepherd has as many sheep and sheep as grains of sand in the sea; all winter he begged for months to be favorable; they spared his herds ; when March was over, the shepherd laughed and scolded March: "March, March, you, the storm of herds, I'm no longer afraid of you! Happy to stay, illnesses! March, March, spring is coming, you can't hurt me anymore!" March borrowed three days from his brother in April, brought winds, snowstorms and diseases to the herd; sheep and sheep died on the first day, lambs on the second day, and everything died on the third day]: Kabakova 1998, No. 168:183-184 ; Maltese [the shepherd scolds dry January: the grass has withered, he is forced to keep the herd in the pen; furious January took his brother two days in February (less often one day; usually the motive is explained different numbers of days in January and February) and such a thunderstorm began that the shepherd drowned with the herd]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 480D: 133-134.

Western Europe. French: Kabakova 1998, No. 163 (Poitou) [=Golant 2013, No. 1.10.3.: 246; January was warm and lasted 29 days; on the last day, all the little birds began to mock him, O, Janviou, m'pas rester le crotte au quiou]; January took two days in February, it froze, the birds froze to the branches], 164 (Albre, Gascony) [=Golant 2013, No. 1.10.4.: 246; the thrush began to laugh at February - it was over, and she and didn't notice; February took three days in March, it rained cold, the thrushes died; and February is still doing this]: 180, 180-181; Bretons: Golant 2013, No. 1.10.1 (Upper Brittany) [so far February made love, January and March stole one day each from him], 1.10.2 (Lower Brittany) [February lost dominoes to January and March one day each]: 244-245, 245; Scots [also found A version of a March legend in which a bird defies the month and is severely punished for which it is severely punished; in Scotland, it is a duck showing off its twelve ducklings; there is a motive for borrowed days]: Gennep 1947: 951-954 {probably} in Golant 2013:13, 64; Irish: http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ACalend/BorrowedDays.html [the cow boasted that she was not afraid of the March cold; then March took three days in April and froze a cow; the first three days of April are believed to be very cold, called Laethanta na Riabhaiche, "loan days"; sometimes they were counted according to the Julian calendar; how March asked for days in April, according to an old ballad; in some parts of Northern Ireland, they tell how a blackbird, a chuckan (Pratincola rubicola) and a gray cow began to tease March when it was over; March took 9 days in April, three for each of those who insulted him; about the same ideas about borrowing days in Scotland]; Plénard 2017 [March 31, a cow, completely mad at the cold of March, shouted: Go, March, to hell, April is coming; March lost 6 days in April, the cow died; these 6 days were the harshest of the whole year]: 95.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the first three days of March are called "borrowed"; old Bedawi drove her herd along the dry riverbed to the Dead Sea, mocking Shvat (February) for not sending rain; indignant Shvat asked his brother Adar (March) to lend him three days to take revenge on the old woman; it rained for six days, and the mudflow washed the old woman into the Dead Sea with her herd (Hanauer 1907:307f)]: Westermarck 1926:175 (=Hanauer 2009:281); Arameans [each of the 12 months praises themselves and invites others to keep quiet; April begins]: Bergsträsser 1915:300-302.

(Wed. Melanesia. Loyalty Islands [The Sun is rising every month and the Month is dying, and next time it's a new Month]: Hadfield 1920:110).

China - Korea. Ancient China (Mountains and Seas Catalog: Catalog of the Great Deserts of the West) [there is a woman who bathes the moons; the wife of the Outstanding Ancestor (Jun) Changxi gave birth to 12 moons; she was the first to bathe them]: Yangshina 1977: 120.

The Balkans. Bulgarians: Golant 2013, No. 1.3.1 (Ruse) [Baba Marta decided that it was warm, went with the goats to the mountain; frost hit, she petrified, water is still flowing from under this stone; since then this the month became known as March], 1.3.2 (Lovech) [the first three days of March are called borrowed; Baba Marta borrowed them from her brother February (Maly Sechko) to freeze a shepherdess who grazed goats and her a herd in the mountains; the shepherdess said that Martha would not do anything to her; these three days predict what the weather would be like in March, April and May], 1.3.3. (Pernik) [the old woman kicked the goats out in Stara Planina on March 1, saying that she was a woman and Marta was a woman and would not do anything to her; Marta's brother February (Sechko) asked for a loan of three days; therefore, these days are called borrowed; grandmother, dogs and goats are stiff; the grandmother peed, since then the source has been there], 1.3.4. (Kostendil) [Sechko had fewer days than his sister Martha; the old woman raised sheep and goats, told them not to be afraid of Sechko, promised to spoil his beard; Sechko borrowed three days from Marta, made it cold the old woman and herd were petrified], 1.3.5. (Blagoevgrad and non-localized options) [(about the same as in others - Baba Marta, loan days]: 225-227, 228, 229, 229-232; Kabakova 1994 (Pazadzhishko) [February drank wine from Baba Marta (i.e. March) for not returning his borrowed days, so her mood changes all the time]: 215; Klyagina-Kondratyeva 1951 [stepmother tyrannites her stepdaughter, sends her stepdaughter to fetch water at night; they gathered there 12 months; grandmother Marta asks if the girl eats dry dogwood, she gratefully takes it and eats; replies that all months are good; Marta makes flowers and chervonets fall from the girl's mouth when she laughs or talks; the stepmother sends her own daughter, who throws dogwood in Marta's face, says that all months are not good; when she comes back and starts talking, snakes and lizards fall from her lips when she laughs - nettles; they have since appeared in the world; and stepdaughter was kicked out by her stepdaughter and married by a passing man]: 92-95; Trefilova 2012 (Tvyrditsy, Upper Thrace) [Baba Marta (hence the name March) was a girl Marta; she drove sheep to the mountains, she was told that it was too early, she replied that March (the month) was a woman and she was a woman, let's agree; so frost hit the mountains, everything froze and turned into stones. And these stones are there]: 282; Macedonians: Tsenev 2004 [a new Month is born every month]: 41; Golant 2013, No. 1.4 [about the same as the Bulgarian versions: Marta borrowed days from Sechko (or April from March) froze a woman who drove a herd to the mountains and promised to spoil Sečko on her beard]: 232-233; Slovenes [stepmother sends Maritsa to wash her black wool white, her own daughter white; beautiful woman M. whitens her hair; in winter, her stepmother sends M. for berries; she meets 12 yunaks, replies that all months are good, and March is the best, picking berries; her own daughter replies that everyone is bad, barely escapes from bad weather; the master comes to marry M., the stepmother hides her in the trough, offering her own daughter, but the rooster shouts where M. is; wedding]: Arkhipova 1962:117-119; Romanians [the rich man did not give fire to the poor man; he noticed fire in the distance, came to a fire around which there are 12 men; these are months; he asks them to give fire; they ask what is the best month for him; poor man: August, the poor have bread; August gives fire and advises him to go around the farm; the bins are filled with grain, and the barn is filled with cattle; after learning about this, the rich extinguished the fire in the hearths, came to the months and said that March was the best; by this time, the poor Hay and wheat are running out and they come to the rich to work for little hay and grain; therefore, the poor remain poor and the rich rich; March gives fire and tells them to round their farms; everything burns]: Bîrlea 1966:418-419; Romanians (Banat) [Baba Dokia sent her daughter-in-law to the river to make black wool white and black wool out of white wool; Mother Maria gave her bouquets of flowers, told her to give it back mother-in-law and say that it is already spring in the mountains; Baba Dokia took dogs, farmhand and sheep, went to the mountains; storm, rain, snow have begun, they are all petrified; water flows from the stone that Baba Bokia has turned into; The Lord failed to ruin all the days in March, took two weeks from April; the weather is bad on these borrowed days]: Golant 2013, No. 1.1.3.: 189; Aruanians [{several texts; unlike Romanian ones, where the motive for loan days is rare, in Arumanian it is common, and the motive for turning into stones from which the spring flows is not always found}; the usual option: an old woman goes with the goats to the mountains, calls March fart, says she lived to see April; March takes days from February, freezes the old woman and her herd]: Golant 2013, No. 1.1.10.: 219-223; the Serbs [the old woman drove the kids to the mountains, told Marta that she did not afraid of him, her goats are five-horned; March took April a few days, caught up with frost and snow, the old woman and goats froze and petrified; on the mountain where this happened, you can now see a large stone (old woman) and around little ones (goats)]: Golan 2013, No. 1.5.2.: 234; Albanians (Mukhurr village, Dibyr district, Peshkopi district, Albanian Central Geg dialect) [Some old woman and old man underestimated winter, went with a shepherd and with cattle to high-mountain pasture. Old people were deceived by the "new green", the tall grass that appeared ten days before Spring Day. The old woman, coming to the top of the mountain on the first day, said: "I climbed to the top of the mountain and crossed the March border, myself, and I have shepherds and sheep." (Option, an old woman and an old man in the pasture mocked April; March, whose time (i.e. the last day) was over, asked April for two days to borrow: "Oh, April, my brother, give me two days to borrow, because I have a third day myself so that I can do what I know with the old woman!" April gave March two days; snow and northerly winds began, which lasted for three days and from which there was no place to hide. An old woman, an old man, a shepherd, a horse and dogs turned into white boulders that still remain in this place. In the village of Mukhurr, "old women" are called the three cold days of spring, the last day of March and the first two days of April. It is believed that bad weather is still the case these days]: Yully, Sobolev 2003:422 in Golant 2013, No. 1. 6:234-235; Greeks: Kretschmer 1919, No. 22 (Corfu) [the woman went to the field and fell into a hole; she was there for 12 months, asked which one she liked best; she praised everyone; they filled her handkerchief and basket with gold; another old woman went there and said that everyone a month with a flaw, everyone is bad; she was filled with snakes and asked to open it when she was with her family in the room; the snakes ate everyone]: 223-224; Legrand 1881 [the woman went for brushwood, went into the house, there are 12 young people there; they are months old; they ask which one is the worst; a woman praises everyone, they fill her bag with money; after learning about this, another woman went with the biggest bag, everyone scolds; when she opened the bag, snakes crawled out and ate it]: 11-14.

Central Europe. Slovaks [stepmother does not like stepdaughter Marushka, loves daughter Holena; M. is more beautiful; in January O. and stepmother send M. to bring violets; M. comes to the fire, there are 12 men of different ages; January gives the staff to Marta, who creates spring for a short time, M. brings violets home; the next day he brings berries; the same, January gives way to June; apples - September; O. went for apples January started to snow and wind, she froze; her stepmother went looking for her, she also froze; M. got married in the spring]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 35:182-186 (=Bogatyrev 1955:16-23); Czechs (Latin text mid-14th century) [boy sent in February for strawberries; comes to 12 old men sitting around the fire; tells them what's going on, they let him pick strawberries]: Roberts 1994:152; Poles [stepmother sends stepdaughter behind fire; on the advice of the Mother of God, she turns to three (frost, wind, month) or 12 characters; when asked which of them is better, she answers that everyone is good; she is rewarded with coals that are at home turn into gold; stepmother sends her own daughter, she praises only the month she likes; gets fire and he burns her, or brings coals, which turn into reptiles at home, and they devour her together with her mother]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 480B: 153-154; Ukrainians (Podolsk Gubernia, Ushytsky County) [Moon - 12 month-old brothers appointed by God to perform their duties during one year]: Chubinsky 1872:8-9; Russians: Kolchin 1899:6 (Tula Gubernia) [The sun rides a fiery horse; it has several sisters who alternate with each other when they go around the sky], 12 [eclipses come from the fact that the Sun and the Month alternate with their brothers and sisters, replaced]; N.Kh. 1892 (Kaluga Gubernia) [12 brothers killed the thirteenth, which became the Month; each of the murderer brothers wears it for a month; when the Month is reborn, they change his dress (same based on Belov's archival text 2004a, No. 213:125)]: 212.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [K. Machavarini. Essays on Abkhazia//Black Sea Bulletin (Batum) 1899, Nov. 12; it was a harsh winter. It's March. There was twice as much snow, but the shepherd cleaned the ground with a shovel from morning to evening and took out food for the sheep. It was the evening of the last day of March. The shepherd, confident that April would send warm days, threw his shovel and scolded March. Hearing these words, March ran to April and asked him for three more days. It snowed so much during these days that the shepherd did not know what to do at first. Then he put the cat in an empty wineskin and hung it on a beam across the attic. Hearing the cat floundering, the sheep looked there and were so busy tumbling the cat for three days that they never reminded the shepherd that they were hungry. Since then, they have been saying: "If it snows in early April, March is to blame, because since the shepherd chose him, he has always asked his younger brother April to borrow 3 or 4 days"]: Khvartskia 1994:172; Adygi [February was called maze huane (from maze - month, huenen - swear); this month is the most severe frosts - the end of winter shyle , which starts around January 16-17 and lasts 40 days, until February 24-25; February regrets that it is not ahead of January, but after January; then it would make people hear the sound of a dog steps are like the base of hooves, and the base of the hooves would multiply by a hundred times, make old people lazy not to leave the house even if necessary, and young animals would dry the animals right in the womb of their mothers]: Mafedzev 1984: 129; Ossetians [the devil gave the poor goats for three years, divide the offspring in half; but the shepherd should not slaughter a black, gray, hornless, long-horned, white, or variegated kid; shepherd in answer: you will come to me neither on Sunday nor on Monday (etc.); three years later, hell came on Wednesday night; they began to divide goats, they could not alone; she is a stranger; since then, on this night, a kid has been slaughtered in honor of the "strangers" ; the hell took the rest of the goats; in the rain, the poor man took off his clothes and sat on them; hell got wet, asks how the shepherd got dry; he promises to tell a secret in exchange for goats; gets goats and tells how sat on his clothes; the shepherd's goats swam easily across the river, and the malik sheep are afraid to go into the water; he tells the shepherd to give four sheep for one goat; the shepherd became rich, stopped honoring God; in the last cold days Marta started shouting to him: "Marti Burti, my whole herd is intact, my kid's ear is not lost!" March took three days to borrow from February, froze half of the herd; since then, the last days of March have been cold, and February is shorter than the other months; the witch praying on Mount Tarangel has promised the line to destroy the herd shepherd to the end; brought a wolf on a rope, said that he was the patron saint of Falwar cattle; the shepherd gave 15 of the best sheep and goats for him; the wolf bit to death the whole herd; since then people have been praying to Falwar to save the cattle ]: Byazirov 1972, No. 36:248-251; Ingush and Chechens [9-day bardal I azi, called winter and spring struggle days, says to chille: "If only I were like this As long as you, I would make a three-year-old bull's horn burst and a blooming girl's chest"]: Mafedzev 1984:130; Georgians (Kartli) [the shepherd bragged: March is over and take not a single lamb failed; March took April three days, caught up with a storm with a snowstorm; the herd could not be taken out of the pen; then the shepherd hung a bag with a cat on a pole; the cat scratched, all the sheep looked at it and forgot to chew; when March disappeared, the shepherd deceived him and brought the herd out]: Virsaladze 1973, No. 180:242; Armenians [the days in late March and early April are called Parvi uler, "Old Woman's Goats"; one old woman decided what happened warmly and, scolding the cold March, brought the kids out of the barn; March asked April for a loan for three days, a blizzard rose, the old woman and the goats died; it is believed that until the snowstorm rises at the end of March, spring will not will come]: Petrosyan 2011:74.

Baltoscandia. Swedes [Mart says: If I had the power of Thor, my brother (i.e. January), and Goa, my sister (February), I would be able to freeze a calf in a cow, a pig in a pig, and an old woman in stripes and fifteen fur skirts]: Kabakova 1994:211; Estonians: Kuperjanov 2003:77 (Harju) [13 months in the sky, one was stolen from us]; (cf. ERA I2, 57 (2) (Tallinn) [the sailor said he made it to the end of the world, crawled on his belly under the edge of the sky; there is a different sun and a large pile of old moons; Chinese women take pokers from there]).

Turkestan. Kyrgyz [winter is toxon ("ninety" is the name of the three winter months), child the name of the forty coldest and forty hottest days of the year, has passed from Persian), besh togool ("fifth meeting, fifth combination" is the name of the spring month according to the ancient Kyrgyz calendar, based on the mutual position of the Moon and the Pleiades constellation, the fifth meeting means that this month the Moon and the Pleiades are combined on the fifth day after the new moon), kempir suuk ("old woman of cold", "old woman cold" is the name of the spring frost period), zhalama ayran (" lick ayran", "ayran on the bottom" is the name of the spring period); in winter, the hunter went to the mountains, came across a door at the foot of the cliff; a girl came out the door and, seeing the hunter, went back; the hunter entered; there is a white-bearded old man in the house, a black-haired man and a five-year-old boy nearby; the house is warm; the old man explains that they are the masters of winter; he himself is Toxon (three months of winter), the horseman is his son Childe (40 days of frosty frosts), the boy is another son, they say about him "until Besh Togool passes, they do not ungird, do not take off their warm clothes"; T.'s wife, old Kempir Suuk (an old woman of cold), came into the house, she apple trees, apricots and other fruits and berries freeze in spring; the girl, T.'s daughter, Ash-Afran, with snowdrops on her head, in a butterfly dress that comes in spring, is called "zhalama ayran"; T. and his family members do not grow old or younger; T. told his daughter to give ayran to the guest; she served it with a roe deer hollowed out hoof; as soon as the hunter picked up his hoof and was about to sip, he found himself sitting on the ground in in a deserted place, old people and their house disappeared; no matter how much he drank from his hoof, he could not drink; the whole village drank this ayran, but it never ended]: Sabyr uulu 2008:208-209.

Subarctic. Koyukon [the sun is gone; people tied a rope to the Bear so that when he looks for berries, they will find it; The bear thinks it's okay, let it be dark; people ask the Raven help, give him as much food as he wants; the Raven flies away; turns dust and grass into good clothes and shoes; the sun owner suspects it's a Raven, but others say he's a handsome rich man; his the daughter fell in love with Raven, he began to live in their house; he noticed a dog, asked to hang it; people notice that someone with a three-toed paw pecked over the corpse; everyone should show bare feet; the raven tells the veil covered their eyes, the audience did not notice that he had three toes on his feet; sent his wife to fetch water, threw a fir needle into the water, the woman drank and swallowed it; gave birth to a boy; in the same place where she remained it's dark, the foxes sang, Let there be light; rattles are tied to the sun and moon in the house so that no one can touch it secretly; the boy cries, asks for the sun to play, the grandfather gives; the raven wants the dog she grabbed the salmon; everyone rushed to the yard for the dog, but the Raven back into the house, grabbed it, released the sun, it was light; kicked the child, who turned into a bunch of fir needles; grabbed the moon, began to tear off a piece by piece giving everyone the name of one of the months of the year; December became Nameless; The Raven is back, everyone is happy about the light]: Attla 1983:89-105.

The coast is the Plateau. Tututney (Joshua) [every day, new Suns and Months rise into the sky; one Sun and one Month make Coyote confuse the seasons; Mice help him and his people discover the dwelling of the stars overseas; the Coyote kills 50 Suns and Months one by one; divides the year into 12 segments; the Suns now listen to it]: Farrand 1915, No. 17:228-233; upper coquill [in the year 15 months (p.290: probably not 15, but 20, as Harrington wrote from the same informant), a long cold winter; Coyote takes a thousand warriors, leads overseas, throwing a handful of sand into the water; a road opens in front of them by water, behind it disappears; he sends two Mice to gnaw through bow bowstrings in the village of Months; in the steam room he kills 7 or 8 months one by one, they are devoured by the Glutton (a snake); one month he feels dangerous, he has been injured in the thigh, it's now shorter than the others - February; locals grab their bows, but their bowstring is gnawed; Coyote and his people return the same way they came]: Jacobs 2007:136-140; Klamath [Coyoticha makes 24 moons; in her absence, Kmukamch comes to her house; tells her children that winter will be too long at 24 months a year; breaks 12 moons; hides bone moons in the floor shilla; Coyoticha attacks them]: Gatschet 1890:107-108.

California. Yurok [a person comes to the master of the night; Months live however]: Kroeber 1976, No. M1 [the owner of the night asks each of the Months if he has entered the house], V2 [The Sun owns the night; 12 live with him or 13 Months]: 341-344, 414-416; shasta [ten months live in the east; the bird they feed with them; the Coyote comes when the bird is alone; asks it to scream; Five Months one by one they come to feed her, the Coyote cuts off their heads; The months are very cold; since there are five left, the winter is not so long]: Dixon 1910a, No. 19:30-31; Holsinger 1982:16-19