A7. The sun is chasing the moon.

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The sun and the month/moon are creatures of the opposite sex. A man is chasing a woman or a woman after a man. The details of the chase usually explain why the stars have different luminaries and/or why there are spots on the moon.

Melanesia. Keraki: Williams 1969:302 [Kambel made the Sun and Month out of lumps of palm core contents, named them Bangi (Month) and Eram (the secret name for the Sun), told them to be husband and wife; they are friends a friend is being pursued; when the Sun appears, the Month extinguishes its torch], 312-314 [Kambel and his wife Yumar have Gufa's son; while K. is on the site, G. sees his mother sleeping naked, converges with her; K. soon comes, realizes that someone was before him; hides; sees G. making love to his mother again; gives him a special type of tarot that dies; the Natekari dog reproaches K. for murder; K. pierces her tongue with a cassowary pen; when he tries to tell us what happened, he only barks; since then the dogs have not talked; G. comes to life and comes back; K. covers the trap pit with palm leaves, G. falls into it, K. falls asleep; Y. leaves, K. the sky is behind her; he is the Month; according to some options, his wife Y. - The Sun, he haunts her forever]; Santa Cruz [at first the Sun and the Moon walked together; the Sun thought it was too hot on earth; said that the swamp crossed the log; it was rotten, the moon fell, smeared, it was still washing, the Sun went forward; this is how night appeared; the Moon wants to catch up with the Sun and walk together again]: O'Ferrall 1904: 224 (=Coombe 1911:192).

Burma - Indochina. Ede [I Doo is the adopted son of the girl Hkung's mother; in order not to incest, H. asked Eid the difficult task of pouring the dam; he did it; H. ran away from him in the sun; Eid chased her found himself a month away; they are allowed to meet only occasionally, at which time lunar and solar eclipses occur; when people came to earth from the dungeon, ID settled them, gave them languages and customs]: Nikulin 1980d: 480.

(Wed. Malaysia-Indonesia. Temuan (mantra): Skeat, Blagden 1906:320 [The Sun and Moon are women; the Stars are the children of the Moon; the Moon has agreed with the Sun to eat its children, hid them, and the Sun really ate them; if the Sun were There were as many stars as there would be unbearable heat; the Sun is still chasing the Moon; when it catches up, an eclipse occurs; during the day, the Moon continues to hide its children], 338 [(=Hervey 1883:190-191); There were three Suns, a wife, a husband and a child, some of them were always in the sky; To' Entah asked the Moon to hide the Evening Star and child stars in her mouth, invite the Sun to swallow her husband and children; the Sun did so; when she learned the truth, she said that she would swallow the moon if it was on its path; this is the cause of the eclipses]).

Taiwan - Philippines. Tagaly [The moon is afraid that its star children will die from the heat of the Sun's children; suggests that everyone eat their own; the Sun has eaten, the Moon hid its own, now releases only at night; The Sun is chasing By the moon; when it bites, the new moon, the wounds heal, the moon grows fat]: Rybkin 1975, No. 109:261; Tagals (? ; ethnicity is not a decree.) [The sun man Arao has a lot of sun children, the moon woman Buan has child stars; B. is afraid that her children will burn from the heat of A.'s children, agreed with him that everyone will eat their own; hid her own in the clouds; c Since then, A. has been chasing B., when she catches up, eclipses occur; at dawn, A. attacks the stars; B.'s eldest daughter, Tala (Venus, both morning and evening); B. releases her children when T. speaks to her that A. is gone]: Rahmann 1955:202; maguindanao [the maid asks the woman to come to her dying mother; the husband returns before his wife, accuses her of infidelity; the woman runs away, the husband after her, with him him Arimaunga dog; God turned a woman into the moon, her husband into the sun; when a dog grabs the moon, eclipses occur]: Rybkin 1975, No. 45:138-139; Tirurai [son of the Sun and Moon fell to the ground; the cannibal wanted eat it; he told the Morning Star woman about his adventures; his parents quarreled, the Moon threw fire into the Sun, the Sun threw a gabi leaf and a comb into the moon; a leaf on her face, the Moon from time to time takes the shape of a crest]: Eugenio 1994, No. 72:138-139; Mandaya: Eugenio 1994, No. 70 [The Sun and Moon had many children; the couple quarreled, the Moon is still running away from the Sun; the children are dead, the Moon scattered parts of their bodies; those who fell into the water became fish, snakes and animals on land, stars into the sky], 71 [The sun husband was ugly, quarreled; chased the Moon Wife; he still chases, sometimes almost enough; their first son was a big star; the Sun got angry, cut it into small pieces, scattered it across the sky, it turned out to be stars; their other son is a huge Tambanokaua crab; when he blinks, out of his eyes lightning flies out; when it sits in its hole on the seabed, the tide; when it comes out, the water fills the hole - low tide; sometimes it tries to swallow its mother the Moon (eclipse); at this time, people hit the gongs, driving away Crab]: 136, 137; visayas [the children of the Sun and Moon are Stars; when the Sun tried to hug them, they burned; the Moon forbade the Sun to approach them; the Moon went to wash, the Sun approached the children again, killing many; the Moon hit the Sun with a banana stalk, and the Sun threw sand in her face; the spots remained; the Sun is still chasing the Moon, sometimes almost catching up]: Cole 1916:201 (=Eugenio 1994, No. 61:124); manobo [The moon went into the field, told her Sun husband not to approach the children; he kissed them, burned them; in response to his wife's reproaches, scattered burnt bodies, threw tarot leaves (spots) into the face of the moon; until now haunts her]: Eugenio 1994, No. 67a: 131; manuva [The moon asked her Sun husband to watch over the child, but not to approach him; he came closer, the child died of burns; the moon has gone away from the Sun, chopping the child's body into pieces; some became stars, falling to the ground - cicadas singing under the moon; the Sun is unsuccessfully trying to catch up with the moon]: Eugenio 1994, No. 68:134; maranao [The sun was near by his sister Moon; they quarreled, he pursues her; when the world ends, they will be there again, the Sun will approach the earth, everything will burn]: Eugenio 1994, No. 69:135; blaan [The sun tells his wife- The moon does not start eating until he returns; he's been gone for a long time, she ate, he cut their child to pieces, the pieces have become stars; the Sun tries to make peace with the Moon, chasing it unsuccessfully]: Eugenio 1994, No. 66a: 129; Negrito Luzon [The moon asked her husband The sun not to approach their children, because he was too hot; but he was approaching, the children were burning; the moon ran away from the Sun, he pursues her unsuccessfully; her face is scarred by the hot smut he hit her with]: Garvan 1963:207.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ingush: Akhriev 1875 [The Month and the Sun are brother and sister; sister chases brother, obscures him, hence eclipses; spots on the moon are images of brother and sister]: 11 in Chibirov 2008:85; Dalgat 1972 [the blacksmith wanted to marry a girl who lived in the tower; she was radiant; he did not know she was his sister, but she knew; replied that the fire and ash would remove her radiance; at night he followed her, taking a golden head; she ran, he followed her, so they ran after each other to death; the sparks from the head turned into stars; the girl was left with radiance, the young man had a head; they became the sun and the moon; The sun is still striving to catch up with the Moon (the same Aliroev 1976:222-223; Malsagov 1983, No. 156:295)]: 257-258; Kumyks [The month was in love with the Sun, found her at work, she smeared the earthen floor with gray clay; he joked with her, she threw a piece of sheepskin at him, which she smeared the floor with, ran away; it became the Sun, the young man became a Month, still can't catch up with her]: Abakarova 1984:123; Hajiyeva 1961:329; Lucky, Lezgins, Dargins, Avars [in the mythology of Laks (Barz), Lezgins (Varz), Dargins (Budz), Avars (Mots) The moon looks like a beautiful girl; she was in love with the Sun (Laks) - Barg, Avars - Buck, Lezgins - Rag, Dargins - Berkhy); began to boast that she was more beautiful than the Sun, that they looked at it more; the Sun threw clods of dirt at her, the spots remained; repenting, trying in vain catch up with the Moon]: Khalilov 1980:163; Rutultsy [sister, offended by her brother's harassment, hit him with a ladle, ran away, turning into the Sun; brother, turning into the Month, tries to catch up with her; c since the Month of Spots]: Gamzatov, Dalgat 1991:293; Talyshi: Alibekov 1893 [The Sun was the wife of the Month; when the wife baked cheeks in the tandoor, the husband began to flirt with her; considering it indecent while cooking chureks, the Sun Wife threw a test at her husband's face, ran away; The month is chasing her; can't wash herself off; used to be more beautiful than the Sun]: 203-204; Bagriy 1930 (3) [The Sun was the wife of the Month; when the wife baked cheeks in the tandoor, the husband began to flirt with her; the wife threw dough in her husband's face, ran away; The month began to chase the Sun and is still chasing; the month cannot wash off the dough; it used to be more beautiful than the Sun]: 10-11; Armenians: Bagriy 1930 (3) [The Sun was the wife of the Month; when the wife was kneading the dough, the husband flirted with her; the wife threw dough in her husband's face, ran away; The month began to chase the Sun and still chasing; spots on the moon are dough]: 125; Ganalanyan 1979, No. 337g [The Sun and the Month were swimming; The month came out first to see her sister's nudity; she rose to heaven out of shame, the Month is still chasing her The sun stabs its eyes with needles-rays]: 126-127.

Iran - Central Asia. The Vakhans [The moon knew that the Sun was her brother, but the Sun did not know it; they went out to heaven in the morning and walked together until evening; the Sun falls in love with the Moon, one day intends to take possession of it by force; Moon breaks out of the hands of the Sun and, offended, stops communicating with it, decides to walk only in the night; she scratched her face with annoyance, traces of scratches remain (spots); The sun after that incident pursues the moon and chases her, cannot catch up; the Moon bypasses all 12 zodiac signs in a month, and the Sun makes this journey only in a year]: Bogsho Lashkarbekov, personal report, 2005.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [Saule must flee from the Month that haunts her (the change of day and night)]: Civjan 1988:229.

Amur - Sakhalin. The Nanais [Month (Bia) chases the Sun (Siun); during the new moon, he catches up with her, copulates; when he sees this, the master of the Enduri universe lowers his heavenly dog on B., she bites B., he runs away to distant meadows to heal with herbs; after being cured, he returns]: Sam 1990:124.

The Arctic. Central Yupik [the youngest of four brothers is lazy; does not hunt, stays at home with her sister; one day she wakes up feeling near him, drives him; the next evening she cuts off her chest, puts her chest down, puts him down fat and berries on top, invites him to eat it, since he wanted it; a ladder descends from the sky, she climbs it, turns into the Sun; the brother hurriedly puts one leg in his leg, pulls his sock over the other rushes after her sister, turns into a Month; still chases her; loses weight from hunger; sister feeds him from the plate in which her chest lies, the Month is getting fat again]: Nelson 1899:482; Nunivak Island [the husband's nephew lives in their house; the wife says that someone goes to her at night, puts off the lamp; the husband realizes that this is his beloved nephew; he comes openly, they both love each other; the wife takes a lamp, runs, rises to the sky, becomes the sun; nephew follows her, becomes a month; once caught up, the Sun almost burned the earth]: Lantis 1946, No. 2:268-269; Northern Alaska Inupiate : Lucier 1958, No. 2 (noatagmiut) [the young man goes to his sister at night; she smears his finger with soot, stains his forehead, recognizes his brother in the morning; cuts off his breasts, serves him on a plate; lights a torch, rises to the sky, becomes the sun; oil dripping from the torch turns into oil outlets; brother follows her to the moon]: 91-92; Rainey 1947 (Point Hope) [Someone comes to Sukunuk at night; she smears her lover's face soot; in the morning he sees a mark under his brother Alignuk's eye; fills the bowl with urine and feces, cuts off his left breast, A. gives it all, offers to eat it if he loves it; they began to spin, went up to the sky; A. told his sister to go to the sun, where it was warm, went to the month where it was cold; on the disk of the moon you can see A. holding a bag of tools; the sky at sunset is colored with blood from S.'s chest]: 270; Petitot 1886, No. 3 (northern slope) [the young man goes to his sister at night; she smears her hands with soot to identify her lover; in the morning he sees spots on his brother's face; runs to heaven, becomes the sun; brother runs after her, turns per month; she is still haunted, an enemy of women]: 7-8; caribou [people find brother and sister in each other's arms; out of shame they run to heaven, turn into the Month and the Sun; both carry torches; Month moves fast, his torch goes out]: Rasmussen 1930b: 79-80; polar Eskimos [two options; young people play a game of extinguished lights; the boy sleeps with his younger sister; both run with torches in their hands; brother stumbles, his torch goes out; they go up to heaven; sister turns into the Sun, brother into the Month; both live in different parts of the same house]: Holtved 1951, No. 3:7-8; igloolik: Kroeber 1899 , No. 26 [A lover goes to the girl at night; she finds out that it is her brother (without details); cuts off her chest, offers him to eat; runs away, he chases her, falls, his torch goes out, both go up to heaven; the Month has a wife in the sky; the Sun sister lives in another part of the house]: 179-180; Rasmussen 1930a [girl smears soot on her night lover's face; identifies her brother at the dance]: 81; Spalding 1979 ( Repulse Bay) [Aningaat is blind; his mother points his arrow at a polar bear, says A. got into a dog; feeds him a dog, eats bear meat with her daughter; his sister secretly gives it to her brother; takes him to the lake; Loon dives with him, rubs his eyes three times, he sees the light; ties tench to his mother's belt, harpoons a large beluga whale, which takes its mother to sea; brother and sister come to people with long nails; sister comes into the house to ask for water; the inhabitants begin to rip off the meat; the brother breaks in, kills everyone with an ice ax; wipes his sister's back with snow and urine, the flesh recovers; they come to those who play with a cup -and-ball; A. picks up one device, runs away; comes to people without anus; A. tells her sister to take her husband there; she gives birth; the local foreman says they now have a man with an anus and a penis; pierces his anus; the other pierced, missed, died; A. began to secretly go to his sister; she smeared her nose with soot; both came to the meetinghouse, where it's a holiday; everyone laughs at A., seeing his black nose; sister dips a moss torch in fat, runs away; A. runs after her, but did not dip the torch in fat, so it quickly went out; sister became the sun, A. month]: 48-50; netsilic [Aninga is blind; his mother Agthulg-Rarnan aims at his arrow, lies that he missed the bear; eats meat herself; his sister Aleka feeds him secretly; he asks to be taken to the sea; two Loons in human form lick his eyes, making them keen; he harpoons the walrus, tying the tench to his mother, the walrus drags her into the sea; brother and sister leave; the mother's spirit in the form of a strip of fire, a moving belt blocks the way; they they jump over these obstacles; the sister goes to ask for water from spirits with claws on their hands; they want to kill her, her brother kills them, heals her sister; they come to people without anuses; they suck meat to fill them; brother gets married, sister gets married; those women have no vaginas, pregnant women get their bellies ripped open; sister gives birth normally; her mother-in-law pierces her vagina with a meat fork, dies; sister smears her black face unknown lover, identifies brother in the morning; they decide to turn into something; sister suggests, brother rejects options (wolves: their teeth are too sharp; bears: clubfoot; musk oxen: sharp horns; seals: sharp claws; etc.; in the sun and month); they light moss torches, run, rise into the air; sister extinguishes her brother's torch, so the month is cold]: Rasmussen 1931:232-236; Eskimos Labrador: Hawkes 1916 [girl smears her chest with soot to identify her night lover; sees soot on her brother's face in the morning; cuts off her breasts, puts her in front of him; If she wanted, eat me now; brother is angry rushes after her around the house, outside, into the sky; they become the month and the sun; when they meet, eclipses occur]: 156; Turner 1894 [girl smears her chest with soot to identify her night lover; in the morning sees soot on her brother's lips; parents scold them; brother runs away, turns into a Month; sister grabs burning smut, chases him, turns into the Sun; sparks from the smut are stars; when sister catches up brother, eclipses occur]: 266; angmassalik [A month comes to Sister Sun; she smears his face with soot, recognizes his older brother in the morning; runs with a burning torch, rising in circles to the sky; cuts off one breast, throws the Month; he stumbles, his torch goes out; he rises behind it to the sky]: Thalbitzer 1923, No. 215:397-403; West Greenland: Birket-Smith 1924 [Sun and Month are sister and brother; the well-known story of a brother running after his sister and both rose to heaven; now the spot at the top right of the lunar disk is identified with the Month itself, on the left with his dog, and at the bottom with A ripper trying to make people laugh and then pull their guts out; previously, stains were considered traces of soot with which her sister smeared her brother's face]: 437-438; Rink 1875, No. 35 [in the absence of her husband to Two little birds enter the house to the old woman, first snow bunting (Plectrophanes nivalis), then wheat-ear (Saxiola ænanthe); each says someone else will come in and tell something; enters A sunwoman tells her story; she smeared soot on an unknown lover's back, identified her brother in the morning; cut off her breasts, invited him to eat them if he liked her body so much; both lit pieces of moss began to rise into the air; her moss burned well, it went out; it became the Sun, it became the Month; the Sun was beautiful in front, and it looked like a skeleton in the back]: 236-237.

Subarctic. Koyukon [a girl rejects her suitors; someone comes to her at night; she ties a pen to his hair; in the morning she sees that she is the eldest of her four brothers; puts on her best clothes, goes up to east, becoming the Sun; her brother forgets to wear one moccasin, follows her sister, turns into a Month; people don't look at the Sun without wanting to dishonor her]: Chapman 1903, No. 5:183-184; inhalic [ a girl rejects her suitors; someone comes to her at night; she ties a feather to his hair; when she comes in porridge, she sees that it was her brother; puts on her best clothes, cuts off her breasts, puts them on a bowl with food, gives it to his brother; rises to the sky, becomes the sun; brother runs after it, becomes the Month; hurries to wear only one moccasin]: Chapman 1914, No. 4:21-22.

NW Coast. The Tlingits [" The sun and the month, according to their myth, were once people, brother and sister. But they cannot say correctly which of them was a brother and who was a sister, believing that the month was a brother and the sun was a sister. My sister, living on earth, had a lover, but secretly from everyone. Her brother somehow found out and wanted to shame his sister in an extraordinary way. One dark night, when he was sure that his sister's lover would not come to her, he came to her himself; his sister mistook him for a luovnik, and caressed him as usual, but did not see him caress him. This surprised her a little, and as if as punishment, she decided to secretly impose a sign on his braid, on his head, in order to laugh at her lover in the morning. But instead of her lover, she sees her own sign from her own brother; she immediately ran away from home out of shame, and then became the sun, and her brother became a month old. His sister's shame is always with her, and that's why she tries to escape from the Sun; since then, the Moon has been running away from the Sun, trying to run away from her brother, meeting him as little as possible. "]: Veniaminov 1839:62-63.

Plains. Blacklegs: Grinnell 1893 (blood) [see motive F30; a woman has a snake lover; her husband kills him, cuts off his wife's head; her body chases him, turns into the Moon; he turns into the Sun; if The moon will catch up with the Sun, the world will fall into darkness]: 44-47; Wissler 1936 [The sun and moon are brother and sister, quarreling; the moon grabs the burning smut, runs to the sky; the sun follows it, its smut is brighter; in the sky The Moon is the Sun's wife]: 7.

The Southern Cone. Alakaluf [during the Yinchiahua ceremony, men frighten women with the name of this spirit; this holiday was once celebrated by women and led by the Moon, the wife of the Sun; women treated badly men, forced them to work all the time; under the guidance of the Sun, men overthrew women's power; women became animals of all kinds; the moon ran to heaven, her husband followed her]: Gusinde 1923- 1924:287-288; 1984:487; Selknam: Chapman 1972 [Moon (Kra), daughter of Heaven, was Snow's sister and wife of the Sun; the Sun's brother was Wind; Snow married Rain's sister; Moon and Snow fell down to the South, the Sun (Crane) and the Wind to the West; Rain, Sea and their sister Storm to the North; the East was the center of the entire population and the focus of shamanic power; there was Speech (Temukel), the strongest of all; during the Howench era, all of them, as well as some stars, lived on earth; then the Howench people turned into birds, animals, plants, hills, lakes, rainbows, etc.; with the exception of T., the moon was the most strong; she and other women dominated men; they worked housework, took care of children; girls took the status of women after undergoing rituals in the Hain hut; painted masked women depicted spirits coming out of the ground or descending from the sky; one day Sat (a bird that eats oysters), Swamp Kulik, and Korolek (all from the West) looked into Hain; S. whistled, warning other men; the masked woman turned into a swan; the Sun, and then the Wind, pushed the moon into the hearth; the moon ran to heaven, the Sun is still trying to catch her; he taught his wives to beat, burn marks can be seen on the face of the moon; men killed women, they turned into birds; only little girls were left]: 148-152; Gusinde 1931 [lights, winds, mountains, rivers were the first ancestors of hówen, lived on earth; men did all women's work, obeyed women in everything; women were led by Shaman Moon Kra, the wife of the Sun Kran; to keep men at bay, she came up with the idea of building a big hut, paint themselves, come out of the hut in the guise of perfume (klóketen rituals); men and women, looking from a distance, believed that they were spirits that came from heaven and from under the ground; women told their husbands that Xálpen they demanded meat, ate it themselves; returning from hunting, Crane accidentally spied and overheard two girls (according to one version, his daughters) rehearsing the roles of spirits; told them to become two timid birds (like ducks); frightened another woman, she became a swan; The crane consistently sends three men (birds of three types) to run through the large hut and make sure that there is no one but women in it; when Crane's daughter came for meat, her father threw guanaco under her feet in anger; the women were frightened, but Kra decided to dress up as Xálpen again, go demand meat; it did not work; on the whistle of a bird š at, men killed women with clubs; Kra ran to heaven, Crane is still chasing her, her face shows bruises and burns; after the extermination of the women, there are little girls left; they have grown up, men they began to arrange a klokten themselves; hiding the truth from women]: 600-601; Wilbert 1975a, No. 57:147-161.