C19A. The child is playing with the sun .39.-.43.

The character (except Quileut: Raven) turns into a child, asks for and receives heavenly bodies to play, or (Chukchi) comes to play with the little daughter of the owner of the stars.

Chukchi, Asian Eskimos, Kodiak, Aleuts, Nuniwak, Central Yupik, Northern Alaska Inupiac (Point Hope), McKenzie Estuary, Koyukon, Ingalic, Tanaina, Atna, Tanana, Upper Tanana , Kuchin, Khan, Southern Tutchoni, Tagish, Inner Tlingins, Taltan, Helmet, Chipewayyan, Eyak, Tlingits, Haida, Tsimshian, Bellacula, Heiltsuk, Quakiutl, Nootka, Chilkotin, Quileut, Chemakum.

SV Asia. Chukchi: Bogoras 1902, No. 18 [kele owns the sun; the raven comes to his house, he swings, he tells him to freeze; the sun, month and stars are sewn into walrus balls; The Raven persuades Kele's youngest daughter to beg her father for a sun ball; he gives stars, the Raven hits the ball, he soars to the sky, bursts, the stars cover the sky; in the same way he gets a month, then the sun; kele furiously hangs her daughter upside down on a rock; the rope breaks, she falls into the sea, turns into a walrus; her fangs are her snot; according to another version, her father throws her out of the boat into the sea, cuts off her fingers when she grabs overboard; daughter turns into walrus, fangs her braids; daughter turns over the boat, father sinks]: 627; 1928, No. 2 [a lonely reindeer herder hears a voice from a pile of snow; there's a house there, a woman in it; she teaches him make love; gives birth to a son and daughter; they get married, they are people descended from them; people ask Wagtail to get light; T., Curkeel the Raven, Caggelin Partridge, Ground-Creeper they fly east, hammer the sky, break their beaks; K. sharpens them again, but now they are short; K. breaks through the sky, enters the outside world; there the girl plays with balls; K. grabs them and throws them up; they turn into the sun, a month (two balls stuck together), stars (one ball crumbled); K. throws the girl, she sticks to the month, is still visible; K. scorched clothes, turned white black; created rivers; the first people went west, became Russian; K. finds new ones in the grass; the Wolf says that the Raven eats crap; then K. hides the sun, moon and stars; rejects deer, agrees to return the stars in exchange for two Wolf's sisters wives; wives bandage his tongue, since then the raven has not spoken], 3 [evil kele steals the luminaries; Wagtail, Partridge are hammering the sky in the east, breaking their beaks; the Raven breaks a hole; in At home kele, the girl plays ball; the raven grabs it, tells the girl to ask her mother for another ball; so she gets three balls; throws them up, they turn into stars, the month, the sun; the mother throws the girl into the sea , she turns into a walrus], 4 [people live in the dark, eat black stones instead of meat, white stones instead of fat; in kele's world, the sun is hidden, wrapped in skins; the raven comes to play ball with Kele's daughter, persuades her to ask her father for the sun to play, flies away with him; a bundle holes, the world is flooded with light, Kele flees; after kicking branches, the Raven turns them into deer; flying above the ground, drags the wing, making excavations and creating rivers and the sea; creates marine and land animals, turns into thunder]: 301-303, 303-304, 304-305; Menovshchikov 1974 [a woman makes a ball with the sun in it, month and stars; it gets dark; a man comes, threatens to kill her, makes him give him the ball, throws lights to the sky; a woman makes a lot of balls, embroidering the sun, month and stars on them]: No. 58:221-223; Kozlov 1956 [it's dark in the world; we decided to send not Lisa for the sun, but the White Crow; she flew to a girl playing with two balls - bright and pale; offered to play together, rolled back the balls, they became the sun and a month; the crow was burned, turned black]: 34-35.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 26 [Tungaks steal the sun; animals advise who to send for it; Bear, Wolf rejected, sent Hare; he grabs the sun, the Tungaks are chasing him; the hare gives the sun with its paw, it splits; a smaller part turns into the moon; the Tungaks hide from the light underground]: 61-62; Bogoras 1913, No. 11 [The creator sends animals to get the sun from the Great turngaraka; The Raven agrees, but the Creator rejects him, fearing that he will forget about everything when he sees the sewage; the Hare is sent; the old man makes sledges at the dugout; the hare asks to see his hatchet, cuts off The old man's head; in the house the old man's children scream, I will eat my head, I will eat my leg, etc.; The hare kicks the sun ball out of the dugout, it becomes light; putting a hare fur coat on the old man's body, throws it into the dugout ; the old man's children devour him; the wife gets a penis, she recognizes her husband's penis]: 431; Kodiak [the leader's daughter is promised to whoever gets light; the raven turns into a feather, swims in a spring, the owner's daughter Sveta swallows a fluff with water, becomes pregnant; her son asks for three boxes to play; in the first he finds the night, in the second month and stars, in the third the sun; flies away, taking the last two; releases a month first and stars, then the sun; gets both daughters of the leader]: Golder 1903, No. 6:85-87; Aleuts ["It's wonderful that this tale of a crow receiving light through birth from a girl was also known to Lisyevsky The Aleuts are almost the same, including the name Ale, who plays the role of a bird raven instead. This toen, the guardian of the stars, lived somewhere at the height "]: Veniaminov 1840 (III): 47 (quoted in Lyapunov 1984:26-27); Nunivak Island [two brothers live alone in the dark; notice a faint light in the distance; they kayak to two sisters, get married; sisters hunt themselves, freeing the sunlight for a while, do not let their husbands hunt; while everyone is sleeping, the younger brother goes out, releases the sun; these two couples had many descendants]: Lantis 1946, No. 4:270-272; central Yupik: Krenov 1951 (Kuskoquim) [the hunters did not give the old woman meat, she hid the light; she was beaten and killed; sent the Raven to look for light; Milky The path is his ski track; he has turned into a sliver, fell into a bucket of water; the daughter of the master of the light brings the bucket home, the sliver turns into a boy, he is adopted; he wants a ball with light to play; becoming a Raven, he takes him away him; opens at home, the world is bright again]: 193-195; Nelson 1899 (icogmiut) [the sun and moon are disappearing; shamans can't find them; an orphan turns into a crow, tells his grandmother to tell her where to look for the sun; she admits that she is in the south; an orphan comes to the sun thief; he clears snow near the house with a shovel; the orphan grabs a ball of light, a shovel, flies away in a crow; on the way she tears off pieces of different sizes from the ball; therefore days per year of varying lengths; orphan descendants become ordinary crows]: 483-485; Northern Alaska Inupiate (Point Hope) [the first people walked in their arms, had no names, seal fat was for them like caribou black fat; a woman made a fat man with a bird's beak in his forehead; he came to life, walked on his feet, his voice was the voice of a crow; it was Tulugak (Raven); he flew east, there Husband, wife and daughter lived; they had light in two balloons; the girl was allowed to play with a less bright one; the ball fell out of the door, the Raven took it away, smashed it, shouting, Day! It's night! ]: Rainey 1947:269; McKenzie estuary [man and woman hold light in two bladder; Fox and Raven come to kidnap him; woman goes out to urinate, Raven tells a willow branch to penetrate her into the vagina; the woman becomes pregnant, gives birth to a boy; he demands these balls to play; pushes the smaller one out, the Fox takes him away; the baby turns into a Raven, flies after; leaving the chase, the Fox and the Raven tear the ball, light floods the earth; if they carried away a bigger bubble, there would be no night]: Ostermann 1942:70-73.

Subarctic. Koyukon: De Laguna 1996, No. 23 [A raven makes a rich outfit with cones and berries, marries the daughter of a chief who owns the Sun and the Month; a boy born asks for sun and a month to play; outfit The crow begins to turn into what it came from; the raven flies away, taking the sun, the month and the stars; the wind puts them in the sky], 25 [The raven makes the sun and the month, the leader steals them; the raven comes to to him under the guise of a rich man; throws a fir needle into the water, the chief's daughter swallows it, gives birth to a boy; the raven takes her as his wife; the boy asks for the sun and a month to play; the raven screams that the dog robs a barn with frozen fish; everyone runs there, he turns the boy into a fir branch, blows away the sun and the month; then makes stars], 26 [as in (23); the Old Raven gets the sun; cuts off a piece makes him a month]: 197-198, 201-209, 210-214; Jetté 1908-1909 [people promise Crow two dogs to eat if he finds the lost sun; he flies, sees a beautiful girl coming for a drink; turns into a fir needle; a girl swallows it with water, gives birth to a boy; he asks for the sun hanging in the house to play; brings it back to people]: 304-305; Attla 1983 [the sun is gone; people are tied to A bear has a rope so that when he looks for berries and they find it; The bear thinks it's okay, let it be dark; people ask the Raven for help, give him as much food as he wants; The Raven flies away; turns dust and grass into good clothes and shoes; the owner of the sun suspects that it is Raven, but others say he is rich handsome; his daughter fell in love with Raven, he began to live in their house; noticed the dog, asked to hang it; people notice that someone with a three-toed paw has pecked over the corpse; everyone must show bare feet; the Raven orders the veil to cover their eyes, the audience does not notice what he has three toes each; sent his wife to fetch water, threw a fir needle into the water, the woman drank, swallowed it; gave birth to a boy; in the same place where it was dark, the Foxes sang, Let there be light; to the sun and There are rattles tied to the moon in the house so that no one can touch it secretly; the boy cries, asks for the sun to play, the grandfather gives it; the raven wants the dog to grab the salmon; everyone rushes into the yard for the dog, Raven But back into the house, grabbed, released the sun, it became light; kicked the child, who turned into a bunch of fir needles; grabbed the moon, began to tear off a piece, giving each the name of one of the months of the year; December became Nameless; The Raven is back, everyone is happy with the light]: 89-105; Nelson in Vanstone 1978 (Nulato) [the world is dark; the raven flies and asks where the dawn is; the owners of the dwellings are only surprised; it flies to the bright at home; turns himself into a handsome rich man, marries the owner's daughter, a son is born, the Raven tells him to cry, his father-in-law takes the Month out of the bag; the raven tells his father-in-law that dogs will now eat fish supplies; father-in-law runs out of the house, the Raven releases the Month, the Sun, the third object breaks, stars are obtained; people greet him enthusiastically]: 58-60; inhalic [the daughter of a rich man rejects suitors; in her father's village it's light; the raven comes, turns into a fir needle, the girl swallows it with water, gets pregnant, gives birth to a boy; he still cries until he gets a shining thing; flies away with it, bringing people light]: Chapman 1914, No. 5:22-26; tanaina [the rich man hides the sun and the month; the raven drops his pen into a spring or turns into a fish; the daughter of a rich man drinks, swallows a pen or fish; gives birth to a boy; he asks to play the sun and the month; turns into a crow, takes them away; people are grateful to him]: Osgood 1937 [The raven drops the fir needle, the daughter of a rich man swallows it with water; the child gets the sun and a month to play; standing again A crow flying through a crack in the corner of the house]: 183-184; Smelcer 1992 [turns into a fish]: 111; Vaudrin 1969 [drops his pen]: 43-44; tanana [like tanine; no details]: Smelcer 1992 [turns into fish]: 31; atna [the chief holds stars, the month and the sun in three carved boxes; his daughter comes to the spring; the raven turns into a speck, the girl swallows it with water; gives birth to a son; a boy asks and receives stars and a month to play; throws them out the chimney; gets a box with the sun; turns into a crow, takes it away; people do not believe that light exists; the raven opens the box; people in fears are scattered all over the world]: Smelcer 1997:19-21; Kuchin [The bear keeps the sun in a bag above his bed; the Bear's daughter comes to collect water; the Raven turns into a speck, falls into her bucket , she swallows it with water, gives birth to a boy; he demands the sun to play; rolls it out the door, puts it back into the sky]: McKennan 1965:90-91; Khan (Eagle) [The bear took the sun off the sky, hung it on himself neck under a fur coat; The raven marries his daughter; a boy is born, the Raven tells him to cry, ask for the sun to play; the Raven makes a hole in the house, his son throws the sun through it; the Raven flies away]: Schmitter 1910:26 (=1985:38-39); Upper Tanana: Brean 1975 [a rich chief stole the sun and the month; the raven turns into a piece of moss, the chief's daughter swallows it with water; gives birth to a boy; that asks and receives a month and sun to play; throws them out through a hole in the roof, flies away]: 37-41; McKennan 1959 [the old man owns the sun and the month; the raven turns into a fir needle, falls into a spring; the old man's daughter swallows it with water; gives birth to a boy; he asks for the sun and a month to play; turns into a Raven, takes the stars away; smears them with resin, sticks them to the sky; draws their path through the sky with a pole sky]: 190-191; Smelcer 1992 [like tanine; turns into a piece of moss]: 111; southern tutchoni [the world is dark, daylight, sun, moon are owned by a rich man; he has a daughter; her maid follows water; the raven turns into a grain of dirt, tells the maid to keep silent about it, the daughter of the owner of the luminaries swallows dirt along with the water; becomes pregnant, gives birth to a boy three weeks later; he asks for him to play a box of daylight, then the sun, then the moon; releases into the world every time; then turns into a crow, flies away]: McClelland 2007 (1), No. 1b: 18-22; tagish, inner tlingits [Raven turns into a pine needle, falls into the cup of the chief's daughter; she spits out a needle, but it is swallowed back in her mouth; she gives birth to a boy; her father gives him the sun, a month, stars to play; The raven puts them in a box, takes them away; animal people don't give him fish; he opens the box, it's light; animal people turn into animals]: Cruickshank 1992:42-43; tagish [The raven goes to hunt sun, month and daylight; their owner and daughter live on the island; the raven turns into a fir needle, falls into the cup from which the girl drinks; she becomes pregnant, gives birth to a boy, he cries and gets to play for a month, throws it away; then gets and takes a bag of sun; steals people's fat in the dark, throws them back dog crap; opens a bag with the sun; when the light comes on, animal people turn into animals, everyone says who they will be]: McClelland 1987:254-257 (=2007, No. 73c: 361-362); taltan [the leader keeps the light in the box; the raven turns into a cedar needle, falls into the water; the servant brings water to the chief's daughter to drink; she gives birth to a son; he asks for the sun first, then the Big Dipper, then daylight to play; flies away through the chimney, holding sun and light in one hand, and in the other the month and the Big Dipper; brings light to the north, the sun to the east, the month to the west, the Ursa Major to the south]: Teit 1919, No. 1.5:204-205; the helmet [the owner of the sun and month keeps them in his home, where it was always light; his daughter drank water, swallowed some dirt with it; gave birth to a boy; he cried, begged for a month to play, then the sun, rolled them out of the house; this is how people got light]: Honigmann 1949:215; Chipewayan [Black Bear is White's nephew; White pulls out the Fox's shoulder, hangs it in his house; the fox asks the Raven for help; his shoulder hangs with a bunch of claws, they ring when touched; The raven seems to touch several times by accident; the Polar Bear falls asleep, the Raven grabs his shoulder, returns the Fox; the Polar Bear chases Black Bear away for telling everyone what happened; hides the sun; it goes dark; the Polar Bear's daughter swallows something dark with water; a boy born requires the sun to play; turns into a Raven, carries it away; polar bears have been ferocious ever since]: Bell 1903, No. 2:79.

NW Coast. If not otherwise: the world is dark; the chief keeps the light/sun in his house; his daughter comes to the spring for a drink; a raven or a young man wearing crow skin turns into a needle, the girl swallows it with water; gives birth to a boy; he cries until he gets a ball of light to play; kidnaps him, brings it to people; see motif A24. Eyak: Birket-Smith, Laguna 1938:251 [a rich family keeps the sun, the month, the stars; the raven will turn into a fir needle, fall into a vessel of water from which the girl drinks; flies out through chimney, carrying lights; people fish; the raven cannot fish in the dark; lets the stars out of the box; it becomes always light], 259-260 [the beginning is the same; fishermen do not give the Crow fish; he catches luminaries; for light, they give him all the catch]; Krauss 1970 in Romanova 1997, No. 3 [the world is dark, the sun, moon and stars are kept in a box under the ceiling in the leader's house; the raven has turned into a spruce needle; The chief's daughter's maid wrapped her with water, the chief's daughter drank, gave birth to a boy; he asked for the box to play; after receiving it, he took it away, released the lights; before that, the Raven had approached the fishermen, but it was dark; now he opened his box nearby; people could not sleep because of the constant light; the Raven became a man with a raven's nose, came to his mother (the leader's daughter); only she guessed who it was]: 26-27; Tlingits [The rich/chief in the upper reaches of the Ness River owns light; the raven turns into a garbage; the rich man's daughter swallows it with water; her father gives his grandson first a bag of stars, then a month; he throws the stars through chimney to heaven; after receiving a box of daylight, it turns into a Raven, takes the light away]: Golder 1907c: 292-293; De Laguna 1972:852-856 [The raven turns first into a feather, then into a fir needle], 860-862 [first in the beetle, then in the hemlock needle]; Smelcer 1992 [in the hemlock needle]: 31-32; Swanton 1909 [in the hemlock needle], No. 1, 31:3-4, 81-82, p.374 [the world was dark; one person knew that the Raven had light- Upper Reki-Ness, came to his daughter; was born to ask his grandfather for light, brought it to people]; Hyda: Barbeau 1961 [a monster with two mouths is the leader's slave; brings a lot of loot, eats almost everything himself ; the chief's son dies; people mourn, he is resurrected; the monster tells him to eat his skin scales; now the young man is hungry all the time; his father is ashamed, he lets him go get light, lets him put on his skin a crow; a young man flies into the sky through a narrow passage whose walls converge and diverge; a fir needle]: 83-85; Swanton 1905 (Skidgate) [like Barbeau; some needle; steals the moon; where he lives chief, not clear; breaks the moon before throwing it into the sky (moon phases)]: 116-118, 142-143 [the nephew takes his uncle's wife as a mistress; he causes a flood; the young man shoots arrows into the sky, climbs up a chain of arrows; turns into a hemlock needle in a pond; the chief's daughter swallows it along with water; the old man sees her baby getting up at night, taking out the eyes of the sleeping villagers, eating them; the chief breaks the floor of the house, throws the child down; he, in the form of a crow, lands on a lonely pole; splits it, the waters of the flood go away]; Haida (Masset): Swanton 1908a: 308-311 [The raven comes to the lonely a woman who owned the moon; dies himself and she becomes pregnant (without details); A raven comes out of her through her thigh; cries, asks the moon to play; closing all the holes in the house, the woman gives the moon; when expands the smoke hole, the Raven turns into a crow, flies out with the moon under its wing; the raven asks fishermen for fir needles, referring to candlefish; promises to make it light, they do not believe; he shows the moon, they give him fish; he breaks the moon in half, making the sun and the moon; the fragments turn into stars], 346-347 [four sisters own a salmon river; a man comes and turns into a baby, the elders sisters pick him up, the youngest doubts; in their absence, he becomes an adult, roasts and eats salmon, goes back to the cradle; one night he takes possession of his younger sister while she sleeps; leaves]; Tsimshian [like Hyde: Flies through a narrow passage]: Barbeau 1961 [(three versions); fir needle]: 75-82; Boas 1902 [cedar needle]: 10-16, 21-23; Garfield, Forest 1961 (b. Ness) [Chief Raven Upper River. Ness owns the sun, moon and stars; the raven asks fishermen for fish, they mock him, promise to give fish in exchange for daylight; the raven goes to the leader's daughter, turns into a garbage, and is thrown away with water; then in a hemlock needle, the girl swallows it; gives birth to a boy; the girl's mother suspects that the baby has feathers under her skin; a grown boy asks the moon to play, throws it to the sky, pretends that by accident; gets a box with the sun, gets stuck in the chimney, gathers all his strength, flies out; fishermen keep laughing at him; he opens the box, fishermen turn into all the animals they wore] : 78-79; bellacula: Boas 1895, No. 1 [The chief lives at dawn, keeps the sun in his chest; the raven turns into a spruce needle, the chief's daughter swallows it when he drinks water, gives birth to a boy; he cries asks the sun to play; releases]: 242; McIlwraith 1948 (1) [the heavenly leader keeps the sun in a box; the raven turns first into a hemlock needle, then into a feather or speck in the cup from which the leader's daughter drinks; she blows away the garbage; the raven turns into clay, the girl swallows it with water; having received the sun to play, the Raven takes it away]: 298, 301; heidtsuk [The raven consistently turns into a fish, a needle, a berry; the chief's wife throws this garbage away every time; finally, in a drop of fat, the woman swallows it with water; the boy born asks for a box of sun to play; takes it away; several groups of fishermen refuse share the catch with the Raven (they catch candlefish); he opens the box, people turn into frogs and waterfowl]: Boas 1916, No. 1:883; uvikino [(told by a young woman); Our Father sent to the land of the First Chief; he taught how to weave nets to catch salmon; only the moon was shining in the sky; the Raven ("true leader", "great inventor") knew that only Menis ("alone in the world") owned the sun; became pine with a needle, fell into the vessel of his eldest daughter M.; she drank water without swallowing the needle; then the Raven became berries, she noticed their reflection, ate them, gave birth to a boy; he immediately speaks; cries, asks his grandfather make a top to catch salmon for him; he does, but the grandson soon cries again; the same is a bow and arrows; a paddle; a boat; a box hanging under the roof; the mother does not give, the grandfather gives; the grandson gets what he is allowed take the box away in the boat; returns the first time, opens the box the second, sunlight floods the world]: Boas 1916, No. XX.1.1:208 (=2002:443-445); Quakiutl: Boas 1895, No. XVIII/1 (tlatlasicoala) neveti) [the world is dark, Omeatl (raven) turns into a piece of wood; the owner of the sun sends his daughter to bring it; after taking her, she becomes pregnant; a boy born asks for a box of sun to play, takes it with into the boat; cuts off the rope, sails away, opens the box; first eternal day; the former owner of the sun also makes the night]: 173-174; Boas 1910, No. 17 [Omean (raven) turns into the mistress's child daylight (she is a seagull); asks for a boat to play, then a vessel of light; sails away in a boat, brings light to the world]: 233-235; Nootka: Boas 1916, No. 1 [the leader of another village keeps the sun in a box; The raven turns into a hemlock needle; when he weeps, he first gets the boat that moves the fastest, then a paddle, then a box of sun; opens it only after the wise Wren promises that everyone will give him each type of fish and oyster after each catch]: 888-892.

The coast is the Plateau. Chilkotin [one person owns the light; the raven turns into a spruce needle, the man's wife goes down for a drink, swallows a needle along with water, gives birth to a boy; he cries, gets to play a box of light; becoming a Raven again, takes him away; women give him berries for opening the box slightly; the Raven breaks the box, releasing light; people are tired of eternal light, the Raven tells the night and day alternate]: Farrand 1900, No. 2:14-15; quileut [the chief owns the sun and the month; Kwety turns into a baby, picked him up by the chief's daughter; while she collects the shells, K. stays in the boat where the box of light lies; swims away, throws the sun and the month into the sky]: Andrade 1931, No. 28:85-89; Farrand, Mayer 1919 [the father himself invites his daughter to pick up the boy]: 254-255; Reagan, Walters 1933 [the month is not mentioned]: 299-300, 308-309 [K. turns into a slave, not a baby; the same myth is known for chemakum], 309-310 [K. turns into a baby; two virgin sisters find him by digging roots; his The youngest takes him, he continues to cry; the eldest falls silent; at night she takes him to her bed; he turns into a man, takes her as his wife].