G6A. Tree of the Year. .14.15.17. (.20.) .23.27.-.34.36.

A year is described as a tree, the number of branches, branches, leaves of which corresponds to the number of seasons, months, days, etc. (or a year is a pole with a certain number of objects on it)

Kabiles, Arameans, Ancient Greece, Czechs, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Pskov, Yaroslavl, Tambov), Russian written tradition, Belarusians, Western and Eastern Ukrainians, Kalmyks, Circassians, Karachays and Balkarians, Kumyks, Nogais, Armenians, Shahname, Latvians, Estonians, Karelians, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Mari, Komi, Karakalpaks, Uighurs (Hami), Altaians, Tuvans, Mongols of Ordos, Evens, Central (?) Yakuts.

North Africa. Kabila: Frobenius 1921a, No. 50 [agelitis (village chief) demands to buy 1) a shadow, 2) false mules, otherwise she will cut off everyone's heads; the old man's daughter buys a hat and wooden shoes to walk on the mud; agelitis requires you to guess what a tree with 12 branches, 30 leaves each, 5 seeds on each leaf; girl: this is a year with 12 months, each with 30 days, 5 prayers every day; agelitis tells you to come to the bazaar is neither naked nor dressed; daughter to father: wrap one thigh with skin, and the others will not be there - they will be ashamed to come; the old man confesses to agelitis that it is not him, but his daughter, who is smart; agelitis marries her; sent blacks take her fabrics, two pieces of each variety, and one multi-colored handkerchief; the girl took threads of different colors, tied knots, told Agelitis that the fabrics in the sky, but here they had decreased; agelitis is all I understood, found the stolen goods, the blacks were decapitated; agelitis tells his wife not to interfere in affairs, otherwise he will send him back to his father; in the dark, the donkey did not approach the donkey, but the mulitsa, its owner said it was a mulitsa gave birth; the donkey's owner came to complain; since the donkey had been living with the mulica for a long time, he went to her, not to his mother, agelitis decided in favor of the owner of the mulitsa; Agelite's wife gave advice to the donkey owner: let him tell how fish came out of the river and ate wheat in the field; agelitis: fish do not come out of the river; man: mulitsa cannot give birth; agelitis understood everything, told his wife to leave, taking the most precious thing; at night, the wife ordered to put sleeping husband in a chest and taking it to her father; agelitis laughed and returned his wife]: 256; Rivière 1882, No. 4 [the judge asks what kind of tree with 12 branches, 30 leaves on each branch, 5 fruits on each leaf; the daughter of the soap seller explains to him: wood is peace, branches are months, fruits are 5 daily prayers; after learning how smart the girl is, Kadi decided to marry, sent flour, oil and money; those sent found the girl alone; girl: brother went to beat and be beaten, mother went to see someone she had never seen, father went to pour water into the water; (and other riddles); only Kadiy understood everything: brother went to play, mother went to give birth, father - to the mill; Kady allowed his wife to visit her father whenever she wanted, to pick up what she liked best; two came to court: the mare gave birth to one, and the foal went to pick up the other; Kady decided to the benefit of the owner of the mulitsa; Kadia's wife told the mare's owner to say that when the mulitsa had a cub, the world would end; Kadiy understood everything and told his wife to leave, taking the most precious thing; she gave her husband a pie with opium, took it with her; Kadiy promised his wife to obey her]: 159-161.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [a well-known mystery about a year that is compared to a tree and its branches]: Taylor 1954:394.

Western Asia. Arameans: Belov, Wilsker 1960:29-30 [(The Tale of Ahikar Premudrom; apparently created in Assyria in the 7th century BC; the oldest fragments of the 5th century BC in Aramaic were found on Elephantine among the documents of the Jewish military colony; the oldest Syrian copies of the 12th-15th centuries AD; the Syrian version formed the basis for translations and alterations in Arabic, Ethiopian, Armenian, Romanian, Slavonic); Pharaoh tells the sage Akhikar to solve the riddle; there are 12 cedars on the pole, each has thirty wheels, each wheel has two ropes - white and black (year, 12 months, 30 days, day and night); tells weave five ropes out of sand; A. asks for one rope from the warehouses as a sample; he refuses; then A. drills 5 holes in the wall, sprinkles sand into it, the rays of light intertwine like twisted rope; A. asks to take these ropes, and he will weave others; Pharaoh orders to sew a broken millstone; A. asks to cut off the missing pieces for the upper millstone; Pharaoh gives A. the Egyptian file in three years], 230-239 [=1972:411-420; the king in Tehran lost his throne and property; his son, with his consent, sold him and the queen to the king of India, went on a journey himself; the counter asked him to hand the letter to another king; the young man tied his head with a handkerchief containing the letter; soaked it with horse sweat and drank the moisture; opened the letter, which ordered the applicant to be executed; the young man came to town; old woman: Princess Karamane demands to guess her riddles and give her one that she cannot guess herself; losers are executed, 99 heads are already on the palisade; the young man answers all questions; (examples): coffin, which moves all the time and lives with its contents (a whale with Iona inside); there are 12 branches on the tree, 30 leaves on each, each leaf is half white, half black (year, 12 months, 30 days, day and night); a young man's mystery: a rich man went broke, went to ask God for good luck; on the way he met death, tied his head with it, then put it in his pocket; wiped his body with it and drank water that is not from heaven and not from the ground; K. changed her clothes, came to the young man unrecognized, spent the night with him, found out the secret, but forgot her cape; in the morning K. sent a maid for the young man; the young man asks me to tell him: a dove visited me, we They ate and drank, she flew away, and if she denies it, I will put her plumage in front of her; the king gave her daughter to a young man; he bought his parents, became even richer, and inherited his father-in-law's throne.]

(Wed. Micronesia-Polynesia. Gilbert Islands {most likely English borrowing} [riddle: "A tree with twelve branches and three hundred and sixty-five and a quarter leaves" (year)]: Hughes 1950, No. 2:242 (quoted in Taylor 1954:394).

South Asia. Telugu (Nelluru) [riddle: "A tree has twelve branches. Each branch has thirty fruits. Fifteen of them are black and fifteen are white" (year; twelve months; thirty days are dark or light depending on the phase of the moon)]: Taylor 1941, No. 10:73.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece (The Biography of Aesop, XXI-XXIII, 101-123) [the young man lied to Aesop before King Lycurgus of Babylon and he ordered his execution; but the chief of the guard hid E. in prison; at this time King Nectanebon of Egypt sent L. a letter: "I have decided to build a tower so that it does not touch the earth or the sky; people and a man have come to answer my questions; if he answers, I will pay you tribute"; L. regrets that E. was executed, while others could not solve the problems; the chief of the guard said that E. is alive; L. is happy; E. ordered to fatten four eagles and teach them to raise boys into the air; arriving at Egypt, wittily answers N.'s questions; eagles and boys fly up, boys shout: serve beams, clay and bricks; N. admits defeat, but adds that his mares brought from Greece they throw it away when they hear the stallions from Babylon laughing; E. begins to beat the cat: she visited Babylon at night and strangled a cockerel there; if the cat cannot reach Babylon overnight, then the mares cannot hear stallions; Heliopolis priests: there is a temple in the world, a pillar in the temple, 12 cities on a pole, 30 beams above each roof, two women run around each; E.: temple - peace, pillar - year, cities - months, beam - day, two women - night and day; priests advise asking E. to name what no one has seen or heard; E. writes an IOU on behalf of N.: he owes King L. 1000 talents, the deadline has already passed; N. paid tribute to Aesop for three years; L. erected him a golden statue]: Gasparov 1991:71-79.

Central Europe. Czechs (the collection "Enigmaticus", compiled in Latin in the 1350s and 1360s by Master Claret, who was then a monk of the Opatovice Monastery) [a mystery about the year: a tree has been standing since 12 branches, four nests on each branch, seven birds in each nest, each bird has its own name]: Peachy 1957:13; Russians (riddles about the year): Efimenko 1874 (Arkhangelskaya) [A bar lies across Russia, there are 12 nests on this bar, 4 eggs in each nest, and 7 chickens in each egg], No. 18:238; Sadovnikov 1876, No. 2005 (Olonetskaya) ["The timber fell /All over Russia; /In this bar/Twelve block,/ In each block/Four tips"], No. 2005a ["There is a timber /All of Russia/And on that bar/Twelve nests/And in every nest/Four eggs"], No. 2005b (Yaroslavl Gubernia) ["A bar lies across Russia; twelve nests in it, each nest has four testicles"], No. 2006 (Stavropol Uyezd of Samara Gubernia) ["There is a forest; there is a deck in the forest, twelve nests on the deck, four eggs in each nest, and seven embryos in each egg"], No. 2006a ["Deck/Across the road; /There are twelve nests in the deck, /B the nest has four testicles, /The testicle has seven embryos./What will happen?" (year)], No. 2006b (Arkhangelsk Gubernia) ["... End to the swamp, /In this deck/Twelve nests, /Each nest/Four yellow/Seven days in each"], No. 2006c (Nerchinsky District) ["... U this deck/Twelve knots, /Each female/Four nests, /Each nest/ Seven embryos"], No. 2007 (Pskov Gubernia) ["A pillar stands up to heaven, /There are twelve nests, /Each nest/ Four eggs, /Each egg/Seven embryos"], No. 2007a ["There are a pillar /From ground to sky, /There are twelve nests on a pillar /V each nest/Four eggs, /Each egg/Seven chickens"], No. 2007c ["... There are twelve nests on the pole, /The nest has four teals, /The teal has seven eggs"], No. 2008 (Novgorod Gubernia, Tikhvin) [" There is an oak; /There are twelve nests per oak, /Each nest/Four tits/Each tit/Fourteen eggs: /Seven are white, /Yes seven are black"], No. 2008b ["There are twelve branches per oak, /On each branch/Four processes, /On each process/Seven twigs"], No. 2008c (Pskov Gubernia) ["An oak tree has grown; there are twelve branches on an oak tree, four nests on each knot, seven in two nests, and eight children in two nests"], No. 2008 ["An oak tree stands with twelve branches; each branch has four nests; each nest has six simple eggs and the seventh is red"], № 2009 ["A tree has grown /From earth to sky; /This one on the tree/Twelve knots, /Each knot/Four purses, /Each purse/Seven eggs, /And the seventh is red"], No. 2009a ["There is a tree with twelve knots, /Each knot has twelve branches, /Each branch has four processes, /Each process has seven twigs"], No. 2009b (Pskov Gubernia) ["Which tree has twelve branches, each branch has four branches and each branch has seven leaves?"] , № 2010 ["There is a tree; on one side the leaves are white, on the other hand they are black"], № 2011 ["A bush has grown /Out of four places, /On that bush - /Twelve nests;/Each nest has four tits, /Each has tits/ Fourteen eggs each:/Seven white/ Yes seven black]: 248-249; Russians (Tambov, manuscript "Fairy Tales, Sayings, Proverbs, etc., in Lipetsk. Tambov Gubernia", which was archived in 1848) [riddle: "There is an oak tree, 12 branches on the oak, 4 branches on each branch, 7 twigs on each process" (year, months, weeks and days)]: Meltz et al. 1961, No. 136:196; Russian written tradition [ The oldest version of The Tale of Akir the Premudrom (two copies of the 15th century and one in the 17th century), which is probably a translation of the Armenian version: the nephew slandered sage Akir before King Sinagrip; S. ordered the execution of A.; A.'s friend, who was instructed to do so, saved his life and decapitated another person in his place; A. began to hide in a refuge dug in the ground; when he learned that A. had been executed, the king of Egypt Pharaoh sent S. a letter: "I want to build a house between heaven and earth. So a skilled builder came to me, let them do and arrange everything as I like. And let him answer my other tricky questions. If you send me a craftsman who can do anything I tell him, I'll send you my three-year tribute. If you do not find such a wise husband or he cannot answer my questions, you will send me three years of income from your land"; S. began to grieve that he had executed A.; friend A. admitted that he had saved his life; S. is happy; A. told his household members: "Find me two eagles and feed them. And tell my falconers to teach them how to fly up. And make a cage and find my smart boy among my household members, and put him in a cage, <носимую> eagles. <с клеткой>And teach them to take off, and teach the boy to shout: "Bring lime and stones, the builders are ready"; then he went to F., introduced himself as S.'s groom; F. asked who he, F., and him looked like nobles; A.: "You, king, are like the sun, and likened your nobles to sunny rays"; in other riddles F. likened himself to the moon and tree, and his nobles to stars and blooming grass; A. guessed them all; F. ordered to build a palace between heaven and earth; A. released an eagle with the boy into the sky; the boy shouted that the builders were ready and ordered to carry stones with lime; F. did not understand how to do this; A. began to beat F.'s squad with a stick, turned them to flight; F. ordered them to leave the construction of the palace and then said: "Akir, allow me this task: when your lord's horses laugh in Adora and Naliva lands , then our foal mares give birth in our land"; A. ordered the servants to catch and beat the ferret; said F. that the ferret had reached Nalivskaya and Adorskaya lands, gnawed off the head of the rooster given to him by S. and returned back; F. replied that this cannot be done overnight; A.: "And I have heard that when horses laugh in the land of Adora, your mares give birth to foals here. But you say that there are a thousand and eighty miles from Egypt to the land of Adora"; F.: "There is one oak log, and on that log there are twelve pines with thirty wheels, and each wheel has two mice, one black and the other white"; A.: "What you call a log is a year, and then you say that twelve pines on it are twelve months a year. And what do you say about thirty wheels is thirty days a month, and what you call two mice - one white and the other black - is day and night"; F.: "Bring me two ropes of sand, five long elbows, and a finger thick"; A.: "Order your keykeepers to take the same rope out of the house for me, then I will also owl according to its model"; F. demanded that it be twisted; A. checked a hole in the temple wall for on the sunny side, and when the sun rose, he took a handful of sand and poured it into the hole; the sand swirled like a rope in the sun; A. "Send your youths to lay down this rope, and in the meantime I will owl the other"; F. arranged a feast for him and gave him a three-year tribute from Egypt; A. returned to S.; he gave him his nephew; A. punished nephew, began to reproach and teach him; his nephew puffed up like a jug and broke in half]: Likhachev et al. 2004:28-57; Belarusians: Rybnikova 1932, No. 225 (Polesie, Mozyr District, Turov) [ riddle: "Stoits an oak, and there are two cats on the oak, and those cats have seven yets, and this is red" (year)]; No. 425 (Polesie, Mozyr District, Turov) ["Stoits oak, twenty nests on the oak, on each nest by chatyra sinitsy, at the skin sinitsa on chatyrnatsats yets: sem black, sem white"]; No. 611 (Vitebsk or Polotsk Krai) ["Staits oak, twelve nests on oak, in skin gnyazdze on sinitsa chatyrs; at the skin sinitsy on this chicken, white seeds, black seeds"]: 196, 213, 227; Western Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Pryashev) [There is an oak tree, and there are twelve branches on the oak, each branch has four nests, and each nests for these birds]: Nedzelsky 1955:283; Western Ukrainians (Becherov, Bardejevsky District, Eastern Slovakia) [Oak, twelve branches per oak, four nests on each branch, and each nest four chicks each]: Verkhratsky 1901:174; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [An oak tree grows, it has twelve branches, fifty-two branches, and seven leaves on each branch. What is this oak tree?] : Berezovsky 1962:304; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Khust) [There is an oak tree in the village, twelve pillars on an oak tree, a nest on each pillar, four eggs on each nest]: Verkhratsky 1899:158; Western Ukrainians (Stanislavskaya, Galicia, Transcarpathia, Vinnytsia, Drohobych) [There is an oak tree with twelve branches, and each branch has four nests, and each nest has seven chicks]: Berezovsky 1962:304; Western Ukrainians (Stanislavskaya, Snyatinsky River) [There is an oak tree, twelve branches on the oak, four nests in each branch, and seven birds in those nests]: Berezovsky 1962:304; Western Ukrainians (Galicia) [There is an oak tree, and there are 12 branches in oak, and each branch has 12 branches, and each branch has four nests, each nest has seven birds]: Ilkevich 1841:122; Western Ukrainians (Podolskaya, Ushitsky, Ushitsky district) [There is a pillar with twelve nests, each nest has four eggs, each egg has seven embryos]: Chubinsky 1872:314; Western Ukrainians (Pokutye; same Kamenets-Podolskaya in Berezovsky 1962:478) [There is an oak tree, and there are twelve branches on that oak tree, and each branch has four nests, and each nest has seven birds, and each bird lays twenty-four eggs, and each egg has sixty embryos]: Kolberg 1889:306; Eastern Ukrainians (Kirovograd, Dnipropetrovsk) [There is an oak tree with twelve branches, and each branch has four nests, and each nest has seven chicks]: Berezovsky 1962:304;; Eastern Ukrainians (Cherkasskaya, Babansky rivers) [There is an oak tree with twelve nests, each nest has four eggs, each egg has seven chickens]: Berezovsky 1962:304; Eastern Ukrainians (Donetsk Oblast, Gradizhsky River. Poltava, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk) [approximately like in Pokutye: there are 12 branches on the oak tree, 4 nests on each branch, 7 birds in each nest, each bird lays 24 eggs, each egg has 60 embryos]: Berezovsky 1962:478; Eastern Ukrainians (Kiev) [There is an oak tree, twelve branches on the oak tree, four nests on each branch, six testicles and one tit in each nest]: Berezovsky 1962:304; Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava) [An oak tree grows with twelve branches, four nests on the branch, seven testicles in the nest, one half of the egg is white, and the other half is black]: Berezovsky 1962:304 ; Eastern Ukrainians (Kiev) [There is a verlooak oak tree, and that oak has twelve branches, and those branches have four nests, and those nests have seven eggs and each has a name]: Berezovsky 1962:304; eastern Ukrainians (Dnipropetrovsk) [1) There is a column to the sky, it has twelve nests, each nest has four eggs, and each egg has seven embryos; 2) (Pavlodar) An oak tree grows, it has twelve branches, fifty-two branches, each with seven leaves. What is this oak tree?] : Berezovsky 1962:304; Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava, Gradizhsky rivers) [There is an apple tree, an apple tree has twelve branches, each branch has four nests, and each nest has seven eggs]: Berezovsky 1962:305; Eastern Ukrainians (Kiev) [There is a tree on a tree twelve knots, four baskets on the knot, and each basket has seven eggs and each has a name]: Berezovsky 1962:305; Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava region) [Dolgovek oak oak, 12 branches on it, on Each branch has four nests, each nest has seven eggs, and each has a name]: Nomis 1864:292; Eastern Ukrainians (Poltavshchyna?) [Oak and oak is long, it has 12 branches, each branch has four nests, each nest has seven eggs, and each has a name]: Lobodovsky 1876:70; Ukrainians (probably Central Ukraine): Gurin 1963: 65 [There is an oak tree with twelve nests, each nest has four eggs, each egg has seven ducklings], 66 [There is an oak tree with twelve branches, four branches on each branch, and seven acorns on them].

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Kotvich 1905, No. 195 (Astrakhan) [riddles: "There are 12 branches on a branched tree, each branch has 30 leaves" (year, months, days); "A branched tree has twelve branches, each branch 360 days" (year and months)]; No. 272 (Don) ["One large district grew at the source of the Nirban River, 12 branches grew on it, and 360 leaves grew on 12 branches" (year, months, days)]: 39, 56 (English translation in Taylor 1954, No. 644, 646a, 646b: 348); Kumyks [riddle: "One tree has 12 branches, one branch has 30 leaves, each leaf has half black and half white" (year, months, nights and days)]: Adzhiev 2005:415; Circassians [riddle: "One tree has twelve branches, each branch has thirty leaves, each leaf has one side white and the other side is black" (year, month, day, night)]: Shishkanova 2011:257; Karachays and/or Balkarians: Boziev 1962, No. 19 [12 branches on one tree, 30 leaves on each branch, one white and one black louse on each leaf]: 76; Shishkanova 2011 [riddles: "A fallen tree and this tree has twelve branches" (past year and months), "One tree has twelve branches, each branch has thirty leaves, each leaf has two nuts, one black, the other white" (year, month, day, night)]: 89 and 100; Karachays [mystery: one tree has 12 branches, each branch has 30 leaves, and each litre has one white and one black aphid ]: Dzhurtubayev 1991:55; Kumyks [riddle: "One tree has 12 branches, one branch has 30 leaves, each leaf has half black and half white" (year, months, nights and days)]: Adzhiev 2005:415; Nogais [riddle: "One tree, twelve branches, thirty leaves, each leaf is white on one side and black on the other" (year, twelve months, thirty days, day, night)]: Shishkanova 2011:161; Armenians: Karapetyan 1967 [riddle: There is a tree on the current, seven rooms on the tree, seven needles in each room (current - sky, tree - sun, needles - rays according to the number of days of the week)]: 75 (=Orbeli 1982 ( Mox): 122); Melik-Shakhnazarov 1904, No. 15 (Zangezur County) ["What kind of tree is this that has 12 branches, each with 4 branches with black and white fruits?" (year, 12 months, 4 weeks, days and nights)]: 100.

Baltoscandia. Swedes, Lithuanians [there is a well-known mystery about a year that is compared to a tree and its branches]: Taylor 1954:394; Latvians [Great, large oak, that oak has twelve branches; each a knot has four nests; each nest has seven eggs, each egg has its own nickname]: Romanov 2004:210; Estonians [An oak tree has twelve branches, each branch has four nests, and each nest has seven testicles]: Metstak 1980:326; Karelians: Makarov 1959 [There is an oak tree on the plain: 12 branches on it, 4 nests per branch, 7 eggs in each nest]: 212; Makarov, Ryagoev 1969, No. 15 (livviki) [oak grew from earth to sky, 52 knots on it: each knot has 7 testicles - 5 red, 2 black (red testicles - fast days, black testicles - lean days)]: 128.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2010, No. 10 (1 entry) [Tsarevich Kulaf, whose kingdom was seized by enemies, undertakes to answer the questions of Princess Turanduk; those who do not answer are killed; 1) what mother gives birth to children, releases and then absorbs the sea and rivers; 2) without which there would be neither alive nor inanimate - the sun; 3) which tree has one side of the leaves white and the other black for a year; K. himself sets the question is what is the name of such a prince (referring to myself); T. sent a maid, K. began to think out loud, saying his name; T.: I have the right not to marry K., but I will marry him out of love; Father T. won back Kingdom K.]: 49-54; Makhmutov 2013 [riddles: "There is a tree in the world with three hundred and sixty-five leaves, one side is light and the other is dark" (year, day, night), "What is this? He created a tree, this tree has twelve branches, each branch has thirty leaves, each leaf is black on the outside, white on the inside" (year, months, day, night, day), "Poplar one, twelve branches, twelve branches, per day", "Poplar is one, twelve branches Each branch has four sparrows, each sparrow has seven leaves, each white on one side and black on the other" (year, months, weeks per month, day in week, day and night)], No. 162-163, 166-54-55; Bashkirs [{link to Bashkir publications}; mystery: there is a tree with 12 branches, each with 4 branches, each branch has 7 leaves, each leaf has one side white and the other is black; mystery: the tree has 12 branches, each with 30 leaves, the inner side of the leaf is black, the outer side is white]: Aminev 2005:73; Chuvash [There is an old oak in the open field, the old oak has twelve branches, on twelve branches, four nests each, four nests each with seven eggs]: Romanov 2004:210; Marie: Kitikov 2006, No. 468 (Soviet District) [riddle: "One oak, twelve branches, three hundred and sixty-five leaves" (year)], No. 469 (Paranginsky district) ["Pine, twelve branches on a pine tree, four nests on each knot, seven eggs in each nest" (year)]: 77; Lewy 1989, No. 33.10 [there is a lump of land, it has 12 nests, 4 eggs in each, 7 chicks each born]: 49; Komi [riddle: "A long, long tree, 12 branches on the tree, 4 bird nests per female, 7 chicks in each nest, and each chick your name"]: Nizovtseva 2016:179.

Iran - Central Asia. Shahname [Zol is young, mobed sages test his mind; first question: 12 trees, 30 branches each; sometimes dry leaves fall from those trees, sometimes the foliage grows magnificently, but count branches are always the same; Zol: it's a year and 12 months; second question: two horses race after each other, black and white; Zol: night and day; third question: someone with a sharp sickle mows dry grass indiscriminately and fresh bud; Zol: This is death]: Ulug-zoda 1989:78-79.

Turkestan. Karakalpaks (Chimboy District) [riddle: "There are twelve knots on a tree, each knot has thirty leaves. It turns out that there are two faces (sides) on one sheet, black on one side, and white on the other side" (year, months, days)]: Baskakov 1951:139; Uighurs (Khamians) [riddles : "One tree has 12 branches, each branch has 30 leaves, one side is white and the other is black" (year, months, days and nights); "There is one tree bush, one tree bush has 12 branches, 12 pieces branches are one root, and no one knows the number of its fruits except God" (12 months, sun and stars)]: Aliyeva 1989:87.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [There are 12 branches on one cedar, each branch has 30 cones (12 months, 30 days of a month)]: Ukachina 1984:78; Tuvans (Ak-Sug) [riddle: "Golden poplar has twelve branches and three hundred sixty leaves" (12 months of the year and 360 days)]: Katanov 1907, No. 1405:180; Trans-Baikal Buryats: Bazarov 1902a, No. 1 (Aginsky) [riddle: "At the top of Altai-Khangai, agra stands sandalwood, he has twelve branches and three hundred and sixty-five cones" (year, months, days)]: 23 (English translation in Taylor 1954, No. 645:348); Taylor 1954, № 646c (Agin, recorded by N.N. Poppe) [riddle: "Sandalwood has twelve branches, twelve branches have 360 cones" (year, months, days)]: 348; Mongols (Ordos) [Shurguljin Khan wants to marry a stupid son to an intelligent girl; gathers people, tells in a month answer what a tree is about 12 branches, 360 yellow flowers look up and 360 down; the daughter of an old man explained to her father (year); S. asks the second riddle: five myriads of yellow hares, led by them a hare with a white spot on its forehead (stars and moon); third mystery: ten myriads are the number of jaka (a type of bush), it grows on a red stump (mountains and Mount Sumeru); S. orders to bring three sapekas (a measure of weight) of meat, wrapped in bones, and two sapekas of bones wrapped in meat (egg and yuyuba); when she learns that the old man has a daughter, S. promises to come, orders to cook koumiss from the milk of a castrated bull; the girl goes out to meet: father gives birth, she must run after the midwife; S. marries his son to a girl; tells his son to greet him on a horse about two heads; wife: take a pregnant mare; S. tells his son to greet him neither in a yurt nor outside; wife: stand between the yurt bars and the nightmare; prepare fetters of ash; wife: here are couch grass fetters, burn them in front of the king, there will be an ash trail; S. decided to go to the neighboring king; stupid son chatted; W . captive, thrown into a well, eating his own lice; dignitary sent to bring the people Sh.; S.: tell my people that I am happy, then they will come; that I live in a house dark as a coffin, eat goat meat and lamb on a carpet of colorful brocade and striped yellow silk, I enjoy five types of jewelry (turquoise, coral, mother-of-pearl, ruby and lapis lazuli) that lie on a piece of blue silk that has no boundaries; When you come, let cattle in front of you, after them hornless; among our cattle there is a red sheep with curved horns, which is always behind us; when you go, kill them; at the head there is a rough file, and sharp scissors at your feet - take it with you; let only three ambassadors go; only the daughter-in-law understood everything: the file is Sh.'s wife, the scissors are herself, the red ram is the husband, the horned ones are the army, the jewelry is the sun, moon and stars; etc.; enemies destroyed, S. released, his son killed; S. married his daughter-in-law to his younger brother's son, making him tsar]: Mostaert 1937, No. 9 in Solovyov 2014.

Eastern Siberia. Central (? ; the place of recording is not specified) Yakuts [riddle: "There is an oak tree in the middle of a large meadow, it is said to have twelve branches, each branch is said to have four bird nests, and each nest contains seven eggs" (year, months, weeks and days)]: Böthlingk 1989:120; Evens [riddle: "The mysterious tree has twelve branches, each branch has thirty leaves" (year, twelve months, thirty days)]: Novikova 1987:128 (=Burykin 2001, No. 27:114).