K112. A worker takes revenge on the Sun. .24.27.29.31.32.34.-.36.

A person accuses the Sun and other characters responsible for the weather, wild animals, etc., for losing property through their fault; punishes offenders.

Ngaju, Macedonians, Moldovans, Gagauz, Abkhazians, Ingush, Georgians, Setu, Lutsi, Chuvash, Tuvans, Buryats, Southern Selkups, Baunt Evenks.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Ngaju [when Panjat sowed rice on the hill, the sun burned it when the flood took him away by the river; his mother gave him rice, he put it on the cloth to dry, the wind threw it into the water; P. went to the poisonous to the tree, it replied that its poison would work in half a day; another tree said that birds could not sit on its branches, animals died if they approached; P. smeared darts with poison, fired seven darts into the sky, they turn into a vine, he rises, comes to the Djangkarang Matanandau sun, asks him to shine and hide in the clouds regularly, not as he pleases; DM is angry, ready to fight, but P. kills many of his people and animals with sarbakan darts (all of them in black means cloudy; when it's sunny, everything is red, transition time is white); DM is scared, promises to install alternating dry and rainy seasons; K. returns home, the weather has been predictable ever since; the sun has moved away from the ground, no one else has risen to the sky]: Schärer 1966:48-53.

The Balkans. Macedonians [an orphan goes to seek happiness; is hired to reap bread, receives a part of the field as a reward, this part is immediately broken by the hail; then he is hired by a shepherd, gets a cow and a calf; a cow wolves picked up, and teleto mu hung {?} ; in the city he married, the Sun saw his wife and took him away; the orphan went to look for the Sun, came to the old woman, she said that she was the mother of the Sun; the Sun comes, the orphan asks for his horse; the Sun gives, tells first eat and feed the horse at St. Peter, then at St. Ilya, do not burn the flower garden; the orphan beat them both, burned the flower garden; explained to the Sun that his cow died because of Peter, and his field died because of Ilya; he burned the flower garden because the Sun took his wife; the Sun returned her]: Tsenev 2004:33-35; Moldovans [orphaned, Ion sowed wheat; birds pecked the harvest; buckwheat was beaten by frost; went to work, got a foal, it was eaten by wolves; for the second time he asked for he had a millstone - he was shattered by lightning; left home, getting a rooster for his work; he came with him to the king - he was driven away; the hermit ordered him to take his wife; says that they fly to the milk lake three fairy birds, take off their wings, bathe; let Jonah hide the youngest's wings and give it back only after the third promise to become his wife; Jonah received a fairy, but the Sun saw her and carried her away; the king has a tree to heaven, who will get fruit from the top, received half the kingdom; the tree is divided into three branches, into eastern apples, on southern pears, on western nuts; the Sun invited to watch the rays; the Lord will bring food birds, Frost, Wolf Iron Mouth, Serpent Golden Scales; after questioning everyone, Ion hits everyone for the destroyed wheat, buckwheat, foal, millstones; seeing that the Sun leads down the fairy's crown, Ion cuts gold trees and throws on the way; explains to the Sun why he punished his servants and himself; the Sun returns Jonah's wife, sends them peacefully to earth; Jonah bears fruit to the king; advisers command not to cut Jonah head, and to give impossible assignments, then take away the wife; 1) let the vineyard be around the palace to the horizon; the wife summoned her servants, the vineyard is ready; 2) get a self-playing flood from the bottom of the sea (genus flutes); wife gives a ring, Ion comes to the sea, sighs, appears Oh, says that the devils at the bottom will floer for 7 years, you can't sleep all this time; at the bottom of the sea, Ion gives the hell tasks, at this time he sleeps himself; count what is more - blades of grass or leaves; Ion brought the flood to the king, fell asleep himself; they began to dance, cannot stop the flood, died; Ion received the kingdom and got married]: Botezat 1981: 105-117; Gagauz people: Moshkov 1904, No. 3 [hail beat Ivan's harvest; on Fedorov Day I. went to the races, only his horse broke his leg; he is hired for promising a piece of bread to throw two pieces of bread before sunset shocks; the sun set, I. was left without bread; I. found a barrel of incense, rolled it up the mountain and lit it; God sent St. Petra: give him what he wants, just to stop smoking; I.: I'll put it out if God gives my daughter for me; God agrees, I. lives with his wife in a golden palace; others are jealous, they dug a hole, lit a fire, covered carpet; wife: smear oak ash on your head and throw yourself into the hole; I. came out gilded; the king tells I. to bring 12 wolf cubs; wife: throw a ball of thread to the wolves, they will come to the royal court themselves; wolves have come and they strangled the king's sheep; the king left I. alone; God sent St. Peter, St. Fedor and the sun put up with I.; he slapped them in the face, they went to complain; God: how much I. endured until he got out of poverty], 4 [the guy hired to grow wheat, only beat his strip of hail; to another the owner was hired for a stone, less than a year later the stone melted {incomprehensible}; the guy got married, went to work elsewhere, another man took his wife away; he found her at his father's sun, hired him to work; he tells the sun to lead, food will be brought by St. Ilya (in the morning), St. Peter (at noon); in the afternoon, do not walk down the lower road (burn the gardens) or the middle road (dry the wells), go straight; the worker beat St. Ilya, St. Petra, went down the lower road, burned down the gardens; explains to the owner that Ilya was beaten for wheat, Peter for the stone he had melted; master: and gardens? Man: You feel sorry for the gardens, and I feel sorry for the wife you took away; the master returned his wife]: 13-15, 15-17.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians: Bgazhba 1983 [hail destroyed his younger brother's harvest; the elders dissuade him, but he leaves; 30 people are hired by the prince to do work before sunset; asks the sun to wait a couple minutes, but it rolls; the prince wants to reward him, the hero replies that he has not fulfilled his promise, leaves; is hired by a shepherd to herd sheep for ten years; sheep multiply, the shepherd wants to reward the worker, he refuses, because on the last day a wolf slaughtered one sheep; hides the clothes of a bathing girl; this is Amra's daughter (Sun); she brings him to her father; Amra is an ogre; allows her to marry her daughter if a person will be able to perform his duties; it is necessary to greet Afa (Thunder), raise the floors of the cloak so as not to burn trees, treat the wolf gently; the man knocked out A.'s eye, burned down the garden, hit the wolf (now his neck doesn't turn); explains to the spread A. that he acted as irresponsibly as others did to him; A. allows him to marry]: 9-15 (=2003:12-18); Mikawa 1960 []: 39-48; Ingush [The king sees the poor man and promises that he will give him whatever he wants; the poor man asks to fill his pouch with money; the king's men bring a handful, then a hat and a cart of coins, but they cannot fill the pouch; in the end, into him All the royal property enters; the king and his people attack the poor man, he kills them and becomes king; the children of the murdered king grow up, the poor man gives them all the royal property; having settled separately, He sows wheat; it is beaten by hail; the poor man is hired by a rider, says: "I will remove all your bread alone before sunset, for which you will give me part of your pens, but if I don't remove the bread before sunset, I lose my fee"; does not have time to remove one sheaf, refuses to pay; is hired by a shepherd on the condition: if after three years there is at least a small decline in the herd, he will not receive rewards, and if there is a profit, he will receive part of the cattle; three years pass, the number of cattle increases; the herd is attacked by a wolf, a kid takes away; the poor man keeps the wolf alive, returns the kid and refuses a reward for work; walks along the road, dies; a wolf finds and buries a corpse; three doves fly to the grave, pray, the poor man resurrects; a tower appears on the grave, the poor man lives in it with doves that have become beautiful; wives say: "Go to the mother of the Sun and ask her for a nice sofa for us. Mother of the Sun lives next to Mother Moon. Their hut doors are always locked. The Mother of the Sun sits above her baby's cradle and feeds him with one breast, while the other breast is thrown over her shoulders. As soon as you enter Mother of the Sun's hut, rush straight to her chest and start sucking it; if you can catch her breast and suck it, she'll give you a sofa"; poor man follows instructions, Mother of the Sun He calls him his third son; her son comes, moving the Sun; when he learns of the poor man's request, he says to him: "Tomorrow you will follow me to move the Sun around the world, and I will stay at home and make you a sofa. Mother of Thunder will bring you lunch by noon, and when you come to the sea, look at our vineyard there"; the next day, the poor man begins to drag the Sun across the world; by noon, Mother Thunder brings him lunch; he remembers how she beat his arable land with hail and pounding it; when he reaches the sea and finds himself near the vineyard, he remembers the loss of harvesting fees; as a result keeps the Sun over the vineyard for an extra hour; in the evening he tells the mother of the Sun that the journey was safe; goes home with the sofa; a man comes to him, from whom he herded sheep; asks give one of the wives; wives turn into doves, fly away; the tower and other buildings disappear; the poor man is hired by the king, enters into a relationship with his daughter; the king throws him into a hole; a neighboring strong The king sends this king two identical roosters and tells him to find out which one is older; the poor man suggests: "You can find out about the seniority of roosters by age as follows: pour red wheat on them even during the wind let the roosters come to her. The elder rooster will stand with his head against the wind, and the youngest with his tail"; the king follows the advice, performs the task; the neighbor sends two identical stallions and tells them to know which one is older; the poor man explains : "Give more salt to these stallions, then let them drink, the youngest will run forward to the water and start drinking greedily, and the elder will walk quieter and, when he comes to the water, overtake the younger stallion"; the king follows advice, performs the task; the neighbor sends a message: "Find out which of your people is able to shoot an arrow from your village to mine"; the poor man fires an arrow into a neighboring village; it falls into a chain on which the cauldron hung in the royal hut; a messenger arrives: "Our tsar invites you to come to our village and take one dog and one rooster with you to compete with our dog and our rooster"; poor man takes a falcon instead of a rooster, goes to the village; on the way he meets a man who sees a chamois on a distant mountain, a man who hears a snake crawling over seven mountains, a man trying to drink the sea, and a man who, with one foot in his belt, runs to the other for a hare; takes them with him; the neighboring king releases a rooster, the poor man's falcon pecked him; the neighboring king announces the beginning of a race, releases a witch; she offers the one-legged to drink a drink from a jug, he falls asleep; the one who hears snoring well, the shooter fires an arrow into the jug, the one-legged wakes up to the ringing of potsherds and overtakes the witch; the king locks the guests in a copper hut; it begins to fill with water; a person who wants to drink the sea drinks it; a strong king recognizes the neighboring king as an equal, the poor man marries the king daughters]: Sadulayev 2004, No. 122:314-321; Georgians: Jaliashvili 1970 [mother found three grains, three sons plowed three fields, bread was degenerated, but the thunderer Elia hit the younger field with hail; he came to the rich man, promised to collect his bread in a day if he gave half the harvest; did not have time to tie the last sheaf when the sun went down; the unlucky man is hired to herd a deer for half a flock for three years, if all the sheep will remain intact; on the last day, the wolf carries one sheep; three heavenly girls went down to swim, the Unlucky one grabbed one, married; the heavenly maiden's ring fulfills wishes; the king tells the servant to fry pheasant; the servant sees the unlucky man's wife, he is stunned, the pheasant is burned; the king sees the beauty himself, sends her husband for the milk of a ferocious buffalo, who brings her; the king orders to take a jug of buffalo milk, go up to the plane tree, go down, the milk should become yogurt; the wife tells him to dip the ring in the jug; the king tells him to marry the eldest daughter of the Sun; the unlucky one goes for the ring; the fish asks to know why did it swell, plowmen - why does the share break, shepherds - why sheep die; The unlucky one climbs into the sky on the poplar growing on the head of a deer; the Sun and the Moon are the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the Unlucky; that Elijah and the wolf beat; the sun apologized, promised to help; the fish must be hit - a bag of money in the belly; change the share from wooden to iron; sheep must be sheared in the spring; the king should be told to turn into a hare, viziers into wolves; so it happened]: 22-30; Chikovani 1985, No. 4 [hail beat his third brother's field; he is hired by a rich man, will receive half of the harvest if he eats the field in a day; there is only one sheaf left to tie the sun did not heed the request to wait, it set; the man leaves with nothing; he is hired to herd sheep, if there is no damage in four years, he will receive half; on the way home, the wolf dragged one sheep, the young man left with nothing ; three daughters of the sun come down from the sky to swim, he grabs one, lives with her in a shack; the girl's ring makes wishes come true; the young man invites the king to visit, advisers come, the servant roasts the pheasant, sees his wife young men, overwhelmed by her beauty, the pheasant is burnt; advisers tell the king that he sends a young man for the golden fleece of the Sun; the Month turns the young man into a needle so that he does not burn when the sun approaches; Sun he moderated the heat, greets his son-in-law; the young man beats the wolf, Ilya the Thunder, with a truncheon, ruins the Sun Garden; explains why; the Sun gives a fleece; the king sends his mother behind the ring; the wife gives an apple, the young man follows him; the deer asks for the potion - it is difficult to carry horns; the obese bull is without food (he served the owner faithfully; all explanations are given when the young man returns), the skinny one is among the food by the stream (badly served); husband and wife lie freely on the axe (loved each other), others cramped in bull's skin (did not love each other); the old woman builds a tower of eggs, they fall, fight (stole eggs); the other puts them in good shape (tone) white bread, takes out the black earth (did not give bread to travelers); man is a bridge over the abyss, they walk along it (he did not let him cross the bridge during his lifetime); the king's mother gives a ring, curses her son; orders the deer drank May water; after receiving the ring, the king turns into a hare, his advisers into wolves, tore him to pieces; the young man reigns]: 22-26 (=1986:57-64); (cf. Armenians [the woman knitted socks for her son, asked the Sun to wait to go down; the Sun later returned to her mother; she told the woman's son to die every day, to resurrect at night, and her mother all her life knit and untie socks; the son comes to his mother at night, asks for socks; the mother knits, her yarn blooms; the son walks barefoot]: Ganalanyan 1979, No. 353:130).

Baltoscandia. Seto: Loorits 2005:225-227 (village. Lytina, 1932) [the poor man is hired to squeeze rye before sunset; he almost has time, is left without food and without a salary; is hired as a shepherd, receives a cow as payment, ties Nikolin's day at church, lights a candle to St. Nikolai, at that time the cow was stolen; he is hired to herd horses, for which he was promised a foal; on the night of St. Egoria wolves ask Egory what they eat, he points to the foal; so that the wolves do not know their share, the poor man smears the foal's nose in a different color; then Egory tells them to eat the shepherd, he has to give the foal; the witch doctor tells the poor man that his luck is a blue rug in the bushes in the forest; the poor man pulls it out, throws it on the road, he asks him not to leave him, turns into a girl; she tells him to visit her father, gives a ball, he rolls into the house of the owner of the Sun; father-in-law tells his son-in-law to stop the sun instead of him at noon, explains how to do it; on the way, the man beat St. Nicholas and St. Egoria; caught and beat the Sun; the owner of the Sun sent him, rewarded him, the poor man began to live with his wife in a rich house], 228-230 (village. Lazareva, 1901) [the young man was left with only a foal; the young man was hired to herd horses, he was allowed to sow barley and beans as payment; barley was frozen, the beans were destroyed by fog; he undertook to squeeze rye on the condition that he finished before sunset; a little bit left, the Sun refused to slow down, the young man was not paid; wolves ask what they have, an angel from heaven replies that the white-nosed foal is a young man; the young man smears the foal's white nose with black , the angel tells the wolves to eat the black-nosed, then no matter what nose, if only the same foal; the wolves ate it; in the morning, the young man sees the daughter of Dawn, the daughter of the Month and the daughter of the Sun swimming in the river (king of the dawn, etc.); hides their clothes, does not give the daughter of the Sun, because her father refused his request to slow down; (var.: the clothes of the "mother of the moon" are too large for the young man, the "mother of the star" is small, the "mother of the sun" is small, the "mother of the sun" - just right); the young man became the Sun's son-in-law, began to live with him; Frost and Mist came, he beat them with a truncheon; the angel of the sun (var.: servant of the sun, that is, probably Mercury) went on a daily journey with the sun; was left without food all day, because the young man turned over the plates from which they ate (if the plate of food is standing, you can eat it by the Sun while far from it); the Sun called his son-in-law to account, but agreed that he correctly punished those who harmed him; the young man stayed with the Sun]; (cf. Sandra 2004 [hail beat the poor man in the field; he went to look for Hail to punish him; came to a white woman, this is Grad's mother; she shames her son who comes; he asks forgiveness, gives a box if you turn it and say what is necessary, any food will appear; the man returns, gets richer; the rich brother also decided to go to Grad and accuse him of destroying the crop; Hail replies that he did not hit any field; the rich man is angry and insists; Hail gives a box; a rich man gathers guests, soldiers jump out of the box, beat everyone; the former poor man hardly drove them back; the rich man went broke, the former poor man lives well]: 125-134); Lutsie (Western 1931 from a Catholic gypsy) [Danil Beschastny has been serving a rich man for three years; he agrees to pay a "burr rooster", and his wife said that God is above everyone; the owner gave 4 measures of buckwheat; she she climbed well, the poor man asked Mikola for a blessing, but he froze the shoots; DB bought a mare, asked Egor not to harm, but the mare was eaten by wolves; hired to tie a hundred sheaves before sunset, or if not he will tie, get a hundred roses; there are two sheaves left, DB asked the sun to wait, but it went in and DB got a rod for work; the sister of the Sun came to him and began to live with him; now the house has everything; pan found out about his wife, sent the DP to his late father for a letter; the wife gives a ball and tells him to ask for a manager; that devils have been lifted up, and the old pan tells his son not to oppress people so as not to suffer after death; the pan sends a letter to the Sun; the wife gives a handkerchief to recognize her husband by him; DB comes to Mikola, asks him for a stick, mercilessly hits buckwheat; the same with Egor for the mare; mother of the Sun, Seeing the handkerchief, kind, promises to pacify his angry son; when he learns that his son-in-law has come, the Sun is supportive, sends DB to heaven for half a day instead of himself while he writes a letter; DB in paradise smashed everything, broke everything; Mikola, Egor and the Sun come to complain to the mother of the Sun; she explains what they got for the cause; DB returned with a letter to Mr.: if you touch my son-in-law, I'll burn the house]: Annom et al. 2018:239-243.

Volga - Perm. Chuvash [a person successively dies seven wives, cattle go missing; he sees three pigeons fly in, take off their clothes, turn into girls, swim in the lake, he hides the clothes of one of them; gives them after she promises to leave a trail of pieces of bast on which he was found by her and her mother (maybe the mother is to blame for man's misfortunes); the man comes; the brother of the doves is the Sun; suggests going instead of him in the morning; tells him not to stop for breakfast and lunch at Pihambar (the owner of the wolves), Pulechse (the distributor of goods), and the Thor, only before sunset you need to feed the horse; every time man eats food, knocks an empty bowl over God's head; Torah goes to figure it out; P. is to blame for wolves to pick up cattle, Pulechse for his wives to die, Torah for not intending a happy life; gods They give a person the gift of stealing, but they complain about him; then they promise to marry a princess, teach her how to cure her from blindness; a person receives a princess and a throne]: Eisin 1993:123-129.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans (Bai-Taiginsky District) [a poor orphan Ösküs-ool is hired by the khan to remove millet while the moon is in the sky; asks the moon not to enter, it does not pay attention; the khan beats an orphan; the same with the sun; Kurbustu Khan's three daughters in the form of swans go down to swim in the lake, throw off their feather clothes, an orphan hides her youngest's clothes; gives it to her, she says that her wings now smell a man, she will not be taken back, becomes O.'s wife; Karaty Khan demands 1) cause rain; 2) stop it; 3) build a palace out of glass; the wife puts on swan wings, in the sky ties it to birch tree, and then unties a piece of red silk, thereby causing and stopping the rain; tells him to tie a piece of yellow silk with a thread, throw it into the lake to her uncle Uzutu Khan, who sends a palace, O. brings his khan; 4) get an army raging like the Kalchaa-Dalai Sea; his wife sends O. in her clothes to heaven, her mother stands up for O. in front of Kurbusta Khan; he says that the army is in gold chest near the Sun and Moon; O. leads them with an arcana, half of the moon is erased, the Sun is hot; O. tells how bad both once did to him; gets an army, it destroys the evil Karata Khan and his people, O. feasts]: Taube 1978, No. 35:175-186 (=Vatagin 1971, No. 14:130-139); Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1973, No. 1 [=1993, No. 2:37-61; an orphan earned a horse, it was eaten by wolves; takes on argue to cut four plants of firewood in a day; there is not much left, the orphan asks the Sun to hesitate, but the Sun goes down; he works again for a year, receives seed grain, in the fall his harvest has been broken by hail; he goes to the sea fish and catch animals in the snare; sees how 7 swans flew in, took off their clothes, became girls, started swimming; the poor man hides the most beautiful clothes; she asks for return, promises to recognize the kidnapper father, if he is old, husband if young; orphan returns her dress, keeps her handkerchief; everyone admires his wife; so that her husband does not get bored, she paints his portrait for him; he is blown away by the wind, the soldiers bring it Abaahai Khan, who tells me to find a woman; they go into an orphan's house to fry a bird; they keep their eyes on the hostess, the bird is burnt; the hostess makes her unburnt, tells her not to tell me what they were in charge; the bird satisfies the hunger of AH and three soldiers; AH tells them to stay in these places; the next day the soldiers do not look at the woman, they fry the bird, it tastes normal, AH beats them, making them tell everything; locks the orphan and his wife in an iron barn; tells an orphan 1) to bring an angry yellow dog from the east; the wife gives the hook, the orphan pacifies the dog; 2) clear the bottom of the hot hell; the wife gives the red thread to get out of hell; clean hell is impossible, but the orphan offers AH to check for himself, go down; 3) pay tribute from the son of the Star and the son of the Sun; the wife gives a thread to climb into heaven, show her handkerchief to her mother, she recognizes her matchmaker; then the guard comes in, the orphan shakes him off, he falls; after resting with his mother-in-law, the orphan comes to the wife of Zvezda's son, who hides him in a hot cellar; when the son of the Star comes, everything cools down; the son of the Star sends to the son of the Sun; on the way 1) two roosters ask to know why they are fighting; 2) a woman - why she is sitting on the horns of a cow; 3) another woman - why she is lying, water flows into her mouth, flowing out from behind; wife The son of the Sun hides an orphan in a cold cellar; he begged the Sun's son to send him on a daytrip on Altan Sharga's horse instead of himself; at noon he should dine on a silver table with 88 legs; the old man lying face down replies that he is looking at his seven dogs on the ground to show them the cattle they can eat; the orphan breaks his arm, knocks out his eye for what he gave the wolves eating his horse, for which he worked for a year; another old man replies that he is trying to blow back the stone hail and the rain that he lets through the heavenly doors; an orphan beats him, breaks his arm, knocks out his eyes for destroying his crops; in the evening, the son of the Sun gives the orphan a golden cane for AH; says that a woman lying on the ground did not give mothers milk for newborns; another beat a cow milked in honor of the Eastern bunks; the roosters should swing their cane, they will turn into gold and silver; AH wants to kill an orphan, he swings his cane at him and his warriors, they fall dead; the orphan was chosen khan, the daughter of the Tanegeri was khansha]: 29-31; 1993, No. 21 (Yeravninsky district of Buryatia) [the orphan received a pound of grain for his work, he was beaten by hail; for another job he received a foal, he was eaten by a wolf; the third rich man gave a torn net for work; an orphan caught a goldfish, felt sorry for it, lay down on the shore with a fish under his head; woke up in the palace, next to the daughter of the Sun; Khartaganan Khan offers to hide, the winner will receive another's wife; the wife turns the orphan into a cow's last, into a head, into a needle, H. does not find it; tells her husband that H. will turn into a lamb, a horse, a bow; does not advise him to go for the khan's wife ; the orphan still goes, the wife does not tell me to eat, drink or say "yes" there; the orphan violates the prohibitions, agrees to H.'s offer to first return the horse and cast silver saddle from Shara-Hubun; the wife says this impossible; tells her to go to her father to ask for a rainbow; an orphan climbs a mountain, barely alive; comes to the Sun; he sends him around the mountain instead of himself; an orphan in the form of the Sun beats black, then white man; eats what is cooked on the table for the afternoon meal, pushes the table down; the beaten come to complain, but the Sun admits that the son-in-law is right (black beat the crops with hail, the white one let his own dogs, because wolves are orphans for a foal; the father-in-law himself did not help his son-in-law when he climbed the mountain); the orphan receives a rainbow, sees only one horse riding at his former camp, under her wife's letter: she was taken away by H.; an orphan comes to H. in poor clothes, pulls out a rainbow, H. dies immediately; an orphan took his goods and his wife]: 255-269.

Western Siberia. Southern Selkups {probably not Russian, but Turkic-Mongolian influence} [Ivan the Fool mowed the rich man's hay; every time it almost dried up, it rained; man made a smoky fire; God sent an angel to find out who was smoking the sky; he demanded I. to himself; he explained that he was smoking the sky because God was wetting hay; God invited I. to live with him; leaving him animal seeds (sic!) and berries, "so that the poor get sick, the rich get rich"; I. did the opposite, so for three years; God drove I. back to earth]: Porotova 1980:65-67.

Eastern Siberia. Bount Evenks [the sun set before the orphan put a shovel on the rich man's field; the owner gave rotten meat, gave the foal to herd, it was eaten by wolves; he was allowed to plant potatoes, it was beaten by hail; the boy came to the Sun to complain, he agreed to make him an assistant; tells him to go in a cart, eat, wash dishes; the boy eats, does not wash dishes, hits a man on a black horse; the next day he goes The sun, the food is not ready, the dishes are not washed, the friend is beaten; the boy explained that the horse rider was to blame for eating the foal, and the Sun did not let the shock fold; the Sun would leave the boy at home]: Voskoboynikov 1958:84-88.