B19. Night and marriage. 19.21.57.59.63.66.70.72.74.

Until night fell, people couldn't make love in peace.

Meitei, Kayan, Sanema, Yanomami, Yanomam, Kalinha, Trio, Tupi (Central Amazon), Munduruku, Kashinahua, Kayapo, Nivakle, Selknam.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Meitei [in total, the mother of the sun gave birth to 5 sons, but two soon died, and the third later fell to the top {and died too}; the Sun and its older brother Taohuireng remained; when one went in, the other got up; people did not have time to rest; the lazy slave Khwai Nongchengpam Yekma Haotangla (HN) was furious that he could not caress children and see his wife; asked his wife to bring it from her his father did not give bamboo; he did not give it, but his father's brother gave it; HN made a bow and arrow out of this bamboo, smeared them with poison; first hit a jug on his wife's head, then in her ear pendant, then into a sparrow in the field; making sure that marks; told his wife that a boar and a boa constrictor had climbed into the field, but he waited for the Sun to go down, and T. would appear in the east and hit him with an arrow; the Sun was frightened and disappeared; one woman accidentally noticed glow under the ground; 10 kings sent a woman to persuade the Sun to return, she did not persuade; the second persuaded; the sun came out pale, his face was washed, people were happy]: Singh 1985:174-176.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Kayan [Chief Lejo made a sacrifice to plant rice; when he returned for a forgotten knife, he saw heavenly maidens eating meat, they flew away; one of them's hair was entangled in the branches, L. asked him to become his wife; her name is Mang, she agreed, L. allowed her to fly to heaven for clothes, she brought a wicker bag, fell asleep; the child found the bag, made a hole, there was darkness inside; M. did not want her saw an earthly man in the arms, brought darkness from the sky; when M. woke up, she kicked the child out the door, but then the darkness from the room spread across the ground; when the rooster screamed, the darkness cleared, the day became alternate with night; when M. and L.'s daughter became an adult, M. returned to the perfume world]: Knappert 1977b: 120-121.

Southern Venezuela. Sanema [while it was not night, people made love under clouds of smoke]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 346:605; Yanomami: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 62 [people ate the earth; nights were not It was; people were having sex in front of each other; Hõrõnami's son shot a guana; the arrow slightly hit the wing, it became dark for a moment; H. killed the guan, night fell; then H. raised the first bananas], 64 [see motive A47; there was no night, people copulated in the light; Hõrõnami's wife tells him that he is still sleeping and does not notice these outrages; H. killed the guan, night has come; H. began to call,, Pomoyowë went out, brought him to his house; gave him fruit, but they were ticks, H. only pretended to eat them; P. married him a daughter; H. sedated her parents, disappeared; brought people bananas; turned the boy into battleship], 66 [(Lizot MS); it was not night, people had sex in the daylight; copulated with Hõrõnami's wife while he was sleeping; H.'s son only hit the black curazo with a wind gun arrow, darkness fell and quickly dissipated; H. killed a bird, night fell; some people turned into guan birds; then dawn]: 134, 141-144, 147-148; Yanomam [night was gone, White Monkey people copulated in the light, but they made fires to hide in the smoke; Ocelot began to kill birds (such as guanas, curasso, tinama), night came, the more he killed, the longer; the night spirits took the form of these birds, lived among them]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 80:172-174.

Guiana. Kalinya [night is needed to hide sins]: Goeje 1943, no. d 21:108; trio: Koelewijn, Riviere 1987, No. 1 [poor old man son of Përëru (toads) Përëpëräwa hooked first sugarcane cake, then sweet potato peel, yam peel, then Waraku fish, threw it behind her back, she became a Waraku woman; brought all the cultivated plants, knives, and an ax from the water; her father- Cayman also brought plants, which were better than those brought by his daughter, but P. was afraid of Cayman, did not take it; V. refused to copulate during the day; the sun was always at its zenith; at V.'s request, the monkey attracted the sun with a rope to the west, the first night began; P. and V. met; cassava tubers hung on the branches, P. did not collect them since the tubers were in the ground; while P. was hunting, the female spirit Kaikë asked her to say all the words she says to her husband, learned them, ate V. and her child, pulled her skin over her, and the baby's skin over the block; P. felt a different voice and a bad smell, and at night found that the imaginary wife had no vagina; when the imaginary wife went to the garden, P. cooked her baby, gave her broth and pepper to eat; there is no water around, the woman is thirsty, P. finished her off with a club; P. is alone again; returning home, finds food cooked; he has a parrot, a rabbit and a toad at his house; P. saw a vulture woman descend from the sky, P. catches her; when she throws her clothes into the fire, his wife is offended, returns to her father; V.'s father covered everything water; P. turned into a frog to hear the voice of another frog (where the frog is water); Makitiri (the grandfather of the makitiri waterfowl) found it; P. "dived" into imitation birds, but only fell; Father V. came to find out where his daughter was; tied P., dragged him with him; where he dragged through the mountains, river valleys formed, so all rivers were created; brought P. to the sky]: 15-21; Magaña 1987, No. 6 [a man marries fish, the daughter of Cayman; she brings him cultivated plants, teaches him how to build a house, weave baskets, etc.; it was not night, they could not make love; she gets the night from his father; Kaikyo's evil spirit devours her and her son, takes her form, turns a toad into a son; the husband understands deception; gives the meat of an imaginary son to his imaginary wife under the guise of sloth meat; lives alone, finds food cooked; finds a vulture woman, throws her feather clothes into the fire; she leaves; he looks for water, Father-Cayman drags him into the lake; then lets him go]: 132; hishkaryana [daughter The chief tells his father that because of eternal day he does not have a grandson and she cannot have sex; the chief sends people to bring the vessel at night; they open it on the way; hunters in the forest turn into birds, their voices are now heard at night]: Derbyshire 1965:20-21.

Central Amazon. Tupi (the exact place of recording is not known): Baldus 1946:11-12, 83; Couto de Magalhaes 1882 [it was not at night; the daughter of the Great Serpent married a man; does not want to sleep with him in the daylight; asked to send his three servants to bring the night to her father; he gave them a nut, told them not to open it; the sounds of night crickets and frogs can be heard from the nut; in the middle of the journey, the servants discovered a nut; all the things in the forest turned into birds and the animals that were in the river into ducks and fish; the basket became a jaguar, the fisherman and the boat became a duck (head was beak, the boat was the body, the oars became paws); the morning star rose, the daughter of the Snake decided to separate night from day; turned two balls of threads in kuzhubim and inambu birds singing at regular intervals at night and dawn; turned naughty servants into monkeys]: 5-9; munduruku [the night is short, Awareubö wants to lie longer with his wife; she advises him to go to her father for the thread of night; father-in-law gives A. bags with the thread of night and the thread of the day, tells him not to open it along the way; A. opens, turns into a night bird, flies away, carrying the thread of the day]: Murphy 1958, #20:88-89.

Montagna - Jurua. Kashinahua [first they gave the deer the night, it hardly closes its eyes; people could not lie down with their wives without strangers seeing it; they asked to give the rat the night, but it does not sleep much, they did not have time to lie down properly ; slightly better at sachacuy, pacamama; they gave him a tapir, but he sleeps so long that the fields are overgrown and the vines are wrapped around the dwellings; when picuri and carachupa were given, the night is just right]: Ans 1975:132-133.

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo: Posey 1981 (gorotire) [there was no night, men could not sleep with other people's wives; they came to the owner of the night, who gave him a vessel, told him not to open it on the way; one person opened it and bit him a scorpion, which was also in a vessel; a man turned into a nightjar, screams at night in pain]: 60-61; Wilbert 1978, No. 19 [Metraux 1960:18-19; a group of people went towards Aragwaia; along the way we met various monsters (people with hands sharp as bamboo chips; with long penises wrapped around the waist, etc.; passed the land of darkness; Tyoipekro lived near the border of the second country of darkness; when he went away, they kidnapped his daughter; brought him home; she met with her lover, then with another; the first saw, was offended; she ordered to bring the night from her father so that there would be no such misunderstandings; T. gave Calebas told me not to open a scorpion on the road; one man wanted a little night to sleep; opened the calebasa, the scorpion bit him, he became an owl; with a mako feather, T.'s daughter packed the night back to the calebasa, leaving a part for sleep and love]: 88-90.

Chaco. Nivakle [god lets people copulate; he doesn't like it happening in plain sight, he makes the night]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 10:40.

The Southern Cone. Selknam: Gusinde 1931:586 (translated into Wilbert 1975a, No. 8:33-34) [the first sun was Cranahataih, which was hot without interruption; when his son Cran became the sun, he wasn't either left the sky; people did not like the fact that they could not lie in the dark with their wives, and Quanyip made and gradually lengthened the night]; Lothrop 1928 [first, when the Sun was still chasing the moon in the sky, it was an eternal day; Quanyip wanted to marry a young girl, but she refused not wanting the Sun and Moon to look at her; K. sang a song telling the Sun and Moon to hide; since then, the day everything is shortening and someday there will be eternal night]: 101.