A44. A month is a protector.
.15.21.23.24.26.-.28.30.-.34.36.-.41.
Acharacter fleeing from a chase, offended or suffering on earth asks the Month (Moon) to take him home, or climbs to the moon by a ladder or rope that descends from there.
Italians (Emilia Romagna), Bhutan, Kashmiris, Konkani, Toda, Kota, Halakki, Minahasa, Toraja, Boogie, Tobelo, Loda, Sangihe Islands, Pumi, Lisu, Macedonians, Russians (Pskov), Vakhans, Sarykols, Estonians, Eastern Sami, Lithuanians, (Latvians), Komi, Udmurts, Chuvash, Mari, Bashkirs, Kazan Tatars, Kyrgyz, Siberian Tatars, Dolgans, Western, all Yakuts, Evenks (Western, Baikal, Far Eastern), Evens, Udege, Nanai, Negidals, Nivkhs, Miyako Islands, Okinawa Islands, Chukchi Islands, Koryaks (Avekov), Markovo, Forest Yukaghirs, McKenzie Estuary, Copper Islands, Igloolik, Baffin Land, polar, kuchin, taltan, hea.
Southern Europe. The Italians (Bologna) [the merchant left yarn for three daughters; the elders took gold and silver, and the youngest Giricoccola took silk; the moon comes out and sees the girls, says that spinning gold is beautiful, silver is the most beautiful, but the best spinning silk; the sisters changed yarn twice, J. got silver, then gold, but the moon praises her the most again; the sisters hated J., locked her in the attic; the moon felt sorry for her, opened the attic window with a ray and brought her to her place; the sisters turned to an astrologer (a woman); who offered G. pins, and as soon as he stuck the pin in her hair, J. became a stone statue; the moon took out her pin and revived J.; next time, the comb; the moon threatened not to revive it again, since J. did not listen to it and let strangers in; the third time the astrologer gave a dress, J. petrified, and the moon sold The statue was a chimney sweeper; the prince saw the statue, fell in love with it and bought it; his sisters gathered for the ball, took off their dress from the statue to wear, J. came to life, the prince married her]: Calvino 1980, No. 50:154-156.
South Asia. Kashmiris [Sanykisar's son and daughter in the family; the son found hair in food and promised to marry only its owner; the mother said it was his sister's hair, but the son insisted; after finding out what was going on, S. ran away. crying; to meet the fakir, he gave 7 seeds - 7 trees would immediately grow out of them; as it happened, S. climbed the tree; the father came with the men, they cut down the tree, S. moved to the next one; when the last tree was about to fall, S. asked Mother Luna to pick it up; the moon lowered its ray, S. rose to the moon; the moon asked her to comb her hair, but not to touch one place on on the top of his head, otherwise terrible pain and hair will begin to fall out; once C.. accidentally touched, the Moon threw it to the ground, S. fell into the crow's nest; he is happy that he has a daughter; mother, then father, brother they come to the tree and ask them to go down; the mother says that S. is waiting for her dolls, the father is waiting for a colorful spinning wheel, her brother for wedding clothes and jewelry; S. refuses, but every time asks the crow to bring it he also brings her; the prince sees S. and asks him to go down; S.: I need the permission of my crow father; but he will arrive only in the evening, the vizier advises to cut down the tree; they did so; the prince already has 6 wives; he promises to make the main one that 1) will exfoliate rice faster (the raven tells the birds to do this for S.; when 6 wives ask how S. managed to do everything so quickly, she advises pouring rice into water, but the husks did not float at all); 2) make the rooms fragrant (the raven tells different birds to bring the most fragrant infusions and rub them into the walls; S. advises 6 wives to mix manure with crap and cow urine, the stench is terrifying); 3) cook food (the raven tells the birds to bring the best; S. advises 6 wives to mix inedible grass with manure and cook it in cow urine); the prince drove 6 wives away and lived happily with S.]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 17:50-56; konkani (Goa) [the young man fished his golden hair out of the well and decided to marry the one to whom it belongs; the mother sent the maid to search, but she returned to no avail; the hair belonged to the young man's sister; the parents decided to marry them; the cat tells the girl that such a marriage is a shame; she does not understand anything, asks the neighbor; the neighbor says, gives a seed; from it at the well a tree will grow, we must hide in its branches; in the morning the maid went to get water: this is my shadow in the water, this is the shadow of a tree, and whose third is it? she broke the vessel, brought another; when she broke the third one, the girl in the tree laughed; the brother climbed after her sister; she turned to the month: take me to the sky, I will be your bride; a month threw her a rope ray and the girl disappeared into the clouds; a lavish and cheerful wedding in heaven; 10 years later, the wife of a month remembered her parents and cried; a month let her down; she came to the house disguised as a poor man who repairs mats; the maid suspected her, poured water on her, white skin under the soot; but the girl managed to run away and picked her up a month ago]: Rodrigues 2020:125-130; toda [two went for honey, found one, filled the vessel, hid it in a tree, did not tell the other; the vessel turned into a snake, the honey into the Paykara River that flowed from this place; the snake chased the honey that had hidden it; the man threw his clothes on the running hare, the snake chased the hare; the hare asked the Sun to hide it, it said it was hot, let the Moon hide it; the moon promised to hide it; the spots on the moon are a hare; from time to time the snake tries to grab it, happens lunar eclipse]: Rivers 1906:592; cat [hunters chased a hare followed by a huge snake; the hare rushed to the Month, which hid it under his clothes; the snake swallows them]: Emeneau 1944:68 in Elwin 1949:69; Halakki (Okkal) [a snake or beast chases a rabbit; the Sun and Moon brothers try to hide it; the stalker tries to swallow them themselves; people scare him away by hitting drums and gongs]: Gurumurthy 1981:346-347.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Minahasa, Toraja, Boogie, Tobelo, Loda, Sangihe Islands (the retold text belongs to another group, no links; groups with similar ones are listed texts) [a white cat drinks from a pot that served as a hunter for household needs; gives birth to a girl Nini-anteh; when she is seven years old, the hunter takes his wife; in his absence, she mistreats N. and the cat, does not feed them; N. goes to the river, climbs a tree, it grows almost to the moon, from there a staircase descends; the hunter followed him, the stairs were not lowered, he fell down, crashed; now you can see Nini- anteh spinning wheel with cat]: Dixon 1916:238-239.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Bhutan [the parents have a daughter Boded; they decided to leave, leaving her: the harvest on the site is scarce, and there are Shinpo demons around; they told B. to dry the grain, driving the birds away from it; the raven screams that the parents they leave; B. rushed into the house, but they have not yet left; no longer listens to the crow; finally, he screams that the parents are gone; no one is at home, the girl climbed the peach tree to see if they can be seen on the road; who then asks him to throw a peach; she threw it; "fell into the manure, go down, throw it again"; the same; "give it in your hands"; D. held out a peach, shinpo grabbed {man} her, put it in a bag and took it to his house; there is an old hungry dog; whispers: if you feed a little, I will give three words of wisdom; B. had food left with her, she fed the dog, who told her to take three bags of seeds out of her ear: they will come in handy when you run; Sinpo tells B . grind rice, say "I'm here" every now and then; the louse promises to be responsible for it: let him take it out of his hair and leave it in a spit; when the saliva has dried, the louse died and stopped responding; Shinpo rushed in pursuit; B. threw the seeds of pepper trees, a forest of pepper trees grew; then pine seeds; bamboo seeds; shinpo is about to break through bamboo; the moon has risen; B. asks her to lower her iron chain, not a ladder from wool; the moon Acho La La answers every time: wait, I'm still washing my face; cooking breakfast; eating breakfast; cleaning the dishes; looking for a chain; straightening it; the moon lowered the chain, B. climbed; shinpo asks him to lower the chain; the moon answers the same thing as the girl (I wash my face, etc.); lowered the wool ladder; when he climbed half, cut off the stairs; the shinpo fell, fell deep into the ground; on the moon you can see a girl who milks a moon cow]: Choden 1994:35-40.
China - Korea. Pumi (Yunnan) [the evil sorceress who ate the girls' mother took the form of a mother, went to bed with the girls, and started eating the youngest at night; the eldest ran away and hid in a tree with red flowers ( safflower {? this is an annual plant with yellow flowers}); asked the Moon to pick it up, she reached out and took the girl along with the tree (message. Riftin 28.31.03; cm. Yuan Ke, Zhongguo Shenhua da Tsydian (The Big Dictionary of Myths of China), Chengdu, 1998, p.1001); the fox [the old woman tells her daughter and daughter-in-law to sow jute, gives her daughter-in-law roasted seeds to punish later; the daughter tastes the seeds, asks for a change; without waiting for germination, leaves with the bear; brings her husband to her mother; she hits him with a club when he eats with pigs; the bear replies that it is good that his mother-in-law did not hit him in the nose; she hits the nose, the bear dies; the daughter grieves, the mother leaves her to weave under a tree by the spring; the Sun, then the Moon comes to drink; the moon says that the bear's widow will be on the moon better than on earth; she asks for permission to take wood and a spinning wheel with her; on the moon you can see a spinner under a tree]: Assault 1990:470-474.
The Balkans. Macedonians (Orash) [stepmother tyranned stepdaughter; sent her to wash her black wool white; stepdaughter washed, cried, afraid to return home; Month took pity and picked her up; she stands on moon with two water buckets]: Tsenev 2004:47.
Central Europe. Russians (Pskov and Estonian borderlands) [there are dark spots on the moon - this poor woman went to the bathhouse with her guys; she was offended, took a month; there are two spots - a woman with a broom]: Avilin 2019:43 .
Iran - Central Asia. The Vakhans [scolded the innocent girl; offended, she takes a jug and goes to fetch water; on the bank of the river, leaning on sea buckthorn, she began to cry bitterly; the moon looks at the girl from above, began to feel sorry for her, attracts sea buckthorn with the girl; sea buckthorn grows up and takes the girl to the moon; spots on the moon are that girl with her jug]: Bogsho Lashkarbekov, personal communication, 2005; Sarykoltsy [there were two sisters - Mo (moon) and Khurshed (sun). The youngest was more beautiful and attractive than the older one. The sun was angry with her because of this. Luna endured everything. Once the Sun scratched her sister's face, the moon turned pale and lost its beauty. After that, each of the sisters went their own way and did not meet. The moon is ashamed to show up during the day because her face is scratched]: Kabirov 2017:233.
Baltoscandia. Estonians [dark spots on the moon on a full moon - image of a poor serf girl with buckets, who sometimes dragged water and, exhausted by hard work, cried out to the moon for help (Aa US 7)] : Viidalepp 1980:274; Eastern Sami [the wife is dead, the old man took another one, she disliked her stepdaughter; sent her in the dark to fetch water; she cries at the well, asks the moon to pick her up; a chain has descended from the moon the girl climbed it; the old man and his wife looked at the moon: a girl is sitting there and holding a tub]: Yermolov 1959:97-98; Lithuanians [an orphan girl asked Month for help and he took her home]: Balys 1951:9-11 in Vaiškūnas 2006:158; (cf. Lithuanians (Zemaites) [at night, a peasant went to the forest to buy firewood, regretting that he had a lamp, and not a month that gave more light; a man brought him to the pond, showed the reflection of the month; the peasant thought it was a month itself, leaned to grab it, that man pushed him into the water; for a month he felt sorry for the peasant, took him home with a bunch of firewood (now you can see it on the lunar disk)]: Veckenstedt 1883, No. 50:235-236).
Volga - Perm. Komi Zyryans: Fokos-Fuchs 1951, No. 29 [Yong made the sun, Leshy made a month; stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter, sends her stepdaughter to fetch water at night; she asks the Month to pick her up; now she is on his back with a rocker arm and buckets; E. said that for this benevolence, the month will also be God's]: 227 (=Limerov 2005, No. 58:55-56); Uotila 2006, No. 92 (upper reaches of Vychegda, western 1941) [stepdaughter asked the Sun to take her away; the Sun replied that she would burn, advised him to ask for the Month; he took the girl and now she lives there]: 297; Komi-Perm [the girl comes to the river, complains about her stepmother's tyranny; a month comes down to her, she calls him godfather, collects silver on it, promises to give him a red shirt after marriage; the greedy hit also went to collect it for the Month silver when he came down; filled the buckets, raised the rocker; The month took her (she can be seen there); the girl fulfilled her promise; when the Month is red, he puts on a donated shirt]: Konakov et al. 2003:312; Udmurts [the evil stepmother drove Cheremiska stepdaughter to get water early in the morning; she prayed to the Month, he took her to him, where she can be seen with buckets]: Potanin 1883:776; Chuvash: Ashmarin 1984 [o spots on the month say that this is a daughter-in-law, who has suffered a lot from her mother-in-law, whom God carried over for a month out of pity; in some places they only know about her that she is a young woman standing with a rocker arm]: 25; Vardugin 1996 [(details what was in Ashmarin 1984)]: 260; Denisov 1959 [as in Ashmarin; 1) I felt sorry for my daughter-in-law for a month, took it from my mother-in-law witch; 2) A month fell in love with a girl who went to get water, she can be seen there with with a rocker and buckets]: 15-16; Egorov 1995 [an orphan, driven by her stepmother, asked to go to the moon when she was surrounded by spirits sent by her stepmother; the moon raised her to her with a rocker arm and buckets (lunar spots); stepmother, turning into an old woman Vupăr, tries to eat the moon from time to time (eclipse)]: 120; marie: Aktsorin 1991, No. 37 [brother's wife tortures girl with work; sends for water late at night; in the dark she takes a sieve instead of a bucket; begins to freeze, sings about her bitter orphanhood; the owner of the moon descends, takes her home; Orion is her rocker, the sieve is the Pleiades], 38 [stepmother torments her stepdaughter with work; in the dark she descends into the ravine to the spring; tells the wolf to let the moon take her; the moon lowers her silk swing; the moon now shows a girl with buckets], 39 [as in (36), without an episode with a wolf; you can't look at the moon for a long time; if she has time to count the viewer's eyelashes, she will take it home]: 83-86; Bashkirs: Nadrshina 1985, No. 7 [(=2001, No. 11:184); stepmother offends Zukhra, makes you carry water at night; Z. asks the Moon to pick it up, now visible there with a rocker arm], 8 [(=2001, No. 12:184); as in (7), raising Zukhra into the sky, the Moon turns her into a star (Venus)]: 13: Vorobyov, Khisamutdinov 1967 [stepmother tells Zukhra to fill a bottomless barrel on a moonlit night; at the stream, Z. asks the moon to save her from her torment; a star near the moon raises her to the moon; Z. is seen there with a rocker arm and buckets of water; Vega is named Zukhra]: 314-315; Gilyazutdinov 2015, No. 269 [on a moonlit night, stepmother tells Zukhra to train water with a sieve; Z. begs God to lift it to the moon; finds herself on the moon], 270 [stepmother tells Zukhra draw water into bottomless dishes; Z. humbly carries water; the star watching it raises it to the moon with the rocker arm; this star is next to the moon and is called Zukhra's star]: 264-265, 265- 266.
Turkestan. Kyrgyz [the owners torment the orphan girl with hard work; sent her to fetch water at night; she asked the Month to pick her up; the Sun also descended, began to fight the Month; the Month asked me to give it to him an orphan, she is visible there with a rocker arm and buckets; sometimes the girl temporarily freezes and the Month turns black with grief]: Muchnik 1944:33-34 (=Brudny, Eshmambetov 1989:375-377).
Western Siberia. Siberian Tatars [the evil stepmother forced the girl Zukhra to carry water into a bottomless barrel; the moon took pity and took Z. to her; Z. with a rocker arm and two buckets is visible on the moon]: Urazaleev 2007:4.
Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [A month took pity on the hungry boy, took him home; desecrated because of this and became mortal]: Potanin 1883:776; Western Yakuts: Alekseev et al. 1995, No. 35 (Vilyuysky, 2nd The Bordeaux legacy of the Suntar Ulus) [an orphan girl goes to fetch water; says it is better for her to become the sun with the sun, the moon with the moon; the Sun, the Moon, the Earth want her to come; she decides she cannot live on earth, burn in the sun, goes to the moon; visible there with a rocker arm and buckets; she is the spirit of the mistress of the moon]: 197; Gurvich 1948 [1) (Zhilindinsky Nasleg) stone people captured the girl, did slave; at night they sent her with a rocker arm and buckets to the ice-hole for water; she complained to the sky; the sky turned her into the moon, the rocker and the bucket formed spots; 2) var.: the spirit of the moon took pity on the girl, took pity on the girl; 3) = (2), but instead of a girl, a man]: 130; 1977:199 (Olenek Nasleg) [1) a slave girl goes to the ice-hole at night to get water; the spirit of the moon took pity on her, took pity on her; 2) a similar option, but instead of a girl - man]: 199; Ovchinnikov 1897, No. 5-6 (the place of recording is not specified; probably Olekminsk or its environs, where Ovchinnikov was in exile) [two options; the orphan went to get water, stumbled behind the talina, water spilled, the ice-hole was already frozen; the girl asked the Month to take her home; his older brother The Sun wanted to take her himself, overcame the Month; he begged him to leave it to him, because she would have burned in the Sun]: 179-181; central Yakuts: Pripuzov 1885 (West-Kangalassky ulus) [an orphan girl was sent to fetch water on a frosty winter night; she stood by the willow crying; the moon took pity on her and took her home with willow, buckets and a rocker arm; she can still be seen there]: 62; Seroshevsky 1896 (Namsky ulus) [stepmother tortured the girl by sending barefoot on the water in winter; the Month kidnapped her; she is standing on the moon with a rocker arm and buckets, hoists grow near her, with which she was kidnapped; she is an orphan, the soul of the moon]: 667; Tolokonsky 1914, No. 111 (the place of recording is not specified, the mediation of A. Kulakovsky; probably central) [the slave girl went to fetch water at night, asked the moon to take it as a housewife; visible on the moon with a rocker arm, buckets, a lake and a willow bush]: 88; north- Western Yakuts: Khudyakov 1969:372 [an orphan boy goes with a rocker arm to get water; says "To be me instead the spirit of the sun and the month"; they go down, take him away from each other; he climbs on the waist with the buckets; The month snatched the boy with his waist, took it for himself; he is visible for a month, resting one foot against the waist, holding a rocker arm with his hand], 373 [an orphan girl is fed scraps; she goes for with water and a rocker arm, grabs a dry hoist, says, "If I were the spirit of a month or sun"; both go down, ask who she called earlier; the Sun is hot, the Month is cool, it turns by the Month; the Sun tells it to "destroy along with the damage of the month and gain weight with the full moon"]; northeastern Yakuts (Kolyma ulus) [during damage, the moon enters the house where it lives with an orphan; during the full moon goes out with an orphan on the water]: Seroshevsky 1896:667; Evenki Orochons (Bount) [the orphan boy is exhausted by work, the Month takes him, he holds his mittens in his hands; The Month made a wealthy reindeer herder who oppressed an orphan ill]: Voskoboynikov 1960a, No. 13:91-92; the Ngokonnovsky Evenks of Katanga District [The sun appeared in the sky later than the moon; a girl lives on it- orphan; she lived on the land as a worker for a rich man; went to the river to get water, each time complained about her fate; asked the Sun to take her to her; the Sun fell to the ground and picked up the girl; sometimes her you can see]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 54:73-74; 1959:165; Nerchinsk Evenks [(original text in Etn. Review book 12, No. 1:189, zap. K.D. Loginovsky in 1890); the sun and the month go to sea; the mother sent her daughter to fetch water at sunset; did she forget why she came; the mother shouted, Chort, or something, took you? The water dragged the girl, she began to fight, grabbed the talina that grew up during the Month, took him to heaven; visible with a bucket in her hands holding her waist]: Potanin 1893:385; Far Eastern Evenks (Uchurian?) [a rich man tortured the girl with work; at night he sent her for water; the girl began to look at the moon, she asked why she was crying; she took her to her place; a girl with buckets is visible on the moon]: Myreeva 2009b: 159-160; Evens [mother dies, tells two daughters not to go up the river; they go, see the devil, he catches fish, tells one of them to kiss him; the youngest kisses, he bites her, gives her fish, promises to come to guests; the youngest tells the eldest to run, and wrap her in a yurt tire, give her a knife, put her under bed; the devil swallows the youngest, chases the eldest; the youngest cuts his kidneys, liver, heart; he dies; she goes out, ripping his stomach apart; rich people take her as a worker, beat her; going to get water, she asks the Month to pick her up; the Sun takes her away, but the Month takes her away; a girl with buckets is visible on the moon]: Novikova 1958:40-42; 1987:43-44.
Amur - Sakhalin. The Udege people [hunter Kunti ate prey in the forest, his wife Amanda was starving; a month felt sorry for her, invited her to his place; at midnight A. flew to the moon, taking her dog, bucket, bucket with her; they can be seen there; K. turned into a wild pigeon, you can hear it every evening in the taiga]: Podmaskin 1991, No. 17:125 (=Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010:25-26); Nanai people: Arsenyev 1995 (4) [the owner sends the water worker; she cries; A month takes her home, showing a woman with buckets of water]: 152; Lopatin 1922 [mother sent her daughter with buckets to fetch water; she left and heard the birds singing; her mother could not stand it and cursed her to Bya dragged; B. went down, grabbed the girl so hastily that she did not have time to let the buckets out of her hands; since then, you can see a girl with buckets on the moon]: 330; Chadaeva 1990 [in winter, the stepmother sends again and again stepdaughter for water, pours water; she asks the moon to take it; now you can see a girl on the moon with a bucket and a rocker arm; if it rains or snows under the moon, then the girl cries]: 34-35; Negidals: Khasanova, Pevnov 2003, No. 5 [you can see a girl standing with a rocker arm on the moon], 6 [an orphan girl was forced to carry water at night; a month felt sorry for her, took her home, you can see her there now], 7 [stepmother offended the girl- orphan, Month saw all this, invited him to his place; a girl with a rocker arm, a bucket and a puppy is visible on the moon]: 55, 56; nivkhi: Otaina in Turaev 2008 [Moon, out of pity, took the girl whom the mistress sent to the ice-hole on an early cold morning, specially pouring out the water brought in the evening]: 186; Pevnov 2010, No. 9 [an orphan girl was pushed around; at night in December, the hostess poured water and sent the orphan to fetch water, with A puppy went to her; the moon came down, the girl jumped at her with a rocker arm and buckets and a dog, now they can be seen there]: 134-136.
Japan. Miyako Islands [the light of the Wife-Moon was brighter than the light of her Sun Husband; she refuses to change; her husband shoves her to the ground, she falls into the mud; the farmer carries two tubs of water, washes the moon, helps her get out of the mud; the moon rises to the sky, but loses its former shine; takes the peasant to him in gratitude; he is visible on the moon, holding a rocker arm with two tubs on his shoulders]: Nevsky 1996:267; Okinawa: "The collection of Japanese fairy tales is Tsukan", translated and reported by Yoko Naono Fukasawa, 04.04.2016 [1) Akara and Sarah found a peach seed on the river, planted and grew a tree. When they sold mature peaches in cities, Acara allowed customers to taste them and willingly bought them from him, and Sarah was angry and did not allow them and no one bought them from him. When they got home, they quarreled and Akara asked the moon to lower the golden bridge. When he got up, Sarah ripped off his leg and Akara climbed into the moon without a leg; 2) instead of Sarah, a monkey who offers to kill someone who sells less and gives Akara only unripe peaches; he, of course , they buy badly and Akara asks for salvation from the moon]; "Tales of Ogimi Village", 1998. The text "Akana and Them" was translated and reported by Yoko Naono Fukasawa 25.04.2016 [Akana is a character who lives on the moon; "they are a category of demonic creatures"; A. and O. go fishing, with A. a wooden boat and a rich catch, O. has a clay and poor catch; A. advises O. to urinate on the boat, which falls apart; A. believes that O. will eat it, run away; O. catches up and asks why A. red pepper; A.: "If you wash your face with this, you will see China and Yamato (Japan)"; O. believes, washes his face (with infusion) of pepper, sneezes and temporarily goes blind; A. climbed a tree at the edge of the pond, O. sees its reflection; enters water, catches shrimp and fish, ties them to all parts of the body; A. laughs, O. notices him, climbs a tree; A. promises God to carry salt and water for him; if God loves him, let him lower the iron a ladder, and if he doesn't like it, a rope one; God lowers the iron one; O. climbs after A. and manages to gnaw off one leg; the staircase with A. goes up to heaven].
SV Asia. Chukchi: Bogoras 1902 [the well-known story of how the Month took away a boy or girl who was mistreated on earth is also familiar to the Chukchi]: 592; reindeer Koryaks (Avekov) [the angry mother drove her daughter out of the house; the girl went to the river, told the moon that even she was not sad about her; the moon came down, grabbed the girl with the surrounding bushes, took her away (the origin of the moonspots); A year later, the mother dreamed of her daughter, said that there is food on the moon only when the moon arrives; when it goes down, the girl chews the sleeves of her clothes; since then, the Koryaks have been feeding the girl on certain days on the moon; at a festival, food is taken to the roof of the yurt as a sacrifice to the moon and the girl]: Beretti 1929:36; Markovo [is driven by an orphan girl, driven to fetch water at night; she complains to the Moon, Luna ( A month?) takes her home; the girl is seen there with two buckets; dogs loved the girl, they still howl at the moon]: Hakkarainen 2000; forest yukaghirs (p. Ridiculous, Verkhnekolymsky District) [an orphan girl goes with tues to fetch water, asks the moon to pick it up; she finds herself on the moon, visible there with tues in her hands]: Nikolaeva et al. 1989 (1), No. 2:21-23.
The Arctic. McKenzie's mouth [orphan Najuko lives with his uncle; his uncle's wife mistreats him, puts him in the cold; A month takes him home; N. is able to go down, at his request The month takes him the soul of his uncle's evil wife, N. gives him another wife; two old women make a walrus out of garbage, grow it in a vessel of water; he grows, they change blood vessels, then release him into the sea; the walrus drowns N., but he is immortal , kills a walrus, hits old women to death with his fangs]: Ostermann 1942:75-76; (cf. copper [The Sun is a woman, the Month is a man], 33 [the story of the Sun and the Month, as Netsilic tells it, is known, but they do not remember the details; once the Month took a girl sent from the same house ask for meat in another; the Sun got jealous and quickly sent her back]: Rasmussen 1932:23); igloolik [husband mocks his wife; she leaves, asks the Month to pick her up; he takes her to heaven, warns not to look at a hot sun woman; earthly woman is pregnant from the Month; he lifts the caribou collarbone, shows her the ground, sends her to the ground to give birth; supplies meat; the woman's husband spoils meat, the Month no longer goes down to a woman]: Rasmussen 1930a: 87-88; Baffin's Land [husband beats his wife; she leaves, asks the Month to take her; he goes down to pick her up in a sleigh; visits his house Ululiernang, she pulls out her laughing insides; an earthly woman hides her face in her knees when she feels she laughs; a month sends her back to her husband, who feels guilty; she gives birth to a son ; The month sheds caribou meat to his wife and son; when they start eating a seal brought by her husband, the Month stops shedding meat; mother and son die]: Boas 1901b, No. 25:198-200; polar [husband beats wife; she leaves, asks the Month to take her; he goes down after her in a sleigh; his house is visited by the Entrap; grimacing ridiculously, but the woman covers her face with a hood when she is afraid that she will laugh; he leaves; she gets pregnant from the Month; cleaning the house, finds a hole in the floor under the deer's shoulder blade; The month shows her relatives downstairs; sends her to her former husband; sends her meat; born from A month old boy becomes a good hunter]: Holtved 1951, No. 4:31-40.
Subarctic. Kuchin: McKennan 1965 [The uncle does not give the boy deer fat, throws his intestines at his feet; the boy flies to the moon through the chimney; one leg torn off remains in the chimney; the dead caribou come to life and they run away, only the boy's father's meat remains intact; the boy is still visible on the moon; he holds a caribou shoulder blade and a caribou blood scar]: 146-147; Petitot 1886, No. 6 [the old woman finds a boy; he brings caribou, wants all the interior fat; people don't let it, tell him to go back to the Sun; the Sun is hot, he returns to camp, destroys it with a hurricane; leaves for the Month; is seen there with his a white dog and a bubble of caribou blood in his hand]: 66-69; Smelcer 1992 [the hunter kills a lot of caribou, but people don't give him meat; he flies to the moon; the old woman grabs his leg but can't hold him]: 129-130; taltan [the beaver hunter's family cooks blood in a bowler basket; when one son returns, everything has already been eaten; he cries, his father promises to beat him; the young man grabs the pot and gets up by the Month; says he is his real father; seen on the moon disc, holding a pot of blood in his hand; his name is Sa'kesada; he gradually bends down; when his figure turns upside down, the world will end]: Teit 1919, No. 7: 229; hea [people hear crying; only an old woman finds a baby; he grows up, easily gets caribou, asks for the shoulder and stomach of every animal killed to him; people refuse, leave; he stays with his grandmother, drains the lake, there is a lot of meat at the bottom; people fry meat; pieces turn into caribou and musk oxen, run away; Chief Raven still refuses to give the young man his share; he sweeps away the camp with the wind, rises to the Sun; it's too hot there, he goes to live with his father Month; seen with a wineskin of blood behind his back and a white dog; he sends caribou to people]: Petitot 1886, No. 25, 26:187-202.