A47A. A lizard finds the sun. (.52.)
Alizard or iguana is associated with the appearance of the sun.
Tepehua, Totonaki, Yucatec.
Mesoamerica Tepehua [a lizard finds a rock with the sun inside; a woodpecker breaks a hole; animal people lure the sun out by dancing; he agrees to go out on the condition that they always dance for him; him replaced the heart with something like glass to reduce fever]: Oropeza Escobar 2007:194 (=Williams García 1972:93); Totonaki: Arenas 2000 [the lizard always basked on a hot stone; girls they noticed a mirror inside him; only the hummingbirds managed to break the stone; the girls began to argue about who would take the mirror, one accidentally swallowed it; gave birth to a boy; he ordered to collect fuel for the fire; one man said he would be the Sun; the boy threw himself into the fire, the sun rose; that man threw himself into the coals, became the Month]: 21-24; Ichon 1969, No. II-1 (mountain totonaki) [was only the Month, the lover of all women ; said he was the Sun; the boy was watching the Iguana, who was basking on a hot stone; all the birds were hammering a stone, the Hummingbird managed to split it; there was a yellow egg inside the rock; he was surrounded by girls; it burns them skirts, remains lying on the orphan's skirt; she is told to swallow an egg; she gives birth to a boy; he drinks broth, not milk, does not tell his mother to approach him; climbs a tree, branches light up (the origin of fire) ; says that his grandmother will be east at the edge of heaven, his grandfather in the west, his mother at the zenith; tells his dog to show the month-stalker the wrong way; when he returns to the crossroads, the Month kicks the dog; since then since dogs don't speak; The month is still chasing the Sun; their quarrels cause eclipses]: 55-57; Relatos Totonacos 1994 (Veracruz, Papantla de Olarte) [it was dark, three wise kings ruled; man found a stone that emitted light and warmth, and a lizard was constantly lying and warming on it; one of the kings ordered that the stone be given to the boy, sent it east; one person who spent time at the holidays and who seduced women, said that the stone should have been given to him, followed; the king said that the sun would soon appear, told him not to wait for sunrise when he climbed a tree; one man climbed and was the first to see sunrise turned into a secapalo vine; the Sun was followed by the Month, which was that seducer women]: 9-13; Münch 1993 (coastal) [see motif A24; ancestors live in a dark cold world; shines only the heavenly serpent is the Milky Way; its mouth is open; the lizard finds a hot stone, cooks food on it; four birds manage to break the stone, get a shining egg; animals bring it to the spring; an orphan girl finds an egg, brings it home; it returns to the spring three times; on the fourth, the girl grabs it with her teeth, it bursts, she swallows it; nine days later she gives birth to twin sons; one turns into the Sun, the other into the Month]: 37-40; Tino 2012 (Olintla) [the old man noticed that lizards had gathered on the stone; broke a stone, it contained a yellow egg; the girl swallowed it, became pregnant, 9 months later, she gave birth to a boy, died during childbirth; he was raised by his grandmother; he said he would be the leader; they lit a fire, he rose to the sky, the other man was only in cold ash; women washed clothes, it dried up {the second half of the text is not well understood}]: 295-319; yucateki (Izamal) [the old sun (man) was tired of wearing the crown, it was too hot; the iguana couple found two eggs by the sea, buried them in the sand to warm them; the old sun caused a flood; the eggs were preserved, a boy and a girl came out of them; a girl slept at the bottom of a well (cenote), a boy in a tree; saw an iguana create valleys and mountains, trees and etc.; Iguana asked him to be the new sun; the boy became the sun, the girl became the moon; they dried the earth; while they were shining together, it was too hot; they decided that the sun would be during the day, the moon at night; when the moons were not apparently she is sleeping at the bottom of a well]: Villar 1989:82.