A2. Several suns. .21.-.26.29.34.36.37.48.53.65.

There was a time when several, i.e. more than two, suns shone in the sky at the same time.

Tibetan (Amdo), Qiang, Limbu, Mishmi, Kachin, Shan, Bulang, Thai, Black Thai of Laos, Thai of Vietnam, Cham, Khmer, Ancient India, Barela-Bhilala, Nepali, Sinhalese, Baiga, Konda, Muria, Oraon, Sora, Birhor, Santal, Mundari, Semang (Jehai, Kintak, Senoi (Sakai), Temuan (Mantra), Batak, Mentawai, Java, Dusun, Kelabit, Western and Eastern Toraja, Solor, Alor and/or adjacent islands, Tagalog, Puyuma (Sedek), Ancient China, Chinese (Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, Sichuan), Miao, Yao, Meo, Man, Achan, Lolo, Lahu, Lisu, Hani, Dun, Gelao, Li, Georgians, Tuvans, Altaians, Transbaikal Buryats, Khamnigans(?), Oirats (incl. Torguts), Darkhats, Mongols (Khalkha, central Mongolia), Mongors, Evenks of China, Nivkhs, Orochs, Ulchi, Udege, Nanai, Negidals, Shasta, Jikaque, Quechua (incl. Huanka) in the departments of Ancash, Junin and Huancavelica.

Tibet – Northeast India. Tibetans (Amdo) [when the time of the end of the earth comes, 6 suns will appear, which will burn everything on the earth; then 12 moons, which will send rains; the rains will wash away and level everything; sinners will burn, the souls of the righteous will be taken to the kingdom of tengirs]: Bennigsen 1912: 12-13; qiang [9 suns scorch the earth; an older brother and younger sister were saved in the hollow of a cypress tree; when the disaster was over, they decided to lower two millstones from the slopes - if they lay on top of each other, they can enter into marriage; the sister gave birth to a monster, the brother chopped it into pieces, scattered them; in the morning around the house, people]: LaPolla, Huang 1996: 252; limbu [1) Pappadis 2001: 17-18. Porki Yomphami (PY) created a firefly and told it to carry light to the sky. But the firefly could not because it was too small. On the advice of Tagera Ningwafuma, PY created 8 suns to illuminate the entire earth. The earth began to dry up. Then PY stuck a bamboo pole into the ground that reached to the sky, a mouse gnawed holes in it, and a porcupine climbed up it like a ladder. He knocked down 7 suns with his needles, but could not reach the eighth. The light of one sun was enough. 2) Menyangbo 2005: 208-209. All living things suffered from the heat of the two sun brothers. Animals and people turned to PY for advice, and he suggested sending a porcupine to fight the suns. The porcupine, with the help of a mouse, climbed a tree up a bamboo ladder and killed the older sun brother. Then the younger one also stopped shining. People and animals decided to cheer him up: a bat flew high into the sky and began to squeal. The sun came out to look at the miracle and smiled. It became light again]: Streltsova 2023: 31; mishmi : Elwin 1958a, no. 12 (Kaman) [there were four suns shining, it was unbearably hot; people sent eight men with two dogs to the sky, they killed three suns, threw the bodies into the river; they went back, leaving one dog, Tafyeo, to guard the fourth sun; seven died along the way, one man with one dog returned to earth; the Sun, out of grief, stopped giving enough warmth and light; T. bit it, does this regularly to remind the Sun of its duties]: 46-47; 1958b, no. 26 (taraon) [there were two suns, they shone in turns, people and animals died; man caught and killed one Sun; the Moon shines half in the world of men, half in the world of the dead; a tree blocks its light, so it is cold]: 62; kachinas: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, #24 [the paternal principle from heaven and the maternal principle from earth merged, gave birth to a man and a woman, the nats; the semi-liquid earth thickened from the fog, the nats made it solid; gave birth to a man and a woman; they first gave birth to all the animals, then to a man, Cheyva Neinchan Phan Wa Neinchan; he separated heaven from earth, began to rule the earth; married the daughter of Tadjamin, who descended from heaven; there were nine suns, eternal day; at the request of Ch., T. created the alternation of day and night]: 97-99; Elwin 1958b, #24 [there were 9 suns, very hot; Mathum-Matta killed seven, and the current Sun and Moon hid behind the Himalayas; the Sun floats around the Himalayas in a golden one, the Moon in a silver boat; when the Sun's boat is on our side, day; phases of the moon: the Moon sometimes sits, sometimes stands in its boat, sometimes sleeps]: 59; Gilhodes 1908, #24 [brother Sun is the father of nine Sun girls, sister Moon has many star children; when people began to steal rice, the Sun released all his daughters as a punishment, gave the dogs 9 tails each, and the field mice (their favorite game) 9 holes each; people made a big bow to shoot live snakes at the Sun; then the Sun's whole family hid; they sent an Armadillo, the Sun's daughter killed him; then a Rooster; he arranged for the Sun to revive the Armadillo, gave him strong clothes and a long tongue; scattered his daughters, breaking them into pieces (they also became stars); if the Rooster does not greet the Sun, the Fox will deal with him; if the Sun does not come out, the Toad will swallow it, and if the Moon does not come out, the Dog will swallow it]: 691-693; Ling Ling, Ustin 1959 (jingpo) [nine suns scorched the earth, everyone cursed them, they hid; animals and birds began to collect money to give to the suns so that they would come out in turn; the Bat told the mice that she was a bird, and the birds that she was a mouse, refused to give money; they decided not to allow her to use the light and warmth of the sun]: 175-176.

Burma - Indochina. Shans [in the world that existed before ours, at first there was one sun, then a second, a third appeared, there were 7 or 9 of them; men perished before women, because they were the mothers of bodhisattvas and saints; the last one left to swim was a huge fish; when it burst in the boiling sea, its fat caught fire and everything was completely burned up; our world will also burn up; worlds arise and perish; at first our world was covered with water, it rose higher and higher, almost reaching the sky; 9 gods descended, but returned; then 4 gods descended with four spiders; each one spun a ball of web at the four ends of the ocean; the ball in the south became our world; we cannot see the other three, but the souls of the dead are reborn there; in the middle, Mount Meru grew]: Milne 1910: 196-197; Thais [(a local version of Buddhist cosmogony); the world was burned when 7 suns appeared; Indra and the lower deities perished; then only one sun remained and a flood poured down from the sky]: Low 1836: 343; the black Thay of Laos [the vá tree covered the whole world, and the háy tree covered the whole earth; the seven sons of Kap and Ke (the brother and sister who had escaped the flood) cut down the trees, 9 moons ("mothers of heat") and 8 suns shone in the sky; the water dried up, the turtles' shells cracked; the coot and the turtle dove flew to the sky, asked the god Po Then for help, ordered the hen to peck 8 suns and 7 moons, but she could not; the drake could, because it was necessary to swim to reach the suns and moons; after this the 7 brothers with their parents settled in Luang Prabang]: Bourlet 1907: 924-925 (retold in Chesnov 1980a: 622, in Kühn 1936: 78); bulang (blang, southern Yunnan) [at first only sky and clouds, among them a rhinoceros-like li runs; Gumiya made the sky from his skin, the stars from his eyes, the earth from his flesh, water from his blood, all kinds of plants from his wool, people from his brain, animals, birds, insects, etc. from their bone marrow; he made the four legs into four pillars of the sky; he placed the earth on a turtle; as soon as the turtle tries to move, Gumiya's rooster pecks it in the eye; if it falls asleep, the turtle moves, shaking the earth; then people sprinkle rice on the earth to wake up the rooster; 9 sisters-suns and 8 brothers-months decided to destroy G.'s creation; there is unbearable heat on earth; at this time, crabs lost their heads, fish - their tongues, snakes - their legs, frogs - their tails; before leaving the shelter, G. greased his straw hat with wax, but the wax melted and flowed into his eyes; G. made a bow from a tree with green bark, a bowstring from wild rattan, arrows from bamboo, moistened the tips with poison from the pond in which the dragon swam; he climbed to the top of the mountain over hot stones, struck 8 suns and 7 months with arrows; their blood gushed out to the ground, cooling it; the remaining Sun and Moon fled; tired G. released the 18th arrow, it hit the Moon, it remained alive, but lost its heat; it became dark and cold, people plowed, tying lanterns to the horns of oxen, the rivers stopped; G. sent a swallow to look for the sun; when she returned, she said that the Sun and the Moon were hiding in a cave in the east; G. sent all the animals and birds to ask them to return; he himself did not go, because those who were hiding were afraid of him; two partridges did not go - with a black and a white crest; the first one smeared her rump red - supposedly, she has diarrhea; the second one smeared her head white - she is in mourning for her parents; everyone despised them; in front is a swallow, behind it are fireflies; at the head of the birds is a rooster, of the animals - a boar; in the cave, the spouses Sun and Moon are hungry, but are afraid to come out; the rooster called them, the others promised that G. would not shoot at them; the rooster: from now on, come out after I sing; cut the knot, threw half to the Sun and the Moon, made a comb for himself from the other (a cut knot is a sign of concluding an agreement); G.'s daughter Gumishafema feeds the Sun with golden juice three times a day, and the Moon with silver; in the morning she is a young girl, in the afternoon - a young wife, in the evening - an old woman; the Sun and the Moon were allowed to return to the cave at the end of each month to unite (at this time the moon is not visible); The Sun is a shy wife, the Moon gave her needles-rays to prick the eyes of those who cast immodest glances at her; the entrance to the cave was blocked by a stone, only a boar managed to push it aside; all is well]: Miller 1994: 88-93; taiVietnam [at first all fruits, rice were huge, people worked little, ate a lot, broke the laws of Po Fã and Po Thén; PT sent rain, which flooded the earth; only Ba kap and Y ké were saved in dry fruit; PT lit 9 suns, they dried up the water, the rooster's feathers were singed, now he is red; there is no water, no fire; a horsefly flew to PT, he gave fire, on the way it goes out three times from the rain; the horsefly replies that his eyes are on his head, but they are at the ends of his wings; watches as PT gets fire by friction, shows people; PT gave rice and corn seeds to the Rat to take; as a reward she is allowed to eat grain; the horsefly is allowed to bite people]: Degeorge 1922, no. 2: 135-140; palaung [(L. Milne, The home of an Eastern Clan, p. 361); the former world was burned by the heat of 7 suns]: Kühn 1936: 79-80; ly [once Phra Phum was more powerful than the good god Phra In; descended to the earth after it was devastated by the heat of seven suns; left only one sun, divided the year into months and days; his antagonist PI called the female spirits of the seven planets, promised to marry them if they killed PP; a bow was made from PI's hair, a shot arrow cut off PP's head; an elephant's head was placed on PP's body; the gods advised PI against marrying the seven sisters; they remained with PP's head, holding it in turns for a year]: Chesnov 1982: 354; Khmers [above Mount Sumeru there is a heavenly world of beautiful long-lived creatures – tevoda; they decided to punish the people living on earth for their sins; first the earth was scorched by seven suns, then everything was flooded; when the waters began to subside, 8 creatures – proms were sent from the sky; they began to eat sea foam, then earth, then plants (when they appeared); according to another version, they ate mushrooms first, then liana fruits, then rice; from the rice their stomachs filled with excrement, they developed two openings, P. divided into men and women, gave birth to new people]: Chesnov 1982a: 340; tyams[there were 12 suns and 12 moons, the sky was low and the earth was thin; the goddess Atmyhekat tried to create living creatures, but it was too hot; then Saint Nymaysibaytyadong (apparently Shiva, Cham. Siva) shot down all the suns with his bow, the world became dark; Avlahuk (or simply Ku, i.e. Allah), born from the dark chaos, was able to make the world brighter after 60 years; A. created Mohammat, who gave birth to Jebrail, the son of D. Ibrahim began to rule the world; Adam and Eve were cast down to earth; gave birth to children, starting the human race; when the ancestors died, everything disappeared, only the tall Mosi tree remained; A. was reborn from it, created animals, demons and people; sent the eldest daughter Po Nagar to rule the earthly world; PN arranged the cosmos in accordance with her body; the sun and the moon are her eyes, Venus is her heart, the Big Dipper is her legs, etc.; she created the grains of the human soul, taught people to cultivate the land; Yamy, one of her assistants, taught them to grow rice, make medicine, and make fire; in Mecca he married a fairy, their 50 sons went up into the mountains, 50 daughters began to live on the plain; by order of her father, PN returned to heaven]: Atgashev 2001: 106-107.

South Asia. Ancient India (Mahabharata, Mhb.3.186) [at the end of the last yuga, seven suns dry up the seas and streams, burn up all living things; fire devours the universe, then a downpour floods it]: Vasilkov, Neveleva 1987: 384; Ancient India [the idea of ​​four yugas ("team", "pair", "generation"; the name is borrowed from the game of dice, this was the name for the sides of the dice, containing 4, 3, 2, 1 marks) - the eras of the existence of the world; 1) Kritayuga (Satyayuga) - "good age"; 2) Tretayuga - justice gradually decreases; 3) Dvaparayuga - evil and vices begin to prevail; 4) Kaliyuga – people destroy each other in wars, kings rob their subjects, women indulge in debauchery, etc.; four yugas form one kalpa; at the end of each kalpa, 12 or 7 suns appear in the sky, burning the world; one kalpa is one day of Brahma, and Brahma lives 100 years; after his death there comes 100 years of chaos, then a new Brahma is born; now is the 51st year of the current Brahma and the sixth millennium of the Kaliyuga]: Toporov 1982b: 676; Nepali : Maskarinec 1998: 24-46 [Mahadev decides to place a man on earth to command him; this is old Andhāserā; he cries, for it is eternally dark; his relatives join him, with them everything is the same; then the young married Candra comes to M. asking for 9 moons, 9 suns as dowry; in the end M. gives them to her; the earth burns, the rivers dry up; M. tells Candra to commit 8 unacceptable acts one after another; after each one 1 sun and 1 moon go out (to speak insultingly to elders, to refuse lodging to a late guest, to hit a dog sitting in the doorway with a stick; to go out into the yard with bare hair; to comb one's hair back, etc.); the river Satiavatī begins to flow again; barren cows and lame bulls must be sacrificed], 78-84 [Mahadeva's married daughter Sita comes to him from the earth, weeping; it is dark there; he gives her 9 moons and 9 suns as dowry; she stumbles, the luminaries hide in the bamboo stalks; S. comes again, receives the luminaries; There are too many suns, the earth is burning, S. comes to his father again; he makes it so that only 1 sun and 1 moon remain]; Sinhalese (written down by L.A. Mervart in the village of Dedigama) [at the end of our kalpa a mass of suns will appear, they will burn the earth, then heavy rains will flood it; after this Buddha from the upper paradise will drop a lotus seed onto the waters, a man and a woman will grow from it, a new earth and a new kalpa will arise]: Kreinovich 1929: 88; Baiga [the Sun had 11 brothers, the Moon 11 sisters; the brothers could not marry them, then the Sun offered to eat them; the Moon ate the sisters, and the Sun hid the brothers behind his cheeks; the Moon could not burp the sisters, she only spat, drops of her saliva turned into stars; now the Moon works constantly, she has her period only one day each month; each of the Sun brothers works one month in the year; if they went out together, the world would burn; all together they are married to one Moon]: Elwin 1939: 332; condy: Elwin 1949, no. 20 [a boy guards a field, sees a pregnant doe, wants to shoot; the doe is pregnant with the sun, the sun from her womb warns of a flood, he must sit in a banyan tree log with his sister and a supply of food; the boy's mother does not believe; when the earth overturned into the water, he perishes along with other people; the log stuck to a fig tree growing out of the water; there were 7 suns, the water quickly dried up, but it became terribly hot; the Moon pretended to eat her children, smeared her mouth red; then the Sun ate his brothers; at night the Moon brought out her children-stars]: 41; 1954, no. 7 [the earth was still unstable, Bela Pinnu came down from the sky, his foot fell through; Bogi Pinnu hanged himself from loneliness; Bela Pinnu scattered the parts of his body, they became hills; the seven sun-sons of Bela Pinnu descended, burned the hills, turning them into a plain], 21 (Kuttia) [Kapantali threw a mirror into the sky, turning it into 7 suns and 7 moons; the world caught fire; Nirantali caught 6 moons, hid them in her hair; told the Suns that she had eaten 6 moons, they allowed her to eat 6 of them; she buried 6 moons; one Sun and one Moon remained], 33 (Kuttia) [the heat of the Sun and his children made life impossible; the Moon hid hers in her hair, said that she had eaten them; the Sun actually ate his; sometimes the Sun overtakes the Moon and imprisons her for a time, an eclipse occurs; sometimes her children are with the Moon, they imprison the Sun]: 6, 47-48, 54-55; Muria (Raja Muria) [Mahapurupa made a mirror for himself and for his wife; turned his into the Sun-male, hers into the Moon-female; their children were like themselves, the earth was unbearably hot; M. hid the Moon in a pit; the Sun came to look for a wife, M. offered to eat the children with her voice; he ate the Sun, but the Moon hid hers behind her cheek; so that they would not have more children, M. ordered them to walk separately; for half a month the Sun meets the Moon, but at this time the latter is menstruating]: Elwin 1949, no. 9: 64-65; Oraons [the seven Sun-brothers melted the earth with their heat; the Moon pretended to eat her Star-children, convinced the Sun to boil her brothers and eat them]: Elwin 1939: 332 (note 1); mundar {it is stated that Munda of Orissa is probably mundar} [there were 7 suns shining, people were suffering from the heat; 7 brothers decided to destroy them, started shooting arrows and killed six; the seventh hid behind a hill; it became dark; the animals gathered for a council; the rabbit said that one sun was still left; the lion went to ask the sun to return, but it did not listen; the same elephant; the peacock; then the rooster crowed and the sun came out; the rooster crowed louder, the sun began to rise; the animals asked the people not to kill this sun and they promised not to kill it; since then the rooster crows in the morning and the sun rises]: The seventh sun 2014: 1-11; sora[The Sun and the Moon are brothers, both had many children; because of the many little Suns, the earth was hot and impossible to live in; the Moon hid its children (the stars) in a chest, smeared its mouth with red tree sap, and said that it had eaten the children; if the Sun ate its own, there would be no one left on earth; it ate the Sun, and the Moon released the stars; the Sun sent a serpent (the Spirit-Devouring Moon) to the Moon, which swallows it once a year; this is not always visible, but if it is visible, people beat drums and fire guns; at this time, when the serpent burps the Moon, pregnant women may have a miscarriage]: Vitebsky 1980: 56; birhor : Evans 1927 [The Sun and the Moon are brother and sister; each has many children; because of the Sun's children, the earth is terribly hot; The moon decides to help people, hides her children, tells the sun that she has eaten them, advises him to do the same; the sun eats her children, then the moon again releases hers - the stars; the children of the sun are the brightest stars, among them the surviving Morning Star]: 167 in Hatt 1949: 75; Roy 1925, no. 15 [the sun (Singi) and the moon (Chāndu) are brother and sister; the bright stars are the children of the sun, the rest are moons; the sun and his children emitted unbearable heat; the moon gave the sun an unusually tasty curry and said that it was made from her children; then the sun ate his own, of which only Venus remained, who at that time went off to dance somewhere far away]: 486-487; Santals: Bodding 1942 [The Sun is the Moon's husband, their children are the stars; the daughters remained with their mother, the sons with their father; because of them, the earth was unbearably hot; the Moon suggested eating the children to make it cooler; the Sun suggested that the Moon eat her daughters first, and if she didn't help, he would eat his sons; the Moon hid her daughters under a basket, said she had eaten them; the Sun ate his own, and at night he saw the stars; wanted to kill the Moon, but relented when she gave him two daughters - the Morning and Evening Stars; the Sun still pursues the Moon, chopping off pieces of her for half a month]: 132-133; Bompas 1909 [the sky was low, the rice grew in husks, clothes grew on bushes, people's heads could be removed and cleaned; the girl went to relieve herself, at this time picking and eating rice growing nearby; This angered the god Thakur Deo and he made all things the way they are now; people threw away used leaf plates, the wind carried one to the sky; after this, TD raised the sky; then he decided to destroy people altogether; Thakur Baba, aka Sing Chango - the sun, his wife - the Moon; they divided their children-stars, of which there were as many during the day as at night; from the heat of the sun, people and animals began to die; the Moon felt sorry for people, but the Sun said that he was ready to save only one human couple; he hid them in a cave, curtaining the entrance with skin, after which he sent a fiery rain for 5 days and nights; when the man and woman came out, there was nothing alive around; so that the Sun would not burn humanity again, the Moon hid her children in a basket and painted her lips red; the Sun believed that she ate her children and ate his own, except for two; these are the Morning and Evening Stars; seeing that the children of the Moon were alive, the Sun rushed at them and they scattered across the whole sky; the Sun cut the Moon in half, so it grows and ages; the first man and woman have 12 children; from them come 12 nations; the differences between them are due to the fact that during the holiday they chose different food]: 401-402.

Malaysia – Indonesia. Semangi (Jehai) [The Sun is female, the Moon is male, each has many children like their parents; because of the Sun's children the earth is terribly hot; the Moon decides to help people, hides her children under her arm, tells the Sun that she has eaten them, advises him to do the same; the Sun eats her children, then the Moon again releases hers - the stars]: Schebesta 1931: 107; 1937: 101; Semangi (Kintak) [The Moon and the Sun are elder and younger sisters; the Moon hides her children in her hair-knot, tells the Sun that she has swallowed them; the Sun devours her children; if this did not happen, people would not be able to survive the heat of many suns]: Evans 1937: 167 (cited in Ho 1967, no. 18: 222); Senoi (Sakai) [The Moon told the Sun that men could not bear the heat of his children; let him eat his own and she would eat hers; but the Moon only hid her star-children; since then the Sun attacks the Moon whenever it meets, causing eclipses]: Evans 1918: 191; Senoi (Besisi) [when the Besisi started from the edge of the sky in the east, where the giant cuts off the roots of the clouds so that they do not grow into the earth, there were seven suns, seven moons, seven stars, and seven rainbows in the sky – the seven serpent-souls of the serpent Naga-Melaikat]: Skeat, Blagden 1906: 317; temuan (mantra): Skeat, Blagden 1906: 320 [The Sun and Moon are women; the stars are the children of the Moon; The Moon made a pact with the Sun to eat her children, hid them, and the Sun actually ate them; if there were as many Suns as stars, the heat would be unbearable; the Sun still chases the Moon; when it catches up, there is an eclipse; during the day the Moon continues to hide her children], 338 [(=Hervey 1883: 190-191); there were three Suns, a wife, a husband, and a child, one of them is always in the sky; To' Entah asked the Moon to hide her husband, the Evening Star, and her star-children in her mouth, to offer the Sun to swallow her husband and children; the Sun did so; when she learned the truth, she said she would swallow the Moon if she got in her way; this is the cause of eclipses]; Batak: Knappert 1999 [Si Borudea made the earth from wet clay; her father Mulojadi created 9 suns to dry the earth; too hot, people turned to the Moon for help; she asked for betel nut, hid her star-children behind her, told the Sun she had eaten them, blew red betel juice from her mouth; the Sun did eat his sons; now chases the Moon; catches up at the end of the month, the Moon wanes, hides for a while]: 292-293; Warneck 1909: 43-44 [(retold in Erkes 1926: 42-43; in Hatt 1949: 75); the Sun has seven sons, all began to shine together, the earth is burning; people sent a Swallow to the Moon asking for help; the Moon hid her sons; people gave her lime, betel, tobacco - this is needed for siri chewing gum; the Moon told the Sun that she ate her sons, showed seven bowls with their blood (in fact, this is chewing gum); when the Sun also ate his sons, the Moon released hers; the Sun sent evil spirits (eclipses) to the Moon; other spirits, companions of the Moon, cause eclipses of the Sun], 30-32 [from heaven Mula djadi sent his granddaughter earths in the middle world; she created the earth on the head of the water dragon; he turned around, the earth became soaked; M. created the 8th sun to dry up the sea; the dragon was defeated, but people suffered from the heat; then M. created one sun instead of eight, established the alternation of day and night]; Bataki (Toba) [the supreme god Mula Dyadi lived on the upper of the 7 tiers of heaven; created three sons; created a tree on one of the lower tiers, its branches reached the upper one; created a chicken, she hatched three eggs on a tree, three girls were born from them, he gave them to his sons as wives; one had the face of a lizard, the skin of a chameleon, the girl refused, began to spin, dropped the spinning wheel into the lower world; she descended along the unwound thread onto the head of a snake swimming in the sea; put a handful of earth there, brought at her request by the swallow MD; the snake got tired and turned over, the emerging world was flooded with water; MD created eight suns, they dried up the excess water; the maiden thrust the sword into the snake, nailing it tightly to the ground so that it would not turn over anymore; taking new soil, she created the earth anew; MD shot the maiden's groom with a blowpipe; finding himself on the ground, the young man shot at the turtledove, she grabbed the arrow and flew away; following her, he found the heavenly maiden, married her; they gave birth to men]: Warneck 1909: 30 in Dixon 1916: 160-161 (summary in Hatt 1949: 33); Mentawai [The Sun and the Moon are women, both had many children, the children of the Sun gave off excessive heat; to save men, the Moon hid her children, smeared her mouth with red juice, told the Sun that she would gladly eat them; the Sun ate her children; in the evening the children of the Moon, the stars, appeared; the Sun stabbed the Moon with a knife, now it is visible in parts; the Moon stabbed the Sun, now the edge of the Sun is jagged, and the Sun and the Moon do not meet]: Schefold 1988: 71-72; Java[A text on the story of how the Moon provoked the Sun to destroy her children was written down by A. Bastian in Java (Bastian, Vö1ker des östl. Asien, Bd. V, S. 117)]: Kühn 1936: 74; dusun [The Long-eared Owl (Puak) was the beloved of the Moon; the sky was close to the earth, seven Suns were shining; the pregnant woman became ill from the heat; her husband went to the sunrise, shot six Suns with an air rifle; the seventh fled, taking the sky with itself, now it is high; At this time the Long-eared Owl came down from the roof of the house to pick up a comb that had fallen to the ground, was unable to return to the sky, and since then has been crying piteously whenever the moon comes out]: Evans 1914: 433 (=1923; paraphrased in MacDonald 2005: 79; in Ho 1967, no. 16: 220); Western Toraja : Kruyt 1938, no. 24 [1) The husband, the Sun, and the wife, the Moon, have many star-children; they go with their mother, for if they went with their father, the heat would become unbearable; 2) The Sun and the Moon were men, each with his own children; one man killed the children of the Sun, because they made the earth too hot; The Sun, out of envy, tries to kill the children of the Moon, but he tells them to come out only when the Sun is not visible; 3) The Sun and the Moon agree to kill their children; The Moon hid hers and then released them (these are the stars), and the Sun actually roasted his own]: 370-371; Eastern Toraja [the Sun and Moon are considered spouses; but there is a belief that both are women; the Sun came out with her children, people died of heat; the Moon promised to help people; she hid her children-stars in a bamboo vessel, told the Sun that her light was destroying people, and children, as an extra burden, were only a hindrance; the Sun also placed her children in a vessel, they died there from the heat; the Moon released her children-stars back into the sky; since then the Sun has been chasing the Moon; one child of the Sun escaped, this is the Morning Star]: Adriani, Kruyt 1950, No. 7: 377; Solor , Alor and/or neighboring islands [there were many suns, the earth suffered from heat; In the village of Rera ("Sun") Datu lived small men and women, but there were no children; with long bamboo poles they poked at all the suns until only one remained]: Vatter 1932 in Maaβ 1933: 375.

Taiwan – Philippines. Puyuma : Davidson 1903 [the first man and woman Unai and Tanval were born from a large stone; they gave birth to three boys and three girls – the ancestors of the people; there were 8 suns in the sky, all suffering from heat; Saieahao made a grass ladder, climbed to the sky, destroyed 6 suns, leaving two; these are the present sun and moon]: 578; Ho 1967, no. 7 [the heat of the eight suns was unbearable; Saieahao made a grass ladder, climbed to the sky, defeated and destroyed six suns, leaving two – the present sun and moon]: 213-214; (cf. sedek [“In 1998, during a trip to Fushicun Village, Xiulin Township, Hualien County, to interview the Taroko (Sedek people), I met a Christian priest-storyteller (his Chinese name is Xu Tong-yi). He told the following story: “Long ago, there was no sun, and people in their daily lives received light from brushwood. One day, when two Taroko elders went out for a walk with brushwood, the wind carried them away and hung them up in the sky. These elders turned into suns”]: Riftin 2023: 19).

China - Korea. Ancient China [ten suns - children of Xihe , wife of the eastern heavenly deity Di-jun. In the seething sea grows a fusan tree several thousand zhang high and a thousand zhang thick; ten sons-suns live on it; nine were on the upper branches, one on the lower (In the Book of Mountains and Seas - the opposite); they appear in the sky in turn; they ride in a chariot, it is driven by S.; although there are ten suns, people always see one in the sky; ten suns under the supervision of their mother go out every day in turn; the path is repeated day after day, it becomes boring; the sons-suns agree to fly out together, not wanting to get into a boring chariot; people are in poverty; before sending the archer Yi to the people (a hollow mulberry tree gave birth to Yi Yin, pp. 216-217), Di-jian gives him a bow and arrows; apparently, Yi should only scare the suns; And sympathizes with people, strikes the suns with arrows, each time a three-legged golden crow falls to the ground; the wise Yao orders to remove one arrow from Yi's quiver, one sun remains alive]: Yuan Ke 1987, ch.6: 139-148; “Huainanzi”, “Book of Mountains and Seas”, Qu Yuan “Questions to Heaven”; Chinese (Shanxi, Yicheng county) [the wife of the Heavenly Sovereign gave birth to 10 sun-sons; at first they ascended to heaven one by one, but one day they all appeared together; they were happy, and the people suffered; half of the people died, the rest began to pray to the Heavenly Sovereign, but he could not cope with his sons; Erlang was the son of the Jade Sovereign, had three eyes, and mastered the art of 72 transformations; He descended from the sky to Mount Kunlun, pulled a poplar out of the ground, cleared it of branches, made a yoke out of it, hung two mountains on it, and spent several days chasing the suns, crushing them with the mountains; near the village of Baiju the yoke broke and the mountains fell to the ground; Erlang stuck the two parts of the yoke into the ground and they turned into two poplars without crowns; only one sun remained in the sky]: Zhou Yang et al. 1999, no. 16: 27-28; Chinese (Shanxi, Pingding county) [Erlang was sent by Mother Wangmu, took with him the Dog Howling at the Sky and two mountains and chased the suns. In 81 days he crushed 9 of them with the mountains, and the last one hid in the thickets of purslane. The Dog Howling at the Sky began to search for him by smell, but did not find him. The sun sat, afraid to move, darkness fell, and Erlang had no choice but to lower the yoke and rest. At this time, Mother Wangmu told Erlang that without any suns at all, heaven and earth would plunge into chaos and all living things would perish, so one sun must be left. Erlang took the Dog Howling at the Sky and returned to the Heavenly Palace. From the earth that Erlang shook out of his shoes while resting, a mountain was formed, shaped like a saddle, and people called it Saddle Mountain (Ma'anshan). The sun, in gratitude to the purslane, swore never to dry it out]: Zhou Yang et al. 1999, No. 16a, note, p. 28; Chinese(Shanxi, Pingding County) [there were 10 suns in the sky, and cakes could be fried by sticking them on the outside wall of a house; the rivers were running dry, and the trees were drying up; Hou Yi was in the Yuqiong clan and decided to save life on earth; he began shooting at the suns, but for 49 days not a single arrow reached the sun; then an old man appeared to him in a dream and told him that he needed to make a bow with a bow made of a tiger's spine and a bowstring made of dragon sinew; then train every day; when one arrow could pierce 99 thick trees, he would be able to shoot at the suns; and so H. did; he shot down 9 suns, a dozen of them ran away in terror, ran 9999 li, stopped on a slope to the NE of the village of Zhangzhuang, hid in the thickets of purslane, and the world became dark; H. was going to ask the Wind Grandmother to raise a wind that would blow away all the vegetation, but he saw Mother Wangmu descending from the sky on a cloud with a lantern in her hands; she said that the last sun should not be killed; it crawled out of the purslane thickets, thanked him for saving it, and returned to the sky; since then, if you pull purslane out of the ground and put it in the sun, it will not dry out for many days]: Zhou Yang et al. 1999, no. 19: 31-32; Chinese (Shanxi, Linfen county) [night and day, the seasons were not distinguished, there were 12 hours in a day, 12 suns rose in turn - a new one every hour, forests were burning, people died from the heat; the young man Hou-yi practiced archery, after 10 years he achieved perfection, shot 12 suns, it turned out that they were crows; the last one was only wounded, in the morning the sun rose from the sea; the wounded raven landed on the ground near the purslane thickets and began to roll on the ground in pain; the purslane covered him and healed his wound with dew; having recovered, the raven told the Jade Lord about how the purslane saved his life; he made the purslane the king of plants, granted a drop of sweet dew and the title of "mother purslane"; since then the sun has not dried out the purslane]: Zhou Yang et al. 1999, No. 19a: 32-33; Chinese : Tishkov 1954 (Hebei) [there were seven suns, people suffered from the heat; Er Lang caught six of them, crushed them with mountains; the seventh complained to the man that of the six brothers he was the only one left; EL agreed to leave him, ordered him to hide for the night]: 50-51; Wilhelm 1921, no. 17 [according to Chinese sources: Fong Schen Yän Yi and Si Yu Gi); the second daughter of the Lord of Heaven, descended to earth, mated with a man, and gave birth to a son, Oerlang, in heaven; the father covered his daughter with a mountain as punishment, O. freed her mother; ten suns were shining; having spent a long time underground, O.'s mother died when she came out into the light; O. successively crushed nine suns with mountains; the tenth hid under a purslane leaf; an earthworm shouted to O. that the sun was here; the Lord of Heaven ordered O. to leave the last sun; for his love for his mother he made him a celestial being, he is a hunter, he has a falcon and a dog, he protects people from evil spirits and demon animals; light spots remained on the purslane, the earthworm dies in the sun]: 35-37; Chinese(Hebei, Funing County) [there were 10 suns in the sky, as soon as one set, another one rose; it was constantly light; the earth and trees were scorched by the heat, the rivers dried up; the city's patron gods reported to the Jade Emperor, who sent the god Erlan Shen to catch the suns; the suns became agitated, because E. had unlimited power; some decided to surrender, others - to flee, but one sun said that there was nothing to fear: our light would burn his eyes, the heat would turn him to ashes; one day E., holding a double-edged trident in his hands and taking with him a growling heavenly dog, arrived at Mount Kunlun; the first sun attacked, releasing its heat, but E. was in his divine body and was not afraid of being fried; he opened his third eye between his eyebrows and shot a strong ray of light in the direction of the sun, blinding it; He struck the sun with a trident, threw it to the ground and crushed it with his foot; E. caught the suns one by one, but each one rolled away; he wanted his mother to help him; she came down from heaven to marry E.'s father; for this, as a punishment, she was imprisoned under Mount Taishan; E. began to catch the suns one by one, crushing them with the mountains Kunlun, Huashan, Henan, Taishan and going from west to east; in this way he caught 9 suns, and pursuing the last one, he reached the coast of the Bohai Gulf; the tenth sun was the smallest and arrogant; it asked a peasant who plowed the land to hide it; he hid it under an armful of rotten straw and told E. that he had not seen the sun; then he explained that the last sun cannot be killed; E. to the sun: “For the sake of the old man, I will spare you, but you will only go out during the day and sleep at night; the two peaks of Mount Tuarshan are the mountain that E. carried on his yoke and which was flattened because he threw it too hard]: Bai Gengsheng 2007: 73-74; Chinese(Shaanxi, Binxian County) [There used to be seven suns in the sky that were so hot that people couldn't leave their houses during the day. These suns were sisters and scared everyone around them, even the gods. Erlang's mother, who was also a goddess, lived on Mount Taishan. One day she left her house and the seven suns roasted her to death. Erlang swore revenge. He took an iron pole, hung two mountains on it, followed the suns, caught up with them at Lintong and was going to crush them with the mountains. Then the people told Erlang that all the suns couldn't be crushed with mountains, and that one had to be left to shine for people. So he crushed six of them with mountains and left only the youngest, threatening that if it misbehaved, the same thing would happen to it as to its older sisters. Having avenged his mother, Erlang relaxed and began to shake the dust out of his shoes, which was so plentiful that it formed a mountain. Erlang brought the current Mount Lishan to Lintong. Six suns are hidden beneath it, and that is why the water flowing from this mountain is warm. This is how the warm springs of Lake Huaqingchi arose. The remaining sun was ashamed to show itself to people and often cried. One god advised him to surround himself with red needles and prick those who looked at him. Since then, when people look at the sun, their eyes hurt]: Zhou Yang et al. 1996, No. 21: 21-22; Chinese (Gansu, Tianshui City, Beidao County) [During the reign of Emperor Yao, ten suns appeared in the sky, the grass, trees and crops withered, the rivers dried up, and people began to die from heat, thirst and hunger, and the survivors hid in caves and did not dare to go outside. Yao saw the disastrous state of his people and began to pray to the Jade Lord. When he learned of what had happened, he became very angry, called Hou-yi, gave him a divine red bow and ten divine white arrows and ordered him to descend to the world of people and shoot the ten disobedient suns. Hou-yi set out, and as soon as he saw the suns, he immediately began to shoot at them. Having shot nine, he reached for the last arrow, but then Emperor Yao appeared, stopped him and said that the sun was necessary for people, because without it the world would be dark and cold, and the grasses and trees would die, so the last sun could not be killed. The archer agreed and put away his bow. As a result, the weather returned to normal, and the people hiding in the caves came out and began to thank Hou-yi for saving them]: Zhou Yang et al. 2001, No. 15: 16; Chinese(Henan) [there were 10 suns in the sky – the grandchildren of the Lord of Heaven (Tian Di); the harvest was perishing, the rivers were drying up; in order to save the people, Houyi shot 9 suns; the tenth hid, it became completely dark; one day, Houyi heard someone calling him in a weak voice; the Earthworm showed where the tenth Sun was hiding; Houyi went to kill him, but could not find him in the darkness; realizing that they could not survive in the darkness, the people began to ask the surviving sun to return; it came out, they greeted it; the Sun was covered with purslane leaves (Portulacea oleracea); having returned to the sky, the Sun, out of gratitude, decided not to dry out the purslane; he punished the earthworms, and they dried out as soon as they reached the surface]: Tao, Yang & Xiu Zhong eds., Zhongguo shenhua. Chinese Mythology. Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi chubanshe, 1990, pp. 395-396 (Yamada Hitoshi); Chinese (Sichuan, Baxian county) [Long ago, there was neither day nor night, and all the earthly spirits sent a petition to the Jade King asking him to solve this problem. He decided to send down the god of fire with his nine sons. His sons, dissatisfied with this order, plotted mischief and turned into fireballs. The rivers dried up, the trees dried up, the earth cracked, and people and animals took refuge in caves, where they suffered from hunger and thirst. The earthly spirits reported this to the Jade King, who sent Hou-yi to deal with the matter. He descended, took the heavenly bow and divine arrows, and began shooting at the suns. The fire god fled, and Hou-yi shot eight of his sons, and they fell into small fragments. When he was about to shoot the ninth, Taishang Lao-jun (=Lao-tzu) appeared and said that the last one should be left to give light to people. Hou-yi ordered him to behave well in future, to give light to people during the day, and to rest at night. So only one fireball remained, this is our sun, and the fragments of the eight remaining fireballs scattered all over the sky and became stars]: Zhou Yang et al. 1998b, no. 12: 33–34; miao: Hatt 1949 [(after Erkes in T'oung Pao XXV: 97-98); The Lord of Heaven first created 10 female suns and 9 male months; people shot down 9 suns and 8 months]: 77; Graham 1954 [the sky god Gulo took out a piece of iron, struck out a multitude of sparks from it, which became female suns; the earth god Gulong took out a piece of copper, struck out a multitude of sparks from it, which became male months; the sky dried up, the earth turned to dust; Gulong asked Ndeo Mba for help; he found a single fig tree growing in the middle of the sea, made a crossbow out of it; Yang Ya struck the luminaries out of it; one sun and one month remained, they hid; did not come out at the call of the tiger, the cows, came out at the crow of the rooster; Gulo rewarded him by placing the comb on his head with the teeth facing upward]: 172-173 (retold in Ho 1967, no. 10: 216-217); Bender et al. 2006 (Guizhou) [Yang Yu measured out 6 feet to the east and 6 feet to the west and ordered suns and moons to be made to hang in the sky; his steps were his ruler; the bellows for blowing the fire were the valley, the wind blew from the sky, the mountain range was the plunger, the high mountain was the handle, the boulder was the hammer; the pincers were made like a crayfish claw; when the Earth Spirit saw the finished suns and moons, he was frightened; what was left was used to make a comb for the Chicken King; each of the months took a sun and a moon; their skins fell to the ground, becoming snow, ice and hail, Bong Yong placed them in the sky, then he also placed the suns and moons there; the fallen pieces of gold became fireflies; from the remains of the gold, Grandfather Xong made stars, and when he died, his breath became a silver river - the Milky Way; (the constellations made from different objects that were used during the manufacture of suns and moons are listed, but not identified); the suns and moons were carried to the sky by Bong Yong, but he burned himself and dropped them, they split, they were repaired with the Juice of Immortality; Bong Yong did not want to take on this matter anymore, so the Earth God tied them to the neck of the river and only then put the suns and moons on his shoulders; however, he slipped, the suns and moons fell into a dirty pond; Xang Ong and Vi Hxe washed them, but the Earth God refused to carry them again; Niu Xang dragged them on wheels, and the Thunder God lowered a rope and lifted the suns and moons into the sky; Grandmother Yu attached the suns and moons to the sky; then she pierced holes in the sky with a needle and placed a star in each; she harnessed a cow and plowed the sky so that it would be level and nothing would interfere with the movement of the suns and moons; the suns were ordered to come out one by one, but they did not hear and began to come out all at once; the rocks melt, the earth is like vegetable soup on the fire; Hsang Sa wanted to kill the grandfathers for this, but they replied that it was not their fault that the suns were deaf; then HS went to shoot the suns; two young men clearing the land for a field found an arrow with an iron tip and gave it to him; HS tried to shoot from a boat - it swayed; from the top of a mountain - he could not keep his balance; then he climbed a mulberry tree that grew halfway up the sky, shot 11 suns and 11 moons; the last Sun and Moon hid in Du Li's house; only when the rooster crowed did the Sun dare to come out,the rooster was awarded a golden cap; the Heavenly Dog licked the wounds of the Sun and the Moon; they promised him grain for this, but did not give it; therefore, in good years, the Heavenly Dog eats grain, and in lean years, the Sun and the Moon; the Heavenly Dog was born by Silver Mold Bottom, he has two rows of teeth; having gone out to shoot the suns, HS returned home almost 12 years later; his son was the same age, he saw him hunting; the son asked where on the goose he should hit; HS said that he hit the eye and the pupil of the eye; HS shot the boy, saying that there was no place for both of them (on earth); HS, his son and wife turned into stars: the son goes out at twilight, the mother - after dark, the father - before dawn]: 49-70; Kühn 1936 [(Savina, Histoire des Miao, p. 243-244); God created 10 suns and 9 moons; they all shone for 7 years, the earth dried up; people made a bow from the trunk of a giant tree that grew out of the primordial waters, struck 9 suns and 8 bows; the last sun and moon escaped]: 77; Its 1960 [the sky was made into a roof by the Basket-Maker spirit; the clouds look like that because he used bamboo of different colors; by cutting holes in the bamboo, he created the stars, planets, and 12 suns]: 107; Lemoine 1982 [Yang Yua's only son died from the heat of 9 suns; YaYa shot 8 suns with a crossbow, and the ninth hid in the zaun tsaw grass; it was the only plant that did not burn; shot 8 moons, and knocked out one eye of the ninth; they sent a pig to bring back the sun, but it did not come out; then a cow, a dog, a horse, a squirrel, a bird, a lion, an elephant - the same; when the sun maiden was called by the rooster, she came out and gave him her comb; now it is on the rooster's head]: 88-89; Miller 1994 (SE Yunnan) [at first it was cold and dark; the Solar Bird (SB) turned 9 stone bowls into suns, and 8 into moons, and launched them into the sky; it became hot, the plants dried up, only one large hemp remained; SB cut down the hemp, made a bow from the stem, arrows from the branches, shot down 8 suns and 7 moons; the last sun and moon hid, it was dark again; SB sent a bull into the sky after them, but the sun and moon became even more frightened, and disappeared behind the horizon; a winged horse - the same; the rooster - the sun liked it, it came out; seeing that nothing had happened to the sun, the moon also came out, but later; since then it follows the sun, they do not meet; the moon made a golden comb for the rooster, he now does not part with it]: 85-87;p. 243-244); God created 10 suns and 9 moons; they shone together for 7 years, the earth dried up; people made a bow from the trunk of a giant tree that grew out of the primordial waters, struck 9 suns and 8 bows; the last sun and moon escaped]: 77; Its 1960 [the sky was made as a roof by the Basket-Maker spirit; the clouds look like this because he used bamboo of different colors; by cutting holes in the bamboo, he created the stars, planets and 12 suns]: 107; Lemoine 1982 [Yang Yua's only son died from the heat of 9 suns; YaYa shot 8 suns with a crossbow, and the ninth hid in the zaun tsaw grass; it was the only plant that did not burn; shot 8 moons, and knocked out one eye of the ninth; they sent a pig to return the sun, but it did not come out; then a cow, a dog, a horse, a squirrel, a bird, a lion, an elephant - the same; when the sun maiden was called by the rooster, she came out and gave him her comb; now it is on the rooster's head]: 88-89; Miller 1994 (SE Yunnan) [at first it was cold and dark; the Solar Bird (SB) turned 9 stone bowls into suns, and 8 into moons, and launched them into the sky; it became hot, the plants dried up, only one large hemp remained; SB cut down the hemp, made a bow from the stem, arrows from the branches, shot down 8 suns and 7 moons; the last sun and moon hid, it was dark again; SB sent a bull into the sky after them, but the sun and moon became even more frightened, and disappeared behind the horizon; a winged horse - the same; the rooster - the sun liked it, it came out; seeing that nothing had happened to the sun, the moon also came out, but later; since then it follows the sun, they do not meet; the moon made a golden comb for the rooster, he now does not part with it]: 85-87;p. 243-244); God created 10 suns and 9 moons; they shone together for 7 years, the earth dried up; people made a bow from the trunk of a giant tree that grew out of the primordial waters, struck 9 suns and 8 bows; the last sun and moon escaped]: 77; Its 1960 [the sky was made as a roof by the Basket-Maker spirit; the clouds look like this because he used bamboo of different colors; by cutting holes in the bamboo, he created the stars, planets and 12 suns]: 107; Lemoine 1982 [Yang Yua's only son died from the heat of 9 suns; YaYa shot 8 suns with a crossbow, and the ninth hid in the zaun tsaw grass; it was the only plant that did not burn; shot 8 moons, and knocked out one eye of the ninth; they sent a pig to return the sun, but it did not come out; then a cow, a dog, a horse, a squirrel, a bird, a lion, an elephant - the same; when the sun maiden was called by the rooster, she came out and gave him her comb; now it is on the rooster's head]: 88-89; Miller 1994 (SE Yunnan) [at first it was cold and dark; the Solar Bird (SB) turned 9 stone bowls into suns, and 8 into moons, and launched them into the sky; it became hot, the plants dried up, only one large hemp remained; SB cut down the hemp, made a bow from the stem, arrows from the branches, shot down 8 suns and 7 moons; the last sun and moon hid, it was dark again; SB sent a bull into the sky after them, but the sun and moon became even more frightened, and disappeared behind the horizon; a winged horse - the same; the rooster - the sun liked it, it came out; seeing that nothing had happened to the sun, the moon also came out, but later; since then it follows the sun, they do not meet; the moon made a golden comb for the rooster, he now does not part with it]: 85-87;but later; since then it follows the sun, they do not meet; the moon made a golden comb for the rooster, he now does not part with it]: 85-87;but later; since then it follows the sun, they do not meet; the moon made a golden comb for the rooster, he now does not part with it]: 85-87;meo : Karpov, Tkachev 1958 (North Vietnam) [Thi Liau created heaven and earth, lit 10 young men-Suns, 9 young women-Moons; to reduce the heat, people hit 9 Suns and 8 Moons with arrows; the remaining Sun and Moon hid, it became dark and cold; the Tiger could not persuade them to return, the Rooster persuaded them for 7 years, received a red comb as a reward from TL]: 254-257; Nikulin 1982e (Vietnam) [Ndo Ti Yu created heaven and earth, 10 Suns (female), 9 Months (male), myriads of stars; the Suns, Moons and stars were intended to dry and illuminate the earth; there was no night for 7 years; the earth dried up, NT created trees and grasses, animals, molded man, breathed a soul into his belly, granted him language and breath; people became hot, they made a bow from huge trees, shot down extra suns and moons; after the flood, a brother and sister who were saved in a wooden drum, by order of NT got married, continued the human race; the Meo went north, where there is ice and night for 6 months, later gradually returned]: 206; Symonds 2004 (NW Thailand) [Saub created the sky, the earth, 30 female Suns and 30 male Months; 29 Suns and 29 Months were killed from a copper peacock bow, the rest hid, 7 years of darkness; the Sun and Moon do not respond to the calls of the bull, horse, Nkauj Mok and Nkauj Mim; the rooster crows three times, the Sun and Moon come out]: 215-218; man (Northern Vietnam, border with China) [the spirit of Lightning Leung Kung came down to set fire to the house of the spirit Tiang Lo Ko, made of banana leaves; TLK caught him, turned him into a rooster, put him in a cage; if you give the Rooster at least a drop of water, he will again become a thunderer; LTK gave his beak for water, TLK poured him water, LTK flew away to the sky; the beak became a tree with one fruit; in order to overtake LTK in the sky, TLK blocked the river, caused a flood; on the advice of birds, the young man Fu Hai and his sister sat in the fruit, were saved; LTK destroyed the dam, the fruit with FT landed on the mountain; Turtle, Bamboo advise brother and sister to get married; FT beats them, now they have stitches; FT nevertheless marries his sister, she gives birth to a fruit; people grew from seeds; after the flood, 12 suns, moons and stars appeared, God ordered them to dry up the earth; Luong Vung shot the luminaries, leaving one sun and one moon]: Karpov, Tkachev 1958: 260-262 (retelling of the episode of shooting at the suns in Kühn 1936: 78, there are also other versions briefly; the original of the entire text is in Savina, Histoire des Miao, p. I09); achan[the sky was larger than the earth; sky-Zhepama went south to repair the sky; earth-Zhemima remained to weave; at this time the demon Lahong placed two extra suns on the top of the mountain in the middle of the earth; the real sun and moon did not move either, they all shone; the earth was burning; the pig, dog, bull and horse began to swim, went into the water, and the fish and crabs came out onto dry land; returning, Zhepama wanted to destroy L., poisoning the waters or mountains, but Zhemima said that then people and animals would also perish; it is better to make friends with L. and then kill him; Zhepama does so; wins the competition: L. dries up the peach tree, and Zhepama pours rain on it, it blossoms again; sees a better dream than L.; he loses his strength in despair; (apparently Zhepama destroys the extra suns; other variants recorded by the same informant speak of only one sun)]: Richtsfeld 2000: 305-309; lolo : Graham 1961 [there were 9 suns and 9 moons, the earth was burning with heat; the miraculously born son of an eagle struck 8 suns and 8 moons with arrows, the last sun and moon hid, the earth was plunged into darkness; later they were persuaded to return; the same hero tamed the god of Thunder]: 84; Ho 1967, no. 10 [there were seven suns, six moons, birds and animals prospered; Shigar lived with two wives on an island in the eastern sea; flew on a winged horse to see if all was well in the world; the Lark said that the Boa Constrictor on the Eastern Mountain was becoming stronger and stronger in the rays of the seven suns, six moons; demands that a bird be brought to him every day; today is Partridge's turn; G. shot six suns with his bow, the seventh asked not to kill him, lest cold and darkness come; the birds began to sing joyfully]: 216; Kühn 1936 [(after Bastian, 1. c., I, p. 88); there were 12 suns and 12 moons; the sky god extinguished 11, lest the earth burn]: 77; lahu [Ghusha brought out 7 suns and 7 moons (C. B. Antisdel, Journal of the Burma Res. Soc., Rangoon, Vol. I, 1911, p. I, p. 67); first G., in order to destroy people, hid the Sun and the Moon, but two people were saved; then he sent 7 suns and 7 moons, from the heat of which the water evaporated, the earth caught fire; there was a vessel on the water, in it a brother and a sister, from whom new people came (Antisdel, 1. c., p. 68-69]: Kühn 1936: 80; fox: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994 [there were 7 suns (women) and 9 months (men); during the day all the suns gathered for a festival, and at night all the months; life on earth was in danger; after 7 years a dragon emerged from the lake to see how things were going on earth; he shot 6 suns, and the seventh managed to hide; at night he shot 8 months, and the ninth managed to hide; it became dark and cold, after a year the animals gathered for a council; they decided to have a cow call the luminaries, but from her mooing they only hid in fear behind the mountain; after 4 years the animals gathered again; they chose a tiger, from his roar the luminaries hid again; after 7 years they chose a rooster; from his first cry the moon stirred, after the second it came out; after the third the sun stirred, after the fourth it came out; the moon awarded the rooster with spurs, the sun with a comb]: 154-156; Miller 1994, #3 [a brother and sister are orphans; two birds told them there would be a flood; they told them to get into a pumpkin and come out when they heard their voices; the brother and sister tried to warn people, but they were not believed; the sun hung over the earth for 99 days, there was no rain, the earth began to burn, the leaves fell; then a thunderstorm began, a flood flooded the earth; when the waters receded, the pumpkin found itself on a mountain; hearing the voices of the birds, the brother and sister came out; after the flood, 9 suns began to burn the earth, and 7 moons began to freeze it at night; the birds told the brother and sister that a 9-horned dragon lived in the lake under the rock; if they got his golden bow and silver arrows, the extra suns and moons could be destroyed; the birds gave them a hammer to break the rock, silver pincers to grab the fish that the dragon would send; he successively sends out three fish, the brother and sister throw them ashore; seizing the dragon by the nose with pincers, they forced him to give up his bow and arrows; from the top of the mountain they shot down 8 suns and 6 moons; the brother and sister each went to look for people, but found no one; the birds told them to get married; they agreed after the thrown turtle shells lay one upside down, the other up, the two halves of the millstone lowered from the mountain lay on top of each other, and the brother's arrow hit the eye of the sister's needle; and so three times; they gave birth to 6 sons and 6 daughters; the couple who remained in place became the ancestors of the Lisu, and the other 5 - the ancestors of the Han, Tibetans, Bai, Well and Keqin]: 78-84; Hani [nine suns shine; some suggest covering them with baskets, others - hiding in cellars; ask an archer named Opubula to destroy the suns; he shot down eight with arrows, the ninth hid; various birds were sent to lure him out, to no avail; when the rooster crowed three times, the sun came out]: Lin Lin, Ustin 1959: 17-19; dun[4 turtles laid an egg each; three spoiled, one produced a boy; the same again: a girl emerged from the egg; they grew up and got married, they have 12 sons, including brother Jiangliang and sister Jiangmei; the brother cut down a tree, which led to a fire; the goddess of thunder became angry and sent rain that lasted 9 months; during the flood, the brother and sister were saved in a melon; the goddess of thunder brought out 12 suns to dry the earth, an incredible heat began; bees helped the brother and sister shoot 10 suns; 2 were left: day and night (moon); the eagle began to persuade the brother and sister to get married; they rolled two millstones down two slopes and they lay on top of each other; from the marriage of brother and sister came the Han, Miao, Dong {Min Dong?} and other peoples]: https://www.everyculture.com/wc/Brazil-to-Congo-Republic-of/Dong.html; Gelao (Guizhou) [there were seven suns and seven moons; the strongman A-ying reached up to the sky with a bamboo pole from a tree growing on a mountain and knocked down six suns and six moons]: Riftin MS; Li(Hainan, Qiongzhong County) [a bottle gourd grew on the ground; it became larger than a mountain; an immortal spirit made a hole in it and put inside two clay figures, a brother and a sister, as well as clay buffalo, bulls, pigs, dogs, cats, lizards, praying mantises, and the like—a pair of each creature; at that time a great flood began, and the bottle gourd began to rock on the waves; when the flood receded, five suns and five moons appeared in the sky, which quickly dried up all the water; thanks to the action of the sun and water, the figures and animals in the gourd came to life and jumped out; the suns blazed like fire, and in the evening, when the moons came out, it was so bright that one could not open one's eyes; then the immortal spirit asked who could get rid of the extra suns and moons; the wild boar replied that he had long tusks and could devour them; The brother and sister asked him to do this, but the boar replied that they would have to feed him some rice sprouts; the brother and sister agreed and told him to eat four of the five suns; the boar ate four suns and gnawed four moons, and the pieces turned into stars; when he returned, there were no rice sprouts to give him yet, but the brother and sister allowed him to eat all the rice he saw; that is why boars often eat rice sown by people; the brother and sister went wandering around the world, but could not find people and began to cry; the heavenly god of thunder heard their crying, came down and asked why they were crying; he told them to get married; the brother and sister said that they were related and if they got married, the god of thunder would punish them; he replied that he did not intend to punish them; the brother and sister did not believe him, and then he decided to show his power; There was a rumble of thunder, the earth shook, the rivers overflowed their banks, the trees split; the thunder god laughingly asked them if they believed him now, and then they obeyed and got married; they had a son, they couldn't get enough of him; the thunder god came again and ordered them to give the child to him; the brother and sister said that the child had not yet been born, but the thunder god replied that he already knew everything; he promised that he would turn the child into many people, and then the brother and sister would not have to be sad that there were no people in the world; the brother and sister did not agree, and the thunder god took the boy by force; he chopped him into pieces, began to sift them through a sieve; the sifted pieces of meat turned into four young men and four girls; the thunder god gave them clothes; the first one - a shirt and pants, he became a Han; for the second there was not enough cloth, the thunder god gave him two pieces, tied them in front and behind on his waist, so-called baggy trousers were obtained; this boy became a qi li; the third youth got even less cloth; the thunder god made a triangular loincloth for him, this youth became a xiao li; the last one got the smallest piece of cloth, this youth became a bendi li; the youths married girls, mankind began to live from generation to generation]: Zhou 2002, No. 2: 3-4; li(Hainan, Qiongzhong County) [after the flood happened, the earth was damp and people had a hard time; a god named Wanjia ("Darkness of Families") decided to dry out the earth; he created five suns and five moons and hung them in the sky; they were all seven-sided-octagonal, neither round nor square; they emitted terrible heat, the earth cracked, the trees withered; people asked W. to get rid of 4 suns and 4 moons; W. agreed to help, climbed to the top of the mountain and began to shoot at the suns and moons with a bow; 4 suns and 4 moons fell down, one sun and one moon remained; because of the flood and heat, many mountain ranges and cliffs appeared; W. created a large harrow and a huge bull and began to harrow the earth, dragging cliffs and mountains into the sea; At first he harrowed in the area of ​​Wenchang City and Qiongshan Mountain (in the east of the island) and created many plains there; then he began to harrow in the area of ​​Dongfang City and Baisha County (in the west of the island), but at that time the teeth of his harrow began to break; therefore, in the vicinity of Dongfang, Baisha, Qiongzhong and Baoting (in the west and central part of the island), many mountains and rocks remained]: Zhou Yang 2002, No. 3: 5.

Caucasus – Asia Minor. Georgians (Dushetsky district) [the devas devoured people, people asked God to destroy the devas; God brought forth 9 suns, 9 moons, but could not cope with the devas; then he dried up the waters; the devas, inflamed by the heat of the nine suns, shivering at night from the cold of the nine moons, almost perished]: Virsaladze 1973, No. 1: 47-48.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [The marmot was a man, a hunter; there were three suns; he shot at one with a bow and missed; angry, cut off his thumb, buried himself in the ground]: Potanin 1883, No. 6d: 179; Iroi Khamnigans (Tungus-speaking) [“we only managed to write down a fairy tale about a marmot (babak), which was interesting to us]. In the old days there were 3 suns. One day God told the animal hunter that there would be a severe drought and that he must shoot three suns, but if he did not carry out this order, then as punishment he would turn into a beast that would live in the ground, drink dew instead of water, and that one of his fingers would be taken away. Indeed, God turned the animal hunter into a marmot, whose offspring multiplied everywhere in enormous numbers; the whole earth was covered with many holes and pits and it became dangerous for people to travel on the ground. But when God saw this, he caught a tarbagan, a former beast breeder, and commanded him: “Reduce the number of your devils.” From then on, there were fewer tarbagans and they began to live only in dry places where there was less water”]: Talko-Gryntsevich 1904: 74; Oirats (Torguts of Tarbagatai) [zap. auth., 1889; Burkhun-bakchi created the earth, shulma wanted to burn it, created three suns; B. covered it all with water, defeated shulma in a long struggle; B. left one sun, threw the other two into the lower world of shulma; when sh. tries to return these suns to the sky, two others are visible next to our sun]: Ivanovsky 1890a: 263; darhaty (Khudzhirt soum, Uburkhangai aimag) [Born by a man from men, the shooter Erhiy-mergen had strength in his thumb, a gallbladder in his liver, he was young and hot, he believed in his strength, so he swore: "If I cannot shoot each of the seven suns with one arrow, I will cut off my thumb, stop being a man, I will not drink clear water, I will not eat last year's grass, I will live in a small cave where no ray of sun penetrates!" He began to shoot, starting from the east, at the suns lined up in a row from east to west: he destroyed 6 suns, he was just getting ready to shoot at the 7th with spells, when a swallow flew in front of him and covered {the sun}. He shot and pierced its tail, so the swallow's tail is now forked; the last sun got scared, quickly set behind the western mountains]: Mongolian expedition of the Russian State University for the Humanities, zap. 8.20.2006; Khalkha- Mongols : Potanin 1883, No. 6g [(from a Bogdoshabin from Urga); Marmot was a hunter; there were four suns, one on each side of the sky; he shot three suns; Burkhyn-bakshigot scared that there would be no light, turned the hunter into a marmot]: 179; 1919b, No. 4.1 [there were three suns; Erhe-mergen shot down two, missed the third, then cut off his thumb, turned into a marmot], 4.3 [there were three suns; Erhe-mergen made a bet with Burkhan that he would destroy them all by shooting from a bow, or cut off his thumb; Burkhan covered one sun, E. cut off his finger, turned into a marmot]: 17; Skorodumova 2003 [seven suns scorch the earth; people ask Erkhiy Mergen to shoot them; he promises to cut off his thumb if he misses each one; when he shot at the seventh, a swallow flew by, the arrow hit its tail, since then it has been forked; the sun hid behind the western mountains; the horse tells EM that if he doesn't catch the swallow by dusk, let them cut off his front legs; they didn't catch him, EM cut off his legs, the horse became a jerboa; EM cut off his thumb, became a marmot; human flesh remained on his body, so he is not eaten]: 28-30; Sharakshinova 1980 [several suns appeared in the sky, burning everything; Erkhiy Mergen struck them with arrows]: 37; Mongols , Oirats , Tuvans , Altaians [ Erkhiy-mergen ("shooter Thumb"), Tarbagan-mergen ("Marmot-shooter") in the mythology of the Mongols and Oirats, sometimes also Tuvans and Altaians, shoots down extra suns with a bow, of which there were originally two, three, four, etc.; not having got into the last one, turns into a tarbagan]: Neklyudov 1982d: 669; Mongols (Urga) [the earth was created by Burkhan Shagji-Tubi ; he threw a pinch of earth brought by him from the sky into the ocean; the pinch grew, formed the earth; grass and animals appeared on it; Sh. brought a man to it; people gradually degenerate; they will live for seven years, the height of an elbow, horses will be the size of a hare; then 3 suns will appear, burn everything, mountains will remain; lead rain will level them, sand will remain; the wind will sweep it away; then two whales and a frog, on which the earth stands, will be freed; Maidari will create a new earth, placing it on the same whales and a frog]: Benigsen 1912: 13-14; Transbaikal Buryats(Selengin: Tabanguts) [soon after the creation of the world, a man named Khara-Erkhe-Murgen appeared on earth, who was a very good shooter; not hunting either animals or birds, he exterminated only evil spirits and sorcerers; shooting an arrow from a bow, he called it who should be killed; the arrow exactly carried out the order and then returned to HEM; Burkhan-Bakshi created three suns in the sky: a large one in the middle, and smaller ones at the edges; seeing that these suns could dry out the whole earth, and that the strong light would make human life on earth unbearable, God called the shooter and said: “Will you perhaps destroy everything that you have created?”; HEM: “Not only living beings, but even the three visible suns. If I do not destroy them, then, firstly, I will cut off my thumb and toe, secondly, I will turn into a beast such as you have not yet created; six months a year I will live underground, I will not drink water or dew, or even come out of my hole after the rain"; when he was preparing to shoot an arrow, God closed the middle, largest sun from him; when the arrow returned, God opened it; seeing that the arrow destroyed only two suns, and the third remained, and fulfilling the oath, HEM fulfilled the oath; promised that if anyone began to kill him with an arrow, he would turn into a man and harm the people; when they were still hunting for tarbagans with a bow, it happened that a tarbagan wounded by an arrow hid in a hole; the hunters began to dig it out and found a little man with a bow and arrow; from that time on, hunting tarbagans with a bow is strictly prohibited; the front part of the tarbagan is rarely used for food, since it is human flesh]: Smolev 1902a: 101-103; the Mongols [seven suns appeared in the sky, everything is burning, people asked the archer Erkei-Mergen to help; he promises that if he cannot hit seven suns with seven arrows, he will cut off his thumbs, stop drinking, and become an animal; he killed 6 suns, when he shot at the seventh, a swallow was just flying by, the arrow hit its tail, now it is forked; the Sun hid behind the Western Mountain; EM rushed on his horse Qarčagai-Alag in pursuit of the Swallow; he ordered EM to cut off his legs and throw him in the steppe if he could not catch the Swallow before dusk; he did not catch up, EM cut off his legs, the horse became a jerboa, whose front legs are shorter than the back ones; the swallow has since flown over the riders, asking if they will catch up with it; EM became a marmot, coming out of its hole in the morning and in the evening, wanting to kill the sun; when it comes out in the evening, the sun hides in fear behind the Western Mountain, so day and night alternate]: Gadamba, Čerensodnom 1984: 735 in Nassen-Bayer, Stuart 1992: 330; Mongols[nine suns were constantly shining, it was unbearably hot; the archer Hou Yu shot eight of the moon; took Chang E as his wife; the old Taoist gave HYU the powder of immortality; HYU did not want to be immortal without a wife, hid the powder; in his absence, HYU's disciple began to persuade CHE to give him the powder; CHE did not know what to do, swallowed the powder herself, became light, rose to the moon; seeing her there, HYU laid out pieces of bread on the table for her; since then this is done on the 18th day of the eighth month]: Stuart, Limusishiden 1994: 137-138.

Eastern Siberia. Evenks of China [There was a time of many suns (the period was called sigunulhe biche). It was in ancient times, a long time ago. According to their ancient stories, the Evenks had thirteen suns (dyanduk ilan). Ten plus three suns were in the sky. And that Manginishche began to shoot at all of those suns. Out of thirteen suns he shot twelve (dyanduk dyurba). Then he began to shoot (from a bow) on the thirteenth, Manginishche (Mangikun) shot, and Sigunto grabbed his bow. When she grabbed his bow, she defeated (overcame) that Mangi. Having defeated Mangi, our Sigunto now also climbs into the sky in the morning, then falling, entering her homeland, and walked along her heavenly doors (buganu urkelduli). If it passes (in the sky), it enters its homeland; if it falls, Mangi must open its door (in the west). If it comes from here (from the east), Burkan opens the door for it, it used to be like that (in the east). Once, she was so late that the night caught up with her, Sigunto sang so that Burkan would open her door. Siguntokun sang like this: Singkinder, singkinder! Singkinder, singkinder! Big brother, open your big door, open it! Because of my golden earrings I am freezing, freezing! “Burkayakun, big brother, open your door, open it,” as soon as she said it, Burkan opened the door with a creaking “suur.” Sigunto came. The next day, the sun went down again. The sun rose, but having passed through the mountain taiga, walking and walking, having flown across the entire sky, it began to fall again – the night was approaching. And so she needs to go home. And suddenly something, Mangikun closed her door from the inside. Sigunto, having lost, was ashamed (offended) because it turns out that he! When she pulled out the bow. And when she started singing-requesting, he would not open the door for anything. Sigunto sang again: Singkinder, singkindere! Singkinder, singkindere! Makigdykun-old man! Open the door, open it! Because of my golden earrings I am freezing, freezing! Makigdykun-old man! Open the door, open it! From the street he asks to open it. Her ears are frozen - hardened. The same Mangikun is not there, he will not open it for anything. When Mangi did not open it, Mangi-old woman Sigunto began to call, open the door! Singkinder, singkindere! Singkinder, singkindere! Makigdykun-old woman, open the door, open it! Because of my golden earrings I'm freezing, freezing! I won't take your old man's Makigdyn away from you! No matter how much she asked, she wouldn't open it. Sigunto got really angry after that - she kicked the door with her foot! She kicked the door with all her might, but went straight into the house. When Sigunto came in, Mangikun was completely ashamed. Out of shame, Mangi immediately turned into a palm tree. Mangi-old woman got scared, and immediately turned into a dog's lap-dish. Then Sigunto stepped on that palm tree, breaking it at once. She trampled the dog's dish into pieces. Thus Sigunto won (overcame) Mangi]: Kudrina, Varlamova (disc, PRC), text 1.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nivkh : Kreynovich 1973 [there was one sun, one moon; then a blizzard for a whole year, resinous rain, three suns and three moons rose; the earth is burning; two titmouse brothers came out from under a hummock; a golden and a silver bird flew down to them along a larch tree; the elder brother with the silver bird rise, fall; the golden bird turns into a woman; the younger comes to an old man - her master; he boils him in a cauldron, makes iron, gives him a bow and arrows; the younger kills extra suns and months; the old man boils him again, returns human flesh; two brothers and two female birds give birth to people]: 329-333; Medvedev 1992 [three suns mercilessly burned the earth; the old man gives birth to and raises a boy Samnyun; takes a bow, goes to fight the suns; stops with an old woman; she gave something like a ball; S. flew through the air; ended up in the woman's house; in the morning she would be with him; he killed the first and last suns that came out, the middle one left; returned to the old woman, gave the ball back, returned home; now there are two dead on either side of the sun]: 34-37; Orochi : Avrorin, Lebedeva 1966, no. 47 [at first three sister-Suns shone, the earth melted (red rock is now visible in the cliffs); Hadau killed two with arrows, left the middle sister; the shadows of the dead can be seen (phantom suns)], 49 [Kh. killed two of the three suns; no details]: 193-194, 196; Bereznitsky 1999, no. 1 [there were three suns; meteorites killed one with a crossbow, then the second; it became cooler]: 18; Kreynovich 1929 [three suns were shining; rivers flowed in one direction on one bank and in the other direction on the other; one man shot the extra suns, the earth cooled down]: 84-85; Margaritov 1888 [1) three suns were shining, it was impossible to live on the earth, people floated on the water and flew through the air; now you can see the porous stones that were boiling then; a man killed two suns with arrows; 2) three suns were shining, a man killed two with arrows; the current in the rivers was double, people were no different from animals, the wind blew from four directions at once, etc.; The otter lost her child, who was carried in the wrong direction, asked Anduri to change the world, which he did]: 28; Ulchi : Zolotarev 1939: 167-171 [a young man named Kondolina lived in a fir tree, a girl named Adzhua lived in the root of a cedar; K. met A., got married; A. gave birth to twin girls, then two sons in turn; when the brothers hunt, the animals laugh at them; the brothers threaten to kill their mother, make her confess that she and their father are brother and sister; all members of the family are transformed into various spirits, good and evil; var.: the eldest brother rises to heaven, becomes Hadau, kills two suns], 171 [H. was born in the earth, killed two suns, then people appeared; the soul of the deceased returned to the body through a hole; H. plugged it up, since thenthen people die forever]; Smolyak 1976 [when three suns were shining and the stones were soft, a woman made drawings on them with her fingers (about petroglyphs near the village of Mai)]: 133; Udege [=Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010: 27; there were three suns, one big, two small ones at the edges; instead of snow, groats fell from the sky, there was oil in the lakes; a man named Batani had a son, he cried all the time, his mother threw him into fresh dough; he fell silent, and from then on he slept in the dough; the god Enduri found out that the child was sleeping in the dough, and began to send snow instead of groats, and water instead of oil; the father decided that the three suns were to blame, and killed two, but the third managed to rise high]: Podmaskin 1991, no. 4: 118-119; Negidals : Khasanova, Pevnov 2003, no. 3 [there is unbearable heat on earth; strong people decided to kill two of the three suns, leaving the middle one; but they killed two strong ones, the weak (current) one dodged; traces are visible in place of the two previous suns], 4 [the earth is burning; a strong man killed two of the three suns]: 53-54, 54; Tsintsius 1926 in Sem 1996 [there were three suns, the earth was burning; the first man Udi killed the sun with one arrow, the second did not have time, he killed the third]: 139; Nanai : Laufer 1899 [there lived three people: Shanvai , Shankoa , Shanka ; they sent three swans to dive to get stones and sand for the earth; the birds were under water for seven days; they came out - the earth is growing, the Amur is flowing; three people made a man Kado and a woman Djulcha , a maiden Mamilji ; the people multiplied; there were three suns, too hot; K. went to the east, hid in a hole, shot the first and third suns, missed when shooting at the second; M. made drawings on the stones while the stones were soft from the heat; decided that there were too many people, died to show them the way to the afterlife; chipmunk, tumna (?), snake sleep in winter, do not die; the rest are mortal]: 749-750 (cited in Okladnikov 1968: 163-164); Kile 1996, No. 45 (Amur district) [there were three suns, terrible heat; the man ran to the east for a long time, hid behind a boulder, shot two suns with a bow; in severe frost their reflections are visible on the sides of the remaining one]: 399; Lopatin 1922 [there lived a brother Khodai and a sister Myamendi; M. bit her finger, a man and two women emerged from the drops of blood, and people are descended from them; at M.'s request, Kh. kills two of the three suns with arrows; M. sends him to look for the door to the other world (buni), since it is cramped for people on earth; Kh. finds a tree with shamanic paraphernalia, collects everything in a bag; they demand to let them out, since they are not for him alone; he opens the bag, the paraphernalia flies to different people worthy of becoming shamans; now it is possible to bury the dead, take souls to buni]: 237-238; Okladnikov 1968: 165-166 (recorded by V.G. Larkin, 1963 in Sakachi-Alyan) [ Boa Enduri[he killed two extra suns with a bow; the fragments turned into stars]; Sem 1986 [retelling by Shimkevich 1896 (see below) with the addition: Doldchu-Khodai is the son of Myameldi and her husband named Guranta ; G. hides in an ice pillar, it melts; in a wooden one - it burns; in a stone one - he kills the suns]: 39-41; Smolyak 1976 [ Khado killed extra suns - two out of three or five out of six]: 134; Trusov 1884 in Sem 1996 (mounted Nanai) [there were three suns, Mafa , Mari and Gordo , it was hot; Goronta shot two suns, Mari remained ; he found a woman Myame stuck to a tree trunk, separated her, made her his wife; they had a son Dzhulchu , daughters Khadoy and Verinka ; from them people came]: 134; Chadayeva 1990 [ Khado Myamelji creates a tree reaching to the sky with copper leaves, bark of live snakes, lizards, frogs; the leaves turn towards the side where the disaster is; the evil spirit releases two more suns into the sky, the river boils, the stones melt; HM kills them with arrows; his daughter cries because there are too many people, asks to open the door to the afterlife; HM went there forever, people follow him; the Black Dragon Sakhari Dyabdyan creates a tree covered with cobwebs; people, to whom the wind brings a tuft of cobwebs, die]: 5-7; Shimkevich 1896 [=2011: 177-180; the son of the first man and woman Doldchu-Khodai is alarmed by the immeasurable proliferation of people; goes into a cave, his father blocks the entrance with a stone; D. dies, but the revival of people does not stop; then D.'s mother plugs the entrance to the cave with skins; when the last one has rotted away, people begin to die; the next day three suns and three moons rise; D.'s father kills two suns with an arrow at sunset and kills two moons at sunrise; he goes to the shaman's tree, which has bark made of reptiles, roots made of snakes, leaves made of toli (round mirrors), flowers made of bells, and metal horns on top; he takes the shaman's accessories and costume details from it (toli, bells, several horns knocked off by an arrow), brings them to the fanza, closes the doors, but the accessories begin to fly away through the hole for the smoke to escape; in a dream the old man tells him to keep one copy of each item for himself; the rest will fly apart, other shamans will get them]: 9-10; Sternberg 1933: 493 [the fish were dying, it was hot; Khado went to the east, made a grass house, it burned down; the same - a wooden one; then stone; killed two suns out of three], 455 (? check) [the water boiled, the mountains melted; Daxsur (Hado) killed the two outer suns, the middle one remained].

California. Shasta [Old Mole digs, the earth he throws up forms our world; the Great Man made men; they were cold; Coyote went east, brought a tinderbox, gave it to the men; the Sun had nine brothers, as hot as he, the Moon had nine as cold, icy; it was terribly hot in the daytime, cold at night; Coyote killed the brothers Sun and Moon with his flint knife; rain is the tears of a man weeping in the sky; one day a young Indian died, everyone wept so much for him that the earth was flooded; only one pair of people were saved]: Powell 1877: 250-251 (=Judson 1994; paraphrased in Hatt 1949: 77): 27-28).

Honduras - Panama. Hikaque [the Sun has four brothers; the Sun wanders, people grab him, put him in prison; the father of the luminaries releases four suns; the water in the rivers boils; agrees to remove the extra suns in exchange for the release of the prisoner]: Chapman 1982, no. 27: 112-113.

Central Andes. The ancient inhabitants of the earth perish from the heat of several suns that have risen in the sky. Carhuas (Ancash dep.) [two]: Stein 1987: 251; Huanca (Jauja, Junin dep.) [once upon a time a multitude of demons appeared in the world, headed by Huari-vilca; then five suns rose, the demons fled, and everything where they were burned; the Incas worshiped the Sun, but also built a temple to Huari-vilca]: Cieza de Leon 1976, ch. 33 (LXXXIV): 116; village of Huanaspampa ( Huancavelica dep. ) [the Machus (pagans) survive a famine, a flood, an earthquake, sent to destroy them; then four suns (tahua intis) burn up the earth; the rest were destroyed by the flood]: Galindo 1990: 219; My ( Huancavelica dep. ) [in the pagan world there were two Incas; the wife of the upper one was Lake Titicaca, of the lower one - Mother Sea; three suns appeared, taming the arrogance of the pagans; only the highest mountains escaped the heat, snow still lies on them]: Ortíz Rescaniere 1987: 197; Risua, Andamarca (Junín dep.) [God decided to punish the pagans, sends a fiery flood; some are saved; then God orders two suns to shine at the same time; the pagans and the Incarri perish]: Ortíz Rescaniere 1980: 138-139.