B33G. Three horsemen (sun, month, night).

(.19.) .28.-.31.

Horsemen or horses represent stars or different periods of the day.

(Kivai), Slovaks, Russians (Arkhangelsk), Shahname, Scandinavians, Ingush, Lithuanians.

(Wed. Melanesia. Kiwai [a person sailed in a boat in the direction of the moonrise to find out whether one character is the Month and the Sun or different; the Month of Gan√∫mi appears to him as a boy, adult, elderly, etc.; Sun, Month and Darkness are three men; the first has a red garden and everything else, the second is white, and the third has black]: Landtman 1927:52-53; Dauan: Laade 1971, No. 33 [saying goodbye to his pregnant wife, Kabai sailed to find out if the Sun and the Month were the same or different; after a few days he sailed to their country; they were different people; he was given tarot, coconuts; when he returned, his wife's daughter was already big]: 59-61; Wirz 1932 [people began to argue whether one person is Sun and Month, Day and Night, or different; Kabai swam, met everyone, returned to say that they are different men]: 286-287).

Central Europe. Slovaks [three laundresses have lost their husbands; they want to bake bread, they are looking for fire; the first, the second go away, disappear; the youngest consistently meets three riders with a dog; each dog gives one a piece of bread, she divides it among herself, the horse and the owner; the first rider is light, the second is darker, the third is dark; the third explains that they serve as the sun, the month, the sorcerer's night; tells throw a halter on the sorcerer, drag him into the fire; the sorcerer turns into different monsters, animals, then burns; on the site of the house, the country and the city; the people sitting in cages, including the first two laundresses, are free ]: Gorbov 1949:177-180; Russians (Arkhangelskaya: Pinega) [one house (female brownie) ate people, the other was smart, she had a name day, she went and saw: there is a white horse, a white horse cart, white man; then the same, red; still coming, same thing black; came to the first house; there's a hand on the porch, a leg on the last mortar, a leg on the upper the column is a braid (hair), in the corridor the intestines hang on the spoke, in the basement there is blood, in the closet there are heads, in the lady there are eyes; the evil belly explains: white - day, red - sun, black - night, leg - kitsynka {?} , hand - rake, braid - panicle, blood - beer, heads - gingerbread, eyes - icons; said that she would go down to the underground for milk, and went to sharpen her teeth herself; the cat tells me to run, the hostess wants to eat the guest; smart the housekeeper spat on that gingerbread, the saliva is responsible for it; the angry one came out, beat the cat with a broom, chased her in a mortar; the clever housekeeper climbed onto the roof and teases, and the angry one can't get up there]: Karnaukhova 2009, No. 71:198-200; Russians (letter, original and place of recording are unknown) [the merchant's wife dies, leaving her daughter Vasilisa a blessing and a doll; the merchant marries a widow with two daughters; a doll feeds, comforts V., does the job; the fire goes out, the half-sisters send V. to Baba Yaga for fire; on the way, a horseman passes by on a white horse (dawn), on a red horse (sun), near Baba Yaga's house - on a black horse (night); a house made of bones, on skull stakes with burning eye sockets; Baba Yaga orders to peel wheat from nigella, the next day - poppy seeds; the doll does everything; after learning that V. Blessed, Baba Yaga tells her stepmother to take a skull with fire; he incinerates her stepmother and her daughters; V. buried her skull, asks her father to buy linen; to see the canvas she woven, the king marries her]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), NO. 104:159-165.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ingush [morning, day and night were associated in Ingush mythology with three horse colors: red, white and black]: Tsaroeva 2016:115).

Shahname [Zol is young, mobed sages test his mind; first question: 12 trees, each with 30 branches; sometimes dry leaves fall from those trees, sometimes the foliage is lush grows, but the number of branches is always the same; Zol: it's a year and 12 months; second question: two horses race after each other, black and white; Zol: night and day; third question: someone with a sharp sickle mows without parsing dry grass and fresh bud; Zol: This is death]: Ulug-zoda 1989:78-79.

Baltoscandia. Scandinavians [Gulvi's Vision"; Nervi or Narvi was called a giant living in Jotunheim; he has a black and gloomy daughter named Night; her husband Naglfari, they have a son Aud; then Anar, their daughter, became husband Earth; Delling's last husband from the Ace family, their son Day, is beautiful and bright in his father; All Father (i.e. One) gave Night and Day two horses and two chariots, sent to heaven once a day to go around the earth; Night is ahead Frost Mane rules the horse, every morning the foam that flows down from his bit irrigates the ground; the horse of the Day is Clear Mane, his mane illuminates the ground and air]: Younger Edda 2005:19; Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 125 [36 options; some storytellers improvise to describe the girl's rescue; the weaver, the spinner, and the seamstress worked in the evening, the ray went out, only the younger sister agreed to go after the fire; they meet along the way white pan in a white carriage with white horses and a white dog, then black and red; everyone does not recommend going - you won't come back; the girl came to the hut; the gate is spinning on the person's leg, on the fence heads, the door is closed by the hand, there is a hand at the door, there is a barrel of blood in the hallway; there is a hole in the hut and the head is on the cola, the laume is warming up by the pit, asks what the girl saw; she describes the lords; laume: this is my day, night, fire; heads - pots, hands - rake and swirl (?) , brine in barrels, broom and poker in the pit; didn't you see anything else? - Nothing. Laume tore it apart], 126 [a spinner, a weaver, a seamstress and a cook work in the evening; there was a ban on lighting a fire; only a woman outside town has a fire; the first three say that they are shining a tow, a loom tycoon, needle; the cook is forced to go; meets a white rider on a white horse with a white dog, beyond black, red; then people stand upside down; at the door the head, where the pen is the human tongue, in the kitchen guts, hand near the pot, bones are cooked in a pot, a witch eats a small child, demands to say what the girl saw; gives explanations: horsemen - day, night, dawn; people on their heads - fence, her hand is a ladle, jelly is cooked in a pot; in the end, the girl says that she sees a witch eating a baby; - And I'll eat you too! And ate]: 306-308, 308-310.