B42O. The Hunchback Constellation. .20.21.39.41. (.50.)

A particular constellation appears to be a person who has been hit on the back or injured in the back.

Marshall Islands, Tanguts, Chukchi, Koyukon, Tagish, South Tutchoni, (papago).

Micronesia-Polynesia. The Marshall Islands [Ligedañer (Capella) is the mother of the star brothers; the elder Dümur (Antares), and all the others, refuse to take her into their boat so as not to be overweight; only the youngest Jäbro (Pleiades) takes; everyone is racing to a distant island, the youngest wins because the mother sets a previously unknown sail; the older brother is hit on the back by the crossbar, now he is a hunchback; when the Pleiades ascend, Antares comes in not to see his brother]: Erdland 1910:21-22

Tibet is the Northeast of India. The Tanguts [the red star Gachari was jealous of his wife (Pleiades) of Orion and put a stone on his back; this constellation in the middle has since been broken]: Potanin 1893:327.

SV Asia. Chukchi [Orion is a archery with a humpback; Orion's belt is his back, the Sword is the genital organ; Leo is Krivospinnik's wife, who was jealous of the Pleiades and hit him with a cutting board, which caused him his back became hunchback; after a fight he kicked his wife out; the Pleiades are a "group of women" (six); Krivospinnik tried to marry one of them, but they drove him away because of his too big organ; he became shoot them, they ran away; Aldebaran is an arrow that did not reach women; Kolyma Chukchi say that the arrow is stuck in the net (small stars) that the Pleiades cover (=Bogoras 1907:308-309)]: Bogoraz 1939:24:243.

Subarctic. Koyukon [Big Dipper is "the one who spins"; this is the character from whom the Raven stole the sun and moon; they killed each other and came amicably to the land of the dead; there one began to measure time, the other became a Raven; the Raven pierced him between his shoulders with a spear, so his back twisted; the first star of the bucket handle was his head, Mitzar hit him with a spear {obviously a wound or spear is Alcor}; legs - small stars, the last two stars of the bucket are the buttocks; in February-January it turns its head east]: Jetté, Jones 2000:500; tagish [Big Dipper is a big-headed man who took out rabbits out of the trap, saying Hoo, hoo; one man shot him in the back; the arrow is the faint star next to the second star of the bucket; the Big Dipper once said that the world is over will come when he stops walking in circles and turns over]: McClelland 1975 (1): 78; southern tutchoni [checking traps for rabbits, the young man sees that someone has stolen the prey; after the third time ambushes; on a moonlit night, a big-headed man approaches silently, makes sounds like an owl hooting; the young man hits his spine with an arrow; he says that the next night the young man will see it's in the north; the next night, the Big Dipper rises, and the pierced arrow is Alcor; everyone in the Yukon knows this story]: McClelland 2007, No. 12:78-80.

(Wed. The Great Southwest. Papago [The Big Dipper is a hunchback picking fruit (Saguaro fruit gathering crook)]: Gifford 1940, No. 2267:60, 155).