B44. The dispute over time, A1150, A1172.
Thefirst ancestors (usually animal people) argue about how long the year, winter, night, or other periods of time should last, whether cold and dark should be replaced by warmth and light.
North Africa. Algerian Arabs (Tiaret Plateau): Aceval 2005, No. 126 [The prophet asks animals for their opinion on Ramadan; the jackal wants it to last one morning and consist of eating figs; hare: so much how long it takes to peel the skin on the trunk of a yuyuba; boar: as many (days) as I have bristles and excrement; partridge: a month; the Prophet rewarded the partridge by painting its beak and legs with henna; its meat edible, it inspires poets; forbids eating wild boar and pig meat; the hare is edible but its tail is not; jackals will all be driven away], 127 [God wants to know the animals' opinion about the desired duration Ramadan; some offer an hour, others half a day, a third week or more; hare: a year; sheep: a month; God rewards a sheep: he will give birth to lambs and give wool; punishes the hare: he will jump, forever in trouble, his children are of little use]: 145-146, 147.
Melanesia. Pentecost [Tagar planted yam peel, Suqe the core; T. wanted people to die for five days, S. wanted people to die forever; S. wanted six nights to have only one day, T. did day and night are the same]: Codrington 1881:293; Maewo (more precisely the Whitsuntide islet south of Maewo) [Tagaro descended from heaven, created people and everything else, returned to heaven; Suqe lived on earth; his the head is split, so it always has two thoughts; S. does everything badly; wanted people to die only for 5 days; wanted to plant the flesh (scooped meat) of yam, not the peel; wanted five nights for one day]: Codrington 1891:169; (cf. North Bougainville [the boy is naughty, goes to sleep on the platform in front of the house; the Tukis spirit takes him along with the platform; he grabs a branch, climbs a tree; After discovering the loss, T. comes back; the boy throws a nut at him; T. says Darkness, darkness, come quickly; the boy throws nuts at him; dawns, T. leaves]: Blackwood 1932:93-94; mono (o- va Shortland) [parents do not give the boy a betel, he cries; Nitu took him to the forest; the boy climbed a tree, ripped off the bark from the trunk and wrote; sitting at the top, he said "day"; N. ordered to say "night"; c At dawn, N. disappeared into the cave; the boy went down, ran to the village; the men killed N.]: Wheeler 1926, No. 39:60-61).
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lhota [birds gather to decide how day will alternate with night; Scoop wants ten days of darkness, then nine days of light; indignant birds hit her on the head, now she is flat; The Wagtail wants darkness and light to alternate every day; the birds agree, bale it with their beaks on all sides, now Wagtail is small]: Mills 1922:196-197; rengma [dark all the time at first; animals and birds gathered to discuss how to separate day and night; scoop: one year day and one year night; no one liked it; nectar: alternately, three stones in the hearth; since then, three stones in the hearth stone; everyone liked it, they began to squeeze the nectar, it became small; the sun rose]: Mills 1937:270-271; ao: Smith 1926, No. 1 [birds gather to solve important issues, waiting for an opinion the wise-looking Owl; she says that if there is light, let it be eternal, and if the darkness is also eternal; the birds rush to trample on the Owl, her head has become flat; asks the Hummingbird to speak; he suggests that light and darkness alternated; for this decision, the birds squeezed him so joyfully that he became small]: 372; Coupe 2007, No. 4 (Mongsen, West 1999) [as in Smith; Hyamnyungan (Burma) has a similar story]: 481-486; rawang [the earth was twilight; humans and all animals are going to decide what to do; Big Frog: if it's dark, let it be it is dark, and if it is light, then let it be light; others said that she does not know how to do it, they have crushed it with a stone, since then the frog has been flat; the Owl: even if it is dark and light; others said that the Owl knows how to speak they started rubbing her head, she became flat]: LaPolla, Poa 2001:22.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Central Flores (nage) [the sky was low; the Dove said seven men and seven women were enough to populate the earth; Philemon (friarbird, Philemon, the honeysucker family) replied, that people would constantly die and be born, there would be many of them, and the dead would go to the lower world; The dove wanted bamboo to have one knee at the top and one below, Philemon to have many knees; Dove: night one year and day one year, Philemon - night and day are transient; Dove: one grain of rice for a whole vessel, Philemon - cook many grains, eat many too; Pigeon: red and black threads when spinning { incomprehensible}; Philemon - spinning will be tedious; The pigeon grabbed Philemon, carried to sell to Goa Jawa; the Sunbird bird bought him for the forest fruits that the Pigeon now feeds on; heavy The banyan could not bear fruit; he told both birds to find their own food until the land bore fruit and the stones bloomed; Philemon must voice at dawn, he wanted it to be day]: Forth 2007:509; central Flores (keo) [Imperial Dove: It is enough to cook one grain to fill the pot; "night is a year, then day is a year"; Friarbird: "the night passes quickly and so does the day"; than The more grains we cook, the more we'll eat; since then, the night is 12 o'clock and the day is 12 o'clock]: Forth 2007:509; central Flores (riung): Arndt 1935:345f in Forth 2007:509-510 [during the time of the first ancestors of Ndival and Lobak, the bird Ciko Cako (Koa Kezok), argued with the Girgemk bird; G. wanted people not to die, wear clothes, eat one grain of corn a day; KK said people should have children and die , must work, starve, eat; KK has the last word; there is a saying: bamboo has knees and jumpers, humans live and die], 510 [if Girgemk had the upper hand I bet the night would be seven times longer, day and night would be a long week, but friarbird (Philemon) objects: night is one moment and day is one moment; that's what happened; G. wanted water and fuel they prepared once in a lifetime for people to work in the fields once in a lifetime, eat, give birth to one child so they don't die; Friarbird objected on all counts, with the last word]; central Flores ( Endenese) [only two children survived the flood; heard the Dove grumble: one seed, one piece of wood is enough to cook, you two will be alone; friarbird (Philemon) objects: the pot must be filled with rice, the mango dies and revives, this couple must multiply and populate the land; at least 17 generations have passed since then]: Forth 1992 in Forth 2007:510; western Mangarai [the world is dark but there are many birds, the most powerful Dove, he sings that it will be light in 17 years, then the Sun, the Moon and stars will appear; the Owl screams, Let it always be night; other birds got angry at them; Bare-throated whistler, followed by everyone else singing, day, night, day, night; Dove asked if they wanted day or night; the birds said they wanted a permanent changes of day and night; the Dove conveyed this request to God, night and day began to alternate, lights appeared]: Zap. A. Burger in Forth 2007:510; East Flores (Sika): Arndt 1932:24 [The world is dark; Oä bird: let night and day follow each other quickly; Rawa bird: let night last year and day last year; angry, O. poured indigo solution on R., which turned black; R. scalded O.'s neck with hot porridge, she became bald], 70 [at first, the night lasts a year and the day lasts a year; a wild pigeon teaches people on the horizon to scraping the bottom of a large water vessel, eating it scraped off, scraping the lid and drinking it, then day and night would change quickly; if the night lasted a day, one grain of rice would fill the pot; people came from the horizon and taught me to do this, in a basket of rice only on a pot of boiled rice] in Forth 2007:510; Eastern Sumba [after the flood, God created the sun, but it barely shone; created birds; ordered The Imperial Pigeon should be a sign of daylight and Friarbird of dawn; the Dove began to cook, Dawn a year later; people asked Friarbird to intervene, he said he was afraid of the Dove, but his people supported; at the meeting, he said that the day would come now, killed the Dove; God appointed him to sing at dawn; people fried, ate the Pigeon, wanted to drink, one pierced his finger, and the stream poured down]: Forth 1992 in Forth 2007:511; tetum [at first only a tiny island in the waters; at God's will, a man fell to the ground; asked for a friend; a two-headed man began to crawl out of a hole in the ground ; the first man got scared, threw a stone on him; then a normal woman came out; this couple asked to make the earth bigger, God dried part of the sea; created the sun, the moon, and three stars - the morning star, midnight and evening; humans and animals began to argue whether there should be constant light or whether light and darkness should alternate; the crow screamed, "Night 7 then Day 7", berliku, "Night 1", then Day; humans have multiplied]: Vroklage 1952:141; East Timor (tetum?) [birds argue whether night and day should alternate or first six months at night then six months in the day; a wild pigeon wants a long night (you can sleep for six months without eating), cac ôac - to day and night alternated; the dove hits his head with smut, the trail remained; he responded by throwing ash at the pigeon, it turned gray; now cacôac is the first to sing at dawn (cac ôac, cac ôac)]: Anonimo 1955a: 36; East Timor [Friarbird wants day and night to change quickly; Grey Dove wants a year-long night then an ordinary day; Friarbird wants a year-long night then an ordinary day; Friarbird shoved the Dove, it fell into moss, became the color of moss]: Pascoal 1967:212 (translated from Forth 2007:511); East Timor (Viqueque) [Friarbird wants the day to be seven days and the night is the same; the crow wants so that they alternate quickly; hit Friarbird on the head with a calebass, which turned red with blood; Friarbird rubbed the Raven with ash, since then it has been black]: Forth 2007:511-512.
Turkestan. The Kazakhs [Urkör (Pleiades) consisted of 12 stars, it was eternal winter; the animals decided to catch W., chased; the horse caught four stars, trampled; the camel - two; six fell under the hooves cows, but because of their duality, they slipped out and escaped; therefore, six months in winter; to angry animals, the cow replied that it is better to walk in the freezing cold than in the heat; cows are not afraid of frost]: Potanin 1972:54-55.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [animals gather to set the length of the year, month, day; The bear offers a hundred years in a year, a hundred months in a year, a hundred days in a month; everyone falls silent; Laska comes running the latter, says that no animal will live its age like this; 12 months in a year, 30 days in a month; they decided so]: Khokholkov 1997:14-15; Altaians [The myth of a bear's throat singing tells of how a fox prevented a bear from singing words of good wishes correctly. The bear sang like this: to have more summer days and fewer winter days. When the fox frightened the bear, he forgot what he asked for. The fox deceived him by saying the wrong words: for summer to be hot, night short, day long... The creator of the calendar became angry with the bear and told him: "You will sleep in winter and only walk in summer"]: Tyukhteneva 2009:71; Kumandins [in the collection "Altai albatynyl chmdě söstö ri", vol. II, 1962, the fairy tale "The Collection of Beasts" was printed]: Satlayev 1974:142; the Shors [Chelbegen and the fox argued how many days should be in a month; fox: one hundred in one month, a hundred in one month; C.: in one month 30, one month 30; C. argued at the fox]: Arbachakova 2010, No. 21:309; Khakas: {Perhaps this is one text in different retelling; cf. Balter 1886:141} Balter 1958 [In winter, the Chipmunk wandered into the Bear's den, replied that it was January; they began to argue how many days it was in January; the Bear wanted spring to come soon, he cried, Thirty days; The chipmunk wanted 31 days; The bear grabbed the Chipmunk's paw on the back, stripes remained; in January 31 days]: 25-26; Troyakov 1995 [The bear and the chipmunk are arguing how many days it will be in the first spring month; Bear wants 30, Chipmunk 31; Bear does not want to lie in the den for an extra day, scratches the Chipmunk, there are stripes left on the skin; in the month of the Chipmunk 31 days]: 48-49; Tuvans [Pika: must double summer; Moose: mosquitoes in summer, it's hot, you don't need it at all; Pika: if it's winter all the time, you can't walk in deep snow, a person will kill you; Moose tries to step on Pika in anger , she hides in a hole, her tail comes off under her moose hoof; The elk waited at the hole, its muzzle remained elongated, and Pika has a short tail]: Hadahane 1984:103-104 (=Dachshunds 198:206).
Eastern Siberia. Central Yakuts: Kulakovsky 1979, No. 11 (no place of recording, first published in 1923; central?) [Yurung Ayyi Toyon created the world, asked the man if he would like a long winter or a long summer; he gave the Stallion and the Ox the choice; the Ox wished him a long winter because his nose would get wet in summer; The stallion kicked the Ox for this, knocking out all his front teeth; in response, the Ox butted the Stallion by piercing his gallbladder; since then, winter has been longer than summer, cattle have no front teeth, and horses have bile]: 73 ( retelling to Ergis 1974:149); Ergis 1964, No. 37 (Nemyuginsky Nasleg of Khangalassky Ulus, 1934) [God asks a man whether to make winter or summer long; he suggests asking a stallion and a bull; a stallion wants a long summer, his hooves freeze in winter; a bull in winter, his nose gets wet in the heat; God does what wants the Ox; the stallion kicked him, knocking out his upper teeth; the Ox butted, pierced the bile; horses now have no bile, cattle have front teeth]: 107 (resume in Ergis 1967a, No. 69:174; retelling in Sivtsev- Omoloon 1976:27, in Sivtsev, Efremov 1990:18).
The Arctic. It's always dark at first. Northern Alaska Inupiate (Point Hope) [no sun, only the moon; the girl does not want to marry; the Raven sings a sedative song, puts the woman's crap in bed, goes to bed with her; promises say that she is crap in bed if she doesn't agree to sleep with him; she agrees; no one can harpoon a sea animal; The raven harpoons, the animal pops up, this is our land; The falcon owned two balloons with light, they hung in his house; the Raven hid in the aisle to the house, persuaded Falcon's daughter to ask her father to give him a darker ball to play; grabbed it, ran, tore it, daylight appeared; Falcon began to repeat, Darkness, Raven is Light; so day and night alternate; (11-12: at the end of the text, the name of the Raven changes; instead of tulungigraq ("like a crow"), tulugaq ( just a "raven"); Raven's opponent is the same speckled falcon as in the story about Raven and Loon (or Owl, Falcon) coloring each other]: Lowenstein 1992, No. 1:6-9 (=1993:64-67); copper: Jenness 1924, No. 67 [Brown Bear: Let it be dark (turn twice), then dogs will smell seal holes better; Fox: Let it be light (repeats twice), then dogs will be better smell seal holes; Fox witchcraft turned out to be stronger]: 78 (translated into Menovshchikov 1985, No. 189:402); Rasmussen 1932 [The Black Bear wants eternal darkness because it can track prey by smell; the Raven must See prey, wants light, gets its way; dawns]: 217; caribou [woman: Let there be no dawn; male hunter: Let it dawn; happens according to the man's will]: Rasmussen 1930b: 81-82; netsilic [Fox and Hare divided day into night and day: "Taok-taok-taok (darkness - darkness - darkness)!" - said the fox. She needed darkness to steal from people's warehouses. "Uvdlok-uvdlok-uvdlok (day-day-day)!" - said the hare. He needed light to find food; what the hare wanted was, his word was stronger, and the alternation of day and night began]: Rasmussen 1935:181; Rasmussen 1931:208; igloolik [dark at first; The fox suggests that this should continue to be the case; the Raven repeats carr, carr, which resembles a word for light, dawn; the alternation of day and night begins]: Boas 1901b, No. 2:306; Rasmussen 1930a: 253; the polar Eskimos [the earth, along with all the mountains and rocks, fell from the sky; then people grew up from the soil; they did not die, they lived in darkness, burned water in fat; multiplied after their flood the number fell; two old women began to argue; one wanted it to continue to be dark and people not to die, the other wanted light and death to appear; this is how the sun, the moon of the stars appeared, and the dead rise to the sky becomes flashed]: Rassmussen 1921:28-29, 1925 (3): 47 in MacDonald 1998:27; Labrador (Nain) [the world is dark; Fox: let it be light to see holes where seals breathe; Bear: let it be dark for me to sniff out these holes in the dark; the fox turned out to be a stronger shaman, the Bear went to a dark ice cave; since then, grateful people have not eaten fox meat]: Millman 2004:22; Western Greenland [two people were arguing; one wanted eternal night and immortality for humans, another alternating night and day and death; the other won]: Birket-Smith 1924:442.
Subarctic. Kuchin [The bear holds the moon in a bag above his bed; while the Raven tells the Bear stories, putting him to sleep, the Fox opens the bag; Bear: Stop, moon, don't shine; Fox: Swim, moon, across the sky, the lights are brighter; since then, the moon has been growing and getting old]: McKennan 1965:91-92; inner tlingit [Beaver wants two hundred months a year, how many marks it has on its tail, half of them are winter; The porcupine wants as many winter months as the toes on its front legs; cuts off one finger so that each paw has four, not five; Beaver agrees that the year should not one hundred months and twelve; the Beaver offers to transport the Porcupine to the island, leaves it there; the porcupine causes a cold wind, crosses the ice; offers to raise the Beaver to the tree, leaves, after eating the lower ones branches; trying to go down, Beaver falls]: McClelland 1987:313-315 (part one =2007 (3), no. 116:496); southern tutchoni [animals gather for a meeting, Bear is in charge; the world is dark; two Foxes are blowing on pebbles, forcing them to move along the willow bark (blowing pebbles through a willow bark they twisted off); they say that this will also be the case with people who die; a bear splashes a big one into the lake the stone is sinking; people will never come back after death; Foxes are angry and run away; Deer, Mountain Sheep, Caribou and other animals want light; Bear, Lynx, Fox, Wolf - to continue it was dark, it was better to hunt in the dark; the bear carried his big bag on his back; the others were sitting by the fire; they heard him call, they could not go to the fire; everyone laughs, they said, let him go; finally he went out to the fire; he has roots in his bag; he stubbornly repeats that light is not needed; the fox says that the Bear is lost himself and that you must be able to hunt in the light as well; the Raven flew by (Raven? - Crow), Lisa jumped into the sky after her, made it, dawn came; this is Lisa's merit]: Workman 2000:26-27; (cf. go down [winter is not over; animals gather for advice; only the Bear is missing; Lynx, Fox, Wolf, Mouse, Pike, etc. go up to heaven; find two Cubs in the house; learn from them what they keep in their bags rain, wind, fog, heat; Lynx turns into caribou, Mother Bear rushes after her; animals steal heat; snow melts, flood begins; huge creature drinks water]: Bell 1901, No. 1:26-27); Chipewayan: Birket-Smith 1930 [The squirrel wants the stones to stay at the bottom and the birch logs to swim; the bear wants the opposite; others support the Squirrel; when angry, the Bear promises to arrange an eternal night; The squirrel proves that the Bear will suffer himself; listeners admit that Squirrel is right, then the stones roll into the sea, sink to the bottom; the Bear unsuccessfully chases the Squirrel, steals summer; the animals go to a warm country; decide to lure the Bear by sending a caribou herd across the pond, the Mouse must gnaw on the paddle; but the paddle does not break, the Bear rows in the boat; because of fear, the Mouse's eyes are left bulging; finally, it breaks; the animals learn from the cubs that the bag is warm, they carry the bag away; the Pike carries the last, its teeth are perforated in the bag; the Bear screams that from now on, heat and cold will alternate; snow It melts, the water floods the world, but the 'tulkkuzji bird drinks all the water; the lynx strokes first, then tears its stomach, the water pours out]: 83-86; Goddard 1912, No. 11 [The bear wants the night; says in the dark, it will find food by smell, by touch; Bear's younger brother Squirrel asks how the Bear will cope if something hits his nose or stabs him in his paw; Bear says he will ride on the ground; Squirrel: What if you drive through the body? The bear reluctantly agrees to have the day as well]: 59: Petitot 1886, No. 13 [Beaver: How many scales I have on my tail, so many beavers on the ground; Frog: There will be three cold months and three months in the year warm]: 299; taltan: Teit 1919, No. 1.35 [The porcupine wants a five-month winter, spreads its back; Beaver wants as many winter months as there are scratches and cracks on its tail ; in response, Porcupine bites off his thumb; Even if it is only four months in winter; Beaver is frightened, admits defeat; Porcupine now has four claws; Raven approves the decision; clarifies that the months will not be exactly the same], 26 [Kakina is a lucky hunter, his wives are Bobrikh and Porcupine; a poor woman chases her daughter who stole a piece of fat; tells her to marry K.; former wives they are going to kill the one who comes; K. hits them with a club, drives them away forever; Bobrikha transports Porcupine to the island and throws them; she causes a frosty night, crosses the ice; Bobrikha wants so many winter months how many scales she has on her tail; Porcupine wants four, bites off her thumb; Bobrikha has to agree; Bobrikha agrees to live in low-lying places, Porcupine - where taller; K. and her mother and they move with their new wife to their wife's mother, they have a lot of meat]: 226, 244-246.
NW Coast. The Tlingits [The Raven comes to spend the winter in the Groundhog's hole; Groundhog had six toes on his feet, the winter lasted six months; the Raven pulls his sixth toes out to make the winter shorter]: Swanton 1909, No. 31:108; haida [Raven suggests four (winter?) months, the Dog wants six; The Raven agrees, makes winter and summer six months long]: Swanton 1905:118; Tsimshian: Boas 1916, No. 20 [the weather is bad, only the South Wind (SE) blows, the fish does not bite, Txá msen (Raven) is starving; T. calls fish; Octopus, Halibut offer to go to SE war; Killer whale gives participants its boat; The scallop (Cockle) on the bow of the boat always brags that he will kick SE; Halibut lies down in the doorway of SE's house; The scallop enters the house; SE sits with his back to him, the wind constantly blows, the Scallop cannot approach; The raven calls him back, breaks the sink, eats the bragger; The raven lit up the South in the house a smoky torch, he started coughing; went to the exit, slipped on the Halibut, fell on a killer whale boat; in the boat, the Octopus dug into it with suction cups, did not let it go; SE suggests that it be a day of good weather and bad day; Raven disagrees; - Two days; - Disagree; - Eternal summer; - Too much, even four days of good weather in a row; tells the Octopus to let SE go; everyone has gone home, good since then weather], 6 (Skeena River) [Grizzly summons animals for advice; wants a long and harsh winter to protect themselves from hunters; Porcupine proves that large animals will die because plants die; as a sign of his rightness bites off his thumb, he has four toes on his paw; animals agree with Porcupine; decide that everyone should be in dens for six months, establish the peculiarities of the times years], 8 [see motif A5A; animals hold advice; The dog is smarter, counts fingers, wants a month of forty days; Porcupine wants thirty days a month; everyone supports Porcupine, expels dogs; ever since they hate other animals, especially porcupines; animals divide the year into four seasons, give names to twelve months]: 79-81, 106-108, 114-115.
The coast is the Plateau. Quarry: Jenness 1934, No. 40 [the old man owns the light; the animals around his house are chanting, Yulkat! (Let there be light!) ; he answers, Saholkas! (Let there be darkness!) ; Yulkat gets tired and sleepy! It's light coming], 67 [The frog puts out its three fingers; Let winter last three months and the rest be summer; The dog puts its five; Let winter and summer both be five months; Frog Angry that she lost, hits the Dog between his fingers, since then the big one has been bent; winter lasts five months; var. Stone Creek: Frog: Let winter be three months; little black bug: Let it be ten; Frog: No, look at how many toes I have on my paw; but it does not put three as at the beginning, but five, so there are five months in winter]: 212-213, 249; shuswap [Grizzly wants eternal night, sings: Darkness, darkness; Coyote sings: Light, light; their powers are equal, they agree to have night and day]: Teit 1909a: No. 1 [Grizzly: Let there be as many months in a year as there are feathers in a partridge's tail (22); Coyote: How many feathers are in a woodpecker's tail (12), half cold, half warm; Grizzly thinks the woodpecker has a lot of feathers in its tail, agrees], 53 [The grizzly wants as many winter months as the feathers in the tail of a partridge; Coyote: If you want only half, winter will still be eternal ; Grizzly believes and agrees]: 625-626, 738; Thompson [Black Bear and Chipmunk argue, screaming in their own way; Bear wants darkness, Chipmunk wants light; their powers are equal; Bear scratches the Chipmunk with its paw ( the origin of the stripes on chipmunk skin); if the Bear killed the Chipmunk, there would be eternal darkness]: Teit 1898, No. XV: 61-62; Puget Sound: Ballard 1929:54-55 [Black Bear competes with the Ant, to determine the length of day and night; Ant: The darkness is short! ; Bear: The darkness lasts a long time! ; A bear cannot catch an Ant; Ant: it will be day and night, people will not sleep all winter long], 55 [The raven determines the day by tying five knots on a rope; the bear wants a long night to sleep all winter], 68-80; Puget Sound [two sisters dig the roots of a fern, stay overnight on the prairie; one wants a white star, the other a red star; when they wake up, they are in the sky; a white star - old man, red - young; husbands do not tell me to dig deep roots; the older sister is pregnant, the youngest is sitting by the smoke hole so as not to see her cry because she has an old husband; when the boy grew up, he dug a hole, from there the wind, the husbands immediately felt it, but the women managed to close the hole; weaved the rope and went down with the child; while everyone was swinging on the rope, and for An old toad looks at the child, the boy was stolen by the salmon (this is the next Month); the mother found a rotten tree in the cradle, moistened the diaper, squeezed it five times, a second boy appeared (the future Sun); yellow woodpecker goes looking for the Month, can not pass between the crushing rocks; the same another woodpecker, raven, osprey; the blue jay flew by; the month promised to come later; inserted a stick between the rocks so that the blue jay could slip back; A month married to a woman who is one of the salmon; his son does not want to let him go; Month: a new generation is coming, and you (i.e. salmon) will be food; The month was first mistaken, telling the salmon to go down only then did he tell me to go up; meets people fighting; What are you doing? - We fight; he turned them into birds and stones; turned little slaves into snipes; fishermen and people in the swamp into two types of ducks; people on the beach into oysters; people know that the Month changes the nature of people they meet, they want it kill; others argue about day and night, some want light and darkness every day, bear wants day and night to last for a year; now bear sleeps all winter; deer makes a spear tip; Month : What are you doing? - I want to kill the Transformer; Month: If you're a deer, they'll eat you; Norka argues with the Month who is who; Norka could not change the Month, and he turned it into a stick; he's Mink again; The Month cut him - the current minks turned out; four women drag each other by the hair; - We train to pull onions; The month turned them into 4 types of edible plants; made a man on the lake a beaver; carrying salmon - otter; Wild Cat roasts salmon, fell asleep; He ate everything for a month, the leftovers are in his face, now it has stripes, he has become a cat; 5 brothers are playing: fire, fire! It's all on fire; the trail: here, my grandson! but the quiver of the Month is burnt; across the river, old man Echo; only repeats: bring a boat! The month has passed by itself, began to fight Echo; bird: take the Echo giblets that hang on the wall of the dugout; the Echo echoed; the blue heron uses its head as a hammer, because stones and sticks alive; The Month made them with stones and sticks, made the Heron of Herons; The month gathered everyone to determine who should shine during the day and who should shine at night; tried the yellow hammer, but there is little light; the raven, the coyote, woodpecker is dark; hummingbirds are better, but the day is very short; younger brother The sun offered to be the sun for the Month, but it is too hot, the water is boiling; the Sun has begun to shine during the day, the Month at night; the old toad woman is now visible at night on the disc of the Month; the rope on which they swayed was up to the sky; Month: you can climb; but the Rat gnawed it, the Month turned it into a rat; the rocks on the mountain were transformed people; the Indians were relatives Months]: Ballard 1929:68-80; Upper Chehalis [1) Bear: Long Night Then Long Day; Ant: They Alternate Fast; Bear and Ant Race, Ant wins by tightening his belt tighter and tighter; 2) Bear: night and day for six months; Hornet, Ant: day, day; Bear: night six months, day six months; now the Bear is ruining the nests of hornets and ants, he sleeps for three months; 3) Bear: Night and day for six months; Month: No! turns him into a bear]: Adamson 1934:132-133; Cowlitz: Adamson 1934:188-189 [The bear wants to sleep all year; Ant, All your berries will be eaten! ; Bear, Let others sleep, let the night be all year long; Ant and Hornets, Frog, Quail: It's dark one night; Bear eats ants and hornets, sleeps all winter], 189-190 [Bear: We'll sleep 4 or 5 years; Frog: One night, one night; Bear: All year, whole year; all frogs in chorus: Only you all year; then: Okay, you all year and we all year , but people sleep one night; frogs and bears sleep all winter]; kordalen [The chipmunk and the Snake live together; in winter a log smolders in their house; when it burns, spring will come; the chipmunk pokes it every now and then says "Calm weather" with a stick to burn faster; The snake pokes so that the word "Winter" can be heard, it does not want spring; in the morning the Chipmunk leaves the house, stings the green grass, answers The snake that still has snow; it smells grass, repeats "Winter"; finally crawls out]: Reichard 1947, No. 32:189; clackamas [East Wind: winter and summer for 12 months; Coyote: 6 months each; opens a box of flies, makes strawberries out of alder bark; The wind thinks summer has come, agrees with Coyote]: Jacobs 1958, No. 11:112-113; yakima [five frog brothers repeat quickly, One night! Grizzly screams, The night is ten years, then the day is ten years! Chasing Frogs, can't catch, agrees to five years, gets tired, powerless to do anything; only sleeps in winter for several months]: Hines 1992, No. 2:22-25; tillamook: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 38 [South Wind comes to a woman named All Year Round; she has 20 supply baskets, one for a month; it makes her believe spring is here: it sprinkles ash on dried fish (as if it were moldy) ; hitting the cedar trunk with his penis, causes the juice to rise up the bark; throwing its excrement on the bushes, causes them to become covered with leaves and berries; tells the woman that there will be 12 months in the year, not 20]: 133-134; Thompson, Egesdal 2008 [as in Jacobs & Jacobs]: 28-29; ne perse [Bear: the night lasts four days; Grizzly: 10 years; Rattlesnake: 5 years; Bull Snake: 3 years; Toad and his youngest Brother Frog: It won't be like this, day and night every day; it's dawning, the Grizzly is tired of arguing, lost]: Jacobs 1934 in Turner 198:225-226; clickitat [animals discuss how long the night should be ; Bear: five days, Grizzly: ten years; Rattlesnake: five years, Bull snake: three years; Toad, Frog: one night and one day in a day; each repeats his own (Ten years, ten years! etc.), Grizzly gets tired first, the Frog wins]: Jacobs 1934, No. 1:3-4; Klamath [Coyoticha makes 24 moons; in her absence, Kmukamch comes to her house; tells her children that at 24 months winter will be too long in the year; breaks 12 moons; hides bone shields in the floor; Coyoticha attacks them]: Gatschet 1890:107-108; modoc: Curtin 1912 [people eat raw food, own 10 the Nebax brothers (diseases) in the east and 10 Subbas brothers (suns) in the west; Wous (black-brown fox) lines up runners on the way east, comes to N.'s house himself; he is guarded by two squirrels , V. paints their faces, tells them to look at their reflection, carries away the fire, passes the baton; N. cannot catch up with the runners, but decide to stay in this world (there were no diseases before); V. goes to steal S. also has fire, intends to kill them; Woos-Kumush warns not to kill everyone, otherwise it will become dark; the watchman Crane V. promises beads, for which he hides him; S. dig the roots and return to the house one by one; V. cuts off the head with five in turn; the fifth cries out, the rest in vain chase V. and the Crane, who carry away fire and roots; V. suggests that there be 10 cold months in the year; other animal people suggest five, two; V. insists; council members decide to ask the oldest, it's a little bird, hear Danwacuk (three months); V. is forced to agree; soon the participants turn into real animals, real people are coming into the world; S.'s five brothers and now live in their home in the west]: 51-59; Levitas 1924:143-146 in Marriott, Rachlin 1968 [Bear wants to live where it's cold, Deer - where it's warm; Kumokums decides they'll live six and a half months in the cold and another six and a half warm; humans multiply; Porcupine suggests they should die, K. agrees; dies his daughter, K., follows her to the master of the dead; he gives him the skeleton of his daughter, tells him not to look back along the way; K. feels the skeleton become flesh; at the last moment she looks around, the girl turns into a bunch of bones]: 190-193 (=in Beck et al. 2001:17-19).
The Midwest. Menominee: Bloomfield 1928, No. 92 [The raccoon makes a ball out of his excrement, gives it to the hungry Wolf to eat, hides in a tree; the watchman under the tree, the Wolf falls asleep, the Raccoon smears his eyes with resin; the blind Wolf stumbles upon trees, asks them their names; drowns in the lake; the old man catches a corpse, melts fat, summons birds and animals; who took how much fat is from him now; The bear wants eternal night; Chipmunk - as many summer months and as many winter months as there are stripes on his body; repeats, Day, Day; Bear repeats, Night, night, but accidentally says Day; The chipmunk wins, the Bear cannot catch up with him; the Puma wants to hunt Man, but the Dogs drive him away; the Birds decide to fish; the Turtle chases the Otter; the Mosquito decides to drink Human blood], 93 [ as in (89); Owl begins to hunt the Hare]: 303-323, 323-339; Hoffman 1896 [Owl wants Night, Rabbit wants day; Owl repeats: Night, Night, Rabbit: Dawn, Dawn; Owl by accident too dawn says, loses; Rabbit asks animals and birds what each of them will eat]: 200-202; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II32 [Owl wants eternal night, but Partridge needs a day; Owl and the Bear repeats: Dark, dark, Partridge: Light, light; three days later, the Owl's head fell off screaming, four days later the Bear fell asleep; the partridge continued to scream for so many days, how many dark stripes she now has on her tail]: 408; Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [Visakajak gathers animals to decide how many winter months should be in a year; Moose: how many wool on my body; Beaver: how many scales I have on my tail; Frog: How many toes do I have on my paw; it's now five winter months a year]: Ray, Stevens 1971:28; Ojibwa: Carson 1917 [In spring, people are starving; the boy is going to kill a squirrel; she tells him to break his bow and arrows, cry hysterically, asking for summer; people first think he is crying because he broke his bow; then the Marten Chief ( Fisher) leads the Little Turtle, Big Turtle, Otter, Crow, Beaver to where the summer's Eagle lives; on the way, they are joined by Caribou, Elk, Owl, Muskrat, Hawk; Beaver, Muskrat, Mouse gnaw oars, Eagle's boats hole; Crow, then Owl do not reach Eagle's house; Hawk flies, spies, his face scorches; Elk, Caribou, Deer swim; Otter invites Eagle to chase them; hunters drown in boats with holes in holes; Otter takes summer away; The crow chases the Eagle, the Turtle drowns it; at home, the chief asks how many months a year should be; Elk: How many hairs are on my body; Link (fish) , How many eggs do I have, how many guts; The frog puts out his fingers, How many fingers do I have; the elk hits it with a stick; the chief agrees with the Frog]: 492-493; Desveaux 1984 [animals gather, to decide how many months a year will be; Caribou, Beaver want a long year; Frog: how many toes are on my four legs - 12]: 66; Jones 1916, No. 16 [spring doesn't come, someone is holding migratory birds; the Little Otter leads the animals to free them; the Great Otter is included in the squad against the wishes of others; because of him, he has to go to the old woman twice before he can get food; later food the old man gives; the muskrat holes the boats, the Beaver gnaws at the oars, the Caribou wades across a bottleneck on the lake to distract the attention of the birds' owners, the Fox barks at him; while the pursuers rush for Caribou, Little Otter frees birds; fleeing their pursuers, climbs a tree and then into the sky, becoming Ursa Major; returning from the campaign, Caribou suggests that the number of winter months be equal to the number of coats on his skin; The chipmunk offers six months for the number of stripes on his back, so they decided]: 371-372; 1917, No. 47 [Nyanabushu gives names to birds, animals and fish; gathered determine how many months a year should be, how many directions the wind will blow from]: 407; 1919, No. 56 [=1916]: 469-687; fox [Manitou wants winter and summer to last the same length months, how many feathers are in the turkey's tail; the hero says let there be as many stripes on the chipmunk's back]: Michelson in Boas 1916:728; illini (peoria) [Rabbit and Bear dispute ( An opossum in one version) on whether there will be light or darkness]: Michelson 1917:495.
Northeast. Montagnier [see the D4C motif; summer is stolen from its owners, the kidnappers agree to let the seasons alternate; Caribou wants as many winter months as there are hairs between his fingers; Beaver: how many scales it has on its tail; Jay: how many fluffs she has; everyone is told that he will not survive such a long winter; Woodpecker: it's six months in winter, how many toes I have on two legs; and became]: Savard 1979, No. 9:42; Iroquois [Porcupine appointed animal chief; asks the audience if it should always be day or night; the issue is discussed vigorously; the chipmunk wants an alternation of bright and dark time, repeats, There will be light, Bear sings, Night is better, let it always be dark; when the Bear sees that the Chipmunk is winning and dawn begins, chases the Chipmunk, having time run your paw down his back; the trail remains; day and night alternate since then]: Smith in Thompson 2000, No. 13:39-40; seneca [see motif F25; grandson brings a beaver to his grandmother from hunting; she splashes beaver blood between his legs, says that he is now menstruating; he splashes blood on his grandmother's feet; says that menstruation will not be for men, but for women; grandson: let the menstrual period last as many days as there are spots on a deer skin; grandmother: as many as there are four stripes on the chipmunk's back; he agrees]: Hewitt 1903:252-253.
Plains. Assiniboine: Lowie 1909a, No. 2 [trickster: How many wools are in my wolf skin clothes; Frog: seven! The Trickster hits her; when she falls, she puts out her seven fingers], 3 [one of the animals: forty months in winter; Frog: six!] : 101, 104; Crowe [the world is dark; Old Coyote plays a guessing game with the birds against the four-legged animals; if the birds win, there will be day, if the animals are night; the Turtle wins first; then the Dragonfly comes to play on the birds' side; wins; the sun rises; the Old Coyote determines for all animals and birds what to eat and how to live]: Lowie 1918:25-26; Comanche Barnard: 79-80 in Archer 2000 [It's cold and dark at first, animals are about to discuss the situation; Bear, Hummingbird, Turtle demand change; Coyote, Opossum, Raccoon want to stay the same; decide to play, win first Coyote, then the Bear; The bear says that they will see a yellow stripe in his mouth, it will be dawn; Hummingbird - that they will see six tongues in his mouth, this will determine the heat for six months and cold weather for the other six months; this is what happens, the audience consists of six tongues; since then night and day, winter and summer have existed]: 142-143; Marriott, Rachlin 1934 [some animals only want day, others only night ; decide to play guessing; the score is equal; The bear is tired of waiting, took off his moccasins; finally the Sun came to watch the game; as he approached, the nocturnal animals rushed to run; The bear hurriedly put on his shoes the moccasins have been limping ever since; since the winner is undecided, day and night alternate]: 128-130; Saint Clair 1909b, No. 16 [Coyote wants two winter months; Bullfinch and others: six, otherwise meat will deteriorate; Coyote agrees]: 279-280; Pawnee (skidi) [the gods make clay a boy and a girl; to determine whether there will be light or darkness, they send various animals to run in front of the young man; alone white, others are black, he kills spotted black and white; day comes, night follows]: Dorsey 1906, No. 9:44; wichita [at the beginning of time, a voice tells a man to kill a third deer; three deer they jump out of the water; the first is black, the second is white, the third is black and white; celestial bodies move, night and day alternate; three deer, together with the hunter, turn into a constellation {Orion?}] : Dorsey 1904a, No. 1:26
Southeast USA. Yuchi [Puma tries to be the sun first, people are dissatisfied; Star (Spider), then the Month shines too dim; the Sun rises and shines around the clock; The chipmunk says people need night to to multiply; the light of stars and a month is enough for this; the cougar scratches the Chipmunk in anger, leaving stripes on his back]: Speck 1909b, No. 2:104-105; screams [animals share night and day; Bear - chairman; some only want day, others only night; Chipmunk: As dark and light stripes on a raccoon's tail; Bear angrily scratches the Chipmunk with its claws, leaving stripes on his skin] : Swanton 1929, No. 1:2; caddo [people want light; the shaman replies to Coyote that there are yellow, black, spotted, half-spotted, and white deer; if they kill yellow, everything will turn yellow and etc.; people kill in black and white, now night and day alternate]: Dorsey 1905, No. 2:13-14.
California. Atsugevi [Coyote: Ten months of winter; Silver Fox: two months of winter, one spring, one autumn]: Dixon 1908, No. 11:171 (quail in Judson 1997:23-24); achomavi: Angulo 1928 [Fox: eternal summer, let people not die; Coyote: winter is longer than summer, people must die]: 585; Merriam 1992 [The Silver Fox gathered people in a community home to set rules and give names to trees and herbs while the Coyote is gone; wants to keep trees low so that women can easily get nuts, berries and fruits; a woman kills a bear or deer by pointing at it with her hand; knives made of pine chips; in every family two girls and two boys made of white sea shells; Coyote (apparently he came): only men hunt, women can't; trees are tall, men must climb them; obsidian knives; in Some families have many children, others few; another time the Silver Fox suggested that winter be four months, children eight; Coyote: winter ten, summer two; Fox told him to go to Mount Shasta, where winter is winter ten months; there Coyote began to die of cold and hunger; the Fox left him a big grasshopper; when Coyote began to bake it, he became many little ones; Coyote ate, went down, asked who he was; Just a Coyote; he got angry, promised to tear corpses out of their graves]: 145-148; Yana [Silver Fox: two months of winter; Coyote: five months, let widows starve]: Sapir 1910, No. 2:210-213; kawaiisu: Zigmond 1980, No. 41A [all animals, birds, reptiles come from Koso to collect sweet grass; when they leave, they dig a hole, make a fire in it, boil water, tell Malinovka to make sure it boils; with since then she has a red breast; the animals decide to race from Victorville back to Koso; Coyote insists that those who come be the last to throw into boiling water; while he eats, others go back; he catches up with them, urinates on them; he and the Lizard brothers come first; Bears, the Sun and other bad runners are thrown into boiling water; the water in the spring is still boiling, and the roar of those thrown into the boiling water can be heard in the gurgling Bears; it's dark all year long; animals gather in the house to decide how many months winter will last; Coyote: How many fur are on the mouse, how many hairs are on the owl's four feathers; the Lizard brothers: Three months; everyone agrees with them; an angry Coyote sprinkles hot ash into their hole; they get out when the ash cools down; the Owl and Duck "rumble", dawn begins; the Coyote rumbling, it's dark again; the others say keep quiet, the Owl and the Duck bring the sun to the sky; the Coyote is bitten to death by a rattlesnake], 43C [as in A, less details]: 141-142, 144-145.
The Big Pool. Northern Payutes: Curtis 1976 (15) [The Coyote smelled pignons from the east; went there, but the chief crushed the nuts so finely that, taking them in his mouth, the Coyote swallowed everything (wanted to bring them to home); then everyone went there, the Sanáki bird remained at home; The louse found nuts in the bow wrap, the Woodpecker punched a hole, they were hidden in the wound on Blackbird's leg; the owners caught up, killed everyone, but not the lame touched; built an ice wall; The wolf came to life, revived the others, broke the wall, everyone returned home; the Wolf wanted nuts to be like acorns; Coyote: no, in cones; they began to discuss how many months a year there were; The coyote put his hands to his forehead - that much; everyone is silent; he was sent to buy tobacco, decided that there would be three months in each season; Wolf: people are eternal; Coyote: getting old, dying; his son is sick, dead; Wolf refused to change the decision]: 148-149; Kelly 1938, No. 7 [Coyote wants as many months in each season as he has toes and toes together; goes to buy tobacco; Kozoda at this time decides that there will be three months in each season; birds approve the decision and fly away]: 376; Lowie 1924, No. 7 [Nightjar: as many months for each season as there are toes (three)], 7a [Coyote: every season ten months each; bird: three months]: 222-223; Palmer 1946 [Tobats is older brother, Shinob is younger; at first, summer and winter lasted a long time, had different lengths; Weather Man went back and forth; the night bird offered to make 4 seasons, let the Weather Man walk in circles; T. began to laugh: the bird is smarter than S.; he was offended, suggested that each season be 12 months; night bird: 3 ; S. chased her, but she flew into the thorny thickets, S. followed her, began to eat berries and forgot the offense]: 65-70; Powell 1971 [The nightjar calls the animals to decide how to make the moon and how much it should be in a year months; the Coyote proposes to make the moon out of a pine tree, six months in the season; the frog wants to become the moon itself, says the moon cannot be made from the inanimate; the Nightjar sends the Coyote to hunt, decides that the season will be three months, sends the Frog to heaven; it becomes the moon, seen on the lunar disk]: 220-221; Western Shoshones: Powell 1971 [Coyote wants so many months in each season how many fingers, eyes, ears, teeth he has; the Snake, the Nightjar and others decide that the seasons will be too long; while Coyote goes home to buy pipes and tobacco, others decide their own way; four times a year years, the first is spring]: 269; Steward 1943 [Coyote: There are as many months in winter as there are hairs on my back; Owl: How many feathers do I have; Nightjar: Four months; Coyote tries grab him, bitten by a snake, dies]: 281-282; Smith 1993 [Coyote: It's ten months in winter! Wolf: No! ]: 109; northern shoshones [Wolf and Coyote were chiefs in autumn; Wolf brought people together to decide how many months spring should last; Coyote says ten, little bird, is three; everyone agrees with a bird; Coyote chases her with a stick, but a bird's friend The Rattlesnake scares him]: Lowie 1909b, No. 23f: 274; gosyute [Coyote: as many winter months as I have fur; bird: three months in the number of my fingers; the bird proves that Coyote will also starve to death in the long winter; the Coyote is stubborn, the bird flies away]: Smith 1993:43; utah [some animal people want a lot of winter months; bird: three as many fingers as I have; the bird is chased, it throws its eyes into the bushes, which turn into currants; the congregation agrees to three months]: Lowie 1924 (Southern Utah), No. 4 [Wolf: as many winter months as fur animals have hair], 5 [Dog: ten winter months according to the number of claws a dog has; Beaver: sixty months; Hawk: eight years old; etc.; some suggest eating in winter snow]: 7-8; Smith 1992:36 (Uncompagre Utah) [Coyote Chief: Winter months by Otter's number of coats, humans will eat snow; Hawk: three months], 90-91 (White River Utah) [Hawk: I have three toes; some want as many winter months as the bison has wool; Coyote Chief: I have twelve bison skins here, twelve months a year]; Southern Payutes: Fowler 1995:147 (Las Vegas) [ Orion's belt is three wild rams; Rigel (probably) is a shooter in cover; the star to the right of Orion's Belt is a hidden shooter; three stars above Orion's Belt (apparently Orion's head) are an arrow ( or rather its tip); Orion's Sword stars are a broken arrow (apparently the shaft of an arrow that pierced the middle of the rams)], 149 (kaibab group, northern Arizona) [The Orion Belt is a mountain ram, but not a real one, but created by Coyote from pebbles; when Puma killed a mountain ram, Coyote said that (and) his son killed a ram; Orion's sword was Coyote's arrow; some other star was Coyote's son's arrow], 149-150 [there are others fragmented evidence]; chemewevi [Coyote and Norrow Owl argue about the length of the seasons; The owl wants three months each, the Coyote four; the owl goes into the bushes and publishes its specific scream; Coyote goes to see where these strange sounds come from; The owl takes on its other form, the Rattlesnake, and bites the Coyote]: Laird 1976:157-158; cahuilla [see B1 motif; two creators they argue how quickly plants should ripen; first they decide they are forty, then they agree that it is four months]: Hooper 1920:320.
The Great Southwest. Lipan [ferocious beasts play against harmless animals; you have to guess which moccasin the bone is under; the bet is life; Rabbit, Antelope play on the side of the evil; if they won, it would be eternal night; the good win the day thanks to the Possum, who climbed under moccasins and changed the bone; for this, the evil ones slaughter it into the ground; from some losers, the winners take their fat; after receiving the day, the birds painted with white clay, now many people have white feathers; the turkey is painted variegated to match the colors of the daytime sky; The bear hurriedly put the moccasins on the wrong leg, so the clubfoot; the birds beat the Big Owl, he hides his heart in his leg, the Lizard hits him there with an arrow; his body turns into flints, an ordinary owl flies out of it, asks for some darkness, lives in caves]: Opler 1940:87-93, 94-95 [Sun, The Morning Star plays on the good side; the bear puts moccasins on the wrong leg]; chiricahua: Hoijer 1938, No. 7 [it's dark at first; birds and small animals want the day, the big predators want the night; they play (predators lose); The Giant has a heart in his foot, the Gray Lizard hits him in the foot with an arrow, he dies; the bear runs into the grove, there are many bears now]: 14-16; Opler 1942, No. 1a [birds play against four-legged animals (moccassin game: under which moccasin is a short stick, pebble, etc.); if the birds win, there will be daylight in the world; the winners will kill the losers; birds almost lost, but the turkey, who fell asleep, had 3 more sticks in stock and the birds won back what they had lost; when the animals had 2 sticks, the day dawned; the Coyote decided to go over to the side of the birds; wren began to sing: day, day; the giant told him to be silent and poked his head, since then the wren had a black speck on his head; the wren flew up the rock and light poured through the crevice; the animals lost the last stick and the birds began to kill them; the giant went away; the arrows of the birds did not harm him; the lizard, although among the animals, reported that the giant's heart was under the sole; shot at her, the giant fell dead; now there are white stones - his bones; the snake hid in a crack in the rock, it was not reached; the bear ran into the forest, where he now lives; he was in such a hurry that he put moccasins on the wrong leg, now clubfoot], 1b [the world is dark; birds choose to play against four-legged animals in moccasin game; winners will kill losers; insects on the birds' side; Coyote supports those who win; gopher out of the ground threw a wand under another moccasin if the birds guessed correctly; at first the birds lost, but then the plantain cuckoo began to guess, the birds played everything; someone hit him with smut, now he has there are red peppers on his face; then the four-legged ones began to win again; the turkey hid a few sticks, now they are in his paw; after that, the birds began to win finally; giant: it's time for me to leave, I I walk slowly; he went, hung (on a tree) his testicles and sat in their shade; when the four-legged lost their last stick, he sowed the day for the first time; those who were killed by the birds are no longer on the ground; the coyote went over to the side of the birds; the giant's arrows did not harm; the lizard decided to help, shot the giant in the sole where he had a heart; he died; the snake went into the crevice, the birds fired arrows at it; there are now a lot of bears in the thickets where the bear has disappeared]: 23-25, 25-27; hicarilla: Opler 1938, № IV.C [daybirds and animals gamble against the Bear and nocturnal birds led by the Owl (moccassin game); if they win, there will be a day, and if they lose, eternal night; plantain cuckoo: We bet the sun will rise! owl: I bet it won't ascend! ; the plantain cuckoo was the first to guess correctly; (further details about the course of the game); when the owls who were playing on the side of the owl began to lose, they ran because they did not want to see the sun rising; but the rays scorched them, therefore, the fur is yellowish in some places; and those who wanted the day to come chose their own colors, so they are variegated; the moccasins left after the game turned into stones, are now visible; the bear disappeared into the thickets, where it lives now; the snake disappeared into a crack in the rock, it was shot with bows; when it flew away, the owl hit the plantain cuckoo with smut, leaving a burn mark under the eyes; coyote: I bet there will be no stars at night! partridge: There's nothing you can do! (more on how the fox tricked the coyote's eyes with resin)]: 231-234; Mooney 1898a [people live in the dark in the lower world; Bear, Puma, Owl and other nocturnal animals want darkness, Magpie, Partridge and others are light; decide to play; those who want light win four times; first time Black Bear, then Brown, then Puma, Owl go into darkness; accordingly, the Morning Star, dawn, more light appear , Sun; The Sun tells people to go upstairs; they pour four hills to the cardinal points, each planting plants with fruits of the corresponding colors: black in the east, blue in the south, yellow in the west, colorful in the north; hills stop growing when two girls go picking berries; so boys don't grow up after first contact with women; feathers are too light to make stairs; four bison put their horns in; people come to the ground; the horns have since been crooked; the ground is covered with water, four winds of matching colors drain it]: 198-199; Western Apaches [moccassin variant game: guess which moccasin the ball is under]: Goddard 1918 (San Carlos) [1) the world is dark, Owl and Bear want it to always be like this; others call them to dance; Coyote sings, Let the day come, Owl, Let the day not come; Owl and Bear fall asleep, Coyote wins light; Owl and Bear prefer darkness; 2) Bear and Owl only want darkness; other people animals dance and sing, Let There will be light; The bear puts moccasins on the wrong leg, runs away to the mountains]: 44; Goodwin 1994, No. 34 (White Mountain) [two var.; the world is dark; snakes, lizards, beetles want the darkness to continue, their leader - Bear; other animals led by the Coyote want light; agree to play (who can guess where the ball is hidden); Coyote repeats, Dawn, Dawn; It brightens in the east; the bear repeats No dawn! Bear loses, they start to be killed; Bear puts moccasins on the wrong leg, runs away]: 148-150; Western ceres: Boas 1928a (Laguna) [Summer boy in a shirt decorated with flowers pumpkins, gives the leader's daughter corn and melons; her husband Winter dressed in icicles is afraid to melt, goes north, causes Summer to fight; Summer is armed with lightning, Winter is hail, snow and ice; Summer's companion young man- The rock drives Winter; Summer and Winter agree that summer will last seven months and winter six (lunar months); Summer returns to Akoma (not Laguna), telling you to sow corn]: 33-35, 245 [summary]; Gunn 1917 [as in Akoma in Pradt 1902]: 217 in Boas 1928:245; Pradt 1902 (Akoma) [Chief Cochin's daughter marries Shakok, the spirit of winter; a harsh winter is coming; the spirit of summer Miochin gives K. corn; calls for help from summer, S. - winter birds and animals; shield M. - bat, shield Sh. - forty; M. wins, snow melts, M. gets K.; M. and S. divide the year into two parts; southern animals and birds smoked from smoke and turned black; the northern ones were burned with lightning and turned white]: 88-90 (quail in Edmonds, Clark 1989:241-243).
The Southern Cone. Araucans [(two options); two brothers carry out Latrapai's difficult errands to marry his daughters; L. tells Fox (according to one version, his son) to kill the girls; the brothers hide the sun in a pot to make a night ten days or four years long; L. starves; all animals and birds invite their daughters' brothers to change their minds; they consistently reject each one; The partridge flew under the mule, which kicked the pot, the sun came out; Nandu began to dance, told him to be called names; two old women came out, then two girls, but without eyes; the old women looked at them, brothers at them married]: Lenz 1896:31-36; Lehmann-Nitsche 1929:44-50; puelche [Partridge: let night be like feathered parts of my body, day as parts without feathers; Sun: it's not good, partridge has everywhere feathers; Hare: There will be as many months in each season as there are claws on my paws (three)]: Lehmann-Nitsche 1919:183-184; North Tehuelches: Fernandez Garay, Hernandez 1999 [Nandu wants three winter months - as many as it has long feathers; The hare wants more (it lives in a warm hole)]: 86-87; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984b, No. 69 [animals and birds come together to decide how many will be winter and how many summer months; Guinea Pig wants three winter months, runs down a hole, steps on its tail, now it's short; The battleship does not want fire, rushes into it, now it's all scratched and her neck is black; Nandu wants as many winter months as her toes (probably two together); Fox: people can't survive such a long winter, it must be three winter months]: 112-113; southern Tehuelche: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984b, No. 70 [Elal asks animals how many winter months they want; Nandu indicates the number of toes on her leg, even as many; others doubt that winter should be so long; Guinea Pig screams, Let it be three months; Nandu chases her, steps on her tail, now it's short], 71 [animals gather to decide how many months Winter lasts; Elal is chairman; Nandu wants 12, Guinea Pig proves that this is a lot, people will starve to death; some animals support Nanda, others support Guinea Pig; Nanda has come The pig is on the tail, but she won], 72 [animals gather to decide how many months winter lasts; Elal is chairman; Nandu wants 12, notes the number on his wing; E. believes it way too much; everyone's arguing; Guinea Pig screams, Three, Three, Three! He runs to the hole, Nanda follows, steps on the tail, tearing it off, but the Guinea Pig won]: 113-116.