I3A. Lightning is a whip .27.29.30.32.-.34.59.
During a thunderstorm, the character strikes with a whip - these are flashes of lightning.
Bulgarians, Kumyks, Dargins, Rutulans, Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Persians, Chuvash, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Siberian Tatars, Altaians, Tuvans, Vaivay.
The Balkans. Bulgarians [when Elijah the prophet rides a chariot, there is thunder, and when he whips his horses with a scourge, lightning flashes; thunder (lightning) is a fiery arrow with a flintlock tip, Ilya marks them at sinners]: Marinov 2003:51-52.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kumyks: Hajiyeva 1961 [Jabrayil jumps across the sky, whipping clouds; whipping is lightning]: 329; Khalidova 2012, No. 26 [an angel in his chariot travels around heaven and is angry that the clouds are cloudy they are in no hurry to return from the sea with water; at the same time, he whips the horse, which causes lightning to sparkle, and the sound of the chariot makes thunder]: 49; Dargins (Muregins) [when clouds gather, God sends an angel with a whip to disperse them; from the blows of the whip, thunder and lightning]: Khanagov 1892:153; the Rutulans [the mountain and the cloud were in love and inseparable; to separate them, God began to quilt the clouds with fire with a lightning whip, from which they shed tears and rains, but did not leave, remaining faithful to their beloved mountain]: Khalidova 1912, No. 22:47; Azerbaijanis (Shemakha) [the thunder comes from the fact that angel Gabriel Raf Raf jumps across the sky on his horse, and lightning is a spark that comes from the blow of his whip]: Efendiev 1893:207; Kurds (Lachin corridor) [a rider with a fiery whip jumps across the sky; thunder is blows whips on the horse, lightning is sparks that fall at the same time]: Chursin 1925b: 16.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Khorasan) [to rain a certain place on earth, God sends a little angel the size of a bee; he rides in a cloud; if she is stubborn, he hits it with his scourge, causing lightning and thunder]: Donaldson 1938:84.
Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [Tură rides across the sky in a chariot drawn by white horses, tracking down Shuittan, hits him with a whip (thunder and lightning), drives him back to hell; pursues other monsters and evil spirits]: Egorov 1995:121; Bashkirs: Rudenko 1925 [God sends an angel to punish Satan; an angel directed and chased clouds that thunder during a collision, punished Satan with a whip; at the end of the whip fiery pebbles that break and produce lightning; devils hide from lightning in a person's home, so lightning strikes there as well]: 300; 1955:315-316; Khisamitdinova 2011 [lightning is a "tengri whip", a servant of fire; in the southern Bashkirs, the deity of lightning is a humanoid creature that clicks a whip; lightning sparkles and thunder from the impact of a whip]: 209-210.
Turkestan. Kazakhs [during a thunderstorm, an angel shoots arrows into the line, and he panics anywhere, in houses and growls (thunder); lightning is the blows of a whip with which the angel drives clouds; Chokan Valikhanov writes that lightning - These are arrows fired at the evil spirit]: Castagné 1932:54.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars [natigay/natsagai - zigzag lightning and a scourge in the form of lightning struck by Satan during a thunderstorm]: Korusenko et al. 2013:210; Altaians [the dragon is one of 7 or Maana's 12 sons; M. is a wild cat manul; finding that her son has a violent, cruel disposition, she decided to settle him in heaven; when the dragon is angry, his tears fall to the ground in the form of heavy rain, and lightning and sparks are the result of Uluu's wave with a bronze whip]: Tyukhteneva 2009:68; Tuvans ["My sons, you came out of the steel sky Kurbus! /When you walk, you can imagine thunder./The red lightning damp makes your whip terrible..."]: Kenin-Lopsan 1995:22.
Guiana. Waywai [husband cries for his deceased wife; her spirit comes and leads; by the river, the husband calls the boat in vain; the wife makes sounds like the voice of a turtle throat; an anaconda rises out of the water by a bridge; they they cross the river; in the garden, the husband drives away the opossum - it turned out that it was his late mother-in-law; a man sees a dead shaman asking Thunder to use his mirror, scourge and fan against those who killed him; on the ground thunderstorm; man comes home]: Fock 1963:82-85.