L90C. Horns to heaven and earth. .29.32.-.34.

One horn of an animal (deer, ram, bull, goat, wolverine) rests on the ground, and the other is raised to the sky or reaches the sky.

Abkhazians, Kumyks, Laks, Georgians, Chuvashes, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Chelkans.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [a hunter picks flowers behind a fence, brings them to his sister; they satisfy her; in his absence, the sister is taken away by the owner of the flowers, the dragon Agulshap; he falls asleep, she asks God to save her, finds herself in a room; a young man rises from the coffin, lies down in the coffin again during the day; when he died, God was able to resurrect him for the sake of his father, the king, only at night; a husband sends his wife to give birth to his father; a son is born, bites his mother's nipple, forcing her to say who comes to her at night; the young man sends beyond the edge of the world; a husband and wife lie on an axe handle, others push each other on a wide skin; a skinny bull among the best fodder, a fat one without fodder; a deer suffers - one horn rests on the ground, the other in the sky; the young man climbs up the horn to the sky; the mother of the Sun and the Moon hides the young man from them, gives the water with which they washed themselves, with it he will resurrect his father; [the deer killed animals, promises not to do it, is released, carries the young man; the fat bull did not complain about work in life, the skinny one was dissatisfied; amicable spouses in life are not cramped on the axe handle, quarrelsome ones are cramped on the skin; the young man dresses up as a shepherd, resurrects his father; general feast]: Bgazhba 2002: 121-128; Kumyks [returning, the Goat asks the kids Engelik and Sengelik to open the door; answers the Wolf that the children's names are Zasov and Big Hook; warns the children that she will stick her white foot with golden toes under the door herself; the Wolf calls the children by name, but they say that their mother has a white foot with golden toes; the Wolf rolled the paw in flour, made rings for the toes from straw, the kids opened it, the Wolf swallowed them; the Goat says that one of her horns plows the sky, the other the earth ; The Wolf says that the Bear ate the children, the Bear says that the Wolf; the Goat ripped open the Wolf's belly with her horns, the kids jumped out alive]: Ganieva 2011a, No. 61: 177-178; lucky [the mother died; the neighbor persuades the daughter to ask her father to marry her; he puts it off, but then agrees; the stepmother makes a pie with sand and ash for her stepdaughter; she persuaded her husband to leave his daughter in the forest; she climbed a tree; wolves, bears, foxes pass by one after another, promising not to eat her; and here comes Zaza, the white cow, digging the sky with one horn, the earth with the other; the girl's tears drip onto her, Z. orders her to jump on her chest; he takes her underground; allows her to eat everything, but not to touch the jugs; the girl stuck her finger in, it turned silver; then Z. tells her to bathe in the jugs; the girl turns silver, gold; from the cow's right ear the girl pulls out expensive jugs and other dishes, clothes and jewelry; Z. gives her away to the khan's son]: Omar-oglu 1868: 51-52 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 59: 174-178, =Khalilov, Osmanov 1989: 152-154); Georgians (Imereti) [angels tell a girl that her three brothers will soon die: the eldest while hunting, the middle one while fishing, the youngest on his wedding day - a snake will crawl out of his new shoes; if her sister tells, she will turn into a pillar of salt; the eldest was killed by a deer while hunting, the middle one drowned in the river; before the wedding, the sister throws her brother's shoes into the fire, a monster's cry is heard; the brother's wife considers his sister a witch, the sister tells, turns to stone; the brother leaves to look for a way to revive her; on the way he sees a skinny bull grazing on juicy grass; a woman with bread in her hands, but screaming from hunger; another woman sweeps up the litter, and the wind carries it back into the house; a deer with one horn in the clouds and the other in the ground; he tells her to climb to heaven along his horns; a young man comes to an old woman; she promises to ask the angels about the fate of the young man's sister and those he met along the way; the bull worked poorly, let him drink from the spring; the woman did not give to the poor, let her give away all her bread; another did evil, the garbage must be taken out through the back door; the deer killed his elder brother and other people, let him put the upper horn behind his back, then he will pull out the lower one; the young man sprinkled his sister with the water with which the angels washed her feet, she came to life]: Bogoyavlensky 1894, No. 7: 56-65.

Volga - Perm. Chuvash [(a spell against the evil eye); "from the east marches red bull; with one horn it rips up the earth forty arshins, with the other horn it rips up the sky forty arshins ; if that red bull manages to reach and stab, let only the harmful eye fall on that person”; when repeated they say “from the south”, “from the west” and accordingly “motley bull”, “black bull”]: Ivanov 1957: 291 in Salmin 1989: 50; Bashkirs [an old man slaughtered a cow, a drop of blood fell on the roof of the house, from it a boy Akyelak emerged; the padishah takes him into service; the padishah a bull, one horn goes to the sky, the other reaches the ground; the padishah orders him to be given water, the bull butts, A. kills him with a flick; the adviser advises sending A. for firewood with horses without an axe, so that the wolves will eat him; A. kills the wolves; then the bears; the adviser suggests giving the task of bringing a mare with 60 girths; A.'s father orders to ask the padishah for an indefatigable horse and endless food; the horse brings A. to the meskei (cannibalistic witch), who sends him to her older sister, the sister to the watering hole; A. saddles a huge mare, kills the azhdah, makes a whip from his skin; the padishah makes A. his heir]: Barag 1988, No. 26: 178-180.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [consider the ram to be the most powerful of the ancestral spirits, which “ stuck one horn into the ground and propped up the sky with the other ” (Songs of the Steppes. Ed. L. Sobolev. Moscow, 1940: 130-140)]: Kaskabasov et al. 1979: 11.

Southern Siberia – Mongolia. Chelkantsy (Itkuch village, Turochak district) [after turning to a shaman and sacrificing a horse, the wife gives birth to seven sons, the eldest Maka-Maatyr ; next time he asks for a girl, but sacrifices not a mare, but a dog, gives birth to a six-eyed Karagys ; MM sees how K. gets up from the cradle, eats the calf, lies down back; then a foal, a bull; MM says that he will leave for a short time, leaves forever; marries the youngest of three daughters of Ulug-Piya ; other sons-in-law advise their father-in-law to tell MM to bring 1) feathers of the Purush bird ; the wife says that its nest is on the top of one of the seven larches; a seven-headed snake crawls from the lake to the nest, MM kills the seven heads with arrows, climbs into the nest; the chicks say that this snake always devours chicks; father P. flew in with the wind and fine snow, then mother with the wind and rain (these are her tears), gives two feathers; 2) a tooth of a wolverine living at the confluence of seven rivers, to make a tagan; the wife says that one of her horns is stuck in the ground, the other is raised to the sky, you need to grab onto both; the wolverine gives two teeth; 3) the youngest daughter of Kudai Altyn-Tan ; the wife teaches him to make a dwelling where K. gets water; his three sons will come; for a fur coat sewn from what was collected from the mountains, ask to show half of his sister's face; for a fur coat sewn from what was collected from the meadows - a button under his arm; from the rivers - let him drink arak from a thimble; AT got drunk, MM carries her away; the brothers who received the fur coats catch up, AT sends them away; turns UP's cattle into black earth, him into a fox; MM marries AT; she says that only six-eyed K. is left at MM's father's camp; AT gives him a six-legged trotter; K. gnaws the bones of his parents, sees MM on the chimney, chases, cuts off, eats the sixth, fifth legs of the horse, fights with his brother; AT tells her to leave, she returns home; AT and MM live on]: Sadalova 2002, No. 20: 173-201.