Sokholylan went to marry the fox. The fox saw him and ran away into the tundra.
Sokholylan went to marry a partridge. He took a partridge as his wife, lived with her for one day, and the partridge ran home.
Sokholylan went to get married, but the bride ran away to another groom. Sokholylan married a woman, set up a canopy, and his wife gave birth to two children, a son and a daughter. She showed her son to her husband, and hid her daughter behind the curtain. The wife also gave birth to two sons, and keeps burying her daughter behind the curtain.
Sokholylan went to visit his sister and brother. They treat Sokholylan to a fly agaric, but Sokholylan cannot keep it inside. As soon as he swallows the fly agaric, it comes back out. The sister washes the fly agaric, and Sokholylan swallows it again.
Brother Ichcha Sokholilan says:
- What is your wife building, don’t you know?
- No, I don’t know, Ichcha.
Sister gave Sokholylan a shoe with spikes on the sole, the kind you use to walk on in icy conditions, and two sticks with pointed ends.
Sokholylan comes home. And the wife painted a wooden whale with berry juice and placed it near the shore.
“Let’s jump!” says the wife.
Sokholylan did not jump over the whale - he stuck spikes and sticks into the whale’s back. Whale's wife pushed him away
shore, and the whale went to the bottom of the sea. Sokholylan asks and begs for seaweed:
- Lift me from the bottom of the sea to the shore!
- No, Sokholylan, when you walked on the ground, you tore the hair of the grass!
Sokholylan says to the bush:
- Help me rise from the bottom of the sea!
- No, you burned me with fire when you walked on the tundra.
Fish swim over Sokholylan. Sokholylan shouts to them:
- Fish, fish, lift me from the bottom of the sea to the shore!
- No, Sokholylan, when you walked along the shore, you caught us and cut us into yukola.
Sokholylan saw a fly agaric and prayed to him. says
fly agaric:
“You treated me well on earth, you loved me and looked for me, and when you ate me, you had fun, you sang songs!”
Sokholylan's fly agaric raised from the bottom of the sea:
- Here's my wife for you. eat it and you'll have fun!
Sokholylan lay down on the shore and sang songs:
“I ate my wife and it made me happy!”
The wife heard her husband's voice and said to her sons:
- Your father is coming as a guest, go and bring him.
The eldest son called his father. Sokholylan doesn’t listen, he sings songs. The youngest son followed his father and wanted to raise him. Sokholylan pulled out the knife and cut off a wart on his son’s hand. The mother saw her son covered in blood and cut herself into pieces. And she said:
“My feet and hands are to the evening star, and my head is to the morning dawn.”
Sokholylan sings so that his wife can hear him from the other world. He sings and sings, and his strength leaves him. A shaman approached him, spat in his mouth, and he sang so loudly that his wife heard him from the other world and was surprised how her husband could get here. Sokholylan made a flying canoe from a walrus tusk and flew to his dead wife. And he brought her home to his children.
Sokholylan woke up in the morning with a heavy head. His wife gave him tea and meat and said:
- You almost died from a fly agaric yesterday. Your sons found you in the tundra and barely caught up with you. They wouldn’t have caught up, but you raised your legs high.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru