C35B. Frogs are opponents of the sun. .15.21.27.28.31. (.43.)

A frog (toad) prevents more than one sun from shining in the sky.

Latins, Minions, Panggi, Lepcha, Ancient Greece, Russian written tradition, Lithuanians, (ne perse).

Southern Europe. Latins [Phaedra's fable (1st century): "Seeing a magnificent wedding, a thief neighbor, /Aesop immediately began to tell: /One day the Sun decided to take his wife, /Why did the frogs scream to the sky. Jupiter, disturbed by the gam/What's up? Swamp residents say:/"It dries the backwaters alone, /forcing us to die in dry places;/What will happen if it gives birth to more children?" (per. M.L. Gasparova)]: Phaedr. I. 6 (Gasparov 1962:10).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mignong: Elwin 1958a, No. 13 [The two Sun Brothers took turns shining 12 hours a day; the Frog shot one with an arrow, its lights went out, it became the Month, the shrapnel from the impact became stars; from revenge both brothers send their arrows to the ground, bringing death to people's children; the frog hides from the Sun in the water], 14 [Kayum-Sedi-Sedi-Irkong-Komi-Manne is dead, his body has decomposed, but his eyes remain; Sedi- Digir-Irkong-Komong-Yongmo threw them into the sky, they became two suns, burned the earth; Wiyus (gods, first ancestors) gathered, decided to destroy one sun; rainbow maker Silling-Pai struck him poisoned by an arrow; his light has faded, he became the month of Pollo; Silling-Pai was frightened of what he had done, hid in Siang River, became a frog; the owner of the waters gave his bow and arrows to the insect Go-Eng; he shoots at people, when they start clearing the forest for crops, people get sick at this time]: 47, 47-48; panggies [were Doini (sun) and Dopo, were Pollo (month) and Poyo, eternal day; Wiyus (gods, ancestors) did not There were eyes and limbs, then appeared, but there was no food; they thought it took night, the Frog killed Doini (the Sun), it became dark; Wiyus asked people and animals to revive the Sun; she agreed to return with the condition that she can eat whatever she wants; when a person dies during the day, the Sun eats him, when the night is the Month]: Elwin 1958a, No. 21:52-53; lepcha [two Sun Brothers took turns rising, was unbearable heat; a toad (an edible species) volunteered to kill the Sun, made an arrow from a cock's scallop (Celosia L., amaranth), killed his older brother with it; the youngest was covered with a black blanket, it became dark; black pestles turned into snakes, wooden mortars into tigers; fireflies tried to illuminate the world, and a tree with white leaves turned them out; but this is not enough; half of the people died from snakes and tigers; humans, animals, and the supreme god Rum himself unsuccessfully asked the Sun to return; only when the Bat, hanging himself at the ends of his bow by his legs and nose, shouted through his nose that the world would die from cold, the Sun looked out, because no one had yet spoken to him through his nose; when he saw the Bat hanging on his bow, he smiled; immediately it got hot and the Bat fell, breaking his bones; so his legs did not look like anything birds, not animals, and their nose is twisted; they decided to punish the Toad, otherwise the Sun will not shine; his thumbs were cut off, placed in a cold place; the killed Sun became the Month; in the seventh, eighth and For the ninth month, the current Sun sets earlier, says it is tired; but in fact, the red rooster scallop grows to full height at this time and the Sun is afraid of being shot]: Stocks 1925, No. IX: 363-365 (quoted in Yamada 2009a: 34-36; retelling in Kühn 1936:82, brief in Elwin 1949:54).

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Phaedrus's fable (1st century): "Seeing a magnificent wedding, a thief neighbor, /Aesop immediately began to tell: /One day the Sun decided to take his wife, /To which the frogs screamed to the sky./ Jupiter asked, worried, /What's the matter? Swamp residents say:/"It dries the backwaters alone, /forcing us to die in dry places;/What will happen if it gives birth to more children?" (per. M.L. Gasparova)]: Phaedr. I. 6 (Gasparov 1962:10); Gasparov 1968, № 289 [Perry 1952, No. 314; the sun is celebrating its wedding in the summer; the frog is afraid that the sun will have a child who will dry the earth more than the sun]: 146; 1991, No. 6 [ The sun decided to marry; the frogs screamed and turned to Jupiter: The sun is killing us alone, but what happens when he has children?] , 25 (Babriy) [=1968, No. 289, Toad and Sun]: 273, 358.

Central Europe. The Russian written tradition ["Jesop" by Simbirsk captain Pyotr Kashinsky (1675, of the two surviving lists, one dates back to 1684 and the other to the first third of the 18th century), which consists of three books and is a free translation of fables from the collection "Przypowieśći Aezopowe, z Łacińskiego na Polskie z pilnośćiů przełozone. Przydane sů k temu przypowieśći z Gabryela Greka y Laurenthego Abstemiusa", published in Krakow around 1600: the toads were happy when they heard that the sun was taking a wife; the old toad said : "Oh silly, what are you happy about?! Gentle to you, a ray of one sun causes you to lose that the swamps dry up. Well, do you know if he has many such children better?" (Book 2: "The Proverbs of Gavril the Greek", listed in the 18th century)]: Tarkovsky, Tarkovskaya 2005, No. 39:418.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [frogs found out that the Sun was getting married; decided that when children appeared, they would dry up all water bodies, burn everything; went to complain to God, but did not find him at home; the Sun found out that frogs they went to complain, deprived them of their warmth; frogs became afraid of the sun, they croak only after sunset; {there is no mention of canceling the Sun's wedding, but this logically follows from the story}]: Lebitte 1965:400.

(Wed. The coast is the Plateau. Ne perse [The sun is too hot; the Coyote throws the Frog into the sky; it clings to the Sun, lowers it to the ground; the Coyote cuts off the Sun's head; he becomes the sun himself; he gets tired of walking in the sky; revives the Sun, makes it less hot, sets the seasons]: Clark 1966:33-35).