Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

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Ethnicities and habitats

I101. Big Dipper - stakes.

(.27.) .32.35.-.40.42.43.

The Big Dipper or several bright stars of another constellation are stakes, pillars that support the platform, or an object is stretched, dried, and stored on these stakes.

(Wed. The Balkans. The Greeks [The Big Dipper is a bear's skin nailed to the sky when it was still low above the ground]: Mladenova 2006:79).

Volga - Perm. Udmurts: Anikin 1994 [Big Dipper, Orion - Jök cook dogwood (jök cook - "table leg", dogwood - "star"]: 87; Potanin 1883 [Big Dipper - Jack -cook - "table leg"]: 713.

Western Siberia. Northern Selkups [Ursa Major - pōr', "four-legged wooden platform for storing food" (lower reaches of the Pelvis); pêära, "stretcher genus" (lower Ob)]: Anikin 1990 : 20; Southern Selkups [Cassiopeia - Itte fishing net ("Ittina net with three floats"); same name on the Middle Ob]: Kuzmina 1977:76 in Tuchkova 2002:96; Nenets [Big Dipper - Pare' ('Storage')]: Source? ; kamasinsk. p'ari - Big Dipper, "four-legged bunk beds for storing supplies"]: Anikin 1990:20.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts [Ursa Major - Arangas]: Anikin 1994 [(etymology in detail); Ursa Minor, unlike Bolshaya (her own, real), is "Tunguska Storage" ("Tunguska Labaz Star"), Cassiopeia - "Samoyed Labaz Star"]: 86-87; Potanin 1883:710 [Poryadin: ricks on poles on which the corpses of revered dead in coffins were placed], 942 [canopy on 4, 6 or 8 pillars; in fairy tales, altyn- arangas, a copper canopy, is being built in the bride's house for the groom who has arrived; the groom lies on it without going down to the ground so as not to be desecrated]; Yakuts (records 1741-1745) [Ursa Major is called Arangas-Sulüs]: Lindenau 1983:36; Central Yakuts [Ursa Major - Arangas Sulus; Ursa Minor - Tongus Arangas Sulusa]: Pekarsky, Popov 1928:4; northeastern Yakuts (no place of recording; most likely Verkhoyansky District, where N.S. Gorokhov was born and lived) [Big Dipper - Arangas-sulus ("star canopy")]: Gorokhov 1882:36; dolgans [the expression ara as sulus in olonkho probably means not one star, but the constellation Ursa Major]: Stachowski 1998:32.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais: Krapotkin 1896 in Lopatin 1922 [father-in-law ordered his son-in-law to put stakes to dry the nets; he drove them in an incorrect quadrangle; they made up the quadrangle of bucket B. Bears (Fulay); for inept work, the father-in-law wants to beat his son-in-law, who runs under the protection of his mother-in-law; the last star of the bucket handle is the mother-in-law, the middle star is the son-in-law, the closest to the bucket is the father-in-law]: 331; Smolyak 1976 [three bucket handle stars - a log with notches that serves as a staircase to the yukola hangers]: 136; Yu.Sem 1990 [the old man sent his son-in-law to make hangers for Jukola; the old woman shouted that he had hammered the poles incorrectly; the old man with The mother-in-law chases her son-in-law with an ax, trying to stop her husband; these are three stars of the handle, the stakes are the four stars of the bucket]: 118; Bäcker 1988, No. 30 (Manchuria) [the fisherman has a hunter friend; when he died, the fisherman took his son into his care; the young man was stupid and lazy, and did not know how to catch fish at all; once a fisherman told the young man to put fish dryers - four pillars and crossbars on top of which the fish were hung; when he was about to hang the fish, it turned out that the young man had just set up the poles, crooked; furiously, the fisherman grabbed the axe, the young man ran away from it, the fisherman's wife rushed to stop her husband; they ran, found themselves in the sky, the handles of the Ursa Major became stars; the brightest star is a fisherman, the star next to him {obviously Alcor} is an ax in his hand; in front is a dull young man, behind is the fisherman's wife; four-star bucket - dryer stakes]: 210-211; (cf. Yu.Sam 1990:118 [Libra - "Half of a Bear's Skin"; a heavenly hunter killed a bear, hung his skin to dry], 120 [Northern Crown - "Bear Skin Constellation]); Orochi: Aurora, Kozminsky 1949 [The Big Dipper is a barn on four stilts into which a bear has climbed; one pile squinted; three hunters sneak up to the barn - an older brother, a younger brother with a dog, and another]: 328; Skorinov, hands. (Tumninsky) [Big Dipper is a barn with a ladder, a mouse climbs into the barn]: 2; Podmaskin 2013 [Aka ("big brother") is the first star of the Big Dipper bucket handle; goes to the pile barn with kill a bear that climbed there with food]: 30; Cincius 1975 (2) [paule (feule ~ fule) 'hung (for yukola) ', Da Paule 'Big Dipper, Nchi Paule 'Ursa Minor']: 360; Ulchi [paule (n-) 'hung; Ursa Major; Ursa Minor']: Cincius 1975 (2): 360; Udege people: Podmaskin 1991 [Ursa Major (Zali) Bangnyani, Sky Barn) is related to the plot of bear hunting; Cassiopeia (Ugda Hut, Nerpa and Scoundrel) with the plot of a seal hunt]: 12; 2013 [four stars - barn on stilts, three stars - three stars hunter brother; once a bear climbed for meat, one of the barn's racks squinted, and since then the owner of the barn and the dog have been chasing this bear]: 75; Udege, Orochi [four bucket stars - the barn is on stilts; a bear sneaks up on him, he is hunted by Egda and his brother, who make up the bucket handle; a small star visible only in good weather is a hunters' dog]: Arsenyev (archive) in Bereznitsky 2003:80; Orochi [paule 'barn (without a roof); platform (for storing food); Big Bear'; paule tōpuni 'three stars in the tail of the Ursa Major" (report. 'barn staircase')]: Cincius 1975 (2): 360; Wilta: Missonova 2013 [Ursa Major - "vault, barn" (yes j and pale)]: 188; Cincius 1975 (2) [paule 'hung; Big Dipper]: 360; nivkhi [Big Dipper - "The Rat Barn"]: Anikin 1990:19; Kreinovich 1929:81; Saveliev, Dachshunds 1965:207; Ulita 2011 [three stars bucket handles - barn steps]: 84; Schrenk 1903 [the three stars in the tail of the Ursa Major are called charv (y) scream, the other four are niagrño, which literally means rat pantry]: 47.

Japan. The Japanese [four stars of the Crow constellation are nailed badger skin]: Kitao 2002:22.

SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs [Big Dipper - "Hanged"]: Anikin 1990:19.

The Arctic. Central Yupik [Orion - stakes with leather straps stretched between them]: Nelson 1899:449.

NW Coast. Hyda [the hunter saw a boat with people moving through the air; she chased him, he hid behind a tree; so many times they finally caught up, he put his bow on the boat and turned it over; people in the boat began to floundering as if in the water; their scoop surfaced, became the Pleiades; the crossbar (board, side?) , where the skins were stretched (border on which skins were stretched) with the Ursa Major bucket, the skewer with another constellation (Orion Belt?)] : Swanton 1905b:12.

The coast is the Plateau. Quileut: Clark 1953 [a man hides the sun in a bag, rises to heaven; Wren suggests making a chain of arrows; first Shark, then Puma, Kingfisher, Hawk and others shoot successfully; it is cold in the sky; Wren rushes to the sun to warm up; while some treat a person to baked roots, others take the sun away; raise it to illuminate the whole world; the Eagle and the Hawk take the keen Snail eyes; Stingray turns into Little Bear; stretched (on stakes?) Bear Skin - Ursa Major]: 151-152; Reagan, Walters 1933 [(Quail in Clark 1953:157; Monroe, Williamson 1987:97-99); a monstrous elk kills people; Tuskobuk's four older brothers they also die, their arrows bounce off the sides of the moose; the healer gives him the best arrows, drives an elk at him, T. kills him, freshens; the skin covers the entire plain, he throws it into the sky; this is the Cassiopeia Chair; stars - places where the skin was stretched over the stakes; the handle was the tail of an elk]: 325-326.