Tyartekan lived. He didn't know the people. I didn’t know where I was born. He was married. He lived by hunting. His wife crushed his bones and boiled the fat. I cooked a lot of fat.
Tyartekan said to his wife:
- Let's move on.
They migrated. The bone fat was left at the previous site. We stopped. They set the plague.
The next day, Tyartekan went to collect the leftover fat. I took Narta with me. Arriving at the place, the fat on the sledge reported.
The arctic fox came and said:
- Hey, old man, what are you doing? - I came for luggage.
- I'll help you.
- OK.
We walked along the road together. Tyartekan walks ahead, pulls the sledge, and the Arctic fox walks behind. When the old man looks forward, the arctic fox eats fat. As soon as he looks back, the arctic fox begins to push the sleigh.
The arctic fox asked:
- Grandfather, do you know this place? Tyartekan said:
- I don’t know.
– It’s called Half the Space. Then let's go. The Arctic fox ate fat. I ate all the fat. The old man stopped.
– Do you know this place?
- No, I don’t know. Arctic fox said:
– This place is called the Empty Bowl. Uh, my head hurts. I'll go home.
The old man said:
- Go. Helped me well.
As he left, the arctic fox barked: Kau-kau-kau!
Tyartekan came home and said to the old woman:
- Bring in the fat.
The old woman sewed it. She was delighted and ran out. The empty vessel was just lying in the sled. Entering, she said:
- Why are you deceiving a person? There is no fat. Tyartekan ran out, ran up to the sledge, nothing happened. The arctic fox's tooth lies only on the sled.
Tyartekan said:
“I will kill the arctic fox with cunning when I invite him to my place.”
Tyartekan called elk, wild deer, ram, brown bear, polar bear, fox, arctic fox, hare, squirrel, ermine, mouse and other animals.
All the invitees came.
Tyartekan began to perform shamanism and sang: Khudi-khudie, khudi-khudie!
While he was shamanizing, his pants fell down. Everyone laughed. They saw that an arctic fox was missing a tooth in its mouth. Tyartekan ran up to the arctic fox, grabbed it and began to beat it. The guests got scared and ran away, breaking everything in the house.
Tyartekan beat the arctic fox, beat and beat, and then drove him out.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru