A6B. The bisexual sun. (.21.24.26.28.29.32.34.36.39.43.47.52.56.66.67.)
In the same ethnic group, the sun is described as both a man and a woman. See motif A3 - A5.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kachin; Miller 1994 (Yunnan) [Straight and Crooked go and argue whether it is better to act directly and honestly or vice versa; plowman: it's better to act crooked (plow crooked and everything else); lumberjack: better straight ( machetes cut trees straight); fisherman: sometimes it's better like this, sometimes that way; Straight and Crooked got into a fight, Crooked snatched from the Straight Eye, threw it into the river; Straight cries; the Sun God notices that one of the thread of fate that he holds in his hands is weakened, sends his daughter to find out; she tells us what happened; the Sun God descends an old man, inserts a blinded eye, tells the house to prepare the pot three-year-old rice and three-year-old rice wine, fence the cowshed, pigsty and poultry house with bamboo, do not spend the night at home; in the morning the cowshed is full of cows, the pigsty with pigs, the poultry house with chickens, gold instead of rice, instead of wine is silver; upon learning about this, Crooked pulls out his eyes, tells the Sun god that the Straight has blinded him; then the same, but Krivoy dilutes the wine with water, puts three pots of freshly harvested rice, encloses large areas with bamboo; the next morning the barn, pigsty and poultry house are full of cow and pig manure, chicken droppings, crap and urine in pots]: 205-208; see motif A4 (sun-woman).
Malaysia-Indonesia. Semangs.
China - Korea. The Chinese (Shanxi, W. Yicheng) [Heavenly Lord's wife gave birth to 10 sun sons; at first they took turns taking turns, but one day they all appeared together; they were happy and the people suffered; half of the people died, the rest they began to pray to the heavenly lord, but he could not control his sons; Erlan was the son of the Jade Lord, had three eyes, and had the art of 72 transformations; he descended from heaven to Mount Kunlun, he pulled a poplar out of the ground, cleared it of branches, made it a rocker, hung two mountains on it, chased the suns for several days, pressing them down with mountains; near the village of Baiju, the rocker arm broke, the mountains fell to the ground; E. stuck two parts of the rocker arm into the ground, they turned into two poplars without crowns; there was only one sun left in the sky]: Zhou Yang et al. 1999, No. 16:27-28; Chinese (Shanxi, Wu. Yuanping) [The Sun and Moon were sisters; the Moon is beautiful, the Sun is unpretentious; she offered to leave the house one by one; then asked that only the Moon come out at night, because she, the Sun, is afraid; but people are all they laughed at the Sun equally; then she made rays out of the needle and stabbed the eyes of those who try to look at it with them; but everyone still admires the beauty of the moon]: Zhou Yang et al. 1999, No. 6:9.
Central Europe. Russians.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Hittites.
Volga - Perm. Udmurts; Chuvash people.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats [The Sun is the husband of the Moon, or the Sun and Moon are sisters]; Torgouts; Altaians.
Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks (Turukhans) [The sun is the master of the sky, the younger brother of the Moon; the Sun and the Moon are sisters]; the central Yakuts [the sun and the moon are two sisters in some texts, two men in others].
SV Asia. Koryaks.
The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [the old sun is the father, the present sun is the daughter].
Southeast USA. Yuchi.
Mesoamerica Huasteci [see motif A3]; chol [see motif A4].
Llanos. Cuiva.
Montagna - Jurua. Kashibo.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Characterbet [first there were two suns, a man and a woman].