C40. Rocks are falling from the sky .26.37.

At first, stones fell from the sky and crushed people.

Chinese (Sichuan), Lee, Manchus.

China - Korea. The Chinese (Sichuan, Wu. Pingshan) [The sky was not blue before and consisted of large stones that fell down every time the wind blew. People were afraid and when they left home, they constantly looked up. A kind, beautiful and skillful weaver began to weave a blue cloth, spent half her life doing it, but finished. When it got dark, she flew up into the sky and covered the sky with a cloth, so that the rocks no longer fell and the sky turned blue]: Zhou Yang et al. 1998b, No. 18:37; (cf. Chinese (Shanxi, Wu. Jiaocheng) [the sky was low, trembling, thunder and lightning flashed all the time; one day part of the sky fell, smoke rose, stones flew; at this time, a phoenix flew from the east, on which there was a woman sitting with a fly chase in her hands; it was Nuiva who came to help patch the sky; ordered to drag stones and brushwood, a pile of stones formed; Nuiva blew, the flame broke out, the stones melted; N. made of clay the cauldron, burned it, poured this mass into it, put the cauldron on the phoenix's head and told the sky to be patched up; the phoenix soared up and stuck its head into a hole in the sky; the sky was intact again, but the phoenix's head remained inside, and the body fell and turned into a mountain; the remaining mass became glass, and the village of Tancun became the center of glass production;; on the day when N. patched the sky, they made it a glass festival]: Zhou Yang et al. 1999, no. 3:6); li (Hainan, wu. Qiongzhong) [during the war, a corner broke off the sky, from where large and small stones fell and began to destroy houses, kill livestock, beat crops, and injure people; a man named Nuiwa-shi threw 49 black people into the stove stones, melted them for 49 days and smelted a five-color quadrangular stone; picked it up and filled a hole in the sky with it; five-color clouds are the radiance that that stone radiates; but many black stones Hearing that N. was going to melt them to patch the sky, they ran in different directions; N. remembered that a piece had also fallen off the sea dam near Hainan, decided to drive the stones into and from the South Sea helping to repair the dam; a divine maiden of Lee lived on the shore; sad that sea waters were eroding the sandy shore; on that day she saw many black stones floating into the sea; brought them to the coast in Danxiang County and laid them down Mount Danershan]: Zhou 2002, No. 13:18.

Amur - Sakhalin. The Manchus (Liaoning) [at first pieces fell off the sky and fell down; people hid in basements, did not dare to go out; a 14-15 year old girl named Hailun went west to Buddha Shakyamuni, asked him to cover the sky; he replied that the journey was too long, fell asleep; H. did not wake him up, put him on her back and dragged him to her village; seeing that pieces of heaven were really falling on people, BS promised to help; gave H. a bowl of divine fire to melt 49 stones; it takes 49 days to melt, then one five-color stone will melt, it can patch the sky; H. smelted a thin stone plate regular quadrangular shape with a surface of five colors; she climbed into the bowl, raised the plate, the bowl turned into a golden lotus flower, raised Hailun with the plate high into the sky, which blocked the falling rocks from the sky and thus patched up the sky; people came out of the basements; H. remained in the sky and became immortal]: Chen, Wang 1989, no. 1:2:17 -20.