H6D. Stolen immortality. (.14.) .17.21.25.-.27.29.30.38.
After obtaining a tool that ensures immortality, the character falls asleep or leaves the product unattended. At this time, another character steals the tool.
TheBabylonians [kidnaps the snake], the purum [steal the sun and the moon], the Meitei [steal the sun and the moon], Ancient China [kidnaps Chang'e, the toad, the wife of Yi on the moon], the Chinese (Hebei) [ Chang'e], Chinese (Shandong) [Chang'e], Bulgarians [drinking Alexander's daughter], Greeks [Alexander's sister picks up and spills], Kabardian people [wife eats], Persians [kidnaps crows], Miyako Islands [kidnapped by a snake].
(Wed. North Africa. The Arabs of Egypt (western in Cairo from a literate man, goes back to The Novel of Alexander) [El-Khidr is a maternal relative of Iskander Two-horned; he asked Angel if he could live until the Day of Resurrection Dead in order to praise God; an angel reported that there is a source of immortality in the Valley of Darkness; a wise man said that on the way to the spring, you must overcome the Ruined Quater owned by Ahmad El-Rifa'ai, the journey takes 12 years; Iskander and his army and El-Khidr went to the spring with an army, the Angel gave each warrior a sounding bead to navigate in the dark; El-Khidr found the source, swam and got drunk, but he hid it from others, advised him to return; it was God who wanted El-Khidr to live until the Day of Resurrection; along the way, some warriors picked up stones that looked like emeralds and rubies]: El-Shamy 1980, No. 23: 137-138, 271).
Western Asia. Babylonia (the first 11 tablets of the Akkadian poem) [King Gilgamesh is cruel to his subjects; the gods create the wild man Enkidu to defeat G.; E. leaves animals and goes to people after how he was seduced by the harlot Shamkhat; G. and E. fight and become friends, kill the guards of the Khumbaba cedar forest; the gods want to punish them, E. dies; G. wants to understand the mystery of death; goes through the gorge the range of mountains surrounding the world, persuading a scorpion man to let him pass; visits a garden where gems grow on trees; Siduri, who lives by the sea, shows him the way; Urshanabi transports him through the waters of death to the island where the immortal Ut-Napishti lives; he tells G. the story of the flood, helps to get a flower of eternal youth from the bottom of the sea; while G. was sleeping, the snake stole the flower, returning to its hole, threw it off skin; G. laments that he has obtained the ability to rejuvenate not for himself (and all people), but for snakes]: Dyakonov 196:7-82.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Purum: Das 1945 [The chief's seven sons killed a deer; six went to have fun, leaving the youngest under the tree to guard the carcass; a gust of wind tore off the tree two leaves, they fell on the dead deer, that came to life, ran away; the brothers did not believe it, killed the youngest, told his father that they did not know where he was; leaves also fell on the young man's corpse, he came to life, kicked the bark off the tree, came, told his father, and began to dry the bark in the sun; The sun took the bark; the young man's father told the dog to grab the Sun; not to regurgitate, for then people would multiply excessively, but release it through their ass; this is how eclipses occur; the same with the moon; during eclipses are attacked by a black dog; identified with the demon Rahu]: 218-219, 265; Shakespear 1912 [7 brothers went to cut firewood and killed a deer; six continued to work, leaving the youngest cook the meat; he cooked the meat, the leaves fell from the tree, the deer came to life and ran away; the brothers did not believe it, killed the youngest, left the body under the tree; the leaves fell on him and the young man came to life; the brothers were amazed, they collected the leaves, roots and bark of a magic tree; along the way, they revived a dog whose corpse was swimming along the river; at home they left the leaves, etc., to dry in the sun, told the dog to be a watchman; the Sun and Moon stole what dried up; the dog chased them and has been causing eclipses ever since]: 183; Meitei ['Illustrated Folktales of Manipur', by Ksh. Subadani, 2010, Lingthoingambi Publications, Imphal; 7 brothers, the youngest is Rongmeikai; they killed a female snake and the male crawled away; told R. to cook snake meat; he divided the snake into 7 pieces and went to get water; saw a male snake bring a piece of Langchi tree bark and revived the female; the brothers did not believe it and beat R., breaking his legs; he asked to leave him at this tree; healed his legs with bark; went to travel; he revived a dead dog for testing and she went with him; stopped at the old woman; moans at night - a girl died nearby; R. revived her and got her married; the wife accidentally found the bark and put it to dry in the sun; the sun and moon stole the bark; R. began to build a ladder to the sky; gathered all the animals for this purpose, but forgot the Curculionoidea beetles; the offended beetles decided to take revenge; R. first sent against the sun with with the moon to his dog; the beetles gnawed on the stairs; the dog reached the sky, and R. fell with the stairs and could no longer revive the dead; the dog has since attacked the sun and moon (eclipses)]: Oinam et al. s.a.
(Cf. South Asia. Mahabharata, Puranas, Ramayana: Erman, Temkin 1975, No. 12 [when, as a result of the ploughing of the sea, a vessel with the drink of immortality Amrita appeared, the asuras were ready to take possession of it; Vishnu turned beautiful, distracted their attention, amrita was taken over by the gods], 14 [(Mahabharata, book 1); Garuda Winata's mother was enslaved to her sister Kadru, the mother of naga snakes; they promised to release her and G. if G. got Amrita the drink of immortality for them; G. flew to the gods, eating an elephant and a huge turtle along the way; scattered the gods guarding Amrita aside and flew up to the bowl; a rotating one prevented her from taking it a wheel lined with blades; G. turned into a bird, slipped between the blades, carried away the bowl; the two dragons guarding it threw sand into the eyes; Indra caught up with G., who promised him to return Amrita, to deceive him naked ; while the nagas were bathing, getting ready to drink a drink, G. took the cup back; snakes became immortality when they licked the grass on which the bowl stood, and their tongues have since doubled]: 33, 35-38).
China - Korea. Ancient China [after I hit nine out of ten suns, the heavenly ruler became angry, left I on earth; And continues to fight monsters; And goes west, receives from Si-wanmu the potion of immortality; if two people drink, they will become immortal on earth, if one becomes a heavenly deity; Yi Chang'e's wife secretly took the drug, flew to the moon, became a toad there (according to another version remained a woman); on stone reliefs and bricks of the Han era, Chang'e is depicted as a toad with a pestle in his hands, interpreting medicine; on the moon there is also a hare pushing the drug of immortality in a mortar, there is the cinnamon tree and Wu Gang; he wanted to become immortal, was exiled to the moon for his misdemeanors to cut down a cinnamon tree; he cuts down and it grows together again]: Yuan Ke 1987:154-159, 317 (note 94); Chinese (Hebei, Wu. Funing, d. Lixinzhuang, 1984 from a 68-year-old peasant woman) [there was no moon or stars, there was impenetrable darkness at night; a girl named Luna (Yueliang) came to the village; found out how people suffer if the night fell in the mountains; I crossed the mountain and saw an elderly man; his hair gave off a silver light, his eyes were closed, and he lay unconscious under a big tree, a white rabbit jumped next to him; Yu gave the old man a drink, he sat down , took out a silver and blue brush and asked him to draw the thing that people need most; together with the rabbit he turned into a white glow and disappeared; Yu drew a circle emitting light; at night in a dream the old man told me to go west and hang the picture in heaven; Yu walked so long that he grew old; when she fainted, the white rabbit lifted it on his back, flew to the edge of the sky; Yu took out the picture; the wind picked up Yu along with the white rabbit and the painting and threw it into the sky; the earth lit up; Yu and the white rabbit settled in a house on the moon to protect {drawing}]: Bai Gengsheng 2007b: 8-9; the Chinese (Hebei, wu. Funing, Mount Tuarshan Tourist Area, 2005) [Hou Yi ruled Yuqiong State; while spending time on military campaigns, he grew cold to Chan Ae's concubines; she became attached to two white rabbits; once they They bowed to her and ran out of the palace; Jang Ae followed them into a cave on the mountain, with a stone table and chair, a smoking stick on the table, and a pot for rubbing medicinal plants, the herbs themselves lay; an elderly gray-haired man fanned the hearth with a fan, eight flashes of fire burst out with every stroke; the rabbits began to eat medicinal herbs; the old man replied that the elixir was being cleansed in the hearth life; whoever eats it does not grow old and becomes a deity; Chan Ae took the rabbits and returned to the palace; Hou Yi returned victorious; learned that Laozi's teacher had created the elixir of life; he arrived at that cave and received the elixir; told Jang Ae to keep it; Jang Ae opened the box with an egg-sized pill in it; it gave a fragrance; Jang Ae licked it and the elixir was immediately in her stomach; her body became light; after learning about What happened, Hou Yi wanted to hack Jang Ae, but she let go of the bed she was holding on to and flew, two white rabbits behind her; Ho Yi shot, one of the rabbits covered Jang Ae, the arrow stuck in him the anus, the rabbit fell from the sky and turned into Mount Tuar ("Hare Ear"); Chan Ae flew into the Moon Palace; Hou Yi was about to shoot again, but Laozi's voice was heard: "You've lived your life camping, your burden of murder it's hard and you can't become a deity; and Jang Ae has lived a normal life, so she now lives in the Moon Palace"; Hou Yi repented and turned into a wild boar; there is a cave on the north side of Mount Tuarshan Hare anus, that's where Hou Yi's arrow hit]: Bai Gengsheng 2007b: 16-18; Chinese (Shandong, w. Jinan) [in ancient times there was Emperor Houji (hieroglyphs differ from those that denote Zhou's ancestor, the Millet State - A.T.), and he had a concubine named Chang'e; Houji went with his with an army to the state of Xi Wanmu and suppressed the turmoil there: Mother Wangmu was very happy and gave him the elixir of immortality; when he returned, Houji handed the elixir to Chang'e for storage, and went to war in Donghai State ("East Sea"), and brought several young girls from there, whom he also made his concubines; Chang'e, seeing that she had lost his favor, took the elixir and set off in running; Houji sent his henchmen to return her within three days; one of these people was smart and told Houji that he saw Chang'e escape to the moon with his own eyes; Hou-ji believed it and did not try to bring her back; since then it is said that Chang'e escaped to the moon, although where she actually fled is unknown]: Zhou Yang et al. 2007, no. 5:6; Chinese [during Mid-Autumn festivals bake grayish "moon cakes" from wheat or rice flour with sugar and spices; images of the Mistress of the Moon (Chan-e), toad, moon are printed on the surface hare and "happy" hieroglyphs; there are local variants: Beijing, Suzhou (Jiangsu), Sichuan, etc.]: Dzharylgasinova, Kryukov 1989:87 (retelling in Kravtsova 2003:192).
The Balkans. The Bulgarians [Tsar Alexander went to the ends of the earth for the water of immortality; it is dark there; to find a way back, he left mares and foals alternately, they laughed at each other; returning, A. left a vessel of immortality water on the window, went to bed; his three daughters drank the waters of immortality, and his sister knocked over the vessel; A. hacked her, she became a dolphin; A. died, and his three daughters are immortal, living under church in a spring in Asenovgrad; at night they call "Where are you, Tsar Alexander"; A. dug through the Bosphorus, the water that flooded Bulgaria came down; he saw fish devouring each other, decided that they should do so people also do; wars have begun since then]: Iliev 2001:33-34; Greeks: Dähnhardt 1910 (Kalavryta, northern Peloponnese) [one of Alexander the Great's officers told his sister what he had obtained the water of immortality, persuade her to drink this water and wash herself with it; after washing, she splashed the water outside, it fell on the chicken and on the {untranslated word; probably wild onions - see. Megas}; since then, chicken sheds and rejuvenates every year, and wild onions are green even when pulled out of the ground]: 263; Megas 1970, No. 75 [after learning about the water of immortality, Alexander on Bucephalus slips between crushing rocks, killing dragons, collecting immortal water into the vessel, comes back to sleep; his sister, seeing a vessel of water, poured it on wild onions, so they never wither; A. turned his sister into a siren with a fish tail so that she suffers forever; but she loves her brother; asks sailors if A. is alive; if you say that he is dead, a storm will raise from grief, the ship will sink; we must answer that he is alive and reigns]: 200-202.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kabardian people [people meet an old woman who once lived in the Caucasus to Turkey; she asks if there is a forest at the foot of Oshkha-Maho (Elbrus), who say that they have not seen the forest; the old woman says when her husband shot an eagle in that forest and told her to cook; even boiled and headless, he continued to flutter; without waiting for her husband, the old woman ate all the eagle; the husband explained that the eagle drank live water on Oshkha- Maho; now the wife will live until the end of the world; and the husband is dead; the old lady was 500 years old at the time]: Sokolov, Broydo 1936:93-94.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians [in the west, in the eternally dark area of Zulmát near Mount Kaf, there is a spring of living water; the soil around is hot; you can only enter it with the permission of Khawji Khizr; Alexander and 40 horsemen went there; XX. allowed me to pass, explained how not to burn his legs; A. filled the vessel; going out into the bright world, hung it on a branch; Crow flew in, drank water, knocked it over a vessel, liquid spilled onto the tree; the tree became evergreen (p.142: therefore, a cypress or pine tree is considered sacred), the Raven is immortal, and A. did not drink living water; some of A.'s companions picked up in a dark land, stones, they turned out to be gold; others decided to come back and take it too, but XX. They did not meet them halfway anymore and they did not find a way]: Donaldson 1938:92.
Japan. Miyako Islands [The month gives Akariyazagama a tub of living water and a tub of dead water, sends him to the ground, orders him to pour living water on a person, a snake for the dead; when he reaches the ground, A. falls asleep, a snake splashes living water on himself; frightened A. waters the dead man, returns to heaven; the Month punishes him, telling him to stand on the moon from now on with a tub in his hands]: Nevsky 1996:269-270.