The Sun sent his sister the Moon to earth to pick up berries. The Moon walks across the tundra, picks berries, and meets Crow. They picked berries, collected and filled the dishes. Luna says:
- Let's rest a little! The Crow answers the Moon:
- You rest, and now I’ll sort out the berries.
Luna fell asleep. The Crow has become
look at her face and be surprised - she couldn’t take her eyes off - what a beautiful girl. The Moon woke up and asked Crow:
- Did you sleep or not?
“I just woke up, I wanted to wake you up.” Let's go to my place, it's not far from here.
Luna agreed and they left.
In the evening, Vorona’s brother came from hunting. The crow quietly says to his brother: “Put on my clothes tomorrow and go with this woman to the tundra to pick berries instead of me.”
And so they did.
They take berries. The moon watches Raven picking berries and asks:
- Aren't you a man?
“No,” answers Raven. - You and I were picking berries here yesterday!
Luna picked berries in her bowl, she was tired.. She wanted to invite her friend to relax together, but she wasn’t there.
Luna began to look for her friend, and found a beautiful knife. She hid the knife in the folds of her dress, waited for her friend, and dozed off.
The Moon woke up, and instead of a knife, Raven was next to her.
Luna burst into tears and got scared. Raven began to console her. The Moon rose and flew towards the Sun. She looked back at the ground, and Raven was flying after her.
“You won’t make it, it’s too far!” says the Moon.
“I won’t leave you, I’ll fly as much as I can, and then I’ll fall to the ground and break!” — Raven answers.
The Moon felt sorry for the Crow, she returned to earth, and a child was born to them.
The Sun is waiting, waiting for her sister, the children are waiting, singing songs about the Moon, but she is still not there.
The sun came down to earth and illuminated the entire tundra.
The Sun sets into Raven's yaranga and asks his sister: .
- Why are you still on earth?
- Yes, I have a child!
The Sun and Raven argued - whose Moon is now? Raven says:
- She is mine, she has a child from me!
- No, she's my sister! - says the Sun.
And they started arguing. And they decided - whoever the woman sews clothes better and faster will have the Moon.
The Raven called the ermine, and the Sun called the mouse. They gave them a kukhlyanka to sew. The ermine sewed a kukhlyanka, but the mouse had not started yet.
Raven called the Tarbagan, and the Sun called the Eurasian to sew fur pants. I sewed the Tarbagan, but the eagle’s work isn’t even half done.
Raven called the otter, and the Sun called the fox. They were told to sew fur stockings. The otter sewed two stockings, but the fox only made one.
Raven called the mountain sheep, and the Sun called the wolverine. They gave them a tobaza to sew. The mountain sheep sewed the torbaza, but the wolverine did not have time.
The Raven called the bear, and the Sun called the she-wolf...
The Sun sees that it is losing and sends for the ice woman. An icy woman arrives - a beauty, all glowing. Raven was angry with the Sun, the Moon's brother, for having such beautiful women.
- Give me your sister! - says the Sun. Raven thought and thought and said:
- No!
The Sun sent for the snow woman. She comes in
into the yaranga, the Sun sent rays onto her, and her outfit sparkled and sparkled with multi-colored lights. The yaranga immediately became light and cheerful.
- Take your sister! - Raven shouted and took both women - the ice one and the snow one.
The Sun became angry with Raven for forgetting his sister, and went overseas. Since then it has become dark and cold in the tundra...
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru