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Big Dipper - bucket, scoop.
French, British, Ancient Chinese, Russians, Belarusians, Kabardian, Adygs, Laki, Lezgins, (Lithuanians), Veps, Mordovians, Mari, Udmurts, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs , Trans-Baikal Buryats, Tundra Nenets, Eastern Khanty, Ulchi, Puyallup-Niskualli.
Western Europe. The French (Languedoc) [Big Dipper is a pot with a handle; Alcor is a little man who watches when the pot boils; then he will remove it from the fire and the world will end]: Sébillot 1904:31; the British [the most common name is Big Dipper, "big bucket"]: Allen 1899:434.
China - Korea. Chinese: Holy 1961 ["in China B. The bear was known as Pe-teu, i.e. bread measure, or ladle, scoop, with the three stars of the bucket being called Pen - Bucket Handle" {source not specified}]: 114; Sima Qian 1986: Chapter 27:115-116 [Bei-Dou -" The North Bucket"; the Dow constellation ("bucket") is the chariot of the {heavenly} emperor, moving in the center and controls the four sides of {heaven}], 148-149 [the Dow constellation ("Bucket", Ursa Major) holds power over 29 zodiac constellations], 261 (comm.); Reiter 2004 (Taoists in Sichuan) [Thunder is the North Bucket and the North Bucket is Thunder; six stars of the South Bucket are a handle that crosses the Heavenly River (Milky Way); The Heavenly River goes down, connects to the Yellow River, flows with it, goes up; the thunder gates and the rain window are hidden in the Sky River; the handles of the North and South Buckets are directed at each other]: 220-221.
Central Europe. Russians: Bondaletov 1983 (Penza) [Bucket, Big Dipper, Dipper, Copper Scoop, Sky Dipper, Pot, Scoop, Ladle, Spoon]: 204; Ruth 1987 (Petersburg, Arkhangelskaya, Arkhangelskaya, Vologda, Ryazan, Saratov, Ural and Siberia) [Bucket, Dipper]: 17-18; Svyatsky 1961 ["Our Big Dipper as a ladle or pan is well known"]: 114; Belarusians: Avilin 2015 [1948;" Dipper, bucket, scoop", "Small and large ladle"; "Pan, scoop"; such stars are]: 220; Pyatkevich 2004 [Big Dipper - Vazok, Vazok, Karets (bucket), focuses on the seasons of the year]: 282.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kabardian People [Big Dipper: Vaguezeshible (Seven Star Brothers) or Vaguekashchyk (Scoop Constellation)]: Madina Pashtova, Personal Message 29.04.2013; Adygs [Zhogo Kashyk -" star bucket, scoop"]: Kokov 1980:262 (quoted in Anikin 1990:22); varnishes [during the feast, sledges let the bucket go around; some behaved obscenely, blasphemed God; Allah raised their bucket to heaven for this (Big Dipper)]: Gamzatov, Dalgat 1991:305; Lezgins [Ursa Major and Minor - Big Dog, Smaller Dog; Ursa Major is also a "bucket"]: Rizvanov, Rizvanov 1990:39.
Baltoscandia. Veps [Big Dipper - suur kauhtähtaz ("big bucket star")]: Zaitseva, Mullonen 2009:425; (cf
Lithuanians [among young people the name Bucket, Scoop is found, as the association with the wagon is lost]: Vaiškūnas 2007:114).
Volga - Perm. Mordva: Erdödi 1968 (Erzya and Moksha) [Big Dipper - "bucket"]: 119-120; Kirillova 2011 [moksha: Big Dipper - Kärkkä tyashte ("big bucket"); Erzya: Big Dipper - Poksh-keche ("big bucket")]: 239; marie [Big Dipper - Kugu crust w ě holes ("star - big bucket"), Ursa Minor - Easy crust w ě holes ("star - small bucket")]: Kirillova 2011:239; Chuvash [Big Dipper - Altar çaltar, Urca Minor - Kurka çaltar; çaltar - "star", altar and trigger - both mean "bucket", but of different types]: Yukhma 1980:265-266; Udmurts: Kirillova 2011:237 [Big Dipper - Badzymkoby (Big Dipper)], 238 [Big Dipper - Kösha kodzuv ("star bucket"), Little Dipper - Ichöt Kösh ("little bucket")]; Kazan Tatars [riddle: "A bucket with a golden handle hung over the hut" (Big Dipper)] : Makhmutov 2013, No. 95:45; Volga Turks (Tatars?) Maksyutova 1991 [Big Dipper: Sumes Yulduz ("bucket star"]: 186; the Bashkirs [there were few people, they ate from the same cauldron; the giant (alp) came and ate everything; decided to make a new big cauldron from silver, a bucket of gold to it; Alp picked up the cauldron, put it in place, and threw the bucket into the sky, he became the Big Bear]: Nadrshina 2001, No. 6:182.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Trans-Baikal Buryats: Ruth 1972 [Big Dipper - Shagasha Mγshen ("bucket")] {Shagash M γ sheng should be Shanaga Musheng instead of Shagash. Since the largest Buryat dictionary gives this name only to the Kudarin Buryats, Ruth's data most likely refer to Transbaikalia}: 92; Shagdarov, Cheremisov 2010 (Kabansky dialect, i.e. Kudarin) [Ursa Major - Shanaga Mushen (letters. 'bucket stars')]: 604.
Western Siberia. Tundra Nenets [name Ursa Major - Yarako "Kovshik"]: Adayev 2015:211; Eastern Khanty (b. Vah) [three winged men from Vakha, Ob and, perhaps, from the Yenisei ran after the moose; Vakhovsky threw the cauldron to make it easier to run; the handle of the Big Dipper was three hunters, the bucket was a cauldron]: Lukina 1990, No. 9:69.
Amur - Sakhalin. Ulchi [Ursa Major - Combo ("scoop")]: Smolyak 1991:21.
The coast is the Plateau. Puyallup-Niscualli [stars are people; there are rivers in the sky, but informants did not talk about the Milky Way; meteors are star people on the road; in the interior, 4 stars of the Ursa Major bucket are elk, 3 pen stars are three hunters, Alcor is a dog; they don't know about an elk on the coast, Ursa Major is a "vessel with a handle"]: Smith 1940:134.