Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

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K19D. A man is freezing in the sky. 72.

Once in the sky, the star's husband suffers from the cold. He freezes to death or dies when he touches the forbidden fire.

Maka, matako, toba, mokowi.

Chaco. Maca: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 84 [the wife does not like an ugly husband; he looks at the sky, wants a little star as his wife; when hunting, she injures a deer, he turns into a woman, she says and there is the Star he wanted; in the form of a firefly, hides in her husband's bag; opens up to his relatives after her husband's younger sister tried to look into her bag (The star hurt her eyes with something, then cured); when the season for collecting algarrobo pods (Prosopis nigra) is over, she leads her husband to collect them, moistens his eyes with his urine, then he sees pods on the trees; the same, the Star leads collecting other women's algarrobo beans also moistens their eyes; takes her husband to heaven to his Frost father; when he admits that her husband is sleeping with her, the father-in-law scratches his son-in-law's body with bones for ritual scars, he dies of blood loss; father-in-law tells his daughter to step on his grave, gives the comb to comb the corpse, the son-in-law revives handsome; father-in-law warns that on earth the former wife will pull man to herself, but the spouses still return to earth; the sister of the former wife sees that the man has become handsome; the star and the man's ex-wife pull him in different directions, tear him in half; Star revives it by stepping on it; the next night, the same thing, cannot be revived again; the star returns to heaven, telling her husband's relatives to stock up firewood; the rest of the inhabitants of the village of Frost kills cold; the Sun visits Frost, he gives him fish; he visits the Sun himself, he gives him an Algarrobo bean], 85 [the wife leaves her ugly husband; he looks at the sky at night, wants Foteki Morning Star as his wife; when hunting, she wounds a deer, who turns into a woman, she says that F. is; becomes a saint, tells a man to hide it in his bag; his mother hears at night that her son is a woman; younger sister tries to look into the bag, a needle falls out, stabs it in the eye; F. heals her eye, remains human; smears her husband, mother-in-law's eyes with urine, they now see fruits on the tree that they have not seen before; raises her husband to visit his father-in-law in heaven; it's cold there; F.'s father is also a star; for a long time F. replies to him that her husband did not copulate with her; finally he confesses; he calls his son-in-law, pierces him with sharp bones, his son-in-law dies from loss of blood; after a while, the father-in-law tells the daughter to step on the grave, the husband gets up; the wife combs the half-decayed corpse, it comes to life, becomes handsome; father-in-law visits the Sun man; son-in-law misses the land; father-in-law tells her daughter that she will be able to revive her husband one more time in the same way as she has already done; the spouses return to earth; the former wife sees that he has become handsome; together comes with his sisters for him; F. and his former wife pull him in different directions, tear him in half; F. revives him; the next night, F. cannot revive her husband again; returning to heaven, tells him her husband's family should stock up on firewood, because her father will send cold as punishment; father-in-law kills the rest of the village with cold]: 179-186, 187-191; matako [the star visits an ugly young man, then takes him to the sky; it's cold there; contrary to the prohibition, a person comes to the fire, dies]: Calífano 1974 [a star goes to heaven, a man follows her]: 49-50; Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 7 [a star throws it to the ground bones], 8 [the star's father devours her husband; his spirit becomes an owl]: 47-49; toba [(Metraux 1946e: 42-46; p. 46: this myth in various versions is the most popular in Chaco, first told); star returns to heaven taking a man with him; it's cold there; you can't approach fire]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 10 [a man born in a pot lived with the owner of the pot away from the others; grew up, saw star, wished to be his wife; at midnight, the female star touched his hand, his hand froze, the young man thought it was a toad; in the morning the women went to collect wild fruits; the star found out that there was a vegetable garden, but it was dry and nothing grows; if desired, stars grew and ripened on it corn, pumpkins, beans, melons, watermelons; she ordered to eat, casting a spell, whoever did not listen, his fruits are bitter; if she so wishes, on Algarrob full of pods; the wife allows her husband to go to heaven, tells her to eat everything she cooks, not to touch the fire; the husband sat by the fire, he blazed, burned; the wife sent her husband to the ground, he told how the sky is cold], 11 [Kopilačaralat ("spitting vessel") - the son of an old woman Halsiya; went with the women to pick fruit for his mother; the women wiped snot on his hair, spit on his head, only one regretted; then they gave fruit, he brought them to his mother; on the lake he rubbed his face and hands with charcoal, covered himself with stems, the birds were not afraid, he shot them a lot; now women look at him with interest, but that's it But they shy away, since he is covered in snot; K. caught a lot of fish; at night he wished a star as his wife; she went down, he brought her home; she turned him handsome; according to her, melons appeared in the empty garden pumpkins, corn; Padenik also got a vegetable garden because he was a relative of a woman who did not spit on K.; K. insisted on going to heaven with his wife; climbed Guayacum officinale L. the sky is a bird spewing fire from the mouth; the star has forbidden touching this bird (aka fire) and the ice pot; K. is freezing; across the lake bridge, below palometas, they will eat the fallen; the wife descends K. back to the ground, comes back on her own; marries a woman who didn't spit on him], 12 [a man touches the fire, burns, returns to the ground], 13 [a person touches the fire, dies, a star throws his dice to the ground]: 51-53, 54-59, 60-61, 61-62; 1989a, No. 36 [the star's husband is a shaman; because of the cold he returns to earth], 37 and 39 [a man dies from the cold, a star throws his dice to the ground], 38 [when a person touches fire, a huge bird eats it], 40 [a single man copulates with a vessel, children appear there; every night one of them looks at the sky, dreams of marrying a star; A star descends; next time he wants to go to heaven with her; she warns that there is no fire there; he insists; the sky is cold; he sees fire, but his wife explains that it is a creature that looks like crow, it devours people; man returns to earth], 41 [heavenly fire is a bird; it devours man; his bones are thrown to the ground], 42 (eastern) [Venus went down to the shaman, offered to take him to her in heaven; he took off, stayed with her, but her house was very cold; she sent him to get fire to Old Man; only he had fire, the shaman warmed up, brought food for himself and his wife], 119 [man looks to heaven, wants a star to be his wife; the star has descended, sleeps with him at night, turns into a ray of light during the day, he hides it in his pocket; the star wife plants seeds, from which corn, beans, pumpkins grow; she teaches people farming]: 57-58, 59, 59-60, 61-62, 63-64, 65-66, 67-68, 176; mocovi: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 18 [The morning star fell in love with a young man; came every night, left in the morning; he wants She does not recommend getting up with her; one day she left at midnight, warning him not to touch the coals; he is cold, he makes a fire and burns without a trace], 19 [as in (18), briefly]: 43-45.