I55B. Sun deer. 32.36.

The hero is chasing a deer or a moose that carries the sun.

Bashkirs, Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska), Evenki Orochons.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [the mare gives birth, but the foals disappear every time; the eldest, middle son goes to guard and falls asleep; the younger Kyran-Batyr rips his hair off his head with a sword, does not sleep, cuts a cloud that takes him away foal; follows a bloody trail to copper, silver, golden houses; each has one of the kidnapped foals and a woman; K. consistently fights three devas, kills them; tames a piebald mare; tries to get a golden sword from the bottom of the lake; the mare explains that the water reflects the sword, he himself is pierced into a pine trunk that split the sky and goes further up; K. climbs the pine tree, squeezes into another side of the sky (after that, a pile of stars remains in the sky), brings a sword, rolls three houses into three eggs, gives two wives to their brothers; they are jealous, hang their sword in front of the tent, shout that they have attacked enemies, K. runs out, the sword cuts off his legs; he sees a deer carrying the sun on his horns, a man runs after him; says he sees only when he is near the sun; the blind man puts legless K. on his back, goes, K. sees an armless man chasing the same deer; he explains that the deer promised to bring it to people the sun, but did not bring it, people froze, the armless man's hands froze; three companions decide to get a woman- cook, the khan's daughter is kidnapped, told not to let the fire go out; the fire goes out, the girl comes to the old woman for fire; she gives coals, finds a girl on an ash trail, asks to look in her hair, sucks she has a bone marrow; the girl turns yellow, her companions take turns guarding, only K. hits her so that she cannot withstand blows; K. makes her swallow and regurgitate the girl, blind, armless; regurgitated are healed; after swallowing K., does not want to regurgitate him; the former blind and armless cut her into pieces; the sparrow screams "little finger", the companions cut his little finger, K. comes out, he has legs again; returns his daughter to Khan; K. marries a woman from a golden house, gives the other two to his companions, makes brothers servants]: Barag 1988, No. 38:252-267, 425 [(note 3); the image of a deer carrying the sun on its horns corresponds to Bashkir legends (Bashkir legends. Ufa, 1969, No. 9. In bash.)].

Eastern Siberia. Evenki (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [moose Haglen (Haglun) - Big Dipper; runs out of the thicket of the heavenly taiga, blows away the sun in its horns; Main runs after her on skis; midnight catches up, takes away the sun, returning the day every morning; the four stars of the bucket are H., the extreme star of the handle is M., the other two are his two arrows, one in flight, the other hitting the moose; in the Ilympic ones, Yerbogachen and Barguzin Evenks M. is the master of the upper world; the Tungirs have the master of the souls and destinies of people (functionally coincides with Amaka Shaveki; A. means the supreme deity, as well as bear - p.15)]: Anisimov 1959:12-13; Evenki Orochons [there was no night, the sun was shining round the clock; bug elk (male during the rut) grabbed the sun, ran towards the sky; uterine moose (Anneung), who was walking with the moose, ran after him; night fell; hunter Mani took a bow, two dogs, ran after them; the moose ran across the sky, M.'s dogs caught up and stopped them; the elk gave the sun to Moose, he began to distract the dogs himself; Moose ran to the heavenly hole (North Star) to escape from her pursuers; M. shot Moose, started shooting at Moose, hit her with a third arrow; took the sun, returned his people; all participants in space hunting have turned into stars; since then, day and night have changed, space hunting has been repeated; every evening moose steal the sun, and M. chases them by morning returns the sun; four stars of the Ursa Major bucket are the tracks of a male elk; three pen stars, three fifth magnitude stars near them, and the star closest to the constellation of Hounds Dogs is the tracks of Mani's dogs, who stopped moose; M. himself - five stars below the bottom of the bucket, which are part of the Ursa Major constellation; the Ursa Minor bucket - traces of an elk trying to escape from its pursuers; the first and second stars of the bucket handle - M. arrows; the third star of the bucket handle (North Star) is the hole, or hole, through which the moose tried to escape]: Mazin 1984:9-10.