B46. Seven star brothers.
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Each of the seven stars of the Ursa Major is an adult male.
Tigre, Catalans (Majorca), Maltese, Sardinians, (Sicilians), Italians (Switzerland?) , (French: Gascony, Hers), Flemish, Tibetans, Nepal, Ancient India, Himachal plowmen, Koreans, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Greeks, Russians (Novgorod, Kursk, Penza), Ukrainians (Khmelnitsky), Crimean Tatars, Armenians in Feodosia, Kalmyks, Kumyks, Nogais, Adygs, Kabardian, Abkhazians, Abazins, Ossetians, Ingush, Chechens, Nogais, Turks, Uzbeks, Persians, Tajiks, Ishkashim, Vakhans, Shugnans, Yagnobs, Pashtuns, Pashais, Burish, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Yellow Uighurs, Siberian Tatars (Tobolsk), Chulym Turks, Altaians, Khakas, Tofalars, all Tuvans, Baikal Buryats (Balagan, Alar, Osinsky), Hamnigans, Darkhats, Khalkha Mongols, Ordos Mongols, Oirats, Dagurs, Evenks of Buryatia, Ilimpic Evenks (Tura), Solons, Penobscot, Sarsi, Blackfooted, Assiniboine, Grovantre, Crowe, Teton, Shayens, arpaho, kiowa, comanche, wichita, caddo.
Sudan - East Africa. Tigre [The True Seven (Big Dipper) are brothers; Gah (the North Star) came and killed one; came to Qeren (two Dragon stars), asked him to be his client, otherwise the Seven will kill him in revenge for his brother; so Queren is between the North Star and the Ursa Major to prevent them from getting together; Seven put the victim on a funeral stretcher; three carry in front, three behind; the weakest star in Where the bucket joined the handle, he was killed; they swore not to bury the victim until they took revenge]: Littmann 1910, No. 46:61-63.
Southern Europe. Catalans (Majorca) [Ursa Major - Set frares (Seven Brothers)]: Amades 1930:295; Basques [Big Dipper: Seven Thieves, Five Stars, Six Stars, Chicken with Chickens { clearly moved from the Pleiades}, Shepherd with a Key, Herd of Oxen, Oxen Thief; Little Bear: Seven Stars, Seven Thieves, Seven Goats]: Knörr 2001:412; Italians (Switzerland?) [G. Salvia in Archives de Traditions Populaires XV, 37; Ursa Major - "Seven Brothers"; one day seven brothers went to the field to steal a goat (cavriola); Jesus punished them by turning them into stars, as well put a goat in the sky in the form of a star]: Volpati 1933a: 461; Maltese [Ursa Major - "Seven Brothers" (seb at-ahwa)]: Volpati 1933a:461; Sardinians [Ursa Major - Seven Brothers] : Volpati 1933a: 461; (cf. Sicilians [Big Dipper: two oxen (α, β), two thieves who stole them (γ, δ), a master who chased thieves (δ), his wife (), her daughter (Alcor), servant (α)]: Volpati 1933a: 458-459 (quoted in Mladenova 2006:84).
Western Europe. The Flemish [after their martyrdom, seven martyrs became the seven stars of the Ursa Major]: Gundel 1922:113; (cf. French: Kabakova 1998, No. 23 (Gers) [thieves stole a bull and a cow from the barn; he sent a servant in pursuit, he did not return; then the maid and the dog were the same; he began to swear; God turned them into Ursa Major; the first bucket star was a cow, the second was a bull, the third and fourth were thieves, the first pen star was a servant, Mitzar was a servant, Alcor was a dog, and the last star of the pen was himself driver]: 36-38; Volpati 1933a (Gascony) [as in Sicily, with the difference that thieves did not steal two oxen, but a bull and a cow]: 459).
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [Masang's seven brothers may represent original human beings; in epic and folklore, M., the bull's son of a cow and man, helps the gods (lha) in the fight against demons, killing a demon in the form of a black yak; fleeing from the demoness, throws up five barley grains given by lha, an iron chain appears; the demoness throws an iron core, it breaks M. seven parts that turn into the Big Dipper; the same in the Tibetan-Mongolian editions of The Magic Dead and in the oral stories that go back to it (divided into seven parts by an iron mallet shulmas witches)]: Ogneva 1982a: 122; Mongolian translation of Twenty-Five Vetal Tales [without a bull, a peasant happened to his cow, she gave birth to a boy with a bull's head named White-faced goby (B); B goes on a journey, takes a person born of forest, grass, wood as a companion; each one takes turns cooking; an old woman comes, asks for permission to try, the food disappears; everyone pretends to be attacked by enemies; B asks the old woman to bring water with a bucket of holes; replaces her with a rope, tongs, a hammer; she cannot tie him, pinch him, hit her; he hits her with a hot hammer, she runs away; friends see her corpse at the bottom of the abyss, there are treasures there; they lower B, pick up treasures, cut off the rope; B plants apricot seeds, three trees grow, he climbs them to the ground; forgives his companions; comes to Hormust, helps defeat the shimnus; H. advises B. to tell the shimnus that that doctor, not to treat the wounded B. king of Shimnus, but to finish it off; B. finished off the king, the chain descended from the sky, B. climbed it, but the tsar's wife hit him on the back with a stick, smashed him into seven brother stars, they became the Big Dipper]: Vladimirtsov 1958:24-30.
South Asia. Nepal [Swasthani, listed in Sanskrit in 1573; the story is structured as a dialogue between Shiva and Parvati); Agni could not swallow the fruit, spit it it it out; the fruit caught fire, formed a fire; one of the wives of seven wise men, Saptarishi told me to beware of him, the other six came up and became pregnant; their husbands drove them away; they miscarried on the banks of the Ganges, they rose to heaven, became the constellation of Shatkarttika or Criticism (Pleiades)]: Shrestha 1996:12-13; Ancient India: Allen 1899 [seven female Pleiades stars are married to the Rishi family (Ursa Major stars); when entering the house, the newlyweds first addressed them , then to the North Star]: 404; Vasilkov, Neveleva 1987 [seven ancient holy sages (Atria, Angiras, Pulastya, Pulakha, Marichi, Kratu, Vasishtha) are identified with the stars of the Ursa Major]: 617; Eggeling 1882 (Shatapatha-Brahman, no later than 6th century BC) ["seven rishis" (clairvoyants, sages) are mentioned 4 times in the Vedas, but this is the first association with stars in Satapatha Brahman, where it says that they used to be bears ("rickshaw"); in the Vedas it is the word means both "bear" and "star"; each rishis is also named for the first time]: 282-283; Macdonell 1897:144; himachali plowmen (Kullu Valley) [satrishisot rishi, seven rishis, must be done pranam (worship them)]: A.S. Krylova, E.A. Renkovskaya (field materials, October 2016); Kashmiris [Big Dipper - Seven Rishis]: Grierson 1932:44, 855, 944; Bengalis [Big Bear - Seven Rishis] Bear - Seven Wise Men]: Biswas 2000:262, 980.
China - Korea. Koreans [the widow has seven sons; they see her walking across the river to a poor widower, put stones on her to make it easier to cross; the mother wants those who lay stones for her to become seven stars in the north; that's what happened]: Choi 1979, #390:167.
The Balkans. Greeks: Mladenova 2005:80 [Ursa Major - "robbers"], 86 ["seven brothers"]; (cf. Greeks (Rhodes, Cyprus) ["seven girls round dance" (reconstruction, now letters. "seven planets")]: Mladenova 2006:86); Bulgarians [Ursa Major - "Haiduks"; Haiduks stole one of the Pleiades stars (vlaite); now it is a weak star (obviously Alcor) Bolshoi Bears; Pleiades are still chasing them]: Mladenova 2005:80; Macedonians [=Cenev 2014:187-188; 7 stars of the Ursa Major - Aramia, Ajduci {haiduks}, Komiti (fighters against Turks); Alcor - the child they stole; in Orache: Aramiit stole a sheep from their godfather and carries it with them; or one of the Pleiades sisters (Vlascite) was stolen]: Tsenev 2004:76, 81-83; (cf. Serbs [in order not to give his daughter to King Tatar, King Petar says that she is dead, and he himself goes to King Sun to find out why the days are shorter in winter; in fact, he hides in a tower with his daughter; Three years later she leaves, but the daughter is missing; the sentenced to death promises to find her in exchange for a pardon; comes to the mother of five snakes, calls her mother; one is a thief, the other has a scent, the third is a builder, the fourth is a shooter, a fifth catcher (he can even catch lightning); brothers swear to help a person; find and take the princess from a seven-headed serpent (one builds a tower, a snake destroys it, takes the girl away, the shooter He was hit, the catcher caught the girl); everyone wants a princess for himself; the Mother of the Winds sends them to judge to the Mother of the Month, that to the Mother of the Sun, that to their own; she tells them to consider the girl a sister; 5 brothers a person and a girl turn into the Pleiades, every year bypass the mothers of the Winds, the Month, the Sun, thank them for their advice; from Yuriev's spring day to Vidovdan (June 28) they are on the road, they are not visible; =Arkhipova 1962:203-208] : Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:212-218).
Eastern Europe. Russians (Novgorod Gubernia, Village. Zavalnitsy) [the king has seven sons, eight daughters, he plowed the land himself; he went to bed with his children in the field, the snake sucked blood from his children; God made him the Sun, and seven sons the Big Bear, made a snake blind]: Potanin 1883:714; Russians (Penza) [Seven Brothers Constellation]: Bondaletov 1983:204; Russians (Kursk Gubernia) [The Lord sent 7 pious men to preach the truth, but they were tempted; then he sent one holy virgin to watch them; when they returned to heaven, the men became the seven stars of the Ursa Major, and virgin - Venus]: Svyatsky 1913:176; Ukrainians (Khmelnitskaya, St. Izyaslav, 1929) [in the drought, the daughter went to bring water to her mother dying of thirst; on the way back, she met seven men consistently and gave water; went to take a nap, at which time a dog ran up to drink, knocked over the vessel ( Glechik); seven big stars (souls saved from thirst) and one small dog rose to the sky from it; God placed them in heaven so that everyone could see the girl's generosity]: Joanidi 1978:41.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean mountain Tatars [B. Bear - Yedikhan, "seven princes"]: Potanin 1883:711; (cf. Crimean Armenians (Feodosia) ["seven brothers"]: Potanin 1883:714); Kalmyks: Bakayeva 2009 [a righteous boy sheltered Gelung monk; the boy is instructed to follow the camel; the 7 thieves he meets ask him to know about their future rebirth; answer: they must turn into 7 stars; in front of the boy, thieves turn into stars (Ursa Major) are stealing one of the Pleiades stars (Mchn); the stolen star is near the third of the seven stars; if the Pleiades star had not been stolen, all living things would freeze in winter] : 68; Ochirova 1991:192 [Dolan Burkhn - "seven gods"; Dolan Eugene - "seven elders], 193 [author's title; Big Dipper: "brothers together with sister seven (dolaruri), ascended to heaven on shamanic road]; Kabardian people: Potanin 1883 [Vagozashible, "stars seven brothers"; one prince sent his child to the "kana" (pupils) for seven brothers; when he was being transported, the Pleiades (Wagoba) attacked, wanted to kill the child; seven brothers saved him; "kan" is a star above the second star B. Female bears]: 714 (cf. Karaketov 1995 [Big Dipper - Jetegeyli Jilan - Seven Snakes]: 19); Madina Pashtova [Vaguezashible - Big Dipper: Seven Star Brothers; Waghue Shu - Horseman Star, Second the star located on the "bucket handle" of the Big Dipper (obviously Alcor)]: personal message 29.04.2013; Mafedzev 1984 [children's play: an adult, pointing to his fingers, named and commented on each number; One is lonely unhappy; two or two eyes know each other; three - an Adyghe table with three legs; four - if a horse's four legs are equally healthy, then it is sharp; five to five fingers on his hand are almost equivalent; six - twice three times three is six; seven - when seven star brothers (Big Dipper) turn, dawn is coming; eight - the eight-haired harness pulls well (plow); nine - became nine, one is missing; ten - you count to ten while that's enough]: 78; Sokolov, Broydo 1936 [Oh, one! - One alone. - Two! - Two eyes can see well. - Three! - There is a three-legged on three legs. - Four! - There are four nipples filled with milk in the udder. - Five! - Five fingers in five. - Six! - A young man with six prisoners. - Seven! - Seven star brothers will turn around - dawn. - Eight! - They plow arable land on eight oxen. - Nine! - Add one - becomes ten]: 465; Adygi [Big Dipper - Vague Zashible, "seven brothers"]: Kokov 1980b: 171, Meretukov 1980:173, Shortanov 1982:38; Abkhazians [seven star brothers The Yecvadjaas {probably the Big Dipper} were the same; when the universe opened, the Creator told them to pick up a piece of colored stone; since then, the Creator has been able to otomoses, deprive brothers in color]: Khvartskia 1994:60; Abazins ["Seven Brothers" - Ursa Major]: Tugov 2003:343-352 (=198:394); Ossetians: Miller 1882 [(retelling to Svyatsky 1913:33-34; evil Akhsaktemur walked together with zeds (angels) across the sky; at certain times of the day he went to the river; oppressed seven brothers on earth; in order to acquire the protection of the Water (Donböttär), the brothers took his son to pets; A. killed him; D. invited his brothers to watch A. by the river, but he stopped going to the river, sat down in the middle of the sky, putting two stallions as guards; the brothers (stars of the Ursa Major) began to wander crooked towards the river (Milky Way); before dawn they notice the North Star and go to it, but it disappears in sunlight every time]: 300; Ossetian tales 1962 [Akhsah Temur had iron wings, went up to heaven, kidnapped the sister of seven brothers, went to heaven with her, the brothers began to catch up with him, he left the girl, the middle brother put his sister next to him, all seven are now chasing AT]: 37 on the island of Chibirov 2008:87; Ingush: Dalgat 2004:157-158 [Mother Vyug's seven sons went to heaven and became Ursa Major; Vyug's mother sits on the top of Kazbek, will throw down anyone who will cross the circle she drew; (=1972:258)], 158-159 [God sent rain, flooded the earth with a flood; the old man and his family escaped in a box, stuck to Mount Beshlam Court; the old man had seven sons, ate ice; his rest of his children scattered across the ground; when seven brothers let a hunter in, he was killed by lightning; God took his brothers to heaven, making him Ursa Major; this legend has much in common with the Georgian one and could be borrowed from the latter]; Dakhkilgov 2003:110 [Bashlam (Kazbek) was created when God created the land; Darza-nana settled on this mountain; she had 7 sons; they went to heaven, promising return after three dinners; did not return; every evening, while preparing dinner, D. will repeat "three dinners, three dinners"; on the mountain lie large skeins of white wool, which D. combs; there is also a place where she spread laundry; her sons turned into 7 stars], 111 [Dyarja nanilg (right Darza-nana) lived on Mount Kazbek; one of her 8 sons went to heaven; the other 7 drank molten copper and took to the sky from the top of Kazbek; as a sign of her grief, D. threw her trousers to the top of Kazbek, where now there is a snowless place; 7 brothers walk across the sky looking for an eighth; if they find it, the world will end]; Svetlov 1903 [Kuryuko steals sheep, water, and reeds from thunder Sela to give people for building dwellings; he is assisted by S.'s 7 sons, who were supposed to guard the entrance to him; S. chained K. with iron chains to a mountain cliff (or to the top of Kazbek); every day the eagle flies to peck K.'s heart; guard K. S. told his wife Fourka; she drew a magic circle on the snowy cone of the mountain; he could not be crossed under the threat of being thrown into the abyss; S.'s sons were hung from the sky as punishment, they became the Big Bear] in A.M., A.T. "Kuryuko". Myths of the world's peoples. VOL. 2, 1982. Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia. S. 30; Potanin [B. The bear is a "war-vozh", seven brothers] 1883:714; 1893:318; Chechens ["Sledges drinking molten copper moved to heaven. There are seven brilliant stars in the West, and these are the missing sledges"]: Gren 1897, No. 1:12 (interpreted as Big Dipper in Dalgat 1972:337); Ingush and/or Chechens [Ursa Major in Dalgat 1972:337); Ingush and/or Chechens [Ursa Major in Dalgat 1972:337); - "Seven Brothers Star"]: Aliroev 1976:224-225; Nogais [Big Dipper - "seven horse thieves", "seven robbers"; they chase Ak-at and Kok-at horses (two bucket stars) all night Ursa Minor); they are tied to the North Star (Temirkazyk is an "iron stake")]: Kapaev 2012:172; Kumyks [Ulkerler consisted of seven stars (six brothers and sister), and Yetti Yulduzlar consisted of six stars brother stars; brothers kidnapped their sister star from Ulkerler, now 6 stars in the Pleiades and 7 in Ursa Major; they appear at opposite ends of the sky, W. chase kidnappers]: Khalidova 2012, No. 29:51; "Dagestan Tatars" [Eddy-Kardash, "seven brothers"]: Potanin 1883:711; Kumyks, Nogais [The Pleiades consisted of six brothers and sisters, and the Big Dipper - out of six brothers; they kidnapped Sister Pleiades, Ursa Major became seven stars, the constellation is called Ettegen]: Gamzatov, Dalgat 1991:305; Turks [Seven Ursa Major Brothers stole daughter of the Pleiades; the legend has been recorded twice in southern Turkey, but is likely to be more widespread]: Mladenova 2006:81.
Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks: Kary-Niyazov, Borovkov 1942 [Big Dipper - Yetti Karakchi (Seven Thieves)]: 229; Nikonov 1980b [Yetti Oraini (Seven Friends)]: 295; Tajiks: Bogsho Lashkarbekov, personal Report, 2005 [Haft dodaron ("seven brothers")]; Rakhmat Rakhimov, personal report 20.10.2009 [wanderer (name remains unknown) I met in mid-July 2009 on my way to a mazar in the valley Kafirnigana replied that Big Dipper was Haft Dodaron (Seven Brothers) and Malaya was Haft Dodaron Hurd (Seven Smaller Brothers); my sister's husband Shamsiddini Mirali said the same in previous years; when asked about the brothers' father, he pointed to a lonely star far from the Bears, calling it gusfand ("ram")]; Tajiks (Panjshir, c/ Burj i Yaman) [Big Dipper - Seven Pious (Aft Dol)]: Andreev 1927e: 65; Tajiks (Panjshir, p. Pyshkur) [Ursa Major - Seven Brothers (Aft Byodaro)]:
Andreev 1927e: 65; Persians [Ursa Major - Seven Thrones, Seven Stars, Seven Brothers (haft dādarā) n)]: Panaino 1982; Ishkashim, Wakhans [Big Dipper - "Seven Brothers"]: Andreev, Polovtsov 1911:35; Pamiris (without specifying the group) [Big Dipper, consisting of seven stars , is popularly called the Seven Brothers (in Persian astronomy they are called Dubby Akbar - Seven Twins). It is said that these brothers once lived together and all passed away at the same time; as if they were traveling to each of the seven planets]: Lashkarbekov, MS; Shugnans [recorded by student Sultonnazarova Mavluda from grandmother, resident to. Manem (Shugnan) Lutfaliyeva Mushkinoz; seven stars in the sky, similar to each other, are called Seven Brothers; they are sons of Hazrat and Muhammad; when XM passed away, four brothers carried a stretcher (with dead), the fifth performed "falak" behind a stretcher, the sixth carried the sheep, and the latter drove the sheep; if you watch closely, you can see a small star near the sixth star, this is that sheep; some say that the stars {Ursa Major} call Seven Brothers because they are always wandering, and the star that is behind everyone and shines dimly is the youngest of the brothers]: Lashkarbekov, MS; Pashtuns (momandas) [Ursa Major names: Uva Storay 'Seven Star', Uva Zaman 'Seven Sons']: Abayeva 1978:110; Persians, Tajiks, Yagnobs, Vakhans, Burishi [Big Dipper - Seven Brothers]: Steblin-Kamensky 1999:455; Pasha'i (Panjshir) [Big Dipper - Seven Brothers (Sata Lyaivani)]: Andreev 1927e:65.
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Abishev 1949 [Ak boz at, kək boz at - White gelding and Grey gelding, entangled with a rope, the end of which is tied to the Iron Cola (North Star), graze in the meadow; they are guarded by a watchman ; Seven horse thieves (Big Dipper) want to steal this end and watch them all night; the same Zheti Karakshy is credited with stealing his daughter from the Pleiades; the Arabs called the big star of the bucket handle Mizar (horse), and the little one is Alcor (rider); the Kazakhs have Alcor a kidnapped girl]: 12-14; Valikhanov 1985 [Big Dipper is Jets Karakchi; these are the souls of seven robbers who stole during the day and repented of their sins at night, for these were converted to seven stars after death; seven thieves have a kidnapped daughter Pleiades; Pleiades (Urker) are pursuing Seven thieves to rescue their daughter]: 57; Kuftin 1916 [around Temir-Kassyk (North Star) Ak-boz-at and Kok-boz-at horses (white and blue, the two extreme stars of Ursa Minor) ride the arcana; seven thieves (Karakchi Jets, seven stars of the Ursa Major) try to untie them; when one gets rid of it, the world will end]: 126; Nurzhanova 1971:234 [Big Dipper - Zheti Karakshi - "seven robbers", Zheti Kart - "seven elders"]; Potanin 1883, No. 35k (near art. Semiyarskaya on the Irtysh) [The Jety-Karaksha had seven brothers; they stole one of their two daughters from Urker (Pleiades); the stolen name was Kalpe, the rest of Zurya]: 200, 784 [(according to Valikhanov, hand); Big Dipper - Jets Karachi, the souls of seven robbers who stole during the day and repented at night, for which they were turned into stars after death; these seven thieves have a kidnapped daughter Pleiades]; 1893:319 [(near Petropavlovsk); a rich man did not sell his horse for any money; chained him with an iron chain to Temir Kazyk (North Star); he watched day and night, alternating with his daughter; seven people have conspired to steal a horse, this is Jety-Karak ("seven thieves", B. Bear)], 321 [Naarun-Zarkum owned many horses; the black mare brought a foal every night, but it was always kidnapped by someone; young Gali, N.'s son, watched and shot a monstrous bird; grows up, rides that mare's foal to marry the bride; puts an iron stake in the field, ties a horse to it, puts seven scarecrows around (jety karakchi); every day he finds a horse on the spot, and thieves find only a stake and a scarecrow; one day everything disappears; the bride says that the thieves, through prayer, have approved the stake (North Star), the horse and the scarecrow (Little Bear) in the sky; the horse is waiting for the owner; when he comes, the world will end]; 1972b, No. 6 [The Big Dipper is Alty Karakchi; the seventh, smaller star is the princess; the thief closest to her will marry her]: 55; Chuloshnikov 1924 [Polyarnaya the star is Temir-Kassyk ("iron stake"); "two white horses" are tied to him on a rope; if one unties, the world is over; Jets Karakchi ("seven thieves"), seven stars of the Ursa Major, are trying to untie them; these are the souls of seven robbers who stole during the day and repented of their sins at night; for this they were turned into stars after death; the Kazakhs did not know other non-passing stars]: 243; Svyatsky 1961 [(the teacher reported A.B. Baitursunov from Orenburg in 1910); The North Star is a stake to which two horses, light and pale (Ursa Minor), are tied to an arcana; they walk around a stake, and seven thieves (Ursa Major) seek to steal them; when stolen, the world will end]: 112; Karakalpaks [Big Dipper - "seven robbers"]: Baskakov 1967:418; Karakalpaks [North Star - Temirkazyk zhuldyzy ( "iron stake, horse riding"); two horses (these are two stars) are attached to it: white (ak) and blue (kk); they are constantly moving around Horse Riding; there are 7 robber stars next to it (Big Bear); one day, a peri came to the Horseback to say that 7 robbers were going to steal those horses; Allah gathers angels and orders the robbers to be frozen; if they steal horses, the prophet in the future will be left without horses; horses are still in place]: Alimbetov 2014 (vols. 77-80): 26-27; Karakalpaks [Urker girl and her forty girls were attacked by thousands of troops; 40 the girls could not resist their enemies, asked Allah for help; the angels took the girls to heaven, this cluster is called Urker {Pleiades}; but W.'s only younger sister remained in the hands of enemies; Urker she asked Allah to return her sister; when the angel and younger sister almost reached W., seven robbers in the sky {7 stars of the Ursa Major} appeared in front of him and began to beg: we have There is no one to cook and do laundry, please give the girl for one of us; with the consent of younger sister W., married her to one of the robbers]: Aimbetov 2014b: 27-28; Kyrgyz: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1963 [seven robbers kidnapped the Pleiades daughter, asked the North Star for help; she told the Pleiades that they could try to get their daughter back themselves if they wanted; since then, the Seven (Ursa Major) circling around the North Star, hiding the kidnapped, the Pleiades chase them]: 340-341; 1989 [seven thieves kidnapped the Pleiades Daughter; the Golden Cole refused to catch up with them, the Pleiades are still chasing the Family Robbers (Big Dipper) who hide the kidnapped; after losing a daughter, the Pleiades radiate only cold from grief; when seen in the sky, the nights are cold]: 373-374; Uighurs: Potanin 1881 (Sarts in Hami) [ Big Dipper - Ity-gan]: 125; 1883 [Wamberi translated "Ity-Erkian" as seven planets", but he himself admits that erkian (pole, support) is not an appropriate designation for the planet; probably Ursa Major]: 715; yellow Uighurs ("yogur balls") [Big Dipper - Dolon Burkan ("seven gods")]: Potanin 1893:318.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tobolsk Tatars [Big Dipper - Ittygan (Seven Kings)]: Giganov 1801:20 in Potanin 1883:711; Chulym Turks: handwritten by Fr. Sokolov to Prince Kostrov in Potanin 1883 [Chetegen, Etegen]: 711; Chulym Turks: Lukina 2004, No. 5.2 [seven hunters caught up with the elk; the first was clairvoyant, behind three assistants, the other three carry food; frost hit, they froze and turned out to be the Milky Way]: 98; Altaians: Garf, Kuchiyak 1978 [seven brothers rise to heaven; Ulker-Kaan agrees to give Altyn-Solona's daughter to the one who gets a giant maral with horns with seventy processes; the younger brother receives A.; the heavenly army attacks the earth; the brothers and A. return to heaven, turn into seven stars, next to the youngest - A.; W. tries to come from the rear, but they always turn to face him]: 196-204; Katash 1958 [seven khans lived on earth; their names were Big Mouth, Long Arm, Sorcerer, Slukhach, Runner, Strongman, Big Eye; they easily defeated everyone, exterminating those living on earth; Karaty Khan decided to deal with them; Slukhach overheard that he was going to put them in an iron chest and fry them; at the Khan's headquarters they were served poisoned meat; the sorcerer made him eat by the khan's people; when seven were lured into an iron trap and a fire was made, the Big Mouth, which had drunk the lake before, cooled the trap; the strongman knocked down the door ; with the help of the Runner, they ran away; but the Pure Spirit (Ulgen) forced them to commit suicide; they threw themselves off the cliff and turned into seven stars; the Big Dipper is called Jeti Kaan ("seven khans")]: 10; Potanin 1883, No. 35i (zap. Yadrintsev in Altai, Russia) [The Big Dipper is called Titagan, seven rulers; they were seven brothers, their three dogs chased three maralukha; they rose to heaven and became Orion ( Uch Miigak); dogs and humans followed; T. took one small star from Mechin (Pleiades)]: 200; Nikiforov 1915 [Big Dipper - seven hunters]: 250-251; Sadalova 1989 [seven brothers roam around the world, one is the Shooter, the other is the Jumper, the Third is a Thief...; they promise one kaan to steal the other's wife, they fulfill their promise; the kaan leaves them the throne; the brothers rule the people, they start endless wars; for this, the Creator turns them into seven stars; they are fighting the stars here too; then he chains them to the Golden Cola (North Star); var: seven kaans have done a lot of evil, they want to put an end to by themselves, they jump off a cliff, turn into stars; var.: Seven sons of a rich man sit back, consider themselves kaans; Kudai punished them by turning them into a constellation; var.: The Seven Kaans constellation stole one of Pleiades, therefore, only follows so that the Pleiades do not find them missing]: 89-90; 2002, No. 22 [seven orphan brothers come to the caan; he allows them to eat enough, they eat a mare in a day; everyone Kaan answers what he is intended for (to transport others across the river; to deftly steal; to protect others from war, fire; a sharpshooter; will catch what falls from the sky; kaan promises to make them themselves Kaans, if they bring another kaan's wife from overseas; because of their abilities, they fulfill the condition; by becoming Kaans, they torment other peoples; Yuch-Kurbustan turns them into seven stars; fighting the Pleiades, they take one star, it is sometimes visible; UK tells them to spin around the Golden Stake Star forever]: 215-223; Surazakov 1982 [Kogyudey-Mergen meets six heroes one by one on the way (listening, moving mountains, jumping, shooter, drinking lake, throwing stones); KM whips them, they accompany him to matchmaking to Erlik Kara-Taadi's daughter; she does not know which of the KM who came; those who come are imprisoned in an iron or stone palace, heated; a drunk lake pours water, cools the palace; others defeat a local strongman, learn about the trap pit, catch the failed ones there; Kids Kaan - these are seven identical Kogyudey-Mergen going to a wedding; the North Star is the daughter of Ai-Kaan Altyn-Kyuskyu, the wife of Kogyudey-Mergen; the red star above the constellation Three Maralukh is the spread belly of one of them KM arrow]: 127-128, 134; Khakas [Khan-Chigetey is the father of the Pleiades; once seven Khan brothers stole one of his daughters; he rushed in pursuit, but brothers on the mirrored surface of Heavenly Lake Tigir K & #246; l rose to the sky and became seven stars of Ursa Major; HC shot them with a bow and nailed them to the sky with an arrow; since then, Ursa Major has been circling around the HC arrow, which became the North Star ; Alcor is HC's stolen daughter; the remaining 6 sisters are the Pleiades; HC himself has become the constellation of Boopas and is forever chasing Ursa Major; when he catches up with seven Khan brothers, the last year of peace will come] : Butanayev 2003:48; Tofalars [Big Dipper - Chetty Kan (or Chedy Khan - Seven Kings); Pleiades - Uluger]: Katanov 1891:11, 15 (=1907:640); Tuvans: Weinstein 1961 (Todzhins) [Big Dipper - Chedi Khan (seven rulers)]: 146; Dyakonova 1976 [Western and southern Tuvans have a common version close to Altai about seven brothers who lived on earth, then rose and became gods; variant of the southern Tuvans: seven devils lived on earth; if they stayed there, they would destroy the land; but they went up to heaven, called themselves Burkhans; after the evening milking, they cow's milk was splashing; praying in yurts]: 285; Tuvans (Khemchik) [rich Abu Mergen went east, met, accompanied the one who fired an arrow into the sky and saw it, although others did not see; listening to what is happening in the underworld; piercing a mountain with a finger; looking for traces of a beetle and ant 9- and 7-year-old; catching gazelles on the run; drinking the sea; AM left them in the clear like the girl's moon Ak Dangyna, and he went on and married a sun-clear girl Aldyn Dangyna (AD); Karaty Khan found out about her, the old woman volunteered to steal her, asked for a golden boat, sailed to AM, persuaded AD to find out what her husband's life was like; she begged her to say; AM: in the wick of the lamp, in the bowstring, in the horse's four legs; the old woman cut it all, cut it all, cut it, AM died; the old woman offered AD to sit in took her boat to K.; AD gave birth to a boy who grew up every day like others in a year; AM and Ak-Dangyn's brothers noticed that the arrow left by AK was bleached, dilapidated, and went in search; the ranger found his bones, which were taken away by the mice, and Ak-Dangyn folded them and revived them with a swipe; he drank the sea and they all came dry to K.; defeated his army; AK's son found his father and him satellites; K. prepared an iron house; a hole in the mountains dug under it with his finger; the shooter pierced K.'s neck, the runner brought the stolen blood pressure, drank the sea and flooded K.'s country with this water; now asking who Ak-Dangyna should marry; each sister says what he did to save AM; to end the dispute, Ak-Dangyna suggested: seven twins will become seven stars of the Ursa Major , AD with her son, the Morning Star (Dang Sholban), and she herself is the Evening Star (Ak Sholban); this is what happened]: Taube 1978, No. 38:206-212; South Altai Tuvans [Arvayang tied uninvited his horse and entered the Golden Buddha's yurt palace; they wanted to hit him 350 times, but soon everyone was convinced that he was the most worthy of men; hit the same coin three times from 50 steps; quickly swam over the river and back; the Hamba Lama asked him: - What is one? - If it weren't for one, where would the number thousand come from. - Two? - A person won't lose what he saw with two eyes. - Three? - A horse with three legs tied won't go far. - Four? - When you're four years old, why not start working. - Five? - How will five nines go, will the soup freeze on the plate. - Six? - If an astrologer doesn't know his calculations, why should he wear that name. - Seven? - When the seven khans reach their zenith, why doesn't dawn come then? - Eight? - If you read sacred texts eight nights in a row, why not get rich from it? - Nine? - Why does a person who has nine tricks go to bed on an empty stomach? - Ten? - Why aren't all the saddle straps occupied when a deer with horns divided into ten branches is killed? And he laughed so loudly that the horns of the colorful goat split in two, the horns became deer, and the tail of the horse's dark brown; when A. returned home, his wife, offended by his long absence, was about to leave; but remained, conquered by his kindness]: Taube 1994, No. 74:292-295; Baikal Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 14 (Okinsky District of Buryatia) [Noyon Sabzheney goes to worship; meets Comrades with a keen hearing, raising a mountain, able to quietly change the feathers of a magpie and a crow, running with stones on his legs, swallowing the sea, a sharpshooter; the khan invites you to compete; the runner overtakes horsemen on foot; the sensitive one finds out that they want to poison them, changes food, Khan's noyons are dying, the shooter kills all the khan's mergens, the swallower drowns everyone who remains; to atone for sin murders, seven fellows rush into the sea, find themselves in the sky - "Seven Elders" (Big Dipper)]: 209-215; Gomboev 1890, No. 6 (Alar) [orphan hears two crows talking under a tree: if stabbed a piebald mare, Khartagan Khan's son will recover; he goes to the khan, he is driven away: they already have a shaman; an orphan ties a basket to the stallion's tail, scares off the herd, everyone runs out into the street, the orphan drowns a shaman in a tub with sour milk; returnees think that Khan has a whorl out of a person (legs stick out of the tub); the khan is afraid of revenge from the shaman's relatives, the orphan promises to help; taking the shaman's body, comes to to the bull to her relatives, distributes bread to the children, stabs the bull with an awl, he throws off the orphan and the corpse, the orphan scolds the children that their mother has been killed and maimed; when he returns, he treats the khan's son himself; when two features are carried the soul of the khan's son, the orphan pretends to be hell; he is allowed to bear his soul; he says he is afraid of breast and neck fat, and the devils say they are afraid of rose hips and hawthorn; he hid in rose hips- hawthorn, devils throw fat in there, go away; an orphan lies under a tree; two people come, then four more; tell the lama they want to become Burkhans; they jump from the mountain into the sea, go up to the sky become the Big Dipper ("seven old men"); the llama envied them, turned into a scoter]: 58-61; Potanin 1883, No. 36 (Alar Buryats) [the poor young man feels sorry to cut trees, the owner drove him away; while he was sleeping, the old man pricked his tongue, allowing him to understand the language of birds; the young man hears a raven telling a crow about the khan's son, whom the snake has climbed; he will recover if he breathes a ferry from burning fat; a young man heals a khan's son, takes seven skinny mares as a reward; on the way he meets a strongman, a rumor, a shooter, a thief, a water bread, a runner; with their help he wins competitions in wrestling, shooting, running, gets the princess; the army pursues them, drowns his water bread; the llama ordered them to roll down the mountain, their heads flew off; God resurrected them, raised them to heaven, made Dolon-Ubugut (Big Dipper); small star their wife in the middle]: 200-203; Khangalov 1959s [(Balagan); the Chinese king's beloved wife died; he began to mourn her and told his subjects to do the same, leaving their jobs; the youngest of the seven Black brothers Kuznetsov is sent to Abai Geser Bogdo Khan for help; he says he needs the severed heads of seven Black Kuznetsov; the sent talks about this to his wife, the demand is made famous, people they send Geser seven required heads; he makes bowls out of skulls, fills her with wine, takes to heaven to his grandmother Manzan-Görmö, solders her, kidnaps Erdeni (magical objects), begins to descend to the ground; MG discovers the loss, orders the grandson to fall into the yard of the failure Albin Tama (tama is hell); then feels sorry for him, squeezes milk from his right breast, throws then; G. is at home, milk turns into the Milky Way; bowls abandoned by MG form the Big Dipper; G. comes to the sleeping king, tells him to bury the deceased, put the dog in her place; says who wakes up that it is a sin to mourn; the king orders G. to be placed in a tama with lice, little lice, snakes, frogs, worms, fire, frost, tar, in a burning tama; with the help of Erdeni G. every time destroys tama; the tsar gives him his daughter as his wife]: 276-282; Sharakshinova 1980 (Obus ulus, Osinsky District, Ust-Orda Autonomous District) [Geser struck the head of the Eastern Tengriyas Atay Alan With his father's spear, he could not resist in the sky, fell to the ground, crashed to pieces; each formed many-headed mangadhai monsters; they began to sow disasters, diseases, and destroy cattle on earth and people; the gods of heaven have forgotten about earthly people; the shaman Sharagshan Odigon learned that it is possible to draw the attention of Esege Malan Tengria and his wife Ehe Yurenibiy to people only by throwing human tears into the sky in a vessel; it was decided to remove the heads of seven elders and make bowls out of them; the shaman filled them with people's tears and began to throw them into the sky; the bowls hit the Esege Malan Palace Tengria, he tilted; EM opened the doors of heaven and looked at the ground when he saw a terrible picture; EM Tengriy sent Gesar to earth to destroy the mangadhais; he destroyed all evil forces; seven heads the elders were formed by the constellation Ursa Major (Dolon Ubged - Seven Elders); they patronize people's well-being]: 59; Buryats (Osinsky District) [Ursa Major formed seven orphans, intelligent and resourceful; having overcome great obstacles, he found the lost daughter of a hero, returned her to his father; for this they were ascended to heaven, where they turned into seven stars]: Khangalov, vol.3:16 in Sharakshinova 1980:58; khamnigans (Transbaikalia) [Dolon ubagen 'Big Dipper" (doloo (n) 'seven', ubagen 'old man, grandfather')]: Damdinov, Sunduev 2015:124, 296; darkhats: Neklyudov et al. 2006 (Somon Khujirt, Uburkhangai aimag), western 20.08.2006, No. WS 30011 and 21.08.2006, No. WS 30028 (=Kozmin 2008:18) [with older brother Altan- The minjin was a Silver-red horse, the younger Mungun-minjin had an amber-red horse (var.: their horses were Red Fox and Red Lamb, dogs Asar and Basar; they tied dogs to the Golden Cola (North Star); their sister Sarisva-Dagina was 18 years old, she decided to marry, told her brothers to bring a hare with black eyes and ears the size of an inch, not to take a hare with brown eyes and ears in an inch; A. brought a hare, S. drew herself, put the picture with the hare in a basket, let them into the river; the hare sailed to Khan Erg; the khan saw the picture and sent two people to S., who told them to tell E. to come at 50 warriors; she will give her brothers drunk, together with E. she will destroy them; A. became very drunk, but M. was not very drunk, took A., red horses, pulled out the stake to which the dogs were attached, led and ran away; one dog she ran away, barking; M. came to one mountain and fell asleep; when she wakes up, he calls A., he replies that he is underground, M. dug him up; the brothers go, meet, take 1) an antelope fishing on the run, 2) a thief, capable of pulling out an antelope's tongue and feathers to a bird, 3) hearing what is being done in the upper and lower worlds, 4) drinking the ocean, 5) raising mountains; runner, thief, listener, ocean drinker, mountain lifter, Altan-minjin, Mungung-minjin went further in every way...; tied two red horses and became the 7 stars of Ursa Major; they told S. to become the moon, so the Moon always looked at the stars of the Ursa Major ; they drove the Golden Stake into the sky and tied their two red horses; this stake is now the North Star; and the two horses are two stars side by side; there is a black-eyed hare on the moon, it looks like spots; the Mongols when babies are carried at night, their noses are smeared with soot, like a black-eyed hare; this custom is associated with a black-eyed hare from the legend of the Ursa Major], Zap. 24.08.2008, No. 30020 (=Kozmin 2008:18) [Khan's daughter stole mangas; the old man had 7 sons, each with a special art; one knew what was happening all over the world, the other could catch anything that fell from the sky, etc.; the first realized that Khan's daughter was mangas dragged him across the outer sea; the young men got there; the man who knew how to run fast grabbed the khan's daughter and ran, the mangas rushed in pursuit, Damchig-rinbuchi went up to heaven with the khan's daughter, threw her on the ground; able pick up did not let her fall; Khan awarded the father to young men; 7 sons then became 7 stars of the Big Dipper, the khan's daughter became Orion]; Sanzheev 1931, No. 3 [Alakhai-Mergen cannot be killed, but the king's warriors the manguses tied him with iron, threw him into a deep hole, stole cattle, took his sister as the wife of the Mangus king; Magpie and Raven cry because they are no longer given giblets from slaughtered cattle AM; AM asks them to bring them Khan Garudi, who lowers her wing into the hole, AM gets out; two servants of the Mangus king, blind and armless, tear iron with their teeth, freeing AM; he finds his younger brother, they meet, take him to comrades of the Listener, Runner, Thief (quietly plucks the feathers of a flying magpie), Drinking the Sea, Moving the Mountains; they put poisoned wine on the manguses, win 1) shooting in the needle's eye for seven mountains, 2) in horse races, 3) in wrestling; the mangus khan puts them in a yurt, sets it on fire, the Drinking Sea floods the fire, the subjects of the Mangus king drown in the water, the Mountain-Raising crushed him mountain; seven return her property to the kidnapped AM sister, rise from the mountain into the sky themselves, turn into seven Burkhans (seven stars of the Ursa Major)]: 87-93; the Mongols (Ordos) [two brothers they meet, take a sister 1) a bird who shot a bird, it fell only at the end of the day; 2) listening to what creatures in three worlds are doing; 3) rearranging mountains; 5) catching up with gazelles; 6) drinking the sea; his they made them an older brother, crossed the sea dry, he regurgitated the waters back; they came to Shajagai Khan, he offers competitions; the listener learns about everything in advance; 1) shoot - the shooter punches five, and man SHH only two mountains; 2) the one who raised the mountains defeats the fighter Sh.; 3) the runner overtakes the White Old Woman Sh.; 4) Sh. Invites you to feast in a cast-iron house, makes a fire around, the swallowing sea regurgitates water; Sh. drowned; sister cities returned and became stars of the Ursa Major]: Mostaert 1937, No. 32 in Solovyov 2014; Oirats (Kobokzaire merchants) [Ursa Major - Dolon-Burkhyn (Seven Gods)]: Potanin 1893: 318; Buryats, Darkhats, Oirats (including Altai Uryankhaians), Khalkha (incl. Ordosians) [of the stars, the Oirats most revered the constellation Otorguin Doloon Burhan od - Seven Elders (Ursa Major); among the Oirats, Khalkha (including Ordosians), Buryats and Darkhats, there are the legend of the appearance of this constellation: once upon a time there were seven brothers, lucky and brave, who, having defeated their enemies, became famous, ascended to heaven for their services and became known as the Seven Elders; Altai Uriankhai people dedicated a yellow-headed sheep to the Seven Elders, which as a result became untouchable]: Erdenebold 2012:26-29; Mongols (Ordos) [six comrades help Argintai- Mergen Khan is released from the box in which he was locked by Boroltai; everyone is gifted with special abilities; one listens underground and in the sky, the other drinks the sea, the third moves mountains, etc.; in At the end, they attack B. for seven times, throw him into a hole, fill him with stones; turn into the stars of the Ursa Major]: Potanin 1893, No. 4:140-143, retelling in 1899:566; the Mongols [two brothers meet, they take as friends a man waiting half a day for the bird he shot to fall from the sky; all three successively meet four more (Listener, Bulky Mountain, Runner, Sea Drinker); possessing With these abilities, seven defeat Hana-Soroka, eventually become the stars of Ursa Major]: Gadamba, Čerensodnom 1984:735 in Nassen-Bayer, Stuart 1992:329; Mongols [Big Bear - Dolon Burkhan, Seven Gods]: Potanin 1883:738; 1893, No. 85 [different groups of Mongols are listed - everyone is the same]: 317-318; Khalkha-Mongols (Dunsurun) [two brothers want destroy the third, hard-working; he leaves; consistently meets and comrades 1) listening to the conversation of sinners in hell; 2) easily catching up with an antelope; 3) knocking down a star from the sky with an arrow; 4) a thief, quietly stealing eggs from under the female crow; 5) piling mountains on top of each other; 6) drinking and belching the sea; the hero returns to his brothers, who became khanami; the thief replaces kegs with good and poisoned with wine (one khan survives); the strongman wins the fight; the rest learn about the attempt to blow them up in the palace, prevent it; becomes the seven stars of the Ursa Major; it was cold in Mechin ( Pleiades) had 7 stars; sister cities steal one, it's getting warmer; the stolen star (Alcor) is visible from the second bucket star]: Benningsen 1912:55-57; Mongols: Skorodumova 2003:5-8 [poor his brother works for a rich man, he feels sorry to cut trees; in a dream, a woodworker pierces his tongue with needles, he now understands the language of animals; the Raven tells the Raven that the Khan's son is ill because he crawled into his mouth snake; you must throw the meat of a fat mare into the fire, breathe smoke; the poor man heals the khan's son, asks for 7 skinny mares and a bad horse under the blanket as a reward; on the way he meets, takes as companions 1) moving mountains, 2) listening to what's underground, 3) shooting at the sky, 4) quietly changing feathers to crows and magpies, 5) drinking the river, 6) chasing mountain sheep; khan will give his daughter to the winner in competitions; 1) the strongman defeats the wrestler, 2) the shooter falls into the golden circle between heaven and earth, 3) the runner overtakes two old speeders (they put him to sleep by patting him on the head, but he woke up); the khan sent the army, drowned him; friends took to heaven, became the constellation Ursa Major - "Seven Elders"; the little star is the princess], 8-13 [two brothers meet the shooter (shoots birds for clouds), listening to what is underground (buried to the waist), a strongman (moves mountains), a runner (catches antelopes); a rumor hears that Shaazgai Khan is going to attack overseas; they meet a drink, he drained the sea to bottom, they passed, took him as a friend; S. offers competitions 1) Khan's shooter pierces the mountain with an arrow, the arrow gets stuck in another mountain, the Shooter gets stuck in the sixth; 2) wrestling (the strongman won Khan's fighter), 3) running (Khan's shaman fell from fatigue); sage Tushimel Saran suggests taking seven by deception, burning them in a cast-iron yurt; the rumor hears this, opilo floods the yurt and the whole city of Khan with water; they ascend to the sky, become Ursa Major]; the Hangarid bird carried the Khan's 25-year-old daughter; eight sons of an old man (shooter, runner, keen, smelling, sucking in the wind, swallowing the sea, stopping the moon and the sun; the youngest is capturing the intangible) went in search. They shot H., caught the princess in flight, brought the khan; the father decides to make khan the one who catches the arrow fired into the sky; caught the youngest, became the North Star, the rest became the Ursa Major] 58-64 [Alhay Mergen is surrounded by a mangas army; older sister Tsetseng Tever becomes his wife with him, younger Gunar Shar runs with 7 horses; AM cannot be killed, he is shackled, thrown into a hole; he asks the crow and the magpie to call the Hangarid bird, who lowers the feather, pulls AM out of the hole; two poplars turn into people, break its shackles; AM finds the GS; they meet, take them as companions 1) listening, 2) a runner, 3) quietly taking out the feathers from forty, 4) opival, 5) moving the mountain; at the khan of mangas, the Thief quietly changes the poisoned water to clean water; multi-headed mangas offer 1) shoot at target (AM arrow flies through the mountains), 2) horse racing (mangas horses fell from fatigue), 3) struggle (fish grew out of pieces of mangas thrown into the sea); they want to burn the heroes in the yurt, opilo fills everything with water , the mangas were crushed by a mountain; the Center was tied to seven horses; 7 heroes and 7 red horses ascended to heaven and became the stars of the Ursa Major]; Dagurs [Ursa Major - Doloohad (S.Yu. Neklyudov:" seven khans"); if children fall ill, seven lamps are lit as a victim]: Stuart et al. 1994:34.
Eastern Siberia. The Ilympic Evenks (Tura) [four brothers of the Haeglen family from the upper land visited three shepherds in the middle land; when they fell asleep, they took all the deer to the upper land; three guys came to The Heaveki complained; he said that from now on, the inhabitants of the upper and middle earth would not visit each other; stolen deer would become stars (the origin of the stars); four guys would become bucket stars Haglen (Big Dipper), three from the ground with pen stars]: Yermakov 1988:35-36; Evenks of Buryatia (Bount) [mystery: Seven men walk with one son (Big Dipper)]: Voskoboynikov 1958 , No. 67:165; salons near Hailar [Ursa Major - Dolon-Burkhyn ("seven gods")]: Potanin 1893:318.
(Wed. SV Asia. Chukchi [Ursa Major - six slingers; seventh double star (Mitzar and Alcor?) - a brown fox gnawing on a pair of deer antlers]: Bogoras 1902:593; Bogoraz 1939:25)
Northeast. Penobscot [six brothers go on the warpath; their older sister turns into a bear, kills everyone in the village, forces her family's two youngest children to serve; the youngest the boy enlists the help of a sorcerer; the brothers return, flee from the Bear, become the constellation Ursa Major]: Alger in Miller 1997:43.
Plains. Sarsi: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 39 [a woman warns her young son not to pretend to be a bear when playing with other children; he pretends to be a bear three times, scaring others, on the fourth he really does become a bear, kills almost everyone; men shot him, but this made his mother angry, she roared four times, became a bear herself, told his younger sister to hide behind an angry dog, killed everyone at the camp; told her sister to cook, dissatisfied, threatened to kill her; the girl went to get water, met seven brothers returning from the war, they all ran away; on the fourth day the bear began to catch up, the elder brother ordered the bear's giblets to be thrown, a rocky cliff appeared, then the scar was a dense forest, the bubble was a lake, but the bear swam across it; the brothers closed their eyes and went up to the sky, turned into seven stars of the Ursa Major; two stars next to each other near the Bear's tail - a girl and a dog]: 48-49; Simms 1904 [the husband notices that returning from the forest with brushwood, the wife is covered in mud ; watches her, sees her copulating with the Bear, kills him, lets her skin him off; she keeps it; tells her younger sister to keep the angriest dog with her; wearing the skin, she becomes the Bear, kills everyone; only the sister is protected by a dog; six siblings return from war; at the source, the younger sister tells them what happened; they learn from her that the Bear's feet are vulnerable; they dig up pegs near the house; the bear steps on them, they try to burn her, she chases them; brothers and younger sister go up into the sky, become the seven stars of the Ursa Major; the asterisk next to them - sister's dog; Bear turns to stone]: 181-182; blacklegs: Knox 1923 [every time the wife collects firewood, the wife comes back late; the husband watches her, sees her knock on wood, from there a rattlesnake comes out, turns into a handsome man, copulates; he calls the snake with the same signal, cuts off her head; the wife finds the corpse, cries; the husband cuts off her head; her seven brothers find empty dugout; they hear the sister's voice outside; she says she is killed, does not tell me to look at her; the younger one spies, sees his head fly over the skin that she scratches; the brothers hunt, send the youngest to watch the sister in the form of a beetle; he sees her trying on the skin where she will attach her brothers' scalps; send her sister for meat, run, taking her paint, scraper, porcupine needles, awl; throw, she wasts time picking them up; thinking what to turn into; water - people will drink; trees - cut down; grass - burn; stones - heat up for the steam room, women will make scrapers; animals - kill and eat; birds - the same; the youngest offers to become stars; they blow on the pen, rise to the sky to become Ursa Major]: 401-403; Michelson 1911b, No. 2 (piegan) [every evening the older sister goes to the forest; the mother tells the youngest see if she sees her sister copulating with a bear; his father and men shot him; the older sister asks her younger sister to bring her a paw, call the young people to play bear; asks not to push her in the hips; the girl pushes, the older sister turns into the Bear, devours everyone, turns her younger sister into a maid; she meets seven brothers who have returned from the campaign; they ask them to know how to kill the Bear; she replies to her sister that she injected her paw with an awl; the brothers give her sister a rabbit; the bear tells her to eat it herself, then wants to kill for not leaving her half; runs out, attacks the awls; brothers they burn the corpse, a piece of finger flies off, the Bear revives, chases; the older brother blows on the feather, it takes off, they follow him, become the seven stars of the Ursa Major; the sister runs to The old man, who hides her, cuts off the Bear's ears and tail]: 244-246; Spence 1985 [the man has seven sons, two daughters; the eldest takes the Grizzly as a lover; the father tells him to be killed; the older brothers go camping; sister takes a piece of Grizzly skin, turns into a Grizzly herself, kills everyone except Sinopa's younger sister and Okinai's younger brother; takes human form again; older brothers they return; let the younger sister scatter the prickly fruits in front of the elder's house; the younger sister's brothers and younger sister run; the elder steps on the prickly fruits, turns into a Grizzly, chases; O. waves her pen , creating a thicket, a lake, a tree; everyone climbs a tree; O. shoots arrows into the sky; with each arrow, one of the brothers flies to heaven; they turn into B. The bear; the dim star on one side is S.; the four stars of the bucket are brothers who were pulled down from the tree by the Grizzly]: 182-184; blacklegs (piegan) [collecting firewood, the woman comes back late; the husband watches, sees her knocking on a tree, a snake crawls out, they copulate; he calls the snake with the same signal, cuts her throat; the next day the wife returns in tears; the husband cuts her throat; her seven younger brothers see that she has only one head left; the elder turns into a beetle, sees her drawing on suede, says where her brothers' scalps will be; brothers send her to fetch meat , run away; throw her porcupine needles, scraper, paint; she rushes to pick them up; brothers think about what to become; reject turning into stones (women will break for scrapers), wood (people they will burn), water (drink), deer (kill), birds (children will shoot), grass (set fire); they rise into the sky, blowing on a feather, turn into seven stars]: Josselin de Jong 1914:43-47; assiniboine [seven young men think about what to become; the earth (it is being dug), rocks (collapsing), trees (thrown by the storm), water (dries up), night (followed by day), light (replaced by night) are rejected by a wise red-haired brother; only the sky and stars are immortal; brothers rise to the sky on a web, turn into seven stars; the web is given to the Spider forever]: Lowie 1909a, No. 21:177; grovantre [girls play; the eldest asks them bring bison ribs; makes claws out of them, turns into a Bear, kills everyone except his younger sister; their six brothers return; ask her sister to find out where the Bear's vulnerable place is; The little finger is on my left hand; they give my rabbit sister to throw hot fat at the Bear; they run, the Bear chases them, the younger one kills her by hitting her little finger with an arrow from a tendon (only she can kill); burn the body, one spark flies to the side, the Bear revives from it, continues to pursue; if desired, the brothers create a swamp, forest, gorge, river, fire, cacti behind; sister hits them with her ball, taking them to the sky; they turn into the Big Dipper or the Pleiades; The bear stays on the ground]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 27:105-108; Crowe: Lowie 1918:126 [seven brothers wondering what to become; mountains (sometimes burn), rocks (split), water (ice? - melts) rejected; they turn into Seven Stars; the boy is a separate star nearby], 205-211 [the older sister turns into a Bear, devours people; tells the youngest to get a rabbit; her six Brothers give it to her; the bear chases her sister; the brothers give the younger sister a piece of the animal's stomach; she throws it behind her, it turns into holes; the older sister gets stuck in the last one; brothers with the younger sister turns into seven stars of the Ursa Major, the sister is accompanied by a dog], 211 [seven brothers are angry at something, decided to change; they have a younger sister, she has a dog; the land (hers they dig), trees (they are cut down), stones (they are split), stars (they fall) are rejected; turn into Big Dipper]; sheyens: Erdoes, Ortiz 1984 [a young girl sews seven beautiful sets men's clothes and shoes, the last one is the smallest; tells her mother that she has seven brothers in the north; her mother accompanies her, then returns, the girl comes to her seven brothers; the Bisons demand her for themselves ; the younger brother shoots arrows, each time the tree the brothers and girl climb grows; with the fifth arrow they cross into the sky, and the giant bison knocks down a tree; those who have risen turn into Big Dipper; the girl is the brightest star, the younger brother is the star at the end of the bucket handle]: 205-209; Grinnell 1926 [the girl took the name Possible Sack (hereinafter PS), made 7 sets of clothes and 7 pairs moccasins for her seven brothers (the youngest is still a little boy), went to look for brothers; the mother first goes with her, then comes back, telling PS to send her dog home when she reaches the brothers, and prepared for the brothers to pick up from the leveller and carry them on their shoulders; six brothers went hunting, in the house only the youngest Mąk'ss (hereinafter M.); a log house with a passage {i.e. not tipi, but like sedentary Indians}; having received his clothes and moccasins, he runs out to meet his brothers, says that his sister has come; the eldest objects, demands her as his wife, but the next oldest tells the youngest that the eldest joked; in the morning, the older brothers leave again, telling the younger one to guard their sister; she warns M. that if she is taken away, she will throw red and yellow porcupine needles along the way (apparently, these needles are penetrating) ; one day M. chased the bird, went far away; the bison came, told PS to go out; it went to the far corner; the bison scattered the logs, said his name was Double-Teethed Bull; she had to follow him; halfway his family and all the bison; when they found out what had happened, the brothers cried because this bison could not be killed; when he went to the river, beyond which the bison, one of the brothers turned blackbird skin into a blackbird, sent it to PS, but the bison understood what was going on, told the bird to get out; then the same thing: coyote, raven; yellow bird small, PS quietly said that the brothers were nearby; M. magically sedated the bison; turned the gopher's skin into a gopher, that dug an underground passage, M. took his sister away, her cape remained on her digging stick; the bison woke up, looked for the PS, but lost track; M. fired an arrow to the house and immediately followed her there; brothers and his sister were already there; they entered a pre-built fortified corral; M. killed four messengers of the main bison with arrows; the brothers and sister climbed the willow, surrounded them by the bison; M. shot the chief, the bisons ran away; M. cut, trampled the chief's body into dust; six brothers and sister turn into the Big Dipper (sister in front); M. into a small star {clearly Alcor}]: 220-231; teton [Seven Stars (Big Dipper) is a group of people dancing around the Fixed Star (Polar); seven fires of tribal councils are lit in honor of the Seven Lakota Stars]: Miller 1997:235; Arapahoe: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 80 [The bear kills everyone, turns the girl into a slave; her seven brothers return, give her a rabbit, explain how to show the Bear that she killed the animal herself; she tells her brothers that the Bear's vulnerable spot is his little finger; the Bear chases them; his sister kicks the ball, throws herself and his brothers into the sky with it; they turn into stars (Big Dipper? Pleiades?) , sister can be seen far from her brothers], 105 [a girl plays a bear, becomes a Bear, kills people; people run away, leaving two children tied to a tree; they are freed by a dog; a bear chases them; they rise to the sky, turn into stars]: 152-153, 208-209; Kiowa: Brown 1930:7-8 in Gibbon 1964 [Kiowa also knew the story of seven fleeing from a bear and turning them into seven Ursa Major stars, but seven sisters and one brother act]: 237; Parsons 1929a, No. 3 [every day the husband paints his wife's face red; her bear lover licks the paint; the husband watches his wife, kills the Bear; sees the wife crying while scraping her skin; the wife plays a bear, turns into a Bear, kills all the people in the village, turns her younger sister into a slave; tells her to get a rabbit, otherwise she will kill; the girl's six brothers come back, give her a rabbit, teach her how to show that she got it on her own; they run away with her, climb a rock; her sister tells her brothers that the Bear has vulnerabilities between their toes; brothers shoot there to kill the Bear; they and sister go up to heaven, become stars (it's not clear, Pleiades or Ursa Major); the brothers are named Sensitive Ear, Fast Runner, Sharp Shooter, Smart (others unnamed)]: 9-11; Comanche [father wants to drive away four sons and daughter; the elder thinks what to become; they turn into seven stars; (Pleiades? Big Dipper? but there are five of them with her sister]: Saint Clair 1909b, No. 18:282; wichita: Dorsey 1904a, No. 8 [an ogre kidnaps a woman; she runs away, gets to an old man who lives in a rock; he kills an ogre; she marries the old man's seven sons, Fat Dog and his brothers; two-faced monsters kill six brothers, the old man revives them; the monster's lungs hang on the walls of the cave; the Fat Man pierces them with an arrow monsters die; when children offend Fat Dog's child, the whole family goes to heaven; brothers become Big Dipper, the old man becomes the North Star, the woman becomes a star next to him], 9 [each of the seven brothers are somewhat superior to other people; 1) vision, 2) hearing, 3) strength, 4) running speed, 5)? , 6) clairvoyance, 7) fearlessness; a girl comes to the eldest at night; he smears her back with white clay; in the morning asks women to play ball, identifies his older sister; hits her with an arrow; she is angry becomes a Grizzly bear; brothers go camping, Clairvoyant says all their people are killed, Keen says Grizzly did it; Grizzly destroys people; their younger sister comes to the brothers, they give her killed rabbits; they shoot at the Grizzly's paw, where it is vulnerable, but she chases them; they throw the turtle's shell, it turns into many turtles, the Grizzly devours them; they throw a red stone (ocher?) , she paints herself; blows dust off her arrows, a dense bush appears; a deep gorge is created with a bowstring, the Grizzly crosses it; rises to the sky, turns into the Big Dipper; the Grizzly goes to north], 10 [a woman has seven brothers; Coyote tells her that he will send his daughter; he does not have a daughter, he turns into a girl himself; brothers marry her; she gives birth to a child, leaves with him; brothers persecute she, they take the child, go up to heaven, turn into the Big Dipper; near her older brother there is a child (a weak star); her sister is a star at a distance; at night, a coyote howls with longing for a child]: 63-69, 69- 74, 74-80;
Southeast U.S. Caddo [six Star Brothers lure buffalo by rocking their sister on a swing between earth and sky; kill buffalo as needed; contrary to warning, Coyote puts the girl on a swing in the absence of the brothers; the bisons don't come; he rocks her harder, she flies to heaven; the brothers follow her]: Dorsey 1905, No. 26:51-52.