B87A. Alcor is a dog.. 15.27.28.36.37.43.-.46.

Alcor (the dim star next to the second star of the Big Dipper bucket handle) is a dog.

Basques, Romanians, Bulgarians, Eastern Ukrainians (Kharkiv), Mari, Evens, Far Eastern Evenks (Orochons on Upper Olekma), Udege, Orochi, Wilta, Snohomish, Twana, Lillouet, thompson, vasco, fox, mohawki, delaware, sarcy, crowe, pawnee.

Southern Europe. Basques: Cerquand 1875 [two thieves stole two oxen of a peasant; he sent a servant in pursuit; when he did not return, a maid, then a dog, then went by himself; unable to find it, he began to swear; as punishment all of them were in the sky, became the constellation Ursa Major; the first two stars were oxen, the third and fourth were thieves; a servant, a maid, a dog, a peasant - the four stars of the bucket handle (it is clear that including Alcor)]: 245 (=Krappe 1930:264); 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 became 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, the last star of the pen - the driver himself]: 36-38.

The Balkans. Bulgarians: Bonov 1976 [the young man went with a cart drawn by two oxen to get firewood; in the forest he straightened the oxen, let them graze; the bear ate one ox; the young man harnessed her into the wagon instead ox (Mitsar); she twitched to the side all the time - perhaps because a little dog barked at her all the time (Alcor)]: 22-24; Mladenova 2006 [four stars of the bucket are a wagon, two stars of the handle - two oxen, the third is the wagon owner, the other is a dog]: 239; Romanians [Alcor is a dog]: Mladenova 2006:78, 239

Central Europe. Ukrainians: Kostomarov 1847 [In the constellation Bear, people see horses, probably Svantovit. The black dog, the personification of Chernobog, wants to gnaw through the harness every night to destroy the entire body of creation, but does not have time, because before dawn he will run to the student for a drink, and in the meantime the harness grows together]: 54-55; Golovatsky 1860 (Hutsulshchina) [quotes Kostomarov, adding that he heard this from the Hutsuls, whose harness gnaws a knot]: 38; Potanin 1899 (Kharkiv) [Bolshaya The bear is "Woz"; the four stars of the bucket are the wheels of the wagon; the two stars of the handle are two oxen, the third is the driver; the small star is a dog; she tries to gnaw through the harness and break the whole the structure of the universe, but before the end of the world he will want to drink, will run to the water, at which time the belts grow together again]: 414; Grinchenko 1895 (Kharkiv) [retelling Potanin 1899:414; See, there are seven big stars together? It's called "Woz": four stars are wheels, and the three that seem to stretch are a drawbar. You see, there's still a little star near the middle star. It's called "The Dog". Old people say she's still coming to that middle star, and when she gets to it, she'll gnaw through something there, and then there'll be the Last Judgment. Yes, that's right, it will be soon, because you see how close it is]: 1.

Volga - Perm. Marie [B. The bear is an elk with cubs and a hunter with a dog; the latter are condemned to spin the sky forever for killing the first]: Potanin 1883:713.

Eastern Siberia. The Evens [even, Evenk and Yukaghir (or Chukcha, h eek) decided to find out which of them is stronger, faster and more enduring; agreed that whoever gets the largest and fastest beast and will bring home the uncut, will be considered the strongest, fastest and most enduring hunter in the middle world; chased an unknown animal; where he stepped with his foot, a lake appeared, where they passed hunters skiing, rivers appeared, and where they ran, a river (roll); the beast ran north, where frost comes from and where the sky is closer to the ground; left traces in the form of lakes (so there are many lakes in the tundra); this animal, i.e. the moose, began to be called toki ("coming or leaving a trail"); hunters did not notice how they found themselves in the upper world; there Havack turned an elk, three hunters (even, Evenk and yukaghira) and a dog into the stars for climbing into the upper world without Havek's permission; the four stars of the Big Dipper are the four legs of an elk; they froze near these four stars not far from each other hunters who have turned into stars, and not far from these seven stars there is another frequently flashing "North Star" {The North Star does not blink far to the side; almost certainly Alcor} is a hunting dog]: Keymetinov 2000:125-127; Evenki-Orochons (Upper Olekma, tributaries of the Upper Amur River; recorded in 1980) {the informant could have obtained this text from the Evens himself or through someone; the Orochons had no contact with the Yukaghirs and Chukchi} [Evenk, Yukaghir, and Chukchi argued which of them was the best hunter; found an elk and chased after him; the beast ran across the sky; the Evenk was the first, the Yukaghir was the second, the Chukchi was the third; when they ran into the sky, they turned into stars; the Big Dipper bucket of four stars was the elk, the first star of the pen was Evenk, The second is Yukaghir, the third is the Chukchi; the star from the constellation Hounds Dogs, located near the last star of the bucket handle, is an Evenka dog, lagging behind the hunters]: Mazin 1084:10.

Amur - Sakhalin. Udege people, Orochi [the four stars of the bucket are a barn on stilts; a bear creeps up on him, hunted by Egda and his brother, who make up the handle of the bucket; a small star visible only in good weather - hunters' dog]: Arsenyev (archive) in Bereznitsky 2003:80; Udege people [orphan Omolo ("grandson") lives with rich God; he tyrannizes him, O. grew up, but has poor eyesight; towards him The dog Leho comes; dives into the lake, gets shell money, O. lives well, his fiancée Agdig; B. is jealous, asks the shaman to harm O.; he brings overseas cannibals, they take A. for their owner; O. asks the fire spirit Puzya Azani for help; P. gives a fiery horse, tells the stars to ask about the road; Alcor ("dog") says that A. was hidden in a hole with water; O. takes the fish out of the pit, she turns into Agdiga; they run on a fiery horse, throw their fiery hair twice, he first entangles the pursuer, then turns into an insurmountable fire wall; the shaman who helped B. has his ancestor The Eagle takes away power]: Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010:142-147; Wilta ["The Dog" is the star in the tail of the Ursa Major {obviously Alcor}]: Missonova 2013:197.

The coast is the Plateau. Snohomish [The creator stopped at Puget Sound, decided to distribute all the languages there (that's why the Salish have so many of them); the sky was low, trees were climbing into the sky; people were pushing him with poles up; this moment three hunters drove an elk where heaven and earth converge; stayed in the sky; hunters - the Big Bear bucket handle (a dim star is a dog); the bucket is four moose]: Clark 1953:148-149; twana [Big Dipper is a group of moose walking along a winding mountain path; the star next to the last star of the bucket handle is a stalker dog]: Elmendorf 1960:537; lillouette [four Big Dipper bucket stars - Bear; three stars of the bucket handle are hunters; the asterisk next to one of them is a dog]: Elliott 1931:180; Thompson [Big Dipper - Grizzly; three star pens bucket - three hunters chasing bears; the first is brave and fast, about to catch up with the beast; the second walked slower, next to him the dog is a small star; the third is cowardly, afraid to approach the bear ]: Teit 1900:341-342; Vasco [five Wolf Brothers hunt, Coyote lives with them; they agree to tell him they see two Grizzlies in the sky; the Coyote shoots arrows into the sky, makes a ladder out of them; they all go up to heaven; the Coyote decides that the Grizzly and Wolves look beautiful together, leaves them in the sky, descends, breaking the stairs; the three older Wolves are the handle of the Big Dipper bucket; the oldest - the middle star, followed by a small one is his dog; two younger Wolves are part of the bucket closer to the handle; two Grizzlies are the opposite part of the bucket; the Lark tells Coyote that the stars are growing, ready to fall, then the earth will die from the cold; the Coyote climbs back into the sky, arranges stars differently; the Milky Way is the Coyote's trail]: Clark 1953:153-155; Hines 1996, No. 5:32-35.

The Midwest. Fox [three brothers chase a bear; the youngest shouts that the bear ran north, rushes after him; the middle one says the bear is running east, running after him; the eldest is that the bear is running to the set the sun, attracts him with his dog; looks down, sees mother earth, realizes that they are in the sky, but it's too late to return; next to the second their dog; in autumn they kill a bear, put it on oak branches and sumaha for cutting; the foliage of these trees turns red with blood in autumn; the pieces of the bear's body are stars that can be seen in winter; his head was thrown east, at dawn, low above the horizon, you can see it in the form groups of stars; the spine was thrown north, it can be seen among the stars; the bear himself is the Big Dipper bucket, the hunters are the bucket handle; the asterisk next to the second pen star is their dog]: Jones 1907, No. 4:71-75 (published in Lankford 2007:129-130; in Marriotte, Rachlin 1968:57-58).

Northeast. Delaware [three hunters with a dog (Alcor star) chase a bear, find themselves in the sky; the bear's body is the four stars of the Ursa Major bucket]: Speck 1945 in Gibbon 1972:243.

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; she watches her, sees her copulating with the Bear, kills him, lets her skin off him; she keeps it; tells her younger sister to keep the angriest dog with her; wearing the skin, becomes a Bear, kills everyone; only the dog protects the sister; six siblings return from the war; at the spring, the younger sister tells them what happened; they learn from her that the Bear has the soles of their paws 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 rise into the sky, become the seven stars of the Ursa Major ; the star next to him is the sister's dog; the bear turns into stone]: 181-182; Crowe: Lowie 1918:205-211 [while playing, the younger sister asks the older sister to become a bear; she replies that will become real, the youngest insists; the eldest turns, devours people; tells the youngest to get the rabbit; her six brothers give it to her; show how to convince the Bear that she killed him herself; Bear chases her younger sister; she sticks awls everywhere, they pierce the Bear, she takes time to pull them out; the brothers tell her sister to throw a porcupine behind the needle, the Bear is wasting time picking them up; giving buffalo manifold {buffalo droppings?} , then a piece of bison's stomach; sister throws it behind her, manifolds turn into flat rocks, stomach into holes; older sister climbs over rocks, gets stuck in the last hole; brothers ask that they should all turn into; the sister offers what the smoking pipe points to - the Big Dipper; they are now seven stars of the Big Dipper, the sister is accompanied by a dog]: 211 [seven brothers wondering what to turn into; the earth (settles, caves in), trees (they are being cut down), stones (splitting), mountains (also settling), stars (falling) are rejected; they turn into the Big Dipper; my sister had dog {obviously this is Alcor}]; McCleary 1997:69-71 [seven brothers and younger sister live together; older brothers disappear one by one; the youngest comes to the boy, who reports that he is holding his brothers an old woman, her strength is in her digging stick; the owner of the next house gives the young man yellow, black, blue, red arrows; the young man shoots them, rushes after them; a good old woman gives a pemmican, explains that do; by the river, a young man feeds a pemmican to a dog, which takes it to the other side; he picks up the brothers, they feed the dog again, cross, arrive home with the last arrow; the old woman- the stalker puts a digging stick across the river; when it comes to the middle, the brothers turn it over, it falls into the water; the brothers wonder what to turn into so that the old woman does not catch up with them; every time the sister says that her mother uses this item; trees (for firewood), water (to soak the skins), stones (to make skin scrapers); they decide to become what the ends of the pipes indicate; - But the stars they're falling! - We'll join hands and not fall; they turn into the Big Dipper; the star of the bucket handle is her sister, the star next to her is her puppy], 71-72 [seven shaman brothers are thinking about what to turn into to they were not bothered; one suggests elm trees (but their grandmother uses trees for firewood), the second into stones (but the grandmother makes cutting tools out of them); then what the ends of the tubes indicate, i.e. stars, to which raises smoke from the pipes; the older brother rises first, turns into Polaris (mistake: the informant claims that the brothers became the Big Dipper, but Polaris is not part of it and is not at crowe latitude visible); their younger sister with the dog rises penultimate, followed by the youngest of the brothers]; Pawnee [based on archival materials by Dorsey et al., Chamberlain 1982:109-111 showed that four bucket stars are porters carrying a funeral stretcher, these are the shaman, his wife, and Errand Man; Alcor is the shaman's wife's dog]: Lankford 2007:154.