B85A. Wind regulation.. 35.42.44.45.50.
The wind is not blowing properly, people can't hunt or fish. After the hero defeats the Wind, it becomes too quiet, but the hero sets the right balance.
Mansi, Tsimshian, Haida, Quakiutl, Nootka, Timagami Ojibwa, Malesit, Penobscot, Hopi.
Western Siberia. Muncie (North. Sosva, 1931, Chernetsov) [Louis-vot-Oika (North Wind) blew incessantly, people were dying of the cold; the man went to fight him; they fired arrows at each other for a long time, the man broke the North Wind lower jaw; the wind stopped blowing at all, people began to die from the heat; when the jaw healed, the North Wind began to blow again, but now half its power]: Lukina 1990, No. 111:297.
NW Coast. Tsimshian [the weather is bad, only the South Wind (SE) is blowing, the fish does not bite, Txámsen (Raven) is starving; T. calls fish; Octopus, Halibut offer to go to South East War; Killer Whale gives participants its boat; The scallop (Cockle) on the bow of the boat always brags that SE will kick down; The halibut lies in the door of the SE house; the scallop enters the house; SE sits with its back to him, the wind constantly blows, the Scallop cannot come up; the Raven calls him back, breaks his sink, eats the bouncer; lit a smoky torch in the South House, he started coughing, went to the exit, slipped on the Halibut, fell on the Killer Whale Boat; the Octopus dug in the boat does not let it into it with suction cups; SE suggests that it be a day of good weather and a bad day; the Raven does not agree; - Two days; - Disagree; - Eternal summer; - Too much, even if four days of good weather in a row; tells the Octopus to let SE go; everyone has gone home, the weather has been good since then]: Boas 1916, No. 20:79-81; Haida [The Raven asks the birds to go with him to the South Wind; Jay is rejected because too old but he still wants to go; the Raven stretches his neck; fails to make a boat out of different types of trees; only a maple one came up]: Boas 1916:658-659; Quakiutl [Omeal (Raven) s brothers are going to war in SE Wind; when captured, South Wind suggests that it should always be quiet; Norka says this is too much; then SE promises to blow no more than four days in a row]: Boas 1916:660; Nooka: Boas 1916 [Tsimshians, Hyda, Quakiutl, Nootka, Poppies have animals, fish or birds hiding in different parts of the South Wind's dwelling; it slides on them, falls]: 658-660 {see evidence motif identities in Eurasian and American versions in Hoebel 1941:5-7}.
The Midwest. Ojibwa (timagami) [the girl sees the Sun in a dream, now she can't look at it, goes to live for the Sun; 4 days later, four boys find themselves in a wooden bowl left at home, one with with horns, the grandfather sends them to 4 directions of the world; these are 4 winds; the fifth is Nenebuc; all summer the West Wind (SV) blows so hard that N. cannot fish; hunger begins; N. tells his grandfather that he will go to kill SV; he advises not to do this, but only tell the SV to blow only from time to time; N. goes west, breaks his brother (i.e. SV) one of his two horns, returns; SV warned his three Wind Brothers about dangers, they fearfully decided not to blow at all; stagnant water began to rot, it was impossible to fish again; the grandfather asks if N. SV; N. goes to tell you to send the wind from time to time; the desired balance is established]: Speck 1915d, No. 1b: 30-31.
Northeast. Malesit [The raven is the chief, his son-in-law is the Turtle and the Caribou boys among his people; for many days the wind has been blowing so much that you cannot hunt or fish; Gluskap told the Raven that it is a Wind Bird flaps his wings too much; the Raven sent the Caribou guys, who knocked down the Wind with a stone, tied them up; at first everyone rejoiced in the quiet weather, but then the stagnant waters began to rot, it got too hot; G. advised Send the Caribbean again to untie the bird one thing hid; it's normal; when a bird tries to escape, the wind is too strong]: Mechling 1914, No. 5:45; penobscot [Gluscabe makes a boat out stone, but because of the constant strong wind, he cannot hunt ducks; his grandmother tells him that the wind source is far away; G. goes there, loses all his hair from the wind, sees a bird flapping its wings; calling it grandfather, asks to make the wind stronger, for this purpose he is called to take the bird to the top of the mountain, drops, the bird breaks its wing; now there is no wind at all, the waters are covered with stagnant foam; G. returns unrecognized ( his hair has grown), heals the wing of the Wind Bird, asks not to wave constantly, but only for a day or two in a row]: Speck 1935b, No. 4:40-41.
The Great Southwest. Hopi [Yaapontsa wind blows excessively, destroying plants and blowing away fertile soil; the chief invites the children of the Old Spider Woman Pöqangwhoya and Palöngawhoya to go tame him; the Spider teaches how to wall up the gap in which he lives; it gets quiet, unbearably hot; brothers go to the Wind again, open the hole enough to be just right]: Malotki, Gary 2001, No. 28:252-257.