B45. Winter and Summer Wedding, A1153.
(.29.) .35.36.39.42.43.45.-.47.50.58.74.
The appearance of a warm (bright, satisfying) or cold (hungry, dark) time is associated with the marriage of a certain character who brings cold, warmth, abundance, etc.
(Avars), Tundra Nenets, Ents, Nganasans, Northern Khanty, Kets, Amur Evenks, Itelmen, Koryaks, Kereks, Tlingits, Haida, Tsimshian, Shuswap, Thompson, Lillouet, Clackamas, Western sachaptin, modoc, delaware, sarsi, teton, chirokee, hopi, western keres (Akoma, Laguna), (kuna), warrau, selknam.
(Wed. Caucasus - Asia Minor. Avars [In winter, Ice demanded that the Sun give him his daughter; the Sun asked him to wait, in the spring he informed Ice that the bride was ready; Ice replied that he had no time for the bride now]: Khalidova 2012, No. 21:21).
Western Siberia. Nenets: Bulatova 1985 {this text is almost certainly Osharov's retelling} [the old man sends his eldest daughter to the owner of the winds Kotur to ask him to stop the blizzard; tells him not to shake snow out of his shoes on the way , do not tie untied ties on clothes, go for a sled, then for a bird; the girl does everything in her own way; K. tells me to take half of the meat to the neighboring plague, the girl simply throws it away; tells you quickly sew clothes; the girl refuses to take the speck out of the old woman's eye; K. throws the girl into the snowdrift, she dies; the same with her middle sister; the youngest does everything right, brings meat to another plague, gets instead, work tools, takes a speck out of the old woman's eye; four girls jump out of the old woman's ear, do the job; K. takes the girl as his wife, the blizzard stops]: 148-154; Golovnev 2004 [y The Yenisei Nenets, the conflict between the North and the South is expressed in the fact that the god of the North wants to marry his son to the daughter of the god of the South, but the matchmaking remains unsuccessful, since the groom cannot withstand the heat, and the bride is cold]: 304; Nenyang 1997 (Taimyr, Tukhard tundra, western. Labanauskas in 1976) [the father sends his eldest daughter to a blizzard; at the edge of the lake, she must remove the bandages from the bakaries, not break it on the other side, correct the devils, not scold the two children who come running; she does not unties the bandages, does not correct the devils, scolds the children when they call her sister; the children disappear, the man in the plague tells them to cook food, take it to their mother; she did not find the old woman, walked for three years, the man tore it apart; the same with the middle daughter; the youngest barefoot crossed the water without freezing, glued the devils together, caressed the children, carried food to the old woman, found a leaky tree root, put a bowl in it, got back needles, thimbles, etc.; the old woman went out, told her to look in her head, the girl killed lice, saw women working in her ear, they sewed clothes that the man told her to sew; the girl and her father healed well]: 56-58; Osharov 1936a (Pyasinskaya tundra, western 1930) [The old man has three daughters; in a blizzard, he sends his eldest wife to Kotur to have mercy; she must push the sled against the wind, not tie ties to his clothes when they are untied, and not shake out the snow; tie it up and shake it out only at the top of the mountain; do not drive the bird when it sits on her shoulder there; sledding down the mountain to the plague of Kotura; do not touch anything in the plague herself; the girl did everything wrong, drove the bird away began to eat meat in the plague; K. comes, tells her to take half of the meat to her neighbors, do not go into the chum there, wait for an empty trough; the girl did not look for the plague, threw the meat into the snow; in the morning K. tells me to sew in a day clothes made of leather; an old woman comes in, asks to look for her lice, the girl refuses, says that there is a lot of work; the clothes are bad, K. tore the girl, threw it away; the same with her middle sister; the youngest does everything that's right; finds a stump, there is a door in it, the old woman takes the meat she brought, returns the trough with needles and other women's utensils; when the girl starts sewing, the old woman tells her to look for lice from her ear four girls go out, perform everything; the old woman warns not to tell K. that this is his sisters' work; K. marries the girl, the blizzard stops]: 195-206; Tonkov 1936 [the freezing old man sends the eldest daughter to look for a warm plague; tells me to go across the lake, dissolving pimas; she picks up pimas, drives dogs; the owner asks to take the meat to another plague, she eats it herself; she cannot sew a blanket without seams, glues it together, it falls apart; refuses to look in the old woman's head; the owner killed her; the same with her middle daughter; the youngest caressed dogs while she was looking in the old woman's head, sees people in her ear sewing a blanket for her; gets married, takes her father into a warm plague]: 149-153; Tereshchenko 1949 [a woman's Sunny Warmth and Blooming Grass had a daughter Sunny Sunset; Cold tried to take her away, but the girl froze on the way and crumbled on the ground in the form of a blueberry berry, called "a woman in hiding" since then] in Golovnev 1995:436, in Khomich 1976:19; Tereshchenko 1949 [Invincible Cold marries Sunny Sunset, daughter of Solar Warmth and Blooming Grass; takes her north on bears, she is frozen, through a hole in the board, the sledge rolled to the ground, crumbled into blueberries; The cold promised that she would be dead most of the year; in summer it ripens]: 139-140; Khomich 1976 [thunder is the noise of a sledge on which the sons of the North and the South come to fight to pick up a daughter who was once married to the son of the North and returned to her father after his death; lightning - sparks flying from sledge runners]: 19; northern Khanty (b. Kazim) [man in the house behind a locked door (Torum?) freezes; sends her eldest daughter to the North Wind so as not to blow too much; she does not listen to her father's advice (she ties ties her fur coat and kitties, drives rather than kisses bears, cuts wood with a sharp, not a blunt ax); cleaning the house, finds pieces of moose and sable meat, eats them; The wind brings sables, tells them to take the sable meat to the next house; the girl finds no one; the wind tells me to do it before he returns sable fur coat; woman comes in, asks to look in her head; girl refuses; does not have time to glue the skins together, the Wind kills her; the same with her middle daughter; the youngest follows instructions; pieces of meat from the floor - Wind sharpener; the girl looks for a woman in her head, sees little women behind her ear, they make a fur coat; The wind takes her as his wife, her father is getting warm]: Lukina 1990, No. 12:73-74; Entsy: Prokofieva 1953 [one of the sons of the South, Lightning, married the daughter of the North; died; the wife went back to her father; the other Lightning (son of the south) came to marry her; the North does not want to give her daughter; the brothers of this Lightning all go to her on sledges across the sky and asking to give up their daughter is thunder; sons of the North throw clouds at boring matchmakers]: 202; Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 44 [a freezing old man sends his eldest daughter to look for a warm plague; tells me to go across the lake, untied the ties on the glasses; do not drive dogs, they will lead to the plague; the girl does not untie the glasses, drives dogs; comes to the plague; the man asks to take the boiled meat to another plague; dark, girl eats meat herself; when leaving, the man orders to glue the blanket without seams; it breaks; refuses to look for lice from the old woman; the man kicked the girl out, she froze; the same with the middle sister; the youngest does everything right ; instead of another, the plague finds a hole with people, puts the cup in it; they return the empty cup with a golden lasso in it; the girl looks for an old woman in her head; sees people making a blanket in her ear without seams; a man marries a girl, tells her to leave the lasso, deer appear; the girl brings her father to live with her]: 183-187; nganasans [all Syrada-nyantu (ice guys, there are 7 or 9 of them) are married to Kowyams (Suns mother) and Mou Nama (Earth's mother); usually sleep, but when they wake up they come to K.; then the wind blows, it snows; they visit it all winter, as a result, winter, cold, blizzard; when they spend the night at M.'s, wild deer disappear]: Dolgikh 1968:218; chum salmon: Alekseenko 2001, No. 40 [(=Dulzon 1969, No. 61:199-203; =Kupriyanova 1973:144); old man Yrokhot has a wife and two daughters, the eldest is colmas; frosts come, "dosi" (iconic wooden figures) freeze, send Yrokhots Zaychikh to the elderly to ask when it will be warm; she first forgets the answer, then tells the dosi to be sent to the old woman her frogskin box; the old woman receives the box but does not get warmer; the old woman says that Uses ("warm sky") will return warmth when she gets their daughter as his wife; the Yrokhots are put in a cauldron colmas, he rises to heaven in it; the trees rejoice that "their aunt" has risen, but the colmas hits them with an alder rod; W. tells her to take the trough of meat to his parents; Colmas goes out, does not see the plague, The plague falls through the hole of the invisible plague, "it has dried up in the seven suns and moons of the upper world"; the earth is cold again; the old people send their second daughter, she distributes fishmeal to the trees; after coming out of the plague, W. notices sparks flying from another, leaves meat there, returns; when going hunting, W. tells you to sew mittens first, the next day to the park; the girl takes her uncrumpled skin to the plague, where she left the meat; there the old woman sits on her skin and while the girl is looking for her lice, the skin turns into mittens, into a park; W. suspects that it was sewn by his mother's hands, but the girl denies; he marries the girl, steps on the ground warm], 41 (oz. Nakolda - apparently, the upper reaches of Sym) [people are starving in the cold; the old man sends Hare to his grandmother to ask what Sits down wants; she replies that to marry her sister, Hare returns, forgets the answer; the old man She sends the Fox, she comes back, tells; Calbes hears, sends her daughter; young trees, bushes, they are children of the sun, they jump, they say that the aunt is coming, daughter K. hits them with a stick; the trees tell her swallow the sharpener when she sees it; she came to the plague, swallowed the sharpener; W. returns from hunting, daughter K. replies that she did not see the sharpener; W. tells me to take the meat to the elderly; daughter K. does not know where to go, dumps meat in the hollow of a stump; at night she sleeps with W., it is warm in the morning, K. rejoices that her daughter is married; when going hunting, W. gives his wife a skin from her reindeer forehead, tells her to sew mittens; she rolls down the stone plague in her skin, falls for the second time, dies; W. sends even more severe frost; the episode with the forgetful Hare, the Fox, is repeated; the grandmother's daughter follows her advice, corrects the trees, lubricates them with fat, Christmas trees rejoice that the aunt is coming; they tell me to put the sharpener in place (by the vice); she gives the sharpener to the returning W.; finds the chum on the spark that has flown out, puts the meat in the old people's dish; it's warm in the morning; mother W. asks to look for her lice, puts the skin under her deer's forehead, takes out the finished mittens in the evening, tells W. to answer that she sewed herself; W. and his wife go down, visits his wife's parents; K. asks why W. did not bring her gifts; following the trail of W., he sees a cloud rising behind him; behind the plague, ropes are tied to the ears of the wolves, with which the ground is pulled; the wife pulled out her ears, wrapped the ropes around her ears, holds the ground; wolves they freed themselves, tore K.; they returned back, she put her ears in again, tied the ropes with which the ground was pulled together]: 93-98, 98-100; (cf. Alekseenko 1970 [Uses'as'ket (A Warm Fairy Tale) was told in the evenings only during severe frosts; storytellers could only be persons born during the warm winter months; the fairy tale was supposed to cause warming]: 44); Osharov 1936a [the old people have five daughters, the youngest is smart and beautiful; in the cold, the old man decides to send the eldest to Oses to send warmth; she comes where there is grass, there is no snow; the grass asks stay, she does not listen, hits and tramples on her; does not look for the door at the plague, breaks through it; Oses came back, drove her away, because she broke the plague, did not give heat, killed the girl; the same with the other three daughters; youngest carefully separates the grass, sees sisters killed next to two birch trees, corrects the plague, finds the door, adorns it with ornaments removed from the sisters, finds only a dead cuckoo inside the plague; Oses comes says that she will send warmth, marry her; it is getting warmer, the old woman reproaches the old man for killing his daughters, but the warmth has come without it; drives the old man out to look for daughters; he meets a polar bear, a bear beats him, the old man falls, rivers have flowed from him]: 161-165.
Eastern Siberia. Amur Evenks [the old hunter has three daughters; he sees a huge young man sitting on a hill; he promises him well-being if his eldest daughter unties ties and climbs a high mountain, where the man's mother will see her; the eldest does not untie her, she is carried away by a blizzard; the same is the middle one; the youngest unties, comes to the mountain, where a man's mother, the size of a mouse, calls her inside the stump; gives make clothes out of skins; a girl does not know how, but a man's mother pulls a female assistant out of each ear; {obviously, the girl does the task, gets married}; previously a big man promises that if a girl will complete the task, her sisters will come to life, the hunger will end]: Bulatova 1980:95-98 (=1987, No. 1:109-111).
SV Asia. Itelmen [North Wind marries Kutha's two daughters; when he checks the tops, blood comes from the cold from under his fingernails; K. sends his son-in-law, passes off his youngest daughter as South Wind; all it gets damp, clothes are rotting from the rain; the eldest daughter sends her son to her father; the North Wind returns, brings good weather]: Bogoras 1902, No. 27:656; Koryaks: Zhukova 19?? [The Sun and the Raven are brothers, they wanted to marry the Daughter of the North; the Raven was luckier, brought the girl; the Sun was offended that his brother did not want to share his wife with him, went overseas; night fell; Raven sleeps with his wife, wakes up - he will see the darkness, sleeps again; the tundra inhabitants were afraid of eternal night, went to the Raven to ask the Sun not to anger; the Raven sent an ugly woman to the sun, she came back, said that The sun refused to speak to her; the Raven sent his beautiful sister; the Sun still demands the daughter of the North; Sister Raven replies that she was no worse than her; the Sun agrees to take the Raven Sister, but on the condition that they will not return to the tundra; agrees only to live in the tundra for a while; the daughter of the North saw that the Raven was powerless to return the Sun to the tundra, went to her father; since then, the Sun has been living overseas, sending to the tundra only the coldest rays]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 138 [the raven Velvimtilyn swallowed the sun; Ememkut sends his daughter Klyukenevyt to him, V. does not want her; sends his daughter Inyanavyt; seeing her, V. laughs with joy, spits out the sun; I. pierces V. with a stick, hangs it on a stick so that he does not swallow the sun anymore]: 418-419; (cf. kereks {Baboshina's are Koryaks; see Leontyev 1983:83} [The sun cannot get Frost's daughter, Raven-Sokholylan brings her; the Sun goes overseas; people ask the crow to give the Sun a woman; he gives an ugly woman; the Sun agrees for her shine only every year for six months; S.'s wife, seeing his impotence, leaves him; S. makes the sun out of a seal, the moon out of wood]: Baboshina 1958, No. 72:178-183).
NW Coast. The Tlingits [a man marries an East Wind daughter; then marries a North Wind daughter, brings his former wife to the village; the new one has sparkling icicles and frost clothes; she melts when the first wife evokes clouds and warmth]: Swanton 1909, No. 61:219; Hyda (Masset) [the son of the North marries the daughter of the Southeast, takes his wife home; leaving home, she breaks off icicles twice; father-in-law moans, these are his fingers; when she collects clams (sea saucers) at low tide, a blizzard begins; her feet freeze into the ice; she sings, calls on her father, who comes with a warm wind, snow and ice are melting; this woman is an Oyster-Catcher (H æmatopus bachmani Aud.), she has a red beak (her nose is frozen) and her legs are white (frostbitten)]: Swanton 1908a, No. 14:396-400; Tsimshian [of the four great leaders in the four corners of the world, the main North Wind, then South, East, West; the younger three do not like the North, they want summer, not winter; they started a war, agreed that peace will be green for six months and that South Wind will sometimes rain in winter; North's sons Frozen and Freezer; South has four sons and a daughter; he agrees to give his daughter for son of the North; she is cold in an ice house; she carved a duck out of wood, sent her father to tell her father that she is feeling bad; he sends her sons to return her sister; only the fourth manages to break through; then they come up and others, it's raining; the woman's husband's sister asks to take her away, otherwise she will drown; it's an ice floe, a woman puts it on her right leg; so women still have cold feet; North Wind has agree that winter will not be 6, but 4 months; the remaining 8 will be for the three leaders; the West Wind requires everyone to have 3 months equally; that's what we agreed]: Boas 1916, No. 10:121-125.
The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [A month freezes to death every woman she marries; the youngest of three sisters (var.: she is the daughter of the warm wind) becomes shamans, unravels his plans; when he leads her to to herself, the icy grotto melts at her sight; spring begins]: Teit 1909a, No. 32:701-702; Thompson: Teit 1898, No. X [the cold winds of the north fight the warm winds of the south; people ask them to make peace; daughter the south marries the wind from the north; after a while he returns to stay; on the way back, her brother accompanies her; he is cold, he throws her child into the water; he turns into a piece of ice it gets warm; people no longer suffer from excessive heat or cold]: 55-56; 1917b, No. 8 [always warm at first; South Wind's son Chinook married Cold Wind's daughter, brought home; since then, her relatives visit her every year, bringing winter with them]: 21; 1917b, No. 36 [the son of the Zhara people goes to marry the daughters of Cold; the old woman gives him a golden staff, tells him to put him under him when asked to sit down on an ice seat, he will not freeze; Cold's youngest daughter puts him to this test, agrees to marry him, teaches him what to do; 1) he brings warmth, Cold cannot freeze water; 2) ask for cold to distinguish a bride from her sister, the girls are the same (the bride winks); Cold allows a person to marry, forbids him to leave his country; wife and born son want to see his relatives; young they run away; the cold sends her wife to chase; her daughter turns her husband into a duck, her son into a duck, herself into a lake; the old woman returns; next time into an old man, a boy, an old house; a priest, a bishop, church; for the fourth time Cold himself is chasing; her husband's father (or grandfather) lets the wind out of the bag, the Cold is defeated; begs permission to visit his daughter every winter; since then, the heat and frost have been moderate] : 56-62; lillouette: Elliott 1931 [girl rejects suitors; her four brothers are warm winds, the youngest is Chinook, the warmest; North Wind kidnaps her; he is out of ice, she gives birth to two icy sons; brothers find her, take her back; force her to leave her icy children]: 166-168; Teit 1912b, No. 10 [The glacier marries the daughter of Warm Wind; gives his wife only wet firewood; her brothers save and bring it back; the Glacier sends frost; the Warm Wind drives the Glacier back into the mountains; the woman's son is a piece of ice; her brother throws it into the fire; winter is now shorter than summer]: 310-311; Hill-Tout 1905 [North Wind married a South Wind woman, took her north to an ice house; she calls her three brothers; these are the winds that carry thaw, spring, summer; they take her back, but decide not to kill the North Wind so that it does not happen it's too hot; a woman secretly takes her icy baby with her, but her brother throws him into the river, it melts]: 204-205; clackamas [Warm Wind's sister goes beyond the Cold Wind living on east; winter is long and harsh; The warm wind is coming east, his sister's husband is melting; she gives birth to a son not as cold as his father]: Jacobs 1958, No. 22:185-187; Western sachaptines [Coyote hears a noise , as if a duck is flying, something hits him in the eye, he has difficulty ripping it off, throwing it into the river (var: the object consistently hits him in the jaw, face, forehead, mouth); for the fifth time he cooks it and eats it; object turns out to be a female vulva, Coyote loses teeth; when going hunting, five Goose Brothers tell his sister to marry the first man who comes; Coyote turns handsome, forgets that he is toothless, cannot to bite off meat; falls asleep, the girl sees that he has no teeth, she inserts the teeth of a mountain sheep in him; Coyote says that his teeth grow in his sleep; marries; brothers are reluctant to take him hunting, tell him not make noise, he flies, he screams, everyone falls; next time they throw him off; when he falls, he screams "I'm a feather!" , but at the last moment he accidentally shouts "Bitch!" , breaks; the wife puts her heart in her little fingers, kills the brothers with arrows, the youngest two remain; the youngest tells the eldest to shoot his sister in the little finger, who kills her; both came to the house of Cold, his daughter Winter, they're naked; went to Summer's house, married his daughters; Winter and her daughters came to war, but Summer ruined the blanket, everything melted]: Farrand, Meyer 1917, No. 3:144-148; modoc [West Wind has two wives, South and North Winds; South goes to visit parents, it gets cold; husband's younger brother greets her happily when she returns; offended North Wind goes north, taking her jewelry; returns every year when her rival goes to visit her parents]: Curtin 1912:93-94
Northeast. Delaware (unami): Bierhorst 1995, No. 34 [1) the spouses living in the north quarreled, the wife went south; her husband followed her with cold; he visits her every year; 2) beckons the south and the north play dice; winter and summer alternate as one wins], 39 [same as (34, 1)].
Plains. Sarsi [Thunder married Bursuchikha, went to his home for the winter; Raven came to Badger (Crow) and married her; in the spring she was afraid that her husband would come; the Raven ordered not worried; told Thunder that Badger was now his wife, flapped his wings, it snowed; Thunder said he could take Badger, but let him stop snowing; the raven clapped his wings again, snow stopped; Raven is stronger than Thunder]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 43:50; teton: Walker [beautiful Vohpe, daughter of the Sun and Moon, falls from the sky; four winds argue who is marrying her; gifts from the North turn to ice; he freezes her clothes, other Winds thaw her; the North and South Winds still fight] 1915:174-179 [two options]; 1983:183-186; 1991 [Vozia (North Wind) tried to steal his wife Vahpe Vahan from Okag (South Wind)]: 125-127.
Southeast USA. Chirokee: Hagar 1906 [a hunter from the south killed big game, a hunter from the north killed small game; the northern one was jealous, carried the south's wife across the sky to the north; when he grabbed her, she rubbed corn; her the dog ate the rest of the flour, ran after it; on the run, food fell from its mouth, forming the Milky Way; as soon as the prisoner was in the north, it became warmer, the ice began to melt; the north had to return with his sobka; normal weather is established]: 364-365; Mooney 1900, No. 70 [The North fell in love with the daughter of the South; parents object, fear that his son-in-law will bring cold; he promises to take his wife home; on his the homeland of the house is made of ice; when a young woman comes, they melt; people ask her to be returned to her parents, the North has to agree]: 322.
The Great Southwest. Hopi [the vegetative spirit makes a date with a girl; the Ice Boy comes in his place, takes the girl to the mountains; the Spider helps the real groom; in the mountains in one half of the sanctuary he raises corn, on the other, his rival covers everything with ice and snow; corn yields, the snow melts; the groom returns the bride]: Titiev 1948:37-40; Western ceres: Boas 1928a (Laguna) [Summer boy in a shirt decorated with pumpkin flowers gives the chief's daughter corn and melons; her husband Winter dressed in icicles is afraid of melting, goes north, brings Summer to fight; Summer is armed with lightning, Winter is hail, snow and ice; Summer's companion Rock Boy drives Winter; Summer and Winter agree that summer will last seven months, and winter will last seven months, and winter will last (lunar months); Summer returns to Akoma (not Laguna), tells you to sow corn]: 33-35, 245 [summary]; Pradt 1902 (Akoma) [Chief Cochin's daughter marries Shakok, the spirit of winter; harsh winter is coming; the spirit of summer Miochin gives K. corn; calls for help from the summer, Sh. - 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).
(Wed. Honduras-Panama. Kuna [Kwani (also known as Kayatodo) was washed with magic herbs as a child, wise at the age of a young man; other nele (shamans) are evil and really ignorant, everyone has many wives; K. He predicts a drought, they don't believe him; he collects water and food; there is only one body of water left in the distance, but ferocious animals gathered to him; they sent a virgin for water, the animals did not eat her, but she could not bring water to everyone; another man sent a daughter who had lost her virginity and was eaten by a crocodile; shamans were unable to sing and rattle; four old women were sent to K. to take care of him as a child; he he sang, thundered with a maraka rattle, four days later thunderclouds gathered on four sides, the rain filled all the reservoirs]: Chapin 1989:160-166).
Guiana. Varrau: García 1993, No. 23 [there was no sun, his master kept it in his bag in the sky; the man sent his eldest daughter to ask him to put the sun in the sky; on the way she met a young man, she rejected him, came to the owner of the sun, he drove her away, she returned; the man sent his youngest daughter, she went east, met no one on the way, but he tried {not clear, successful whether} to take possession of it; she noticed the bag, the owner told her not to touch it, but she tore the bag, sunlight spread everywhere; then the owner placed the sun in the east and the bag in the west; in the sun, the girl sparkled, became the moon; returned to her father; the sun was shining for only three hours; the father sent his daughter east again, took a turtle with him; she attached her to the sun, he had to move more slowly; since then the day lasts 12 hours, there is the Sun and the Moon]: 101-102; Wilbert 1970, No. 113 [the night found parents with two daughters in the forest; the fifth person fell behind, screamed, Wait for me, became an owl, still screams; dawn does not come; the father sees the light in the distance, sends the eldest daughter; the girl wandered very much because she has already lost her virginity; an old man and his wife are in the house; their son came; did not give a day, for she who came is not a virgin (or not suitable for him as a sexual partner); the youngest went straight, the owner of the day is happy to get along with her, gives her a day]: 239-240.
The Southern Cone. Selknam [many have tried to approach and defeat the North, but it is too strong; the South has decided to do so and marry the daughter of the North; the Southeast has tried to do this several times, but The North put insurmountable obstacles in his way; the South carefully hid how deeply in love with the daughter of the North; the people of the South went north, but when food supplies ran out and his clothes were worn out, he had to return; on the second attempt, the South and its people reached the North parking lot; the North did not fight openly and offered competitions - martial arts between participants; the people of the north won; one bent the Rainbow so much (he was with the South) that it remained crooked; but then the South itself came out, defeated many, and then threw the North beyond the area where the struggle (this is considered a defeat); after this was grabbed by the hut in which the daughter of the North was staying and took her away with the girl; the North set off in pursuit; people from both the North and the South trying to overcome the mountain in the rain caused by the North fell and slid; both sides decided to take a break; the South sent a man to his father asking him to send the worst weather; people of both the North and the South hunted; the people of the North made a bundle resembling Guanacos rolled down the mountain; the people of the North started shooting at him, and the people of the South laughed; then the father of the South sent such a snowstorm that the North had to retreat urgently; the South began to live with the daughter of the North; sometimes the North, then the South is attacking the enemy]: Wilbert 1975a, #16:49-55.