B42G. The object of the hunt is the Big Dipper.

(.32.34.-.37.39.40.41.43.-.45.47.)

The Big Dipper (whole or just a bucket) is identified with an animal or animal (usually hunted by a hunter). See motif B42.

Volga - Perm. Marie; Chuvash.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas: Alexeev 1980 (Kachins) [an old hunter chased seven foxes and drove them into the sky; he became the North Star, foxes became seven stars of the Ursa Major]: 87-88; Katanov 1907, No. 181 [Big Dipper - Chettygen; three brothers behind them all, two dogs in front of him, two maralukhs in front; the middle brother carries a cauldron on his head to cook meat (the cauldron is an asterisk under the sixth star)]: 273-274; " Kachin Tatars "[The Big Dipper - seven foxes driven into the sky by a hunter]: Potanin 1893:322.

Western Siberia. Tundra and Forest Nenets; Mansi; Northern, Eastern and Southern Khanty; Northern and Southern Selkups; Southern Selkups: Alatalo 2004 (recordings by K. Donner, 1911-1914, No. 591 (b. Chaya) [Big Dipper - elk (four stars) and three hunters] ,1630 (Baidon yurts, Chulym) [four stars of the Ursa Major are elk; the other three are chasing moose Tungus, Ostyak and Samoyed] ,1645 (b. Tym) [Big Dipper - "(Jagd-) Zugnetz des Tym-Flußes"; four stars are moose legs, the rest are three hunters: Samoyed, Ostyak and Tungus]: 86, 234, 237; chum salmon.

Eastern Siberia. Evenks (Sym, Erbogachen, Turukhansky, Nizhneangarsk, Orochons); Evens.

Amur - Sakhalin. Orochi; Udege people.

SV Asia. Markovo [three brothers and three sisters ski for a moose; it rises to the sky, they follow him; the elk turns into the Big Dipper, the catchers six stars near her]: Dyachkov 1992:232; Koryaks (reindeer and coastal?) : Krasheninnikov 1994 (2): 22 [The bear is called a crankhl], 160 [Big Dipper - Yeluye-kying, i.e. wild deer]; itelmen [The Big Dipper is named after the name that is in translated as elk]: Grebnitsky in Potanin 1883:942.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos [Ursa Major - reindeer, Pleiades - girls, Orion - hunter, Twins - bow, Cassiopeia - bear trail, Cepheus - half tambourine]: Ushakov 2001:172; Aleuts on Commanders [Big Dipper - Itmakh, Malaya - Itmakucha; under Ithakh - "deer", "elk" in the language of the Unalashka Aleuts]: Grebnitsky in Potanin 1883:942.

Subarctic. Koyukon [people are dying, the Raven is looking for the cause, the Ermine follows to the big house; the big man screams that he feels like an outsider is looking at him; the Ermine and the Raven eat together, the Raven Ermine puts something black in his food; he says that if he dies, the Raven will die; the Raven gets home and dies; finds himself on the river bank; meets Ermine; he decides to fly north , The Raven goes east; when the Ermine takes off, the Raven throws a spear in his ass; the Ermine turns into the Big Dipper, the Raven becomes the Morning Star]: Nelson in Vanstone 1978:56-58; Inhalic [Indians Lower Yukon is called Big Dipper Moose]: Nelson in Vanstone 1978:61.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry; chilcotin; lillouet; thompson; shuswap; halkomel; snohomish; puyallup-niskally; twana; curdalen; vasco.

The Midwest. Menominee; Ojibwa; Fox.

Northeast. Nascapi; Montagnier; Seneca; Iroquois; Micmaq; Penobscot; Delaware.

Southeast USA. Chirokee.