I64. Animal trail on the Milky Way .11.16.21.23.29.30.37.43.46.48.50.67.71.73.
The Milky Way is a trail of animals walking or fleeing.
Nyaturu, Germans (Saxony-Anhalt), Garo, Haria, Gondas, Kolam, Bengalis, Karachays, Balkarians, Adygs, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Archins, Tabasarans, Lezgins, Avars, Georgians, Turkmens, Kalashi, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Ulchi, Nanai, Kutene, Oto, Pawnee, Sheyens, Kiowa, Blackfoots, Yokutz, Cahuilla, Maricopa, Lokono, Karinha, Akawayo (?) , oyampi, siona, sekoya, napo, tupinamba, sipaya, kanamari, chacobo, guarayu, botocudo, guarani.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Nyaturu [The Milky Way - The Way of Oxen (Ochsenweg), the brother of the creator Mampandacanya, who lives in the sky; the stars are his cattle (Rinder)]: Sick 1915:55.
Western Europe. Germans (Saxony-Anhalt) [in the Gröningen area, the Milky Way is called the Kaupât Cow Trail]: Rochholz 1862:52.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Garo: Bertrand 1958 [When Mother Susimé died and was cremated, all the stars participated in the ritual; Cassiopeia was a funeral cart, Mirontek was a basket of rice for mourners, Sirius - the star that lights the fire, the Pleiades (Doe-Sadil), the sacrificial rooster accompanying the deceased to the burial site, Castor and Pollux, the two sisters who came to the funeral in the best outfit; they were so pretty that Susimé told them to go to heaven; Mengoripé is a cat that does not leave its mistress, Orion's Belt is a pig whose meat is destined to feed on its way to another world, Pegasus four pillars, between which there is a funeral fire, a sacrificial buffalo is tied to the brightest one, and the Milky Way is the trail of this buffalo; he was so frightened by the music that he cut off the rope and ran to heaven, raising him silver dust; The morning star warns the rooster that it is time to welcome the day, the Evening tells the chickens to be locked in chicken coops; some stars have married people; now they are from time to time go down to see those they can't forget]: 84-85; Rongmuthu 1960 [Goddess Noreknak Norekdim gave birth to various gods and various living things except humans; among them son Salgra (sun) and daughter Misi Susime (moon); when they were children, they quarreled over their future marriage partners and sprayed each other with duct wax; Salgra washed himself right away, and MC decided to wait for her mother to show how her brother treated her; her mother came and told her to go wash immediately; but the wax could not be washed off, he remained (on the face of the moon); NN gave birth to various animals, then plants; MS offered her to also give birth to fire; NN went to the goddess of death and stepped on something prepared for the funeral fire; then conceived fire; giving birth to it, died; MC became angry and threw the fire far into lower world; sent a servant to the seventh tier of the lower world to bring a mat; the deceased was placed on a mat for the first time; two roosters were tied to his toes; now it is the Dohsutot constellation; also stuck at the head feathers are now comets; two beauties came, MC turned them into Castor and Pollux; we must light a funeral fire; MC sent a crocodile for fire; swimming across the sea, the crocodile could not stand the heat and dived, the fire returned to the lower world; the crocodile stayed in the water, the burns on its back remained; then the squirrel carried the fire on its tail, lowered its tail into the water, the fire returned again, the squirrel's tail turned red; MS sent for his younger brother's fire; the fire still did not go out, but explained how to get it by rubbing or carving it - then his servant would appear; the funeral fire was set on fire, now it is the constellation of Pegasus; Cassiopeia - this body is being carried to the fire; the sacrificial bull was led; he was afraid of the noise and ran away; his hooves were the Milky Way; the raven cleaned the dishes at the end of the ceremonies, got dirty and turned black; everyone who has it now his faces were black, then smeared with soot; the bat penetrated the Sun's wife, the Moon, and smeared her too; the Sun chased him until he disappeared into the cave where his descendants now live; the Sun was speechless animals, birds, insects, reptiles, lest they complain or beg not to kill them]: 205-212; Playfair 1909 [a brief retelling of what was in Rongmuthu 1960; given for sacrifice at the funeral At the ceremony, the buffalo was frightened by the roar of trumpets and the beating of drums, fell off and ran away; the Milky Way is his hooves]: 87.
South Asia. Haria [The Milky Way is a broad trail for livestock]: Roy 1937:431; gondas [The Milky Way is a trail full of animals]: Vahia et al. 2019:56; kolam [ The Milky Way - Animal Trail]: Vahia et al. 2019:56; Bengalis (Sylhet County) [The Milky Way is the tawny cow; Surabhi's sky cow grazes there]: Bhattacharya 1030:5.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays, Balkarians [Milky Way - Zhylky Zhol (Tabun's Way), Yrkyn Yz (Flood Trail?) , but more often Koi Zhol (Sheep Trail)]: Dzhurtubayev 1991:138 (=2007:364); Karachays [q 'oj -l 'The Milky Way' (letters. 'sheep way')]: Pröhle 1909b: 119; Adygs: Kokov 1980a [Milky Way - Shikhu Laghue - "the trail of a herd of horses"]: 263 (= 1980b: 171; the same Nikonov 1975:116); Meretukov 1980 [nart Psepit called Adyif's wife, who built a bridge across a mountain river, put her hands out of the house, illuminating the path; once she did not build a bridge, P. drove along the pedestrian; removed her hands, he fell into the abyss in the dark; his horse ran away to sky; Milky Way - "Adyif horse trail", dark spots - hoof marks of many horses that have passed there]: 173; Abkhazians: Zukhba 1995 [The Milky Way - "The Way of the Sheep", "The Way of the Lambs", "Cattle Road", "Road to mountain", "the way of the army"]: 43 (=Chursin 1956:154); Ossetians: Tsgoev 2015 [the legend of Ærfæna fæd (about the Milky Way): "They say that deer and buffalo have argued who will get from them faster one end of the sky to the other. They stood at one end of the sky. The deer raised its horns high and jumped forward in long jumps. When he reached the middle of the sky, his heart burst and fell. The buffalo took a leisurely step and reached the very opposite end of the sky. On clear starry nights, the sky appears to be an artfully stretched dome filled with the heat of golden stars. In the middle of it, pale milky clouds stretch from end to end like cirrus clouds. These are traces of deer and buffalo"]: 593; Chursin 1925a [The Milky Way - Ærfæny fæv ("Arfan's trail"); A. stole straw from God's threshing floor, straw crumbled along the way; alternatively, the Milky Way - deer trail $ retelling in Chibirov 2008:89]: 81; Archins [Milky Way - "herds road"]: Kibrik et al. 1977:221, 311; Tabasarans [Milky Way - 1) The Prophet's Road; 2) The Prophet's Sheep Road; 3) The place where the Prophet's daughter scattered straw from the basket; 4) The place where Guria and peri were scattered]: Seferbekov 2000:8; Lezgins [Milky Way - 1) Road to the mill; 2) The Prophet's Way; 3) The Flock's Way Sheep; 4) Caravan Route]: Seferbekov 2000:8; Avars [Milky Way - Cow Way]: Seferbekov 2000:8; Georgians [Milky Way - Haris da Irmis-Navali, "The Trail of a Bull and a Deer"; Ox and The deer decided to race; the deer ran fast, left a trail of dust, did not reach the goal; the Ox calmly reached it; according to one option, the creator told the deer to wander through the forests and rocks in looking for food]: Virsaladze 1973, No. 2:48 (same briefly in Potanin 1883:741).
Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens ["white camel path]: Gyarmati 1993:226; Kalashi [The Milky Way - dust raised by a horse and a cow that were racing; they cursed each other, causing the Horse lost the ability to digest gum, and the Cow's hooves became split]: Ali Shah 1974:73.
Turkestan. Kazakhs ["the way of the white camel"]: Gyarmati 1993:226; Kyrgyz: Gyarmati 1993 ["the way of the white camel", "the path of the sheep"]: 226; Nikonov 1980b [Koi Zholu - "the path of the sheep"]: 294.
Amur - Sakhalin. Ulci [Milky Way - Ude poctoni or Ude ganchini ("musk deer ran")]: Smolyak 1991 [Milky Way - Uden Soxina-shihani (Musk deer Ski Trail)]: 21; Nanais: Smolyak 1991 [Milky Way - Uden Soxina-Shihani (Musk Deer Ski Trail)]: 21; Sam 2001 [Ude male, Ake female got married, quarreled and broke; A. made skis from a stick of her husband's relatives and flew to the sky; the trail from her ski track is the Milky Way]:?.
The coast is the Plateau. Kutene [there is a constellation of 6 stars, three Moose and three Antelopes raced, from which people learned what racing is; every night Moose and Antelope run across the night sky {with which This is associated with a star object, it is not specified, but the Milky Way is likely}]: Turney-High 1941:95.
Plains. Oto [horse and bison raced; Milky Way - dust they raised]: Anderson 1940:31-34; skid pawnee: Dorsey 1904b, No. 14 [The Bison and the Horse raced, their trail was Milky Path]: 57; (cf. Grinnel 1961 [The Antelope and the Deer ran to the distillation; the Antelope won, took the Deer's bile; to prevent him from getting too upset, gave him dew-claws (the process on the hoof); since then, the deer have no bile, and antelopes do not have de-claws; without Milky Way etiology]: 204-205); Sheena, Kiowa [The Milky Way is the dust trail left by the Bison and the Horse racing]: Mooney 1900:443; (cf. blacklegs [Antelope and Deer raced into the steppes; Antelope won, took the Deer's bile; he demanded that they run again in the forest; the Deer won, received dew-claws from the Antelope ( deer have no bile and antelopes have no dew-claws since then; without Milky Way etiology]: Grinnel 196:205; Linderman 1995 [as in Grinnell]: 62-64).
California. Jokutz (yachi) [The Antelope and the Deer raced, their trail is the Milky Way; on the side where the Antelope ran, the trail is solid, where the Deer jumped in spots; the Antelope won, so she lives on in open spaces, but the Deer hides in the thickets]: Kroeber 1907a, No. 19:213; cahuilla [The Milky Way - dust raised by Coyote and Wild Cat when they were racing]: Hooper 1920:362.
The Great Southwest. Maricopa [Antelope and Deer compete on the run, their trail is the Milky Way; the Deer's trail is separate stars, the Antelope's trail is a continuous star fog]: Spier 1933:147.
Guiana. Lokono [The Milky Way is the tapir trail; the tapir chasing it and the jaguars chasing him have three dark spots on the Milky Way]: Roth 1915, No. 205:260; akawaii or carinha Guyans [Wawaia (wawa means sister or wife) takes Tapir as a lover; he promises to take her to where heaven meets earth; her husband Serikoai (sirikio means star) climbs a tree for fruit; when it starts to descend, she cuts off his leg with an ax; his mother cares for him; he walks east on crutches in the footsteps of lovers; kills Tapira cuts off his head with an arrow; V. and Tapir's spirit run to heaven, S. after them; V. turns into the Pleiades, Tapir's head into Hyades (Aldebaran - eye), S. to Orion]: Brett 1880:191-200; Roth 1915, No. 211:265- 266; Carinha (Guyana) [The Milky Way is the "tapir trail"; a jaguar and a forest dog chase a tapir along it]: Magaña, Jara 1982:117; Oyampy [The Milky Way - Tapir Road]: Grenada 1982, No. 17 , 18:148.
Western Amazon. Siona, Sekoya [Baira creates land after the flood, helps people get out of the ground, kills his father-in-law, who turns into Tapir; B. goes to heaven, tells his nephews to pursue Tapira; they follow the trail of Tapir's excrement, it's getting fresher; Cayman carries them across the river, bites off their younger brother's leg; they kill Cayman with an ax, reach out their leg; the Pleiades brothers, the axe - Orion's belt, Hyada - Cayman's jaw, Milky Way - tapir trail]: Vickers 1989:161-167; Zion [Ñañagüé Nianyague (Month) no longer liked his wife because she had to look for in his head; climbed a Juansoko tree, threw fruits at them, they became intoxicated from them and fell asleep; N. pulled piranha teeth out of his wife and sister's vagina (as elsewhere as in 134-136); on the way he took the trapped birds , put rotten leaves in them, sent his father-in-law to check the traps; his father-in-law returned, asked his daughters to remove the thorn from his leg; N. told him to lie not in a hammock, but on a bark bed, to become a tapir; the tapir ran, leaving a trail - the Milky Way; N. told him to become Mother of Earth; when he moved, there would be an earthquake; N. changed his appearance, came to his wife; she fell in love with him, smeared his face with soot at night; he washed it away; then a genipa, these spots are still visible; the Turtle hid all the water; N. cut down the bamboo, the grove turned into a river, both women swam; N. did not let his wife go ashore, her sister came out; she stood in the water palm tree, his wife went to her; M., if you approach the shore, storms would begin; told the turtle to eat rot; his wife's sister to be the mother of the living, the patroness of the dead, sent her to the country dead]: Chaves 1958:143-145; for example: Mercier 1979 [a man stalked Wagra ("tapir"), found his excrement, asked how long ago their owner had passed; they consistently answer that a year, six months, a month ago, the day before yesterday, today; this is how man learned to count days and months; man caught up with tapir, cut it in half, the front part fell to land, became a tapir, the back into the water, a manatee; manatee ("sea cow"); its path has become the "sea cow road" in the sky - the Milky Way; in winter, during the rainy season, this road goes from west to east, and during the dry season it goes across the Napo River, from south to north]: 49-51; Wavrin 1979 [two brothers kill their mother's monstrous Penis, their lover; walk towards the Morning Star; Cayman takes them across the river, bites off the younger one's leg; they kill Cayman with an ax, reach out his leg, put it back; for several years they follow Tapir's trail, find fresher droppings; the elder kills Tapir with a spear (the spear is now visible in the sky); the brothers chop Tapir; the back part turns into a manatee, the front into a tapir; later the brothers turn into a constellation (Pleiades?)] : 65-66.
Eastern Amazon. Tupinamba [both Guarani and Tupi have the Milky Way "tapir trail" (Tapi'í Rapé, Mboreví Rapé); so in Tesoro.. Montoya and in "Vocabulario na lingua brasilica"]: Cadogán 1968a:80; hissing [a woman made a pot for a beer intended for Kumafari; the man persuaded her to copulate; for this, K. deprived her of her speeches, she grunted like a pig; the shaman blew at her, she told her what had happened; the shaman made swallows out of straws, blew, they came to life, took the guilty man to heaven; blew at the woman, she flew up to lover, both found themselves on the "wild pig trail" - the Milky Way; they had nothing to eat, the lover saw a nest of bees, broke off part to eat honey; the shaman noticed this, blew, the man and the woman stuck to this nest]: Nimuendaju 1920:1011-1012.
Montagna - Jurua. Kanamari: Carvalho 2002 [same as Reesink]: 285-286; Reesink 1989 [The Milky Way is a tapir trail; there are also various constellations with animal names (deer, jaguar, battleship, paka, turtle), i.e. the Milky Way is also a trail in general]: 123, 127.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Chacobo [(apart from the sun and moon), chacobo do not know celestial objects except the Pleiades and the Milky Way, the "tapir trail"]: Kelm 1972:206 (note 146); guarayu [The Milky Way is the "animal road"]: Lunardi 1938:206.
SE Brazil. Botokudo [The Milky Way is called the tapir trail; (it seems that someone is chasing him - a hunter or another animal)]: Krenak 2003.
Southern Brazil. Various Guarani groups [no details; The Milky Way is Mborevi rapé, the tapir trail]: Strelnikov 1930:301; Cadogán 1968a [both Guarani and Tupi have the Milky Way the "tapir trail" ( Tapi'í Rapé, Mboreví Rapé); so in "Tesoro.." Montoya and in "Vocabulario na lingua brasilica"]: 80.