I89. The dead caravan .17.23.27.29.30.33.
People mistake a star or constellation that rises at night for the morning, go on a journey, lose their way.
TheBedouins of Jordan, Toda, Serbs, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Greeks, Albanians, Gagauz, Abkhazians, Adygs, Circassians, Karachays, Kumyks, Kurins, Rutulans, Armenians, Isors, ( Azerbaijanis), Turks, Persians, Turkmens, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, and Kyrgyz.
Western Asia. Jordan's Bedouins [Aldebaran is a "deceptive star" because she is sometimes mistaken for the Morning Star]: Henninger 1954:112.
South Asia. Toda [Ishikati is probably Jupiter and corresponds to the etikadichi star in neighboring badag, a "bulldeceiver"; badaga left home; seeing a bright star, decided that Venus, morning was coming soon, brought the bulls out of the pen; when morning was not yet coming, he named the star etikadichi]: Rivers 1906:595.
The Balkans. Bulgarians: Mladenova 2006 [Lazhikaravan, Gubi-Karvan, Lzhovna Zornitsa]: 64; Stoynev 2006 [Kervank's star is visible late at night; caravans mistook her for Morning Venus, set out fell to robbers (samodies, etc.), died]: 156; Macedonians [Karvanitsa, Mamikarvan, Mamikara-Jupiter; the Serbs were defeated on Kosovo Field because they mistook her for Denitsa (Venus) and did not Turks attacked in time]: Tsenev 2004:59-60; Albanians [the caravan woke up at midnight, saw a bright star, mistook it for Morning Venus, woke up his comrades, they set off, they were attacked robbers, robbed; since then this star has been called the Star of the Caravans; (paraphrase in Mladenova 2006:65)]: Pedersen 1898:113-114; Bulgarians, Serbs, Greeks [all of these Balkan there is a legend about the death of a caravan because of an incorrectly identified star]: Mladenova 2005:66-67; Serbs [it is possible that Karvank's star, which appears in the middle of the night in the summer, is Sirius]: Janković 1951: 139; Gagauz people: Moshkov 1901 [some major star in the West is Kervan kyran yildizy ("the star of the dead caravan"]: 55; (cf. Baskakov 1973 [Kervan-Kiran (yildizy) - Venera]: 264).
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays [went on the road with the appearance of the Morning Star (Cholpan); they guided the star Keriuan Zhulduzu ("caravan star") at night; at midnight, a star similar to Cholpan; 9 travelers, mistaking her appearance for the morning sunrise of the "caravan star", set off in the cold and died in a snowstorm in the morning; since then she has been called Keriuan Kyrgan (" caravan destroyer")]: Jurtubayev 1991:135; (=2007 [the author heard from his father, the star is Jupiter]: 363-364; Abkhazians: Bartsyts 2005 [Asheua iiatsva is the "star of Abazin"; appears at midnight; confusing it with the Morning Star (Venus) and deciding that dawn was coming soon, the rider set off for the North Caucasus; it was very cold, he began to freeze on the mountain pass; cut his horse's belly and he climbed there, made it until dawn; later told him not to confuse his star with the Morning Star (B. Shinkuba. Gold placers. Sukhumi 1990. 471-472); this star is often confused with the Morning Star because it is believed that it appears in the same place as that one; according to other legends, the rider died and the star is named after him]; Hvartsky 1994 [{this is the same legend in Russian paraphrase}]: 64; Khvartsky 1994 [Abaza visited Abkhazia; returning, spent the night in the mountains; mistook the midnight star for the Morning Star, went to the pass, fell off a cliff in the dark and died]: 64; Circassians [Dezhyggalie ("the star that killed the merchant"; "The star that made the wolf eat the merchant"); the Jewish merchant mistook this star for the morning, set off and was eaten by a wolf]: Madina Pashtova, personal message 29.04.2013; Adyghi [a peasant named Dejig came out of the hut, looked at the star Dejig and, thinking that dawn was coming soon, set off; but it turned out that this is a night star, not a pre-dawn star, and on a frosty night D. froze on the way; since then, the star has been called "The Star That Killed Dejiga"; this legend is known in Kabard, Adygea and Cherkessia]: Shortanov 1982:39; Kyurins, Kumyks: Potanin 1883 [(recorded from a Kyurin); in addition to the morning star Yekyunyn-ged, there is also a bright star called Keruan-Keren in Kyurin and Tatar; one The caravan, seeing it in the sky and thinking that the Morning Star had risen, set off through the Salavat Mountains, but the pass was covered with rubble and the caravan died]: 733; Khalidova 2012, No. 30 [merchants led the caravan to Mecca; after spending the night, they mistook another star for morning Venus (Tang-Cholpan), got up ahead of time, got into a blizzard and died; this star (apparently Jupiter) is called Kervan-Kyrgan (Caravan Fighter)]: 52; Rutulans [the star that appears first in the evening at all seasons was called "Zukhra Hade"; morning Venus was called "Yakat Hade"; an hour before it, "Karvan Kyran Hade" ("Caravan Slayer") comes out: a caravan, having confused it with Venus, left ahead of time and was looted by robbers]: Bulatova 2003:222-223; Armenians [the caravan that spent the night in the mountains saw a star in the east, mistook it for Venus in the morning, set off, got lost, died from robbers; this is the star that causes death to caravans]: Ganalanyan 1979, No. 342:127-128; (cf. Azerbaijanis [there is a star Geryan-Karvyan - "Watching Caravans"]: Potanin 1883:733); Isors [merchants sacrificed to Venus for showing them the onset of morning; Sarad did not bring; for it was Venus who left much earlier than dawn; S. led the caravan to the robbers gate, through which it was only possible to break through in the daylight; S. returned from captivity as a poor singer, begging in his songs Venus as a caravan slayer]: Eyvazov 1894, No. 2:63-64; Turks [The Yellow Star, Sarah Yildiz, appears in the morning; the merchant ordered him to be woken up in the morning; the servants saw Choban Yildizi in the sky, mistaken for the Yellow Star; thinking that morning was coming, they set off; they were attacked by robbers and robbed]: Gordlevsky 1909:96 (=1968:73).
Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Mladenova 2004 [Kerwankuš - "Caravan Killer"]: 54; Vambéry 1879 (and probably Turkmens) [in Persia and Central Asia, the star Kervan-Kush, the "caravan destroyer", is known because caravans, due to their resemblance to Orion {?} , seeing it as a sign of the approaching morning, in order to reach the station in time, animals are driven to die; the belief about Kervan Kush is common in the Caucasus and the Balkans; (Vamberi starts with a retelling of the Turkic narrative about Sekiz jolduz, see below about the Kazakhs to whom Potanin refers the relevant information)]: 155 (quoted in Potanin 1883:733, in Mándoki 1963:523, in Mladenova 2006:65); Turkmens [reported by A.A. Kazinitsyn near the Persian border on the shore of the Caspian Sea; two pious elders sought to be in time for the praying mantis; Allah revealed to them that if they would send to They will have time to travel early in the morning; one day they thought it was dawn, but it was just Venus; the donkeys did not have time to rest and fell in the afternoon; therefore, the morning star is called the donkey destroyer]: Holy 1913:176-177; (cf. Persians (Farce) [there was a belief in an unhappy star that appears in the sky and follows in a certain direction every night; the traveler should not keep his way in the same direction]: Ivanov 1961:115).
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Abishev 1949 [Jupiter - Yesek Kyrgan, Donkey Slayer; the man mistook Jupiter for Venus, the caravan left ahead of time, the donkeys did not have time to rest, fell into a snowstorm and died]: 17; Potanin 1883 [Badagov and Vamberi report a Kyrgyz belief that there is a constellation Sekiz Yolduz ("eight stars") that are on the eastern horizon, visible for eight days, disappear on the ninth day, about They perform again on the tenth day, and so they appear three times during the month; there is one unhappy woman (akreb) between these stars; if she meets a caravan or army, something happens to them disaster, and when mounts appear on the tenth day, the backs of mounts are covered with wounds]: 733; 1916, No. 29 [star Isek-Kirgan misleads caravans; people think that Sholpan has risen, it's early morning, they go on a journey; donkeys will die from a long course; (Isek-Kirgan - "donkey slayer")]: 117 (=1972, No. 4:55); Sidelnikov 1962 [Ayman-Sholpan is morning Venus; a star similar to it Isyak-Kyrgan ("donkeys died") appears in the middle of the night; the caravan mistook her for IK, picked up a caravan, which got lost in the desert; the camels reached, but the donkeys died]: 267; Karakalpaks [in the harsh winter, a group of merchants I was about to go on a journey in the morning; the man on duty mistook the star that had risen in the east for Sholpan (Venus), woke people up and they set off; dawn did not come, people got lost, donkeys died ; since then, this star has been called "Yeshekkyrylgan" ("Extermination of donkeys"); they also say: "If Sholpan rises, the water will cool down, if the scales rise, the dawn will cool down"; if a person dies, he is buried head towards Temirkazy (Iron Stake, North Star)]: Aimbetov 2014b: 28; Kyrgyz [Jupiter - Eshek Kyrgan (Donkey Killer); Manuscripts and Publications Department of the Kirg Academy of Sciences. SSR, Inv. No. 359. P. 308-309]: Baibosunok 1990:42.
(Wed. The Great Southwest. Zunyi [The morning star is a big star, a real morning star; first comes mokwanosena - "he's a liar," a false morning star]: Gifford 1940, no. 2269:156).