I85C. Vessels with weather. .26.29.31.32.38.39.41.50.52.
There are vessels in the sky with certain weather, types of precipitation, seasons, etc.
Koreans, Baoan, Lezgins, Tabasarans, Estonians, Mordovians, Japanese, Chukchi, slevi, tsetsot, navajo, Puebla Nahuatl, Jacalteca, Cuicatec, Kekchi and Mopan.
China - Korea. Koreans [young Park is an orphan who cut and sold marsh grass for fuel; once a deer asked him to hide it from hunters; for this he said that 8 heavenly people go down to the lake to swim once a year virgins; you have to hide the skirt with the one you like best and not give it away until he has three children; Park hid the youngest's skirt; his wife created a tiled fanza, a barn, a bull; Park gave the skirt when it was just two children; everything is gone; the deer gave three pumpkin seeds: if planted, they will grow up to the sky, but you can't look back; Park looked, fell; the deer gave again - the last one; in the sky, the children recognized Park; wife said that for her father's sake she had to ask for her skirt, but she wanted to live on earth; the old father of the virgins tells me to find him, becomes a rooster, a hog (the wife suggests); the elder son-in-law fired an arrow: Let Park not allow her to fall to the ground or to heaven; the wife turned to the gyrfalcon, picked up an arrow; her son-in-law into an eagle, set off for a gyrfalcon; he dropped the arrow, she fell on the son of the leader of the nobility; son-in-law demands an arrow to be delivered to him; Park's wife: ask for a horse and take a poor foal; he immediately brought Park to the house of the leader of the nobility; they cry for his deceased son; the arrow is so thin that people do not see her in the young man's body; Park quietly pulled out an arrow, the young man came to life; Park got a wife, but he was persuaded to stay with her in heaven in the service of Okonshante {distorted Okhwan Sanje, whale. Yuhuang Shandi - "The Jade Lord"}; they went to him in a dragon, his wife was pouring rain from a marble bottle; Park asked him to pour more, grabbed the bottle, poured it himself, dropped it; he fell into the mouth of the volcano, which went out, and Great Dragon Lake formed in the crater, from which three rivers have flowed since then: Amnoka, Tumangang and Sungari; the great Okonshante was not angry with his wife Park, but he dismissed her and did not give any service to her husband; they remained in heaven]: Garin-Mikhailovsky 1958:; baoan [severe drought occurred, the lion called the animals for advice, the hare volunteered to go for advice by rain; flew up into the sky, found the god of rain; he replied that there was a divine vat behind him, let the hare splash three tablespoons of water into it, but no more; he did so, it rained for three days and three nights; the hare is so glad that he fell down and hit his head against a boulder; he thought it was dry ground and that the rain god had deceived him, went to heaven again; the rain god repeated his instructions, but this time the hare poured into vat 24 tablespoons of water; it rained 24 days and 24 nights, the water was boiling, flooded all the plains; the current plains and slopes in Kashgar and Qinghai were formed at that time]: Zhou Yang et al. 2001a, No. 263:375-376.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Lezgins [{cf. Mordovians}; an angel in a dream tells the poor man that he should send one of his three daughters to heaven as a shepherd; only the youngest agrees; dressed in men's clothes, the wind lifted her up with a dog to the sky from the top of the mountain; father and son have sheep in the sky; the father says that the boy, the son suspects that the girl; she withstands all the tests (hit the target, the dog changed the target at night the mistress of the violet - violets will wither under the woman, but not under the man); seven years later she was released; from the sky the young man saw that she was still a girl; on the holiday everyone swung on a swing, the dog did not let the girl in, but she sat on them, the swings took her back to heaven; she had to marry; her mother-in-law did not give her keys; she fell asleep, the girl took her keys, began to open the rooms; in one jug with the moon, the sun, rain, wind; she took off the lid, saw the ground where her mother and father jumped into this jug; flew and turned into sunlight; the guy jumped into a jug of snow out of grief, turned into snowflakes]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 20:235-237 (=Khalidova 2012, No. 10:37-39); Tabasarans [the father confesses to his daughter that Galigambar ("a formidable giant", but the name Kambar goes back to the name of Ali's servant in the Shiite tradition, p. 225) calls him to heaven for 7 days to herd sheep; his daughter goes instead of him, wearing men's clothes and taking a talking dog; 7 days in heaven - 7 months; the dog helps the girl remain unrecognized by eavesdropping and telling her what the celestials are talking about; a girl walks into one house; a
hozya in shows her all but one of the rooms; she steals keys, unlocks the room; there are vessels, one is raining on the ground, the other is snowing, the third is the sun; in the seventh she sees parents harvesting crops in the field; she called out to them, but they warn her not to go down; she begins to descend along a chain (or rope), but the chain broke, the girl turned into snow crystals; when the snow shines in the sun, these are the body particles of a girl who fell from the sky]: Khalidova 2012, No. 9:35.
Baltoscandia. Estonians (Saarema) [a tobacco stalk grows to the sky, a person climbs there, the wind knocks down the stem; a man asks Pitkne to make a rope out of the chaff he found in his two boxes; it rains in one of them, snow in the other; P. does not allow it, but lets the person down to the ground with rain]: Stern 1935:135 in Hatt 1949:57.
Volga - Perm. Mordvians [{cf. Lezgins and Tabasarans}; a sloppy, negligent girl goes to the shore of Sura to rinse her clothes; a thunderstorm begins; out of fear, she offers herself as Vere-Pasu's daughter-in-law, Nishke Pasu ( here are synonyms); a silver shaky descends from the sky, she sits in it, rises; thunder is her father-in-law, the cloud is her mother-in-law, lightning is her husband; Vere-Pass - Nishke passes allows her to unlock six barns, do not unlock the seventh, and if unlocked, look back over your right shoulder; in the first it is cold, in the second there is fog, on the third Friday (old man), on the fourth, Sunday, in the fifth winter, an old man in the sixth, an old man in the sixth; in The seventh sees her native land, father and mother wake on it; the VP-NP lets her go for an hour, tells her not to tell her story or take anyone with them; the younger brother followed her, thunderstruck]: Paasonen 1909, No. 3:30 in Endyukovsky 1932:236-237.
Japan. Japanese: Ikeda 1971, No. 800 (27 versions from Tohoku to Kyushu) [old, stupid or lazy, bochar or umbrella maker goes to heaven; (1) climbs a wonderful plant; (2) grabs an umbrella, blown up by the wind; (3) the bamboo hoop from the barrel sprung, threw the master to the sky; he becomes Thunder's assistant; following him on the cloud, pours water, causing rain; once over his native village, It makes a downpour; at this time, there is a holiday in the local temple, everyone runs away, looking for shelter; with excitement, a person stumbles, falls down; spilled water formed Lake Biwa; the hero falls into it, becomes gibel fish; his name was Gengoro, the fish is now called Gengoro gibel; (2) falls on the roof of a famous temple, calls for help; jumps on a cloth held by four men the corners, they collide with their foreheads, sparks fly from their eyes, the temple burns down; (3) he falls into the sea, serves as a gatekeeper (gardener, servant) in the Dragon's house; he is not told to take certain food in his mouth; he takes caught by a fisherman on the ground, returns home; (4) falls from the sky on mulberries; Thunder feels sorry for him, has not hit this tree since; Chinese version in "The Rainmakers" in Chinese Myths and Fantasies, p. 101-110]: 185-186; Markova 1956 [the bochar pulled his hoop over the barrel, he bounced, threw the barrel into the sky; the thundermen asked them to carry bags of water for them; the bochar made a terrible downpour, stumbled, fell on a tree near the temple; the monks began to hold a handkerchief, the bochar jumped, the monks hit their foreheads, sparks flew, the tree caught fire; now it is the "fire tree" - hinoki (cypress genus)]: 121; 2000, No. 43 [old man finds a huge bean, plants, the bean grows to the clouds; the old man climbs to harvest, sees thunder sleeping, one wakes up, tells him to help, hits the drum himself, tells the old man to spray lightly water from the bucket; when he sees his house, the old man splashes out half a bucket; a stream takes his house away, the old man shouts to save his wife; wakes up], 65 [Torayan, on his mother's orders, cooks eels; one slipped away, T. frightened to return to his mother, began to work for a peasant; pulling out the radish, flew with her, fell to the bochar; bending his hoop, flew to the umbrella maker; the wind carried him to heaven; the thunder ordered Pouring water, he pours uncontrollably, falls into the sea; Oto-hime calls him to a feast, he is told to fear food coming down from above; he grabs a piece of meat, fishermen fish for him, takes him to his mother for reprisal]: 183-185, 252-255.
SV Asia. Chukchi [husband's younger brother bothers his wife in his absence; one day she threatens him with a knife, accidentally kills him; the husband feeds a beetle and a caterpillar in the pit, they turn into huge monsters; Spider tells her that her husband will lead her monsters to eat, tells her to sew new torbaza, throw her in front of the pit; the husband rushes after him, the Spider takes the woman to heaven, the husband rushes into the hole out of anger, is eaten; Kele hooks the souls of earthly people in the sky; Kele's wives tell the woman to hide in the house of the Sunny Woman; she burns kele when she looks at him; the Sunny Woman lets the earthly look into the boxes from each the earth is visible at different times of the year; a woman pours water, snows, it rains and snows on the ground; she sees her house; the Sun returns her to earth to her parents]: Belikov 1982:138-149.
Subarctic. Sleve [winter is not over; animals gather for advice; only the Bear is missing; Lynx, Fox, Wolf, Mouse, Pike, etc. go up to heaven; find two Cubs in the house; learn from them what they keep in their bags rain, wind, fog, heat; Lynx turns into caribou, Mother Bear rushes after her; beasts steal heat; snow melts, flood begins; huge creature drinks water]: Bell 1901, No. 1:26-27; tsetsot [at first there were no mountains, rain, snow, wind, people and animals did not differ, the sun was constantly shining; the boy cries, thirsty; his father gives him fat, he does not want to; the father shoots at the mud mound, All the rivers flowed out of it; the animals gathered to advise on how to get rain and snow; they came to the edge of the sky, the Ermine made a hole in the sky, they went to heaven, the hole behind them closed; in the midst of the beautiful plain a dwelling, in it bags of rain, snow, fog, storm, four winds; in the house, a goose woman ordered the bags to be torn; clouds came out, everything appeared, including mountains; Ermine gnawed a hole again, everything returned to earth]: Boas 1896, No. 3:260-261.
The Great Southwest. Navajo [see motif K21; pueblo enslaves a young man, called Scavenger; lowered onto a rocky cornice, telling them to throw off their eagles; Wind and Talking God advise not to abandon chicks; pueblo leave the young man on the rock; the eagles bring him food; wrapped in a cloud and tied with lightning and rainbows, they carry him to the heavenly hole; they get tired; they give feathers to the sky's lightning snakes, which help carry the burden into the hole; Eagles warn not to touch the blue vessels in the house; the young man opens them, the rain begins on the ground; the young man runs in fear, the Spider catches him; the Eagles help him out; when he touches the young man, the coyote turns him himself into a coyote; Eagles find him, let him through his hoop, the young man takes on his true form; the swallow knocks stones over him, the Eagles revive him; the young man helps the Eagles defeat enemies, marries, stays in the sky]: Reichard 1977, No. 4:26-36.
Mesoamerica Puebla Nahuatl: Heller et al. 1993 [the cannibal corshun carries people; they work with baskets on their heads; one man neglects it, is carried to the top of the mountain; kills a kite with a bone blow, when he falls asleep; he goes down on his wings; the Thunders take him as a servant; instead of five beans, he puts a lot to cook, the beans pour over the edge; in the absence of the Thunders, he opens the vessels with the wind, with clouds, rain, puts on Thunder's cloak, flies across the sky with lightning; Thunders catch him, send him to his village]: 140-153; Reynoso Rábago 2003, No. R51 [started as in Heller et al. 1993; the Thunders have a man first he must give them the tortillas that frog cooks make for the Thunder; then he is assigned to cook beans and corn; he must put 7 grains each; once he put two handfuls, beans and corn filled everything around him; the Thunders forgave him; forbidden him to remove the lids from the pots; the man began to shoot - in one cloud, in the other the wind, in the third rain; on the ground there was a storm with a thunderstorm; opening a chest of thunder clothes, the man put them on and started flying across the sky - like one of the Thunders; Thunder: he put on the best clothes, and we have old ones, how do we catch him? he was picked up with lightning, scolded: he wanted to be in charge, although only a servant himself]: 481-484 (similar tax No. R52:484-485); Taggart 1983, No. 16 [a man goes hunting when the Thunders banned hunting; they meet he is in the form of woodcutters, asked to help their cook dinner; when a person sees a frog, he does not understand that it is Gromov's cook, beats it; puts more than one grain of corn and beans in the pot, the brew pours over the edge; puts on bright clothes, blows a horn, opens vessels of rain, hail, wind, cannot close; Thunders come running, send him home; forbid hunting, but give crystals, calebasu, a ring that will provide him with food forever]: 223-224; Hakalteki [a naughty boy comes to an old man; he does not know that it is Keech Mum, the owner of the rain; he tells him to cook 13 beans; the boy puts more, the brew shimmers over the edge; opens the forbidden door, behind it there are three vessels, inside there are red, green, yellow cloaks; he opens one vessel, clouds come out of it, a storm begins; puts on a red cloak, turns into Thunder, rises to the sky; KM saves and forgives him]: Montejo 1991:46-49; quicateques [the old woman found two eggs, put them in a vessel, from which the Sun and Moon were born; every day I went to feed the deer corn porridge, told the twins to stay at home; called the deer the father of twins; when I returned, the house was a mess; once I sent them to feed their father themselves - call him, Kundo, Kundo! ; they called, the deer came, they killed him, the Moon took her right eye, the Sun took his left eye; fire was needed to cook the meat; they sent a fox to the old woman; she set fire to her tail, ran away; so that the tail would not burn, the fox placed fire in the stone {obviously in the flint}, the twins cut fire out of it; brought the old woman roasted venison, and made a scarecrow out of the skin, filling it with wasps and other stinging insects; old woman she ate, and by the river, the frogs told her that she ate deer liver; the twins told the old woman to pour sand on the frog's ass, so it was rough; the black vulture also told the old woman that she ate deer; she accused the twins of killing their father; went to check it out for herself; the deer did not respond; she went to the scarecrow and hit him with a stick - why she did not answer; insects bit her; she returned home and promised the twins call their uncle; this is a jaguar; they dug a trap hole, the jaguar fell into it; then the old woman called the twins' aunt, an eagle with two heads; they made a cage, the eagle sat on top, they grabbed her by paws (and killed); the old woman called another uncle; this is an aquatic animal with a shell, but big; the twins ran, met Thunder, asked them to hide them behind her cheek; Thunder replied to the beast that his teeth hurt and his cheek swollen; the beast tried to get into Thunder's mouth, but the Sun asked to hit, Thunder smashed the beast to pieces; while Thunder was working, the twins opened three vessels in his house: water, wind and hail; The soaked Thunder came back, closed the vessels and drove the twins away: that's why your aunt kicked you out; they found honey, the Sun ate a little, and told the moon to eat more, she was thirsty; the Sun gave water only after how they changed their eyes; the Sun did not tell them to drink everything, but the Moon drank everything; the Sun told them to regurgitate some of the water, otherwise it would not be on earth; the moon regurgitated, but the dirty water stained her face, so she was wearing it stains; the woman has a chest; the Sun gave her ripe cherimoyi and said that there are many of them in the forest; she left, and he asked the rat to gnaw through the chest; the woman hears and asks, Sun: don't worry; the same with the woodpecker; agouti gnawed, a wheel with a rope in the chest, the Sun and the Moon rose to heaven, agouti followed; asks what to do; Sun: cut the rope above you; Aguti fell, buried in the ground; the woman managed spanking the moon; so when the moon looks like a sickle, women have periods; woman to the Sun: remember me when I cover your face with my underskirt]: Weitlaner 1977:56-62 (=Bartolomé 1984:6-9); kekchi, mopan [Mahanamatz forest spirit asks a person for honey; eats with wax; when a person climbs a tree, M. makes it tall, leaves; various animals refuse to help, because a person hunted them; koati form a chain, told not to step on a pregnant female; a person steps, but manages to jump to the ground; runs, gets to Chuck, he hides the person, tells Puma and jaguar break M.; makes a man his assistant; tells him to work in the garden, but not to look under the roots; a man looks, sees his house on the ground, brother, wife through the hole; goes down a rope, but hangs between heaven and earth; Chuck pulled him out; C. waits for guests, tells them to sweep, a man sweeps frogs, but they were guests and musicians; in C.'s absence, the man wears his clothes, opens the bag with the wind, he takes a calebass with water, a drum, thereby causing a hurricane, rain, thunder; falls into the sea, C. revived him, sent him home, giving calebass with endless wax and honey; allowed him to go to heaven if he was no one don't hello to yourself; the wife has followed the person; Chuck asks her for the names of body parts; when she points to her genitals, she wants to answer, but the hurricane takes her and her husband away]: Thompson 1930:146-150.