B46D. Star brothers with different properties .31.34.46.48.

Men, each superior to others in a particular art, turn into stars.

Swedes [Pleiades], Danes [Pleiades], Altaians [Big Dipper], Baikal Buryats, Oirats (Khukhunor Olets) [Pleiades], Darkhats [Ursa Major], Mongols (Khalkha, Ordos) [ Ursa Major], Kiowa [unidentified], wichita [Ursa Major], chumash [Pleiades].

Baltoscandia. The Danes [Grundtvig 1878:109-114; the father named his 6 sons Senior, Next to the Elder, etc.; when they were between 18 and 12, their father sent them into the world to learn trade; at crossroads they separated along 6 roads, agreeing to return to the same place two years later; when they returned, it turned out that everyone had mastered some science: 1) build a self-propelled ship; 2) drive such a ship on the ground and by sea; 3) hear everything; 4) shoot with a marker; 5) climb walls and rocks; 6) steal; the sorcerer stole the princess, the king promises her savior as his wife and half the kingdom; using his abilities, brothers on the self-propelled ship reached the glass mountain; the climber climbed, the thief stole the princess from the sleeping sorcerer; he woke up, followed him; he can only be killed by hitting a dark speck on his chest; the shooter hit, the sorcerer fell into thousands of pieces, these are flints {in Grundtvig's German translation; Kramer has "shooting stars" for some reason}; neither the king nor the princess knows who her husband should be; God killed the brothers and princess, turning them into the Pleiades; the princess is the brightest and the thief the weakest star]: Cramer 1919:11-14; Swedes: Balzamo 2011, No. 16 [a giant kidnapped a princess, king promised half the kingdom and his daughter's hand to the savior; six brothers each began to learn some art; 1) build a ship; 2) control it; 3) climb a glass mountain; 4) steal - could steal an egg from under the magpie; 5) create the night over, the day ahead; 6) shoot accurately; the brothers got the princess, the fifth blinded the stalker giant, creating the night, the sixth killed him with an arrow; the king and the princess herself they don't know who to choose; the brothers and then the princess went up to heaven one by one, became the Pleiades]: 26-31.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Altaians [seven khans lived on earth; their names were Big Mouth, Long Arm, Sorcerer, Slukhach, Runner, Strongman, Big Eye; they easily defeated all those living on earth; Karat Khan decided with them kill them; the rumor overheard that he was going to put them in an iron chest and fry them; they were served poisoned meat at the Khan's headquarters; the sorcerer made him eat by the khan's people; when seven were lured into an iron trap and started a fire, Big Mouth, which had drunk the lake before, cooled the trap; the Strongman knocked down the door; with the help of the Runner, they ran away; but the Pure Spirit forced them to commit suicide; they threw themselves off the cliff and turned into seven stars; the Big Dipper is called Jeti Kaan ("seven khans")]: Katash 1958:10; Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 14 (Okinsky District of Buryatia) [Noyon Sabzheney goes to worship; meets, comrades a sharpshooter who hears sensitively, raises a mountain, is able to quietly change the feathers of a magpie and a crow running with stones on his legs, swallowing the sea; khan invites you to compete; the runner overtakes horsemen on foot; the sensitive one finds out that they want to poison them, changes food, Khan's noyons are dying, the shooter kills all the khan's mergens, the swallower drowns everyone who stayed; to atone for the sin of murder, seven fellows rush into the sea, find themselves in the sky - Seven Elders (Ursa Major)]: 209-215; Potanin 1883, No. 36 (Alar Buryats) [it's a pity for the poor young man to cut the trees, the owner drove him away; while he was sleeping, the old man pricked his tongue, making him able to understand the language of birds; the young man hears the raven tell the crow about the son of the khan, into whom the snake had climbed; he will recover, if he breathes steam from burning fat; a young man heals a khan's son, takes seven skinny mares as a reward; on the way he meets a strongman, a rumor, a shooter, a thief, a water bread, a runner; with their help he wins competitions in fighting, shooting, running, the princess gets; the army pursues them, drowns him with water bread; the llama ordered them to roll down the mountain, their heads flew off; God resurrected them, raised them to heaven, made Dolon-Ubugut (Bolshaya Bear); the small star in the middle is their wife]: 200-203; darkhats: Neklyudov et al. 2006 (somon Khujirt, Uburkhangay aimag), western 20.08.2006, No. WS 30011 and 21.08.2006, No. WS 30028 (=Kozmin 2008:18 ) [The older brother Altan-Minjin had a Silver-red horse, the younger Mungun-minjin had an amber-red horse (var.: their horses are Red Fox and Red Lamb, dogs Asar and Basar; they tied dogs to the Golden Cola ( North Star); their sister Sarisva Dagina was 18 years old, she decided to marry, told her brothers to bring a hare with black eyes and ears the size of an inch, not to take a hare with brown eyes and ears span; A. brought a hare, S. drew herself, put the picture together with the hare in a basket, let them into the river; the hare sailed to Khan Erg; the khan saw the picture and sent two people to S., who ordered them to give them to E. for him to come with 50 warriors; she will give her brothers drunk, destroy them together with E.; A. became very drunk, but M. was not very drunk, took A., red horses, pulled out the stake to which the dogs were attached, led him and ran away; one dog ran away by itself, barking; M. came to one mountain and fell asleep; when he wakes up, calls A., he replies that he is underground, M. dug him up; the brothers go, meet, take companions 1) fishing on the run an antelope, 2) a thief capable of pulling out an antelope's tongue and feathers for a bird, 3) hearing what is being done in the upper and lower worlds, 4) drinking the ocean, 5) raising mountains; runner, thief, listener, ocean drinker , mountain raiser, Altan Minjin, Mungung-minjin went further in every way...; tied two red horses and became the 7 stars of Ursa Major; they told S. to become the moon, so the Moon always looked at the stars of the Ursa Major; they drove the Golden Stake into the sky and tied their two red horses; this stake is now the Polyarnaya star; and the two horses are two stars side by side; there is a black-eyed hare on the moon, it looks like stains; when Mongols carry babies at night, smear soot on their noses like a black-eyed hare; this custom is associated with the black-eyed hare from the legend of the Ursa Major], Zap. 24.08.2008, No. 30020 (=Kozmin 2008 : 18) [Khan's daughter stole mangas; the old man had 7 sons, each with a special art; one knew what was happening all over the world, the other could catch everything that fell from the sky, etc.; the first realized that Khan's daughter Mangas was dragged across the outer sea; the young men got there; the man who could run fast grabbed the khan's daughter and ran, the mangas rushed in pursuit, Damchig-rinbuchi went up to heaven with the khan's daughter, threw her at land; who knew how to pick it up did not let it fall; Khan awarded the father to young men; 7 sons then became 7 stars of the Ursa Major, the khan's daughter became Orion]; Sanzheev 1931, No. 3 [Alahay-Mergen cannot be killed, but the warriors of the Mangus king tied him with iron, threw him into a deep hole, stole cattle, took his sister as the wife of the Mangus king; Magpie and Raven cry, for they are no longer thrown giblets from slaughtered cattle AM; AM asks them Bring Khan-Garudi, she lowers her wing into the hole, AM gets out; two servants of the Mangus king, blind and armless, tear iron with their teeth, freeing AM; he finds his younger brother, they meet they take the Listener, the Runner, the Thief (quietly plucks the feathers of the flying magpie), the Drinking Sea, the Mountain Rearranging; they put poisoned wine on the manguses, win 1) shooting in the needle's eye over seven mountains, 2) in horse races, 3) in wrestling; the mangus khan puts them in a yurt, sets it on fire, the Drinking Sea floods the fire, the subjects of the Mangus king drown in the water, the Mountain-Raising crushed him mountain; seven return her property to the kidnapped AM sister, rise from the mountain to the sky themselves, turn into seven Burkhans (seven stars of the Ursa Major)]: 87-93; Khalkha Mongols: Bennigsen 1912 ( Dunsurun) [two brothers want to destroy the third, hard-working; he leaves; consistently meets and comrades 1) listening to the conversation of sinners in hell; 2) easily catching up with antelopes; 3) knocking down an arrow from the sky of a star; 4) a thief stealing eggs from under a female crow; 5) piling mountains on top of each other; 6) drinking and belching the sea; the hero returns to his brothers, who became khans; thief replaces kegs of good and poisoned wine (one khan survives); the strongman wins the fight; the rest learn about an attempt to blow them up in the palace, prevent it; becomes seven stars of the Big Bears; it was cold, Mechin (Pleiades) had 7 stars; sister cities steal one, it's getting warmer; the stolen star can be seen from the second star of the bucket]: 55-57; Ochirova 1991 [in a Mongolian fairy tale 7 comrades: poor man, strongman, shooter listening, drinking, changing things; they took Khan's daughter, were tricked by an evil llama, ascended to heaven by the stars of the Ursa Major]: 193; Skorodumova 2003:5-8 [poor his brother works for a rich man, he feels sorry to cut trees; in a dream, a woodworker pierces his tongue with needles, he now understands the language of animals; the Raven tells the Raven that the Khan's son is ill because he crawled into his mouth snake; you must throw the meat of a fat mare into the fire, breathe smoke; the poor man heals the khan's son, asks for 7 skinny mares and a bad horse under the blanket as a reward; on the way he meets, takes as companions 1) moving mountains, 2) listening to what's underground, 3) shooting at the sky, 4) quietly changing feathers to crows and magpies, 5) drinking the river, 6) chasing mountain sheep; khan will give his daughter to the winner in competitions; 1) the strongman defeats the wrestler, 2) the shooter falls into the golden circle between heaven and earth, 3) the runner overtakes two old speeders (they put him to sleep by patting him on the head, but he woke up); the khan sent the army, drowned him; friends took to heaven, became the constellation Ursa Major - "Seven Elders"; the little star is the princess], 8-13 [two brothers meet the shooter (shoots birds for clouds), listening to what is underground (buried to the waist), a strongman (moves mountains), a runner (catches antelopes); a rumor hears that Shaazgai Khan is going to attack overseas; they meet a drink, he drained the sea to bottom, they passed, took him as a friend; S. offers competitions 1) Khan's shooter pierces the mountain with an arrow, the arrow gets stuck in another mountain, the Shooter gets stuck in the sixth; 2) wrestling (the strongman won Khan's fighter), 3) running (Khan's shaman fell from fatigue); sage Tushimel Saran suggests taking seven by deception, burning them in a cast-iron yurt; the rumor hears this, opilo floods the yurt and the whole city of Khan with water; they ascend to the sky, become Ursa Major]; the Hangarid bird carried the Khan's 25-year-old daughter; eight sons of an old man (shooter, runner, keen, smelling, sucking in the wind, swallowing the sea, stopping the moon and the sun; the youngest is capturing the intangible) went in search. They shot H., caught the princess in flight, brought the khan; the father decides to make khan the one who catches the arrow fired into the sky; caught the youngest, became the North Star, the rest became the Ursa Major] 58-64 [Alhay Mergen is surrounded by a mangas army; older sister Tsetseng Tever becomes his wife with him, younger Gunar Shar runs with 7 horses; AM cannot be killed, he is shackled, thrown into a hole; he asks the crow and the magpie to call the Hangarid bird, who lowers the feather, pulls AM out of the hole; two poplars turn into people, break its shackles; AM finds the GS; they meet, take them as companions 1) listening, 2) a runner, 3) quietly taking out the feathers from forty, 4) opival, 5) moving the mountain; at the khan of mangas, the Thief quietly changes the poisoned water to clean water; multi-headed mangas offer 1) shoot at target (AM arrow flies through the mountains), 2) horse racing (mangas horses fell from fatigue), 3) struggle (fish grew out of pieces of mangas thrown into the sea); they want to burn the heroes in the yurt, opilo fills everything with water , the mangas was crushed by a mountain; the CC was tied to seven horses; 7 heroes and 7 red horses ascended to heaven, became the stars of the Ursa Major]; the Mongols (Ordos) [six comrades help Argintai- Mergen Khan is released from the box in which he was locked by Boroltai; everyone is gifted with special abilities; one listens underground and in the sky, the other drinks the sea, the third moves mountains, etc.; in At the end, they attack B. seven times, throw him into a hole, fill him with stones; turn into stars of the Ursa Major]: Potanin 1893, No. 4:140-143 (retelling 1899:566); Mongols: Potanin 1893 (khalha) [The Pleiades were Hobudey-Mergen's seven sons, skilled in various things; one of them, a sharpshooter, bet, shot at the sun and moon, missed; cut off his thumb, turned into groundhog; a bunch of brothers and marmots took to heaven]: 323; Gadamba, ÄŒerensodnom 1984:735 in Nassen-Bayer, Stuart 1992 [two brothers meet, take as friends a man waiting half a day to be shot with them, the bird will fall from the sky; all three successively meet four more (Listener, Bulky Mountain, Runner, Sea Drinker); with these abilities, seven defeat Hana-Soroku, after all become stars of the Ursa Major]: 329; the Oirats (Khuhunor Olets) [Pleiades are six or seven Elbichi (masters) who once lived; the informant could only name five: a blacksmith, craftsmen to shrink space, stone smashers, carpenter, doctor; moon is a beautiful wife; one of the stars of the Ursa Major is a stolen simple boy]: Potanin 1893, No. 86:322.

Plains. Kiowa [every day the husband paints his wife's face red; her bear lover licks the paint; the husband watches his wife, kills the Bear; sees the wife crying while scraping her skin; the wife plays bear , turns into a Bear, kills all the people in the village, turns her younger sister into a slave; tells her to get a rabbit, otherwise she will kill; the girl's six brothers come back, give her a rabbit, teach her how show that she got it herself; the brothers taught her sister to stick needles into the ground, the Bear ran into them; while she was taking it out, the brothers and sister run away, climb the rock; the sister tells the brothers that The bears are vulnerable places between their toes; brothers shoot there to kill the Bear; they and her sister, along with the rock, rise to the sky, become stars (not specified which ones); the brothers' names are Sensitive Ear, Sharp Eye, Fast Runner, Sharp Mind; others unnamed]: Parsons 1929a, #3:9-11; wichita [each of the seven brothers is somewhat superior to other people; 1) vision, 2) hearing, 3) strength, 4) speed of running, 5)? , 6) clairvoyance, 7) fearlessness; a girl comes to the eldest at night; he smears her back with white clay; in the morning asks women to play ball, identifies his older sister; hits her with an arrow; she is angry becomes a Grizzly bear; brothers go camping, Clairvoyant says all their people are killed, Keen says Grizzly did it; Grizzly destroys people; their younger sister comes to the brothers, they give her killed rabbits; they shoot at the Grizzly's paw, where it is vulnerable, but she chases them; they throw the turtle's shell, it turns into many turtles, the Grizzly devours them; they throw a red stone (ocher?) , she paints herself; blows dust off her arrows, a dense bush appears; a deep gorge is created with a bowstring, the Grizzly crosses it; rises to the sky, turns into the Big Dipper; the Grizzly goes to north]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 9:69-74.

California. Chumash [8 men began to live together, each had knowledge; one was better at fishing than others, the second predicted the weather, the third looked for nuts and berries, the fourth caught small animals, made clothes out of their skins; once the eighth went missing; it's the Pleiades]: Monroe, Williamson 1987:90.