M57B. The sweat of the Sun and the tears of the Moon .11.19.23.26.29.31.41.52.55.65.
Beads or metals are the bodily secretions of a deity.
Cuba, San Cristobal, Condas, Chuan Miao, Karachays, Scandinavians, Southern Tutchoni, Tagish, Aztecs and others Nahuas, Tarascas, Chontal, Maya Yucatana, Camsa and Ingano, Incas.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Cuba [Woto found a big stone; people said it was God's excrement; V. ordered the stone to be placed in a place of honor in the village; Bumba appeared to him in a dream, praising him for respecting him even to divine excrement; said he would teach you how to use this stone for this; taught me how to extract iron from iron ore]: Torday, Joyce 1910:235.
Melanesia. San Cristobal [shell money is called "blood of the Sun"]: Fox 1924:239.
South Asia. Condas [everyone had a couple and Dinaravenj was alone; Nirantali told him that he would be the first to have all women; he copulates with them in his sleep, then the girl begins her first period; blood from daughters N. Rani-aru and Sona-aru turned into gold and silver]: Elwin 1954, No. 7:476-477.
China - Korea. Chuan Miao: Graham 1954:204-205 [the older brother's wife kicked the youngest out of the house; advises to sow and then burn the vegetation on the plot; only one stalk has grown; it is carried away by a hawk; then he puts the young man on his back, carries it under the star, tells her to collect her bowel movements, it turns out to be gold, the young man returns rich; the elder brother also leaves one stalk on the field; the kite brings it to the star, but burned by the rising sun, flies away; the elder brother collects gold and burns], 205-206 [the eagle brings the poor orphan to the star, he collects her bowel movements, gold, gets rich; invites the rich man to visit; he pretends to be poor, the eagle carries him east; the rich man hesitates to collect more gold, the eagle is burned by the sun that has come out, flies away; the rich man burns].
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays [gold is sunny Kainar's bowel movements, silver is his frozen tears]: Jurtubayev 1991:157.
Baltoscandia. Scandinavians: Younger Edda 1970:33 [Freya married Ode (Ode is a frenzy, poetry; hence the name Odin); Ode has gone on a journey, Freya is crying, her tears are red gold], 72 [gold is called "Freya's tears"].
Subarctic. Southern tutchoni, tagish [Sun excrement is a good luck amulet; a woman saw this substance fall into a pond like a comet; it is a piece of metal]: McClelland 1975 (1): 77.
Mesoamerica The Aztecs and other Nahuas [in Nahua, cóztic teocuitlatl and iztac teocuitlatl (yellow divine excrement and white divine excrement) respectively mean "gold" and" lead"; "mica" is metzcuitlatl, moon excrement, and "lead", temetztli (Florentine Code), is moonstone, but it was also considered moon excrement]: Lopez Austin 1988:69 -70; Tarascas [(after Relación); goddess Xarátanga dedicated silver because they considered gold to be the excrement of the Sun Father and silver to Mother Moon]: Corona Núñez 1957:23; chontal [ The sun is man, gold is its excrement]: Vasquez Davila, Hipolito Hernandez 1994:152; Maya Yucatana [in Yucatec, gold (ta'kin) means sun excrement, lead (ta'ú) - moon excrement]: Lopez Austin 1988:69.
The Northern Andes. Kamsa, ingano [the evil and dangerous Sun man is the father of the Moon Girl; beads are his excrement]: McDowell 1989:110; 1992:101-103.
The Central Andes. Incas: Emmerich 1965 [gold is the sweat of the Sun, silver is the tears of the moon; {the source is not clear to me}]: xix; Las Casas 1892 ["They believe gold is the tears of the sun when the sun cries"]: 99; Lloyd 2016 [that for the Incas, gold was the tears of the sun have Bartolome de las Casas, Cristobal de Molina (El Almagrista) and Crónicas Peruanas de Interés Indígena, Madrid 1998, p. 98].