B42L. The bucket is a beast, the handle is a hunter.
.34.-.37.43.-.45.47.
Thestars of the Big Dipper bucket handle are hunters, the bucket itself is a bear, an elk, or a meat barn where the bear climbs.
Khakas, Northern, Eastern and Southern Khanty, Northern and Southern Selkups, Kets, Evenks (Sym, Yerbogachen, Turukhansky, Orochons), Evens, Udege, Lilluet, Thompson, Shuswap ( probably), snohomish, puyallup niscually, curdalen, vasco, fox, seneca and other northern Iroquois, Mikmaq, Delaware, Chirokee.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas.
Western Siberia. 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. Sym Evenks (b. Ket) [Evenk, Selkup and Russian drove the elk, he ran to heaven; the Russian fell behind, then the ostyak (i.e. Selkup); Evenk shot the elk's leg, took the cauldron, began to cook meat; they can still be seen in the sky; Milky The path is a ski track, on the other side of the ski track there is a shot leg; a small star is a bowler hat; it is seen by someone with good eyesight]: Lukina 2004, No. 3.6:70-71; Erbogachen Evenks [the giant has a wife and daughter; in old age, his wife gave birth to a son Manga-Dyromgo with three eyes in his forehead; he curls the beasts' necks, brings them home alive so that the meat does not deteriorate; sister asked to take her hunting, dull, MD twisted her neck, brought it like prey; her father wanted to cook her for dinner, but her mother straightened her neck, and MD ran away from home; decided to go to heaven; skis to the hole in the transparent cap above the ground, goes across the sky; catches up with two hunters; Hurry (extreme star B. Bears) hurries Khvastun (middle star B. Bears) to catch up with the moose (four stars of the bucket) before it disappears from view in the morning; The bragger, with a bowler hat (Alcor) behind his back, says in advance that he will be the first to catch up with the moose, will cook meat; Mangy- Döromgo (Orion) walks with them, overtakes them, crosses the sky on skis, kills a moose with an arrow (three stars from Orion to B. Bear) under the shoulder blade; calf (first star B. Bears) fell, found himself on the ground, the current moose come from him; MD comes to the tent in which the old woman and daughter; marries her daughter; misses the earth; walks to the edge of the sky and cries; answers his mother-in-law that his eyes are red because the peaks of the earth's forest hit his eyes; his mother-in-law goes to punish the forest, the trees explain that they are not to blame; the mother-in-law gives MD to an eight-legged horse with sharp hooves, who brings him to to her native camp; there is sister MD, who ate her parents and became a cannibal; at night she hides an ax under her headboard, but MD sees it with her third eye; sealed her sleeping sister's eyes, galloped off, but sharp the horse's hooves get stuck in the ground; manages to slip into a hole in the sky, where it jumps easily along the smooth surface of the sky, and the pursuer slides; the mother-in-law melted metals in the boilers, pushed the giantess into them- pursuer, kept in everyone; she rushed to the ground, crashed; since then there have been placers and deposits of gold, silver and other metals on earth]: Pezhemsky 1936, No. 2:273-275; Turukhan Evenks (Gainda, right tributary of Podkamennaya Tunguska, western 1920) [Russian, Ostyak, Tungus argued about who was better at skiing; they found Hoglen's trail (elk, Big Dipper); the Russian reached the foot of the mountain, the Ostyak jumped to the top, the Tungus was already down the mountain, overtook Hoglen; they can be seen at night {three bucket handle stars}]: Osharov 1936a: 22 (=1936b, No. 13:280); Evenks (Bachinsky - Podkamennaya Tunguska) [the boastful hunter comes first, but when they they begin to chase the beast, turns out to be the last; he is followed by the hunter carrying the cauldron; the smallest one who walks behind chases the moose first; the bragger is afraid of the moose, is the last; these are the three stars of the bucket handle; four bucket stars - the elk itself]: Vasilevich 1959:162-163; Evenki Orochons [in autumn, the Evenk, Yukaghir and Chukchi argued which of them was the best hunter; they found the elk and chased it; the beast ran across the sky , the hunters continued to pursue him: Evenk was the first, the Yukaghir was the second, the Chukchi was the third; they all turned into stars; the Big Dipper bucket was the elk, the first star of the bucket handle was Evenk, the second Yukaghir, the third is Chukchi; a star from the constellation Hounds Dogs near the last star of the bucket handle is an Evenka dog]: Mazin 1984:10; Evens [even, evenk and yukghir (or Chukcha, h eek) decided find out which of them is stronger, faster and more enduring; we agreed that whoever finds the biggest and fastest animal and brings home the whole thing will be considered the strongest, fastest and most enduring a hunter in the middle world; chased an unknown animal; where he stepped with his foot, there was a lake where hunters were skiing, rivers appeared, and where they ran, a river (roll); the beast ran to north, where frost comes from and where the sky is closer to the ground; left traces in the form of lakes (so there are many lakes in the tundra); this animal, i.e. moose, began to be called toki ("coming or leaving a trace"); the hunters did not notice how they found themselves in the upper world; there Havack turned an elk, three hunters (even, an evenk and a yukaghir) and a dog into stars for climbing to the upper world without Havek's permission; four The stars of the Big Dipper are four legs of an elk; star-turned hunters froze near these four stars, and not far from these seven stars, there is another frequently flashing Polar star" {unlikely; the North Star does not blink; rather Alcor} is a hunting dog]: Keimetinov 2000:125-127.
Amur - Sakhalin. The Udege people [Big Dipper - Zali Bangnyani, the food barn; the four stars of the bucket are the barn itself, the three stars of the handle are three hunters filling the barn with meat; one day a bear climbed into the barn, one stand squinted; since then, the owner of the barn with the dog has been chasing the bear; hunters and all people worship Zali Bangnyani, asking him for health and getting better]: Podmaskin, Kireyeva 2010:15-16.
The coast is the Plateau. Lillouette; Thompson; Shuswap? ; snohomish [four moose]; puyallup-niscually; kordalen; vasco.
The Midwest. Fox.
Northeast. Seneca, Iroquois in general; Mi'kmaq; Delaware.
Southeast USA. Chirokee.