J65. Children of the Sun destroy enemies .42.43.

After the enemies attack, a woman and her daughter remain. She rejects the matchmaking of animal grooms, agrees to give her daughter to a heavenly deity (the Sun). The children of this marriage take revenge on their enemies.

Eyak, Tlingit, Hyda, Tsimshian, quarry.

NW Coast. Eyak [Alder's people killed everyone except a woman and a daughter; the woman consistently rejects animals that come to marry her daughter because she is not happy with their ways to get food, avenge the dead, and etc.; these are Bird, Snipe, Jay, Magpie, Robin, Kingfisher, Frog, Fox, Brown Bear, Black Bear, Wolverine, Goat; gives her daughter to a Sun man who is able to let and extinguish a fire; in young people eight sons; the father makes a daughter from the tip of the bow; lowers them all in the basket to the ground; they fight with the people of Alder; the Sun has boiled the river, all Alder's people have died; the younger brother says that it would be nice get a cloud-colored beast at sunset; sees one, runs after it, ends up in the sky; the rest of the brothers also come to heaven]: Krauss 1970 in Romanova 1997, No. 11. 2:36-39; Tlingit [enemies kill all the woman's relatives; various animals offer themselves to her daughter's husband, she rejects them; accepts the offer of the son of the Sun; he pulls a branch out of the tree, shoves his mother-in-law into the hole, inserts a branch back, turns mother-in-law into an echo]: Swanton 1909, No. 31:125; Hyda (Skidgate) [man cuts off his wife's lover's head, hangs it on the door; this young man is the son of a neighboring village chief; the chief sends a slave behind the fire, he notices his head; the leader's warriors kill everyone, the girl remains with her mother; various animals and birds come to marry her; the proposal of the son of Togo-someone in the shining sky is accepted; the son-in-law climbs at a steep mountain, telling his mother-in-law not to look; she looks, he slides down; he pulls a branch out of the tree, shoves his mother-in-law into a hole, turns branches into a creak]: Swanton 1905:341-343; Haida (Masset) [enemies the people of the village were exterminated, the mother and daughter were left; the Deer, the Grizzly, the Wolf, the Marten, the Eagle, the bird, another bird ask to marry their daughter; the mother asks what everyone will feed her, refuses; agrees when she hears a voice from heaven; a basket comes down from there, a daughter rises in it; a mother finds some food in front of her house every morning; one day, nine boys and a girl descend from the sky in a basket - the old woman's grandchildren; when they return, the grandmother tries to get into the basket with them, the voice from the sky forbids; the grandchildren rise, the son-in-law puts the grandmother in the tree, the creaking of trees is her voice; the woman and her sons again descends to the ground; sons exterminate the murderers of their mother's brothers by firing arrows that gnaw through the throats of enemies like caresses, return to their master; brothers become village leaders]: Swanton 1908a, No. 77 : 728-741; Tsimshian [like Hyde (Skidgate); son of Heaven takes his wife and mother-in-law under his arms, rises to heaven, tells him not to open his eyes; mother-in-law opens, they fall]: Boas 1902:221-224.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry: Jenness 1934, No. 42 [a man cuts off his wife's lover's head, puts her on a spear at the entrance to the house; the lover is a neighboring chief, his slave notices his head; relatives of the deceased destroy village, girl and mother are saved; mother rejects the matchmaking of Rabbit, Caribou, Bear, Grizzly; gives her daughter to the Sun when he shows that she can turn the earth upside down; the Sun rises to the sky carrying his wife with his mother-in-law, but the burden is heavy; he leaves his mother-in-law in the forest, pulling the branch out and shoving it into the hole in the trunk; when the wind shakes the trees, you can hear her happy laugh uh; see motive J1], 47 [enemies of all they kill; the remaining woman cries; tears fall into her bosom, she gives birth to two sons and a lame daughter; the celestial descends, explains that the children are from him; they destroy enemies and monsters; the father raises them up everyone to the sky, but the wife breaks the prohibition to open her eyes, they fall; then her husband shoves her into a tree (as in (42); the creaking of trees is her laughter]: 215-218, 229-231.