K21. Once in heaven, she gets married.

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A girl goes to heaven and gets married there.

Zande, Gagauz, Lezgins, Tabasarans, Mordovians, Chukchi, Asian Eskimos, Kuchin, Atna, Upper Tanana, Kutene, Lkungen, Klallam, Twana, Snookualli, Puyallup, Puget Sound, Yakima, Koulitz, Western and Eastern Ojibwa, Steppe Cree, Sheyen, Arapahoe, Pawnee, Wichita, Maidu, Washo, Lacandons.

Sudan - East Africa. Zande [the girl decided to leave her father and find her husband; the amulet (oracles) advised her to wait under the tree; when the thunderstorm begins, the Thunder will descend a rope from the sky and she will be able to take this rope to heaven get up; got up, came to Thunder's wife, who was friendly with her; Thunder broke her to pieces three times, but she immediately became whole; Thunder decided that the girl was good for him, put her in a separate the hut next to the first wife's hut; the girl's father was told by the amulet to turn to the cricket, who would help bring her daughter back; when Thunder came down to the ground, the cricket climbed into heaven on his rope, made a hole in the hut Thunder's new wife; threw mosquitoes so that Thunder moved into his first wife's hut; first the woman let her children's cricket down the hole; answered Thunder that the noise was because she hit mosquitoes; then climbed by herself; the cricket made many moves and Thunder wandered for a long time; came to his new wife's father's house and demanded her back; father: you didn't pay the ransom for your wife; Thunder had to leave]: Evans-Pritchard 1965:73-74 .

Micronesia-Polynesia. Nauru: Permyakov 1970, No. 138 [the older, middle sister has her first period, parents give gifts; when the youngest Aegigu ("eucalyptus") is not given; she leaves, plants a coconut, the tree grows to the sky; comes to a blind old woman in heaven; E. drinks her palm wine; when she takes the second shell with wine, the old woman catches it; E. extracts midges, worms, ants from her eyes, she sees the light; hides from sons; Sun, Thunder come; third son Good Month; marries E., she is visible on the moon disk]: 337-339; DeRoBurt 1968-1976 [Eigigu woman has three daughters; older parents loved and pampered, and the youngest was oppressed {at the end of the story, the youngest is named Eigigu}; the youngest planted a walnut on the shore, a sprout made its way, she watered it and the tree grew to the sky; she named it Deigimadere; she climbed it; her mother and sisters asked her to come back, but she refused and went to heaven; saw a blind woman making syrup in coconut shells; counting out loud there are 10 of them; the girl stole one, drank syrup; when she reached for the second, the old woman caught her; first tickled her and then promised to eat it; said that she did not need a maid; it was another matter if the girl did it sighted; she uttered the magic word and the old woman's eyes opened; various flies and ants came out of there and the old woman saw the light; immediately fell in love with the girl; her son Thunder came first; the thunder was his voice, out of her eyes Lightning flew out; he smelled the man, but the old woman hid the girl until the Thunder fell asleep; the same with her second son, the Sun (he is terribly hot); the third, Month, is benevolent and pleasant; the girl chose him as her husband ; they can now be seen together in the night sky; Eigigu is sitting in front of their house waving to her sisters and mother; she is a happy woman on the moon].

The Balkans. Gagauz people [the master has three daughters, he is looking for someone to herd his horses; the eldest daughter is coming, the father turned to a bear, went out to meet him, the girl ran home; the middle one; the youngest goes for advice to the old woman; she tells the horses to give hot coals, take the one that will eat them; the skinny mare began to eat, the girl sat on it, was going to shoot the bear; her father blessed her to herd horses for three years; The sun falls in love with her, but does not understand whether she is a girl or a man; the mother of the Sun advises her to see how she urinates and what things she buys at the bazaar; the girl urinates like a man, takes only things for men; three years later she shows Soltsy her chest and braid; the mother of the Sun advises to put a gold swing; the girl sat on her, the Sun raised her; the palm advised the girl to remain silent for seven years; then the Sun took another bride; she tells her to be the first to bring a sieve from Mother Sunday; Sunday sends by Friday, she sends by Wednesday, Wednesday says that the sieve took the hobur; hobur tells me to play the violin, goes for with a sieve, but in fact, sharpen her teeth; the mouse volunteered to jump on the strings, run; the hobur killed the mouse, chases after him; the girl threw the canvas (river; hobur put one lip to the ground, the other to the sky, drank water) , a brush (forest), a stone (rocky place, hobur can't cross); the girl brought a sieve; the second bride: you, dumb, bring her a pot; girl: to take away your tongue; the sun slaughtered the ram, heard rushed to the girl, her hands were covered in blood; the girl became a swallow, the second bride was a goat, both went through the pipe, the Sun still did not marry]: Moshkov 1904, No. 30:42-44.

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; the girl enters the same house; the owner shows her all but one of the rooms; she steals keys, unlocks the room; there are vessels, in one rain falling to the ground, the other is snow, in the third 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 go down the chain (or rope), but the chain cut short, 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.

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; 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.

SV Asia. Chukchi: Belikov 1982:138-149 [The 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; The Spider tells her that her husband will lead her monsters to eat, tells her to sew new torbaza, throw her in front of the hole; the husband rushes after him, the Spider takes the woman to heaven, the husband is angry rushes into a hole, eaten; in the sky, kele catches the souls of earthly people on the hook; Kele's wives tell a woman to hide in the house of the Sunny Woman; she burns kele when she looks at him; Sunny Woman gives an earthly look into boxes, each one can see the earth at different times of the year; a woman pours water, snow, it rains and snows on the ground; sees her home; the Sun returns her to earth to her parents], 167-169 [four Brothers hunt deer, some eat cooked meat; when the younger one remains guarded, a skeleton woman enters, tells her to overlay her with meat, turns into a woman, the youngest marries her; the eldest also wants to her; the woman rejects the youngest, hits the board, kills, hides, the elder finds the body; the spider tells the woman that the elder grows worms in the pit to throw them to eat; the woman suggests to the brothers try on ritual gloves, a spider lifts her up]; Van Deusen 1999 [three brothers notice that this skeleton is stealing from their house; they catch him, he turns out to be a girl, one of the brothers marries her; she is dead; one day, when there were no others, the third brother died, the wife put her body on a shelf to dry her skins; two brothers returned and decided to push her into a hole in the hearth; the Spider told her to grab hold of web, raised to the upper world]: 39-40.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos: Baboshina 1958, No. 69 [a girl approaches the yaranga of two brothers, eats there, leaves; then sews pants; the eldest remains guarded, finds a girl, marries; one day the youngest began to bother her, she stabbed him in the throat, hid his body; her brother found him; began to feed worms in a pit; pushed his wife, but she grabbed the web and disappeared into the sky; she was sitting with God in yaranga, he pushed his skin off the floor, the ground could be seen; the girl began to cry, it rained on the ground, her mother quickly began to collect the hides that had been hung to dry; the girl went down the web back to her yaranga]: 170-173; Menovshchikov 1974 (Sireniki) [five hunting brothers live together; a girl who refused to marry comes when they are not there, steals meat; the youngest stays on guard, catches the girl, marries her the eldest; the youngest bothers her, she swings, accidentally kills him with a knife, hides him; the eldest finds the body; the brothers grow two worms in the pit; The spider warns the woman, tells him to sew a torbaza, promises embroider them; on the edge of the pit, the husband examines the camp; when he pushes a woman, the Spider picks her up, the husband jumps into the hole himself out of annoyance, is eaten], No. 25:121-123; (=1985, No. 71:157-159); Rubtsova 1954, No. 13 (Chaplino) [ the girl does not marry, her father drives her to look for a groom; she meets five brothers, marries an older one; gives birth to a son and a daughter; her husband's brother bothers her, she swings a knife, accidentally kills him; hides the corpse on the scaffolding; blood drips, the husband finds the corpse; the Spider warns that the brothers feed the caterpillars with deer meat in the pit; tells them to grab the web when the husband collides it into a hole; woman rises to heaven; it is taken by a man, whose objects move at will; when he leaves, he tells him not to untie the bag, not to look into the small yaranga; fox wool falls out of the bag (not shove back, the husband puts it back when he returns); opens boxes, there are whales, walruses; there are half (vertically) of a woman in yaranga, she immediately falls, the fire burns the heroine; the husband returns everything to its place; a woman gives birth to a son, a daughter; a husband pushes a stone, conversations can be heard through a hole in Chaplino; a woman cries, it is raining on the ground; a husband lowers his wife and daughter on a belt to the ground to her parents, leaves her son yourself]: 183-191.

Subarctic. Kuchin [two sisters shake their younger brother on the swing; he falls into the river, drowns; frightened of his parents' anger, the sisters leave; Lasky kidnap the youngest, the eldest finds her; the sisters get to the Spider; Her two sons follow the sun every day; they are considered girls' husbands, but do not sleep with them or take food from their hands; despite warning, sisters move a stone; see their house through the hole on to the ground; the Spider agrees to lower them; tells them not to cut the rope on the ground, otherwise it will die; when her sons cause a storm, the sisters must turn their bare backs to the wind; the sisters do so, the wind subsides; Wolverine promises to show them the way home if one of them lies down with him; sisters push him into the river, come home]: McKennan 1965:136-137; atna [two sisters discover that parents They've gone somewhere; the Camprobber bird tells them to follow a narrow path; the older sister insists on walking the wide one; they come to an old man who cooks his eyes; he kills his older sister with a hot iron ; the youngest runs away, saying that she is going out of need; throws a comb and other objects (without details), they turn into a thicket, a mountain, etc.; the Spider hides her under her bed; kills the pursuer; moves a stone, a hole under it, you can see the girl's parents through it below; a spider lowers her on a rope]: Smelcer 1997:65-68; tanana [the little boy wants a butterfly; his two sisters are going to catch it; one comes back, the other goes after the butterfly, comes to the old woman; she hides it in the bag of one of her sons; they come back, the youngest finds the girl, marries her; the old woman tells her not to move the flat stone in the corner of the house; the girl moves it, sees her house through a hole in the sky; wants to go home; the old woman weaves a rope, lowers her daughter-in-law down; she opens her eyes, gets stuck in a cloud; next time she goes down to lands; the old woman was a Spider; when she was killed, rain clouds appeared in the afternoon]: De Laguna, De Armond 1995, No. 11:142-146; Upper Tanana: Brean 1975 [two sisters follow a butterfly, they are lost; at the fork, the youngest suggests walking along a straight and narrow path, the eldest suggests following the wide left; they go to the left, come to the old man; in the evening they see him sharpening knives and spears; at night they ask permits to go out, he ties ropes to them; they tie them to a stump, run; the Red Fox carries them across the river, they give him a necklace; he throws the old stalker into the water; he gets out; The spider hides her sisters, points his finger at the old man, the Old Man crumbles into a pile of bones; the sisters turn each bone into a kind of berry; when they return, the sons of the Spider began to quarrel over who would get it girls; The spider pushed the stump away, the sisters saw the ground through the hole; the Spider lowers them on a web to the outskirts of their village; says that if it snows fluffy, it means she died; in winter it snowed, girls regretted the Spider]: 17-19; Kari 1996 [two girls follow butterflies, find themselves in the sky; old Chikadi tells me to walk along a narrow path, not to walk along a wide path; sisters argue at the fork, the eldest makes you walk along a wide path; they see a platform with cut dog carcasses barking on it; "Damn" next to him, an old woman lives across the street; at night she whispers to the youngest that the eldest Devil will kill; in the hearth hot iron penis, Devil puts it into the eldest's vagina, she dies, The devil covers her with a blanket; pretends to be sleeping; the youngest asks out of need, the devil offers her palm, head, but the girl replies that she does not want to get her father dirty; the devil ties a rope to her; the old woman secretly gives moose fat and a stone scraper; the girl ties the rope to the stump, tells him to answer for himself; The devil drags in a stump for the rope, chases, the girl tells the fat to become a lake; then the scraper is a mountain; The devil goes around the lake, drills a hole through the mountain with an iron penis; by the river, the girl promises Lisa to paint her ocher, she transports it on her tail {it's not clear - with her tail stretched out like a bridge or the girl sits Lisa east}, since then the foxes are red; the same by the second river, the girl has been painting the Fox with charcoal, since then {black and brown } foxes are black; Damn goes into the water but comes back; the girl comes to the mother of the Sun; she hides her in a box of thread and needles; answers the Devil that no one was there; Damn is going to stick it in her ass a hot iron penis, but she melted the Line by looking at it; the girl tells the blood to become cranberry on tall bushes {in Alaska, cranberry is not our cranberries, but similar in taste and outwardly red berries on tall bushes}, waist - cranberry on low bushes, penis - mushrooms among cranberries, testicles with salmonberry berries (Rubus spectabilis, raspberries are excellent), bones - dog rose hips (Rosa canina) and bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), the brain is a silver sucker; berries have existed since then; two sons of a Sun woman came, married a girl; she misses relatives on earth; the mother of the Sun tells me to move the stones away from the hearth; the girl sees her mother and relatives below on the ground; the mother of the Sun says that if it snows sleet, you should put his ass in his ass and say "The dog took.." (the informant does not remember the meaning); lets the girl down on the web; the mother of the Sun is the Spider; (further it is not entirely clear: Wolverine either raped the girl or is trying to do it; Herbal People (Grass Tussock People) hide her); she comes to her mother; it's snowing, she said, "Take the dog.. ", it's sunny]: 23-33; McKennan 1959 [two sisters follow a butterfly, go to heaven; Chickady tells them to follow a narrow path; the older sister insists on walking the wide one; they come to the old man, he cooks a dog's eye, a man; kills his older sister by inserting the hot tip of a spear into her vagina; the youngest runs away; throws fat, a pebble, a lock of hair, they turn into a lake, a mountain, a forest; a fox transports the girl across the lake, she gives him red paint; the Spider hides her in a bag; carrying the Old Man, the Fox dumps him into the water; he gets ashore, wants the Spider to give him the girl; she looks at it into a pile of bones; each bone turns into a special kind of berry; Spider's eldest son marries a girl; she wants to go home; the Spider pushes a stone in the corner of the house; you can see through the hole girl's house; a girl wraps a rope out of her tendons, goes down to the ground; her husband kills Spider for helping his wife escape; a storm begins; the girl returns home]: 199-203.

The coast is the Plateau. Kutene [a girl wants a weak star as her husband; wakes up in the sky next to an old man; he forbids digging tubers under a tree; she digs, sees her relatives below; she goes down to the ground along a rope; the next night, the Star kills her]: Boas 1917, No. 70:247-249; lkungen [two sisters sleep outside; the eldest wants a bright Jupiter as her husband, the youngest is reddish Mars; the stars take them to heaven; Jupiter's eyes are inflamed; husbands are not told to dig up rhizomes; the eldest violates the ban, makes a hole in the sky, sees the house; sisters go down the rope, return to her mother]: Boas 1895, No. 2:62-63; clallam [two girls sleep outside; the eldest wants a bright, younger, dim star as her husband; the stars take them to the sky, the dim one turns out to be handsome; a hot fire is burning in the sky, the sisters throw them at him algae, getting cooler; sisters walk between crush rocks, avoid other dangers; find a hole in the sky; weave a rope from cedar paws, go down to the ground]: Gunther 1925:135-136; twana [two sisters want a star to be husbands; wake up in the sky; want to come back; dig a hole through the sky, go down a rope; one of them gives birth to a son; two girls who have come from salmon milk, they kidnap him with a rotten deck in his cradle; the shaman turns her into a boy; Blue Jay flies under the descending and rising (sky?) , his head becomes flat; finds the kidnapped; he is already an adult man, married to his kidnappers; sea fish, Cedar, Spruce his children; returns to the earthly world; makes the Raven black; runs away from people setting fire to the ground; turns a swimming child into a loon, a Deer into a deer, a Beaver into a beaver, a monster and a menstruating girl into rocks, drowns a witch; turns into a Month, his brother (from a rotten deck) - in the Sun]: Elmendorf 1961, No. 5:32-37; Snookwell: Elmendorf 1961, No. 4 [one sister likes a bright star, the other has a dim star; bright red eyes; husbands carry sisters to heaven; they dig in hole, go down a rope to the ground; one gives birth to a son, the other daughter; a star father kidnaps his son from the cradle, putting a rotten deck in return; hides the baby in the north behind descending and rising ( firmament?) ; many birds fail, a little bird brings the boy back; the star's son marries a star; she fills women's baskets with berries and roots]: 27-31; Haeberlin 1924, No. 2 [one sister likes a white, another red star; both wake up in the sky; the Red Star has sore eyes; husbands forbid digging a deep root; after the birth of a boy, one of the sisters dig up a root, in A hole forms in the sky; sisters and boy descend on a rope; ask a blind toad woman to watch the child; he is stolen; Blue Jay flies to the country of salmon, slipping between the crushing rocks; returns with the boy; he grows up, creates rivers, mountains, animals; his name is Shvek ^u], 2a [as in 2, three sisters, the youngest stays on earth; the monstrous woman Scully and her two daughters a child is kidnapped; his name is Arch Hade, he later becomes a Month]: 373-375; puyallup [five sisters sleep in the open air; the youngest wants a bright star for her husband, the eldest is dim (the rest are intermittently); wake up in the sky; the youngest's husband is an old man with sore eyes, the eldest is young; sisters dig roots, make a hole in the sky, go down a rope from their bast, return home]: Adamson 1934:356; Puget Sound [two sisters dig the roots of a fern, stay overnight on the prairie; one wants a white star as her husband, the other a red star; when they wake up, they are in the sky; a white star - old man, red - young; husbands do not tell me to dig deep roots; the older sister is pregnant, the youngest is sitting by the smoke hole so as not to see her cry because she has an old husband; when the boy grew up, he dug a hole, from there the wind, the husbands immediately felt it, but the women managed to close the hole; they weaved the rope and went down with the child; while everyone was swinging on the rope, and An old toad looks at the child, the boy was stolen by the salmon (this is the next Month); the mother found a rotten tree in the cradle, moistened the diaper, squeezed it five times, a second boy appeared (the future Sun); yellow woodpecker goes looking for the Month, can not pass between the crushing rocks; the same another woodpecker, raven, osprey; the blue jay flew by; the month promised to come later; inserted a stick between the rocks so that the blue jay could slip back; A month married to a woman who is one of the salmon; his son does not want to let him go; Month: a new generation is coming, and you (i.e. salmon) will be food; The month was first mistaken, telling the salmon to go down, only then did he tell me to go up; meets people fighting; What are you doing? - We fight; he turned them into birds and stones; turned little slaves into snipes; fishermen and people in the swamp into two types of ducks; people on the beach into oysters; people know that the Month changes the nature of people they meet, they want it kill; others argue about day and night, some want light and darkness every day, bear wants day and night to last for a year; now the bear sleeps all winter; the deer makes the tip of a spear; Month: what are you doing? - I want to kill the Transformer; Month: If you're a deer, they'll eat you; Norka argues with the Month who is who; Norka could not change the Month, and he turned it into a stick; he's Mink again; The Month cut him - the current minks turned out; four women drag each other by the hair; - We train to pull onions; The month turned them into 4 types of edible plants; made a man on the lake a beaver; carrying salmon - otter; Wild Cat roasts salmon, fell asleep; He ate everything for a month, the leftovers are in his face, now it has stripes, he has become a cat; 5 brothers are playing: fire, fire! It's all on fire; the trail: here, my grandson! but the quiver of the Month is burnt; across the river, old man Echo; only repeats: bring a boat! The month has passed by itself, began to fight Echo; bird: take the Echo giblets that hang on the wall of the dugout; the Echo echoed; the blue heron uses its head as a hammer, because stones and sticks alive; The Month made them with stones and sticks, made the Heron of Herons; The month gathered everyone to determine who should shine during the day and who should shine at night; tried the yellow hammer, but there is little light; the raven, the coyote, woodpecker is dark; hummingbirds are better, but the day is very short; younger brother The sun offered to be the sun for the Month, but it is too hot, the water is boiling; the Sun has begun to shine during the day, the Month at night; the old toad woman is now visible at night on the disc of the Month; the rope on which they swayed was up to the sky; Month: you can climb; but the Rat gnawed it, the Month turned it into a rat; the rocks on the mountain were transformed people; the Indians were relatives Months]: Ballard 1929:68-80; Clark 1953 (puyallup) [older sister gives birth to a son when she returns to earth]: 143-146; cowlitz [two sisters look at the sky; the eldest wants a bright, younger dim star in husbands; wake up in the sky; a bright star is young, a dim old man; husbands do not tell wives to dig a deep root; they dig up, make a hole in the sky, from there the wind blows; sisters go down root rope; the eldest with the boy she was born; see motif A23]: Adamson 1934:269-271; yakima: Beavert 1974 [five virgins live with their grandparents; grandfather does not tell me to sleep on their backs while looking to the stars; the older two do it, the youngest of the two wants a bright husband, the oldest a dim star; the youngest X áfash wakes up next to the young, the oldest Y á slaams - with an old man; sisters dig roots, make a hole alone, see the ground; they weave a rope from climbing plants; the youngest goes down, the eldest falls and breaks when her husband cuts the rope; the youngest gives birth to a shining boy; this is the North Star; the Coyote and others want to kill him, but he wins everyone; looks at the girl, she gets pregnant and gives birth; amniotic fluid has become soda sources; she threw a baby at the North Star, the abandoned one tore off the young man's leg; standing on one leg, the North Star always spins in one place]: 188-192; Hines 1992, No. 49 []: 141-146; Hines 1992, No. 49 [mother sends two daughters to dig roots; they sleep outside, the youngest Yas-lum-mas wants a red star as her husband, offers her sister Tah Pal-Meadow a bright one; The stars take both to heaven; Y. old man, T. is young; husbands do not tell you to dig deep when collecting roots; T. digs, the wind blows into the resulting hole, husbands feel it; sisters weave a rope from hazel root, go down to the ground; T. child, Golden Boy (ZM); a woman from the east comes when a blind grandmother (mother of sisters) rocks the baby; replaces him with a rotten snag; a rope descending from the sky, which served as a swing, immediately tears; sisters soak and squeeze dada (diapers?) , make them a new boy; Blue Jay gets east to a place where the ground rises and falls; flies through the crack, only the feathers of his crest are touched; ZM is already a man, making arrows, throws flint fragments into Blue Jay; he talks about what happened, ZM removes the fragments from the wounds; the wife leaves their son to watch his father; he leaves his hair responsible for himself, along with the Blue Jay returns home; becomes the Sun, brother Month made of diapers; Europeans descend from ZM's remaining son in the east]: 141-146.

The Midwest. Eastern ojibwa (timagami) [one girl wants a white star as her husband, the other a red star; they wake up in the sky; a white star is an old man, a red star is a young star; an old woman sits on a hole in the sky ( Pleiades); invites girls to weave a rope; husbands help them go down; they get to the top of the tree; promise to marry whoever brings them down to the ground; Bear, Lynx can't, Wolverine lowers; they They send him to bring a ribbon tied to a branch, run away; they spend the night with the Woodpecker, who does not sleep with them; three types of ducks cannot transport them across the river; the Toadstool carries them, marries them; they find out that Toadstool is a jester, Loon is the leader; they go to the Loon; The Toadstool throws hot flints into the mouth of the sleeping Loon, killing him; ties a bag of rabbit blood to his stomach, simulates suicide; people reveal deception, chase Toadstool; he turns them into ducks]: Speck 1915d, No. 5:47-53; Western Ojibwa [two Stupid Girls look at the starry sky, want Stars to be husbands; wake up in the sky, husbands are nearby; old woman helped they ran, lowering them in the basket through the hole; due to their carelessness, they found themselves in the hawk's nest; Wolverine lowered them, they deceived him, ran away; they got to the Dive; he pretended to be the Man with Wampum, Loon; they watched their husband play the role of a jester in Loon's house and went to Loon; the Dive killed him by putting a hot stone down his sleeper's throat, ran into the sea; people told the leeches to dry the sea, but the Dive ripped their bellies open with a flintlock knife; the sea spilled back and everyone drowned]: Jones 1916, No. 15a: 371; Western Ojibwa [two stupid girls look at the stars, one wants to sleep with a white one, the other with red star; they find themselves in the sky, the red star is young, the white star is old; the old woman shows them a hole, they see their village, they want to go home, they weave a rope, it's short, they go down into the empty eagle's nest in the tree; Bear, Bison, Coyote refuse to let them down; Wolverine lowers, copulates with them, puts them back; so long; Wolverine's wife comes; girls promise her hot lover, she changes places with them, they run away; Wolverine copulates with her female; they decide both are equally ugly and should live together]: Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:158-161; Steppe Cree [ the older sister wants a bright, younger dim star as her husband; both wake up in the sky; the husband of the youngest young, the eldest gray; the stars leave home at night; the old woman advises the sisters to dig up a root that grows where there is bison droppings; under it there is a hole in the sky; sisters go down a rope; the old woman tells the eldest to blindfold not to open it before reaching the ground; she peeks, the rope breaks, the sisters fall to the top trees; Bear, Lynx can't take them off, they don't want them to be wives; Wolverine takes off, but the older sister falls, breaks her leg above the knee; sisters turn Wolverine into a wolverine; at night by the fire, the eldest cuts off his leg, sharpens the broken bone, calls the youngest My Husband; The tit tells the youngest to run north; the Bear, the Lynx, the Great Serpent cannot help them, the older sister kills them with her sharp with his foot; a one-legged man cuts an ice-hole in the lake; agrees to help his younger sister when she calls him brother; kills his older sister by dropping a stone on her; see below the story Bison Kidnaps Woman]: Bloomfield 1930, No. 34:326-332

The Great Plains. The Northern Shayens [two girls look at the stars; the first wants a bright star to be her husband, the second is ordinary; the porcupine lures the first to a tree, from there to the sky, turns into a middle-aged man, takes a girl as his wife; tells her not to dig a white tuber; she digs it up, sees her house on the ground through the hole; she goes down the grass rope; she is short, the girl falls, breaks; the Skylark woman finds a boy in her womb, raises him; he comes to his maternal grandmother; lets the water monster swallow himself, cuts him from the inside, releases swallowed people; in another village, the white Raven drives away buffalo from hunters, humans starve; Shooting Star pretends to be a dead bison, catches the Raven, smokes it to death in the chimney; marries]: Grinnell 1921:308-312 in Edmonds, Clark 1989:188-192; Pawnee : Dorsey 1904b, No. 16 (skidi) [two girls sleep outside; one wishes a bright star as her husband; wakes up in the sky, a middle-aged man with her; he asks her to dig roots in the hills, but not in the valley; she violates the ban, sees his house on the ground through a hole; weaves a rope from her tendons, goes down with his young son; her husband hits her with lightning; she falls dead, her son remains alive; since then he has there is a picture of a star on his forehead; he steals corn and pumpkins from the witch's garden; she is happy to be his teacher; her snake husband wants to eat it; the young man throws a bag of corn into the house in front of him, the snake bites the bag; he kills the snake, the corpse turns into the witch's husband; the young man kills cougars, bears, snakes or brings them to the witch alive; she lets them go; he comes to the village; returns to heaven becoming a star]: 60-65; 1906, No. 13 (kitkehahki) [two girls sleep outside, one wants a star for her husband; wakes up in the sky; gives birth to a son; husband tells you to be careful when digging roots; she digs, holes in the sky, does a rope made of tendons; descends, taking her son with him; hangs before reaching the ground; the husband kills her with a stone, she falls to the ground; the son sucks the chest of a dead mother, then comes to the old woman who has a grandson of those The same years; the grandmother does not tell them to go in a certain direction, they go, lightning kills monsters that threaten them; the bear; they make a scarecrow, scare their grandmother; another monster (not described); they kill cougars and others themselves dangerous animals; come to people; Star Boy disappears (probably returned to heaven)]: 56-58; arpaho [A month hears one girl expressing a desire to marry him and another wanting to be a husband a bright star; his brother The Sun prefers the Frog because it does not wrinkle her eyes when looking at him; The month turns into a porcupine, the girl follows him, climbs a tree, goes to the sky; the Sun brings A frog; wives compete to see who chews louder; the frog crunches with coals, black drools; she jumps on the chest of the Month; the Month warns the wife not to dig a deep hole by digging roots; she digs a hole in the sky sees her native village; weaves a rope from her tendons, climbs down it; see motif J18]: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 134:321-329; wichita [a girl looks at the sky, wants a star for her husband, prefers a bright one dim; wakes up next to the old man; she is not told to move a stone; she breaks the ban, sees the ground through the hole; wraps a rope out of the grass, goes down; the rope only lasts to the top of the tree; The vulture puts the girl on her back, brings her to her parents; since then, people don't count stars at night]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 57:298-299.

California. Maidu [texts recorded 50 years apart are almost identical]: Dixon 1912, No. 10 [after coming of age dancing, two girls sleep outside, dreaming of their star husbands; eldest I wanted a bright red star as my husband, the youngest wanted a blue star; in the morning they did not pierce their ears, did not swim to wash away evil; the next night they find themselves in heaven with their husbands; Red eats only hearts, Blue - fat; everyone gives birth to a child; wives tell husbands that children want to play with tendons, weave a rope from their tendons, go down; husbands cut the rope, women break; brothers find them, put them in water, they come to life]: 183-189; Shipley 1991 [daughter's mother: If you dream of something bad, you have to pierce your earlobes and take a dip, then the bad will not come true; two girls dreamed of star people, but not swam in the river; they lie and look at the stars; one would like to be near a bright red star, the other with a blue star; in the morning they were in the sky next to their husbands; the youngest reproaches the eldest for all this through her fault; everyone gives birth to a child; they tell their husbands that children want to play with tendons; weave a rope; leaving the children, they climbed down; the children began to cry; one of the husbands went to find out what was going on, saw the rope and cut it off; the women fell and died; one of the brothers found them; they were put in water and by morning they came to life; the youngest says that the red husband ate only hearts, and the blue man ate fat; each of the star men eats only one food]: 141-146.

The Big Pool. Washo: Curtis 1976 (15) [The grandfather of the two sisters rejects all kinds of plant food they collect; they go to bed in the open; the youngest wants a white star, the eldest, the eldest, to be her husband offers red; stars take sisters to heaven; red turns out to be the Sun, white is the Month; younger sister (wife of the Month) says her husband does not hunt, but bites meat like a coyote, it's bad; the eldest invites her to her place; while digging roots, the youngest pokes an anthill with a stick, making a hole, the sisters see her grandfather below; the eldest asks her husband to collect the tendons that their child wants to play with; they weave a rope, start going down; the child is offended that his mother does not take him, tells his father, the Sun cuts the rope, both women fall, die]: 154-156; Dangberg 1927, No. 5 [grandfather catches fish, eats good food]: 154-156; Dangberg 1927, No. 5 [grandfather catches fish, eats good food himself, second-rate, feeds two granddaughters; they decide to leave; lie down, admire the stars; the eldest says that she wants a bright husband, the youngest says that she wants her husband to be dim ("with small eyes like herself"); The stars take them to heaven; one gives birth to a child; one husband brings venison to his wife, the other gives his own kidneys under the guise of game; contrary to the ban, sisters try each other's food; dig lily tubers; Stars forbid wives dig bulbs on an anthill; they dig up, making a hole in the sky; they see their grandfather from above, who is still calling the eldest named (Hélida); they go down a rope of tendons; their baby cries; mother unties him, he flies back to heaven; tells the Stars about his escape; one of the husbands cuts the rope; women fall on their grandfather, killing him]: 433-439 (=1928:90-98).

Mesoamerica Lacandons [Kin Chob marries and brings his wife to heaven where he lives; tells his first wife to guard the new one; an earthly woman descends, her husband cuts the rope, the woman falls, breaks ]: Boremanse 1989:88.