B42mn. One hunter chases the Big Dipper.

.31.32.35.-.37.43.-.45.

Only one character (not a few) drives across the sky a beast (an elk or a bear) associated with one of the circumpolar constellations, but not with the Pleiades or Orion. (In the Kalevala tradition, there is no identification with stars).

Eastern and Western Sami, Finns, Karelians, Maris, Forest Nenets, Tundra Nenets (Gydan), Mansi, Northern, Eastern and Southern Khanty, Central and Western (Olekmin) Yakuts, Evenks (Turukhansky, Yerbogachen, Nizheneangarsk, Sym, Trans-Baikal, Far Eastern), Negidals, Orochi, Chilkotin, Ojibva, Penobscot.

Baltoscandia. The Sami: Billson 1918 [Kalla-parnek are the sons of the Sun's daughter, who invented skis, domesticated deer; they are now in the sky; among them Orion, Sirius, etc.; the Big Dipper is their bow, the Pleiades are pantry, Cassiopeia - stalked deer, Jupiter - Elk, Venus - motley vazhenka]: 180; Potanin 1893, No. 87 [(by Castrén, Finn.Myth.:320); Orion is a Kalla parneh hunter, his bow is B. Bear; Cassiopeia is an elk he drove with his dog]: 328 (probably the same spring in Kharuzin 1890:347, but the hunter is named Colla Parne, Cassiopeia is "deer"); Eelsalu 1995 [by Eero Antio, 7 options; Myandash has golden horns, a white body, a black head, he flies along the "path of the sun"; Orion is a hunter Tiermes, a deer is Taurus, horns are Hyades, a deer tail is Perseus]: 611-612; Kharuzin 1890 [(according to Nemirovich -Danchenko. Lopar land//Picturesque Russia 1:171); Aroma-Telle is ten pines tall, his dogs are a deer, chases a white deer with a black head and golden horns; when he hits him with the first arrow, mountains they will fall apart, fire will be thrown away, the rivers will flow back, the lakes and the sea will dry up; the second in the forehead - the fire will spread across the ground; dogs will rush, the hunter will pierce the heart with a knife - the stars will fall, the moon will go out, the sun will drown] : 148-149; another paraphrase in Czarnoluski 1962 [Tiermes throws lightning from a rainbow, drives the Myandash-Pyrre deer; when he catches up with the first arrow, the rivers will flow back, the lakes will run out; the second is the ground will be covered by fire, the Old Man from the North will burn; when dogs rush at M. and T. stabs him into his heart, the stars will fall from the sky, the earth will turn to dust]: 80-81; Lundmark 1982 [in the space hunting scene Cassiopeia, Pegasus, Chariot are represented by elk, Castor and Pollux, or the three stars of the Orion Hunting Belt; in Jokmokk it is also "three dogs of Steel"; Var.: hunter - Arcturus, hunting moose with a bow; when the elk will be killed, the world will end]: 93-100; Finns and Karelians: Goršič 2015 [Lemminkainen pursues the elk Hiisi (Kalevala, rune 13) across the sky: by kirjovuori, kirjokansi; kirjovuori -" mountain in specks, chips", in this case the starry sky (according to Toivonen 1955:198)]: 213; Frog 2012a [kirjokansi "ornamented cover") - "sky", according to Setälä 1932:524-528]: 230; (cf. Petrukhin 2003 [the hunter tries to ski the giant moose Hiishi rushing across the sky, but cannot do so (or misses the prey, dreaming of the skin of an unkilled beast); {more: "hunter turned into the North Star, his ski track into the Milky Way, his elk into the Big Dipper" - this is not in runes}]: 68; see also Evseev 1950, No. 9 (Karelians) [Lyulicki skis, caught up, killed Moose Hiisi , dreams of lying down with a girl in his skin], 66 [Lyusmukko skis, catches up with Hiishi the elk, the ski split into a stump, on the shoulder blades of an elk; L. regrets that there is no girl to lie on her moose skin with]: 42, 147; Karelian petroglyphs: Ravdonikas 1936, Tables 22, 64 and 65 (=Ernits 2010, fig.7) [an anthropomorphic character, probably skiing and an elk; the character's long arms may have a crescent moon and a sun circle] ; 1938, Tables 5, 13 and 47 (Zalavruga) [No. 15: anthropomorphic character, in front of him an elk, a character, may have aimed a bow at an elk; No. 17 (=Ernitz 2010, fig. 8): a similar anthropomorphic character on skis and an elk; apparently, the character touches the moose with a club], 33 and 73 (Demon footsteps, southern group; anthropomorphic person; touches the moose with a club or aims a bow); (cf. Devlet, Devlet 2005 [one-story with Zalavruga and Demon Nose, as well as profile images from the Deer Cliff on the Hangar (Figure 115.2) and from the Second Stone Island on the Angara (Figure 116): ski hunter haunts an elk; the iconography of an elk is more different from Karelian than the character's iconography]: 133, Figure 116).

Volga - Perm. Marie (zap. Potanin in the village. Bims of Yelabuga County) [Ursa Major (Shordo-shbdyr, "elk star" - an elk with four cubs and a hunter with a dog; the latter are sentenced to spin around the sky forever for killing the first, i.e. young Moose with womb]: Potanin 1883:713.

Western Siberia. Forest Nenets (Nizhnevartovsk District) [Tyaptukage (a heavenly goose with anthropomorphic features) chased a seminoid moose along the Milky Way; after catching up, he tore off his three legs; the seminoid elk became Ursa Major, and people can now catch moose]: Semenov 1994:115; Nenets ("Samoyeds of the Turukhansky District" between the Yenisei, Pyasina and Taimyr) ["The North Star is also called a hunter for The big bear 'Forred', known by Russians as the elk "]: Tretyakov 1871:415; Mansi: Lukina 1990, No. 110 (Severnaya Sosva) [Mos-Hum heard that menks are being driven six-legged moose; jumped out of the cradle, drove himself, cut off two hind legs; the road he drove was the Milky Way, the elk was the Big Dipper; when the moose had six legs, people could not catch up with him]: 297; Munkácsi 1908 [a young forest man drove a sixth moose; asked Num-Torum to give him four legs, because six-legged people would not be able to chase; the elk was in the sky (Big Dipper), a ski track - Milky Way, home of forest people - Pleiades]: 251-253; 1995 [same; hero - mos boy; Pleiades - household of the mos man]: 112-116; Rombandeeva 2005, No. 43 [Moose had six legs, arms, no one could catch up; Moskhum went skiing, cut off Moose's hind legs with a sword, they fell nearby - four dim stars to the right of the Moose constellation; the elk has a convex ass since then; the elk has seven stars, the Ski Track is visible in the sky Moskhum]: 305-307; the northern Khanty [the six-legged elk lived in the sky; Noomi sent the hero Mos-Hum, who cut off two legs and threw it on the ground; the heavenly elk was the Big Dipper, the Milky The path is the path taken by the elk M.]: Gondatti to Potanin 1893:385; the Eastern Khanty (Tromyegan River) [father-in-law laughs at Torum's son, believes that he is a bad hunter; he is struggling to catch up six-legged moose, cuts off a pair of legs so that future people can catch up with moose; attached his skin to the sky, ordered him to mark the dawn; he nailed the moose trail on which he walked with the tip of a bow to the sky so that people guided; brings meat to his father-in-law, tells him to get lost and die]: Honti 1978 in Lukina 1990, No. 8:67-69; southern Khanty (Irtysh) [Tunk-Pokh chased a six-legged moose across the sky, cut off two hind legs; Big Dipper - elk, Milky Way - ski track]: Patkanov: 117 in Okladnikov 1950:299.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts [hunter (Orion) chasing an elk (Ursa Major?) , drove him into heaven]: Ergis 1974:135; Yakuts on Olekma [son of heaven Hallaan wala was skiing after a deer and left a road (footprint) in the sky, i.e. the Milky Way]: Potanin 1916:97 in Ergis 1974: 135; Western Evenks (Turukhansky Krai): Osharov 1936b, No. 17 [Los-Hoglen stole a day on the ground and carried it across the sky; Mani chased him on skis; the first arrow flew past from the left, the second hit; M. returned the day, carried it across the sky as long as his elk carried; this happens every day]: 282; Anisimov 1959 (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [Moose Haglen (Haglun) - Bolshaya Bear; runs out of the thicket of the heavenly taiga, blows the sun away in her horns; Main runs after her on skis; by midnight she catches up, takes away the sun, returning the day every morning; the four stars of the bucket are H., the extreme the star of the pen is M., the other two are his two arrows, one in flight, the other hit the moose; among the Ilimpic, Yerbogachen and Barguzin Evenks, M. is the master of the upper world; the Tungirs have the master of souls and fate people (functionally coincides with Amaka Shaveki; A. means supreme deity, as well as bear - p.15)]: 12-13; Yerbogachen Evenks (upper reaches of Nizhnyaya Tunguska) [at the giant wife and daughter; in old age, his wife gave birth to a son Manga-Döromgo with three eyes in his forehead; he curls the beasts' necks, brings them home alive so that the meat does not deteriorate; her sister asked to take her hunting, she is dull , MD twisted her neck, brought her 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, 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]: Pezhemsky 1936, No. 2:273-275; Nizhneangarsk Evenks [Manga's space bear plays the role of a sun moose deer hunter; drives him from east to west; the Milky Way is his ski trail, Ursa Major is the half-eaten legs of an elk, Orion - the elk turntable he threw; after getting around, the bear barely dragged his legs in the end, so in the west the Milky Way has two, not one stripes]: Titov 1923 in Anisimov 1959:15; Western Evenks (Bachinsky - Podkamennaya Tunguska): Vasilevich 1959 [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 who walks behind, drives the elk 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; Trans-Baikal Evenks (Vitim - Olekma, Chita region) [giant Changit was skiing after the sky moose, demolished its tail and head; his body and legs were B. Bear, ski track - Milky Way]: Vasilevich 1959:163; Sym Evenks: Vasilevich 1959 [hero Chakiptylan wanted to kill a sky moose, chased, fired an arrow, it hit an elk's leg; Ekshary (spirit- master of the upper world) for wanting to kill the sky moose, stopped it and made it rot in one place; the four stars of the Ursa Major are the elk, three are its shadow, a small star near the right of the lower ones are Chakiptylan's arrow; the Tulngudek Milky Way is the "Chakiptylan ski route", between the Milky Way and the Ursa Major a small group of stars - the ever-rotting Chakiptylan]: 163; Osharov 1936a (western 1928) g.) [=Lukina 2004, No. 3.2:68; Hoglen's elk stole the sun, ran across the sky; Mani went skiing after him; the first arrow flew by, the second M. stopped Hoglen, brought back the day; this happens every night]: 13; Amur Evenks (b. Urmi) [Mangi chased an elk with a cub, his ski track is the Milky Way; the moose went to sea, became a mammoth; brought bone from the back leg of the cub, from which the earth's moose come from]: Vasilevich 1959: 163; Evenki Orochons [there was no night, the sun was shining round the clock; the bug elk (male during the rut) grabbed the sun, ran towards the sky; the uterus elk (enneung) walking with the moose, ran after him; night fell; hunter Mani took a bow, two dogs, ran after him; moose ran across the sky, M.'s dogs caught up and stopped them; The elk gave the sun to Moose, began to distract the dogs himself; Moose ran to the heavenly hole (North Star) to escape from her pursuers; M. shot Moose, started shooting at Losikha, hit her with a third arrow; took the sun, returned it to the people; all participants space hunting has turned into stars; since then, day and night have changed, space hunting is repeated; every evening moose steal the sun, and M. chases them and returns the sun by morning; four The stars of the Ursa Major bucket are the tracks of a male elk; three pen stars, three fifth magnitude stars near them, and the star closest to the Hounds of Dogs constellation are the tracks of Mani's dogs that stopped the moose; M. himself - five stars below the bottom of the bucket, which are part of the Ursa Major constellation; the Ursa Minor bucket is the footprints of an elk trying to escape from its pursuers; the first and second stars of the bucket handle are M.'s arrows; the third star bucket handles (North Star) - a hole, or hole, through which the moose tried to escape]: Mazin 1984:9-10; Evenki Khabarovsk Krai [a man chased a moose and a calf; the calf caught up with sky, threw it to the ground, since then there have been elks on the ground; the ski trail remained in the sky (Milky Way - Mangi-Udyan); the uterus could not catch up, it fell into the sea, turned into a whale; the abandoned shoulder blade of the elk - Cassiopeia]: Arseniev 1995 (3): 179.

Amur-Sakhalin. Negidals [Mangi chased Moose with his calf, caught up on the seashore; Moose jumped into the waves, became a whale; M.'s calf caught by the knee of his back leg (there is now a dimple), threw to the ground, it became a moose; the Milky Way is M.'s ski trail]: Khasanova, Pevnov 2003, No. 8:57, 153-154; Orochi [Mangi was skiing an elk and a calf; killed a calf; an elk jumped into the sea the navel died; M.'s trail remained in the sky (Milky Way)]: Aurora, Lebedeva 1966, No. 44:192.

The coast is the Plateau. Chilkotin [in autumn, a hunter with two dogs drove a bear; dogs led the owner to a stump on which the man was sitting; he was a bear and at the same time Yitai, the constellation Ursa Major; dal bear skin hunter, marten, fishing marten (fisher); since then he has always caught up with these animals; Yitai has returned to heaven]: Farrand 1900, No. 14:30.

The Midwest. Ojibwa [The Southern Star descends as a beautiful woman, brings water lilies; her brother is seen hunting a bear far north]: Emerson in Hagar 1900:97.

Northeast. Penobscot [the hunter chases the bear until mid-September; pierces his heart with an arrow; the chikadi fills the bucket with blood, and when blood flows over the edge, it drips to the ground, coloring the autumn leaves; when white bear fat drips, it turns into snow that covers the ground]: Speck 1935b:19.