B42m2. A bragger and a hurry. .35.36.45.
TheBig Dipper bucket handle stars are three hunters who chase animals. Each has a special character (one is a bragger, the other is hasty, etc.). In Siberia, hunters are identified with people of different nationalities, and in the North American Northeast, with birds of different species.
Northern and Eastern Khanty, Northern Selkups, Kets, Turukhan Evenks, Thompson, Seneca, Mikmak.
Western Siberia. The Northern Khanty [hunt, Nenets, Evenk chased the elk; Evenk decided to kill his comrades first; the hunt managed to kill the elk himself with an arrow; all were moved to heaven; the Big Dipper - Kuring Howl Hess, "Elk Star"]: Senkevich-Gudkova 1949:157; Eastern Khanty: Grigorovsky in Potanin 1883 [The Big Dipper is called Elk; the Tungus, Ostyak and Samoyed decided to kill the elk; the Samoyed wanted roast the meat on a spit, eat the tungus raw, the ostyak boiled; at the beginning of the chase, the Ostyak returned for the pot, overtook the Samoyed; the Tungus was ready to hit the elk with a palm tree (spit); asked for perfume for the moose from now on they lived in the land of the Tungus, for which he promised to kill Ostyak and Samoyed; Ostyak managed to kill the elk with an arrow, breaking the spell of the Tungus; therefore, moose are found in the land of the Ostyaks; the four stars of the bucket are the legs of an elk; the first star the tail is the Tungus, then the ostyak, leaning to the right, shooting; next to him is a bowler; the last star is a Samoyed; three stars in front of the bucket are an arrow; if the Elk goes faster than other constellations, spring is early, many fish and animals]: 778; Lukina 1990, No. 9 (R.Vakh) [three winged men from Vakha, Ob and maybe from the Yenisei ran after the elk; Vakhovsky threw the cauldron to make it easier to run; the first to catch up with the moose; the Bolshoy handle Bears are three hunters, a bucket is a cauldron]: 69; Northern Selkups: Alekseenko 1974 [We heard the same legend (about moose hunting) from the Selkups of the Upper Taz as the Kets]: 221; Prokofiev 1961 [ The Big Dipper was an elk, there is a legend about him; Yurak, Selkup, Tungus met an elk; the Selkup and the Tungus had bows, the yurak had a spear; before shooting, the Selkup ran after the pot; in his absence, the Tungus wounded an elk; the Selkup returned, killed him; in versions where Selkup, Ket and Yurak operate, the first two are a friendly couple against Yurak]: 64-65; 1976:198; Kets: Alekseenko 1976 [ket, selkup and The Evenk was chased by the elk; the Selkup, then the Kat overtook the Evenk, but Ket returned for the forgotten pot and fell behind; Evenk refused to shoot, said he would kill with a stick; the Selkup missed, ket wounded the elk in the shoulder blade; everyone was in the sky; the four stars of the Ursa Major bucket were the legs of an elk, the left front (knocked down) was slightly pushed aside; the three stars in front were the nose and ears of the elk; the bucket handle was selkup, ket, Evenk (the last one); the point near the middle star (Alcor) is a bowler hat; six stars (three outside the Ursa Major) are arrows; the Ursa Minor is also an elk that was hunted before]: 84-85; 2001, No. 10 [ket, Russian, Evenk and Selkup drove the moose; where they stopped to eat, left the pot; ket realized that he had forgotten the cauldron, came back, began to catch up; the Selkup was now in front, but Kat managed to shoot first The Selkup shot when the elk had already fallen; the hunters did not notice how they were in the sky]: 64-65; Donner 1933 [(like the Samoyed Ostyaks, the Pleiades stars {usually the Ursa Major} show four legs an elk, and next to a Tungus, who failed to kill an elk, then ket {Yenisei ostyak} who killed an elk, and finally a Nenets {yurak}, who shot an elk but missed]: 82.
Eastern Siberia. Turukhansky Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska basin): Vasilevich 1959 (Bachinsky) [the boastful hunter comes first, but when they start chasing the beast, he is the last; he is followed by the hunter carrying the cauldron; the smallest one walking behind drives the moose first; the bragger was afraid of the moose, was the last; these are the three stars of the bucket handle; the four stars of the bucket are the elk itself]: 162-163; Pezhemsky 1936, No. 2 (Yerbogachen) [the giant has a wife and daughter; in his 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, she was 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; goes skiing to holes in a transparent cap above the ground, walks 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]: 273-275; Osharov 1936a (Gainda, right tributary 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 stars of the bucket handle}]: 22 (=1936b, No. 13:280).
The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [Big Dipper - Grizzly; three stars of the bucket handle are three hunters chasing bears; the first is brave and fast, about to catch up with the beast; the second was slower, with a dog next to him - little star; the third one is cowardly, afraid to approach the bear]: Teit 1900:341-342.
Northeast. Seneca [one of the seven brothers is lazy, pretends to be sick, others carry him on a stretcher; throw him, chase a bear; a lazy man overtakes everyone with fresh energy, kills a bear; brothers are not they notice how they gradually rise to the sky; turn into the Ursa Major; one holding a bowler hat (an asterisk next to the bucket); the bear is a star in the lower corner of the constellation; in autumn, at the first frost, oak leaves show droplets of fat (not water!) and the blood of a dead bear]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 54:276-277 (=Curtin 2001:503-504); mikmaq [Chickady tracked down the bear (Ursa Major bucket), called for help six more hunters; took the pot to cook meat; the pot (Alcor) is so important that others placed Chickady in the middle, placing one large hunter bird in front of him, one behind him, so that Chickady does not go on the wrong track (three handle stars); in spring, seven hunters begin to chase the bear; in early autumn, first two Owls, then the Blue Jay and the Pigeon lose their trail (these stars, i.e. Boopas, hide beyond the horizon); Malinovka, Chikadi, Blue Jay continue to chase; in mid-autumn, Malinovka killed the bear with an arrow and immediately rushed at her to eat fat; covered with blood, he flew up a maple tree and began to peel his feathers, but a red speck on the breast remained; a splash of blood colored the autumn leaves; when Chickady and Malinovka began to cook meat in the pot, the lazy Blue Jay came up; he did not waste his energy chasing, and calculated so to come to share the loot]: Hagar 1900:93-97 (Quail in Monroe, Williamson 1987:19-20).